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 No.1314574[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

>4chan traffic at an all-time low
>"Generation Zyklon" meme failed miserably and zoomers are even more left-wing than millenials
>Conservatives losing elections the world over as the center-right was replaced by a bunch of extremist lunatics, nearly all American countries have liberal or leftist and Europe isn't too far behind
Why did they fail so badly?
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 No.1389107

That being said, if a Command Economy was once again implemented in Greece or Egypt how compatible might the cultures be compared to the times of the culture which was around during their Ancient Command Economy period?

Say for example if they maybe had an Egyptian Command Economy based on the principles of Pharaonism together with Socialist thought?

Abrahamic religious people such as Muslims try to depict Egypt under the Pharaohs as repressive and 'evil', also partly because of their command economy vs the Arabs' and Southern Roman cultures' more decentralized economy too?

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>>1389107
>That being said, if a Command Economy was once again implemented in Greece or Egypt how compatible might the cultures be compared to the times of the culture which was around during their Ancient Command Economy period?

Probably like 0%.

 No.1395087

>>1314574
It turned thousands of maleable kids into fashist sleeper agents

 No.1398613

I honestly… think the Internet has gotten less reactionary over time
Stuff like groypers are child's play compared to the shit that used to be regular online during say the Obama years
I think Trump expended all of their energy and now they're stuck talking like prepubescent children

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>>1398613
Yeah definitely. Everytime i see people freak out about chinlet's antics on social medias and such i never feel disturbed by it because it litteraly used to be the norm on the pre-2016 internet.
Pre-2016 internet was like you were watching a call of duty letsplay then the commentor start going on a rant about how we should round up blacks and torture homosexuals or something then the autoplay start loading a non-gaming video about how the jews stole your foreskin. Same with the degenerate RWer advocating for pedophilia etc it used to be really really commonplace back then, now even the dissident right isnt brave enough to really platform @lolicunni1488.
Also the only leaft leaning content creator online back then were obscure marxists channels with less than 1000 views per videos or lolcow-tier guys like Jason Unruhuesomething. I feel like the Trump era really provoked a reaction among the internet addicted youth that made lots of people become left wing or at least "anti-RW".



 No.686719[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Financial Grindset General =)
Moulinet Financier Général =)

Anyone happen to know a good area in Ontario to find a manufacturing job easily? Tired of lumpen hell tbh.
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 No.1395598

>>1385921
>>1385921
>>1395595
how about not cycling it
cyclical threads must be the most fucking useless and harmful function on imageboards, just let this thread get autoclosed and make a new one

 No.1395607

>>1395598
Anyone else agree with this sentiment?
The reason I have for cycling is because this is a regional general that is sort of a hang out space, so lot's of the same general sort of conversation, and it is big enough that it will hit the bump limit before too long. /Leftypol/ has a relatively low thread limit relative to it's frequency of posting and thread creation and there are fast threads lumped in with slow threads that might take days or weeks to be replied to, similar to say /edu/, therefore they may linger near the bottom of the catalog before being bumped with someone contributing an effortful and/or relevant post. That being said I believe that cycling popular regional generals like Canpol and USApol and Britpol and perhaps Auspol could be worth doing. I will add the anglophone threads I believe potentially have some more overlap with each other and other threads on leftypol, as a predominantly English language website. Which is different from the non anglophone generals which speak a specific language distinct from most other threads on the site, and which may include people not proficient in the English language. Feel free to give your thoughts here or in /meta/ and/or the congress room though.

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>>1395607
do like with cybersoc, archive and repost OP with link to archived pages.

 No.1397244

https://www.marxist.ca/article/one-million-canadian-youth-want-communism

A recent poll commissioned by the Fraser Institute, a right-wing “think tank,” found that 54 per cent of people aged 18-34 think that socialism would “improve the economy and well-being of Canadians.” The authors of the study were shocked and appalled at this finding. But it doesn’t end there. According to their poll, a whopping one million young Canadians say socialism isn’t enough, they say that communism is the ideal economic system.

 No.1398783

I hate Canada and its obsession with some idea of a timeless culture and society where you celebrate Christmas and Halloween and whatever other ploy to keep the shitty retail industry alive again and again



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 No.1392504[Reply]

What is the best version of the English internationale in your opinion?

