calling out US cultural imperialism

[kanzeon_2040]

What I like so far about Heriberto Yépez and his admirers is their essential and internationalist small-c communism, which I (try to) share, and which I find so rare in the US, even among the Left.  What I mean by this term is a recognition of the illegitimate structures of inequality; but a recognition that doesn't require studying, quoting, or

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[matrixmann]

"You don't need to study Marx to see the vast political, cultural, and economic inequalities around the world. All you must do is open your eyes. The inequalities are stark, deep, obvious to all who care to look."

Exactly the ground I come from...

I just keep seeing the phenomenon over and over again - as soon as people read any of Marx' works, the only thing they're still capable of after that is quoting him and getting entangled in hopelessly theoretical, maybe academic, meta discussions.
Hopelessly boring and hopelessly avoiding touch with concrete reality.

My brain thinks it already had all this - when you can quote the words of a particular person to almost any situation in life, like a fanatic -, and it lead to no gain.
Aiming for a gain, stuff like this doesn't get anyone a step further, my brain realized.
Practice matters more than having read works and scripts.