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political economy, states, labor, finance international relations, development and radical politics 📚 🚩💪
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Ableism is a key pillar of fascism.
Imagine you show up to a political conference and this is one of the keynote speakers
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Palestine isn’t the only reason not to shop at Starbucks.
In Minas Gerais, Brazil, labor inspectors rescued 159 workers from slave-like conditions on 4 coffee plantations that supply Starbucks. All had received its C.A.F.E Practices (Coffee and Farmer Equity) seal. Some of the rescued workers were minors.
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happy anniversary to the event that caused more outrage among celebrities than Israel committing genocide.
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Israel gets to have a whole song about Oct 7th but a woman with barely visible nails is apparently too much for Levy.
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One thing about far-right politics is that if you're expecting to "own" them on inconsistency you're missing the point.
MAGA 2024: “I’m sick of seeing gay pride stuff everywhere…”. MAGA 2025:
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he literally raped her.
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Terrifying, in South Africa they put white people in human zoos and make them dance to entertain black people and hamas.
“There’s a genocide against white people in South Africa”. White people in South Africa :
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The idea that Hamas leaders are multibillionaires is probably one of the most delusional pieces of propaganda.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashal can buy both Taylor Swift and Kanye West, and still have $3.5 billion left for himself.
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This is what it means to exist in a supremacist global system
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interesting choice to represent the people you are ethnically cleansing as rats. .
WSJ reports that Israel 🇮🇱 has started pumping massive amounts of sea water to flood all of Hamas' 500km network of tunnels. @Gregsy_reborn has obtained exclusive photos from inside the tunnels:
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This is Zionist minstrelsy. If Zionists weren't so insanely racist they would realize these videos are worse for the narrative than 100,000 kind words from Israelis about Hamas, because this shows Israel for what it is, a deeply supremacist and racist project.
🇵🇸🇮🇱 A trend has swept TikTok where Israeli’s mock the appearance of Palestinians, the fact they have no electricity and some even compare them to dogs. Many of these videos also show parents making their kids take part in the trend.
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Out of everything, this probably Engels most important piece
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westerners believe in armed resistance only if it’s their fake ass version.
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She's honestly one of the stupidest people ever, like so unintelligent it's incredible.
“Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory.”. — Ayn Rand
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What can be said that hasn’t already, this is heartbreaking.
"I don't want to die" A Palestinian with Down syndrome innocently pleads for his life in Gaza amidst Israeli attacks on civilians in the Strip.
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biggest myth of capitalism is that firms don’t have bureaucracies.
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I honestly think neoliberal are morons.
Canadians are so dumb they complain about the housing crisis but they have all this empty land to build cities
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she dabbed him up, they must have been chill.
BREAKING: LIVE VIDEO OF HAMAS RELEASING 2 PRISONERS. These were the two prisoners Israel refused to take back. The reason Hamas released them was due to their age.
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Unironically, people need to understand 'human rights' is a liberal framework that understands rights as apolitical, primordial, and ahistorical features of human societies. It stripes it away from struggle and power. We are not born with rights, we fight for them.
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You walk into you profs office hours, this is his laptop, what do you do?
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anytime liberal philosophers talk about anything out of their field they have like Ben Shapiro level intelligence.
"Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat, what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois". - Bertrand Russell
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One of the biggest red flags about the entire "Hamas mass rape" story is that it's a myth that rape is an inherent part of violent conflict. In practice, it's particular contexts that produce rape as a weapon, and it's not universal (warning graphic content).
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Liberals have sympathy when deaths are more personalized and specific, but whenever social murder is performed on a mass scale the same people are often silent.
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this reminds me of a conversation I had with an indigenous comrade once about how people infantilize indigenous practices as ‘mystical’ when they don’t realize they’re often very directly scientific in the sense that we use it .
embarassing that Science Magazine is leaning into the whole Noble Savage bit now. reminded of the tiktoker who went to a Waorani shaman for an eye infection and was told to get antibiotics
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Me: “wow these letters have fascinating facts about Marx!”. The facts: “yeah Engels I finished Capital but I have boils all over my penis”
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I told you Hunger Games is Fanon for white people.
Watching The Hunger Games movies and holy shit this President Snow guy is evil!!!
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I believe it.
The Republican Party has seen an increase in voter registration following Taylor Swift urging fans to register.
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The Young Marx movie is a 10/10 just for depicting Marx as a chain smoking chad-genius who basically tells Proudhon he's a wrong af.
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me after explaining value-theory to some and they respond "what about the value of water in a dessert"
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literally yes?
ah yes, as marx very famously stated, socialism is when you can choose what work you do.
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Joining a protest but not agreeing with what they are protesting about.
Joining a pro-Palestine demonstration but doing this whenever they call for intifada revolution or whatever
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Most academics have an intro to sociology 101 understanding of Marx.
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The Cuba outcome is fantastic not only for the concrete rights it will establish for millions but the fact that it will present another massive contradiction in the narratives of liberals.
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I have been saying for YEARS now that communists need to deal with the immigrant question first and foremost. It's the centre of reactionary politics at the moment, the mode through which the ruling class mobilizes class fractions towards reactionary politics.
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The more I learn about the first half of the 20th century the more I am convinced that one of the most important things we have to IMMEDIATELY teach new communists is how interconnected Nazism and fascism was to anti-Communism.
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the white male urge to choose a country of racialized ppl and make their nationality your entire political identity.
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Yes. Im really tired of people saying “pro hamas protests” as a pejorative. Yeah, maybe I like that they are fighting Israel, SO WHAT?.
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unironically yes.
Corbyn's mistake was that he wasn't Stalin. He should have purged internal enemies in the party on day one.
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It’s crazy how conservatives and liberals will use the cultural revolutionand act as if its an unknown horror when its not even comparable to the jim crow south.
