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

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Lol, does tesla actually use javascript in their car software? God help us.

I want to read Este’s book really bad, its on my list.

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.

Ya he rules… Its exciting times ahead now that the EU is having so many problems and NATO is finally being stopped its tracks. If there’s a list of countries that are most likely to turn communist, Russia and Belarus are near the top.

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.

Incredibly sad. I wonder how the push for reviving the Scots language compares with Irish?

Nato has started (or been involved in establishing US dominance in) 5 wars just in the past 30 years: attacking / overthrowing Iraq (twice), overthrowing Yugoslavia, overthrowing Libya, overthrowing Afghanistan, attacking Syria.

Covid has been a godsend for the US government in helping them eliminate some of the surplus population, mainly the elderly who are a drain on public health resources from their point of view.

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”?

You realize also that socialist Vietnam fought a war against Pol Pot right?

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:

https://imgur.com/a/xgnEp

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.

John Mearsheimer on the history of NATO in Ukraine.

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