The implications of this article are pretty grim.
It sounds like biden is going to use title vii to pull funding from colleges who don't stop pro Palestinian protests which means colleges will Crack down on protesters and ask cops to cracks down as well
In classic neoliberal fashion, biden doesn't seem to want the fed to do the thing he wants done but to cynically use funding and bureaucratic mechanisms to force local and state governments to do it - it is how he forced open schools during the covid waves under his presidency 2
Internet maoists would've called sankara a chinese compredore... I'm sure they already call him a bunch of names but they would call him this if he was still alive
"I asked the Jewish partisans whether they accept any responsibility for the holocaust but instead they took me down a history lesson of things I already knew"
These people are fucking monsters
I pressed senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan on whether Hamas accepts any responsibility for the loss of civilian life in Gaza, which residents have told CNN they believe it does. He wouldn’t answer and instead took me on a history lesson of events he didn’t know I witnessed
Lenin said marxists should exhaust every avenue of change in order to demonstrate 2 libs the correctness of marxism but 2 many people on here won't even work w their friends and neighbors because they aren't already marxists. "Marxism" to these people is just a way to feel smart
I don't think all this should he boiled down to "mass action v. Direct action" or "Marshals v. Marchers"
what it really boils down to is "organization v. Spontaneity"
Wreckers are trying to force people into violence w cops w/out warning or planning for how to deal with that
@AresRound3
@doodlesdan
Then stop crying about people refusing to vote for someone committing a genocide. If you can win without everyone opposed to genocide than do it and shut up
China’s housing slump is much worse than official data shows.
- Government figures = prices for existing homes dropped 6% since August 2021
- Property agents and private data providers = at least 15% drop in prime neighborhoods of cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen
@SwampCommunist
The last time I got polled on my cell phone I laughed and said "I'm a marxist leninist" and the lady said "ok? Um... I'll put you down as very liberal" 🤷
Also also watch this amazing interview from last week with the national chair of
@uspcn
who have been organizing huge and amazing protests in support of the liberation of Palestine!
If you are in that weird ACP thing or following vocal people on here who are, I'm going to unfollow you because I don't respect you if you are even tangentially related to that money laundering, republican light, careerist nonsense
Without mass actions I wouldn't have been able to even start organizing. My kid is older now, but he came to everything i did when he wasn't as did my wife etc.
We aren't building a fight club - we are building a party for the entire class, including families and disabled people
"Marxists shouldn't join any organization because they are all revisionist, manipulative, and just trying to get your money - also dont forget to like and subscribe and consider signing up for patrion page so we can win the revolution one youtube click at a time" 💀
Recently I've seen a growing sentiment on here of "fuck the masses" but I didn't think it would turn into "only able bodied adults who are physically prepared to fight cops and can afford to get arrested are allowed to take part in the struggle"
But here we are
Someone on Facebook just accused the "houthis" of committing genocide against the "tutsi" and I don't think I've seen a better representation of how bad the US media has failed at informing people about what is happening re Yemen generally
I WISH 17k people could be deployed for a yellow action. It would bring tears of joy to my eyes
But that isnt what happened and tricking people into it isnt how we get to a point where it could happen
We bring people in by keeping people safe- not by throwing them to the wolves
Ultra leftism is rejecting the necessary work of building revolution because it offends your high minded ideals
Ultra leftism isn't correctly recognizing that the US is a prison house of nations and uniting with the struggle against national oppression
@mageta649
@codet_t
It so bizzar that this is true.
