Thank you and welcome. If you want to be able to understand even deeper and able to engage with others more effectively then it is worth learning dialectical materialism. Here’s a reading list if you are interested:

• Elementary Principles of Philosophy, Georges Politzer
• Materialism and the Dialectical Method, Maurice Conforth
• In Defense of Materialism, Georgi Plekhanov
• Dialectical Biologist, Levins and Lewontin
• https://redsails.org/what-is-dialectics/
• https://redsails.org/on-dialectics/

"The basic call to action looks something like this:

1. Stop accusing the masses of being “brainwashed.” Stop treating them as cattle, stop attempting to rouse them into action by scolding them with exposure to “unpleasant truths.”
2. Accept instead that they have been avoiding those truths for a reason. You were able to break through the propaganda barrier, and so could they if they really wanted to. Many of these people see you as the fool, and in many cases not without reason.
3. Understanding people as intelligent beings, craft a political strategy that convincingly makes the case for why they and their lot are very likely to benefit from joining your political project. Not in some utopian infinite timescale, but soon.
4. If you cannot make this case, then forget about convincing the person in question. Focus instead on finding other people to whom such a case can be made. This will lead you directly to class analysis."

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

What is their stance on palestinian resistance fighters? (A mini-litmus test for western political parties; if even bourgoise parties around the world can show nominal solidarity in this regard then I feel they should at least meet this low hanging bar)

Give them homes. Organise to enable this.

Though Trump and his ilk may not have the most comprehensive understanding of American imperialism, he and his ilk are allowed to do the things they do because their system of capital allows for it ie there appears to be competing interests of capital here.

For example, there may be here capital interests that feel programmes and networks like USAID have outweighed their usefulness versus capital that feels the services like USAID are vital in maintaining imperialism despite their cost.

Why and how the former has gotten an upper-hand over the latter would warrant an analysis on its own but likely the heightening of contradictions of capital such as the reduction of real productive capacity within the imperial cores, the reduction in leverage of superexploitation against the global south, the general reduction in rate of profit, along with cultural issues secondary to lack of sufficient education of how American imperialism works even among the “elites” that capital felt was not necessary to maintain the system may have all contributed to this.

Remember one does not necessarily need to know how an engine works to drive a car but that lack of knowledge becomes more signifcant when the car breaks down. The engine of the car could almost be considered reified in this analogy; capitalists could be considered priests at the altar of capital.

/Edits: clarity

Not exactly what you asked for but a lot of these “post-marxist” philosophies have at least some of their roots - intentionally or not - in Proudhonisim. Proudhon wrote Philosophy on Poverty after which Marx responded with his critique, the Poverty of Philosophy, which you may find of interest.

I wasn’t sure how sincere you were at first but after that response along with your other comments with thinly veiled bigotry it felt a bit pointless explaining to a first world creationist why the universe was not made in 7 days.

You live in a world where the west is arming, funding and giving political cover to an active genocide. You live in a world where you fail to consider what are the democratic feedback loops that enabled one of the most populous countries in the world lift 800 million people out of poverty in the shortest time frame in human history while being surrounded by vassal states armed and funded against it by the west. You live in a world where the west subjugates the global south for superexploitation of its peoples and resources through gunboat diplomacy, sanctions, coups, and racketeering through financial insitutions such as the IMF. And the countries who manage to attempt to maintain their sovereignty in this hell created and maintained by the west you then dare to wag your bloodied finger from the ivory tower built on the bones of those the west massacred.

Go read the ASPI report on China’s technological prowess. Go read the Tricontinental study on the eradication of poverty in China. Go read Vijay Prashad’s Washington Bullets. Go read Kyle Ferrana’s book on China. Go read the Jakharta Method. Go read the articles on China at redsails.org. Go read the articles on prolewiki. Go watch Michael Parenti on youtube. Go read Capital. Educate yourself.

Most of us on this forum were versions of you; your fate is not set in stone.

Thank you for capitulating.

I’m interested in why you think it’s wrong

First, would you be kind enough to answer the following question (and this might involve some time and research in your own part) that will go a long way to prove that you are not a troll:

Why is China signifcantly more democractic than the US?

I am not asking if you truly believe this but whether you have the intellectual curiousity (and I want to clarify this is not an underhand way of commenting on your personal intelligence; I only discovered the answer to that question relatively recently - to my shame) to make the case to answer the above convincingly.

You will have to explore quite a few significant things to be able meaningfully answer this and given that your initial comment suggests apologism for western imperialism it may not be in your perceived class interests to research the answer to that question.

You are by no means obliged to answer and if so then I am not committed to expend energy where it may not be fruitful.

Was this written as satire?