i wish no harm to american ruling class, my enemy is the american people
one person say that barbarism critic is "the brianna wu of 2025. Remember kids I called it"
i guess there is some very real perceived material interests of americans to continue the genocide in palestine, like the christian zionists, or the liberals who want to continue the american dominance via global hegemony, and the labor aristocrats in america who want the treats.
i was listening to rev left radio "The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism" with Torkil Lauesen and, probably gonna butcher it - but my understanding is that as we enter a multipolar world, the americans will not be able to blatantly exploit the over-exploited nations (global south) leading to increasingly deteriorating conditions in the imperial core, which will set the grounds very clearly between socialism and barbarism?
and we are to organize and help alleviate the woes of the people which also serve as a way of building relations that lead to building power via organizations.
(iirc the bolsheviks has above ground orgs and underground orgs for the law breaking stuff)
eh i dunno just over analyzing what do you peeps think.
Best I can do is share some jumbled thoughts, cause I’m still wrapping my head around that episode. It was really good, but I should listen again because I think I missed a lot. it definitely got me interested in reading his work though. His latest book is actually free on the publisher’s website
Undoubtedly, the American ruling class is an enemy. But we also have to contend with the complicit masses who, even if they have a world to win, believe that they have more to lose when the world moves beyond capitalism and overthrows American hegemony. These complicit masses (whether it’s the petit bourgeois or the white proletariat or another) also represent an enemy to the revolution. Whether the continued decay of capitalism and the desperate barbarism of American hegemony emboldens their reactionary moment (fascism) or creates a progressive/revolutionary moment (post capitalism/socialism) is TBD, and I think we’re seeing movement in both (good and bad) directions.