I’ll reply to the top-level comment but I read the entire conversation + continuation on matrix. We will be taking care of unhelpful and bad faith comments but I also think your current point of view is not entirely fleshed out. I say this to be helpful because you ask for answers based in diamat but your comments show idealist thinking (specifically looking at the superstructure rather than starting at the material base). I don’t want to admonish you for it but I also want to get it out of the way but it gives the impression that you will only accept the best of the best rebuttal and then can refuse anything that doesn’t live to your specific standard.

We have to look at what was quantitatively and qualitatively different in colonial Algeria vs. modern-day Germany - third law of dialectics, quantitative change turns to qualitative change. When we look at the history of a nation or state (two different things of course), we’re not just looking at the culture and the local customs, because these are expressions of their material base. We’re looking at how the class struggle evolved and was shaped through time periods, which ultimately has bearing on the present situation. “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living” as we said.

What were the social relations like in colonial Algeria? What was its mode of production, and thus how was production happening socially? What were its various classes, and which were exploiters and exploited (class relations)? What superstructure was put in place to enforce those relations, what did it look like?

And the same questions for modern day Germany. Algeria was not only colonized it was settled because its proximity did not require local comprador for extraction - thus its institutions and infrastructure reflected that. Algeria was ruled by a French General Governor appointed from France directly, first under the Department of War during the conquest and then appointed by the Prime Minister. Native Algerians, who became indigenous under this social relation (creating a settled class), were not allowed to speak their language. They had to learn French, use the French calendar, observed French bank holidays instead of their own (e.g. Christmas was an official day off but not Eid), and basically work in the French manner. Settlers became rich in Algeria, opening businesses of their own (grapevines were a favorite) + of course French state-owned enterprises being implanted in Algeria.

This is what allows us to say colonial algeria and modern day germany are materially different in their base and thus have a different superstructure and different state character - but we have to look at the totality and not the specifics, another important factor of dialectics (though often overlooked and thus often invoked but it really put things in perspective for me) which you omitted from your argumentation. Germany is part of the imperial core even if, like all of western europe, they happily obey the US. They are not settled and not a colony, and don’t have a comprador bourgeoisie. It’s not my intention to make a class analysis of Germany here because this is getting too long but it could be made applying the same principles.

But I wanted to say this because I find your arguments wanting for more, and as identifying more with the right than the marxists because they don’t really indicate anything marxist - using the verbiage of the far-right is one thing but one must also present convincing materialist arguments to differentiate them from the right. I can’t say “ban all immigrants” only to then clarify “oh only the bourgeois immigrants, not the others” after people raise eyebrows. If I’m talking to marxists I need to be able to explain materially, from the start, that I am talking about the bourgeoisie (and then explain why I said bourgeois immigrants instead of just the bourgeoisie).

In my case I consider there is no need for moderation on your comments in this discussion yet, and like I said I and other admins went through the rest of the comment chain and did cleaning up where applicable.