If nothing else fascist leaders are good at commanding a room

I think you need the original to have this make sense

Because there’s less money in it. Claudia, who’s running for pres under is a Christian. Ordained minister iirc

I’m saving this, great insight

The conservative LCMS even had to publicly declare itself to be an anti fascist organization (but not ANTIFA, of course) when some neonazi pastor was pushing for Lutherans to return to their German roots

Everyone’s too depressed to put in the effort of doing terrorism

It hurts all those mom and pop railroad companies

Imperialist tankies oppressing the indigenous chuds yet again SMH

So you were a cop keeping the commons closed?

It comes with accepting the metric system

Isn’t that just how words work? Most concepts can be broken down into component concepts

I suppose I’m using “leader” as a rough synonym for organizer, in that they are able to motivate other people toward a goal and direct collective action

I’d push back on that, some people are better leaders than others and in a pinch there will always be people who are better able to guide a group through a challenging situation. Of course the people promoted as “leaders” under capitalism are more like petty tyrants than actual leaders. Most great leaders I know IRL are working class people who genuinely care about others and will help out without any expectations for a reward

He is saying that in the absence of class struggle, with the workers in alliance with the peasants continually advocating for themselves as a class, the party will fall into the hands of alienated bureaucrats and revisionists who want to restore capitalist relations. It’s very clear in the text

And Willich challenged Marx to a dual for not being radical enough, so that’s really saying something

The guy sang about how horrible it was that there were people starving in the street and then somehow blamed it on people on food stamps buying fudge or something? It really didn’t make a lick of sense, it’s just reactionary faux populism

On paper it acts independently, but it’s headquartered in Washington DC, and according to Wikipedia “In 2018 the [OAS]General Secretariat’s budget was $85 million of which the US contributed $50 million.” And of course, the US has always considered South America to be its “backyard” and has a long history of doing this kind of thing

Are you saying Evo Morales was a dictator? Because a lot of US media might imply that, but few major papers ever said it outright because they usually try to at least pretend not to be full of shit. In reality he was a very popular democratically elected leader, and organizations established and funded by the US (and its business interests) played a critical role in the coup d’etat against him. It is not a conspiracy, there is a straight line from US influence to the coup, even if it was ultimately carried by local Bolivian business interests. In fact understand the relationship between American foreign policy objectives, multinational corporations, and local business interests is key to understanding modern neocolonialism as a whole.