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why is short form video seemingly allergic to providing sources? like it simultaneously lowered the barriers to video production but also fostered a culture of "listen to some rando as they talk at you from wherever and drop knowledge bombs with the veracity of “trust me bro” "
It’s all click-bait to maximize engagement, usually to promote themselves and their own business.
In this case the title itself is bullshit, surveys in America show ever increasing trends in favorability towards socialism and communism.
The CIA has run successful misinformation campaigns, and this video might have been relevant 20 years ago. Current young generations are already painfully aware that capitalism has stolen their future.
This article examines the nature and significance of the activities carried out in France and Italy by the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an international organization that was secretly funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to support anti-Communist intellectuals, including those on the left end of the political spectrum. These two West European countries, with their large and politically influential Communist parties, were central to the CCF’s work in Europe. The organization’s task was complicated by domestic concerns and traditions that forced local intellectuals to stress their autonomy from the CCF International Secretariat and its U.S. patrons. The article uses the cultural Cold War and the competing interpretations of anti-Communism and cultural freedom within the CCF as a lens to explore the limits of U.S. influence and persuasion among the intellectual classes of Europe. By repeatedly asserting their independence and agency, the French and Italian members of the CCF helped redefine the character and limits of U.S. cultural diplomacy.
Tiktok and similar doesn’t have video description like youtube? A link to a pastebin can easly solve this problem.
Tiktok descriptions don’t accomodate clickable links. A creator can add links to a linktree in their bio, but that’s as good as it gets on TikTok
Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, but Not Real Revolution - Jones Manoel
The west lets the pure socialism in their heads be the enemy of socialism in the real world for their flaws, challenges, struggles, and imperfections. This causes them to confuse allies for enemies, resulting in a passive upholding of the terror committed by western countries against the global south.
Idk Im willing to work with anybody left of liberals really.
Not everyone in the western left demonizes countries like the PRC, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, Laos, Nicaragua, Belarus, Palestine, or even countries we are more critical of yet acknowledge the strategic advantage of allyship against western imperialism like the Russian Federation and Iran. However, within the broader western left, even mentioning any kind of understanding or sympathizing with the DPRK will get you immediately seen as an enemy. It’s important to recognize this tendency and its sources so that we can unite everyone that can be genuinely united.
I’m a simple girl. I see a cowbee comment I upvote. You have taught me a lot and your reading list is top tier.
Thank you so much, comrade!
Yeah that’s true. If I mention that I don’t think Kim Jong Un is literally Satan people get all mad.
Exactly! These are real struggles we are forced to confront in real life as we organize. Inevitably, anticommunists will wield the demonized caricatures of AES or otherwise anti-imperialist countries like a club against our movements, no matter the actual relation of said caricatures to reality. The “western left” agrees with them, then hurts their own movement, as saying “this time it will be different” is entirely unconvincing.
These movements also fail like TERFs fail, by demonizing potential allies and isolating themselves.
Belarus? are they socialist?
Quasi, not outright I’d say. They hold the strongest to their soviet roots out of any of the post-soviet countries, and maintain more state control than most. They haven’t had the same systemic destruction of their soviet past and systems that the rest of the post-socialist countries have had, with the partial exception of Russia.
They, alongside Russia, are easily 2 of the most likely countries to adopt a socialist economy in the nearish future.
They, alongside Russia, are easily 2 of the most likely countries to adopt a socialist economy in the nearish future.
Chinaheads going
rn frfrEh, I consider China to already be a socialist economy broadly, in that the principle aspect of their economy is public ownership, and the backbone is in huge state owned enterprises while small and medium firms are more privately or cooperatively owned, with the working classes in charge of the state. If Russia and Belarus were to turn once again to socialism, they would be most likely to adopt a similar socialist market economy similar to China’s, at first. It’s unlikely that they’d pivot towards a DPRK-style economy where private ownership is relegated to special economic zones like Rason, while the extreme super-majority of production and distribution lies in the hands of the state.
