23 years ago, good sepoy Jose Maria Aznar from the Popular Party (Francoist right) joined the Iraq war against the 90% who protested against (numbers are give or take).
Aznar became rich with Blackrock deals. His name is on the Epstein address book as Aznar Jose.
So fuck the wars of rich pedos. No war but class war.
“We will never do to Mao what Khushchev did to Stalin”, goes the Chinese wisdom.
Why? Because you never, ever, give the enemy free ammo against your camp.
Moral of the story: never discuss internal org issues with libs or fash. They’ll use them to say “haha, you commies suck, when are you going to ice-axe each other?” (reference to Trotsky and Ramón Mercader).
It’s crazy that these goons cosplay-parade in full SS uniform.
My views have changed over time and moved to the (far?) left, but I still feel like I need to fill in the USSR Apology Form for having thought “Soviets bad” in relation to Hungary '56 and Czechoslovakia '68 😅
Well, at least I know it was because of Western propaganda.
Oh yes, nothing surprising from Jimmy Wales, who thinks capitalism is bad but communism is worse. Both-siding but punching left harder than right.
Although I’m surprised about the gulags article. According to that, only 8.8% of inmates lost their lives (2.5 M out of 18 M). Looks like nobody takes Stéphane Courtois (The Black Book of Communism) seriously anymore.
For reference, between 60 and 90% of concentration camp inmates were murdered by nazis. Gulags were meant to re-educate, not kill, but abuses took place. Nazi camps were meant to exterminate.
a history of Nazi collaboration
To anyone interested, I came across this while studying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aili_J%C3%B5gi
It’s about a woman who blew up a Soviet monument in 1946. Turns out she later had an interesting life story which ties into modern anti-Russian sentiment.
I suspect the Werwolf plan (nazi resistance during and after the final years of the 3rd Reich) tied into Operation Gladio as well.
Also, reflection on Uncle Stalin during WW2. When your country is literally surrounded by fascists and nazi collaborators, wtf are you supposed to do? Modern Euros conveniently forget that practically every government was fash around 1940 and therefore all antifa resistance was legitimate. Hell, Germany invading Poland is a nazi dictatorship attacking a military/fashy dictatorship. Since we had Franco in Spain, I don’t have to put 2 and 2 together to know how “barracks democracy” works. Ffs, Poland even had Falanga, a copy of Falange. And of course it is now a crime to remind modern Poles on the anti-semitic crimes committed by Poles.
The US 1776 revolution never was about FreedomTM. It was about New England saying “Daddy, can I play some imperialism like you?”.
“When you grow up and have more warships than I do”, must’ve been the answer.
If it had truly been about freedom, why weren’t slaves freed since day one, like Haiti? Why wait 100 years and a civil war for freedom to exist only on paper in the South anyway? Why does all the hate and racism exist today?
So it was a matter of time the US wanted to play with opium wars like daddy Britain. Opium to do a classicide in working class neighbourhoods. Opium wars and opium class wars.
Make him appear in Andor Season 3 as Master Kamil Torr, a Jedi hero battling the Empire.
Jokes aside, I wonder where George Lucas got his inspiration from. Either this or Marxist Buddhists from Burma, I’m betting.
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In China, the State prosecutes corrupt businessmen. But in the West, corrupt businessmen prosecute the State!
Written like a Russian reversal joke but sadly true, though.
Still trying to find tears which mysteriously don’t come out when I hear of millionaire crooks being sentenced to death in the PRC. Must be where I left the other tears for the United Health CEO.
Thanks for the read, comrade.
I guess all of Italy followed more or less the same playbook. Operation Gladio with cryptofascists to defeat the left and install soft rightists → in time, the hard right of the mafia, Berlusconi, Salvini and Meloni. Same in other European countries really.
When you think of it, Trump is nothing but the American Berlusconi. When the scandal of the “bunga bunga parties” was uncovered, Berlusconi did not only not give a shit but he also accused the left of corruption. Italians did it first, same with fascism.
Mafia, pedos and fascists all lie together in the same beds.
I’m about to try Through the Darkest of Times because I’m preparing a second academic paper on videogames, arts and politics.
As far as I know, you have to organise antifas from different walks of life and tendencies in Nazi Germany. Don’t wanna know too much because I need to elaborate hypothesis before actually playing it. Then the gaming + analysis will begin.
