#PopeFrancis
criticizes Trump and Harris at tonight’s press conference, saying both are “against life”— “one throws out migrants and another kills children.” He then says U.S. Catholics have responsibility to vote for the lesser evil but he “doesn’t know who that is”
@romereports
Ken Klippenstein exemplifies why I believe many people hugely over-estimate the number of Americans who'll be on the good side in the defensive war humanity wages against the USA. Remember: they all believe racial genocide is an acceptable way to obtain a house and nationality.
@Louis_Allday
(When you invite the president to an event) "This is not a political event"
Reminds me of the US popular history book that described Field Marshal Paulus as a totally apolitical person who thought Hitler was a genius
An interesting comparison is that two years after the USSR launched the first woman (second human) into orbit in 1963, married women in Canada were given the right to open a bank account without their husband's permission.
1. The USSR won the space race despite no moon landing. All things that matter today for space tech (rovers, space stations etc.) they pioneered with significantly less resources. A listing of some of these achievements can be found below.
People say China is bad at making propaganda for Westerners but you could do worse than the official paper of the CC being 80% cute animals and 10% business executives being sentenced to death for getting caught doing what US business executives do 24/7 in the open.
Peeping from the hole and inspecting the outside world, three Tibetan fox cubs finally decided to come out and fool around in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Qinghai Province.
#biodiversity
"Why I'm Not a Marxist" by a real estate agent
"Why I'm Not a Marxist" by Kenneth Copeland
"Why I'm Not a Marxist" by Jimmy Fallon
"Why I'm Not a Marxist" by the Duchess of Cornwall
"Why I'm Not a Marxist" by Vince McMahon
"Why I'm Not a Marxist" by Charles Ponzi
🤷♂️
Realizing that the answer to this question is literally and simply, "Because they were all liberals and the communists were all in concentration camps or dead" was the most important moment of my political development.
"It's astonishing, why did Germans let the Holocaust occur? How can you see genocide in front of your eyes and not do anything?" asked the westoid, as he saw genocide in front of his eyes and didn't do anything.
@Gritty20202
The best is the video with the American zionist trying to lecture them and one guy responds in Yiddish but the zionist doesn't speak anything but English so the other guy helps him out, going "He says there's no peace with the wicked."
Common types of Marxist study group new attendees:
1. Is ignorant of Marxism but wants to enhance it with their:
a) religious beliefs
b) anarchism
c) race essentialism
d) all or some of the above
2. Is a "fairly advanced Marxist already" i.e. a Proudhonist.
It's easier to accept for Canadians because deep down we know our country is a bad joke and it's almost a relief to find out it's totally illegitimate and criminal.
Americans can't fathom it. They invented baseball and nuclear mass murder. It's the greatest country on earth!
When you're totally uneducated in dialectical and historical materialism, like all Westerners, the best you can hope for is the incomprehension of a Sachs: you observe events, but because you lack the ABCs of historical and economic forces, you then babble about e.g. neurosis.
Prof. Jeffery Sachs: “China is not a threat to the US. China is a threat to the claim that the US runs the world, and that is leading to a neurotic reaction.”
His name was August Landmesser. His beef was because the Party accused him of having a Jewish wife, which he denied. It was a personal grievance.
Rashida's worse. She's a member of the most violent criminal imperialist party on earth but objects when she knows the victims.
That whole thing about Native Americans scalping settlers?
A lie made up by European settlers (i.e. terrorists) because settlers were scalping the natives.
This book makes me imagine 500 years from now children asking, "How is it possible that millions of bourgeoisie believed that liberalism and fascism and colonialism weren't just different but were even opposed to each other? That can't be real. How did they breathe"
Broke: Bibi is criminally insane.
Woke: Bibi is a normal bourgeois politician doing, more or less, what any bourgeois politician would do in his shoes, following bourgeois logic.
Bespoke: Bibi is a normal bourgeois politician, which is indistinguishable from criminal insanity.
🇺🇸OLIVER STONE:
"Netanyahu is a mad man; I repeat that. To me, he's a mad man.
I met him years ago; I interviewed him when he was out of office. I thought he was a mad man then and I think he's gotten worse and worse. He's truly insane.
I've never seen such slaughter being
@Huck1995
When you've heard a megachurch teenager explain why they don't believe in evolution (their pastor told them their grandpappy wasn't no monkey) and you realize America's "progressive" (don't laugh) "intellectuals" (if you laugh i stg) operate on that exact level
This book totally explodes the lie that Israel is off the rails. These are its rails. Monster criminal David Grün (alias Ben-Gurion) was directing einsatzgruppen to shoot Palestinian infants while the ovens of Auschwitz in his home country of Poland were still warm.
