Gabriel Rockhill
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Philosopher | Professor | Activist | Director @CTW_ATC | Author "Imperialist Propaganda & the Ideology of the Western Left"
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Decades in the making, I just completed vol 1 of “The Intellectual World War” for
@monthly_review
. Echoing Saunders' book, it's called “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?"
🙏to all who have contributed to this project.
#Marxism
vs
#TheoryIndustry
&
#WesternMarxism
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My latest:
#Zizek
rose to fame promoting pomo radlib theory against Marxism, claiming
#communism
is “the worst catastrophe in the history of humanity." No wonder he’s the (capitalist) world’s most famous “Marxist”! 🧵 1/7
@NatCounterPunch
#Marxism
#Marx
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Some online “Marxists” seem confused about what a principled critique of "woke" identity politics looks like. It is NOT a rejection of the Marxist project of recognizing the *universal* dignity of ALL: women, racialized groups, LGBTQ+, etc.
Short 🧵 on
#Marxism
#IdentityPolitics
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My critique of
#Zizek
is an analysis of his--pro-imperialist/anticommunist--position in the social relations of intel production. It’s part of a book on theory industry’s war on
#Marxism
. Chapters on
#FrankfurtSchool
#Foucault
#FrenchTheory
& more. 🧵1/7
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The same day I published an article on capitalism's court jester, foregrounding his anticommunist pro-imperialist record, this joker did an interview w a platform with deep historical ties to the CIA. You can't make this shit up.
Thx
@NestPasUnPsyop
#Zizek
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Chomsky literally says "Leninism was in my view counterrevolutionary" in this wildly inaccurate account of the USSR:
#Chomsky
#NoamChomsky
#AntiCommunism
#socialism
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The
#FrankfurtSchool
rose to fame—backed by the ruling class, imperialist states & CIA—by promoting Eurocentric social chauvinism, anti-communism & “cultural” Marxism sans praxis. 🧵 1/16
@Philosoph_Salon
@LAReviewofBooks
#Adorno
#Horkheimer
#CIA
#Marxism
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"Western Marxism" by
#Losurdo
is out! I'm thrilled to have been able to work with
@monthly_review
on this beautiful book. Its indictment of the Western left intelligentsia's complicity with imperialism & its defense of anti-imperialist
#Marxism
make it a must read! 🧵
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Žižek is capitalism’s court jester. Aping the figure of the Marxist-qua-antisocial-fanatic, he encourages disdain for real-world socialism, while advancing his career by hawking wares of Western consumer society & the theory industry through his pop cultural mash-up. 7/7
#Zizek
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Opposed to
#socialism
in
#Yugoslavia
,
#Zizek
wrote for a ‘dissident’ mag accused of being CIA. He founded the
*LibDem* Party & ran for Pres against the communists, advocating for privatizations: “more capitalism would mean more social security” (sic). 2/7
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Pro-capitalist
#Zizek
supported NATO’s bombings of
#Yugoslavia
& he recently accused Kissinger of “pacifism” for not giving his “full support” to the U.S. proxy war in the Ukraine: “we need a stronger NATO” to defend “European unity.” 4/7
#Imperialism
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The Eurocentric court jester of imperialism strikes again!
#Zizek
on
#Africa
: "it is clear that the 'anti-colonial' uprisings in Central Africa are even worse than French neocolonialism." 🧐
#NigerCoup
#GabonCoup
#Mali
#Burkina_Faso
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In short, the reason for criticizing ID politics is to move forward toward universal emancipation, not backward toward chauvinism, be it white, male, nationalist, colonial, homophobic, transphobic and/or some other version.
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Socialism is a collective process of learning & there is certainly room for improvement among Marxists & socialist states, but the orientation needs to be clear: we must universalize the respect for human dignity, not particularize & divide the global working class.
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Those who use the critique of ID politics as cover for chauvinism do not understand that Marxism is a project of UNIVERSAL liberation. They fall back on what is usually just another form of ID politics, be it male, white, nationalist, colonial, hetero, cis, and/or some combo.
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The idea that French theory is revolutionary “68 thought” is a myth whose purpose is to promote anticommunist theory as radical while invisibilizing the actual theorists and actors of revolutionary politics.🧵1/9
#Marxism
My latest in
@monthly_review
:
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Moving beyond ID politics requires overcoming both its "woke" liberal imperialist & its anti-woke chauvinist versions. We are ALL deserving of full recognition of our dignity, which ultimately requires changing the material relations of production & reproduction.
