Youssef Bouchi writes on the importance of American socialism from his perspective as an Arab immigrant in Canada:

“Grassroots movements in the U.S. already understand this […] Our task from the outside is to support them.”

  • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
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    19 days ago

    Socialism isn’t going to take over the world without a socialist movement developing within the imperial core

    yeah it will. defeating the west is far more likely and more effective for that goal. we don’t need the west leading anything, it needs to lose to socialism and take the back seat

    all this is just american/western exceptionalism, but it is so embedded in your mind that you don’t realize it

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      19 days ago

      we don’t need the west leading anything, it needs to lose to socialism and take the back seat

      I didn’t claim that it needs to lead anything. Yes, it needs to lose to socialism by any means necessary, whether within or without, or some combination of the two. I happen to be within it, so struggling from within is what’s available to me personally.