Aug 7, 2022Y’all ever read Stalin’s interview with HG Wells?
Super underrated, I actually think it’s a great beginner text for outlining the differences between Marxism and Liberalism. HG Wells is obviously rather naive, but it’s clear he has a lot of respect for Stalin. I actually had my mom read it a few years back and she enjoyed it and I think it helped her understand the dividing lines between my thought and hers a bit better
Aug 7, 2022·1 replySEGA GOON
The Wall Street funded the Bolsheviks conspiracy is one of the best oat
- Aug 7, 2022·1 replykrishna bound
The Wall Street funded the Bolsheviks conspiracy is one of the best oat
1917 Revolution being a German or American or Jewish conspiracy is a very common theory tbh
- Aug 7, 2022·1 replySEGA GOON
1917 Revolution being a German or American or Jewish conspiracy is a very common theory tbh
that's true but this is a more specific conspiracy that Wall Street funded Lenin because Wall Street is actually marxists. it's not an ethnic/national conspiracy
amazon.com/Wall-Street-Bolshevik-Revolution-Capitalists/dp/190557035X
- Aug 7, 2022·1 replykrishna bound
that's true but this is a more specific conspiracy that Wall Street funded Lenin because Wall Street is actually marxists. it's not an ethnic/national conspiracy
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Bolshevik-Revolution-Capitalists/dp/190557035X
saw someone rec that book on ktt lmao
- Aug 7, 2022·1 replyWomanpuncher69
saw someone rec that book on ktt lmao
ive mentioned it in other threads as an example of how historical justifications cant be retroactively claimed from their result vs their initial intention
- Aug 7, 2022·1 replykrishna bound
ive mentioned it in other threads as an example of how historical justifications cant be retroactively claimed from their result vs their initial intention
nah not you another poster i don’t remember recommending the book for someone to read as a good book against the USSR
- Aug 7, 2022Womanpuncher69
nah not you another poster i don’t remember recommending the book for someone to read as a good book against the USSR
was it @NawfsideRanger?
- Aug 7, 2022
the bureaucratic & media reaction in america to monkeypox and the connected policy is basically proof that american-lead liberalism is going to legitimately either implode into complete destruction or suicide itself off the face of the planet
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Moving into my dorm next weekend can’t wait to impress girls with my understanding of imperialism in the global south
- Aug 7, 2022·1 replySepah
Moving into my dorm next weekend can’t wait to impress girls with my understanding of imperialism in the global south
wait till u find out 75% of the people there are liberal/conservatives
- Aug 7, 2022·2 repliesWomanpuncher69
wait till u find out 75% of the people there are liberal/conservatives
Going to a hbcu ion think it’s gonna be as bad
Aug 7, 2022SepahGoing to a hbcu ion think it’s gonna be as bad
It will be
- Aug 7, 2022·1 replySepah
Going to a hbcu ion think it’s gonna be as bad
Our heroes: Kamala Harris, Killer Mike, and the guy who created BET
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deadaccgood article i read recently by adam johnson of citations neede
https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/people-feel-unsafe-because-visible
"A Washington Post article this week largely echoing Starbucks corporate’s claim that it’s shuttering its D.C. Union Station store due to “safety fears” is par for the course for this genre. As I laid out last week, Starbucks is pursuing closures that disproportionately affect stores that are unionized, or are about to unionize, using “crime” as a pretext. At the same time, the company is using the broader narrative of “Blue City Business Shut Down Due to Weak-on-Crime Libs” to contribute to a heightened political climate of anti-Black Lives Matter backlash. The Washington Post piece, to its credit, does air some skepticism about Starbucks’ self-serving claims from Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, and then casually mentions that crime is actually down at Union Station. But it’s one of 1,000 such articles of late, a popular and impactful genre of Vibes Crime Reporting, conflating actual violence with the American public’s perception—which, as we all know, has historically not been the most sober and even-keeled gauge of reality.
But it is a phenomenon worth interrogating because it has tremendous political consequence.
“Safety” is a curious word because it could mean actual instances of violence, but also includes the perception of potential violence. Homelessness is used interchangeably with crime despite it not being one—beyond a social one inflicted upon homeless people, rather than carried about by them. Countless headlines and news broadcasts daily conflate poverty with crime. It’s so routine one hardly notices:
But I think it’s very important that those on the left, abolitionists, and anyone who desperately wants our society to fundamentally rethink how we address issues of public safety, not be precious about this—not act as if it’s only rich, white latte liberals and conservatives driving the post-Black Lives Matter backlash. Poll after poll after poll shows “crime” is an urgent concern for all races and class demographics, and it has little to do with crime stats as such. This isn’t to say poor communities aren’t experiencing crime—obviously they are, especially gun violence—but this has long been the case. The Vibes may be unscientific, but they are real.