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As Domenico Losurdo has brilliantly demonstrated, the best elements of the Marxist tradition have always been dedicated to lifting up the most oppressed of the world through recognition &...
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The Eastern liberal was for pro-West civil society & against the Yugo. state when the latter was socialist, whereas he was against civil society & for the state when the latter turned capitalist (& sought membership in capitalist & imperialist orgs like the EU & NATO). 3/7
#Zizek
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"Western Marxism" by
#Losurdo
will be out in a month! W an intro I co-authored w
@jfsponcedeleon
& a lecture translated by C Petterson & R Boer, it is sure to make some shock waves by defending Marxism in the real world against Western utopianism.
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Disappointed by the
#Zizek
#JordanPeterson
debate because there wasn't a single Marxist on stage? Tune into
@MarxMidwest
today at 6 pm EST--there will only be Marxists (Zizek was unavailable--he has another interview w the CIA).
Meme credit:
@MarxMidwest
#Marx
#Marxism
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Like
#Badiou
,
#Zizek
claims that “Real communism” is a
#communism
of the Lacanian Real, which is recalcitrant to “reality.” The transformation of the world through parties & states--making communism a “reality”--is destined to fail. All that’s left is the death drive. 6/7
#Lacan
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...the struggle to reconfigure the material relations of production & reproduction to alleviate racialized groups from slavery or super-exploitation, women from domestic slavery and the “double day,” etc.
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Get ready for Losurdo's seminal work on Western Marxism, which will finally be available in August!
I'm honored to have worked w/
@monthly_review
on this project, as well as
@jfsponcedeleon
(with whom I wrote the intro).
#WesternMarxism
#Marxism
#Losurdo
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Here's a brief video I made for
@monthly_review
explaining why
#WesternMarxism
by
#Losurdo
is such an important work (link below). It distinguishes the imperial versions of Western pseudo-Marxism from the anticolonial & anti-imperialist tradition of actual Marxism. A must read!
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“Zelenskyy depicts his gov as democratic–like its West imperialist allies–while it supports fascist militias, receives $ from reactionaries, glorifies Nazis, emboldens cultural fascism, bans parties & controls media.”
#Ukraine
#UkraineWar
#UkraineCrisis
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My latest in
@monthly_review
covers themes in my next book & future projects:
#propaganda
,
#FrenchTheory
,
#FrankfurtSchool
,
#IdentityPolitics
,
#Zizek
,
#BourgeoisDemocracy
,
#fascism
,
#Jan6th
,
#ClassStruggle
. 🧵has highlights. 1/11
Thx to Zhao Dingqi!
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Domenico Losurdo's "Western Marxism" will be out in English via
@monthly_review
in 2024! Check out the book's description on MR's website:
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Losurdo's "Western Marxism," which I edited for
@monthly_review
, will finally be out in Sept. For those as excited as I am about the release, here's a lecture on the topic (🙏
@ammaralijan
). Follow
@CTW_ATC
for news on launches & webinars.
#Marxism
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Adorno & Horkheimer supported the 1956 imperialist invasion of Egypt by Israel, Britain & France, which aimed at seizing the Suez Canal & overthrowing Nasser. They called this anti-colonial leader “a fascist chieftain […] who conspires with Moscow.” 10/16
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Major mobilization in DC against the US war machine
#FundPeopleNotWar
#AbolishNATO
#NoUsWar
@pslnational
@answercoalition
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"Western Marxism" by
#Losurdo
is finally available in English via
@monthly_review
! This edition includes an intro I co-authored w
@jfsponcedeleon
& a previously unpublished lecture by Losurdo. Follow
@CTW_ATC
for info about launches!
#Marx
#Marxism
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"Žižek is neoliberal capitalism’s court jester. Aping the figure of the Marxist-qua-antisocial-fanatic, he encourages disdain for the real-world project of socialism." Honored by re-posted article on
#Zizek
in
@monthly_review
#AntiCommunism
#Marx
#Marxism
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French theory is an "anti-communist intellectual counter-revolution" against
#Marxism
of the post-WWII era (Sartre et al). Globally promoted by the US empire, it is best understood as a product of cultural imperialism.