How do people who aren't communists live with the despair of not having any remotely plausible plan or idea for improving life on earth for the billions suffering under the heel of the exploiters
"Most of our officials are politically reliable. Nevertheless, some fail to meet these qualifications. Some do not believe in Marxism-Leninism but in ghosts and gods, showing interest in 'god’s advice' for solving their problems."
June 2013 (7 months into general secretariship)
I expect anti-Chinese racism to reach new heights in the West as socialism with Chinese characteristics becomes utterly unequivocally universally visibly dominant over every aspect of Western civilization. Foaming at the mouth, baying for blood etc.
Being a tankie means having been right about Hamas and Iran way before Oct 7. This accolade comes at the "price" (added benefit) of being despised by the people who are always wrong and who purposely cause 99% of the world's suffering (americans and other liberals)
Does anyone know of a website that reports the news for westerners but from a strictly correct¹ revolutionary global proletarian² perspective
¹anti-american
²marxist-leninist-MZT-DXT
Naomi Klein is a frontline general in the pigs' ideological army. She's not useless, she's not "getting worse," she didn't "sell out." She's the enemy. She has no other purpose in life but as an extremely highly paid bloody propagandist and operative of the terrorist bourgeoisie.
This tweet applies to the whole of the USA, not just Texas.
Whole nation of self-described free-thinking independent rebel mavericks who in reality would never dream of doubting a high school history book, love cops, and would say thank you sir if the president fucked their wife
Texas’ “maverick cowboy” branding is so funny when you realize they have more laws mandating that you worship Israel than any other state in the country
They did this everywhere. This was George Orwell's job in Burma before he was hired to instill his worldview in every man, woman and child in the anglosphere
This thread demonstrates the centuries-long problem of global communists (even advanced ones) having very wrong and naive assumptions about the conditions in america.
The suggestion is that the students could make use of AOC the way the advanced communists of e.g.
Is it just a coincidence that the socialism experts of the great socialist West are coming out today with a new batch of "China Israel weapons" whoppers and libels?
Is there anything else happening just now that might be relevant to that
It's so funny while Marxists argue seriously about the effectiveness of this or that protest to be reminded you can always count on the very shitlibs you're trying to overthrow to waltz in with "advice" they are 100% certain is solid gold on how to win their hearts and minds lmao
Them waving those flags is emblematic. In the end the American underclasses are going to find that their patriotism *doesn't* save them any more than it did these poor bastards but it *will* get them lumped in with their rulers when the world comes for revenge. Bad strategy.
hurricane katrina was a radicalizing moment for me-seeing people left to die-painting help on the roofs while the helis whizzed past. people getting food were shot by the same mercenaries hired in iraq-katrina woke me up-that could be me on that roof-they will leave us all behind
@NickyFrank30
Imperialism built the most disgusting class of violent, ignorant, loudmouthed, obnoxious, bigoted parasitic reprobate terrorists humanity has ever endured? Yeah we know
This yankoid imperialist american Colonic Rick was less rightwing, less idiotic, and less of an obvious bootlicker of his capitalist masters when he was signing up for the US military to go kill people overseas, I'm assuming because he was promised college tuition or a candy bar.
Trotsky led the Red Army to victories and achieved other great things. A few years later he was writing nazi propaganda during Operation Barbarossa and to this day the biggest pieces of shit on earth are named after him.
In other words, people change.
Counterpoint
The CPUSA has largely succeeded in its real mission for decades:
(a) giving communism a bad name
(b) enervating any potential revolutonary movement
(c) providing clerical services for the CIA
(d) promoting the most dangerous anti-communists in history (Democrats)
Imagine trying to understand the world without Marxism. Without knowing:
•colonialism created capitalism
•the rich need capitalism
•capitalism needs colonialism
•the Holocaust was just colonialism "at home"
•capitalists will keep doing holocausts until we stop them
The normalization of this *defines* America. No other colony had a revolution solely to enshrine the bestial essence of bourgeois morality--private property--in the minds of its once-human masses. The whole country fantasizes en masse about ending a human life over a burgled VCR.
This book is a root canal but it's nice getting confirmation that the reason McCarthy is reviled by US liberals is because McCarthyism backfired and endangered the success of liberal and left anti-communism.
In other words, McCarthy was not anti-communist enough for US liberals.
The reason you're all indoctrinated against Marxism is to ensure you never understand what's happening, are perpetually confused about causes of events, and thus never even come close to being competent or effective.
When Marxism does win, you're taught "oh that's not Marxism!"
No Marxist can be surprised that the bourgeois public intellectual Dawkins, whose fame as a militant atheist has far outstripped his fame as an evolutionary biologist, does not hesitate to embrace Christianity to whatever extent he sees that it serves his real cause: imperialism.