In the long run? To your point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia and Belarus were more aggressive with collectivization than the PRC, considering they are already heavily sanctioned by western economies and thus driven to a more firm approach to geopolitics than the PRC. China’s strategy cannot be simply copied by any country, it worked for a specific period of time and for specific conditions relevant to China that would not necessarily work for Russia and Belarus.
I’ll maintain my disagreement principally on the grounds that the capitalists alongside capital speculation haven’t been liquidated, and the PRC hasn’t reached the levels of socialist planning and control that the Soviets had established puts their economic system as it currently exists closer to the United States at the peak of WW2 under FDR than any point of the Soviets prior to perestroika. I of course understand they’re taking the runabout way towards a socialist socio-economic system that minimizes human suffering while steadily building up their foundations and every level of the building thereafter of a prosperous society for all, but it still doesn’t change the fact that they’re currently lacking in the areas that have been reached by other communist-ran states.
With regards to the former Soviet socialist states of Russia and Belarus, frankly I hold tempered and modest expectations for them concidering the work that’s been put in by the communist parties there, with my expectations resting greater on Belarus than they do on Russia. I am currently watching and waiting to see what occurs after the Ukraine war primarily, and the eventual retirement and/or death of Putin, to see the direction Russia moves towards in addition to observing the spinal fortitude of the Communist parties that exist within before having any hopes of a socialist state possibly being reborn from the current capitalist system. I think it would be more realistic they continue existing as a capitalist state that’s pushed towards further coupling its economy to the Chinese mixed economic market in the same manner of the mating habits of the deep-sea Anglerfish.
It’s a low bar, but they’re more socialist than any nordic country at least. Lukashenko’s said nothing better than Marxism-Leninism so far has been invented in or after (?) a discussion with Dugin (yeah, I know). He’s, like, begrudgingly socialist because he’s at least smart enough to see how fucking stupid liberals and liberalism are. Belarus also has lower poverty rates than anywhere in Europe last I checked.
For example, the Faculty of Humanities and Language Communications. It used to be called simply the Faculty of Philology, but after several new specialties emerged, the name was changed on the advice of scientists. “We sometimes try to play smart where there is absolutely no need for that, trying hard to stay on trend, not be retrogrades. We need to stay simple, to be understandable for people,” [Lukashenko] said.
In this regard, he pointed out that in his time after the collapse of the USSR people shied away from such words as ideology or propaganda. But there is nothing wrong with them. “Aren’t we agitating for something? I always campaign you to do this or that,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
Valentina Bogatyreva gifted the new textbook “Modern Political Economy” to the president.
“What place does the Marxist-Leninist ideology occupy in this modern political economy?” the head of state said.
“The primary one,” [Bogatyreva] replied.
“Have you decided to go back to it?” Aleksandr Lukashenko wondered.
Edit: World bank says:
Poverty measured by the upper middle-income poverty line of $6.85 in 2017PPP remained low in Belarus, at around 1 to 2 percent of the population between 2018 and 2020. Based on the national poverty line (the minimum subsistence budget), poverty declined from 3.9 percent in 2022 to 3.6 percent in 2023. Belarus’ economy expanded by 3.9 percent in 2023, rebounding from a contraction of 4.7 percent in 2022. Households’ real disposable income rose by 6.3 percent in 2023, bouncing back from a 3.6 percent decline in 2022. Although employment fell by 1 percent year-on-year, this was balanced by an 11 percent increase in real wages and a 3.8 percent increase in real pensions.
We’ve had eight years of Trump and four years of Biden, haven’t we tried communism enough?
https://lemmy.ml/post/39416509/22404182
https://orinocotribune.com/western-marxism-loves-purity-and-martyrdom-but-not-real-revolution/
The west lets the pure socialism in their heads be the enemy of socialism in the real world for their flaws, challenges, struggles, and imperfections. This causes them to confuse allies for enemies, resulting in a passive upholding of the terror committed by western countries against the global south.
Cold war propaganda and love for imperialism just want it to be “kinder”.