#Postmodernism
#FrenchTheory
#Marx
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Adorno & Horkheimer directly contributed to the CIA’s imperial project of reinforcing the non-communist Left. Horkheimer participated in its junkets while Adorno published in CIA journals, corresponded w their operatives & liaised about expanding their activities in Germany. 3/16
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Despising the influence of Brecht's revolutionary Marxism on Benjamin’s work, the leaders of the Frankfurt School were—according to U. Fries—unwilling to assist him financially for his flight from the Nazis (though they presented themselves as his benevolent benefactors). 6/16
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The leaders of the Frankfurt School, amply supported by the capitalist ruling class & imperialist states, were global spokesmen for an anti-communist politics of capitalist accommodation. They aggressively advocated for ABS Theory: Anything But Socialism. 16/16
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Frankfurt School critical theory has been—w
#FrenchTheory
—one of the hottest commodities of the global theory industry. They are the political & ideological source for so many trend-setting academic discourses:
#pomo
#poco
#DecolonialTheory
#QueerTheory
#Afropessimism
etc. 2/16
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This is a fantastic video featuring the magisterial work of Michael
#Parenti
. Pls consider circulating & supporting this work (see
@LunaOi_VN
's pinned tweet for more info).
#fascism
#communism
#Marxism
#RealHistory
"How Fascism Serves Capitalism"
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“Burkina Faso cannot be developed outside the lines drawn by Thomas Sankara,” reiterated Kyélem de Tambèla shortly after his appointment [as Prime Minister].
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Nazis in Ukraine is trending: "
#Zelenskyy
depicts his gov as democratic while it supports fascist militias, glorifies Nazi collaborators, emboldens a culture of fascism, bans political parties & controls media."
#Nazism
#fascism
#Ukraine
@pslweb
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Recently finished reading this great book by
@agent_of_change
. What a well-researched and concise overview of contemporary
#China
! Pick up a copy at Praxis Press.
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When the Frankfurt School moved to the U.S., Horkheimer had words like Marxism, revolution and communism expunged from its publications in order to avoid offending its U.S. sponsors. Meanwhile, he hired a PR firm to promote their work in the emerging theory industry. 5/16
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This article on the
#FrankfurtSchool
explains how
#Adorno
&
#Horkheimer
were funded & supported by the capitalist ruling class & imperialist states, including the CIA, as global spokesmen for an anti-communist politics of capitalist accommodation. 2/7
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They proclaimed the superiority of the West, while repeatedly disparaging the Soviet Union & China by invoking stock racist descriptions of the “barbarians” in the East, whom they described as “beasts” & “fascists” who had chosen “slavery.” 11/16
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The CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was, according to Hugh Wilford, nothing short of one of the largest patrons of art and culture in the history of the world. The breadth & depth of the CIA's global propaganda network is extraordinary. 2/11
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Adorno & Horkheimer: “Our philosophy stands in the sharpest opposition to the politics & doctrine that emanates from the USSR. We are unable to see anything in the practice of the military dictatorships disguised as people’s democracies other than a new form of repression.” 13/16
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During the Nazi rise to power, “the constant policy of the Institute continued to be abstinence, not only from every activity which was even remotely political, but also from any collective or organized effort to publicize the situation in Germany or to support émigrés.” 4/16
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The Frankfurt School’s return to *West* Germany after WWII was amply financed by the US gov. CIA collaborators like Shepard Stone argued the Institute was doing the kind of ideological work that the U.S. state and capitalist ruling class should—and did—support. 8/16
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Who wouldn't want to join
@pslweb
to be able to say you are this guy's comrade?!! ✊💪🔥🔥🔥
#socialism
#justice
#FightBack
#JoinAnOrg
#TheTimeIsNow
A
@pslweb
activist disrupts OAS chief Luis Almagro at a Summit of the Americas event, calling out his role in the 2019 Bolivia coup.
The coup overturned the victory of the elected socialist president Evo Morales and inaugurated a right-wing reign of terror that left scores dead.
