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  • South Africa I guess would be another example but the whites are a small minority so it doesn't reflect my theory of not being revolutionary

  • fun guy

    do you think slaves were settlers?

    What slaves?

  • I never really studied Algeria so that might be an exception to my theory

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    PFLP optimisticman

    Maybe I wasn't being specific with what I was referencing with settler colonial societies. I would define those as places that were certainly colonized. But did not form a settler colonial identity that the country is now based on

    this only didn't happen because their were revolutions against settler colonialism. your initial assertion was that revolutions didn't happen in settler colonies. we've already disproven this.

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    Malakas

    Wht’s the best edition of Das Capital to read? I feel like if they’re selling it at Barnes and Noble its probably watered down

    should be in volumes for one, i had that problem as well. if its the penguin version then its probably solid, or that new translation that will tell you its new. ppl on here will suggest you precursory reading to make sure its easy to get in and you have a good grasp on the terminology

  • Malakas

    Wht’s the best edition of Das Capital to read? I feel like if they’re selling it at Barnes and Noble its probably watered down

    It’s not watered down if it doesn’t say abridged. The Penguin edition is great, and the new translation is supposed to be excellent.

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    Snowboy

    this only didn't happen because their were revolutions against settler colonialism. your initial assertion was that revolutions didn't happen in settler colonies. we've already disproven this.

    Ok that's true. But my position is its much too late in the USA. If there was ever a strong workers party that was able to maintain a place in government it would be different. At the end of the day the conditions have to be present. What do you think would cause the American working class to believe they truly need socialists in power?

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    PFLP optimisticman

    Ok that's true. But my position is its much too late in the USA. If there was ever a strong workers party that was able to maintain a place in government it would be different. At the end of the day the conditions have to be present. What do you think would cause the American working class to believe they truly need socialists in power?

    why would it be "too late"? the american southwest is only becoming more latino. black people are still a colonized mass. indigenous people are still scoring legal victories. anti-colonial revolution has never been off the table.

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    Snowboy

    why would it be "too late"? the american southwest is only becoming more latino. black people are still a colonized mass. indigenous people are still scoring legal victories. anti-colonial revolution has never been off the table.

    Cause the material conditions haven't changed. America is still an imperial power. Demographics do not change this fundamental fact. The American identity isn't simply racial. It can change form in whatever way it needs to protect capitalism

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    PFLP optimisticman

    Cause the material conditions haven't changed. America is still an imperial power. Demographics do not change this fundamental fact. The American identity isn't simply racial. It can change form in whatever way it needs to protect capitalism

    the American ruling class has never been able to build an effective neocolony. the closest attempt at doing so was Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War and it was a failure which gave way to Jim Crow and increased American apartheid.

    by your own admission their is no difference between the USA and the Zionist Entity. so why would decolonization be possible in one place and not another?

    there's no future for socialism on Turtle Island separate from decolonization. communism is the fusion of the socialist movement with the movement for decolonization, there is no alternative.

  • Snowboy

    the American ruling class has never been able to build an effective neocolony. the closest attempt at doing so was Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War and it was a failure which gave way to Jim Crow and increased American apartheid.

    by your own admission their is no difference between the USA and the Zionist Entity. so why would decolonization be possible in one place and not another?

    there's no future for socialism on Turtle Island separate from decolonization. communism is the fusion of the socialist movement with the movement for decolonization, there is no alternative.

    Well the Palestinian national identity is certainly different than any domestic minority group in America. But I agree with the rest

  • Redacting due to infosec concerns, but will share our full announcement once it is ready. This is just what I’ve been sending around to supporters but summarizes things well:

    The * Tenants Union will announce the union and submit our demands on 3/1. We will be having a press conference at the property on 3/2 at 2:00 PM as we expropriate the lawn that the landlord has taken away from them and is trying to sell off. The landlord tore down a large oak tree all the tenants loved, so after seizing the property we will plant a new oak tree this Sunday as part of the press conference, and convert the rest of the space to a community garden in the coming weeks. We are hoping to get a lot of supporters out Sunday to show the Union that Omaha has their backs, as this situation is going to escalate rather rapidly. Please feel free to let any sympathizers know to have people come out, but please keep things under wraps publicly until the announcement. This last part is very not public, but the Union voted to go on rent strike on 4/1/25 if our demands are not met and the rent increases are not rolled back. Thus it is really important we create a media spectacle and generate public support for the tenants, as they are entering highly uncharted territory for the state of Nebraska that could have serious ramifications for the movement going forward, which is why we’re trying to rally the community early on. We will have more information on ways to support the strike if/when that time comes once we make that public.

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    PKK have dissolved themselves. In honor of this occasion, here's Dev-Sol's critique of their revisionism from 2017.
    newsolution.fi/the-protocol-of-dhkp-c-and-the-pkk-and-developments

  • Snowboy

    PKK have dissolved themselves. In honor of this occasion, here's Dev-Sol's critique of their revisionism from 2017.
    https://newsolution.fi/the-protocol-of-dhkp-c-and-the-pkk-and-developments/

    remembering the time i was on my way to a palestine rally and accidently got myself into a pkk rally on the way there

  • in a different timeline America’s greatest accomplishment would’ve been lending trucks to the Soviets during land lease

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    its so funny seeing all the lib takes on trump and ukraine

    "trump and vance admire how anti-woke and authoritarian Putin is thats why they support him"

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    fun guy

    its so funny seeing all the lib takes on trump and ukraine

    "trump and vance admire how anti-woke and authoritarian Putin is thats why they support him"

    tbf most "communists" are just as clueless on the topic of imperialism, its why the response to this war has been so impotent or opportunistic or just plain dumb across the left.

  • PFLP optimisticman
    https://twitter.com/fan2Lissitzky/status/1894709901647106197

    Bro just imagine going back in time and actually showing Stalin and Trotsky this

  • Snowboy

    tbf most "communists" are just as clueless on the topic of imperialism, its why the response to this war has been so impotent or opportunistic or just plain dumb across the left.

    A lot of marxist Leninists who know nothing about lenins theory of imperialism

  • Mar 2

    Multipolarity is a sham

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  • A summary of the political philosophy of the average American