When as a 19 year old I read “the sailor who fell from grace with the sea” I would never have anticipated that this slow and pensive examination of a young gay man’s neuroticism over his body image would be imagined as swashbuckling masculinist adventure
Lincoln was a white supremacist despite opposing slavery. He had no interest in combatting racism. In contrast, Stalin’s USSR waged an extensive ideological campaign against antisemitism, mobilizing its citizenry against anti-Jewish attitudes. This was unprecedented in Europe.
“The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a
Thatcher means “Communism” — in the form of actually existing Communist State Policies— “State Communism” — she prefers Bourgeois governance of Society thru NGOs & Charities. This is “Socialism” as Rockefeller understood it, not as Lenin understood it. Thatcher actually
The status quo is a result of deindustrialization policies promoted by the Thatcherites to produce the status quo— yes, now there are only individuals, proletarians have been converted into petty bourgeois “individual contract workers” etc.
Their dream world is again “a bourgeois without a proletariat”— this is still the ideology at play— why work a “shitty job” when you can become a bourgeois individual “grindset” cryptocurrency hodler. You can now put your 401k into fartcoin.
China never had the imposition of roman property laws that enshrined a private oligarchy into legal predominance over the State. It goes all the way back to Rome!