Whoa, looks like FdI is about to become the most popular party in Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2022_Italian_general_election#2022
The greatest / most beautiful piece of music ever written IMO is Tavener - Song for Athene. I cry ever tiem
Imperialism is not when a country invades another. Imperialism is the theft of land, labor, and natural resources of a weak country to feed a stronger one.
Russia defending its borders from continued NATO encroachment over the past 30 years is not imperialism, and Russia is not part of the imperial core of countries currently robbing the global south of its surplus value by paying it wages from 200 years ago.
Guy def wants to resurrect the Byelorussian SSR. Even if the country is no longer socialist, it should absolutely be supported a one of the few anti-imperialist bastions left in Europe that’s been to resist the EU and its neoliberalization impoverishment strategies.
State capitalist is kind of a meaningless term, what matters is which class holds control over the political and economic system.
So some of the nordic states might have a comparatively high degree of state ownership and employment (compared to other capitalist states
), while still having a capital stand above the politics and economy.
Whereas in China, Cuba, Vietnam, the communist party stands above the economy and directs it via X-year plans.
Lenin’s quote on the distinction is good, and probably the main reason we should ditch the term altogether.
The state capitalism, which is one of the principal aspects of the New Economic Policy, is, under Soviet power, a form of capitalism that is deliberately permitted and restricted by the working class. Our state capitalism differs essentially from the state capitalism in countries that have bourgeois governments in that the state with us is represented not by the bourgeoisie, but by the proletariat, who has succeeded in winning the full confidence of the peasantry.
What prevents any other anarchist grouping from claiming the hierarchy you prefer isn’t justified?
however I sternly argue that that does not necessitate a state.
Lets make this simple: A bunch of oppressed people group together and use violence to defend their interests. What prevents any anarchist from calling that an “authoritarian redfash state”?
The “freedom” of the capitalist class is the freedom to extract surplus value from workers. Should that freedom not be challenged? When workers do exactly that, don’t capitalists and their defenders start whining about the sanctity of “freedom”?
Western media is completely controlled.
Six companies control all media.
A swiss study on media / news concentration and western propanda.
Lenin on this:
Some more capitalist monopolies:
No probs! This is a very detailed account of the history, negotiations and details around the winter war. Remember also that Finland crushed their own workers revolts in 1919, and were part of the alliance attacking the USSR in the russian civil war / revolution, as they were to do again in ww2 alongside nazi germany.
The safety of Leningrad (which was within artillery range of Finland, and which had been attacked in the previous decades by Finland, Britain and Germany, and which Finland later assisted nazi germany in nearly starving leningrad’s people to death), was the primary issue of the winter war.
NATO has been the invader for 30+ years, and the war is primarily about halting continued NATO encroachment.
Wikipedia dissallows leftist sources, they even explicitly banned the one I linked. See here, for example the executive director of the wikimedia foundation, katherine maher, worked for US-gov entities that carry out regime changeg, like the atlantic council and national endowment for democracy.
And its dominated by a small number of full-time pro-US editors ( the first part of that article gets into it ). Wikipedia isn’t reliable when it comes to political topics.
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Vaporwave: saint pepsi, macintosh plus, Miami wicked
Shoegaze, slowdive especially.
Reminds me of this classic where the BBC got caught editing photos of vloggers in China to make it seem super-overcast and gloomy. After they got caught, the BBC restored the originals, but luckily the wayback machine saved their edits. Imaging doing photo work for the BBC and one of your duties is to gloom up all the China and Russia photos.
Very, the generics aren’t allowed here. Here’s just one case. Unfortunately the US government doesn’t keep statistics on how many deaths are caused by lack of ability of people to pay for their meds.
Noice. Youtube has great guides for getting a sourdough starter going, and then good recipes by professional bakers once you have that. You start with a basic recipe, then hone to your liking after doing it for months, then start to get into fancy additions and such. But having fresh bakery-quality bread is totally worth the effort.
Sourdough takes like two weeks to get a starter going, then you have to keep feeding it to keep it alive (like once a week in the fridge). But then you can use that to make good, bakery-quality bread for years. Its a deep rabbit-hole but very worth it in terms of how cheap it is in the long-run, and quality.
o7 comrade. The fact that liberals can’t just wander over and be like “gulag stalin 420 uyghurs, yikes amirite”, has made this so much better than reddit already. Mandatory inspections at the door ( IE the applications ) are keeping them out. We still gotta be vigilant tho, red guards stay on alert for liberalism.
This could be a scary thing too, because the new comment bumping of threads like they used to do many years ago on youtube, meant the 2 most assholish reply-debater-guys who would absolutely not concede a point, would be the top of every comment thread. But here, since we actually enforce the “be respectful” rule, it does a good job of keeping threads alive and promoting new input like you say.
A warning that vice media isn’t to be trusted: it was founded by gavin mcinnes, ya know, the US hipster white supremacist who founded the proud boys, and for most of its history is owned by rupert murdoch, and disney.
They push a pro-US foreign policy by interviewing a small number of kooks in these countries, and packaging it in a hipster way that’s appealing to younger ppl (like that time they interviewed reactionary rich venezuelans and painted them as the whole population), and ignore the masses. The top comment on this video suggests they did the same to Crimea.
Its best to think of vice as millenial and genz fox news.
