One could argue that is what marxism-leninism calls for; it is the science of capital and how to build socialism from it and therefore strategies that win against the first global contradiction - US imperialism - would echo this no matter what they call themselves.
The lessons from Russia is attrition but I am not exactly sure how that would work here. I have read elsewhere that the US advantage would be to finish quickly and that it would be in Iran’s interest to drag it out at multiple chokepoints.
I really wish these non-marxist but still anti-imperialist countries could disavow their liberal brainworms and implement a more centralised planned economy (can always revert to an “NEP” later) with guaranteed jobs/housing/sustinance and all hands on deck for food, medicine and war tech development.
According to the New York Times, the United States has passed three basic conditions to Iran: the complete cessation of uranium enrichment, the limitation of ballistic missile capacity, and the discontinuation of support for the proxy forces in the region, especially Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthies… (machine translation)
And if Iran were to heed them the next day they will get strikes anyway (Libya-style). It’s almost as if the US is telling Iran what it should not do instead.
I think this is a logical conclusion if one believes “brainwashing” on mass is a thing for an explanation of the bourgoisie proleteriat; it will lead to a biolgical determinist rationale for resistance to being “unbrainwashed” and then it’s a short hop from that to eugenicism echoing essentially fascist sentiments.
Instead consider a more dialectical materialist take:
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
Ie narratives as a social license for bigotry along imperialist and settler colonial lines because at some level that individual benefits from those material conditions. The material always come before the idea.
(There’s all sorts of other problems with yugopnik’s take - like folks with learning difficulties who don’t lean right wing, removing the agency of the fascist, using ablism to explain fascism, where these Nietzschean takes of the untermenschen comes from, mechanical vs dialectical materialism etc etc)
But what about all the NHS clapping and flag hoisting. Oh it’s still a shithole just now being more open against murder of brown and disabled folks. Being a westerner is a disease. Watch the guardian then write “but what about china and russia” and double down on the crocodile tears for “women’s rights” in Iran as a pretense for more war on the very next page with no fucking sense of shame. The Reform Party and the Guardian are two sides of the same fascist coin.
Describe the Gilded Age, Depression and Dust Bowl including death tolls, lack of babies born and shortened life expectancy initially hinting that you may be describing China, then in the last moment you pull the rug and explain it was the US as a dramatic irony to explain the racist orientialist perspective against China. Expect a fail for a grade but a fleeting sense of contentment.
If you keep the habit long enough at one point the chore becomes a necessity; it will become hard to function effectively without repeating the habit. The trick is to make sure you can keep the habit long enough so that the quantiative changes becomes a qualitative one. Finding something you enjoy and doing it more, some people distract themselves with music to endure longer, consider having a higher proportion weight resistance over “cardio” can be more “time efficient” depending on your goals, and ensure you are eating and sleeping well (the latter two can be their own battles). If you’re not white (and even if you are white) then consider getting Vitamin D checked especially if there is not enough sun.
From what I understand he has been unwell for a while but it is still a very sad day.
Thank you comrade for your gifts to us all. You have helped a lot of us become better human beings. May those seeds help bear fruit to emancipate the world.
I reckon they must be using AI to do quick searches on marxist literature for choice quotes which honestly I am perfectly fine with. I might start reading Wire again just for this series.
Excellent share, thank you! One quote in particular (I have commented elsewhere) was just sublime.
That last quote is just plain awesome, especially considering what sort of site is saying it. This must be one of the best “China is bad”/ cope articles I have read in a while.
For years tankies kept saying that no, Russia won’t take over Europe, the US is the biggest threat, and you were called a Russian bot for it
Now Trump has shared a vid of him literally planting a flag on Greenland and calling it a US territory
And if recent events still won’t convince them otherwise it just goes to prove that they weren’t brainwashed to begin with (if rationalising Ukrainian nazis and clapping for them, while denigrating palestinian fighters against genocide, wasn’t enough). There’s literally a live example of their purported paradigms coming to shatters which would logically dictate that they should change their worldview but if they don’t then it is because they exist along the axis of perceived benefit as (sub)imperialists; they were intelligently seeking narratives as license for their bigotry.
He’s my favourite US president; he’s the most personified form of the phrase “capital sows the seeds of its destruction” and he does it with such unintentional levity.
If you had to point to a single document that so quickly conveys that the material always come before the idea then it would be this; the two brain cells that strained to write this would not have any power if it was not for a whole system that allows it.
It lays bare naked the dictatorship against the global proleteriat; capitalists are but servants at the altar of capital.
Attempt to bolster the security of the Bourgoisie Proleteriat and petty-bourgoisie by reducing the pool of eligible candidates, using perceived lack of allegiance to Whiteness as a filtering mechanism.
Nah he’s taking the piss (ie sardonic/ironic) given his whole angle (see below).
Doesn’t mean he’s always right (though his irony here in this is example is just generally correct) or even a scientific socialist given his anti-russian and anti-chinese rhetoric echoing imperial talking points (even anti-maduro stuff in the past regarding elections, from what I recall).
But he is otherwise quite anti-west including holding most westerners (especially USAmericans) accountable for the crimes of their countries. Which is why he sometimes comes off sounding correct because even if you don’t know a thing about socialism or imperialism, being anti-western can sometimes be not too bad an heuristic on politics given how awful the West is and the commanding heights of imperialism being the US.
He openly admits that his viewers have a parasocial relationship with youtubers, that his channel isn’t some revolutionary avenue, and that he is happy to make money making easy dunks such as on pro-zionists. Some of the videos on his main channel can be educational (such as on Nazi Germany’s inspiration from the US with manifest Destiny and Lebensraum).
But he is also a good example that if one wants to extend their political educstion beyond BE level of anti-western imperialism then self claimed marxists better get to grips of prodhounism, dialectical materialism and start reading broadly beyond Settlers*.
*= has no real grounded theory of political economy on why the global labour aristocracy / bourgoisie proleteriat also includes people of colour, especially in the West. It’s great book to introduce someone how bad the history of white western proleteriat is but then hits its limitations quickly.
Thanks for the share!
I have yet to read the full paper but that abstract and a cursory purview is not promising of the validity of the conclusions the paper is implying regarding Covid-19 vaccinations; there appears to be no meaty analysis of:
I was interested initially because of potential analysis on mRNA vaccines. The most curious thing for me on the paper is potential site injection cancers and I have to read it in more detail but superificially the way they seem to explain it appears to be a bit shoddily done and therefore gets me questioning its validity.
My understanding of geopolitics has changed over time to consider that bourgoisie aligned groups and classes will organically form in post-formal-colonial countries - with or without a dictatorship of capital - with their north star aligning without much effort with the commanding heights of imperialism - the US. It’s why, aesthetics aside, liberals all over the world are so American.
Imperialism can deepen its roots elsewhere because there is fertile soil for them to find.