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I'm actually very sympathetic to this. What the US did, and continues to do, is far worse than what the fascists of the 1920s-40s attempted.
The Nazis and Japanese fascists tried (and failed) to acheive what the US sucessfully did: the colonization and eviction of hundreds of native peoples, and clearing of an entire region for the "master race". All under a far more stable form of government for colonialism : bourgeois democracy.
Lebensraum failed, but manifest destiny succeeded.
Not only that, but committed countless other atrocities, unparalleled in history.
I’ve been thinking that we should probably find another term then “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”. Not because it’s wrong but because people don’t know who bourgeoisie are anymore.
My proposal is “electoral dictatorship of the billionaires”, even tho it might be slightly misleading.
I agree with this sentiment. In general, I think that leftist political ideas are quite popular when you swap out the leftist terminology. "The real culture war is between the shareholders and the workers" doesn't raise a person's guard like "The bourgeoisie are oppressing the proletariat". It also forces you to explain a little about your meaning to somebody who maybe doesn't already know what these terms mean. Whenever I'm trying to talk politics with someone who is open-minded but not explicitly leftist, I try to use this tactic so I don't immediately run into a wall of conditioned responses.