I had a zionist student tell me that "israelis" view European jews as weak for "allowing the Holocaust to happen to them" once and I was so flabbergasted, I was speechless
@crystal4obama
@CommunityNotes
Yeah and if protesting in support of Palestine is considered anti Semitic and can be used to file a complaint under title VI then it can be used as pretext to pull funding forcing the school to stop protests against genocide. Read what u just wrote in context
Hence "implication"
Just to have a post to share when ultras claim bullshit:
No one was kettled at the March on the DNC
Marshals did great getting between cops/wreckers & marchers which y they're there
The march was a huge success w thousands of people telling the dnc we will not support genocide
Anyone who has ORGANIZED a direct action has seen the real discussions that go on in the background about going to jail and jail support etc. That is how organized direct action happens - not by shoving a grandmother face first into the cops
@Solidarity_Star
FRSO has the best theory of revolution and is actively putting it into practice with a functioning dem cent structure and multiple levels of membership which creates room for those who aren't able to be as active as others. I recommend every ML join FRSO.
@NobleQAli
You're wrong on this one. It is so completely out of the ordinary that it is itself a feat of note.
If he drops 1 more he arguably has an LP dropped in a week
@555_Puddin
I see only wrong people have commented so far. To be the first not ridiculous person to comment:
China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, and the DPRK are curerently existing socialist countries.
Thinking "israel owns the US government" is not only wrong and based on an anti semetic trope but it also is apologia for the US imperialists and counter revolutionary in where it places the main ire of our fight.
Seeing people on my timeline fighting about which small group is the "real communist party" is like waking up to a really depressing cup of coffee
Neither of u r the "real communist party" there is no "real communist party" in the US & doing what u're doing isnt going to build 1
People romanticize socialism in theory, but in practice, it leads to misery. Just ask my constituents!
The youth romanticizing socialism are lucky to have free speech in the USA; under socialism, they could never!
As the revolution took shape stalin made the point that the more support the revolution has the less amount of violence will be needed to overthrow the state - he said marxists should avoid fetishizing violence.
@OfHomoSapiens
@jerlevi
It is literally legally battery and using physical force is legally self defense. Unwanted touching of your person or anything on your person is battery and you can use reasonable force to defend yourself against it.
Reminder that we actively support the victory of one side. We don't oppose war as an abstract or support "peaceful" occupation, exploitation, and oppression. We understand that war can only be abolished through war.
The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally.
@NathanJRobinson
They've thrown in the towel. I'm convinced at this point that they don't want or expect to win. The genocide of Palestinians is more important to their interests than winning and they know they need a republican to do it without outright ending their party.
@Solidarity_Star
It's a children's book written by a racist, homophobic, anti communist cop... It is Harry Potter for people who grew up before harry potter
@MaryGao
So y was poverty so drastically reduced in China while growing in the US and other places?
Is ur argument that Chinese people r just more hardworking or ? Seems like an odd argument when the government's policies would appear to he specifically aimed at achieving the outcome
A major shout out to all of my mutuals who have organized, attended, or materially supported pro Palestine protesters over the last couple weeks.
You're amazing; you're proletariat heroes and comrades; keep fighting! We have a world to win.
What frustrates me about ultra leftists isn't that they represent some other path of struggle that I merely don't agree with. It is that they represent NO path forward because for all of their bluster in dismissing the actual work getting done they never DO anything but complain
A marxist not in an organization is like a flower without roots.
Podcasts, fan clubs, and purely reading groups don't count - that's like be a flower without roots placed in a cup with no water.
And that isn't to say we can control the cops but we all say fuck the cops when they beat up anyone for any reason. The divide is whether we believe in organizing foreseeable confrontations w them or just try to force people into it. The latter alienates people
You know what a marxist is called who disregards the importance of winning over and serving the masses and thinks they are some kind of lone soldier super revolutionary.
A liberal
Don't be a liberal
@32digits
@eanicus
@RefuseRaccoon
@TheOmniLiberal
Well black people still are treated as second class citizens and you are still arguing that their tactics are why just as white supremecists always have. Hence blah blah blah you know what you're doing
Haywood noting that the US NEEDS a strategic alliance between the nat oppressed and multi nat wc is important for a bunch of reasons but one that I think a lot of people - both ultras and rightists - ignore is the point is that neither can have a successful rev without the other
"Israel isn't committing a genocide!"
