Socialism

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"All my money goes straight to rent and bills ... I can’t even afford to buy myself groceries"

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Keir Starmer has made clear that a Labour government will uphold NATO spending targets and protect the wealth of the financial oligarchy. This has not stopped the NEU and the entire trade union bureaucracy from throwing their support behind the Labour leader, as they work to suppress the current wave of strikes.

Sorry if this question seems inflammatory or uninformed, it comes from a place of simple curiosity.

While getting into socialist theory, partly through breadtube content, I often stumbled upon creators/commentators/writers who absolutely crucify the US (rightfully so in many regards), but either justify wrongdoings of the CCP/Russian regime or outright support them.

To me it seems absolutely incongruous to claim socialist ideals for oneself but to champion authoritarian regimes that have ties to Socialism merely semantically or through some spurious historical traditions.

Can you enlighten me about this? Thank you.

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they plan on holding an election, following years of what they describe as financial mismanagement that led to reductions in staff and services.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/887932

Interesting piece by Wolff pointing out the ways China-bashers contradict themselves. This passage is particularly germane:

Scapegoating China joins with scapegoating immigrants, BIPOCs, and many of the other usual targets. The broader decline of the U.S. empire and capitalist economic system confronts the nation with the stark question: whose standard of living will bear the burden of the impact of this decline? The answer to that question has been crystal clear: the government will pursue austerity policies (cut vital public services) and will allow price inflation and then rising interest rates that reduce living standards and jobs.

As Yves Smith puts it,

Richard Wolff provides a wide ranging yet comparatively compact tour of the incoherence of America’s official posture on China, using that as an example of late imperial disfunction. This would be a usefully provocative piece to send to China detractors.

Might be a useful piece to send to liberals inevitably screeching Yellow Peril nonsense.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/754550

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