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GalacticAcid posted:surprised this twitter search only yields one hit twitter search misses stuff all the time
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Adam Hochschild, who wrote thread-recommended King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts, has a good review up at the NYRB on two recent books about the Klan. Some of this info was new to me, and it's a pretty useful primer on the Klan's historical social base and organizational structure. The Klan's anticommunism is ignored, which isn't a big surprise for the New York Review.
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GalacticAcid posted:nothing new under the sun gently caress you i came up with this like a year ago and only said it now
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Karl Barks posted:one of the stranger things with settlers is there doesn't appear to be a picture of j sakai in existence because it's a pseudonym
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Darkman Fanpage posted:because it's a pseudonym yeah..... for the CIA
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tag youre fat posted:what's lf's position on why debord killed himself he read your posts
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so other than the land expropriating (which i would argue is anti colonialism) what exactly did mugabe do that could be considered socialism people are Extremely Upset about the jacobin again cause of a mugabe article Karl Barks fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Karl Barks posted:so other than the land expropriating (which i would argue is anti colonialism) what exactly did mugabe do that could be considered socialism i noticed the article's author is named nkomo. for all i know it's a common surname and there is no relation but it's shared by joshua nkomo of the ZANU-PF's soviet-aligned rival, ZAPU.
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maybe i'm being unfair to the tankies (heh) and i want to sympathize but to me it seems like they take the right's definition of communism and apply it to themselves. so robert mugabe in 2017 is still waging the cold war struggle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpxzrNRjWmU i was thinking of the "rural people's party" which in their case were neo-nazis who became pro-DPRK tankies and didn't *entirely* drop the nazi stuff. their attraction to the DPRK was entirely on an aesthetic level, and since juche is a sham doctrine that nobody actually reads. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:maybe i'm being unfair to the tankies (heh) and i want to sympathize but to me it seems like they take the right's definition of communism and apply it to themselves. so robert mugabe in 2017 is still waging the cold war struggle. It's because Neocons still have a hard-on for invading Zimbabwe, and there was a push at the end of Bush's term in office to try and get him to do another regime change there.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's because Neocons still have a hard-on for invading Zimbabwe, and there was a push at the end of Bush's term in office to try and get him to do another regime change there. i feel like this is the trap the left gets stuck in all the time - does my opposition to american imperialism necessitate defending governments i would otherwise despise
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Karl Barks posted:does my opposition to american imperialism necessitate defending governments i would otherwise despise Yes
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Karl Barks posted:i feel like this is the trap the left gets stuck in all the time - does my opposition to american imperialism necessitate defending governments i would otherwise despise you don't have to defend them. it's not an issue of "we shouldn't go and do an imperialism because they're good" and more "we shouldn't go an do an imperialism because that's not our job"
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Serf posted:you don't have to defend them. it's not an issue of "we shouldn't go and do an imperialism because they're good" and more "we shouldn't go an do an imperialism because that's not our job" I would agree, which is why protesting the Iraq war worked.
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when I say I don't want to defend, I'm not saying I support US military action in those countries of course. but i would support a worker's revolt in places like DPRK and Zimbabwe.
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lol okay i didn't realize DPRK had also removed all references to communism from it's constitution as well
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juche thought is basically like marxism upgraded
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I feel like nationalism and anti-imperialism get inevitably too wound up with each other, as though there's some kind of national identity that needs to be protected from foreign encroachment. This becomes problematic around issues like immigration, when "solidarity with kosovar albanians" becomes a prelude to mass deportations of serbs, for example And that' s to say nothing of the idea that all liberation movements have to necessarily be anti-Western or that all imperialism has to be perpetuated by the West. Kosovo was a "liberation struggle" or "Western imperialism" depending on your point of view. Catalonia has had soft backing by Russian imperialism in order to undermine the EU geopolitics is a land of contrasts Yossarian-22 fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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lollontee posted:juche thought is basically like marxism upgraded marx is a western ideologue, after all
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lollontee posted:juche thought is basically like marxism upgraded but academics in the west were like "juche? this must be big!" and started writing papers on it; which then found their way back into actual north korean literature in the 80s. but it's pretty much a fake ideology and a bunch of 
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:the b.r. myers book on juche (not cleanest race, the other one) argues that juche was basically invented for foreign consumption and the only serious references to it were from a handful of interviews kim il-sung gave to indian and japanese journalists in the 60s and 70s. you're saying it's a stand alone memeplex invented by me
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:the b.r. myers book on juche (not cleanest race, the other one) argues that juche was basically invented for foreign consumption and the only serious references to it were from a handful of interviews kim il-sung gave to indian and japanese journalists in the 60s and 70s. br meyers is an idiot
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i dunno he looks cool to me
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R. Guyovich posted:br meyers is an idiot
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has any marxist even read the collected works of kim il-sung? lol it's a ridiculous idea. well, you see, comrade; juche is about the self-reliance on the juche idea based on the masses coordinating self-reliantly and on the basis of juche thought
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Karl Barks posted:when I say I don't want to defend, I'm not saying I support US military action in those countries of course. but i would support a worker's revolt in places like DPRK and Zimbabwe. Ok, but a worker's revolt isn't what's happening in Zimbabwe. The bottom line is that the end of the cold war did not bring an end to the imperialist structure of global capitalism, or its insatiable desire to open up every single nation to first world exploitation. Was Mugabe a good leader for Zimbabwe? Obiously not, but we also shouldn't kid ourselves that any interest in regime change for Zimbabwe was motivated by a genuine interest in their welfare.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Ok, but a worker's revolt isn't what's happening in Zimbabwe. nor am i expecting that. but as far as things to support go... maybe i'm just reading too many fringey twitter users, but there are definitely people saying mugabe was a good leader and should be supported on the basis he is a socialist.
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According To Some Article I Read, the big reason for Mugabe being outed wasn't the west, but China. Zimbabwe needs foreign investment, and Mugabe tried a lot to to encourage China into moving in, I imagine because its not the west. But China hasn't made that much of a move, mostly because it, like the west, concluded it didn't like its chances of actually making money, and not getting burned. So, for the sake of getting foreign investment, the coup happens.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's because Neocons still have a hard-on for invading Zimbabwe, and there was a push at the end of Bush's term in office to try and get him to do another regime change there. lol
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Karl Barks posted:i dunno he looks cool to me 
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:has any marxist even read the collected works of kim il-sung? lol it's a ridiculous idea. i read current cpc theory and a lot of it does the same stuff rhetorically. it's a problem of translation; for obvious reasons neither the dprk nor the cpc hires native speakers of english to do the translation work, and in the case of the dprk there's no access to the material in the original language
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for example, kim il-sung's biography, with the century, is kind of a mess in english but koreans (dprk, obviously; banned in the south) read it enthusiastically. even defectors admit their genuine admiration for it as a literary work
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R. Guyovich posted:for example, kim il-sung's biography, with the century, is kind of a mess in english but koreans (dprk, obviously; banned in the south) read it enthusiastically. even defectors admit their genuine admiration for it as a literary work Pener Kropoopkin posted:When can I watch the Juche Cinematic Universe?
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