alcoholicorn
We never get a satisfying end to these things; The same people who lied about Iraq and Libya still have jobs in the respectable media.
They'll never acknowledge that western-backed riots opposing the extradition of a murderer might have been somewhat misguided, instead we get "actually Xi Jinping successfully crushed their hopes and dreams by building inexpensive mass transit".
Cuba's doing pretty well. I couldn't imagine how they'd have gotten to where they are now if they didn't have their revolution.
Where do you think those material conditions that promote things like misogyny come from?
The relationship with the means of production; in cultures where men inherit property, you get misogyny.
In the societies that didn't have property or male inheritance, you see much more equitable cultures.
No, it’s not human nature
Yeah no, I'm not one of those. I'm just strongly of the belief that culture molds itself around the mode of production, as opposed to individual people and ideas.
That seems like a very idealist understanding of culture; do you think misogyny is the result of bad people with bad ideas doing bad things, as opposed to the result of material conditions?
Web3 was dead on arrival; when your ecosystem is entirely wannabe digital landlords, you're not gonna get any content to actually attract users.
Western Economists: What China really needs to do is stop investing in production, promote domestic consumption, and start spending foreign reserves on goods rather than bonds.
Don't condescend when you don't know basic terms like capitalism or social democracy and its history.
Capitalism and democracy are diametrically opposed, hence why you cannot have meaningful democracy under capitalism.
My point that you seem to miss is that under capitalism, capitalists only allow such reforms when their power is threatened, and under capitalism, such reforms are removed when the threat is removed.
Do you not see that leaving the capitalists in power tends towards a system that benefits the capitalists at the expense of everyone else?
That every capitalist country has cut away at benefits over the last 30 years?
Why would you fight to leave the capitalists in power?
What you are describing is social democracy, a subset of capitalism. That is not socialism integrated into capitalism, because once again, power remains with the capitalist class.
I don't think even replacing Biden would get the anti-genocide people to vote for him; If Biden doesn't end all support for Israel, no promise to do so by a dem-backed candidate is going to be taken seriously.
Trying to pressure the DNC to replace Biden makes more sense than trying to shame voters, but it's still less effective than pressuring Biden to end the genocide.