‘This is not about Ukraine at all, but the world order,’ said Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, a month after the invasion. ‘The unipolar world is irretrievably receding into the past … A multi-polar world is being born.’ The US is no longer the world’s policeman, in other words – a message that resonates in
Most of those types of people don’t know what communism looks like. They think having affordable access to privatized healthcare (subsidized by the oppression of the global south abroad, though they don’t see or know about this part of the idea either) qualifies as communism. Many USians unironically believe Canada is socialist. It is the: “Communism = bad, and all bad things are communist so…” kinda brain
Exactly, it prevents white people from having to reconcile the vile history of our ancestors and our personal contributions to that legacy.
What the hell even is “more socialist” lmao, wouldn’t “too much socialism” just be communism?
In their minds, yes. This is why they think the Nordic countries are still in the acceptable zone but start becoming like Vietnam or whatever and that’s “too much socialism”.
Most of those types of people don’t know what communism looks like. They think having affordable access to privatized healthcare (subsidized by the oppression of the global south abroad, though they don’t see or know about this part of the idea either) qualifies as communism. Many USians unironically believe Canada is socialist. It is the: “Communism = bad, and all bad things are communist so…” kinda brain
You forgot another thing: They don’t care about what happens to us Global Southerners, as long as they get to live “luxuriously”.
Do they? I thought they consider the Nordic Countries as
the, quote-unquote, “acceptable form of”Socialism incarnate.if communism is bad then god i wanna be a bad girl
This is likely why they don’t know.
Yup, the Nordic countries are just generally seen as ‘more socialist’.
And who says you aren’t a bad girl?
Blissful ignorance?
What the hell even is “more socialist” lmao, wouldn’t “too much socialism” just be communism?
fair point
Exactly, it prevents white people from having to reconcile the vile history of our ancestors and our personal contributions to that legacy.
In their minds, yes. This is why they think the Nordic countries are still in the acceptable zone but start becoming like Vietnam or whatever and that’s “too much socialism”.