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GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
https://twitter.com/flagrantdolphin/status/1070738344320163841

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Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

the CIA is making sock puppet accounts in support of the mujahadeen to gently caress with like 500 mentally ill people on twitter

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

that's an odd one, unless they're just close diplomatically even after the ideological reasons fell out when the USSR died

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
I'm not sure how closely they've cooperated in recent years, but Maduro is in Moscow currently.

https://twitter.com/maduro_en/status/1070411673935245313

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Karl Barks posted:

the CIA is making sock puppet accounts in support of the mujahadeen to gently caress with like 500 mentally ill people on twitter

Right, they're going after the core of the American left.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


The Red Army never got that far. Both times the Finns knew when the jig was up, and the second time they immediately turned on the Nazis to avoid being occupied.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

GalacticAcid posted:

I'm not sure how closely they've cooperated in recent years, but Maduro is in Moscow currently.

https://twitter.com/maduro_en/status/1070411673935245313

Venezuela was buying weapons from Russia back in the Chavez days. If America shuts you out of the weapons market, then Russia and China are your only real options.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Yea i'm not being critical here

you go to war with the counter-hegemon you've got, not the counter-hegemon you want

Graphic
Sep 4, 2018

It's like Lenin said

GalacticAcid posted:

Yea i'm not being critical here

you go to war with the counter-hegemon you've got, not the counter-hegemon you want

this is correct.

enter brain worm left twitter: "actually this makes Russia anti-imperialist"

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Graphic posted:

this is correct.

enter brain worm left twitter: "actually this makes Russia anti-imperialist"

i mean, yes? anti-imperialist doesn't mean unambiguously good.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
It is brain worms to suggest that countering American imperial efforts is anti-imperialist

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

R. Guyovich posted:

i mean, yes? anti-imperialist doesn't mean unambiguously good.

no, but it also doesn't solely apply to American imperialism

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Postoyevsky posted:

no, but it also doesn't solely apply to American imperialism

true, we musn't forget the imperialism of europe

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

R. Guyovich posted:

true, we musn't forget the imperialism of europe

definitely, but also can't forget your glorious Dengists!

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



they hated him because he spoke the truth: no one was free of imperialism

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Postoyevsky posted:

definitely, but also can't forget your glorious Dengists!

imperialism is loans at below-market rates.

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


R. Guyovich posted:

imperialism is loans at below-market rates.

it's not, that's just discount surplus value extraction

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

R. Guyovich posted:

imperialism is loans at below-market rates.

well in the sense that the export of capital is a key piece of imperialism, i could argue it is

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

and that's totally okay. china is a communist empire, and that's good

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


as karl marx always said, communism is when you centralize and concentrate the capital, and the more concentrated it is the more communisty it is.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

ps dengism isn't real and everyone using it on twitter and elsewhere didn't know who deng was nine months ago

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


yeah dengism isnt real lmao just google neoliberalism

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
https://twitter.com/swearsayer/status/1070849231357992967

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
one time a maoist in China jumped into my menchies when i made a hot take about China and communism and almost had me convinced those bastards have a 50 year plan

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

i love attaching -ist or -ism to someone's name to denounce people i don't like online. everyone who criticizes me is a bradyist. that's right, they love tom brady

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

R. Guyovich posted:

imperialism is loans at below-market rates.

agreed

much like socialism is suiciding off of an iphone factory

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Postoyevsky posted:

agreed

much like socialism is suiciding off of an iphone factory

anybody else have bingo

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


the real ism is le duanism. what a goddamn sellout

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

R. Guyovich posted:

anybody else have bingo

weird how people keep bringing this up isnt it

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Postoyevsky posted:

weird how people keep bringing this up isnt it

it is weird how people keep bringing up a story from 10 years ago, yes.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
it's time for chinese leftists to denounce their revisionist leaders and unite behind keith ellison for DNC chair

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


im gonna become a militant le duanist on twitter. i bet no ones got really mad about that yet online.

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

i support all socialism, the ussr, china, north korea, and norway

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
dibs on Engelsism

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



i genuinely believe that one guy from the 19th century was the son of Jesus, that's my ideology. heavenly kingdom subject

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

R. Guyovich posted:

imperialism is loans at below-market rates.

galaxy brain take holy poo poo

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

you can't escape the grasp of Dhalsism

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo
i do however support president xi's efforts to revive confucian, buddhist and taoist public religious practice and ceremony. i understand they're renewing regular sacrifices to some very old gods over there these days

Impermanent
Apr 1, 2010
maoism, leftism, trotskyism, i'm tired of all these deng isms

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Graphic
Sep 4, 2018

It's like Lenin said

R. Guyovich posted:

i mean, yes? anti-imperialist doesn't mean unambiguously good.

russia is counter-imperialist. if they could they would absolutely usurp the United States' position in the world and do the exact same evil imperialist bullshit. being anti-imperialist is being opposed to the entire concept of bourgeois hegemonism

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