the problem is that people from the global north think that having a marginalized identity precludes them from being complicit in the exploitation of the global south when that's not how it works. Some of u are monsters regardless of ur race, sexuality, or gender
“Under communism why would anyone become a doctor if they’re not making a lot more than everyone else”.. idk bro ask Cubans. They have so many doctors they send them to other countries
Revolutionary Joy is children in Palestine and Lebanon and in Sudan finding space to play amongst rubble. Not a bunch of mid 40s-60s white people doing the cupid shuffle outside an ICE facility or at a demonstration that's allegedly Anti-Fascist.
also some of you have a ‘noble savage’ view of marginalised groups and working class people. i don’t like the wild implications that they are too stupid or illiterate to read or organise or plan or whatever.
One of the things that has always been shocking to me about living in America is the fact that somehow the majority of Americans cannot connect the dots between the prohibitively expensive/perennially rising cost of living and the wars and genocides their tax dollars fund.
Is the rise of Chinamaxxing a vindication of the Marxist materialist conception of history?
It became fashionable to "become Chinese" after China got richer
Material conditions driving trends
The superstructure adapting to the new economic base