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1. The Search Warrant- Patrick Modiano
Harrowing piece of inventive fiction. Fictionalizes partially true accounts of displacement and violence in Europe during the holocaust. Immediately personal, yet movingly universal.
RDJ can write Capital but can Marx write "If money is evil then that building is hell. This is the most obnoxious group of money-hungry low IQ high energy jack rabbit fucking wannabe big time small time shit talking bothersome irritating bunch of motherf*ckers I've ever had to
My main issue with Marxian economics is that it misidentifies production and consumption alone as the main source of inequality when it’s actually rent seeking.
Adani Group has been attacked by foreign entities in the past and has shut their allegations rightfully. The same will happen now also. The people just need to keep their faith in Gautam Adani intact. He will rise again.
#EconomyWillNeverDie
This is so off. You cannot say the answer is capitalism when all the four supposed images of prosperity were also under capitalism. These were real material benefits that the largely white population enjoyed under a specific social structure of accumulation within capitalism.
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"But how is it possible', asked a friend, 'to defend a man like Stalin?'
There was astonishment and indignation in this question, which reminded me of what an old Communist worker once told me. He spoke to me of the year 1956, when Khrushchev read his famous Secret Report.
People posting the Constitution picture need to realise that it is something inherent in that very constitutional structure that has allowed, abetted and encouraged what is happening today.
Althusser was so real for this:
"Basically, Lenin did not need to read Hegel in order to understand him, because he had already understood Hegel, having closely read and understood Marx."
"In 1998 when Hugo Chavez was elected, only 35% people in Venezuela were satisfied with the democratic system. The 2008 Latinobarometro poll shows satisfaction with democracy has risen to 82%. It is somewhat paradoxical that in a country accused of being a dictatorship, such a
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'How can we not support Stalin, who built socialism, who defeated fascism, who incarnated all our hopes?'
In the fiery ideological storm that was sweeping the world, where others had capitulated, this woman remained true to the Revolution.
"All we can do is to laugh as we gaze at this spectacle, for one cannot help laughing when one sees a man fighting his own imagination, smashing his own inventions, while at the same time heatedly asserting that he is smashing his opponent."
- Stalin
"Towards the end of the twentieth century a sickness struck the world. Not everyone died, but all suffered from it. The virus which caused the epidemic was called the "liberal virus"."
Banger opening line
THREAD: What is happening in Manesar:
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After a "Hindu Panchayat" was recently organised in Manesar calling for an economic boycott of Muslims, more than 50 Muslim families have had to leave their homes. Long been a centre of labour struggles,the "industrial hub" of Manesar is
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Powerful debates took place within the Communist Party. During one of these confrontations, an elderly Communist woman, from a Jewish Communist family, who lost two children during the war and whose family in Poland was exterminated, cried out:
Apart from Dibakar Banerjee's usual twin suspects, Sai Paranjpye's Chashme Buddoor (1981) deserves to be here.
A thread of 15 Delhi locations, prominently featured in the film.
1. Siddharth, Omi and Jomo's Defence Colony flat/barsaati
Mask off!
The cowardly Hindu Nazis who attacked students in JNU last night have been identified. Share as widely as possible!
Kanhaiya Kumar- Centre for Japanese Studies
Praful- Centre for Korean Studies
Vikram- Centre for Korean Studies
India: The Modi Question(2023) Ep 02
"One guy I met- torture was being done on him and at the same time, a public address system was kept near him, so that the entire village could hear him cry."- Habeel Iqbal (1/3)
The number of gig-workers in India is expected to go up by 300% in the next seven years. With ever-weakening labour laws, stretched work-hours and intensified exploitation, we are truly looking at a bleak future.
"To be a Marxist is to continue the work that Marx merely began, even though that beginning was of unequalled power. It is not to stop at Marx, but to start from him...Marx is boundless, because the radical critique that he initiates is itself boundless, always incomplete,
This Hindu-Nazi excuse of a teacher runs a residential school in Dewas. He has made it mandatory for every student to follow the "Sanatan Dharma" and to begin and end each class with chants of "Jai Shri Ram". He boasts of the school not allowing a single off-day- i.e. 365 days +
Today, 93 years ago, Indian socialist revolutionary Jatindra Nath Das was killed by his British captors, who forcibly fed him milk till his lungs burst on the 63rd day of his Hunger Strike for demanding better conditions in prison. He was 24 years old.
