Nationalism beats communism and liberalism as a mass ideology because it supplies a simple collective struggle, works for poor people, and can absorb both liberal and communist projects.
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Mass politics
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Jiang says Indonesia's elite has been co-opted by Americans and that ordinary people then follow the orientation of the elite.
Jiang predicts the ICE raids will intensify because they have mass appeal and work as attention-focusing spectacle.
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"Yeah. No, I think the main reason is the Indonesian elite has been co -opted by the Americans. And so the people just follow..."
"Well, yeah, he is Hitler. I mean, he wants his third term. And the best way to achieve your third term is to create..."
"It's focusing people's attention. And something else I would look at very closely is the crackdown on dissent in the universities. Right. How Trump..."
"then there's nationalism and for people okay all three ideas are appealing but communism communism preaches the idea of international solidarity right which can..."
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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