Buckle up for WW3

[Politesse]

I remember a friend pointing out in the late 90'ies how leftists don't read Marx anymore, and haven't the basic concept of the ideological underpinning of socialism.

In what meaningful sense are they a "Leftists", then? Favorite team color in the election map? Non-specific love of taxation?

 

[DrZoidberg]

The 80's was way more woke than the left was in the 2010's. The divisions between the right and left were way more extreme than today. The world just seems to have collective amnesia about that.

The reaction was a decadent 90'ies. "The death of values". Being superficial and horrible was the ideal. The latest woke trend was a response to that. Hegel nailed it!

What the hell do you mean when you say "Woke" anyway? Please define it

Here's from another thread where Steve asked the same question

Post in thread 'How gays sound like'

Aug 12, 2026

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I have no idea what you actually stand for or oppose and reasons why.

You said like a Christian conservative over here demonizing woke. And you don't define it.

Woke is a demand that everyone must accept the latest and most extreme liberal fad on what opinions to hold, otherwise they're branded as fascists (ie a despicable and evil person).

Woke kills all debate. It kills all nuance. It creates group think.

The most insidious part of woke is that it doesn't even allow the questioning of liberal opinion by liberals. That's the death of thought. That's bad for everyone...

• DrZoidberg

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[laughing dog]

Are you going to answer my question DrZ? What EXACTLY is meant when you say "woke"?

I can't find your question

Was that posted ironically?

No. I can't find which post Playball40 is referring to. He said he asked before. So presumably there's some sort of context. I don't know

FFS, it is post #15 in this thread.

 

[barbos]

WW3 is already going on and Europe is/will be a sideshow.
It's in Asia. US is trying to cut China off from the sea oil and trade routes and cause economic troubles for them.
US is also trying to destroy BRICS. Brazil and India are the weak links. So BRICS is essentially Russia and China

I doubt that US will succeed. China is not an island like Japan in WW2, and it is much bigger and has allies. With Russia it has all the resources to develop further. China should concentrate on internal development more (and they are doing that), so that it is less dependent on being manufacturing center of the world.