Thanks for fixing it, much better.

No, in the absolute best case, Dems will be even worse than Republicans so far. But still less bad then what Republicans would become if they got another term. So yes, vote for them, if it makes sense in your state. Just keep your expectations in check.

Here’s the proof: (1) US capitalism at it’s current stage of decline absolutely needs fascism to survive. Profit rates are just too low, any semblance of democracy would be used by the people to prevent pushing real wages even lower, but that’s needed for the engine of the dying economy to sputter on. The empire is dying, no way around it. Like every single time fascism has occurred in history, it will rise this time too, to save capitalism in crisis.

(2) The Democrats are a capitalist party.

(3) Ergo, the Democrats will urgently push to hasten the march towards fascism.

This is not even a prediction, just an observation, a simple statement of fact. You can’t reform your way out of the cold, mathematical laws of economics.

Revolution is not a “fantasy”, it’s literally the only viable alternative to unimaginable suffering. Voting for Democrats can only serve to buy time to organize for real change. In the coming necessary struggle, Dems are the on the same side as Republicans and on the opposite side of humanity and life on earth.

Also no apology yet for continuing to materially support the ongoing genocide in Palestine by white fascist colonizers. Or for the 27 million Russians killed in WW2, the largest group of victims by far. Or for murdering over a million socialists. Or for financing and arming the anti-communist genocide in Indonesia in 1965/66. If Germany is anything, it’s consistent. Not one bit less eager to commit genocide today.

As a class, abstracted from individuals, yes, the class rule of a minority has to be manipulative or the majority wouldn’t tolerate it. Hegemony means generalization of particular minority interests. They make it our business, that their profits keep flowing. In a profitability crisis, they make everyone else suffer for it.

Not really, there a tendency, but framing it like that sounds idealist. It’s not about who or how people are in themselves that makes them popular and powerful. It’s how useful they are to the ruling class. Being a manipulative sociopath certainly helps in not caring about other human beings, but if they help to justify the oppressive system in power, it doesn’t matter whether they are intelligent or not. They can also honestly believe to do the right thing, while doing terrible things, if they don’t understand the economic system they find themselves in and it’s contradictions.

Take Robert Owen, during his time, he was the most popular person in the British empire. He wasn’t manipulative, evil or sociopathic. He was just wrong. As an utopian socialist, he lacked the proper understanding about how capitalism functioned. By chance he became a very rich capitalist, exploiting many people. Out of goodwill, he became the first philanthropist. His workers lived way better lives than usual, but they were still exploited. His message that capitalism could be profitable and humane made him extremely popular, because it served the ruling classes.

Then he came to understand his error. His workers, even though they worked “only” ten hours a day instead of the usual twelve, were still completely depended on him. In his words, they were still his “slaves”. He detested that and took action. He tried to convince everyone, that the whole system had to change radically. He was immediately shunned and hated by the establishment. Excluded from business he still tried to do everything he could think of to help the poor. He died poor himself.

But being useful to hegemonic oppressors is not the only way. There’s another way for us to gain power, but collective power instead of individual one: through solidarity, class struggle and revolution.

Salman Rushdie:“I support genocide and zionist fascism!”

Oh you’re talking about states, not countries, then sure, only on the ruble of the burgoise state can socialism be build.

So you came to this convenient conclusion of an easy, boring, sad way to live after long hard thinking and then just gave up? If you’re really used to hard thinking, you won’t mind some more: try reading the list I linked to find out how you’re wrong in three ways: historically, philosophically and politically.

You’re right to harshly critique all western countries, but

No country is worth saving at this point

That’s just nihilist defeatism. Nihilists are nothing but losers who like being losers. They hate everything but refuse to do anything about it. They believe their lives to be meaningless, so proceed to live meaningless lives.

Instead, why not use your sharp critical thinking skills to do something helpful: build class consciousness in people and prepare the revolution. Read marxist leninists theory and teach others! It’s very easy to get started

Cowbee is incredibly patient and doing marvelous educational work in threads like this. You confuse it for a debate, but you’d need to be on even footing for that. It’s more like they are a teacher who calmly tries to make some common sense stick with western people who behave like spoiled children and are to privileged and racist to see the simple and plain truths that literally most people in the (non-western) world see clearly.

*freedom fighters