Lots of wonderful advice in the thread as is typical of Lemmygrad :) Let me add my 2 cents:
When online, post memes with anti-capitalist, anti-fascist content. But you know, memes of the fun types. Then see who get the joke and who don’t. Those who do are more or less predisposed to listen to further ML stuff. Those who immediately attack you for the memes are based fascists, they know what you’re trying to do because that’s what THEY have been doing for 10+ years. Humour is the “plausible deniability” which gives you some room to maneuver. Add wtf, it helps a lot in bringing down emotional barriers.
Join an org and get to know like-minded people in person. You’ll quickly forget you are the “odd one out”. Feeding the homeless, trade unions, political party… anything goes. As soon as you see you’re fighting the good fight, your confidence will multiply a thousandfold. When they mock you for feeding the hungry, the joke’s on them. You’ll remember the smile on the hungry person’s face, you will know you stand on the right side of history. And that’s just 1 example.
Last year I read Comrade (2019, Verso) by Jodi Dean. It’s a very based book by one of PSL’s leading ideologues. So I can recommend both the org and the book.
It’s a tough read, though. Being a revolutionary socialist means total commitment to the cause. I’ll add it can never come all at once. It’ll come in baby steps. But even then current geopolitical events can accelerate those steps. Weeks where decades happen.
Regarding criticism and faults, no org is perfect. It doesn’t have to be. Bottomline: better together than alone. Congratulations on wanting to join an org. I think it’s brave of you, especially being in the US.
I think of this a lot as a teacher. So let me add successful careers are built on the willingness to defend the people, too. But for that to happen, we all need a good dose of reddy redsome class consciousness.
Allies
This, I second that. Excluding theMilei types of the “anarchist” right, of course (in truth they are turbocapitalists).
I keep thinking of Durruti in the Spanish Civil War. Someone who fights fachos deserves respect in my view.
The debate around what future is the best communism, if Lenin-style or ancom, is largely academic. Top-bottom and bottom-top politics are two sides of the same dialectic (socialism vs communism). It needs to be solved dialectically, but only after the Trumps of the century have been buried in the dumpster of history.
Therefore, thinking from historical materialism, I prefer to think of anarchism as part of a socialist or leftist tradition and not as an ideal society. The first is useful (Durruti), the second is political fiction. Fun but fantastical.
So we’re going to do more mass disinfo, fake news, etc. More Schroedingers Russia, super war machine ready to invade Lisbon by tomorrow but at the same time orcs with pocket knives and using mules and crying over Ukranian toilets cause no toilets in (Soviet?) Russia.
What I like is the poster. What the square of secret police swear to defend is science, technology, info, docs and… diamonds.
Great post.
All I can add for now is that Biology is not Anthropology. This is a basic distinction I learnt years ago in Philosophy.
The fundamental question of Anthropology is “what are human beings?”. Biology’s basic question rather is “what is life?”.
So be careful. Insects and plants are life. So are humans. If one equates everything, we’re leaving out of Biology only rocks.
Someone who is very, very technical (and tech-bro minded) will answer humans beings “a collection of organic molecules in human form”. Which does not answer the question. Wtf is then “human form”?
Then they fall into the idealistic rabbit hole and spout social-darwinistic stuff, which is Malthusian economics plus protofash shit. At the end of the day, rightist biologists will not treat a cockroach differently from a human. Unless said cockroach is worth a billion dollars.
It’s a good thing. Spanish celebrities used to go to Houston, Texas to receive cancer treatment because the best professionals were there. The newsarticle is proof IMO that the same is now true of China.
I mean, if someone’s choice is between life or death, the ideology of the doctors is irrelevant.
In spite of it, ‘medical tourism’ is a term associated to “illegal aliens leeching off our system” here in the West. I’d be careful with it.
Todo bien, gracias. I had to look up “piola”, it’s fun how one never fully learns their own mother language xD
Can confirm, this is the type of shit posted by Franco fanbois from Vox (Spanish Trumpists). They hate the Jews because they believe in the judeo-masonic conspiracy, which was used to ‘legitimize’ the coup d etat in 1936.
Practically the whole left hates Israel, which is not the same as hating the Jews as you know (antizionism is not antisemitism). China also leads in popularity ahead of the US.
However, bootlickers such as Isabel Diaz Ayuso, the aspiring Spanish Maria Corina Machado, are rabidly pro Israel. Zionist money is heavily involved. So most of the political class on right likes Israel out of selfishness and its mostly the Falange remnants who dont, plus the people in general on both sides of the spectrum.
Tldr Israel can only have Spanish friends by buying them with big shekels.
The other side of the problem is that socdems are honouring juicy arms deals with the entity which shouldve been cancelled long ago.