2026-04-15 20:42 UTC
There is no way to be a leftist or progressive dictatorship. There is no leftist or progressive way to have unequal laws for women, or to prevent gay people from marrying, or to deny people medical care. It's a contradiction in terms. You may believe that Iran or India becoming more powerful is an overall good thing, but it is objectively and definitionally not progressive or leftist.
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-04-15 20:47
Where do you think social progress comes from? It isn't purely economic, of course, but what's critical is that social progress is hampered by imperialism and neocolonialism. When the primary obstacle to global progress, including socially, are these economic systems of brutal plunder, considering countries like the social democracies in the imperial core based *purely* on their internal policy and not at all on their foreign policy is a grave error. Again, it's like you're pointing to a group of landlords and calling them more progressive than their tenants. It's a form of Herrenvolk progressivism, progressivism at the expense of the global south and working against global progress.