🧵 I don't think a lot of self-proclaimed communists understand or appreciate the fine line legitimate Marxists inside the US have to walk when addressing situations like what's taking place in #Kazakistan right now... The most important thing is to not allow your emotions to cloud your judgement, to not allow either idealism or empiricism to take precedence over a material observation and analysis of the ever-evolving conditions there. Dialectical materialism matters here more than ever...

1/6 It's interesting seeing older Americans go into a rage against single-payer #healthcare considering the United States already has a form of single-payer, only an extremely limited, shittier version. 2/6 Boomers complain that they don't want their money to be used to provide other people medical care—that they want their money to go to their own care—but that's *exactly* what they're doing when purchasing private health insurance.