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Is China actually going to implement market based reforms like Yellen suggested? What’s the outcome of this visit?
Seems like the outcome was thanks, but no thanks. XD https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4201913
what the fuck is this guy taking about?
written by IMF lmao
But doesn’t represent the views of the IMF lol
in this case, “the whole thing” is the USSR
i got that
then I’m confused about the question
I read a bit about this guy, seems like a run of the mill western china expert.
Let me guess, Iran?
Kashmir Mountains , Sialkot City , Punjab Province , Pakistan .
¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
This is actually so…I don’t have the words for it. Feeling a pit in my stomach. The combination of the picture and the “temporarily closed” when they know full well what’s going on just makes me want to cry.
I’m having my first week off of work since July and I feel like it was much needed. I’ll be making plans for my upcoming move and I will travel with my friend’s van for a few days. This weekend I spent visiting my gf’s dying grandfather in the heart of the Dutch Bible Belt. The contrast with my daily life was interesting to say they least. Yesterday I had an Easter brunch with friends and we visited a gay couple’s city garden next to a church where they planted a lot of different herbs with which they served tea. It was a lovely place.
Anyway, I feel more alive now. I hope you all have a nice week.
I’m going to meet Vijay Prashad next week so like
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do y’all have any questions I should ask him? I can try to get some in if he’s available toward it.
Did he have any disagreements with Noam Chomsky when coauthoring a book with him?
there are 2 books now
Oh god.
he recently visited south korean parliament for some sessions. can you ask more details about that? i can’t find any online.
that sounds like a good one
No questions but that’s really neat, and I hope it’s a great, informative time!
thank you!
ask him about his honest opinion on cpi (m)'s blatant revisionism
what kind of revision, in case asked for clarification
right deviationism, they have been exceedingly liberal, socdem at best in the states they have attained power in, and have engaged in counter revolutionary events like that in nandigram. moreover the party’s violent policy against the cpiml in the 70s is partly the reason the naxalbari movement turned out the way it is rn.
In what context will you meet him? Are you going to interview him or just casual?
he’s doing a speech on campus, although I wish I was cool enough to be the one interviewing him
I did a test by a newspaper to see if you are left or right wing and lo and behold I am a left wing progressive
This is a complete blindside. Your politics have always been an enigma and you’ve left many baffled with where you lie on the spectrum. Especially with the suspicion right wing post yesterday…. Hmm
Well the weird thing is: afterwards the quiz showed how other voters of specific parties ended up on the political compass. Most of the voters from our party were economically and social-culturally left of course, but there were also quite a few who were economically and social-culturally right wing. Which doesn’t make sense at all. Why vote for a marxist party? Lol.
I could actually believe that.
For the socially right wing people, we’ve seen them on the grad constantly. They’re the people who might be full marxists, but then despise LGBT people because they’re devout Muslims or Christians, or they were raised in an environment with those ideals and never shook them. Or they’re the people that are so extremely anti-racist that they end up become racist themselves. Or people that want socialism but only for chauvinist and protectionist reasons while hating foreigners.
For the economic right wing, I blame that on the right having good optics with their “bootstraps”, “individual freedom” and other such slogans that entice people on the surface. Or they know nothing about economics and they choose right wing options because they simply sound good despite being disastrous.
In the three years of the revolution our ideas on this subject have changed greatly. A new philosophy, which has little m common with the old ideas, is in the making. Three years ago we regarded a merchant as a completely respectable person. Provided his accounts were in order and he did not cheat or dupe his customer too obviously, he was rewarded with the title of “merchant of the first guild”, “respected citizen”, etc. Since the revolution attitudes, to trade and merchants have changed radically. We now call the “honest merchant” a speculator, and instead of awarding him honorary tides we drag him before a special committee and put him in a forced labour camp. Why do we do this?’ Because we know that we can only build a new communist economy if all adult citizens are involved in productive labour. The person who does not work and who lives off someone else or on an unearned wage harms the collective and the republic. We, therefore, hunt down the speculators, the traders and the hoarders who all live off unearned income. - Alexandra Kollontai
Can we add this unfathomably based quote?
ATTENTION CITIZENS OF GRAAD
hi
I agree with this article a lot! We need more unity in the organization.
https://www.cpusa.org/article/strategies-for-organizational-unity-and-action/
you know the drill. boycott google
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/
What’s a good follow up to Settlers? Incredibly blackpilling book, surely, but surely there’s a follow up discussing things that can be done.
Maybe some texts on Black Liberation in US? From the BPP or Angela Davis for instance.
Not a bad idea, I still need to finish Women Race and Class by Angela Davis.
Read Hinterland
Wasn’t Rainer Shea recommending that?
I hope not, but it’s definitely not something that he should like, and he’s probably just cherry-picking whatever agrees with him while negating others.
I think I downloaded that book when I liked Shea on his recommendation. I can’t find the post, but I did find a recent pro-Hinkle one💀.
Yeah, it’s not something that PatSocs should like and they’re just cherry-picking.
The book Hinterland by Phil A. Neel is a good book though.
Red Deal (read my Marx madness if you like audio)
Nitter is dead, right? How should I go about accessing Twitter now?
dont, its the sign that you should leave twitter for good
What happened to Nitter?
Twitter changed their API and killed the service purposefully.
I shouldn’t be surprised anymore. Invidious instances are being hit too.
