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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.
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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.
I never said there wouldn’t be policy, lol.
Let me put it in other terms. Focusing on just “changing the policy” is like if you were a restaurant and they served you a plate full of sewage and you told your dinner party “ok we really need to make sure we get some better ingredients put in this thing.”
I don’t think we really disagree here. What I actually support concretely is for workers to have stronger unions that are linked to socialist parties and those socialist parties should build parallel power structures, armed and unarmed alike, that eventually threaten and destroy the capitalist state to replace it with a socialist state. Then that socialist state should tend to the needs of the working class, developing productive forces and redistributing wealth to create better outcomes. That would be done through what you call “beneficial policies.” I just think that when you only talk about the “beneficial policy” to a public that’s mainly used to hearing about reform rather than revolution it is easily co-opted by social democrats.