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  • Practical.

    jk though, most people are in that position; in Cuba, Vietnam, China, Russia, etc before the revolution, the masses didn’t read a bunch of books, decide communism sounded like the best way to run things, then overthrow their oppressors.

    Though it’s important to understand the effects capitalism has had on society though are inherent to capitalism, not bad individuals doing capitalism wrong. That is the framing fascists use, since they’ve been privileged by the system, they need to invent reasons for its failing that don’t change it structurally. So you get wild conspiracies, foreigners, or whatever else is easy to believe.




  • Not really, it’s more that liberalism contains contradictions between various freedoms it supports, and even contradictions between how the same “freedom” is practiced by different groups, and when those contradictions become unsustainable, the right to property by the dominant group always takes precedence.

    It’s important to understand any political philosophy as not an idea floating in a vacuum but as a social tool used by a group in society; liberalism is the philosophy the bourgeoisie use to justify their power.

    I mean kinda since fascism is a tool used to buttress capitalism when it’s own contradictions become unsustainable, but that’s not really in the book.