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It's not true, though. The Marxists, safely behind a wall, convinced the undecideds to give the gun to the Fascist.
No they didn't, what a boring take divorced from reality.
If liberals ever critically analyzed reality they'd be marxists.
Well I don't think that's true at all. I mean Liberals are basically the core of capitalism. In a lot of ways the liberal Revolution was the capitalist Revolution. They're an entire people that Define themselves by law order and property.
That's not true, the critical analysis of the enlightenment overthrew the dominance of the church and suborned it to private property. There are several good liberal analysts and historians, in many cases Marxists depend on the analysis done by liberals. Liberalism is a scientific mindset.
But like Marx says in Theses on Feuerbach, as well as a lot of other places, the problem with enlightenment rationalism is it is too objective, like it turns everything, all relationships, all of nature, politics, history, and turns them into objects which have inherent qualities. As such there is a preference over "real" things that can be directly experienced. But as we know, capitalism delivers many false appearances which is where liberals get it wrong but Marxists, who see "things" as relationships created by human beings, can scientifically see much further and deeper than liberals. History appears to the liberal as an assortment of things, whereas to the Marxists we view history as relationships.
Dialectical materialism is a development on, and breaking with, the empirical, objective, enlightenment materialism that came before it. But the two share a common root, if not branch.
But I agree that 90% of liberal commentators are completely intellectually dishonest defenders of private property, and entrenched power; guys like Bret Stephens and Matty Ynglesias. Just completely dishonest grifters playing sophist games with history and events to justify class rule. Many academics like this as well, but I think in reality its more of a mixed bag.
Marxists in America are a rounding error. This is the first time I've seen someone spend too much time on Lemmy.
They're a very vocal and organized minority, and it is very clear to see their misinformation has had huge impacts on undecided voters.
That is not very clear to see at all.
6.27 Million people who voted for Biden didn't show up to vote for Harris, giving the USA Election to Donald Trump. The Both-Sides-Bad Centrism mental disease is rampant among the left and it's being heavily promoted and endorsed by Tankie trolls and bots, including TikTok as a whole.
If Marxists could get 6.27M people to listen to them, you think they'd waste it on an election? Kamala simply ran an out-of-touch campaign.
Pick a man's pocket and he'll hate you.
Convince a man that others are picking their pockets and he'll give you his money.
Marxists, famous for wanting your money.
lmao WHOOSH
It was a metaphor for how easy it is to pin people against each other to get what you want.
No shit. Do you think Marxists wanted Trump elected?
Instead of metaphors and conspiracy theories, could you just say who you think is doing what and why, in plain English?
They do think that
One look at Lemmygrad and Hexbear last year and many of the comments on posts like these show very well they love Trump. They think he's the solution to "US Imperialism".
Ok no offense but this is what I thought and why I suggest you spend less time on Lemmy.
Will the liberals ever grow up and take responsibility for they doing?
Liberals didn't vote for Trump.
Kamalla was an infinitely better candidate if you value human life. Kamala wanted to tax the rich, Trump wants to cut their taxes AGAIN. How can anybody call themself a communist when they empower wealthy theocratic oligopoly?
Leftists didn't vote for Trump as far as I imagine. Your argument is stupid. The question is why would leftist vote for Harris when Biden demonstrated he wouldn't do anything more than what Democrats did in the last 50 years?
If they didn't vote for Harris, as 6.27 Million former Biden votes stayed home, then they effectively did support the Trump presidency. Just like the Tankies told them to, to "reject the duopoly". Every Democrat in the last 50 years made things better than they were before. Even Lindon B Johnson promoted more "socialism" than you ever have, 60 years ago.
And that is a lie the liberals tell to themselves. Liberals we're in charge. They chose to gift promises to the right, expecting the left to vote for them only to fight fascism. The responsibility is to Harris and her side only. Now you deal with fascism and liberals are still trying to deflect their responsibilities, and that's disgusting a good reason enough to consider them a part of the fascist problem itself.