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[โ€“] stink@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree. Older generations were fooled by the propaganda because they had it "good" (in some ways, not all). When it comes to labor rights and wages, those benefits were handed down from communists and socialists who fought for them after the great depression.

After they benefited from the high quality of life these concessions gave, they received enough propaganda to pick away at the benefits they received, since they didn't need them anymore!

And no, I'm not saying America was ever "good", either. Settlers has a good example early on in the book about this. Early in US history, they massacred native populations and plundered their homes for animal furs. Colonizers don't care about harming others as long as they feel they receive proper compensation from the exploitation at home or abroad. I believe these same colonialist views still have a chokehold around the US population, but the same criticisms also apply to most of Europe as well.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yep, organizers in the US Empire needs to tackle settler-colonialism as its primary contradiction.