I’m so confused, one second they’re shutting down on opposition, the next they’re letting prisoners go. Rhetoric is fuck the USA, I dont know what to expect from them.

I’d agree with you if the US was not a rabid dog. People don’t want to die, if the US bombs Cuba, it’ll fall because there isn’t really a choice. I’m not saying these countries are jumping to their knees, I’m saying that the US will only escalate and since there is NO counterbalance, no alternative. They will win, this applies mostly to latam. I don’t think the same for the DPRK (and luckily they have nukes).

At some point, historical platitudes stops providing any sort of purpose or emotional sustenance. We’re all comrades here, we ALL know the history.

When we have a modern day event that can parallel the Soviet, Chinese, or Cuban revolution in strength and significance, maybe then those words will mean something.

what did hezbollah say? im not trying to be negative, i just literally dont see an alternative

believe it or not, the doomerism comes from the inaction of the world against a mostly successful genocide, the fall of syria. this event isnt taking place within a bubble

its not that i think the capture of Maduro is the fall of Venezuela, its the fact that i dont believe any substantial blowback will come from this. its not that they can kill diaz canel and win, its that they’ll kill him and occupy and even if they fail to maintain a regime, the revolution is in tatters.

whats the endgame? we dont have a counter-weight, the US can AFFORD to do this. There isn’t any reckoning coming, china and russia will watch this happen. its not about the fall of Venezuela happening today, its about the momentum we need to survive as opposed to the energy the US requires to maintain its hegemony

China is going to condemn the US all the way till they’re bombing Beijing. I’ve lost any hope on them doing anything except cowtowing themselves to oblivion.

the fact that there’s a non-zero percent chance that Vietnam is one of those countries is so sad

Does anyone think that Iran will respond to the re-continued genocide or no?

100% agreed

What you call dooming I see as mourning, people are giving their lives out there. In the case where they aren’t, everything in their life is going to change. Maybe some of us are more in touch with what is happening than others. Like holy fuck, you think Afghanistan falling wasn’t fucking terrible for everybody living there?

proper perspective of the communist position

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.”

I think China has been made toothless by the powerful liberal faction within its government.

I love your posts and I think you one of the posters I most ideologically agree with, so let me try to clarify my position a bit. My initial post was a rant entirely fueled by the increasingly dire state of the world, a world that doesn’t have a US counterweight. No country is currently attempting to bring about any form of revolution except maybe our Burkino Faso/Mali/Niger alliance. In the past, admittedly one that we lost, the movement was carried by a strong international sense of love and anger. When barbarity like what we are seeing came about, some countries (Cuba in Angola) actively gave lives fighting wars they had no part in. There WAS an era of real revolutionary retribution, it feels like it died along with the USSR. Seeing how passive current countries are in comparison to their history has me viewing them in a not-so-positive light.

Yeah, it’s an emotional rant and analysis, I know that.

Two things. First, could we not see the US do the same thing they did with SK? They can fund and essentially Marshall Plan certain countries who would be hurt by the impact. Second, this is the US, it’s allies are very specifically military bases. Each one of those countries would be flooded with troops as soon as they wanted to.

I said vice-versa, specifically because my whole point is that China would let a close ally be wiped with their passivity. Doesn’t matter who attacks who, just saying the way Mao helped the DPRK during the Civil War would not happen again.

So I’ve always believed I was a dialectical materialist but I DO believe in biblical evils. I didn’t realize that my belief in God suddenly disavowed me as a materialist.

We would have more likely seen the genocide escalate into a proxy war, something that would have more than likely saved lives. Let’s remove troops from the equations, how about some fucking navy support hm? Anything to help even the odds for Hamas. Russia is controlled by Putin, someone who so badly wants to be part of the western club, and they STILL do more than China.

I’m religious so I do believe in biblical evils, I might view capital that way and that might be (I don’t really care) “anti-dialectical”. There are plenty of Marxists, usually Maoists, who opposed Dengism for the same reasons. If me calling Deng a capitalist roader is more digestible then there you go.

China being dengist is the issue, I understand the whole “we need to build our productive forces” but honestly, I’ve come to view capital as almost a biblical evil. It is a corrupting force.

Anyway, yeah they don’t care about Baathism, but my concern was more with the allowance of the Palestinian genocide. The USSR would’ve put troops on the ground.

China is currently being surrounded by US allies, like I agree, but the US won’t let that happen without going into a hot conflict.