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a top hat getting torn in pieces.
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Goon Project: Let’s Centrally Plan an Industrial Economy
the Workers & Resources Soviet Republic thread is in the games forum.
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Jan 25, 2022 10:01
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there's more than that: they are, in loose definition, degenerated revolutions
trotsky had a good starting framework with his idea of permanent revolution, which, if brought to an essential point, was that a continuous social mobilization towards the revolutionary goal is indispensable for the revolutionary state. Again, if we bring it to the essential part of it, it's a good point imho. A dumb analogy would be that it is the sociological equivalent of telling somebody to pull iron, eat properly, do cardio, but for the body politic
(I had a professor use that one to explain and I had to share it lol)
the problem was that the man himself beat up that drum when he got sidelined and suddenly the man who wanted permanent war communism and mobilized worker-soldier armies started accusing the communist party of the soviet union of falling into anti-revolutionary tendencies, which basically got a big "Oh loving really that's so precious coming from you right now" from the rest
IDGI, did he only start banging that drum when he got sidelined or was he more nuanced about it or what? was he hypocritical about it or sth?
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is there a specific link between NATO and dutroux?
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quote:Consider Russia today. In an unverified video that began circulating this month, a former mercenary from the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group is accused of switching sides to “fight against the Russians,” whereupon an unidentified assailant smashes a sledgehammer into the side of the mercenary’s head. When asked to comment on the video – posted under the header “The hammer of revenge” – Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group’s founder and a close ally of Vladimir Putin, replied that, “A dog receives a dog’s death.” As many have observed, Russia’s behavior is now identical to that of the Islamic State.
Or, consider Russia’s increasingly close ally, Iran, where young girls who have been arrested for protesting the regime are reportedly being married off to prison guards and then raped, on the grounds that a minor cannot legally be executed if she is a virgin.
Or, consider Israel, which proudly presents itself as a liberal democracy, even though it has gradually come to resemble some of the other fundamentalist-religious countries in its neighborhood. The latest evidence of the trend is the news that Itamar Ben-Gvir will be a part of Binyamin Netanyahu’s new government. Before entering politics, Ben-Gvir was known to display a portrait in his living room of the Israeli-American terrorist Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in Hebron in 1994.
Netanyahu, who was Israel’s longest-serving prime minister before being ousted in June 2021, is fully implicated in this ethical decay. In 2019, the Times of Israel reports, he called “for a fight against rising Muslim and left-wing anti-Semitism in Europe, hours after the [Israeli] government published a report that said the far-right posed the greatest threat to Jews on the continent.” Why does Netanyahu ignore far-right anti-Semitism? Because he relies on it. The Western new right may be anti-Semitic at home, but it also staunchly supports Israel, which it sees as one of the last remaining barriers against a Muslim invasion.
Unfortunately, all this is just one side of the story. Ethical decay is also increasingly apparent in the “woke” left, which has become increasingly authoritarian and intolerant as it advocates permissiveness for all forms of sexual and ethnic identity – except one. The sociologist Duane Rousselle has characterized the new “cancel culture” as “racism in the time of the many without the One.” Whereas traditional racism vilifies the intruder who poses a threat to the unity of the One (the dominant in-group), the woke left want to do the same to anyone who has not fully abandoned all the One’s old categories of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. All sexual orientations and gender identities are now acceptable unless you are a white man whose gender identity corresponds with your biological sex at birth. Members of this cisgender cohort are enjoined to feel guilty just for what they are – for being “comfortable in their skin” – while all others (even cisgender women) are encouraged to be whatever they feel they are.
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This “new woke order” is increasingly discernible in absurd real-world episodes. Just this month, the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania planned to sponsor a student-organized event for all those who are “tired of white cis men.” The plan was for attendees to “come paint & write about” their frustrations with “comfortable in skin” white men. Following an outcry and charges of racism, the event has since been postponed.
There is a paradox in how woke non-binary fluidity coincides with intolerance and exclusion. In Paris, the prestigious École Normale Supérieure is now debating a proposal to establish dormitory corridors reserved exclusively for individuals who have chosen mixity/diversity (mixité choisie) as their sexual identity, in order to exclude cisgender men. The proposed rules are strict: anyone not fitting the criteria would be prohibited from even setting foot in these corridors. And, of course, such rules would open a path to even tighter restrictions. For example, if enough individuals define their identity in even narrower terms, they presumably will be able to demand their own corridor.
