“Someone give this person The State and Revolution for a gift please”

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“I’m a leftist in theory, but I buy the right wing anticommunist myths surrounding every socialist project ever to exist, and I believe that the best form of democracy so far that existed is the US model”

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Gods I was cringe back then

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Weren’t we all, my mate, weren’t we all

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If they’re American I just assume they mean they vote for democrats but in a way that they think somehow makes them look cooler, like with a Bernie birdie pin or something. I think that’s about as deep as their political tendencies run.

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The “im as left as you can get” social democrat types?

Yeah i was at that point during the obama years

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I was a shitlib bernie bro and if I could go back in time I would beat mysef with a metal pipe

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Social Imperialists who wanna slacken the yoke on workers in the Imperial core but are in lock step with the Empire abroad. The left wing of fascism.

Ordinary people who support and vote for these people just need to be pushed left and grow out of it. The ‘intellectuals’ are just doing the work of the state department.

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Social Imperialists who wanna slacken the yoke on workers in the Imperial core but are in lock step with the Empire abroad. The left wing of fascism.

The last person I met who called himself a democratic socialist was a soldier in Iraq and had also occupied Hawai’i and south Korea.

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Someone close to class consciousness or a lib with slightly better morals

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In latin america that usually just means a more left-wing socdem with a bit more radical ideas like Evo Morales and Rafael Correa. The only openly democratic socialist state that I know is Honduras, they have been removing all neoliberal reforms from their country and pushing into their own version Democratic Socialism.

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