All those strides came with the aforementioned violent crackdowns and the gains were short lived. Leaving the power structure in place and merely trying to bargain with it for a few more scraps left capitalists with the power they needed to erode those gains. And again, to the extent any progress was made, it was within the imperial core. All those other people around the world who were being exploited by international capital didn’t enjoy any of the benefits of the bargaining that went on here.
You have to ignore a lot of the reality of history to believe in the story of peaceful incremental progress.
Man, if you don’t think we’ve made significant progress since the 1880s, I don’t know what to tell you.
And again, to the extent any progress was made, it was within the imperial core.
Oh no, you’re one of those.
One of what? Someone who gives a shit about anyone besides people in one country?
No, the kind of idiot who says “Both sides” in the Ukrainian War are bad because the Imperial Core is Exploiting the Helpless Foreign Countries. It’s reverse White Man’s Burden, and ethnocentric as fuck.