Western academia is when you translate an important work of Marxist criticism and go ahead and just excise the most interesting parts--those you can tell go over your head--because as an utter intellectual donkey you assume nobody could be interested.
These are professors.
Those interested in achieving this should read the works of Stalin, under whose leadership the USSR pioneered socialist emulation, thereby industrializing and defeating Hitler.
This is where the Cubans learned it and is another reason why the capitalists always slander Stalin.
This guy supposed by some to be a marxist talking about the moral collapse (!) of US institutions (!!) sounds like a kid who just learned the truth about Santa
The collusion between US college administrators and US municipal police departments is a sign of the moral collapse of US institutions. You attack well-meaning students who are against genocide with brute force. You will be judged as complicit in the genocide. Each one of you.
@justinpodur
The CIA As Organized Crime (dumb title, good book) about the role of liberal heroes like Hersh and Ellsberg in making people think that if they are out there exposing the crimes of empire, all must be well
Remarkable exhibit actually. This may be as close as I have seen a liberal come to *knowingly* admitting, "We are fascists. But when when it's us, that's good."
Where the line is between self-deception and sheer reptilian mendacity belongs to the field of psychopathology.
Hostility to the concept of having to think about questions disqualifies you from marxism-leninism, but the good news is that literally every other "left" western political tendency is open to you, it's actually how most of them were invented
One of many reasons I turned away from ML alignment was precisely having to think about questions like this.
Imagine trying to make the case that the Stasi, AVH, or Sigurimi serve the people.
You run out of excuses or you run of out sanity.
Shame is good. Marx was ashamed of his nation as it became more despotic.
(Germany, recently emerged from the Holy Roman Empire, reactionary but a far cry from the settler colony, the permanent military/police occupation regimes of N America in 2024)
"[The most repulsive despotism] teaches us the hollowness of our patriotism, the perverted nature of our state and to hide our faces in shame. You say 'What good will that do? Revolutions are not made by shame.' I say shame is a revolution in itself."
🥲
The quintessential liberal behaviour is repeating totally psychotic nazi propaganda like you are the smartest, best-informed person in the room and believing you are leftwing while doing so.
Finally rightwing bourgeois unlettered pig Max Blumenthal and his bigoted wife learn the first thing about class struggle and immediately realize they're the enemy of the working classes.
My last comment re Ben Norton: this is not "infighting"
Ben and I are not equal. And we are not in the same clique. He edited my interviews/reports while working for my husband. If we hadn't brought him along for technical work, he would not have had the reporting experiences
Decolonization is Hamas in Gaza and the CPC in Hong Kong. It's also learning and teaching revolutionary theory.
Most turtle island dwellers think decolonization is a Palestinian
getting a PhD at Tel Aviv Zionism University defending a thesis called "Palestinian Lives Matter"
a) sees right through the Carter bullshit *while it was happening*
b) quotes *French bishops* who understand their place in imperialism better than 9/10 US 'marxists' today
c) casual fatal thrusts with the sword of historical materialism
d) raw easy-to-grasp dialectics
When people say online isn't real you have to assume what they generally mean is that it's better march into a fucking swamp IRL than to reach 10,000s of people while figuring out the correct direction to march. It's pure Americanism.
Xi Jinping meanwhile:
Engels just casually in 1892 explaining why the Western working class are counter-revolutionary in 2023, and that they will cease to be so when the scraps they receive from the imperialist table dwindle to the slim pickings afforded the masses of the global south.
@RodericDay
Yesterday I was wondering if Mishima ever wrote anything explicitly praising nazism so I googled "mishima hitler" and got the most Japanese result imaginable. Meanwhile in the west...
They are people who mostly (not all) need to be taught that AOC is literally the enemy. They have no class consciousness. Americans have no class consciousness. An analysis that assumes they *know* she is the enemy and can be used by them is based on a fantasy.
Luna is an advanced communist who I think knows how to seek truth from facts. The facts in this case are just wrong imo.
She's in good company. Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Ho Chi Minh were all too rosy in their views of the USA at one time or another
Just because "lived experience" is bullshit as a concept doesn't mean practice doesn't teach true theory.
For instance there are rich liberal ivy league students who after last night have a 10x better understanding of the Democratic Party and USA as a country than CPUSA members.
@boss_on_here
In 100% of the movies I saw the first 30 years of my life, unions were portrayed as corrupt.
This was combined with an "education" which concealed the whole concept of class society.
Guess which class decides what movies get made and sets the school curriculum.
Vietnam made use of the French, or China the KMT. It rests on assuming most or *any* of the students are advanced communists with the savvy to do that.
