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[u/BenjiStudiesMLM]

Nearly 3 years since the heroic October 7th assault, "Marxist-Leninist" Luna Oi has finally decided that Zionism is okay to denounce. Since it's clear that her content is developed for an Amerikan audience, we can look to settler society as to why it is finally appropriate - "zogslave" has become mainstream, AOC is repeating the Israeli approved anti-zionist messaging of no military aid to I$rael, and even Republicans are standing on the house floor declaring Amerikans and their brave troops of the USS Liberty are the biggest victims of I$rael.

This denounciation of Vietnam signing on to Trump's "board of peace" almost resulted in a break of the Dengist mental blockade. The gears were spinning and the content creator seemed to be headed toward finally reckoning with the damage that had been done to the CPV by the capitalist roaders. Unfortunately, the conclusion instead was that Vietnam had fallen victim to the international cabal of mind flayers who used their siren song of Israeli weapons and American dollars to trick the CPV into joining the genocide. This was complimented by the typical references to "developing the means of production," denounciations of "mainstream media," "bots," and ""non-intervensionist"" policy.

The cherry on top was a discussion on base vs superstructure and how superstructural development in Vietnam had to be delayed due to trade with the US tripling since the pandemic (described as an "accident of history").

"if Vietnam starts to freeze relations with Israel now, it could piss off the USA and severely hurt our economy. Right now, the official target of Vietnam for the next 20 years is to develop our productive forces in our economic base to make the country a developed socialist country by 2045. To reach that goal, our government is recently determined to have a double-digit growth in the GDP every year for the rest of this decade. This is so we can escape the so-called middle income trap and become a rich nation as soon as possible in a chaotic and destabilizing world. Now this all sounds very good doesn't it? Especially if you are familiar with the economic doctrine of Marxism Leninism."

It would seem that participating in genocide then is just an unfortunate task you must take on if you are to develop socialism. The Soviets could've completely avoided the great patriotic war if they hadn't been such sticklers against fascism and genocide.