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  • Someone defending the US few weeks ago said: “decisions are made by those who show up and vote”.

    No, decisions are made by those who hold economic and political power. That is NOT the citizenry of capitalist dictatorships. Having elections also serves a lot of ideological functions like:

    • Building consent / subservience for the capitalist dictatorship.
    • Creating the illusion of democracy.
    • Being an entertaining and distracting theatre piece.
    • Serving as a platform for capitalist ideas and talking points, making everything else seem “illegitimate”
    • Being used as a tool of western chauvinism, labeling any other system (even substantive people’s democracies) as “undemocratic”.






  • Losurdo has a few good chapters specifically about a lot of the modern german ideological support for zionism in his book War and Revolution.

    It’s a really complicated subject, dealing with the historical guilt from the judeocide, and supporting Israel being an easy and surface-level way to alleviate that guilt.


  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlDemocrats be like
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    7 days ago

    Over 10 of the downvotes so far are from zero-content accounts.

    It’lll be interesting to see how pro-zionist or political party PACs devoted to social media influencing like (correct-the-record for the US democratic party) will affect the fediverse, and what we can do about it.


  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlJobs
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    9 days ago

    All of Marx’s main concepts, surplus value, classes and class struggle, alienation, are just as relevant today as when they were written. Much like Newton, Marx built the solid foundation that scientific socialists stand on today.