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FOSS is definitely not boycotting capitalism, but its still an objectively good thing. I see FOSS work as a way for relatively rich imperial core citizens to give back to the world.

Definitely do not boycott FOSS projects.

FOSS devs can do FOSS work only because of the relative luxury conditions of their imperial core countries, which comes at the expense of global south countries.

In other words, they can do that because their countries imperialist relations with the global south, this is the reason that most FOSS projects come from the US and Europe.

In some way FOSS work is a way for these people to give back to the world, i think its fine to donate to these projects regardless of their location.

The death of an empire is the qualitative development after a huge sum of quantitative changes, but you still need something to trigger the qualitative change, it won’t happen by itself.

Think of Syria, the fall of Assad happened due to the collective sum of erosion of the economy, the army, the people, etc, but still it was ultimately triggered by the terrorist HTS attack. If that event didn’t happen, Assad would still be in Syria.

People need to organize to kill the empire, not pray for it to fall under its own weight.

I have a problem with that phrasing. The empire will not die by itself, it has to be killed.

I can’t think of any empire or state, no matter how frail, that just collapsed under its own weight.

It does weakening it temporarily, institutions take time to get properly organized and function efficiently. Think of USAID, while not perfectly efficient it already functioned like an oiled machine, dismantling it to set up a new one will require more work to get it started than just keeping USAID going, with the added risk that the newer thing is not guaranteed to succeef.

weakening the US state is a good thing in my book. The less organized the imperial core is the more breathing room there is for the rest of the world.

The reason the parties are right wing is because the voters are right wing.

You’re completely right, the working class of the imperial core is reactionary by definition, always been and always will be.

People from the global south watching american fighting over who is less evil never gets old.

traitor to whom lol, trump is pursuing the US interests as they have always done. ukraine being dumped after it stops being useful is consistent with US foreign policy.

nothing fundamentally changes, ukraine is meant to be dumped at some point.

Add in taiwan lmao

You pretty much said it. The CPC holds all the political power in China, they dictate how to organize society, unlike in the west where capitalists hold all the political power and thus dictate how to organize society.

The only thing you could argue are the results of the CPC leadership, and these are crystal clear after you visit China.

and its already outdated, we need to add jolani in there

its an anglo nature problem for sure

Western man please enlighten us about the systemic issues in China 😂

you’re right actually, guess who said this

What is the working-class movement without socialism?—A ship without a compass which will reach the other shore in any case, but would reach it much sooner and with less danger if it had a compass.

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the dictatorship of capital vs the dictatorship of the proletariat

The liberal cause? You mean the genocide of indigenous people and the enslavement of black people?

The early USSR policies built strong socialists foundations, without a highly developed industry to produce material wealth there is no possibility of a socialist future, only of an abundance of povery.

This “destroyed any hope of a socialist democracy” comes from the mislead idealists that wanted the “war communism” implemented during the civil war to continue, which would’ve lead to a catastrophe of gargantuan proportions a couple of decades later with the invasion of Nazi Germany.