Arcturus

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[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I once thought that the US had made mistakes but generally was trying to do the right thing

Thing is, there is no "trying" to do something on a national scale. What nations do — what they can do — and how they react entirely depends on their mode of production and material conditions. And that mode of production for the US is imperialist capitalism.

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

But they don't, so talking about those "what if"s are pointless. China's current interests — and, broadly speaking, those of capitalist Russia even after the USSR has been overthrown — are mostly in line with the Global South's against imperial core countries. There's a reason sentiment like this is common across the developing world.

Many of western countries' victims, like Cuba, DPRK, Burkina Faso, Palestine, etc., would not be able to function right now, or perhaps even exist, if they did not have China and Russia's support. Of course, alot of them like Libya aren't able to function anymore.

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No revolution started with the whole citizenry waking up

Obviously not everyone lmao.

What every revolution has had is people informing others about what the issue is (often by pamphlets, news, etc), what needs to be done, and organizing. The vast majority of successful revolutions are only those that had organized revolutionaries.

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The One True American^TM^

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

No other country controls the global financial system like the US, and imperial core countries in general, does through its dollar hegemony and global monopolies.

Which is natural, since the entire modern world, its institutions and trade systems, are built on the past few centuries of brutal colonization of the rest of the world by western europe and japan.

finger pointing

Acknowledging reality isn't "finger pointing".

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (37 children)

Acknowledging that the US has been the leader of the imperial core — the countries that have been colonizing the rest of the world for 500 years now — since WW2 is the realistic, materialist view.

Only difference now is that it's changed form to mainly the economic subjugation (neocolonialism) of "former" colonies through unequal exchange under capitalism rather than direct military subjugation — though the US still has a major actual settler colony committing a genocide in Palestine right now.

Any country that tries to escape this system (by nationalizing its resources to prevent extraction by unequal exchange, usually by establishing a socialist state) is sanctioned (DPRK, Vietnam in the past, Zimbabwe etc), embargoed (Cuba), overthrown (Chile, Burkina Faso etc), or invaded (Vietnam, Libya, Korea, etc).

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This would be a very different comment section if that was a blue hat lmao

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

Damn I wanna be a high priestess of athena polias

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The comment I replied to also had 4 upvotes and some downvotes in 1 or 2 minutes. Just means the thread is active.

Edit: Most of the new comments not taking the US's side also have exactly 3 downvotes right now. Are those alts? Lol

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

China denies it

Who cited China?

The majority of countries denying the western claims are muslim-majority Global South ones

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