No I’m not going to elaborate
You don’t need to elaborate. The class war is the primary conflict. I’m good friends with a boomer at my work, and he talks about how the world is controlled by billionaires.
My parents were boomers. They fought against every neoliberal oppression foisted upon them by the state and society. It killed my mother in her 30s and my dad by his 60s. There were and are plenty of good boomers. The 70’s and 80’s were a quiet war and the left lost but there were people fighting it. Not enough, not well organised enough, against the forces of capital but some did try. No Generation is ever a monolith.
My wife and I are millennials and our younger siblings are all Gen-Z or cuspers. I don’t trust anyone telling me that my sister is my enemy lol.
Boomers are also not inherently bad, but I do think a lot of the better ones are dead. I don’t think one should assume a trend is a universal rule though.
largely
The one exception is boomers, boomers as a generation suck pretty consistently. Regan won the youth vote thanks to boomers, in economic matters at least boomers are more conservative than their parents. The few based boomers there are are mostly older boomers, younger boomers grew up with the economic silver spoon of the 80s shoved up their ass when they came of age and it turned them into psychos. ABAB.
Nah. You can’t just dismiss the Panthers, Young Lords, the anti-war movement, and so many movements and peoples struggles just based on some bullshit socially constructed, national concept of “generation”.
Generational warfare is total bullshit. There are a shit ton of working class boomers and boomer comrades who held it down before you were a thought, I was literally just on the phone with one I know myself. If you don’t know any, then you probably haven’t organized as much as you should. These current generations coming up are no different in having an overwhelming number of reactionaries and fascists. We shouldn’t forget those who struggled before us and much less abandon comrades who are now elderly because of generational culture war.
Strong men create good times, good times create fucking psychopaths who cannot fathom that other people are suffering
Always funny to point out that for people like Trump and Musk, who grew up rich, they have always seen good times…therefore are they “weak men”?
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No war but class war
What was the Hundred Years War if not generational?
Checkmate
Saying boomers are evil is the same as saying white people are evil, which is to say statistically true and justified.
The good ones die young because wealth prolongs lifespan and fighting oppression is dangerous.
Also the good boomers tended to be the older boomers
Correct but also there were
lessfewer good ones in the first place, just like white peopleThis is a rare moment where less/fewer actually matters, because for a second I thought you meant there were white people who are less good - which, uh yeah? obviously, like any group - but you meant to say fewer good people, I’m assuming.
Oh yes fewer was what I meant sorry I very much use those interchangeably
Generational explanations for material conditions is the height of libshit.
Combat liberalism. Pretty sure generational warfare is a few of these types.
I definitely need to remind myself of this constantly. They took the main brunt of the fully functional propaganda machine.
Yarp i see that flavor of class warfare so often there should be a copypasta bot like whataboutism to help stomp the brainworms.
Sure Mr Moneybags! Please do tell me the story, again, how it’s poor ol’ busted- ass-no-pension-having boomer’s fault we can’t buy a house or take a vacation or
Even I fell for it, but yeah generational warfare really is one of the dumbest divide and conquer schemes the porks cooked up. It pisses me off because capitalists literally pit families against each other!
No, I don’t want to play the role of sitcom rival to my own parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
The left simply lost to the geopolitical reality of the era.
The US establishment was battered from the Civil Rights and the anti-war movements during the Vietnam War, the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Yom Kippur War had politically isolated the US from the international stage, the ending of Bretton Woods led to the rise of neoliberal finance capitalism and the subsequent mass deindustrialization of US industries to China, for which the left had no answer for. The global oil shock of the 1970s further ended the economic prosperity of the previous decades.
China at the time was also looking to get rid of the USSR, and saw the opportunity to get close to a US challenged both from within (civil rights, trade union and anti-war movements and the stagflation) and from without (internationally isolated, global energy price shock) looking to shift its industries elsewhere to crush the domestic working class movements once and for all, and to regain its hegemony on the world stage.
It was a perfect marriage (or storm) made in heaven, which ultimately led to the unbridled rise of neoliberal capitalism and especially so when the USSR was finally toppled in the 1990s. By then, the left had already lost all the leverage they used to have, and trade unions became merely a shadow of its former self.
The working class in the US lost big time to the geopolitical reality of the time.
I’m reminded of this anti-generational-hate spoken word video by Hugo the Poet.
If anyone remembers the great Rap News videos from like a decade ago, he did all of those - Man rapped with Norman Finkelstein.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
