It seems like we should have different standards of complicity when it comes to imperial core populations: the highest for those who gain the most benefits from imperial hegemony (e.g. white people), and then a lower one for those with fewer. There are certainly black neoliberals/fascists around, but there's a different story from self-interest for an Uncle Ruckus. Although it can maybe be said that they simply incorrectly think that they will benefit and act on that, at some level people know where they stand.
Autonomarx
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Count me in. I've never wanted something so badly in my entire life.
Would a joint response from Syria and Lebanon be good or bad? Syria is probably not in a place to go to war right now, but the entity going to war on 4 fronts (counting the West Bank) seems like a recipe for destruction.
Except even if you only go by the major capitalist media outlets you can see that they constantly fucking lie to justify war and imperialism. They lied about the Nayirah testimony, about WMD in Iraq, about attempted genocide in Libya, about Afghanistan having anything to do with 9/11, and so on. There are people totally alienated from the contemporary political landscape of the West because they understand that everyone only does bad things but they don't know how to stop it. The 'people' that swallow it whole recognize their interest in continued white supremacy and choose to reinforce the belief that it's good.
Do you have any sources? I was trying to find a reference online but couldn't.
The most fun part of federation is trying to figure out whether these bloodthirsty liberals trapped at the end of history are as rabid as they seem or are part of an op. How can a normal human being who knew anything about the past 5 years at minimum say something like "people of NATO" seriously?
The "one ad/one pamphlet" concept is a horrible idea. Reactionary political platforms rely on regressive ideas that have remained in the popular political consciousness for centuries - meanwhile, the positive development of society requires an understanding of complex things that won't be adequately expressed in such a brief format. Think economic planning, human ecology, etc.
This is a recipe for a cruel, inhumane, and backwards society. In short, bourgeois democracy.
This reads so much like a Mussolini quote that I am stunned it's actually real (at least as real as any e-quote is).
You are correct that neoliberalism has already ended. Check out Samir Amin if you haven't already https://piped.video/watch?v=EEq8OK4BUyM&t=0