Then what are they doing? A month in & they've achieved nothing but murdering civilians and destroying civilian infustructure? Using modern guided weapons, they've done nothing but what someone would do if their goal was to commit a genocide
In Left Wing Com. Lenin points out the distinction between something being theoretically irrelevant and practically irrelevant. This is a really important lesson for ML to keep in mind. Just because something isn't relevant to U doesn't mean is has become irrelevant to the masses
I think stalin was right in marxism and the national question and I think haywoods writing pretty neatly explains how the black belt fits it.
The critiques I've seen of the former seem tangential at best and critiques of the latter are usually just white chauvanism
The idf doesn't believe over a million people can just get up and pack into a small area with already over a million people in it
Their order is a sarcastic joke they came up with when some western countries told them to minimize civilian casualties
Most countries r turning their back to the US in the UN, diplomats r saying relationships w the gs are irrevocablly destroyed, bidens own staff is asking 4 forgiveness 4 working w him.
No one believes Israel didn't bomb that hospital
I'm sitting in class reading about a hospital being bombed, seeing over the shoulders of my classmates that they're playing video games, while my teacher talks about contract damages and I'm getting kind of freaked out at the juxtaposition of it all
I joined FRSO during the struggle for cpac right before the unity ordinance of ecps was won. Correct analysis and application of the Nat Q was a big part of this historic victory. I wanted to be a part of an org that sets material goals and wins - I've never felt disappointed
For those who don't get it - the hostage trade is a huge victory for the resistance. It is the deal they demanded weeks ago. It is the product of "israel" achieving nothing in the way of military objectives because of the resilience of the Palestinian people.
A few weeks ago there was discourse about the need to put theory into practice because devoid of practice theory can lead to a blind allies that hinder practical work - the last week I've seen people use theory to make excuses for why they cannot take part in practical work
The only way to believe the "left" is full of purely online, unserious, people is to admit that your only exposure to ML is being online.
There are active, principled, and militant ML revolutionaries all over the country doing more work than any1 could reasonably expect.
We have "marxists" in the US who unabashedly take the position that the genocide of Palestinians is not only fine but MUST be actively supported because the alternative is fascism in the United States. Just sit and think about that for a second.
"🤔I'm starting to think these college kids didn't just go grab the camping gear they had in their garage. What is this, some kind of planned protest tactic and not a spontaneous camping trip?! 😡" - this clown
Something odd about those campus tent encampments. Almost all the tents are identical - same design, same size, same fresh-out-of-the-box appearance.
Which suggests that rather than an organic process, some organization has supplied them and organized the event.
Or if hamas had done nothing. Or if hamas didn't exist. Or if hamas was made up of nothing but clones of Gandhi, mlk, and Mandela. Etc etc etc
Complete genocide and ethnic cleansing is and has been the goal of zionism since its inception
Family Tree of FRSO, simplified and less simplified. Obviously has flaws (trying to shoehorn in a way to talk about the ORU's technical connection the the old CP was a non-starter and arguably the RWH was founded in '77 as a faction) but still better than the old ones.
@SwampCommunist
I picked the wrong one. The correct strategy is to struggle along side the masses and internally in mass orgs with the masses to demonstrate the correctness of marxism. I think that is better represented by the first option
The Palestinian resistance achieved more military goals in 12 hours on 10/7 using guns you can buy at walmart in texas and gluiders than "israel" has in 5 weeks using the most sophisticated military tech the west has to offer.
Anyone telling you to not organize is an agent of reaction; if they're trying to get paid for telling you that, they're at best an opportunist.
Join frso and actively struggle along side the masses in a mass org as well.
There are no shortcuts to winning over the masses.
u can call for a general strike until u're blue in the face, if the workers don't trust u it doesn't matter.
u can proclaim urself the king of any kind of struggle you want, but if the masses don't trust you, it doesn't matter