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1879 Marx on railways in the imperialist core as the “couronnement de l’oeuvre”:
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The community note on this is fucking ridiculous. No, the idea of “terrorism” is a colonial concept originating with the British or the East India Company, with the concept of “dacoit”, the killing of WC Rand, the defacement of colonial landmarks and monuments..
In reality, the term "terrorism" is a neo-colonial social construct which aims to serve the Western powers and their allies.
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A thread on resources for understanding the counterinsurgency against PCP.
McClintock, Instruments of Statecraft: this is the sacred text of COIN scholars. A sweeping historical overview, it is also remarkably fresh today.
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@Aryandrogyne
@OfficialGami
@ErinInTheMorn
Unfortunately, prisons are places where rights do not really apply. Well, they should. But, there is a reason why we have things like Mandela Rules, and generally why we recognize that the prisons are places of great imperialist evil and are also shining trenches of combat.
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@KlonnyPin_Gosch
A book on the “bio politics of non human life” in the Israeli occupation had an extensive section on how rare pathogens were unearthed and spread by extensive occupation bombardment of ancient ground.
I imagine that some of this was also due to the I$raelis’ biowarfare
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Opium isn’t just a sketchy, mysterious commodity. Throughout history, it has served as a food ingredient and medicine, and in the birth of capitalist imperialism, it is a top commodity. It was sold to finance the French railways in Southeast Asia, 70% of colonial rev. from it.
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This thread is awesome. Using the food dish as a way to investigate imperialism. Jimmy asks “why is the national dish of a nation which grows little wheat, a wheat tortilla?”reminds me of Janvry’s classic on peasant politics and food policy
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@Aryandrogyne
@OfficialGami
@ErinInTheMorn
rather than trusting colonialist powers to enforce “rights” which only exist as an afterthought to convince people comprehensive resistance to brutal oppression isn’t worth it because eventually these rights will become material. They never do.
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for those trying to learn about imperial logistics (ie ports, railways, and other networks), I really recommend these two books.
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The community note says the term originates in 1794.. sure, then we can look at the other examples of terrorism which are not colonial, although here it is colonial.
John Brown in amerika was a terrorist.
Anarchists in Russia were terrorists.
And the Jacobins, indeed
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@himejoshistalin
Also there is an org MAIZ which has a Zapatista platform which is even closer to the Maoists. May the whole United front find great unity and success versus the forces of imperialism and reaction.
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@xandra_spud47
@hannastasia
@souljagoytellem
Untrue. Nazi Germany gained immensely from dispossession and then exploitation of enslaved labor. one of the main reasons why there even was “mass consent”.
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@sithancap
@oreknightVidya
art requires thinking. all thinking is an expression of one’s class position. A bourgeois artist renders reality conceptually differently to a proletarian artist. All art is political. It is influenced by the lens through which one sees the world. That lens is determined by class
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@alex_orlov_
Much later, Greek merchants under the ottoman and British empires also went to India.
The Ralli Brothers employed 4000 clerks and 14,000 warehousemen and dockers in India from 1851. Actually, this branched off into a still existing company, Rallis India.
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The recent investigation on Habsora, the ai system used to generate targets, made this clear, if the disjunction between scenes of genocide and justification of a targeted operation didn’t already.
As one ex-intelligence officer said “any tower, it has
And even if you want to take the claim seriously, Israel's strategy to eliminate Hamas at this point appears to be "drain the sea the fish swim in". Genocide and crimes against humanity are also counterinsurgency methods.
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@mlminpractice
yeah neither of the statements are really true and the answer to the question is because of state repression, that’s why they don’t endorse it, and this person was a bit more perceptive they would notice a trend with the emergence of clandestine groups in the footsteps of the
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THE LABOR ARISTOCRACY
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WILL HAVE 40 FOR 32
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UNIVERSAL CONSCRIPTION
*VINE BOOM*
JOIN THE AFL-CIO
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@orbrealm
reminds me of that quote abt the bourgeois state archives, where only when the Bolsheviks had defeated the conditions of infiltration and seized the bureaucracy of state power did they see to what extent they had been infiltrated. Don’t know if it’s accurate and true, but
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@Aryandrogyne
@OfficialGami
@ErinInTheMorn
Not until the oppressed people establish their own state power. Before that, all is illusory. ESPECIALLY , the rights of prisoners.
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the perception of political assassination from Muslims as the largest threat totally revived the old British colonial discourse, and today, the idea of terrorism is indistinguishable from how a British colonist would describe Fenian “thugs”, anarchists, or colonized “dacoits”
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Richardson mentions that amerikkka is especially concerned with soybean production in the region.. this is an interesting book about the history of the soybean.
SOUTHCOM's Laura Richardson stresses the importance of a "regional hemispheric security doctrine"—referring to the Monroe Doctrine—at a panel titled, "Overlooking Monroe? Protecting Our Hemisphere and Homeland"
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Were considered terrorists.. but that’s not the conception of terrorism that we think of. The conception we think of when we think of terrorism IS indeed rooted in political assassinations by Bengali revolutionaries, and the OP was completely correct
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Israel Chemicals Limited
Rooted in the Palestine Potash Company Ltd.
