▲ 127 ▼ Midwestern Marx is a PatSoc (lemmygrad.ml) submitted 2 years ago by VictimOfAmerikkka@lemmygrad.ml to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net 106 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4287336 Midwestern Marx is a PatSoc Source Archive
[+] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago They very much do, they just like to pretend they don't for...idk, optics? permalink fedilink source parent [–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago It's like Césaire said, the real sin of fascists was to apply colonialism to white people. Much of the western 'left' is still only concerned with that dynamic. If the US practiced it's imperialism only on the global south, you wouldn't hear a peep. As evidenced by the existence of those who tell you to vote Biden because although he's doing a genocide, he isn't quite so ghoulish against the good ol' USians as Trump would be (he is, but they aren't concerned with facts). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago They very much do, they just like to pretend they don't for...idk, optics? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago It's like Césaire said, the real sin of fascists was to apply colonialism to white people. Much of the western 'left' is still only concerned with that dynamic. If the US practiced it's imperialism only on the global south, you wouldn't hear a peep. As evidenced by the existence of those who tell you to vote Biden because although he's doing a genocide, he isn't quite so ghoulish against the good ol' USians as Trump would be (he is, but they aren't concerned with facts). permalink fedilink source parent
