The primary task for socialists in the US is to dismantle American imperialism both internationally and domestically. All tasks, actions, and party work must be analyzed in how they help achieve this goal
@tyzias_ You def should! My fave essays are:
Really Existing Fascism
Concessions
China has billionaires
How China Turned to Capitalism
Western Marxism…
On Dialectics…
The Case for Socialized Ownership
Why Can’t we be friends
On Hegel
Diodes
The Case for Socialized Ownership
@tyzias_ You def should! My fave essays are:
Really Existing Fascism
Concessions
China has billionaires
How China Turned to Capitalism
Western Marxism…
On Dialectics…
The Case for Socialized Ownership
Why Can’t we be friends
On Hegel
Diodes
The Case for Socialized Ownership
@PastCassandra For whatever it’s worth i think i followed them pretty casually without looking too closely into their politics. Whats the issue with them?
@purplewaves7 In Origin of the Family, you can feel Engels' hatred of the monogamous family radiating off the page. No idea what he thought of queer people but the notion he believed in the inherent good of monogamous relationships is absurd.
Marxists should try to avoid sounding like they're proposing some unfathomable new way of doing things, and instead should sound like they grasp existing affairs and so can do it all *better*, with drastically more upside over downside.
This is a trickier pitch, but it's better.
@mganj79@elcumster Ik, as am I. And what about it? The OP is asking if anyone believes the two are comparable, the Dengists do. This essay is an outline of their logic for why.
@maoisthnvx_25@lunar_dysphoria I don’t think thats true. I think it’s better to assume they took lessons from the book we disagree with. We should argue why their interpretation is incorrect, not just brow-beat them that they didn’t even read it