For me, I think it's a tossup between the 2nd and 4th one here https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/international.htm
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>>1395361
EVRASIAN
NOMAD
COMMUNISM

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>>1395361
Higher quality

 No.1395587

This one's pretty dank and seems rare

 No.1395589

Also here's one that doesn't have so much production value but is pretty authentic

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 No.1398282[Reply]

Pakistan’s ex-prime minister Imran Khan leads rally, ignores arrest warrants
PAKISTAN’S former prime minister Imran Khan rallied thousands of supporters in Lahore today, even as two more warrants for his arrest were issued over his failure to appear before judges in corruption and terrorism cases. Supporters threw rose petals at the convoy carrying Mr Khan to the rally, which drew more than 5,000 people. Since his removal from office by a parliamentary no-confidence vote last April, he has routinely ignored arrest warrants and court summons in a string of cases against him, claiming that they are part of a plot by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to discredit him.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/pakistans-ex-prime-minister-imran-khan-leads-rally-ignores-arrest-warrants

AIKS-led 10,000-StrongKisan Long March Begins From Nashik With a 17-point Demand Charter
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) began a 10,000-strong Kisan Long March from Nashik to Mumbai on March 13 with a 17-point charter of demands—the most important demand concerns remunerative crop prices, especially onions. The crops include cotton, soybean, turn, green gram, hirda, etc. The onion farmers are particularly facing an acute crisis. The crash in onion prices for the past three weeks has brought thousands of farmers to their heels.
https://www.newsclick.in/aiks-led-10000-strongkisan-long-march-begins-nashik-17-point-demand-charter

Indian police arrest three after man killed for possessing beef
Police in India have arrested three men in eastern Bihar state in connection with the death of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was suspected of carrying beef, a police official said. The victim, Naseem Qureshi, 56, died earlier this week after being attacked by a mob on suspicion of carrying beef, the sale and consumption of which is restricted in some parts of the country by local governments.
https://www.aljazeera.com/nePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1398328

Aukus nuclear submarine deal loophole prompts proliferation fears
The Aukus scheme announced on Monday in San Diego represents the first time a loophole in the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been used to transfer fissile material and nuclear technology from a nuclear weapons state to a non-weapons state. The loophole is paragraph 14, and it allows fissile material utilized for non-explosive military use, like naval propulsion, to be exempt from inspections and monitoring by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/aukus-australian-submarine-nuclear-loophole-proliferation-fears

Biden announces bailout for wealthy depositors in Silicon Valley Bank
The Biden administration has approved a massive bailout for all depositors with the failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), announcing on Sunday evening that they would be able to withdraw all their money when trading begins today. The decision came at the end of a weekend of frantic discussions involving the Treasury Department, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the US Federal Reserve after the bank was taken over the FDIC on Friday following a $42 billion bank run the previous day.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/13/pdht-m13.html

Signature Bank becomes next casualty of banking turmoil after SVB
State regulators closed New York-based Signature Bank (SBNY.O) on Sunday, the third largest failure in U.S. banking history, two days after authorities shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB.O) in a collapse that stranded billions in deposits.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/new-york-state-regulators-close-signature-bank-2023-03-12/

Rumor sends hundreds of migrants rushing for U.S. border at El Paso, but they hit a wall of police
Frustrated by delays and difficulties in applying for asylum in the United States after journeys thousands of Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1398359

(TrueAnon)Episode 275: Planet Money
Freelance journalist Jacob Silverman joins us to talk about the collapse of Silvergate Capital, the shakedown of crypto, and his forthcoming series on Sam Bankman-Fried and the implosion of FTX’s billion-dollar fraud.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/planet-money

Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Shows Little Has Changed for Big Banks Since 2008
Every now and then, a development perfectly embodies everything that’s wrong with an era. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is one such development, the culmination of many years of financial recklessness, corporate entitlement, and corrupted political decision-making. The sixteenth-largest US bank by assets up until a few days ago, SVB’s implosion is the second-worst bank failure in US history and the worst since the dominos of the global financial crisis began falling in 2008. Founded in 1983, the bank was the go-to financial institution for the glut of Silicon Valley start-ups that have spread like a rash in the era of cheap money, which was one of the factors in its downfall. When times were good for venture capital, they were also good for SVB, which served nearly half of all US venture-backed companies. Times were particularly good this past decade or so, as the Federal Reserve ushered in an era of rock-bottom interest rates after the Great Recession. Sluggish growth and high unemployment were top of mind for the political and economic elite; low interest rates, the thinking went, would mean a lower cost of borrowing, leading to more investment and more job creation. Things curdled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, when inflation overtook unemployment as the political and economic concern of the day.
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-financial-regulations-2008-bailout

