• InternetLefty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    I dig the message, but I don’t think that “race/gender/LGBT” topics are unimportant or not worth discussing, obviously. As an engineer I often feel like the work I do is not materially benefitting real people - usually it feels like we are playing with some rich folks Monopoly money trying to implement some magic feature or create some magic product before one of the other teams of people on the other side of the country does the same. It’s demoralizing. Having an opportunity to improve the technology related to production of the means of sustenance is the primary goal, but it’s really quite rare under imperialism, which is consistently a self-contradicting system. However, the liberatory effects of a modern economy include freeing us from those traditional vestiges of social expectation related to our assigned genders, and as Marxists we should continue to study this as an emergent social phenomenon and not through some close minded lens. Race too has an important and distinct dimension under imperialism which any modern Marxist should be able to see, although maybe from the perspective of a young Chinese person that is not so easy to see? Nevertheless, social and technological progress = good

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      9 days ago

      Yeah its strange how the West always tries to brand this colonialism since it obviously isnt. You would have to be a dumbass propaganda brained piece of shit to believe this is colonialism- especially while the US still practices the modern equivalent to this day.

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      9 days ago

      The west is desperate to paint it that way, but what justification is there for calling this colonialism? “Debt-trap diplomacy” was the line before, but that didn’t hold up to scrutiny, especially when China outright forgave several African countries’ debts.

      So what’s the line now?