this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
124 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13496 readers
955 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Vaush posts go in the_dunk_tank
Dunk posts in general go in the_dunk_tank, not here
Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from the_dunk_tank
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
When Mao was right - which was most of the time - he was right.
But when he wrong… well…
He understood extractive imperialism perfectly but not settler colonialism. What he did understand of it he got from the wildly different experience of French African settler colonialism.
It's like that difference between the apartheid and the genocidal state that's come up recently.
An apartheid state wants the oppressed groups to do all the work. A genocidal state just wants them gone.
The US is both, genocidal to First Nations, apartheid to non whites.
Look, man, the sparrows deserved it
This is a lack of cultural exposure tbh, I think he just geniunely didn't understand how bad American society really is.
This was also true of Marx and Engels, imo.
he also thought that the soviet union was the most imperialist force, on the same earth on which the usa also resided so...