Kristen Ghodsee: Read an excerpt from ‘Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism’
Women’s emancipation infused the ideology of almost all state socialist regimes, with the Franco-Russian revolutionary Inessa Armand famously declaring: “If women’s liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable witPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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TYBNA

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Thanks News Anon



 No.1396655[Reply]

Why does the western media always downplays the usage of the swastika and eagles in the Third Reich? Whether it’s films, video games, documentaries and so on, the symbol is used very sparingly.
The nazis used to put it on everything and everywhere, even Christmas decorations, children’s toys, knives, spoons and other household items.
So why downplay this like it wasn’t important to the nazis at all to slap swastika on virtually everything, that it was a huge trend?
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 No.1396956

>>1396899
The way they did the post-prod on these images reminds me of how nazi propaganda would often hide peeoples' eyes. Rather than bright, warm color grading like say a Chinese propaganda picture of a soldier would be the local contrast is set up, the colors are dark, it gives of a dark vibe

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>>1396956 (me)
for comparison

 No.1397421

>>1396655 (OP)
>Why does the western media always downplays the usage of the swastika and eagles in the Third Reich? Whether it’s films, video games, documentaries and so on, the symbol is used very sparingly.
Because they want to make them look cool instead of cringe and they want to present a sanitized image

 No.1397567

I haven't noticed this downplaying much, except in some video games but that's because some euro countries ban the depiction afaik.

Got any examples OP?

 No.1398440

>>1396720
/thread/
Jesus christ most capitalist consumer fake anti racism is just a mean to get to the most common denominator of buyers. There's litertally nothing more complex than that.



 No.1396087[Reply]

https://archive.is/LF8u4
https://aronzonijr.medium.com/the-republican-partys-red-roots-c0ff3155c08b

Whenever I observe the never-ending barrage of social media posts by Republicans decrying the evils of “socialism,” I can’t help being struck by the irony that the Republican Party was in part founded by genuine socialists and foreign socialists to boot. In fact, Abraham Lincoln, one of the party’s most important founding members, though not a socialist himself, undoubtedly read a great deal of Karl Marx’s work via American socialist Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, where Marx served as foreign correspondent for a decade. In addition, several of Lincoln’s socialist Republican Party colleagues (comrades?), went on to become key supporters of his 1860 presidential campaign, members of his administration or high-ranking officers in the Union Army.

As John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation, points out in, The “S” Word: A Short History of an American Tradition…Socialism, in the midst of the Civil War, during his first State of the Union address, Lincoln felt compelled to mention the growing conflict between “labor” and “capital” and to make clear which side he favored. After touching on a litany of topics including, the war, trade treaties, fiscal matters, agriculture, Native American relations and the need to fill three Supreme Court vacancies, Lincoln requested “brief attention” to “the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor in the structure of government.” He continued:

“It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life.

Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.1396462

>>1396449
I SHALL ALTER IT EVEN FURTHER

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>>1396421
>Pop quiz time
You're not my teacher

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>>1398129
I AM AND YOU GET A FUCKING F

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>>1398172
So much chaos in the last 3 seconds



 No.1388175[Reply]

“ Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”

Ya know I gotta say, this may be one of the absolute stupidest phrases shat out by rightoids that I’ve ever seen. Like, realistically, what the fuck does it even mean? War, suffering, and death have all been a part of the world practically forever, and it turns out that over the millennia rather than making “strong men” hard times actually usually made deeply traumatized and brutal men that went on to perpetuate the cycle of endless and pointless suffering. I can’t even think of a moment in history when traumatic events and suffering had any positive impact at all, every event of mass death, immiseration, and suffering has mostly led to more mass death, immiseration, and suffering.

How could rightoids even come up with such a stupid quote and keep repeating it over and over?
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 No.1397656

>>1397652
We are definitely in a global hard times, that’s a fact
And the solution is to drive a bayonet through the throat of every right winger and then imprison their families

 No.1397665

>>1397656
>pathetic power fantasies from an anarcho-primitivst
Maan, you're even more out of touch than those who thinks that 13% of the US population should starte a race war against the majority. Nice try, FBI! And what are the bayonets fixed on? Muskets? Well, I've got news for you…

 No.1397755

>>1397652
It is a well-known fact that weight lifting is fascist, true strength come from the belief on chairman Mao.

