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When your political theory comes from a work of fiction about talking farm animals
A lot did read it as children and literally didn’t understand it and had to repeat what the teacher told them it meant because 12-year-olds don’t even know what the fuck the USSR was, let alone how those animals relate to it.
This. I was made to read it in 6th grade and had no idea it was even supposed to be allegorical to real world events. All I took away from it was a vague sense that we should be wary of authoritarian figures who make grand promises or some shit. (Which I still think is not a bad sentiment).
Then the teacher talked about it. And afterwards I thought to myself “so you’re telling me what we were supposed to take away from it is that sharing and egalitarianism is bad actually because pigs in a storybook lied and didn’t really want to share and fucked everything up? Nah. That’s bullshit.”
The teacher went on to talk about the USSR and somewhat inexplicably about the Berlin Wall but I was tuned out at that point. That’s not to say I didn’t avoid getting infected with plenty of :brainworms: but I’m glad to say I didn’t swallow that particular one. But clearly what many if not most kids took away from it was what the nerd in the OP did, that is, what they were told to think about it.
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Europians talking about Roma is nutty, they’ll criticize american racism, then if u bring up Roma they’re like “well no, they’re actually subhuman so it’s different” :centrist:
Roma (and Travelers in the UK and hispanic seasonal laborers along the US southern border) are just an entire ethnicity of homeless people. Surprise, surprise. A culture that is predicated on the violent imposition of private property absolutely despise migrants.
they’re not even “homeless” for the most part, not since the forced settlements…
europeans hate them cos they’re incredibly, fundamentally racist.
Sure. But I think there’s a bit more below the surface than “We threw darts at a board and decided to be racist against the Roma today”. Like, they’re superficially white. They don’t stand out any more than your average Italian. There’s no immediately clear reason for the hate.
But the fact that they’re migrants moving through a nation of settlers and landed aristocrats, I think, triggers some animal part of the brain.
The problem with using capitalist production to boost your own economy and destroy the industrial capacity of your enemies is that a pig will kill trotsky.
The biggest failure of the Communist Party of China is that *checks notes* they weren’t sufficiently critical of the form and direction of the Soviet state.
