You’re confusing effect with cause, and as a consequence are mis-analyzing the key issues here. Fascism is rising because imperialism is decaying, and austerity is being brought home. It isn’t rising abstractly, but due to concrete material conditions. Perpetuating capitalism perpetuates the rise in fascism, so liberals, like it or not, are ineffectively fighting fascism by supporting the very system that gives rise to it.

As for what I do personally, I organize with a communist party, one that focuses on unionization, striking, protesting, and educating the working classes. I don’t sit on my hands for years at a time waiting for the next genocidal democrat to vote for, but instead make political activism a part of my life. Trying to claim that leftists are all infiltrators or grifters for having principles and coherent political analysis is absurd.

What on Earth are you talking about?

What’s wrong with Marxism? Why not engage with Marxists? Further, I know many Lemmy.ml users are anarchists or even liberals, we aren’t all communists.

When did I say China is a paradise? My point is that the socialist system in China is great, not perfect, not merely passable, but from my view as a Statesian it is moving forward and shows no signs of this slowing. As the country I reside in bombs other countries into submission, plunders the global south, and kills protestors and marginalized populations on stolen land, it’s hard not to admire the working system in China.

China should be criticized, but this should be done on the basis of meaningful critique. When blanket half-truths and falsehoods are disguised as “critique,” this just serves to legitimize the US Empire’s antagonism. For example, if I say McDonalds would be better off if they stopped putting cyanide in 10% of their burgers, this doesn’t actually add anything. It isn’t critique, it’s nonsense.

I don’t have a link, unfortunately.

Either way, the PRC does admit to flaws and problems. The method of criticism and self-criticism is applied in China. Further, the government isn’t run by a “bunch of horny greedy assholes.” Corruption exists to a certain degree, but the CPC regularly cracks down on this, rather than allowing it to flourish. It seems, above all, that you’re letting your distrust of government in general cause you to magnify problems in China beyond their real existence in order to equate it to capitalist states.

I have never lived in China, no, but the textbook I provided is an overview of the real systems that exist, flaws and all, combined with the theoretical reasoning for the structures and the reasons they have changed over time, their history. That’s why I added that socialist democracy is imperfect, but it stands in stark contrast to the utter failure that is capitalist democracy, and I listed the reasons why.

The Chinese political system is based on whole-process people’s democracy, a form of consultative democracy. The local government is directly elected, and then these governments elect people to higher rungs, meaning any candidate at the top level must have worked their way up from the bottom and directly proved themselves. Moreover, the economy in the PRC is socialist, with public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy. Combining this consultative, ground-up democracy with top-down economic planning is the key to China’s success.

The US Empire, on the other hand, has private ownership as principle, with top-down “democracy.” Candidates are pre-selected, and term limits ensure that even if a genuine socialist won, they would not be able to sufficiently change the system. It’s designed for maintaining the dominance of capital.

I highly recommend Roland Boer’s Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance. Socialist democracy has been imperfect, but has gone through a number of changes and adaptations over the years as we’ve learned more from testing theory to practice. Boer goes over the history behind socialist democracy in this textbook.

That position doesn’t really exist, though. Media literacy is one of the most important skills anyone can develop.

I can understand not trusting the US Empire, Israel, etc, but why not trust the PRC? I’d rather trust a socialist country with a functional democratic governance over capitalist countries.

No, this cannot exist in capitalism, and it is not a problem of culture, but the mode of production.

If you care about the people of Iran, why on Earth are you cheering for the forces that struck an elementary school and killed over 150 little girls in its opening hours? They are bombing water treatment plants. Have you not learned from Iraq?

Liberalism is right-wing because it supports capitalism. It isn’t the only right-wing ideology, but anyone calling themselves “progressive” that opposes moving on from capitalism to socialism is in fact holding progress back from where it needs to go.

Checks out.

Sure, I agree, thats’s why Mao wrote Oppose Book Worship. Marxism is a guide to action, and a science that evolves.

Very based

Liberals are right-wing.

They even made a MWoG post after this.

A lot of us are! ☭

Geneva blocked me so they can’t see what I write, but if I were to describe Geneva I would say generally anti-imperialist with strong Bad Empanada influence. Geneva frequently runs into problems due to not reading theory, though, and also often accuses allies of being enemies.

For example, Geneva will take any opportunity to bash China for not doing enough, even if they are helping, and has been banned from Hexbear for accusing users of being “transzionists,” which is ridiculous. Geneva is frequently correct due to being anti-west, but without a strong basis in theory and practice this is as far as you can go.

The minimum is to encourage everyone to actually organize, voting is secondary at best to that.