They're not. 90% are Democrats, the other 10% need developing. They can't "develop" AOC. She eats them.
In reality half the protesters in America would support an Israeli invasion of Yemen, let alone Gaza, without a second thought if only Israelis would stop filming themselves wearing the lingerie of women they just raped and killed en route to a hospital to shoot premature babies.
Hard to overstate how great, how correct, and how 100% relevant and accurate the Communist Manifesto is today, this very moment. We are surrounded by the people it describes.
This excerpt shows that these people don't have a clue what they're talking about. This is what passes for marxism in the DSA. An utter joke. Holy shit. Four sentences, all of them wrong. Let's save the 1st till last and start with sentence 2.
"If [PFLP/DFLP] had instead chosen
Cornel West is to Al Sharpton what DSA is the Democratic Party: a slightly more sophisticated, explicitly socialist-branded version of the same American con job. Same tactics. In this case showing up for photo ops. This fucking shameless piece of shit is a zionist
Luckily there is a lesson here, which is that if we don't change our tactics completely we'll be protesting another MIT atrocity investment in 30 years' time if MIT and the class it's part of haven't fucking killed us all by then.
In 1987, the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid protested against MIT's ties to apartheid South Africa by erecting a shantytown.
Today, in the same location, students are protesting MIT's ties to genocide & apartheid in Palestine via the Scientists Against Genocide encampment. 🇵🇸
All these compatible-left imperialist mouthpieces like red kahina are just that.
But it's important to note they are also just liars. They're not just regurgitating what the capitalists tell them--they are also making it up.
@solzhenidiot
@v1ss_a_v
China is not arming or assisting the palestinian resistance. Theyre looking on as people starve they wont even bring food and water or machinery to rescue people from under the rubble, let alone pilots and fighter planes .
The most striking thing about Americans is the near total absence of disagreement: their virtually complete unanimity that it's better for America to be a planetary cancer of terror and criminality, than to do what's necessary to stop that, or even learn what *is* necessary.
Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy.
It's a part of human nature.
But politics must never be a literal battlefield or – God forbid – a killing field.
That's where they learn it. All the Western books are nazi propaganda. "Nazism=communism" is the mainstream western understanding of 20th century history.
@id_communism
French so-called communists concerned about Russian imperialism in Niger in 2023.
Only in Great Britain and the USA can you find a bigger bunch of chauvinist imperialist bourgeois clowns daring to call themselves marxists with a straight face.
Conservatives: It's the victims' fault!
Radlib leftoids: It's the oppressors' fault! You must stop oppressing me, you must change, don't look at me.
Marxists: Only we the victims have the power to stop the oppressors and it's therefore *our* responsibility. No one else's.
"We who would conscientiously teach discipline to the workers and peasants must begin with ourselves."
"You ought to force yourself to take a walk for about two hours every day."
Knesset comprising parties ranging from All-Rapist Ultra Rape Rapist Party of Rape (governing) to Party of Amnon (talmudic religous right) to Rape for All Rapist Party (moderates) to People's Mass Rape Party (leftist) to Dare to Rape, Dare to Win (far left)
@daplancer44
True, it is one of the most effective pieces of nazi propaganda ever produced, partly because it so crude and unsophisticated, exactly the kind of thing the capitalists needed to create a rightwing population of adults with a 5-year-old's thought patterns, such as yourself.
It's not a coincidence that Stalin and Mao, the most defamed individuals in history, are, in addition to being perhaps the greatest humanitarians in history, the most effective writers at blowing present-day western "leftist" notions of anti-imperialism out of the water. C = A+B
I thought Trump personified America. I wrong.
There is nothing more 🇺🇸 than a senator pretending to be poor and working class, loudly advocating and eagerly funding a widely-publicized genocide, pausing to cry for the cameras about his depression. This is the greatest American.
Depression is so sinister because it convinces you that even though you won, you actually lost.
I was able to get help, and I have a duty & a privilege to have this conversation with anyone who'll listen.
I'm grateful to join the Bipartisan Senate Mental Health Caucus.
The shortest answer to the question of why westerners aggressively choose to remain ignorant, eagerly believe and spread vile idiotic lies about the rest of the world, and are racist is because these beliefs make them feel better about being parasites. It tells them they're OK.
It's also devoid of national/class analysis. These are not colonized students resisting foreign imperialism. These are bourgeois American students who in AOC confront someone of their *exact same class* with whom they share 99% of economic and social interests. They are AOC!
@Vivid_tangerine
He's reaching his audience (other liberals) by telling them what the USA is doing. He's an attentive observer, but as a liberal he has no clue why the USA is doing what every imperialist country must do, so he says it's "neurotic." It isn't. USA isn't crazy, it's capitalist.