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Pretty cool how in The Condition of the Working Class in England you can tell from Engels' writing that his sensibilities are kinda bigoted but his own critical analysis forces him to change his view. Too bad the average online "communist" can only use "marxism" to do epic quotemines instead of using the tools it provides to analyze society.

>>2670698
What are you saying? Are you talking about other threads?

Take your meds for your sluggish schizophrenia

>>2671175
Is sluggish schizophrenia different from catatonic schizophrenia? Catatonic schizos are essentially in a coma, they wouldn’t type this or anything for that matter

>>2670698
>Too bad the average online "communist" can only use "marxism" to do epic quotemines instead of using the tools it provides to analyze society.
that's literally what this thread is. you've designed the perfect ragebait

>>2670721
No, you see it everywhere on the internet.

>>2671175
>>2671291
I'm presenting an example of a famous communist using analysis to come to a different conclusion than he would've liked and y'all had to get triggered because you can't read. I don't think you know what quotemining even means (important hint: it's not just quoting!).

Illiteracy prevails.



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Budapest mayor charged for organising banned Pride march
Mr Karacsony was charged with organising the unlawful assembly despite a prohibition order, the Budapest Chief Prosecutor’s Office said. It recommended that be fined without a trial. Prosecutors said that the mayor had made “repeatedly published public calls to participate in the assembly and then led the assembly.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/budapest-mayor-charged-organising-banned-pride-march

Anti-Fascism Has Been Banned in Hungary
At the 14th of February, there is going to be an international nazi meeting in Budapest. Nazi rock festival, nazi grand meeting, nazi tour, with several thousands of attendees. The antifascist counter demonstration is banned. Several hundred policeman are going to protect the nazi events and in the meantime, hunt for antifascists. We ask all antifascists, to protest the Hungarian fascist regime at the 14th of February! Show international solidarity before embassys, consulates or any other sorts of Hungarian state-sponsored facilities!
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/27564/

Dutch parties strike minority coalition deal three months after D66 election upset
The liberal-progressive, pro-European party, led by the probable new prime minister, Rob Jetten, will join up with the conservative Christian Democrats and the right-wing VVD in a government that holds only 66 seats in the 150-seat lower house. The new coalition shuts out the far-right Freedom party (PVV), led by the anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, which D66 narrowly defeated in the tight October election. Both parties won 26 seats, although seven PVV MPs have since broken away.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/28/dutch-minority-coalition-after-d66-election-upset

Water privatisers ‘treating system as an ATM,’ campaigners say as bills set to hike
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Senate Democrats reportedly reach deal to avert partial government shutdown
The deal, if confirmed, would avert a partial shutdown that would have affected many of the governments function. However, it would not stop a temporary lapse in funding for DHS, because any changes to the DHS funding bill would have to be approved by the House of Representatives, which is out of session until Monday. The impact of such a lapse was not immediately clear.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/senate-democrats-deal-dhs-funding-bill

Patel defends FBI raid as Georgia officials demand answers
Local officials vehemently objected to the search, saying it amounts to retaliation by President Trump's allies over his 2020 election loss and subsequent election interference case. The search came months after the five-year statute of limitations for federal crimes expired in late 2025. Patel dismissed the concern in comments a day after the search, saying it was conducted in a "timely fashion legally."
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/29/kash-patel-fbi-georgia-fulton-county-raid-ballots
https://archive.ph/BofJC

Layoffs are piling up, heightening worker anxiety. Here are the biggest recent cuts
On Tuesday, United Parcel Service said it plans to cut up to 30,000 operational jobs this year — notably as the package company continues to reduce the number of Amazon shipments it handles amid wider turnaround efforts. UPS said these cuts will be made through a voluntary buyout offer for full-time drivers and attrition. The reductions come on top of a combined 48,000 job cuts that the company disclosed in 2025. Late last year, Tyson Foods said it would be closing a plant that employed 3,200 people in Lexington, Nebraska — bringing job losses for nearly a third of the small town's population of 11,000.
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If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame, too
On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump had a good laugh with members of the press in the US state of Iowa as he issued a rather serious decree regarding the short-term future of Cuba: “Cuba will be failing pretty soon. Cuba is really a nation that’s very close to failing.” To be sure, this is not the first time that Trump has predicted the downfall of the Caribbean island nation, which the US has effectively been trying to destroy for no fewer than 67 years – ever since the triumph in 1959 of Cuba’s communist revolution that overthrew the brutal right-wing dictator and US buddy Fulgencio Batista. This time around, however, the threat carries a bit more weight in light of the Trump administration’s abduction earlier this month of Nicolas Maduro, the leftist president of Venezuela. To date, the US has not been held accountable for this utterly illegal and patently batty act, which Trump on Tuesday invoked as alleged proof of Cuba’s impending demise: “You know, they got their money from Venezuela. They got the oil from Venezuela. They are not getting that any more.” One would hope, then, that other countries – particularly the self-declared allies of Cuba – might step up to defend the island against US predations or at least credibly register their opposition to imperial impunity. Instead, all Cuba has really gotten are some perfunctory professions of support – such as from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who, like her ostensibly leftist predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has perfected the art of pretending to counter US machinations while doing exactly what the gringos want.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/29/if-cuba-falls-the-global-south-is-to-blame-too

Brutal austerity and unprecedented strike wave shatters Belgian social model
The bosses’ organisation, Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB), dubbed it the “€1 billion strike”. They were referring to the supposed financial loss caused by the three-day strike on 24, 25, and 26 November. This bosses’ propaganda, aimed at frightening workers, instead resulted in many people thinking: “Wow, is this the wealth that our work produces in just three days? And what would happen if the CEOs and shareholders stopped Post too long. Click here to view the full text.



