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I'd rather take the rock and the stick and kill vampires.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
I'm guessing you are one of those "poor [that] see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
The lack of class solidarity is definitely a major problem to be overcome.
The technical term often used is "recuperation". Any innovation in radical evolution of culture is seen as a threat to the status quo, so recuperation comes in to co-opt the radical impulse and funnel it back into the status quo in a manner that is not destabilizing to exist structural power.
The classic example is media piracy like napster, bit-torrent, etc being co-opted into streaming services, itunes, etc. Service the desire that animated the radical impulse while reinforcing the existing power structures, foreclosing the potential threat. Enshittification often follows shortly after the enclosure has been successful.
Quorum sensing is an important factor in processes of quantitative change reaching a point where qualitative change is possible. This is just how social dynamics work. You're welcome to encourage more people to join the push for a general strike or other local organizing groups and parties, but a mass of people will be necessary to bring about qualitative changes.
We need a general strike to start. It has to be big enough that is disrupts the ongoing social order, then revolution. Unfortunately many people are appeased by their treats and unwilling to commit to opposing the status quo in any effective way.
got to run before you can fly
but the history
Being historically illiterate is the core of fascist sycophants.
Put a racist misogynist in US justice system for a few days, and they suddenly care about the treatment of those they gleefully disparaged for years. How the turntables. Give him a few weeks and maybe he'll reconsider his perspective a tiny bit (probably not, but it's worth a try).
Liberals (Homer) trying to stand against fascism (the giant elephant).
China and the USSR saved the world from the fascism before, and the liberals will never forgive them for it.
Sorry, it's pretty clearly stated in this interview by Lucas.
Precisely.
quote take from this interview:
Elián says, "I can drink American beer but Americans cannot drink Cuban rum. Who is free?"
“As long as this war is being fought, you know, vigilantly and courageously, by our Ukrainian friends, Europe is safe.”
- German diplomat and head of the Munich Security Conference Wolfgang Ischinger
this is “what the Ukrainians want us to do”
- European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner
The only two countries with significant Muslim populations that have voted at the UN to condemn China's treatment of Uyghurs are in Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Both are also currently NATO members or in the process of joining.
All other Muslim countries have consistently voted in support of China's treatment of Uyghurs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China#Joint_letters_at_the_United_Nations
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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) visited China as part of a greater investigation into the treatment of Muslims in non-OIC member states. On 1 March 2019, OIC produced a document which "commends the efforts of the People's Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens." A coalition of American Muslim groups criticized the OIC's decision and accused member states of being influenced by Chinese power. The groups included the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
After Palestinian ambassador to China Fariz Mehdawi [ar] visited Xinjiang in March 2021, he remarked on Chinese state media that he was impressed by the region's infrastructure and upkeep of mosques,[166] saying "if you have to calculate it all, it's something like 2,000 inhabitants for one mosque. This ratio, we don't have it in our country. It's not available anywhere."[167] RFA journalist Shohret Hoshur wrote in response that Mehdawi was neglecting the harsh reality of locals with whom he had met and who had no ability to speak the truth under the watch of officials, adding that his true motivation seemed to be a shared anti-US agenda with China.[154]
[167] https://web.archive.org/web/20241226072827/https://www.workers.org/2023/06/71505/
chances are, you're basically a posadist already
we're all waiting for something...
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