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Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

"Remember when you could have only candidate on the ballot and that was enough to put the words 'Democratic Republic' in your country's name? Yezhov Farm remembers."

"Remember when you could imprison all the members of a party named 'Socialist Revolutionary" because they kept asking for real elections and still call yourself the people's party? Yezhov Farm remembers."

"Remember when being on the right side of history meant you could bayonet peasant farmers for not giving you their grain for free? Yezhov Farm remembers."

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Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Fallen Hamprince posted:

"Where should I learn more about Marxism"

"From the guy who killed more Marxists than hitler,, my dude. my bro"

Marxism is basically highlander

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

Aeolius posted:

yes indeed there is, though the shortest answer is "there is no transformation problem in Marx" because it was something interpreters (like Bortkiewicz) introduced by mangling the categories

I really look forward to reading this - thank you!

VirtualStranger
Aug 20, 2012

:lol:

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009


i wish

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


:same:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)


So their plan is to completely gently caress up their mandate and invite a communist takeover?

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

the good thing about so many new people getting into political activism is that they don't have time for this poo poo

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



How in the gently caress could anyone who writes articles go through the research on Lenin required to write an article, look at Trump, and then say, "these people are are the same"

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

img-lenin-and-trump-drinking-water.jpg

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Can't wait for Trump to get Beria'd out of all pictures of him and Bannon together

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:

How in the gently caress could anyone who writes articles go through the research on Lenin required to write an article, look at Trump, and then say, "these people are are the same"

There's your problem.

Lord of Pie posted:

Can't wait for Trump to get Beria'd out of all pictures of him and Bannon together

More like Bannon disappears behind Trumps gigantic photoshopped hands.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:

How in the gently caress could anyone who writes articles go through the research on Lenin required to write an article, look at Trump, and then say, "these people are are the same"

by writing the article about lenin and trump instead of lenin and bannon, the guy who literally says he wants to be the lenin of white nationalism

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
https://twitter.com/sadladbukharin/status/829402469180534784

im dying

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011

this guy and his weird clique of comtwitter insane-os are my favorite

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991


lmao

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

ahhahahahahah there it is

https://twitter.com/PhilGreaves01/status/829356798779985923

100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



Fallen Hamprince posted:

by writing the article about lenin and trump instead of lenin and bannon, the guy who literally says he wants to be the lenin of white nationalism

I'm amongst the least learned of the C-Spam commies, but wouldn't that just make him Hitler in a nazi vanguard party?

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981


lmao

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

Fallen Hamprince posted:

by writing the article about lenin and trump instead of lenin and bannon, the guy who literally says he wants to be the lenin of white nationalism

and we should take whatever bannon says at face value :downs:

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Let's share Soviet Bloc jokes:

A commissar is discussing the latest potato harvest with a peasant.

"Why the potatoes are so plentiful that if they were to be all piled together then they'd reach the feet of God in the Heavens above!" The peasant exclaimed and was harshly rebuked by the commissar,

"Stop your foolish bourgeois behaviour, everyone knows that God is imaginary!"

"Ah," the peasant replied, "But so are the potatoes!"

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A Western journalist has received a rare pass to travel in the USSR soon after the end of the Second World War and is keen to try and speak with the locals. Eventually he strikes up a conversation with a local shopkeeper and, taking a large risk, asks him what he thinks of Comrade Stalin. The man quickly shushes him and leaves the shop, beckoning for the journalist to follow. They travel separately and slowly across town to a quiet street and the shopkeeper walks into an alley. The journalist follows hesitantly and walks up to the man who checks over their shoulders one last time and then leans in close and whispers,

"Actually I rather like him."

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

loving Christ

Saladin Rising
Nov 12, 2016

When there is no real hope we must
mint our own. If the coin be
counterfeit it may still be passed.

He's also one of the mythical, fabled "leftists who hate the YPG":

https://twitter.com/PhilGreaves01/status/828531438182137856

twitter slapfight made legible posted:

