There are a lot of Europeans on Lemmy that think the issues with the US Empire are self-contained and unique to the US as a capitalist country "gone wrong." These folks tend to erase European imperialism in the modern day and see Europe as one of the best, if flawed, areas in the world while ignoring the plunder and full support for aligned western interests at the expense of the global south.
Cowbee
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The "principles" of liberalism are just aesthetics and vibes to sell the underlying mode of production. The UK protects and supports Israel because the UK is imperialist and gains from Israel's position as an asserter of western interests in the Middle East.
Market pressure forces innovation in the direction of profit, not satisfying needs. Enshittification is an example of innovation that negatively impacts the user experience. At lower stages of development, markets can be a part of an overall planned system and have great growth, but they need to be managed carefully by a socialist state, a la the PRC, or you end up with private monopoly and megacorps that control the state like the US.
Yes, one of the proletariat's greatest heroes and one of history's most successful revolutionaries.
This is wrong on many accounts.
The UK, France, US, Canada, and Australia all paled in comparison to the USSR, who killed 85% of the total Nazis killed during World War II. Many of these liberal countries, the US especially, had thriving trade with Nazi Germany and non-aggression pacts early on in the 1930s. The US even continued to do business in Nazi Germany during World War II by cloaking assets owned by Ford, Coke, etc. It isn't liberals, but communists that have been the most consistent and steady anti-fascists in history.
NATO isn't anti-fascist, it's anti-communist, and has been led by literal Nazis like Adolf Heusinger. There is no part of NATO that has been anti-fascist.
These liberal countries have always been authoritarian, as they are all dictatorships of capital.
They have grown economically thanks to the spoils of imperialism.
The Civil Rights Act was won by leftist agitation from leftists like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and outright communists like the Black Panther Party relentlessly pushing for it. Liberals opposed it initially.
Same-sex marriage was pushed for relentlessly by leftists such as the Black Panther Party, Gay Liberation Front, and more, until liberals eventually conceded.
Universal Healthcare has been regularly pushed for through millitant organizing from leftists, liberals have been responsible for weakening or privatizing healthcare.
You don't really know what you're talking about.