American leftists don’t want to build mass movements independent from Democrats. They consider 90% of the working class Nazi bigots and have deemed them “unworthy” of engagement.
Now they’re crying over Cuba’s reforms. The price of being politically irrelevant and ineffective is that you have no power to exert pressure on your regime. It’s possible to accomplish, the problem is that American “leftists” prioritize combating Furry Discrimination over anti-imperialism.
You pay for your priorities. The price is that the Cuban people have been starved and tortured, because American “leftists” care more about their ridiculous nonsense bourgeois “progressivism” than forming calculated, pragmatic coalitions to build power outside the duopoly.
The “realists” among them simply advocate surrender to the Democrats, while the “idealists” have a purity fetish. Right and Left deviations that produce the same result.
Sometimes these are the same people, swinging back and forth on the two extremes of the Democrat plantation pendulum. The only “masses” they recognize are “educated” coastal democrats. They scorn the “problematic” apolitical + ex-MAGA + conspiracist + redneck, etc masses.
They can’t even talk to the average black person in the hood who likes Farrakhan and believes in conspiracies without shidding their pants crying over how “problematic” they are.
By the way, the only thing that matters in Cuba is whether the Communist Party retains POLITICAL POWER. If they can retain total regime control and power, while implementing these reforms, it can even be positive for Cuba.
The danger in “reforms” has always been if they turn POLITICAL. If Cuba loosens up economically, but tightens up politically - they will be able to shore up the immense resources and technology of the world market.
This can turbo-charge Communist rule. Cuba can turn into a powerful super-regime, and become a major geopolitical force in Latin America. And outlive the USA.
Communism in theory: We will crush the imperialist bourgeoisie, unleash the productive forces to an extent never achieved in our land.
Communism in practice: Crushes the imperialist bourgeoisie, unleashes the productive forces to an extent never achieved before in their land.
Marxists have always regarded professionals and intelligentsia as petty-bourgeois (as a class).
The Reddit cookie-cutter definitions of class that prevail among online “Marxists” are mainly taken from old beginner’s guides, which sophisticated Marxist analysis has never been reduced to.
The main reason has to do with the institutional rather than individual nature of the bourgeois class.
Towards the end of the 19th century, initiation into the bourgeoisie didn’t depend on ‘starting small’ as a proprietor.
That paradigm of class ascension actually came from feudalism, where the ruling class was defined by independent proprietorship in land.
In the mid 19th century, the bourgeoisie was still being critiqued not as capitalists, but as new feudal landowners - who now own discrete spaces as means of production (factories, etc) instead land.
This wasn’t a real anti-capitalist critique, it merely applied the critique of feudalism to the industrial bourgeoisie that was beginning to emerge from feudalism, still stamped by its birthmarks, which included personal proprietorship.
As capitalism matured, with the rise of the joint-stock paradigm of ownership, initiation into the bourgeoise became less about personal proprietorship and more about institutional accreditation.
Instead of ‘starting small’ as a fruit stand owner and becoming a huge industrial magnate - you ‘start small’ as a student, manager, professional, etc. - who ascends to the bourgeoise through institutional promotion.
CEO’s of companies are promoted via professional hierarchy. Startup ‘owners’ are vouched for by banking institutions, VCs and other ‘promoters.’
Nobody gets rich ‘starting small’ as a small proprietor - they get enough accreditation, either in academic or financial institutions, to be deemed competent enough to ‘own’ capital. That’s how you “join” the big bourgeoise - you get vouched for.
This has been true since the early 1900s. Today, the bourgeoise is largely gatekept and there is no real social mobility, because it has developed into a type of dynastic financial oligarchy.
But in any case, it’s absolutely correct that professors and other professionals are petty-bourgeois. Anyone who is on the institutional ladder at all (where corporate ascension or accreditation is possible) - is petty-bourgeois.
They may not be at the top but they have a stake in the institutional and economic hegemony of the bourgeoisie.