The PPL would become the Dead Sea Works , which was nationalized in 1951 under the Ministry of Development. The firm eventually took on the name “Israel Chemicals Ltd”, which has “125 offices and plants” today
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y’all know operation phoenix? school of the Americas? all these genocidal projects? It’s ongoing and at least partially documented. You can see a bevy of these programs in this document
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@grosmorne29
@bookdellector
Thats 100% true. That being said, Israel still violates many principles of IHL. However they change to fit the needs of the imperialist and the colonizer, there is always someone who is ahead of these dispensations in terms of brutality.
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this is what I was always talking abt w opium financing French
[Palgrave Studies in Economic History Dídac Cubeiro Rodríguez The Pearl of the East The Economic Impact of the Colonial Railways in the Age of High Imperialism in Southeast Asia
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The note doesn’t disprove the thesis, merely adds context, but since we are talking about how the idea terrorism is used we could go into a whole other thread about how, during the 20th century, as another wave of popular revolution swept the globe,
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Forums are not actually “alternative comms”, look at the experience of previous revolutionaries w online forums.. don’t treat them as a controlled space for discussion or an ultra secret grotto, you’ll just get yourself and many others into trouble
5 Ways DSA members should prepare for Trump ‘25:
1. Get on the forums. Alternative comms are going to be important.
2. Start using a pseudonym. Won’t keep you off the watchlist but it will make it harder for right wing vigilantes to harass you.
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@dubioushandle
The point, or at least a point which can be drawn from this conversation, is that reducing a struggle for natlib to equal rights is a rightist deviation, and we can see this in the history of the new afrikan struggle too.
what is necessary is specifically New Democracy.
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Japan, amerika, and turkey, to name just a few of the better known ones, have used opium and heroin smuggling networks to carry out covert operations. The regulation of the commodity tells us a lot about the formation of early nexus between trade and policing.
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This (if true) is related to the wider aim of normalization, for which the IMEC: “India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor” plays a principal economic and strategic role. It also aligns with other facets of contemporary amerikkkan strategy in the region
The coalition countries’ fear is evident in their actions, wherein they resorted to creating a ‘land bridge’ instead of directly confronting AnsarAllah، contradicting the constant stream of threats by the US 11/
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The record heatwaves are killing people housed in these non air-conditioned prisons!
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@criticofpolecon
is the critique ur making, then, that a lot of “Marxist theory” is basically just philological study of Marxism? (Because I agree with that)
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@pakigonzalo
also, labor aristocracy is a particular class phenomenon which cannot be conflated with imperialist oppression in general. It is associated with a particular manifestation of imperialist exploitation. a nation can be an oppressor without having a labor aristocracy.
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In the early days of the FBI, this organization was tasked with counterintelligence, and security assistance. Thus, the SIS was created. The aim of the SIS was to infiltrate police forces in Latin America, ostensibly to uncover Nazi subversion.
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I was thinking about this when reflecting on the nature of Israel’s genocidal tactics and how it seemed like they were using ai for targeting. after all they already sell this kind of stuff to people around the world in the private sector.
Absolutely damning report. AI is VASTLY expanding targets in Gaza, maximizing the scope of death l.
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Lightning is more likely to strike in shipping lanes, such as the strait of malacca, due to clouds created by aerosol emissions
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@AshlarRob
the origin of new Afrikan socialism is ultimately to be found in the historical development of that nation and the struggle of its classes. Not to one individual, at all. So I disagree with that framing.
That being said, this is really interesting. I hadn’t heard of this guy.
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@dubioushandle
they are an obstacle to revolution. They don’t have to die or leave. Many of them will choose to do so rather than see the Zionist colonial project fail and themselves submit to the masses they oppressed. That is where the comparison to Algeria is apt.
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I FUCKING HATE THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE
i hope this dog lives long enough to see the “failure” of communism right here, where they live.
fucking vampire. but vampires are cool. Fucking leech
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it made certain imperialists a fuck ton of money, and often figured as a particular revenue stream — for example, as a colonial monopoly. In a wider colonial environment which involves plunder of raw materials and brutal labor exploitation, opium was important
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@neomozarab
this is misleading. Just oppose oppressor and oppressed nations. a nation can be an oppressor without having a labor aristocracy.
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@rover_posting
Why would someone assume that pushing the repressive govt to the negotiating table is a loss for the NDFP?
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Communists cross the Yangzi, the United States will no longer be able to stand by and remain indifferent’. Truman said: There is no way I can say that! The Communists are very formidable. So Jiang Jieshi [Chiang Kai-shek] had no choice but to run off. Now he is in Taiwan.”
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@frickinweiner
@RoiComrade
national traitors!
However, they distinguished themselves from bourgeois revolutionaries. There is fluidity or even identity between national and class struggle under particular conditions
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@GPCRPodcast
@nise_yoshimi
it was illusioning for some though.
ofc genuine Maoists would not give up Maoism because of that,
the relation to Maoism is to treat it more so as a science, to continually attempt to apply it by all means as much as possible,
rather than having a canonized religion.
