• cimbazarov@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 days ago

    I think it’s a result of declining material conditions and concessions being given to oppressed minorities coinciding at the same time. The two are separate things, but timing wise they coincide so it’s really easy to falsely link them as cause and effect.

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      I feel like this is the key to neo-liberalism/crypto-fascism today. Without this move class consciousness would be way more advanced in western nations.

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      Yup. It also confirms and validates notions about tradition to them; “truly things were better back then with no woke!”.