Three features of this proposal are worth emphasizing: it excludes only cisgender men, not cisgender women; it is not based on any objective criteria of classification, but only on subjective self-designation; and it calls for further classificatory subdivisions. This last point is crucial, because it demonstrates how all the emphasis on plasticity, choice, and diversity ultimately leads to what can only be called a new apartheid – a network of fixed, essentialized identities.
Wokeism thus offers a quintessential study in how permissiveness becomes prohibition: under a woke regime, we never know if and when some of us will be canceled for something we have said or done (the criteria are murky), or for simply being born into the forbidden category.
Far from opposing the new forms of barbarism, as it often claims to be doing, the woke left fully participates in it, promoting and practicing an oppressive discourse without irony. Though it advocates pluralism and promotes difference, its subjective position of enunciation – the place from which it speaks – is ruthlessly authoritarian, brooking no debate in efforts to impose arbitrary exclusions that previously would have been considered beyond the pale in a tolerant, liberal society.
That said, we should bear in mind that this mess is largely confined to the narrow world of academia (and various intellectual professions like journalism), whereas the rest of society is moving more in the opposite direction. In the US, for example, 12 Republican senators voted this month with the Democratic majority to codify the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Cancel culture, with its implicit paranoia, is a desperate and obviously self-defeating attempt to compensate for the very real violence and intolerance that sexual minorities have long suffered. But it is a retreat into a cultural fortress, a pseudo-“safe space” whose discursive fanaticism merely strengthens the majority’s resistance to it.
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Nov 23, 2022 14:02
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https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1618678089298640897
wrap it up marxailures
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Jan 27, 2023 12:46
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https://twitter.com/przidnt1/status/1641213130574266368
has a nice ring to it
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Mar 30, 2023 18:51
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Since the 1980s western capitalism has transitioned more and more towards finance capitalism & rentseeking, and away from industrial capitalism.
What if any works go into the mechanics of why this transition occurred and the consequences within the western world of the working classes?
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Apr 28, 2023 20:35
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A while ago I came across an examination of the nordic model within the american imperialist system, and I can't find it for the life of me.
This is a bit of a long shot but does anyone have good material on this matter?
It was a youtube interview with a scholar but articles are just as good if not better.
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Jul 7, 2023 21:02
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thank you!
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Jul 8, 2023 07:28
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Did the Soviet Union have parks? Green spaces or 3rd places have been disappearing rapidly in the US - I remember explicitly being taught the USSR didn't have any.
As I think about it now though... I don't even know how the concept works in theory or execution in communism - you don't really need to have a space protected from capitalist development the same way the US does.
https://twitter.com/Huck1995/status/1745351549797154965
Henry Hakamäki posted:Great day to mention Zapovedniki (a topic in our next book project!)
Today, January 11 is the All-Russian Day of Zapovedniki and National Parks.
So what is a Zapovednik?
Simply put, they are “forever wild” nature reserves, which have the HIGHEST environmental protection
As my friend and collaborator Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro sometimes says, the Zapovednik system is perhaps the most successful and significant environmental protection program in world history (although there are other notable examples!)
This date was chosen due to the fact that it was on this day, in 1917, that the first Zapovednik, “Barguzinsky”, was created in the country in order to protect the sable (a cute mammal that lives from the Urals through Siberia) in Buryatia.
Now in Russia there are almost 13 thousand protected areas of federal, regional and local significance. There are 237 specially protected natural areas of federal significance, including 109 Zapovedniki, 65 national parks, and 63 state natural reserves
Of these, the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources manages 230 protected areas, including 105 Zapovedniki, 63 national parks and 62 state nature reserves of federal significance.
*note, Zapovedniki have a higher level of protection than National Parks, which russia also has*
As many of you know, I live in the Republic of Tatarstan
Here, we have 193 specially protected natural areas which are maintained by the Republic’s Natural Reserve Fund. We have one natural park here as well as one federally listed Zapovednik
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The East Is Still Red by Carlos Martinez is also really good at dismantling the various myths about China.
It also has a billion footnotes which helps if you want to use the same western sources Martinez used to shoot down the cinophobic scarestory.
It's quite fluently written iirc
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what's that hedgehog the emblem for anyway? mechanised forestry?
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this has never once been true in the history of forums
you shouldn't have skipped ahead
is this dialectics?
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