800
7K
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Horkheimer openly expressed his fulsome support for the U.S.’s anti-communist puppet government in West Germany, whose intelligence services had been stocked with former Nazis, as well as its imperial project in Vietnam (which he judged necessary to stop the Chinese). 9/16
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Horkheimer explained to a receptive Adorno: “I believe that Europe & America are prob the best civilizations that history has produced as far as prosperity & justice are concerned. The key point now is to ensure the preservation of these gains.” 12/16
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They undertook anti-worker research projects backed—directly or indirectly—by the US gov, the capitalist ruling class, the CIA & even the Mannesmann corporation, which “had been a founding member of the Anti-Bolshevik League & had financed the Nazi Party.” 7/16
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Adorno & Horkheimer repeated the ideological mantra that there is a “totalitarian” equivalence between fascism & communism, if it manifests itself in socialist state-building projects, anticolonial movements of the “Third World,” or even the New Left. 14/16
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Adorno agreed with Habermas—who had himself been a member of the Hitler Youth & studied for four years under the “Nazi philosopher” (his description of Heidegger)—that anti-imperialist student activism amounted to “Left fascism.” 15/16
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"Either you kill your adversaries & you're condemned 4 violating human rights, or you do not kill them & your opponents overthrow you." - Thomas Sankara on
#fascism
&
#imperialism
in
#Africa
thx 2
@LiberationEDU
's translation project!
@pslnational
#Sankara
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This book comes out of decades of research, beginning within French & German
#CriticalTheory
(I studied w Derrida & Badiou), but framed now by
#Marxism
& an understanding of the war on
#Socialism
. It's a profound self-critique. Don't fight me--join me! 7/7
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This essay examines how
#Foucault
plays the role of an anti-communist radical recuperator, i.e. an intellectual who appears radical but whose social function is to recuperate rad critique within the extant system. 4/7
@Philosoph_Salon
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Must watch!!! This three-part series on
#Haiti
tells the story of Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier & the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family & Allies, the armed neighborhood federation in the crosshairs of the U.S. empire. Ty
@dancohen3000
&
@kimives13
!
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Office is looking a lot better thx to this
#RevolutionaryArt
from
@plbmagazine
@iskrabooks
@phdirtbag
. Check out their posters on their website!
#Lenin
#Gramsci
#Tupac
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Must watch:
@agent_of_change
on the rise & fall of
#USSR
, another excellent episode from
@TheSocProgram
w
@BrianBeckerDC
via
@BTnewsroom
#socialism
#communism
#Marx
#Marxism
#Leninism
#KnowYourHistory
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This article is a wide-ranging reply-to-critics that examines the role of intellectuals in class struggle, the soft power projects of the CIA, identity politics, the relationship between liberalism & fascism, & more. 6/7
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“The US was recognized by the Nazis as the best model of racial apartheid & statecraft.”
Honored to be featured on
@ChrisLynnHedges
' "On Contact" to discuss my work on
#fascism
in
@NatCounterPunch
&
@blkagendareport
#nazism
#KKK
#liberalism
#Marxism
#Marx
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Palestine will be free! Important mobilization at Villanova University. Thx to all of those who came out! Reach out if you want to get connected to SJP or FSJP at VU.
#Palestine
#PalestineSolidarityProtest
#PalestineNotAlone
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Ty
@LunaOi_VN
for making this important work available in English! It's a fascinating manual--very pedagogical with lots of great diagrams. Click here to order a copy:
#Marxism
#MarxismLeninism
#HoChiMinh
#Vietnam
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For all of those serious scholars interested in actually engaging with the evidence, please read this article for additional facts that support the case I make (and extend it to include
#Habermas
#Honneth
#Fraser
):
#FrankfurtSchool
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"How the ‘Compatible Left’ Upholds Imperialism - Gabriel Rockhill Compilation"
Thx to the ChemicalMind YT channel for putting this together.
#imperialism
#CompatibleLeft
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The CIA celebrated the contributions of French
#structuralism
& the
#AnnalesSchool
: “we believe their critical demolition of Marxist influence in the social sciences is likely to endure as a profound contribution to modern scholarship.” 3/11
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It was a pleasure to speak w
@justinpodur
about my ongoing research on the CIA and the global theory industry. We discuss
#FrenchTheory
#Derrida
#Foucault
#CriticalTheory
#FrankfurtSchool
#Marxism
#AntiCommunism
#Imperialism
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This deep dive into the anti-communism of the
#FrankfurtSchool
, which critically evaluates
#Adorno
#Horkheimer
#Habermas
#Honneth
#Fraser
, clearly outlines FS's opposition to
#Marxism
& esp actually existing
#socialism
. 3/7
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Solidarity with
@bamnecessary
for the years of revolutionary journalism.
**Joint statement**
Our show, By Any Means Necessary, has been taken off the air, and we have been fired.
