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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

The scamdemic disabused me of collectivism as it quickly morphed into medical authoritarianism strangely using something as well-meaning as "public health" to dictate totalitarian controls, hence eliminating the notion of bodily autonomy.

In a way, it doesn't matter whether this occurred because socialist organizations were co-opted as it revealed the nature of how too much centralized power can easily become an authoritarian hellhole, especially when it's managed by nincompoop bureaucrats who sycophantically follow the "ideologue du jour."

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My position now is that any social movement, political program or revolutionary ethos can be manipulated, essentially turned into its opposite by agents of the ruling class. I do see left and right as bourgeois constructs, that is, their purpose is to protect class rule not overthrow it.

With the Covid scam, the left - liberals and progressives of course but also including seemingly every kind of socialist, anarchist, communist either forgot or never really embraced the basic notion of Marx that media, the academy, the medical-Pharma complex, the sciences are all class institutions, that is, they serve the interests of the ruling class. Therefore, someone seeking liberation from class rule should not trust anything they say. But that didn't happen. Those who did see thru the scam have been pushed to the right where, essentially, capitalism = freedom. The ruling class has us coming and going.

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