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>>2576673
This but unironically.
On the one hand, I'm sick of seeing Zelensky's face, but on the other hand, he's a reliable guard against Minsk 3.
Ambivalent.

>>2576676
No doubt, but that’s presumably also the reason why no one gets too offended by being told to resign essentially on the orders of the US, either Yermak is going to continue doing what he does in an unofficial capacity or he leaves Ukraine and keeps his head down.

Zelensky doesn't actually have any executive power, does he? He's head of state but that just means he's a figurehead he's like a Fisher Price Winston Churchill.

>>2576677
yeah, because for these western libs, 'corruption' is the only thing they care about, but only strategically, in specific circumstances and never mention to change the capitalist system.

>>2576684
No in this instance they don't even acknowledge the corruption. Ukraine is blameless in this conflict and there is no secondary motive behind western interest in the conflict so the Ukrainian government can do no wrong.



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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Black Friday Edition


🏈 💵Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich and the pedophile Hitlerite-Zionist clique of the American bourgeoisie and its iron grip upon the greatest bigliest country McGod™ ever gave McMan™ on the face of the McEarth™🌭 🍔

>Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid.

<Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
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>>2576595
I want our government to collapse if only so that monsters like this can eat shit

>>2576595
>be israeli
>most israelis live outside of israel
>volunteer to kill people that I really really hate
>those people I want to murder look exactly like me
<Fucking subhuman shitskins!!!!!!
>go back to glorious urope or US after serving in the SS diaperwanger division
>ICE spots my ass and shoots me for looking arab
Such is life.

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I dunno what Steve is complaining about, shooting at two random people is about as American as you can get. Sounds like he was integrated pretty well

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>>2576650
>destroy someone's country w/ imperialism
>create migrant crisis
>they rightly determine that your country is a good destination because it's the one places your bombs, sanctions, and coups never happen
>snap from PTSD and kill burger reich troops
<heheh ,this proves people should be locked inside of war zones and less free to move than the resources we loot
>rinse and repeat

btw these people want to mass migrate boers and banderites so don't believe a word they say when they pretend they're against it



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>>2576611
they should stop exporting to the FIRE economies and instead trade exclusively with Africa that actually has stuff to offer

>>2576631
the west would just "coincidentally" import a ton more from Africa if that happened

>>2576646
what can the west even offer? debt? Africa too has everything it needs for self sufficiency. once china breaks the chains and the continent industrializes its fucking over

>>2576652
True true, basically what's currently happening in Africa are the first stages of rapid industrialization, as Africa now demands that ressource extracting firms transfer the first steps of the refining process to the African continent itself. The next escalation will be the capitalists failing to resist that delicious and gigantic, young African labor pool, so they will outsource all manufacturing steps to Africa, and by then it will be too late. They will scream how Africans firms copy them and only produce junk, just how they complained about China, and South Korea and Japan before them and at the beginning it was Britain complaining about Germany. But by then you will know for certain that Africa has industrialized.




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I think that Mao the best communist leader of all time because of for the love of his country I bring the rule area in modern area together cultural revolution was based as fuck
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he isn't gonna fuck you bro

>>2576291
>Communism is when you love your nation

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO COMMUNISM????

>>2576534
>After that its just downhill for him from great leap forward to cultural revolution.
why

He was the best national socialist you could say…

>>2576666
Because they were failures? I don't see how anyone could look at the almost civil-war conditions of the cultural revolution and consider that to be successful. Dengs reforms were radical but ironically necessary. There were some really dogmatic irrational people in the party.



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A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
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📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
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>>2576629
and then the whole bus clapped

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Great video.
>Invest in North Korea, a Very Useful Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEYlbyVefo

>>2576653
The internet should only be used for pornography

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>>2576613
as is tradition

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"turns out conservatives and reactionaries are just dumb after all" edition.

news:
- Your Party is suing itself, more at 11.
- The SNP and Plaid are going to form a "progressive alliance" somehow
- The government's going to do a switcheroo by raising income tax slightly and cutting national insurance to balance it out. (But they won't - follow this to its logical conclusion and scrap NI entirely)
- They're also considering cutting VAT on energy bills (which is the least efficient way of lowering bills you can imagine)
- The board of deputies asked Aston Villa for free footy tickets. In a worrying sign of rising antisemitism, Aston said nah.
- Labour is falling behind the Greens in the opinion polls as their strategy of copying Reform drives away their already-begrudging supporters without winning over any Reform voting reprobates. Nobody could have predicted this.
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>>2576564
It's very funny that he seems to think only in cliches. I bet you could get him to call for "a hand up, not a hand out"…

>>2576598
Honestly I think he has been absorbed by the Westminster Blob quickly and effectively so yeah very possible.

Literally what do we do. I see no political solution to this dumpster fire. Only the unions, maybe, can effect it.

>>2576607
Let's just see how the YP conference goes, you can wait one more weekend before giving up

>>2576632
I've been out on a blank for the past several months. Didn't jezzas new party have the absolute worst start ever? I fought the leadership were confused and angry with each other.



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Are there any books defending the (for lack of a better word) "authoritarianism" of the USSR/DPRK and China?

A lot of the defenses of these countries I've seen from Marxists is to try and say they're not as authoritarian as we think or try and show how capitalist countries are equally or more authoritarian. But as someone who sees no problem with it is there any actual defense of the Communist Party having a strong influence?
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Pseudos be linking an image of library they found online without being able to articulate a single sentence in it

Losurdo comes to mind. Stalin a black legend has a lot of moments like that.

>>2576215
>Blackshirts and Reds is a pretty good one,
It was a dissapointment to me but im not trying to defend authoritarian socialism.

>>2576548
>authoritarian socialism
Buzzword

>>2576621
OP already prefaces "for a lack of a better word" you twitter brained troglodyte.



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Why do people use the industrialization and subsequent rise of the standard of living in Russia and China as proof of the success of socialism when neither countries were and are socialist. Socialism being defined as worker ownership of the means of production, as Marx defined, as opposed to state ownership and in the case of modern China with large parts of the economy privately owned. The success for these two countries is a testament to there size, abundance of resources and people. Germany was afraid of pre-revoultionary Russia and predicted by 1917 they would be no match for its growing might. China before the Second Sino-Japanese war was a lot more industrialized than people usually give it credit for, with most of its industrial base being destroyed by the war. And too give examples of two capitalist countries that being the United States and Germany. Both of them were able to surpass the United Kingdom due there larger access to resources and people. And not to mention the increased development of technology allowing industrializeing nations to catch up faster to their established piers. What allowed these countries to industrialize in the first place is a stable government and there ability to fight off foreign threats, which was not the case for Imperial Russia, Qing China and the ROC.
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>>2576288
Just read a book called "Privatizing Russia" by a bunch of neoliberals in the 90s, that claims Stalin's industrialization was a success because of "slave labor". No citation in the book of course.

>>2576609
>Muh inefficiency because no le property rights
Why are you reading that garbage?

>socialism is when industry

>>2576615
I wanted to read what neoliberals were saying early into Russia's privatization. A lot of pure ideological garbage. Neoliberalism is pure brain rot.

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>>2576332
Saudi Arabia does human trafficking and uses slave labor in their mega projects, plus uses women as sex slaves to do scat porn.
Imperial Japan killed 30 million people in WW2 and did human experimentation.



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