Phil Greaves: Why not just call them America?
ConflictHurts: what do you mean?
Phil Greaves: I mean the 'SDF' is a US-run paramilitary proxy-force, not particularly Syrian, & certainly not democratic.
ConflictHurts: it's comprised of Syrian Kurds, arabs other minority's under the SDF banner.And their admin is democratic
Phil Greaves: Its comprised mainly of Syrian, Turkish & Iraqi Kurds, augmented with foreign mercenaries, hardly any Arabs.
ConflictHurts: really? Any document stating the supposed insignificant role of the arabs?
Phil Greaves: A document? Wtf are you talking about? You're the one positing Arabs are in the SDF, so name 10 of them?
ConflictHurts‏: I don't keep track of people names if thier not commanders? How am I supposed to know their names?
Phil Greaves: Name 5 Arab commanders of the 'SDF'? (You cant cos they dont exist).
ConflictHurts: never paid attention to SDF commanders, main SAA, or the rebels.
Phil Greaves‏: Ineligible. The 'SDF' is just the PYD Kurdish separatists & their US-NATO masters, no Arabs involved.
--
#StopYazidiGenocide‏: those arabs killing each other since the start of Syrian Civil war, which it started by Kurds?
Phil Greaves: There is no "civil war", one side is Syrians & the other is foreign proxies & mercenaries.
#StopYazidiGenocide‏: who are those mercenaries? Aren't they defected soldiers and arab islamist?
Phil Greaves‏: Doesn't matter what they are, just proxies of America, Saud, Turkey et al. YPG another one.
#StopYazidiGenocide: ‏of course Kurds are so smart! They make saudi/turkey and iran fight each other
The bolded is a particularly hilarious contradiction.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)


:lol: lmao roflmao


Saladin Rising posted:

He's also one of the mythical, fabled "leftists who hate the YPG":

https://twitter.com/PhilGreaves01/status/828531438182137856

The bolded is a particularly hilarious contradiction.

I had a run-in once with one of the Phil Greaves/Red Kahina tankie crew. He thought being Indian somehow gave him more anti-imperialism cred while deriding the YPG as a tool of American imperialism.

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

What he is clearly trying to say in that twitter slapfight quote is that the SDF is made up of Syrian Kurds, Turkish Kurds, and Iraqi Kurds. Syrian Kurds being a distinct group from Syrian Arabs. Why bother making up "contradictions" when he's started belting out his own pizzagate screeds for everyone to enjoy.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

the two most prominent members of tankie twitter are a self-proclaimed political do-nothing who loves to golf and the daughter of the man who created playboy TV

100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



I still don't know what a tankie is, except a thing people call communists online sometimes.

The Brown Menace
Dec 24, 2010

Now comes in all colors.


Odobenidae posted:

What he is clearly trying to say in that twitter slapfight quote is that the SDF is made up of Syrian Kurds, Turkish Kurds, and Iraqi Kurds. Syrian Kurds being a distinct group from Syrian Arabs. Why bother making up "contradictions" when he's started belting out his own pizzagate screeds for everyone to enjoy.

even then iraqi kurds are still distinct from the other kurds

its complicated. a middle east kind of thing, you wouldn't understand *ruffles poshi*

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

100 degrees Calcium posted:

I still don't know what a tankie is, except a thing people call communists online sometimes.

Tankies are to communists what Hillarymen are to liberals.

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Tankies are to communists what Hillarymen are to liberals.

Does that make Phil Greaves the tankie Peter Daou.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

MizPiz posted:

Does that make Phil Greaves the tankie Peter Daou.

IDK, Peter Daou has a work ethic. I mean, his job is a big scam but the point is he works.

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

why can't that guy work or go to meetings? i don't follow left twitter

The Brown Menace
Dec 24, 2010

Now comes in all colors.


tankies are cool, good and right btw

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

100 degrees Calcium posted:

I still don't know what a tankie is, except a thing people call communists online sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPAagXeky0

All u need to know fam

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

jarofpiss posted:

why can't that guy work or go to meetings? i don't follow left twitter

Phil Greaves has had a few articles published before. He had four articles published by Counterpunch, for instance, but hasn't had anything published since 2014.

My guess is he's either 1) too autistic to do real social work, and is thus a terminal hikikomori, or is 2) a paranoid schizophrenic who is afraid that if he ever shows his face in public or reveals any personal information online - then the CIA or MI6 or whoever is going to bllack bag & disappear him for being a leading mind of anti-imperialism.

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

does a picture of him even exist?

Trumpenproletariat
Nov 26, 2016

by zen death robot
I have come here to chew bubblegum and seize the means of production...

And I'm all outta gum

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

Karl Barks posted:

does a picture of him even exist?

I found a picture of a Phil Greaves from England who ran to raise awareness for autism, but he was in the Royal Airforce, not the chairforce.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

100 degrees Calcium posted:

I'm amongst the least learned of the C-Spam commies, but wouldn't that just make him Hitler in a nazi vanguard party?

Yes

Karl Barks posted:

and we should take whatever bannon says at face value :downs:

it's closer than comparing trump to lenin, trump is much more of a Hindenburg figure what with the senility and all

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Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

bannon is alfred hugenberg, the parallels are too close

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