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https://dhughes.substack.com/

This substack good on class struggle.

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What is of note is that Suavek analyses the conflict as a class struggle, whereas most commentators, including Yeadon, see it in terms of Good and Evil. Without wishing to place a capital letter on “evil,” it strikes me that this better fits the breadth of the ills being imposed upon us. My own position tends towards an analysis in terms of the disregard for moral fundamentals, such as allegiance to the truth, or at least the robust rejection of falsehoods and absurdities.

Only some of those against us would seem to be motivated by greed or even the addiction to power. I do not see a unitary front, but a loose coalition of scheming forces whose conspiracies do not add up.

For example, if you want to grab the resources of Ukraine, as a first step to grabbing those of Russia, you do not disable your armed forces and air pilots by making them take a dangerous vaccine against a non-existent disease. Other contradictions abound.

It looks rather as if many of those lined up against us actually believe some of the absurdities being broadcast. This does not mean that they all believe the same absurdities, belief being measured by how they act rather than what they say.

“Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.” The positions held by our enemies are not only superficial, but incoherent. (Superficial because there is more to life than everlasting enjoyment.)

This makes their position evil, because evil seeks only destruction. In this case, some of the perils they have visited upon our world are such that all life may be threatened, i.e. not only the lives of us "useless eaters", but that of the animal and plant world, and of course themselves. They are suicidal, the danger being that, tho certainly they will perish, we stand to perish first.

Hence I cannot see these developments in terms of a class struggle, which would have to understood in terms only of the subjugation of a majority.

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