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🇵🇭 .ᜃᜒ. they/them | ph.d. student, UCI | global political economy, national-agrarian questions | anti-systemic movements | muay thai fighter | ⇙ ⇙ ⇗
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a lot about academia sucks, but then you remember from time to time you get paid to read stuff like this
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Comrade Jalil Muntaqin, elder of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, held captive for 49 years for an action in response to the murder of George Jackson on the need to rebuild the underground, to rebuild retaliatory measures.
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settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act.' -george jackson
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tl;dr (broken clock and so on)
"I think of [unions] as my domestic NATO."
— President Biden, during remarks off-teleprompter in front of AFL-CIO members
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“Revolution is the resolution of contradictions. that’s what we’re doing.” -Jalil Muntaqin
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i can speak on this now, this was a major issue at the UCI encampment; calls to “listen to Palestinian” voices based on identity. ignoring, of course, that the capitulationist palestinian authority are “palestinian voices”.
politics must be in command.
we can build institutions with explicit political lines. we must. otherwise we’ll keep projecting our politics on to identity-based sites of neocolonial reproduction only to be “let down” by them. clarify your politics, and build something meaningful we can count on. it’s urgent.
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Disappointing but still critical support. I say this as a NB person (although my identity doesn't matter).
ps, it is not campism to recognize that accumulation on a worldscale maintains itself through the fracturing of the nation. The answer is for Africa to unite.
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revisiting. we need to get clear on how to navigate contradictions among the ppl. the contradiction across the student encampments is between a lack of transparency and accountability by self-appointed leaders on one side and spontaneity and a lack of direction on another.
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gotta tap the sign again
CPUSA is repeating its white chauvinist history by expelling and dissolving clubs for "black nationalism"
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“we live in a time of comrades and cowards, the dividing line between the two become starker by the day. all love to the comrades, nothing but scorn for the legions of cowards in academia and beyond.” - geo maher, anti-colonial eruptions
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@BlackRedGuard1
ten years ago or so I was in Ho Chi Minh city and toured them. Our tour guide kept recalling that, and would say "they'd get stuck and then we would kill the stupid fat Americans" and then have this huge cackle. It was iconic
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"Social democracy’s blindness to imperialism is not a gaffe, it is more the practical side of Western civilisation whose approach to humanising capital through constitutional welfarism, reinforces fascism."
- Kadri, The Accumulation of Waste, 312
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stop getting charges for optics…for getting your message across at city council. these ghouls know what’s happening in gaza, in rafah. they don’t care.
get organized + serious about building the capacity to bring amerikkka to its knees. we must become a menace to our enemies.
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ARAK (lessons from the ND Movement) on the Mass Line:
"We must firmly grasp within ourselves that the Revolution is one endeavor shared by the wide mass of people. If the masses do not actively participate, the victory of the revolution can never be achieved.
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"We will never have a complete definition of fascism, because it is in constant motion, showing a new face to fit any particular set of problems that arise to threaten the predominance of the traditionalist, capitalist ruling class.
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Are there any major national Democrats who are not either evil or embarrassing?
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"The Palestinian insurgency has brought the national question back to the table...it has polarized not merely its surrounding state system, where Palestine has been the compass orienting any resolution to the Arab national question, but the world system.
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UCIntifada encampment has expanded and the physical science hall has been taken over; it is now the Alex Odeh Hall. Heavy police repression. We Need bodies. Escalate for Gaza!! Globalize the intifada!
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Request: I will be in the Philippines for six weeks (July-Aug) to start field work on the agrarian question of national liberation and delinking. I need contacts, folks who can get me to field sites, peasant orgs, and movement folks.
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Kadri's take down of Harvey, and theories of 'imperialism' abstracted from the law of dev 🔥
"To conceive of imperialism as a world system of economic-financial accumulation, uncentred & w/o a structure-subject at the helm, is an understanding w/ which conservatives would
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Reactionary tendencies and contradictions must be struggled through but the answer is not color revolution. It is shattering the organic basis of reaction, which is U.S.-led imperialism in the region (AFRICOM + ECOWAS, etc.) and for mobilizing of the popular classes.
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at an incredible zine fest in manila and the first thing i noticed is the prominence of the ND movement. in the U.S., zine culture is pretty dominated by anarchists. I was really curious to see what it would be like and it’s encouraging to see.
#KaJomaLives
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thirteen hour day conducting SICA, relief work, and building with mga kasamas in gabriela, gabriela youth, KMK, and bahaghari 🙏🏽❤️🔥
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“I have to browbeat them every day down here. They think they don’t need ideology, strategy or tactics. They think being a warrior is enough. & yet, w/o discipline or direction, they’ll end up washing cars, or unclaimed bodies in the city state’s morgue.”- George Jackson, BIME, 3
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OP knows this, just belaboring the point.
the “issue” itself is world systemic & structural; meaning, the U.S.-backed Israeli led genocide on Palestine is central to the maintenance of capitalism as a world system & the position of the U.S. & its compradorial allies at its helm
it is not a single issue it is 186,000 atrocities and counting
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added some new books to the refaat’s library at the UCIntifafa encampment 📚🇵🇸❤️🔥
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ur reminder to watch the battle of algiers. the greatest film of all time. and to not just support these movements 50+ years later but to support active national liberation movements and people’s wars in (palestine, philippines, india, etc.).
