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New shipment of fell for it awards for the American left. This is what Actually Existing Democratic Socialism looks like (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Turns out you can very reliably judge whether someone will be principled in their domestic policies by whether they are principled in their foreign policy positions. The "supports AES states" litmus test.

If someone claims to be any kind of socialist but denounces socialist countries as "authoritarian", they probably will not actually govern as a socialist but as yet another liberal when you vote them into power.

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's also an anti-corruption, anti-opportunism, anti-careerist test. No one gains any profit from supporting AES states in the imperial core (no checks from Xi, sadly). It's not a career advantage to say the least. It's baffling how libs/"anti-authoritan leftists" accuse us of only lusting for power. If we were after short personal gain, we would be like them.

[–] Marat@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 6 days ago

Parenti stays relevant

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If we were opportunists, we wouldn't be openly calling for the dismantling of the Liberal Democracy. How many libs and centrists can we attract with that?

[–] burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem is not even attracting libs or centrists. The propaganda and agitation work we do is specially done for this purpose. We are basically doing an ideological dispute over people's subjectiveness.

But when a liberal says he doesn't want to lose the support of the center or attract part of the conservatives, they are not actually talking about the regular voter. They are talking about the capitalist donors, the exact people the liberal superstructure was created for. So they are willing to do any change except the ones that remove any power of the capitalist class.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 week ago

Exactly.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago

If Mamdani was cool he would have initiated a purge of the nypd and replaced them with new nyc red guards so he could consolidate the revolution and export the revolutionary struggle to New Jersey

[–] pleiades@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mamdanism is real praxis for real revolutionaries

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

fell-for-it-again

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mamdani said shit along these lines back during the campaign, something about the cops being overworked. But pulling them out of the subways and reducing hours is just unthinkable, apparently.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 days ago

They love being "overworked". They make big money on overtime.