The biggest threat to any left wing movement has and always will be the CIA, their brutality is than used to prove that leftist movements are "unpopular".

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 months ago

Doesn't even need to be too left wing, JFK put a dictatorship in Brazil cause the center left president wanted to trade with China and refused to invade Cuba

[–] appropriateghost@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago

yeah, and not just leftist. you can have the most liberal and bourgeois-backed nationalist project just to secure some kind of national sovereignty and there will still be a coup. Case point: Iran and Mosaddegh.

Imperialism will sap the wealth of countries and peoples for short term gains, regardless of the economic system.

[–] frog@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago

Not only that but the word "communist" is brings out so much hatred to people in the US. Perfect propaganda.