This time around the Russian economy made more signifcant gains and inadvertently - from USAmerican perspective - helped forge closer ties with China and the seeds of an alternative economic block with the Global South outside of Western control; the upcoming BRICS summit in Kazhan being an important example of this.

Zionism is chiefly a secular project. For example, Herzl was infamously anti-semitic against religious eastern European jews.

Well done to Dr Haj-Tassan for getting through their censorship and being brave enough to do so.

Another example of capitalism treating humans as refuse. Disparingly, and rather predictably, this immiseration is being used to propagate further anti-immigrant sentiment (and inevitably violence if not already happened).

Politico’s “dream economy”. Hopefully future whistleblowers survive this time.

“Afghan Trap 2.0 is failing so let’s see which version of blaming our proxies will stick.”

I wouldn’t be surprised if the imperialist lackeys started hurling their favourite anti-semitic slurs (“self-hating jew”) against her at this stage, if they haven’t already.

If it’s a dream not even Harris’ potential voters will notice then maybe it’s not their dream Politico’s praising.

Class analysis feels like a cheat-code to deciphering liberal media.

“The history of all hitherto existing societies is a history of class struggles”

As there are class struggles of women against the oppression by men there are class struggles of nations of peoples against their imperialist/colonial oppressors. If one understands that material conditions can often inform one’s worldview and if those material conditions lend to the privilege of white supremacism then one can easily see why some suffragettes could, for example, support the British Union of Fascists.

Always think about dialectics (for example the interaction between the evolving ideas of a person and their surrounding environment, how they influence each other back and forth) and one will see, unfortunately, why solidarity is not universal and why some people’s empathetic intelligence is stunted.

TLDR: they wanted a more equitable share of the white bourgoisie’s loot.

He is one of the few stand-ups whose clips I have watched repeatedly every now and then over the past decade. I think “Reverse Racism” was one of the first ones I seen of his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M

Absolutely puts the likes of Russell Peters (whose comedy I generally dislike; Uncle Tom vibes) to shame.

Authoritarianism against capital - especially USAmerican - is why your tears Mr David a-million-Iraqis-murdered Frum are nourishing.

There are quicker ways of learning environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.

1. Michael Brooks - “It’s not complicated”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62I61kBahNY

2. Francesa Albanese - UN special rapporteur, Anatomy of a Genocide: https://www.un.org/unispal/document/anatomy-of-a-genocide-report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territory-occupied-since-1967-to-human-rights-council-advance-unedited-version-a-hrc-55/

3. South Africa’s case on Israel’s crime of Genocide at the ICJ with remarks by Craig Morkhiber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkE4VtkWdo

4. Palestine - A Critique of Crisis Theory: https://critiqueofcrisistheory.wordpress.com/palestine/

I think it’s because of racism more often than not.

I think this plays a large factor. One can see this in the Philipines and India too (for the general populatuon rather than marxists alone). I think the propaganda often ends up being an advertisement for a license of bigotry rather a tool of “mind-control”.

MLs so criticial of CR should really visit India to see a timeline without it.

A potential approach: “Isn’t it funny how the demonic military-industry-complex that bombs and tortures people all around the world seem to have similar goals as you? I wonder how they managed to convince someone as smart as you that what they did was Christian? Matthew 24:24 - For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive”

However, be aware of the problems with theories of brainwashing -

1. https://redsails.org/dont-work-that-way/
2. https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
3. https://redsails.org/false-witnesses/

With regards to mental health: even in a capitalist society universal health care would go along way. However, we have to unfortunately contend whether that alone would help abolish the superstructures - including the institutions of imperialism and colonisation - that enable the license of bigotry.

It’s common to want peace in the Imperial cores where peace is defined as submission to the West and its capital.

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. Mark Twain, https://redsails.org/the-two-terrors/

Ok that was hilarious. I was going to post some choice quotes but didn’t want to spoil it for others who haven’t seen it yet.

For most things the majority of the world is on our side. And for the rest is partly why MLs aren’t tailists.

I think the author’s perspective is the solution should aim towards the social organisation of workers (in this case artists) as a group in a step towards the worker’s state; the technology is not the problem but the privatisation of the surplus value from socialised labour is. Art-luddites (if such a thing is even possible now) would actually be a good thing - they could threaten “machinary” to gain leverage for workers at large.

It is not one’s personal failure for attempting to survive in a system that exploits one and their labour, neither is a recognition of any classes that we fit in that is not exclusively proleteriat. As individuals maybe our only realistic solution be attempts towards becoming petty-bourgoisie or highly sought after labour aristocrats - if not already there - (which will not mitigate sufficiently the contradictions) but as an organisation the scope is much much more.

We have to remember when we are reading more radical writing that they are trying to push where we could be as a society ie the opposite of tailism. However, we should always place those ideas in the context of our own realities and trial them where appropriate, and learn on the feedback from this process - that is the more scientific and dialectic approach.