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New shipment of fell for it awards for the American left. This is what Actually Existing Democratic Socialism looks like
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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.
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.
Parenti stays relevant
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?
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.
Duh
Exactly.