132 years of barbaric French colonial rule.
8 years of bloody struggle in which more than a million Algerians perished.
Algeria officially and forever broke its shackles on July 5th, 1962.
The price for freedom is heavy.
But in the end: Worth it all.
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discussing
@maxajl
’s peoples green new deal, the agrarian question, capitalism as a world system that depends upon the super-exploitation of the Third World, & on the state as a container to protect popular development/liberatory projects in the periphery.
the students get it ❤️🔥
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flying to the motherland 🇵🇭 for the first time in 22-years and didn’t get extra screened by TSA but the yt ppl behind me did.
nature is healing
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line struggle really is strongest within the party (or encampment). the brown model of advisory committees must be viscously struggled against as the counterinsurgency and counterrevolutionary kiss of death that it is. stay strong
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“the neocolonial apparatus is no longer through the state but through monopoly control of land which is then oriented toward export commodities instead of self-subsistence.” -
@maxajl
on the agrarian question, on the malcolm effect w/
@MomodouTaal
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we rly need to push the importance of revolutionary remolding. no amount of political education matters if you can’t engage and criticism and self-criticism or see accountability as a personal attack.
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when imperialism and neocolonialism is articulated across nation-states, we cannot ignore the national question. when the standard of living in the imperial core depends on the super exploitation of peripheral social formations, we cannot ignore the agrarian question.
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read george jackson
“The principal reservoir of revolutionary potential in Amerika lies in wait inside the Black colony.”
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"fascism is already here. i keep telling people, read george jackson. why? because george jackson has all of the answers to the stupid ass questions you keep asking. you want to know why unions ain't shit? george jackson has the answer."
Probably my favorite discussion. Follow
@RankandFileUCI
!
Rank and File Speaks: A Conversation with R&F UCI
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More Sakai-Pilled Kadri:
"The argument that sectarian struggles by Northern unions for higher wages, in due course, leads to an internationalist solidarity flies in the face of the facts.
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feels silly coming on twitter to say this but one of the biggest lessons i’ve learned from various NDMOs across all sectors in the philippines is to get off twitter and touch grass…
dunking on ppl might feel cathartic but it does not build political power.
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The best essay highlighting the importance & relevance of Amin's work from
@parisyeros
in
@Agrarian_South
"We must recognize, first & foremost, that the historic contradiction between imperialism & the working people of the Third World remains the principal contradiction.
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craziest book haul of my life from IBON Foundation. most are familiar but for those who aren’t, IBON does statistical analysis on the political economy of the philippines & produces some of the best primers & textbooks on the agrarian ? in the philippines 🥵
time to study up🫡
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my pops passed away on saturday after battling pancreatic cancer the past year. he was only 57…got it while enlisted in the air force from radiation.
lots to say but leave it w/ kwame ture: “…i am more experienced, and i am more determined to destroy American imperialism.”
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“if the global south wants to go on the offensive, it has to destroy the monopolies that are the means by which imperialism perpetuates itself…defeating imperialism w/ its new “advantages” means choosing an autocentered development delinked from the global system.”
-amin, 59-60
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off to pampanga to visit my family; first time seeing them in 22-years 🥹
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@criticofpolecon
if only someone had thought of a way to integrate spontaneity of the masses with the organization of the party form 😩
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counterinsurgency updated tactics. pigs have barricaded our encampment early. we’re allowed to leave but if we leave we “can’t” come back in.
precarious as it’s early and not many students on campus yet. will keep folks appraised. if you’re in the area, we could use numbers.
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PSR art in front of the school of philosophy and social sciences + palestinian colors. let’s goooo 😮💨
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BABE ! a new open access
@Agrarian_South
publication just dropped with
@parisyeros
@maxajl
@FreedomMazwi
ali kadri, et al.
there goes my day 🔥
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and writer of one of my fav poems of all time. harrowing how this could’ve been written today for a palestinian infant.
BREAKING: NYPD arrested Jadaliyya Co-Editor and NYU Associate Professor Sinan Antoon along with other faculty and students as he/they was/were trying to protect NYU students from the Police. We will not ever be silenced.
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read aijaz ahmad:
“For human collectivities in the backward zones of capital, all relationships w/ imperialism pass through their own nation-states, and there is simply no way of breaking out of that imperial dominance without struggling for different kinds of national projects
Hard to believe that this still must be said, but far too many fail to grasp this
There’s a qualitative difference between anti-colonial nationalism and the nationalism of the imperial core
Honestly, this should be one of the easiest things in the world to get 🤷♂️
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without disclosing too much, this last week has rly made me (re)appreciate anarchism.
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“I repeat: realistic, day-to-day needs should be the basis of organizing people and making them conscious of revolution-- that the world, the universe, must revolve-- that it will stop, stagnate, and die for no man's privilege.”
