GenZedong

"Authoritarianism", god I hate that word. Gotta be one of the top most reductionist, misused words there is. I'm not gonna say everybody who uses it as a negative also supports some kind of imperialist/fascist/colonizer project, but it sure is common. And among those who view it as a purity thing, that opposing it is some kind of freedom from the confines of overreach in authority, they miss that there's no human society without forms of authority and that the countries they usually think "were supposed to be liberating communist projects and aren't" actually are democratic. One of those symptoms of when somebody realizes the imperialist country they live in is shit, but they still believe its propaganda about other countries.

Imagine Vichy France but they are also running death squads that kill partisans.

It is referencing the Juche calendar which beings with Juche 1 in 1912, Juche being essentially Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics, an application of Marxism specific to the Korean condition from my understanding but maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in I'm not well versed there.

It's a tradition to refer to the date in the Juche calendar from the old reddit r/GenZedong weekly discussion sticky that carried over to here as far as I am aware

Remember when when everyone said T.V. would rot kids brains? All the people who grew up watching T.V. are now saying Phones will rot kids brains. Either they have brain rot or they are making shit up just like their parents and grandparents did.

Idk I guess you could make a point about screens. I read the other day about how there is an increase of children with eyesight problems probably caused by sitting too close to a screen from a young age. Also, some of the content for kids is literal brainrot lol.

But I guess that then just boils down to what content they consume and not just screens in general.

At the end of the day they are not that different from westerners. People everywhere regardless of their religion, nationality or ethnicity are susceptible to being propagandized by their media and their ruling class establishment institutions. All that differs is the material circumstances, and these compel more people in the global south than in the imperial core to wake up and actually realize what is happening.

Many Arabs are not celebrating, I can attest to this.

Well, I'm Turk, so maybe it's just only what I see.

never underestimate labor unions

Too much of the left does.

That person doesn't sound like a socialist at all. Marx rejected ideology as false consciousness. Ideology is the polar opposite of materialism.

HTS won because they had the money to bribe generals and Assad didn't have the money to pay them to keep them loyal. If Ideology is more powerful that material concerns why didn't ISIS win the last war? Sunni supremacy was far more acceptable in Syria back then. Anti imperialist ideology is at an all time high in the region.

Not sure what his point is really. Like money, or capital, or possession of something in general, gives you power. Especially in a system that is designed around money, or capital, or possessions.

Also not sure what he means with the HTS thing. Like, they won because they are a US proxy and managed to get aid through one of the most powerful military forces in the world. Not sure what them being Muslims has to do with that. Allah didn't guide them to victory.

Does he ever elaborate on his claims? Or is he just trying to sound interesting?