What’s changed, I argue, is three factors: (1) Murder rates are objectively on the rise, even as other crime falls or remains static. They have fallen of late in some cities, but it is broadly true that murders have increased since 2019. This is not a media creation. (2) Our media, however, routinely inflates the the prevalence of murder relative to its actual increase with tabloid and salacious headlines, in addition to outright lying about a rise in non-murder crimes. (3) There has been a sharp rise in Visible Poverty in urban areas. As disruptions by the pandemic created a whole host of externalities, pandemic aid was cut by bipartisan consensus, and rent prices spiral out of control, there are simply more visible poor people. This is what the aforementioned Post article is touching on, and a consistent theme in dozens of articles on the subject of “crime”: the current situation, more than anything, just feels unsafe. "
I don't agree with this article and I dislike how it's presented tbh. There's a holier-than-thou feeling in this article which is highly dismissive of claims of quality of life and equating the worries of the average person to the excuses utilized by corporations - corporations which are obviously taking advantage of those worries, they aren't the ones originating it.
I also don't understand why the fixation is specifically on murder/violence as the sole qualification of crime. Murder/violence rising in major cities is a problem, sure, but it's secondary to the spike in things like property crime, theft, burglary, etc. - most of which, again, is not primarily effecting businesses. I also dislike the dismissal of many of these claims as being sole worries of the white-collar bourgeois. Is this true in inflated communities like San Francisco? Probably. Is this true in a city like Philly which is still by comparison very much middle & working class? Absolutely not.
I don't disagree with every point in the article but I also don't understand why they so desperately want to act like there's fearmongering about quality of life declines and everything is just "salacious", as if the current beholders of policy are in any way worth defending (something they themselves basically admit isn't the case). Weird cope article to me - Aug 7, 2022
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Can someone please give me a brief primer on why people love/hate Caleb Maupin? I know there's something where he's heavily influenced by LaRouche but I'm not familiar enough w that stuff yet
Aug 7, 2022americanaI haven't even dug in to this story because i know that s*** is about to enrage me
- Aug 7, 2022fiveprestos
Can someone please give me a brief primer on why people love/hate Caleb Maupin? I know there's something where he's heavily influenced by LaRouche but I'm not familiar enough w that stuff yet
Basically his blind and uncritical support for ideas regarding “patriotic socialism” which is essentially planting the idea of national struggle and national liberation within the US. This is obviously a grossly inaccurate a***ysis of the “national sovereignty” that the US exercises as a result of its imperialist hegemony
This contradiction has grown into a tumor that will either have to rectify itself or collapse
- Aug 7, 2022fiveprestos
Can someone please give me a brief primer on why people love/hate Caleb Maupin? I know there's something where he's heavily influenced by LaRouche but I'm not familiar enough w that stuff yet
bro also can't handle tweets joking about him like doesnt understand the internet and basically claimed that he was a "populist" instead when he met with alexander dugin
- Aug 7, 2022fiveprestos
Can someone please give me a brief primer on why people love/hate Caleb Maupin? I know there's something where he's heavily influenced by LaRouche but I'm not familiar enough w that stuff yet
go to 1:04:11 might give u more context (i set the link to start there it didnt work)
- Aug 7, 2022fiveprestos
Can someone please give me a brief primer on why people love/hate Caleb Maupin? I know there's something where he's heavily influenced by LaRouche but I'm not familiar enough w that stuff yet
He’s basically a Third Positionist
- Aug 7, 2022fiveprestos
Can someone please give me a brief primer on why people love/hate Caleb Maupin? I know there's something where he's heavily influenced by LaRouche but I'm not familiar enough w that stuff yet
i don't know about maupin specifically but when it comes to virtually every online pundit-type figure its usually the same set of (valid) criticisms and i'd imagine its not very different here
-inconsistent views paired with a contradictory but constant need to champion their views as objective
-having a strong ego which prevents themselves from good faith engaging in critique or admission of error or inconsistency
-partisanship by proxy, inadvertently or otherwise
-some form of contrarianism and/or denialism of status quo
-constant engagement with edrama or social media spats, which leads to all of the above
-inaccurate portrayal of views meant more to piss off opposition than actually achieve anything, again inadvertently or otherwise - Aug 7, 2022
