cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]

One of the clear benefits of state capitalism (i.e. government ownership of the nation’s largest for profit enterprises), is that in the event of a financial crisis you can shove a bunch of money into them in a way that isn’t just a massive upwards transfer of wealth.

In 2020, Keynes would absolutely be a Dengist.

What’s your explanation for how the dude allowed the KKK to grow and how he leveraged them to advance some of his political goals?

Woodrow Wilson was arguably the first fascist president and presented a model that was later copied by the likes of Mussolini and Hitler. There were other American presidents that also were affiliated with such things, but what made Wilson unique was the shear size of the second KKK. Something like 20 percent of eligible american men were members.

Should the proudboys and related grow into something comparable to that than fascism is a real concern, but fortunately we have a very long way to go to until the right wing is better organized like this. This past summer has showed the left is more organized than otherwise thought.

CA has their weird form of third way social democracy that’s literally just the worst of both worlds. Plays a big role in why utilities and housing costs are messed up. Certain parts of the state have been good for LGBT rights compared to other areas as well.

Progressive doesn’t mean socialist. California is basically just the same as Canada.

Wtf lmfao, the vast majority of Jews are democrats, and that falls out by age. Maybe some orthodox jews are more Republican leaning, but that’s not universally true at all. It’s like 80/20.

No way this shit works in America the same way it does in the UK. In the UK Jews are majority tory voters, in the US Jews are much more left wing.

In what year…

Look I’ve read plenty of translated chinese government documents and I do recognize there are certainly some deep egalitarian beliefs out there, but you see the same sorts of documents come from the more left wing cities in the US.

Xi certainly does represent a path to what you’re talking about, but the guy before him and the Shanghai clique absolutely did not represent that path forward. There’s absolutely good reason to be skeptical that China will do what they claim from a socialist perspective.

See I think there’s far more potential in a unified left movement coming out of Latin America to challenge American hegemony than anything coming out of China. The level of resentment China has to the existing imperial powers isn’t especially significant in comparison.

The USSR was also far better than contemporary China even with their various internal problems. Contemporary China has far deeper ties with the global elite davos types than they do with the working people of the developing world.

My support for China exists in the support for a far more multipolar world rather than thinking their some kind of magic socialist solution.

Horrible take to call China the best hope for socialism today when Cuba still exists and is incredibly internationalist for a country of its size and relative wealth.

It played a very meaningful role in the pink tide that sweeped latin america.

It’s amazing to me that the stuff people post to forums like tumblrinaction are things that actually anget people as much as they do. Like why do people care so much about what some anonymous stranger is saying or going through. I’ll never understand why so many people get their rocks off bullying the posts of young people who obviously just feel alienated.

I’m way more concerned about the fact that healthcare costs are totally out of control and that the cost of housing has risen far faster than the rate of wages.