Reddit is a cia mouthpiece when active. With the Ukraine war, every single sentiment suddenly turned pro-Ukraine and anti-Russian.
Are you actually fucking kidding me?
Even if he’s reactionary AF, the dude’s country is slowly being annexed by Russia, and he’s standing on the side of the invaders of another country?
By that metric, Ukrainians are terrorists.
This guy flipped PS5’s while holding a six figure salary at a trust fund, managing marketing.
Like no ethical consumerism under capitalism and all but that’s a little excessive.
Regarding the second question, the capitalists has done everything they can to mask class as defined by their relation the the means of production.
And the main way that they’re doing this is to intensify inter-class contradictions to further sub-divide the working class. You’re not working class, you’re black, or you’re Hispanic, or you’re a woman, or you’re a red neck, or you’re a democrat, etc.
bigotry is heavy in America because these differences are sold as being the defining factor of who you are so YOU DO NOT DEVELOP CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS.
You will never see the working class described as a class in mainstream media. There will never be any mention or coverage of labour movements. Instead, literally every other thing will be put in the forefront.
Because I feel like he’s just a Chinese nationalist. He hasn’t referenced any theory or performed any class analysis. He just recites taking points like “landlord bad”.
Honestly it’s difficult to tell. My friend is a huge China Stan and straight up told me that he’s a communist but I’m still not 100% positive.
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