Mods, ban this man here right now. I refuse to argue with him anymore.

 No.1397870

>>1397755
This is correct, true, objective, and a 100% scientifically provable FACTUAL statement.

Praise Chairman Mao.

 No.1398140

>>1388566
>>1388572
There's a bunch of actual reactionaries here too though, since a lot of the users are "former" /pol/. There has always been a dialectical conflict between ideologies including how edgy we get playing with reactionary ideas.
>we use rightoid memes template against them
Medium is the message. The format of a meme contains ideology as well.



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 No.1397412[Reply]

>calls smith the father of "modern" economics as though smith's ideas are somehow more contemporary than marx's ideas
>ignores that smith came first and marx came second
>ignores that marx actually got a lot of his ideas from smith
>ignores that smith came up with LTV and hated landlords
>pretends marx and smith would have disagreed on more things than they actually would have

absolute dreck, didn't once kek
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 No.1397679

>>1397516
Indeed. Modern applications of it are called classical or orthodox economics. In the US and many schools of Europe, they are considered to be extremely fringe and dead economic models, surpassed by "actual models that actually model reality" as opposed to "made up unscientific stuff". Actually, the same criticism made against bourgeoise idealist economics is used by adherents of said economics against adherents of orthodox economics. For example they say that LTV is unproven nonsense. Any article you might cite is published by " fringe " economists.

Most of these people don't believe there's a continuation from Adam Smith. Adam Smith is only held in high regard due to being this "father" of economics and for having said shit like "free market" understood as laizefaire (or however that's spelled).

 No.1397685

>>1397679
>Adam Smith is only held in high regard due to being this "father" of economics and for having said shit like "free market" understood as laizefaire (or however that's spelled).
Which ironically meant the almost the opposite of they man by it.

When i just started studying economics and history i never imagined how deep the rabbit hole goes.

 No.1398015

>>1397668
If you had paid attention to the context, I wasn't complaining about AI, but about how the humans who scheduled the "interview" were presenting Smith and Marx

 No.1398116

This demonstrates a concern I have about AI, which is that it will reinforce ideological biases while feigning a neutral, objective, fact-based standpoint. It will therefore subtly, subliminally shape people's understanding to be consistent with the interests of power. People will saddle up to chatbots like pigs at the trough, uncritically absorbing its propaganda and misinformation.

There is no substitute for critical thinking.

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>>1398116
>it will reinforce ideological biases while feigning a neutral, objective, fact-based standpoint.
Good. Fire all the pundits and "independent experts". I am fueled by spite



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 No.1371880[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

If planned economy worked works well forever why was it abandoned by almost all socialist states ? Even North Korea is now opening SEZ's (Special Economic Zones) at a faster pace introducing more private sector into the economy. Can it ever work ?
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 No.1397435

>>1397246
Bloody hell this is such an obscure load of near-nonsense it is obscene
Or is that just you?

 No.1397943

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The chapter "process of capitalist restoration" of this book made it crystal clear to me how planned economy was undermined within the USSR and internationally after the Khrushchev coup happened. I couldn't help but notice the same process happen within PRC today sadly with party members declaring we will "never go back to a planned economy". They are so convinced and misled by reactionary theories. Even today PRC does not smear Stalin or other socialist experiments, but they are misled by murikan lib economist reactionaries. Hope people like Cockshott can make CPC rethink its path. Only remaining hope is DPRK

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>>1397961
I saw Paul Cockshott at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was 'wat' but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any homosexual infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.



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 No.1393722[Reply]

>Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947;[a]) is an American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and is currently wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for her apprehension.
>Shakur joined the Black Liberation Army (BLA), an offshoot whose members were inspired by the Vietcong and the Algerian independence fighters of the Battle of Algiers. They mounted a campaign of guerilla activities against the U.S. government, using such tactics as planting bombs, holding up banks, and murdering drug dealers and police.
>While serving a life sentence for murder, Shakur escaped in 1979, with assistance from the BLA and members of the May 19 Communist Organization, from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township, NJ, now the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. She surfaced in Cuba in 1984, where she was granted political asylum. Shakur has lived in Cuba since, despite US government efforts to have her returned. She has been on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list since 2013 as Joanne Deborah Chesimard and was the first woman to be added to this list.