People are often taken aback how anti-communist I am. ~This is what happened to my family.
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Marx to Engels: "You're a capitalist how do I write capital"
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The source of many Marxists not wanting to consider race, gender, and other elements of social relations comes from a misunderstanding of what "materialist" analysis means. Often they think because these aren't "economic" they are "idealist". But this naturalizes the "economy".
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this is how things look when you finish all volumes of Capital
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Not a paradox if you know mainstream theorists are wrong.
Japan’s economy defies every rule in the book:. • Debt over 250% of GDP. • Decades of near-zero growth. • No economic collapse. Here’s the story of Japan’s economic paradox—and what it teaches about modern finance:
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if I had to teach people one concept from Marx, it wouldn’t be value, labor power, relative surplus, it would be fetishism. nothing has given me better tools to engage critically with the world then those few pages on commodity fetishism.
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The failure of communist movements to capitalize on the organic uprisings of recent years is in part a result of the historical denial of colonialism and settler colonialism as a core component of capitalist relations.
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It’s not about the content of actions that the bourgeois system sees a problem with but the form it takes. Children in Palestine are labeled “terrorists”, these boys are “adorable” heroes.
Twelve-year-old Andrii and six-year-old Valentyn build checkpoints and dug trenches in the village of Stoianka, near Kyiv. The two boys want to be soldiers when they grow up and hope to defend their country one day
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Further video evidence from Concordia shows quite clearly that this woman (likely not not a student ) was harassing and making taunting gestures at several pro-palestinian students. She’s definitely not some scared, harassed victim. PLEASE SHARE THE TRUTH!
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Crazy to see Marx is anti trad, Midwestern Marx isn't gonna be happy.
"The nucleus, or first form of property, lies in the family, where wife and children are the slaves to the husband." - Marx, The German Ideology.
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I’m sorry, but once again I am seeing the lack of real political analysis from the “anti-imperialist” socialist left. Assad was incompetent, treacherous to the axis, and needless cruel to his population. You have to stop acting like it was sustainable!.
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Here is a full copy:
In 1865 Marx wrote his "Confession", a semi-serious questionnaire popular at the time. Occupation: Bookworming.Vice you hate: Servility.Idea of happiness: To fight.Your hero: Spartacus.Favorite colour: Red.Your maxim: Nothing human is alien to me.Your motto: Doubt everything.1/2
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no better example of Quebec politics that in the middle of chanting about genocide, a woman came up to us and handed over a paper saying among other things that French is the official language
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@PuppygirlMao it’s not even just that it’s the fact that to them there’s often no contradiction. People constantly assume that politics is about some rational understanding and consistency there is simply not there.
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Early teen boys are some of the most hyper misogynistic people on the planet. It’s not because the “right” talks to them, it’s because they are entering the early stages of becoming adult male subjects.
I cannot stress enough how important it is to understand that twelve year old white boys on twitch are not being pulled into fascism because of some Machiavellian desire to preserve and expand their privileges, it’s because the right talks to them and the left doesn’t
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The argument that communists should support Russia because it's fighting against NATO is a testament to the weakness of the movement as a whole. It's an anti-communist capitalist regime that is not fighting NATO for any reason other than it's own gain.
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What the fuck are you talking about.
Capitalism isn’t a mode of production. It’s private ownership OF the mode of production.
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She’s a liberal anti communist.
Unpopular opinion: how did Hannah Arendt become one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century? She is really not *that* great.
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I started talking about Ukraine and my dad said “The problem is its not a real country it was made by Lenin”.
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When I read a great academic text about Marx but it ends in a vague notion of “what we need is more democracy”
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for real though, who is responsible for radicalizing Macklemore out of all people.
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Honestly Malm has a better sense of politics than 99.999999999999999999999999% of "Marxist" or "communist" academics.
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Engels after telling Marx his wife died only to immediately have him ask for money
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Parks and Rec tried to portray Venezuela like it was Pinochets Argentina and be like “but we have democracy!!”.
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The moral panic over making fun of the hubris of people who use their unlimited resources on unnecessary vanity excursions is a product of dehumanizing the everyday forms of murder our society causes. These people live lavish while the masses suffer. This is dramatic irony.
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Andrew Tate has been permanently banned from the Communist International !!
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“Riddle me this Batman……does value appear in production or exchange?”
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I’m so tired of this delusional anti-imperialist “multipolarity”. There’s no cohesive anti-imperialist block. Stop making excuses for all these states that have sat back or done the bare minimum while people are being slaughtered. We need to fight NOW, not wait for some future.
Here is what is going to happen. The attempt to build a multipolar world will face loss after loss after loss until you think you they cant possibly lose anymore. China will sit back and build its economy. The empire will over extend itself stacking up W’s and its economy will.
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The main take away is that sexual violence against civilians is not simply a function of the level of violence. Thus, to just assume that mass rape occurred by Hamas simply due to the fact that they are insurgents is simply incorrect.
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In reality, it's historically and contextually specific. It's particularly prevalent in situations of domination such as genocides and colonial relations. As Wood points out, it was common in both the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides.
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This is the nation that tries to promote "human rights" abroad.
This is how dirty the tap water can get on First Nations in Canada:. Canada is one of the most water-rich countries in the world. Yet its Indigenous people are suffering.
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If you’re looking for an introductory text into the critique of political economy that gives you a good historical and theoretical foundation, this is the book. You don’t have to read all of it but the chapters directly on Marx are especially crucial.
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Why does everybody think we have to argue for socialism with “you’re going to get to consume more” rather than “your entire life isn’t gonna be consumed by work”? The answer is that most people are social democrats and liberals but I’m still surprised….
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What if the American revolution wasn’t a progressive thing.
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