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Here's the article & excerpt: "
#Zizek
was the main political columnist for Mladina, a prominent anti-communist dissident mag accused of being backed by the CIA... Z later claimed his orientation was counter-revolutionary & anti-socialist."
#AntiCommunism
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Thrilled that my first public collaboration w
@ImmanuelNess
was to both blurb this excellent book just out via
@iskrabooks
(excerpts in 🧵). This work by
#Losurdo
on
#Stalin
is a MUST READ!
#USSR
#Marxism
#ActuallyExistingSocialism
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When they admit lying to us (sharing false intel), they say it's for our own good (to counter "propaganda"): "U.S. officials acknowledged that the U.S. has used information as a weapon even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high."
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“Over the past 70-plus years, China never provoked a war or occupied an inch of foreign land. China is the only country around the world that includes in its Constitution the commitment to the path of peaceful development, & China is committed to no-first-use of nuclear weapons.”
Upon arrival in Paris, President Xi published an article on French newspaper Le Figaro.
Full of goodwill and addressing some of the major concerns. What did he say? Full text here👇
Carrying Forward the Spirit that Guided the Establishment of China-France Diplomatic Relations,
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The
#FrankfurtSchool
on
#gaza
: “the standards of judgement slip completely when genocidal intentions are attributed to Israel’s actions.” Well, what if the Israeli leadership expresses these intentions repeatedly & acts on them? 🧐
#Habermas
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Please consider joining us in person in Philly or online on 4/1 for this event with Dr. Ken Hammond on "Marxism with Chinese Characteristics: Critical Reflections on Socialism in China's 'New Era'"!
#China
#XiJinping
#socialism
#Marxism
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Honored to be interviewed on
@BTnewsroom
by
@BrianBeckerDC
for
@TheSocProgram
, which has been providing some of the very best coverage of
#UkraineRussiaWar
. We discuss
#Nazism
#Fascism
#NATO
#Ukraine
& more.
#KnowYourHistory
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This earlier study explores the CIA’s interest in
#FrenchTheory
as an anti-Marxist academic discourse that helped shore up the ‘compatible’ (meaning pro-imperialist) Left amongst the intelligentsia. 5/7
#Marx
#Marxism
@Philosoph_Salon
1
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"Aping the figure of the Marxist-qua-antisocial-fanatic, he encourages disdain for the real-world project of socialism, while hawking the wares of Western consumer society through his pop cultural mash-up."
#Zizek
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Must read by
@HelenYaffe
: "The embargo of Cuba constitutes the longest & most comprehensive sanctions in modern history. It is an act of war, a violation of human rights designed to undermine its example as a rev. alternative."
#Cuba
#CubaSiBloqueoNo
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The marketing of
#FrenchTheory
by Ford Found. et al changed 68 into a symbol for a product of US-driven cultural imperialism. The real social relations at work in 68 disappeared behind the enchantment with the commodity of French Theory (historical commodity fetishism). 6/9
#Marx
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Check out these great revolutionary posters from
@iskrabooks
&
@plbmagazine
, which you can buy on their website!
These comrades are killing it 🔥
@phdirtbag
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This article foregrounds the thinkers who were engaged in
#68
& who continue today the revolutionary tradition overshadowed by
#FrenchTheory
: Michel Simon, Michel Clouscard, Georges Gastaud, Annie Lacroix-Riz, Aymeric Monville, etc. 8/9
@PRCF_
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"It is part of the public record that a fascist seizure of state power had been planned in the US."
My latest in
@LiberationEDU
: a deep dive into the 1934 "Business Plot"
#fascism
#nazism
#KKK
#Amerikkka
#Marxism
#Marx
via
@pslweb
On the 6th month anniversary of the militarized fascist assault on the U.S. Capitol, Gabriel Rockhill details the unsuccessful fascist conspiracy to overthrow FDR in 1934, known as the "Business Plot."
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If you liked—or found challenging—my critique of
#Zizek
(below), consider joining us online or in person 4 our 15th-annual
@CTW_ATC
#SummerSchool
. We bring together leading scholars for rigorous & refreshing Marxist debates like this 👇
#Marx
#Marxism
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Intellectuals & insurgency: a great convo on
@MAKCapitalism
. We discuss the hegemonic promotion of radical recuperators by the global theory industry vs the repression of organic revolutionary intellectuals & much more.
#May68
#FrenchTheory
#Marxism
#Marx
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