What is /leftypol/'s opinion on Assata Shakur and 1960s/70s/80s black radical movements? If the US is a 'prisonhouse of nations' then why couldn't the black national liberation movement succeed like the vietcong?
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>>1397207
> At least Brown managed to kill slavers and then faced his punishment.
If you’re only argument is she wasn’t killed by slavers you don’t have one.
> killing random cops
It wasn’t random tho.
Cops pulled guns on them and they defended themselves. Also bleeding Kansas wasn’t a civil war, it was a number of skirmishes and murders done by paramilitary groups. In fact, you can probably draw some interesting parallels if you actually look for them.
>le musk and manson
Neither of these were or are socialist that value class to any meaningful extant.
Grasping at straws.

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>>1397233
>If you’re only argument is she wasn’t killed by slavers you don’t have one.
Go on… https://www.dictionary.com/e/your-vs-youre/

>It wasn’t random tho.

>Cops pulled guns on them and they defended themselves. Also bleeding Kansas wasn’t a civil war, it was a number of skirmishes and murders done by paramilitary groups. In fact, you can probably draw some interesting parallels if you actually look for them.
If its such an open and shut case, why isn't that presented clearly? :-/ And what part of "mini" didn't you catch?

>Neither of these were or are socialist that value class to any meaningful extant.

>Grasping at straws.
Here's a mental exercise: Imagine that Shakur et al has never existed and can therefore not be used as arguments. What can you do now? Because it's easy for me to imagine that Musk has never existed. His swaying stance regarding Ukraine is a net loss. Like:

>ELON MUSK is going to deliver STARLINK™ to Ukraine

<but not for drones
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/09/zelenskiy-aide-takes-aim-at-curbs-on-ukraine-use-of-starlink-to-pilot-drones-elon-musk
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>>1397462
>you’re vs your
This is your chosen retort?
> If its such an open and shut case, why isn't that presented clearly?
Presented by who? The cops? Why would it be?
> And what part of "mini" didn't you catch?
I caught it and it didn’t even resemble a “mini” civil war by any stretch of the imagination. There have been small civil wars that have lasted 45 minutes, but these involve a standing army and not small diffuse paramilitary skirmishes and murders. If you can call that a civil war you can can also call what was happening between the BLA against the police and FBI a “mini-civil war”.
> Shakur et al
Interesting you put “et all” but then wax into talking about “individuals” like Elon Musk and Greta Thunberg; the first wouldn’t have his wealth if it weren’t off the back of other “individuals” and the second has a history of being bandied about by the rich as their token climate activist. Neither of these people care to address capitalism in any meaningful way. Shakur was a part the BPP and the BLA. These are her “et all” and are very different from these two in both ideological lens and practice. No one is going to bother to sick COINTELPRO on them and they aren’t comparable off the bat. It’s a false analogy. To compound the problem, you’ve made the mistake of running afoul another interesting parallel between John Brown and Assata Shakur; if both did not exist history would have most likely not changed that much. You already had boiling tensions over slavery and there wasn’t any sign that abolitionist were close to slowing down without him. Not only that, 20 years earlier you had slaves like Nat Turner attempting to emancipate themselves. The wheel was already set in motion. I have my own issues with the BLA and my own ideas of why it failed, but I don’t see the need to trash Assata Shakur over seemingly nothing for iconoclast points that were never really there. This focus on individuals as irreplaceable lynchpins of history also does not seem very Marxist.

 No.1397775

>>1397007
>I’m starting to think opinions of Assata Shakur might be a decent acid test on this board. This thread has been kind of revealing.
I think it's just one very mentally ill guy anon. He would probably have the same kind of schizo rant if you made a thread about potatoes.
He types kind of funny and goes on weird extended rants where he works himself up, like getting mad that Mumia Jamal got an literary award into a full on rant about charles manson or something.
IDK usually i would assume it's just a bit but i think that the jannies are just happy to have hyper reactionary schizos around because it makes their precious PPH look at least respectable.

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>>1397775
>>1397775
> i think that the jannies are just happy to have hyper reactionary schizos around because it makes their precious PPH look at least respectable.

>Doesn't report posters but complains anyway

Also I use IP not PPH



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