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The World Needs American Socialism (newintermag.com)

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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."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Socialism is internationalist. The world needs you to get some education.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

No one said it wasn’t? Socialism isn’t going to take over the world without a socialist movement developing within the imperial core, fighting imperialism from within. The imperial core is the greatest obstacle to socialism that there is, and the US is the global imperialist hegemon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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