☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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you keep on clutching them pearls
I’m honoring Charlie’s memory, it’s what he would’ve wanted.
Name a more iconic duo than liberals and pearl-clutching. I’ll wait.
and that’s precisely the reason it’s been so effective
Having a single party simply means that the society as a whole agreed on a single collective vision. There can be plenty of debate within the framework of a party on how to actually implement this vision. Meanwhile, any class society will be a dictatorship of the class that holds power. Given that socialist society would arise from an existing capitalist society, it would necessarily inherit existing class relationships. What changes is which class holds power. That’s the difference between the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Finally, the notion of dictatorship in a sense of a single person running things is infantile beyond belief. People who peddle this notion are the ones who should truly be ashamed of themselves. As Anna Louise Strong puts it in This Soviet World:
Liberalism is an ideology with two main parts. First is political liberalism which focuses on individual freedoms, democracy, and human rights. Second is economic liberalism which centers around free markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. These two aspects form a contradiction. Political liberalism purports to support everyone’s freedom, while economic liberalism enshrines private property rights as sacred in laws and constitutions, effectively removing them from political debate.
Liberalism justifies the use of state violence to safeguard property rights, over supporting ordinary people, which contradicts the promises of fairness and equality. Private property is seen as a key part of individual freedom under liberalism, and this provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. The talks of promoting freedom and democracy is just a fig leaf to provide cover for justifying capitalist relations.
This is an excellent primer on the subject https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/liberalism-the-two-faced-tyranny-of-wealth
And that was after being completely devastated during the war, and rebuilding to challenge the US who sat the war out and built out their industries while the rest of the world burned.
I mean that’s how capitalism works. Companies compete with one another and they have to show quarterly profits to their shareholders. If even one company decides to give up their IP in order to do business in China, that means the rest of the companies that are competing with it are forced to do the same. If they don’t, they will lose market share and eventually go out of business.
welcome to the “international community”
4·13 days agohard to elaborate on a topic you have absolutely no clue regarding :)
Oh yeah no question, I can confirm that this is very much a sentiment in Canada right now as well.
I absolutely love how libs have just memorized a handful or talking points they regurgitate like chatbots.
is see see pee in the room with you right now?
^ how to say you’ve had the misfortune to be educated in burgerland and were never taught geography