-George Jackson, Blood in my Eye
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nor by bearing witness of our dissent
nor by speaking truth to power
“We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.”
— Amilcar Cabral
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it stems from distance from the oppressed masses. the answer is SICA and mass work. there’s no way one who is integrated in practice could come to the conclusion that october 7th was “bestial violence unleashed by Hamas terrorists”. completely divorced from reality.
@Huck1995
@ImmanuelNess
@iskrabooks
I'm more interested in the notion that anyone and everyone can be compromised because bourgeois ideology is hegemonic. And that we need to think through ways to create practices that combat that to avoid becoming these traitors.
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“To the slave, revolution is an imperative, a love-inspired, conscious act of desperation. It’s aggressive. It isn’t cool or cautious. It’s bold, audacious, violent, an expression of icy, disdainful hatred!
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“The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. The world belongs to you.” -mao
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don’t forget the 10 copies of ARAK and Mao 🫡
Books that were in the UC Irvine encampment “library.” I took this photo while undercover.
At least 3 books written by Karl Marx, the father of communism, just in this photo alone. Another is called “The End Of Policing”
They’re literally revolutionary communists.
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To date, the Western working classes unanimously put forth either the openly or the liberally imperialist positions. Western welfare reforms countered revolution. Such segmentation of labour is the pillar of capital.
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@itsamegabeo
I agree that it doesn’t do anything. It’s merely virtue signaling. However, I don’t see it as inconsistent. Disappointing to see anti-LGBTQ+ bills passed. This should be struggled against. However, I hold critical support for the broader confederal project of the AES
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there is no way to do mass work, conduct SICA, or the mass line without. which is to say, there are not communists
I'll never understand communist bullies. If you are intelligent enough to have studied the political theory and view things dialectically. Then how could you torment someone for being a product of their material conditions?
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"Instead of the Marx who advocated criticism by the weapons of class (Marx 1844), or that armed struggle is the necessity that coincides with freedom, one sees a Marx for whom literary criticism is sufficient to dislodge capital.
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it is not nationalism in the abstract that we reject or uphold but a certain articulation of class, nation, and state. i don’t think you can be an internationalist without supporting some form of revolutionary nationalism that organizes popular classes to delink
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"An African saying very common in our country says: 'When your house is burning, it’s no use beating the tom-toms.' On a Tricontinental level, this means that we are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults against it.
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listen, share, and study.
this is the best podcast episode i’ve had the pleasure to listen to in three+ years.
NEW: "Eating the Apple of the World" - Dani Manibat on
Social Investigation and Class Analysis
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Ameth Lo on Amilcar Cabral:
"it is one thing to identify a political project, it is another to clearly understand a social terrain in which the struggle is to take place and, therefore, to identify the means, tactics, and strategies, to be adopted.
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go on home yankee soldiers, go on home
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first initial meeting with mga kasamas from IBON Foundation
meeting with PSET and the third world studies center tomorrow
things are rly coming together 🥲🙏🏽
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A trans comrade who joined me at the UCI encampment the other day was asking me after about the differences between 'liberals' and 'leftists' and between anarchism and socialism and for podcast reccs so I recommended
@RevLeftRadio
@guerrilla_pod
and
@TheDeprogramPod
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i lost my login to my bigger account so something you can tangibly do is share this for me.
for folks who can't DM me, pls comment and send a request and i'll add you back so we can chat on a more secure network. salamat!
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counterinsurgency by task force strikes again 🙃
Holy shit... UCR admin has agreed to all of the demands made by UCR Students for Justice in Palestine 🇵🇸🍉
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weightier than mount tai
♦️ Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
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The Democratic Front bids farewell to its martyr Talal Abu Zarifa, the national leader and member of its Political Bureau in the Gaza Strip.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine announced the martyrdom of
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“By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?”
-Walter Rodney
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It is through persistent and continuous arousing, organizing and mobilizing of the masses that we can concretize to them the strength of our revolutionary ideas that will become a powerful material that will push the movement of society for the better."
-p. 117
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of fascist motive forces...Each economic reform that perpetuates ruling-class hegemony has to be disguised as a positive gain for the upthrusting masses."
-George Jackson, Blood in My Eye, 118.
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“As for revolutionary wars waged by the oppressed nations & peoples, so far from opposing them, we invariably give them firm support and active aid. It has been so in the past, it remains so in the present &, when we grow in strength as time goes on, we will give them still more
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from the law of worldwide value & from monopoly capital’s control over the poles of dev. w/i a social formation. w/o taking seriously the national-agrarian question, decolonial, degrowth, eco-socialist debates can’t begin to think seriously about solidarity w/ the third world
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I keep hearing reports about negotiating committees selling out by accepting watered down promises from the university and prematurely ending encampments. There needs to be line struggle over the mass line on keeping these committees accountable to ppl risking arrest and to Gaza.
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good mail day. ps. julieta has published 10 more volumes of joma’s writings just this year just in case folks didn’t know
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