communism and socialism are inherently collectivist in nature yet westerns who adhere to them are annoyingly individualistic and influenced mainly by french revolution values. their eastern counterparts are nothing like thiswhat led to this sort of weird amalgamation of ideas?
>>16536066Because socialism has no mass movement in the US. You end up with what I like to call "cosplay radicalism", basically LARPing politics while never really doing anything outside posting about how cool Mao is or whatever. Because that's basically the only option in the US. You're frustrated with politics, but there's no real way to participate or change anything, so you just post.
>>16536099And the problem here too is that when there actually is a mass movement for socialism here, a bunch of sedentary internet nerds are gonna not join/actively sabotage it because "wtf you adapted it to America's unique material conditions???? not my marxist-leninist-maoist-hoxha-juche-castroism, fucking social imperialists"
