February 2012
The music industry criminalizes file sharing yet...
Something only Maoists understand:
Anyone who does not criticize Mao isn’t a Maoist.
“The local authorities (of provinces, districts, or municipalities) actually play...”
– Charles Bettelheim on production planning during the Mao era of the PRC.
“[T]he only historically existing (left) ‘critique’ of the fundamentals of the...”
– Louis Althusser
This is so true. The actual socialism that was being put into practice in the PRC up to 1976 is a better critique of Stalin’s failures than anything ultra-leftists, anarchists and even Trotskyists can write about Stalinism.
It's completely impossible to support both Mao and...
One of the prime forces behind the Cultural Revolution was getting the capitalist roaders like Deng out of power.
Farmers, Mao, and Discontent in China: From the... →
An honest and balanced analysis of the Great Leap Forward by someone who both lived in Maoist China (had worked on a collective farm just after GLF) and who has spoken to many peasants who experienced the GLF.
Dongping Han also compares the conditions and attitudes of peasants during the GLF with the circumstances of China today under capitalist restoration.
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a-higher-level replied to your photo: Been reading about Mao, both his own works and…
I don’t know about his theorizing about revolutionary dynamics, but he was a piss-poor Marxist from a philosophical standpoint, also that 40+ million deaths doesn’t exactly lend him credibility…
I used to think the very same thing believe me. I thought his idea of New Democracy (and the bloc of four...
Gaza's only power station closes →
verbalresistance:
The authorities in Gaza say the Palestinian territory’s only power station has shut down because of a lack of fuel.
The closure is believed to be caused by a shortage in fuel being supplied through smuggling tunnels from Egypt.
Power cuts, already common, are expected to increase. The station provides around 30-40% of Gaza’s electricity.
The rest of the electricity used by...
Help here!
So I’ve been debating black history month on facebook with some people. Like me, these guys are all white. This all started when one of them posted that infamous Morgan Freeman exchange with a journalist about black history month. I basically tried to explain the importance of black history and why it should be celebrated and taught. They retorted some of the typical...
Incompetence: Just A Quick Note to Atheists (From... →
thefullmetalbitch:
Being an atheist does not erase privilege. This includes white privilege.
This also includes cis privilege, CNDP privilege, and het privilege.
Seriously, being an atheist does not erase your white privilege.
Criticizing exclusively (majority) non-white religions is racist. This includes Islam.
The existence of white Muslims does not invalidate this point.
Black...
Repulsive liberal hypocrisy →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Glen Greenwald
During the Bush years, Guantanamo was the core symbol of right-wing radicalism and what was back then referred to as the “assault on American values and the shredding of our Constitution”: so much so then when Barack Obama ran for President, he featured these issues not as a secondary but as a central plank in his campaign. But now that there is a...
Instead of doing my homework today I have:
-Watched Series 2 of the UK Office.
-Read about the Polish-Soviet War and the Hungarian Revolution.
-Read Lenin’s early works.
-Met with some comrades and had coffee.
-Considered joining WWP regardless of my disagreements with its party-line because of all of the great (and most importantly, active) people I know from there.
-Didn’t write a damn sentence for the chemistry report I...
“The proletariat seizes from state power and turns the means of production into...”
– Engels
Just an FYI for erryone
mediumtrip:
> Things you shouldn’t compare to the Holocaust: things that aren’t the Holocaust.
> Things you shouldn’t compare to rape: things that aren’t rape.
> Things you shouldn’t compare to slavery: things that aren’t slavery.
> Things you shouldn’t compare to homophobia or transphobia: things that aren’t homophobia or transphobia.
It’s that simple.
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture,...”
– Mao
Isn't it so fucking poignant that while the U.S....
A dialectical analysis of the situation in Syria →
This is a few months old and I usually don’t agree with WWP’s line on a lot of things, but this is totally on the mark. Any type of military intervention by the U.S. on behalf of any non-European country has always resulted in the U.S. taking over that region. If the U.S. and NATO actually cared about the Syrian people, they would get rid of the sanctions that hurt the Syrian working...
I’m not a big fan of steak, not by a long shot. But recently I’ve been having an obsession with anything that is a combination of steak and eggs ever since having an incredible Mexican burrito that had steak, egg, cheese, chunks of potato, jalapenos, rice, etc. Omg I want it now!
Don't know much about the history of Superbowls,...
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Goddamn it!!! I give YOU a week to get that shit...
FUCKING UNRELIABLE!!!!!
Okay so I figured I’d try helping ***** out by re-designing the template of their website. I thought ***** was the only one who was behind designing and maintaining the site. Now the template of the site was quite muddled and really just not user-friendly (the header was often pixelated, the whole site wasn’t very well organized in general, in fact it was a pain to use). So I just...
"Socialism never fails!"
brosephstalin:
communismkills:
Hello?
Someone’s on the phone.
Oh, it’s Greece.
The cradle of democracy.
And by democracy, we mean the majority voting to take away the wealth of the minority, AKA majority tyranny, AKA the exact thing the Founders were terrified of.
Capitalism never fails!
Hello?
Someone’s on the phone
Oh, it’s Greece, Italy, the US, and Ireland
Yeah! Democracy sucks!...
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I make an appearance in Worker's World →
Page 7.
It's nice to feel like somebody important. . .
Doing an interview with Reuters in an hour....
Mumia Abu-Jamal: For a Revolutionary Black History... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Column written 1/21/12
As we once again approach February, the papers and TV stations will feature programming that shows more Black faces than usual. Some will show movies, some documentaries and some will feature history in celebration of Black History Month.
Undoubtedly, Martin Luther King Jr’s epic “March on Washington” speech will be samples, its grainy, black and...