Is Israel your country? No? Then how you feel about their recent policy doesn't mean shit. Whether a policy is good or not is up for the Israeli people to decide. The Knesset exists for the Israeli people, not to fulfil your ideological purity fantasies.
Is Cuba your country? No? Then how you feel about their recent economic policy doesn't mean shit. Whether a policy is good or not is up for the Cuban people to decide. The Communist Party of Cuba exists for the Cuban people, not to fulfil your ideological purity fantasies.
What remains are slivers of various pasts. Pasts more foreign and occulted than anything an archeologist could encounter. Yet at the same time so near to the heart, that a glimpse is enough to recognize in these fragments what one might even dare to call a "home".
"OUR TIME HAS COME"
Our time came and it was the greatest of times. The time to scroll on your phone as the world became ever more fake until the daily avalanche of otherwordly stimuli fizzled into cathartic amnesia. I hope at least you remember. When our time had come.
Its apex is found in a new wave of Conservative Socialists who, in the face of woke and its cultural program, have decided to return back to the "material" demands of the century old slogan and re-embrace the now romantic figure of the prole and the decaying vestiges of industry.
Leftist creativity in finding new forms of expression, organization and administration is only overcome by the utter aimlessness of their struggle. It seems like "Peace, Land and Bread" was the last time anyone sincerely considered what world change could possibly entail.
Protestors just built a Minneapolis Autonomous Zone that spans several blocks, stocked with winter gear, food, bonfires. Multiple layers of barricades block ICE & police from entry. It is currently -10°F in Minneapolis & hundreds/thousands are still in the streets protesting.
Any leftist demand in the present day invariably ends up as a reformulation of "peace, land, bread" and its derivatives like wide-scale nationalization and economic planning to guarantee this material baseline.
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at Davos:
China never seeks a trade surplus.
On top of being the world’s factory, China hopes to become the world’s market.