Post-imperialism is a cancer on the American “left”. A lot of people seem to think everyone is in the same capitalist stage as the imperial core (no lol) and therefore we are just exporting liberal “democracy” and thus opposition to the west is just anti-liberalism. Boiling everything down to anti-liberalism is a way to sustain a mandate of the advanced countries. So long as the West isn’t imploding into total reactionary chaos and the non-western world isn’t 100% anarcho-communist, American libs and socdems think the advanced countries get to dictate world capitalism under globalization and especially under the crisis of globalization as people reject it for various reasons (progressive or reactionary)
This trend exploded in the 2010s as unipolar hegemony just crumbles :xigma-male:
That’s a nice term for it, same as ‘post-left’ just meaning someone that’s convinced themselves that we’ve already moved past the contradictions of our society, so there’s no need for leftist politics and now it’s fine to say slurs.
Post-imperialism is a cancer on the American “left”. A lot of people seem to think everyone is in the same capitalist stage as the imperial core (no lol) and therefore we are just exporting liberal “democracy” and thus opposition to the west is just anti-liberalism. Boiling everything down to anti-liberalism is a way to sustain a mandate of the advanced countries. So long as the West isn’t imploding into total reactionary chaos and the non-western world isn’t 100% anarcho-communist, American libs and socdems think the advanced countries get to dictate world capitalism under globalization and especially under the crisis of globalization as people reject it for various reasons (progressive or reactionary)
This trend exploded in the 2010s as unipolar hegemony just crumbles :xigma-male:
That’s a nice term for it, same as ‘post-left’ just meaning someone that’s convinced themselves that we’ve already moved past the contradictions of our society, so there’s no need for leftist politics and now it’s fine to say slurs.