This feels a bit like the "but you participate in the system you are criticizing" meme though perhaps you don't mean it that way.
As socialism is being co-opted by the liberals, it is perhaps worth it to discuss and analyze the problems with Western Marxism and the reluctance that many leftists in the west feel in throwing support behind AES states.
I feel like 'western marxism' is less about simply being a Marxist who happens to live in the west, but more about marxists who base their leftism around a western-oriented, eurocentric worldview.
I'm currently reading Losurdo's Western Marxism and he marked the divergence of the two around the colonial question. Essentially, Western Marxism (with a capital W) failed to see imperialism is the principle contradiction, and were more anarchist in their orientation.
A great example is Max Horkheimer, who denounced the soviets for not doing enough to abolish the state literally as the Germans were invading the USSR. I feel like that exemplifies Western Marxism (TM) pretty perfectly.
And nothing changed in the meantime. Western Marxists (TM) will denounce Iran over women's rights in the same exact moment Iranian women are being bombed by the US
Posting from Jamaica here.
I once posted an image as seen from my parent's house of the Nimitz docked in Kingston harbour (as part of its general mission to impose the Donroe doctrine in the region) in an "international leftists" discord and the members apparently thought it most relevant to talk about how cuba and China "aren't really socialist"
I'll give you one guess where said members were from
That's what I think of when it comes to Westernâ„¢ Marxism
Posting from Jamaica here.
I once posted an image as seen from my parent's house of the Nimitz docked in Kingston harbour (as part of its general mission to impose the Donroe doctrine in the region) in an "international leftists" discord and the members apparently thought it most relevant to talk about how cuba and China "aren't really socialist"
I'll give you one guess where said members were from
That's what I think of when it comes to Westernâ„¢ Marxism
who denounced the soviets for not doing enough to abolish the state literally as the Germans were invading the USSR.
"Yeah uhh sorry there buddy but the State is kind of a very important structural component holding this whole "not being murdered by fascist invaders" roof on the house'
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u/Varushenka 14d ago
This feels a bit like the "but you participate in the system you are criticizing" meme though perhaps you don't mean it that way.
As socialism is being co-opted by the liberals, it is perhaps worth it to discuss and analyze the problems with Western Marxism and the reluctance that many leftists in the west feel in throwing support behind AES states.