• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Those are the kinds of beliefs that false consciousness tends to produce.

    Capitalism makes the 99% subservient to the 1%, and socialists want to end that. I’ll tell you what the right’s racism & jingoism is: it’s wealthy people convincing non-wealthy white people to blame nonwhite people & foreigners for their problems, instead of correctly blaming the wealthy ruling elite themselves.

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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      11 months ago

      I would argue that socialism is not the far left that causes problems. In communism, ie the far left, it’s the same as the far right; powerful and/or wealthy people oppressing the masses.

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        11 months ago

        I was taught that in high school. Turns out, it’s just not true.