• Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 days ago

    Call me crazy but I find it very difficult to care about presidential election when we’re on the cusp of two potentially global wars that both candidates are all but promising to see through.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    9 days ago

    Here is a Dutch vid by marxist YouTuber Left Laser about both a pro Israel as a pro Palestine demonstration happening the same day in Amsterdam. The contrast between how demonstrators are treated is huge.

    It’s in Dutch so most of you won’t understand but it’s still interesting to see ground level footage of events unfolding.

  • Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 days ago

    If we had real foresight before WW2, we should have convinced Hitler to invade Zionist Israel. Have the fascists annihilate each other. If the only thing the Nazis cared about was ‘fighting world Jewry’, the logical thing to do would be to invade Israel, the center of it all.

    Of course, this never happened because:

    • hating Jews was only tangential to the Nazis’ real purpose of defending capital
    • Nazis and Zionists collaborated.
    • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 days ago

      I think that the Nazis wouldn’t have cared enough to invade at the time, the Nazis were busy fighting their biggest threats.

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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        8 days ago

        I mean I know it’s not true but I’m curious as to why they say it lol. Like, we do take sides when it comes to Xinjiang or perhaps Russia but I’ve never heard or seen anything about the Taliban???

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    10 days ago

    To all our US comrades on this site who are facing Milton: stay safe please and good luck. It seems to be an incredibly rough one.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    10 days ago

    In expected socdem fashion the Socdem Party and the Greens are saying they don’t want to 1) govern with us 2) see us govern at all and they’d rather get behind the ruling neolib parties that have been ruling for the last two decades. They’d rather go for another 6 years of racist austerity than for a leftist coalition.

    • comradecastroite@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      9 days ago

      We shouldnt give up hope yet - we got more then a few clandestine members in vooruit and groen that will try to help put pressure on their leadership after sunday. Ig its gonna depend on how high our score is although its no doubt gonna be hard w conner running things atm considering his love fest w de wever. It would be awesome to have a ml mayor of antwerp but i dont think its gonna be in the cards this time, we should be able to enter local gov in some other places though

    • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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      10 days ago

      Not that the Greens are the ones to talk. They are struggling to beat the election cutoff and might turn irrelevant in the city. The Socdems are doing a bit better but marginally so. Turns out neoliberal policies don’t go well with your left wing voters. Meanwhile 1 in 4 people voted for us in the national elections back in June. 1 in 4. We could very well have a coalition solely consisting of left wing parties to do whatever we want.

      But nope. Call us extremists instead and focus on the neolibs.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 days ago

      Historical Capitalism by Wallerstein is good and it’s short. Can’t really speak to Emmanuel but I believe the main work is the one on unequal exchange.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    10 days ago

    The media campaign against our party for the upcoming elections this Sunday is running on full force.

    They are afraid and it is great to see.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    I finished reading AntiDrug Capitalism(is from an author that could be considered trotskyist). If I could summarize the book in important points will be like this:

    • Cartel members and criminals served the imperialists to expand in markets that were locked away before.

    • Just in Mexico, cartel members served to purge places out of any resistance such as activists, indigenous people and others. This allowed the state and the imperialists to extract resources while reducing the likelihood of people organizing against it.

    • They also served to curve immigration by kidnapping immigrants and extorting them.

    • Every latin american country that received money from the USA to “fight the drug war” had spikes of violence.

    • Cartel members could be classified as counter insurgency. In other words, they are the capitalists dogs with the only purpose of destroying popular resistance and misleading working class people. They extort middle class people and petty bourgeoisie(small fruit stores, taco stores, convenience store) while benefitting the big capital(Walmart).

    If I could conclude, the USA is directly responsible for creating the ideal conditions to exploit latin america out of its resources and out of its people through cheap labor.

    • SadArtemis [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 days ago

      They did the same (but to a less extreme extent) in southeast Asia (the “golden triangle”) and of course in Afghanistan. TBH wherever there is organized crime (esp. drugs and human trafficking), terrorism, religious extremism and cults, fascism, or tribalism/separatism, look deeper and you’ll find the CIA amerikkka

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I finished reading AntiDrug Capitalism(is from an author that could be considered trotskyist).

      Man, trots can be interesting

      They can put succinct analysis like this, or end up being kooky as hell a la Larouche or Living Marxism, anti-Stalin line notwithstanding