This is how all of the libertarian left looks according to some people here:

How convenient that the biggest "human rights abuses" are coming from the geopolitical enemies of the western capitalist class.

Further, kind of hypocritical to make a meme that simultaneously champions leftism and "human rights" - a term that Marx decried as bourgeois, and really isn't used in class analysis. It's an idealistic way of viewing power and rights.

In order to understand Marx’s position within the history of the Rights of Man, one needs to understand On the Jewish Question in its entire logical connectivity: as a grand scheme within which the critique of the Rights of Man fits contextually. In this essay, Marx launched his first attack on “civil society” and its impact in fostering “egoistic life”; he avowed that “man […] leads a two-fold life, a heavenly and earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual.” Since the sphere of egoism, in all its “abstract” arbitrariness, separates man from his community, and since the State was the political child of civil society, Marx wrote, the only way to destroy both was to destroy the parent: civil society. It followed, then, that the Rights of Man, which demonstrated an ontological conflict yet still existed in a “spiritual” relation with the State, were consequently “nothing but the rights of a member of a civil society, i.e., the rights of egoistic man, of man separated from other men and from the community.”

Given that the Rights of Man were political rights, they were deeply ingrained within the illusory sovereignty of the State. And since the State was the child of civil society—the society which Marx wished the demise of—the Rights of Man would be automatically abolished along with them. It is made obvious here that the establishment of a political state devoid of concepts such as law, privileges, and rights should become the only way to achieve the final stage desirable for society: a stage described by a political program leading to the emancipation of mankind and resulting in a recognition of their species-being, all to the detriment of bourgeois ideology.

Allen Buchanan has taken this argument even further by claiming that the goal of Marx’s critique of ideology was to highlight the fact that “capitalist conceptions of justice, like other juridical conceptions, presuppose certain factual generalizations which are usually taken for granted.” These generalizations present themselves as an illusion of symmetry between the worker and the exploiter—the free competitive market—that the capitalist puts in place. The free competitive market was, according to Marx, supported and maintained by the Rights of Man that had been articulated in the French and American constitutions. These rights were not eternal truths about the nature of man. Making an example of the right to liberty, Marx saw such rights as the root cause of “the separation of man from man.”

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This meme is not leftist. This meme is textbook liberalism.

I wonder how many of these memes aimed at dividing the left are made by folks on the left.

I’m going with….probably not many.

I am starting to absolutely despise the term "leftist" because it has basically evolved to mean "my specific leftist values at this exact moment in time". And anyone that disagrees with me is a "tankie" or a "liberal".

It's such a useless term to begin with. But at least in the past it could be term to include anyone that had class consciousness and was anti capitalist. Now, it's just used to categorize the readers personal identity and protect them from any criticism of groups in the past or present that actually go out and organize in some capacity.

It's become a term to protect the feelings of online "leftist" that never leave their apartment. People that just want to be on "the left" because it makes them feel superior morally. Instead of actually working for material changes.

What even is a "tankie" its a meanigless buzzword use to critize anyone opposing imperialism or pointing out obvouis lies spread by things like falun gong or radio free asia just useless nonsense.

So “Tankies” is just “woke” but for neoliberals.

Too bad Stalin stopped at Berlin.

You can care all you want about human rights, that doesn't mean you're not falling for propaganda.

The CIA once overthrew the peaceful, democratic government of Iran, and covered up their involvement for decades. Why would they not be able to do similar things today? Did they just woke up one day and suddenly get a change of heart, after facing no consequences for their actions? And that's just one example, they did similar things in so many countries all around the globe. You just don't often hear about it, because, well...

If you don't think the feds are capable of exploiting concern about human rights to influence people's opinions, I don't even know what to tell you.

I haven't seen one shred of evidence through all of their trolling that suggests OP isn't literally a liberal that doesn't know what leftism is and has it confused with social progressivism. Not even in a 'dem socs aren't leftist' way I mean I suspect they do actually support the continuation of capitalism.

*before downvoting me this is a quote from OP

tHe Bourgeoisie lol when do you people live smh

like...

**oh nevermind they self identified as anarchist somewhere. I genuinely thought they were a lib that got lost.

I swear to god everyone needs to have their phone taken away all at once, for a month. Especially the left. We need to learn how to stop having stupid fucking arguments.

Oh look another .world account that couldn't differentiate between a soc dem and a Dem's sock. Hows your cosplay fitting?

Op: I think I'll instantly summon all of .ml for a flame war

Do you not believe the US or the other imperialist nations have lied about their enemies at all? If not, do you understand why people should at the very least be suspicious of any claims made by known liars who have an interest in the narrative presented?

Not to say that any of these states have never done any wrong. None of us want the bad things and it's useful to critically analyze past failures to do better in the future. But it's hard to sift through the lies to find the truth so we can do that in any useful way.

Considering that the failures of the past aren't what we want for the future, demonizing these societies isn't particularly useful. It just serves the interest of the currently dominant powers. You can say that it doesn't and that you also don't like the US, but if your position on every country or movement that the US labels as an enemy is conveniently aligned with them... then... it's doing it's job whether you intend it to or not. It's just stoking more red scare sentiment, which gets used against even whatever you think "real leftists" are. It's not like the McCarthy hearings only went after secret soviet spies. It was just a tool to go after political opponents. It's this fear that allowed the US to justify becoming the biggest military in the world, invading tons of countries, spying on everyone, etc.

If we were to actually identify an agreed upon truth of some bad thing done by these states, I wouldn't disagree with you. However, in the context of a world dominated by the US and it's allies, this just doesn't serve a purpose. We need to work on ways to move forward and deal with capitalism. This doesn't do that. It just helps to justify the current world order.

Was this meme actually made by CollegeHumor I wonder.

Under a post about Mamdani lol

The same "care about human rights" used to justify bombing countries?