@julieofthespirits when it no longer feels the pressure that is has to improve conditions or fall from socialist powers, liberalism has to survive its conservative, eliminationist counterpart taking control, that is - the people who they agree with in their end goal (colonial domination & genocide) but who would do so via means that would likely upend the system completely - and risk anticolonial (necessarily socialist if its to pose any actual threat) revolution. 4/5