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“In 1949, when we had trounced the Guomindang, they turned to Truman and cried for help, saying: Dear master, please send some soldiers! Truman said: I cannot send you even a single one! Then the Guomindang said: Is it possible for you to say a few words then, such as ‘Should the
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@pakigonzalo
It’s also the sort of rhetoric which was meant to be addressed by “Long Live The Victory Of People’s War!”. Rightists in the PLA were making this exact argument abt professionalization etc. So Mao had Lin Biao deliver a speech about it.
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@MaosGardener
You’ve studied history, I assume, too.
Could you give a summary of the historical, economic and political components of the national question in the US?
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The note ends saying “To claim the word “Terrorism” is simply a colonial social construct is simply false.”
No, it’s not. To claim that historically, it’s *only* a colonial social construct, would be inaccurate. In the broadest sense, it’s a counterrevolutionary social construct
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from David Harvey’s new Grindrisse companion
he’s such a cowardly pos
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@MaosGardener
Also, are you European? How have you investigated, then? You’ve communicated online with communists and done some research on statistics, perhaps? Do you have any records at all of your investigations, or should we just take you at your word?
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Everyone must have a similar figure. It is a matter of demarcating from which branch of the historic popular struggle the PPW arises. Where do we find our footing.
Who is our mariategui? I suggest that it’s Huey Newton.
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who’s read bettelheim’s “economic calculation” book? is it good, is it bad, what should I know before reading it, what should I think of while reading it, what is a good follow up?
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Hmmm these crises seem pretty cyclical.. wonder what’s up with that? Must be fake.
If 1980-2020 was a social crisis, surely 1955-1980 was a social crisis, and 1929-1945 was clearly a social crisis, and 1914-1919, and probably the whole of reconstruction and post-reconstruction, so 1865-1900, and definitely 1860-1865, and you start to see the issue here
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@MaosGardener
what investigation have you done? What conclusion did you come to? Are there any organizations which have the same conclusions as you which operate in the US? Which?
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The herero and nama rebellions, 1903–8
On 12 January 1904, the Herero, under the leadership of Chief Samuel Maherero, rebelled against the Germans. More than 100 German settlers were killed as the Herero quickly swept across the central parts of the protectorate.
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@AshlarRob
I’m not an abolitionist and I wouldn’t say that this is an example of abolitionism, rather, it’s revolutionary nationalism. the point is to destroy prisons *as a tool of imperialist oppression*,
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@dubioushandle
The person you QTd didn’t say that all Jews would be expelled, I don’t know where you’re getting that from, unless you’re coming to the conclusion that settler Israelis wouldn’t be willing to submit to Palestinian-led new democracy, in which case,
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an interesting book, part of a newer trend which involves seeing the genesis of modern oppressor nations as being in some way deeply parasitic (involved with imperialism). of course, the study of national economies has longer taken this into account, but of nations, not so much
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@sovietstern
@Absurd_Ruka
However, he definitely did say “imperialism is an immense accumulation of money capital in a few countries, … 100,000-150,000 million francs in securities. Hence the extraordinary growth of a class, … who live by “clipping coupons,” who take no part in any enterprise whatever,
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this is total nonsense, absolute disregard for the fundamental basis of United Front tactics— you, the revolutionary, must distinguish between your friends and enemies!
@notbroomflowers
@revdefeatist
Anyone who represents themselves as a socialist is internal to the socialist movement in the eyes of 99% of the masses and thus crucial to critique openly and sharply
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@313pantherism
patriarchy is part of imperialism. If it were amerikkka responsible for shooting rapists, there would be no justice. Ultimately only a people’s court can bring justice. Revolutionary organizing for women’s liberation gets us closer to that goal.
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Stalin 1919
The Shooting of the Twenty-Six Baku Comrades by Agents of British Imperialism
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@FoxyMarxist
Because, as you can probably imagine, it’s controversial what’s a left wing opinion. If this were all just given, there would be no need for line struggle between multiple leftists as a basis for theoretical advancement.
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I really hope I can find my lost mutuals.. I’m sure I will eventually but in the meantime please RT to help
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@_imwhatilike
@313pantherism
@RickdaBuffalo
““Approximately 10% of the Euro-Amerikan population has been living in poverty by government statistics. This minority is not a cohesive, proletarian stratum, but a miscellaneous fringe of the unlucky and the outcast:”
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@mlminpractice
BPP. the BLA or even Jackson’s group are good examples. Of course, just like any other organization, some members eventually stopped being communists in terms of their class interests, and sometimes ppl might fold because of some sort of disillusionment and/or duress. And like
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@greg_hanno77161
@navajofelon
@MarxismAnd
“Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.”
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@MarxistVaderist
@hemuphobia
@whitejsakai
@mlminpractice
@sadsarandoy
For policing the waters, the US also played a role, from a DTIC document about the maritime counterinsurgency, a Sri Lanka Navy officer said:
“The backbone of our networking was set up by the U.S. We had communications in place but the U.S. helped us network our
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@GPCRPodcast
@nise_yoshimi
but it would have been wonderful if, aside from the actions of Mao, more work on the national struggle and the character of America had come out of China.
Maybe one can say chaos within the party hindered such work which surely would have happened otherwise.
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