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  • I think it’s good to remember that “progressivism”, at least as it exists in the US, is not a left-moving political force, but a cutout of liberalism designed to capture anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist (left) political movement, and push them back into liberalism (right). It’s structured to be a specific counter-force to socialism. Progressivism offers superficial appeasement on a variety of humanist-sounding issues which are not in conflict with the interests of capital (until they are). It is one half of the culture-war treadmill that redirects people’s political energy away from addressing their material conditions and onto cheering on rainbow capitalism and voting for liberals. Reaction with cute stickers.

    As much as you think you’re trying and failing to move your friend left, they’re also trying and failing to move you right.











  • Yeah, it’s hard to find any media sources that are completely aligned with ML so I don’t really worry about it. Considering the wash of repulsive media we all have to weed through to get fragments of truth or track the movements of empire, Beleric is a ray of sunlight. I don’t expect to agree on a lot of issues with most people I read, watch or listen to, but I’m not going to break ranks on anti-imperialism.

    I agree with what you’re saying about the paradox of media credibility, too. In my opinion, the empire narrative exists within a bubble of superficial awareness and short political memory. People who are overworked have no free time to live their life, let alone escape the gravity of capital influence on the shaping of opinion and world view. Exposing the violent contradictions of the empire’s own media often does more to shake narrative credibility, than providing outside sources which westerners have been manipulated into outright dismissing. Sometimes, just creating a larger continuity or scratching into the details within that context is all it takes.