#liberal hegemony

[sh3nlong-promakh0s]

Ironically mass death is normal under modernity

The most dangerous part of bourgeois hegemony is the ideology of permanence and teleology, resembling Christianity and the Abrahamic religions very much so. That liberalism, becoming middle class and becoming bourgeois are inevitable, preordained and permanent states of being. That the whole world should be plundered raped and pillaged to this end, and that you should be blind to it.

[progressive--american--politics]

America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious.

[psychabolition]

As the social state has declined, the governance of individuals through neoliberal health and wellness discourses—including psychiatric ideology —has allowed for a more subtle form of social control to emerge, one that governs bodies “at a distance” through the extension of bio-politics. This is the expansion of ruling class hegemony through the spread of psychiatric myths into previously untouched areas of social and economic life. It is a most profound form of social control, as it appears in daily life as if we have consented to this expansion of psychiatric authority. After all, no one forced us to recognise our own unproductiveness because we spend too much time at the computer playing solitaire; rather, we now seem to be proactive in realising we have a “problem”—anything from attention-deficit and work avoidance behaviour to gaming addiction and obsessive behaviour—and require “help.” Thus, an important part of bio-politics in neoliberal society is self-surveillance, through self-inspection, self-problematization, self-monitoring, and confession, we evaluate ourselves according to the criteria provided for us by others. Through self-reformation, therapy, techniques of body alteration, and calculated reshaping of speech and emotion, we adjust ourselves by means of the techniques propounded by the experts of the soul [meaning, the psy-professionals].

Bruce M. Z. Cohen, Psychiatric Hegemony: A marxit theory of mental illness

[boof-chamber]

[vieraslaji]

minä: tahtoisin muuttaa suomeen joskus :)

valkoihoinen amerikkalainen liberaali: hahaha sama sama, mun mielestä tätä kansaa ei voi pelastaa ja meidän pitäisi paeta kun pystytään-

minä: tahdon muuttaa suomeen koska oikeasti arvostan muiden maiden kulttuurei ja jos muuttaisin amerikast nii haluaisin muuttaa positiivisista syistä, kun mua ei pakoteta minnekään eikä sua :))

valkoihoinen amerikkalainen liberaali: trump

[pumpacti0n]

"I speak of enabling dynamics because abuse is not an atomized phenomenon and to speak of it as such flies in the face of any claim to a material analysis. It is never simply a question of “hurt people hurt people” or else the masses of poor, colonized people would be taking our hurt out on the Man non-stop.

Instead what we see is people punching sideways and often times it’s not just punching sideways, it is punching down. Hurt people hurt people but they almost invariably do so in a way that exploits existing vulnerability and power dynamics that were imposed from without and developed within.

A parent traumatized by parental abuse may take it out on their child and this is enabled by the literal material reliance a child has on the parent, which is sanctioned by a combination of nature, the State, cultural attitudes, and religious beliefs as well as social institutions.

Apply this logic to criminals in the community who often rob their fellows, to men who abuse the women and other maGes proximal to them, to abled and neurotypical folk who mistreat and warehouse their MMINDD (mad, mentally ill, neurodivergent, disabled) sibs; to ethno/religious majorities and cisgender heterosexual people who respond to the material and psychic traumas of their oppression by framing minorities and maGes as a threat and thereby enacting Apartheid conditions against us whether legally or extra-legally."

[Source: "The Left Cannot Just Denounce Cults/Abuse; We Must Undermine Its Conditions of Possibility" - Nsambu Za Suekama]

[tomorrowusa]

Russian state media loves "Moscow Marjorie" Taylor Traitor Greene. They undoubtedly hope that her attempt to oust Speaker Johnson creates chaos and prevents the already overdo aid package to Ukraine from passing.

The Russian government is engaged in an effort to destabilize and weaken liberal democracies. Greene fits in nicely with their plans.

Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.

In a classified addendum to Russia’s official — and public — “Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation,” the ministry calls for an “offensive information campaign” and other measures spanning “the military-political, economic and trade and informational psychological spheres” against a “coalition of unfriendly countries” led by the United States. “We need to continue adjusting our approach to relations with unfriendly states,” states the 2023 document, which was provided to The Washington Post by a European intelligence service. “It’s important to create a mechanism for finding the vulnerable points of their external and internal policies with the aim of developing practical steps to weaken Russia’s opponents.” The document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the Moscow elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies, according to Kremlin documents previously reported on by The Post. It is also seeking to refashion geopolitics, drawing closer to China, Iran and North Korea in an attempt to shift the current balance of power.