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"In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being."
- Paul Robeson
Congress has forced a contract on railworkers. We spoke with a train engineer about what’s missing, union leadership’s failures, and why he thinks progressives in Congress like AOC and Jamaal Bowman “need to be commended” for their role, not denounced.
The "Eight-step Programme" of Bhagat Singh's Socialist Revolution:
1) Abolition of landlordism
2) Liquidation of the peasants' indebtedness
3) Nationalisation of Land by the Revolutionary State with a view finally to lead to improved and collective farming
Pertaining purely to semantics, the other argument could be "yeah and capitalism "went wrong" "
But again, factually incorrect, it had gone the exact way it was supposed to- in conventional historicist paradigm.
"Class-consciousness is crucial to stop people from fighting each other. The poor workers and peasants should be made to clearly understand that their real enemies are the capitalists, so they must be careful not to fall into their trap".
Bhagat Singh, June, 1927
Fascinating how liberals accusing Stalin of Molotov-Ribbentrop never mention Britain and France literally handing over Czechoslovakia to Hitler less than a year before, at Munich.
India: The Modi Question
"(Delhi Police) made us sing the National Anthem while we were lying down. They thought Muslims wouldn't know the national anthem. But we live here and we know it well. Despite singing the National Anthem, they still did not stop." (1/4)
Uttar Pradesh was declared by the Center as the state with highest number of deaths in Police Custody. The number being 952 for the last two years. Total number of deaths in Police Custody peaked at 4484 for the same period.
Regarding-Bastar: The Naxal Story's teaser. It's futile to theorize it as a concerted effort of the Apparatus making the Indian Left a bigger enemy than Pakistan. Multiple factors at play, of course. But, Hindi cinema has never seen this level of genocidal anti-communism, though.
Requesting everyone not to share the image of that protestor who came to steal the limelight wearing free palestine T shirt. He wanted eyeballs. Stop giving it by sharing the image.
India: The Modi Question(2023) Ep. 02
"The police are meant to protect all of India's people. But here, the police are seen with Hindus throwing stones towards Muslims."
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India: The Modi Question(2023)-Ep 02
"There were a lot of people watching it, a lot of people. An officer told us we were taking him to the hospital but on the way to the hospital, he died. I was helpless. They are killing people because they are Muslim." - Mariam Ansari (1/6)
But whatever has been used to describe Baniawaad is just actually existing capitalism. One needs to forego this image of a theoretical "pure" capitalism that was in itself an abstraction and a historically specific contingency. Capital can never be an ally in the anti-caste
Being pro-capital & being pro-Baniawaad are two DIFFERENT things
Banias are not, have never been capitalist-- they make wealth through regulatory capture via close links with state power.
Bania vision for India from GD Birla to Gandhi to Anant Ambani is same - a vast casteist
@Rothmus
NOBODY IS PRAISING COMMUNISM. I'm a raging lefty and have never heard in any subreddit (for example) anyone desiring literal communism. It's just a boogeyman term.
"The word 'anarchist' was given a bad name...slandered in the same way that selfish capitalists slandered words like 'Bolshevik', 'Socialist', etc. Yet anarchists are the most sensitive well-wishers of the entire world, even if we disagree with their views."
- Bhagat Singh, 1928
Revolutionary congratulations to comrades Umesh and
@m_bhimraj
for winning against their arbitrary and authoritarian expulsion from South Asian University, for standing up and fighting for students, for hoping against hope! ✊
India: The Modi Question(2023) Ep 02
"Nur and Zahara took their children with them. They would all spend the next 18 months in a detention center." (1/4)
Bhagat Singh on mysticism and socialism:
"Belief in God is the outcome of mysticism which is the natural consequence of depression. That this world is 'Maya' or Mithya', a dream or a fiction, is clear mysticism which has been originated and developed by Hindu sages of old ages,