Now in the past, Leninism emphasized a strict cadre-class distinction. Cadre were largely drawn from intelligentsia since they alone had access to education and free time.
They had to renounce their class background and become initiated into the leadership of the proletariat. Contrast that to today’s self-serving petty bourgeois professionals!
In any case, even that point is moot. With the rise of the internet, anyone can learn Marxism. Including welders, warehouse workers, truckers, etc. - the petty bourgeois intelligentsia can’t gatekeep Marxist theory anymore.
So now the distinction has become more blurred. Professional intelligentsia aren’t needed anymore. The proletariat can itself crowdfund its own full-time professional revolutionaries and educators, based on direct feedback mechanisms of pedagogical competence and interest.
Tiktokers and YouTubers have made professors superfluous. They’re useless now. People whine and cry about all the “stupidity of the goyim” and professor Jiang etc because of this - but it’s too bad.
Both stupid bullshitters and knowledgeable people can use these mediums to fulfill roles that gatekeeping professionals used to. It is a fact and there’s no going back.
Grad students don’t like hearing this because it makes them feel useless. But the truth hurts. They are.
Iran is now destined to become a major world superpower. It defeated the most powerful empire in history and now controls the Strait of Hormuz.
The US did not simply surrender. It paid TRIBUTE to Iran. The flow of tribute is ultimately what defines imperial authority.
Anti-Zionism is now popular and mainstream, so the Chud position has become philosemitic Zionism.
It’s come full circle from Epstein creating pol. “The goyim have gone insane” memes are chuds discovering Tel Aviv has always been their true home.
The disgusting and filthy bourgeoisie are the enemies of all people and all nations.
Their tastes are ugly, their worldview is retarded, their habits are swine-like, their culture is depraved and degenerate.
And they rule only since the people lack confidence in themselves.
Being a trillionaire doesn’t mean anything. Based on how close you are to the regime, your access to material goods, services and capital is unlimited. If they want, they can denominate that as 999 bazillion shekels, it doesn’t matter.
It’s not economics, it’s power.
Trotskyites? Kuffar.
Leftcoms? Kuffar.
Democratic Soycialists? Kuffar.
Maoists? Kuffar.
Anime pfp? Kuffar.
Gamer? Kuffar.
Rightist? Kuffar.
Liberal? Kuffar.
Genuine belief is decisive only for those who follow the golden, revolutionary path of Marxism-Leninism. The rest are devolving into apes, pigs and other nonhuman beings.
In fact it is said that apes, pigs and other human-like animals today descend from wicked people who abandoned the golden path. Lysenko’s advanced science of speciation may confirm this in the future.
There is genuinely no way for “free market” Right-Wingers to cope over North Korea’s economic success story.
It hasn’t adopted market reforms like China and Vietnam did. It retained centrally planned, conventional socialist economics. And it’s thriving in spite of having been besieged and isolated by the US for decades.
That’s the power of Communism.
Leftists in 2016: “Real Communism hasn’t been tried.”
Right-Wing: “HAHAHA! What cope!”
Right Wing in 2026, seeing China: “Actually guys Real Communism hasn’t been tried.”
The majority of American “politics” has simply devolved into suicidal military nihilism. That is the only “ideology” taken seriously in America today.
Liberal “leftists” wrap this nihilism with “progressive” garnish (Kate Abugazaleh, Graham Platner) about “saving democracy” while Right-Wing cuckolds tell themselves it’s about defending the “European race” and “Western civilization.”
But in the end, all they really believe in is physical force itself. But there is no shortage of physical force in the cosmos. Force without moral authority and a guiding purpose is inherently entropic.
Liberalism cannot provide this, and therefore becomes fascism before “Hitler-in-bunker”-ing itself. Only when those intoxicated by the romance of this decadence finally take that inevitable step, can the rest of mankind be free.
The “power” of the US military will become as chaotic, dispersed, dissipated, and entropic as the wild physical forces of the cosmos themselves.