Just a quick word to point out that Putin is under the delusion that his Axis of Authoritarians would have Russia as its head. China is stronger than Russia and will not kowtow to a country which has a GDP not much bigger than Italy's and is suffering enormous losses in a war with a country which has only a quarter of Russia's population.

Using much tougher and blunter language than the public foreign policy document, the secret addendum, dated April 11, 2023, claims that the United States is leading a coalition of “unfriendly countries” aimed at weakening Russia because Moscow is “a threat to Western global hegemony.” The document says the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine will “to a great degree determine the outlines of the future world order,” a clear indication that Moscow sees the result of its invasion as inextricably bound with its ability — and that of other authoritarian nations — to impose its will globally.

In addition to old school revanchism, Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine is a test to see how far the liberal democracies will let Putin go.

For Mikhail Khodorkovsky — the longtime Putin critic who was once Russia’s richest man until a clash with the Kremlin landed him 10 years in prison — it is not surprising that Russia is seeking to do everything it can to undermine the United States. “For Putin, it is absolutely natural that he should try to create the maximum number of problems for the U.S.,” he said. “The task is to take the U.S. out of the game, and then destroy NATO. This doesn’t mean dissolving it, but to create the feeling among people that NATO isn’t defending them.” The long congressional standoff on providing more weapons to Ukraine was only making it easier for Russia to challenge Washington’s global power, he said. “The Americans consider that insofar as they are not directly participating in the war [in Ukraine], then any loss is not their loss,” Khodorkovsky said. “This is an absolute misunderstanding.”

Putin was taken aback by both Ukraine's fierce defense and by Western resolve to protect the independence of a European democratic state. He refuses to admit that he made an enormous blunder so he continues to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Russians while hoping that his US servants like Greene, Gaetz, and Trump will rescue him.

[aeriondripflame]

living in a world where one family holds the only WMDs until said family loses those weapons (dragons) and has to come to the realization that they have no real power without dragons to force it.

[tanadrin]

still annoyed by the tiktok i saw once of someone smugly declaring the Federation was “an empire” and that this point was so obvious it brooked no debate

like

you have to apply for membership! it’s a post-scarcity utopia that has transcended the need for money! this meets no definition of an empire, except that it has some of the aesthetic trappings of liberal democracy, and edgy online types like to refer to liberal democracies as “empires” when trying to discuss the more general phenomenon of imperialism.

[workersolidarity]

[priafey]

“Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa.”

– Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

[shinyasahalo]

Liberal vs Left

Rachael Maddow, just like other Democrats, are threatened by the idea of a multipolar world. It's because the Democratic party is the party of neoconservatism as well as neoliberalism, which only gave lip service to LGBTQIA rights, except recently when their corporate channel MSNBC threw transgender people under the bus.

People need to accept that Greens and PSL are not going to yield their vote to the Undemocratic party, because they are the left hand of the US Empire.

US hegemony = US Empire, which is and has been responsible for so much evil in the world, including the Palestinian genocide.

Israel acts as an "unsinkable battleship" for the Empire to secure oil in the region.

The PSL should not yield their votes to Greens, because "vote Green no matter who" would be bad for leftism.

[gravitysrainbow]

Timothy mcveigh’s love for Star Trek is a biographical detail from this book that is sticking with me. the antigovernment white separatist bomber’s favorite show is the rational & humane liberal paradise of the militarized space UN headquartered in San Francisco.

[because--palestine]

Harris Responds To Gaza Protesters At Rally, "I Am Speaking Now" As Liberals Cheer

American cattle cheering the pro genocide duopoly. Disgusting.

[head-post]

2024 could see the end of Western liberal hegemony, Hungarian PM says

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, speaking at the opening of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, said that the world order based on liberal ideology has failed and must be destroyed.

EU elections in June and US elections in November, Orbán said, would be a chance to enter an “era of sovereignty” modelled on Hungary, which he described as a “conservative island.” At the opening ceremony of the conference, Orbán said:

These elections coincide with major shifts in world political and geopolitical trends. The order of the world is changing, and we must usher our cause to triumph in the midst of these changes. Progressive liberals feel the danger. Replacing this era means replacing them.

Viktor Orbán said it was necessary to replace people who are in positions of power to build “hegemonic-ideological control” by “turning state bodies into instruments of oppression” of Europeans in the European Parliament elections. He concluded:

Let the era of sovereigntists come again, let’s return to peace and security. Let’s make America great again, let’s make Europe great again!

In turn, US presidential candidate Donald Trump addressed Orbán in a video message that was played at CPAC, US News reported.

Trump said, calling the Hungarian leader a “great man”:

I look forward to working closely with Prime Minister Orbán once again when I take the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States.

Read more HERE