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>>2649208 (unachievad)

Internationalist Voice (Iranian) analysis of the protests (Jan. 4-19):

>Leftists and the Mujahedin claim that monarchists are attempting to influence the protests in favour of “Reza Pahlavi”[7] by adding audio to video clips, or that this role is being played by the Islamic bourgeoisie itself, which is confident in the harmlessness of the monarchist opposition. In other words, they argue that the promotion of monarchist demands within the protests is either meaningless or marginal. This claim is partly correct, but it does not capture the full reality.


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The problem with Iran is that it's already a neoliberal country with Chinese, Russian and Euro contractors operating the oil fields.

Now if it was sealed shut from the rest of the world like 90s Iraq then you'd find China and Russia the first to support the invasion.

>>2670630
Arak Soviet status?

>>2670632
comon this time I want some real fight and a carrier sunk. Its literally the best way to expose the US as the paper tiger it is.

Why is Iran claiming it will conduct exercise in the sea of Oman when US military already claim they crossed it?

Do you hope to trap them in the gulf? Cut off support?



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How do Stalin-hating Leninists cope with the fact that all of the mass immigration into capitalist countries that Lenin supported due to "progressive potential" has not actually succeeded in breaking down national barriers and uniting the working masses against international bourgeoisie?
In fact the opposite happened. Workers became divided among each other and the bourgeoisie class has strengthened. On top of that, it was now proven that multi culturalism was a failure that only serves to help fuel the rise of reactionary ideologies.

Marx understood this, he even expelled Chinese workers from the international proletarian movement when they flooded the British labor market.
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>>2670231
Falsifier gem

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>>2670231
>libs after watching IShowSpeed in Africa

The Marxist position is to organize for the defense of the rights of all workers, including immigrant workers, with compensation for these workers, unions and workers' organizations for any violations compared to native workers, passing all punishments on to the capitalists, also preventing any way for the capitalist to control the immigrant worker to intensify exploitation, where any profit made from unpaid work or work below the wage of the native worker will lead to intervention that will revert any profit made along with the fines that will accumulate plus the lawsuits in solidarity that will be guaranteed to the workers.

Let's begin with the text addressing the issue of Irish and English workers at the time:

<I shall give you here only quite briefly the salient points.


<Ireland is the bulwark of the English landed aristocracy. The exploitation of that country is not only one of the main sources of their material wealth; it is their greatest moral strength. They, in fact, represent the domination over Ireland. Ireland is therefore the cardinal means by which the English aristocracy maintain their domination in England itself.


<If, on the other hand, the English army and police were to be withdrawn from Ireland tomorrow, you would at once have an agrarian revolution in Ireland. But the downfall of the English aristocracy in Ireland implies and has as a necessary consequence its downfall in England. And this would provide the preliminary condition for the proletarian revolution in England. The destruction of the English landed aristocracy in Ireland is an infinitely easier operation than in England herself, because in Ireland the land question has been up to now the exclusive form of the social question because it is a question of existence, of life and death, for the immense majority of the Irish people, and because it is at the same time inseparable from the national question. Quite apart from the fact that the Irish character is more passionate and revolutionary than that of the English.


<As for the English bourgeoisie, it has in the first place a common interest with the English aristocracy in turning Ireland into mere pasture land which provides the English market with meat and wool at the cheapest possible prices. It is likewise interested in reducing the Irish populati
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>>2669259
I gave you the Marxist answer here:
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I was told by someone on here that in order to be a Communist, I must "believe" in "Free Will." Somehow, I doubt this is truly a prerequisite, but if it really is the case, then so be it.

Before getting into "Free Will," there is no good evidence that human beings possess an immaterial “soul” that thinks, chooses, or survives bodily death. All available evidence indicates that what we have hitherto called a “person,” is an activity of a living brain in a living body. Mental states reliably track brain states; damage the brain and you damage memory, personality, judgment, and agency; destroy it entirely and the person disappears. No additional essence remains.

Human brains are biological systems governed by physical law. They are extraordinarily complex, adaptive, and self-modeling, which produces the powerful subjective experience and outward appearnce of "authorship" and "choice," but nothing in neuroscience suggests that brains initiate actions independently of prior physical causes. Also, introducing indeterminism or randomness does not rescue “free will” in the libertarian sense, since randomness adds noise, rather than control.

The popular notion of "Free Will" as an uncaused, self-originating power of the "soul" or of the brain, in more secular accounts of "Free Will," is therefore unsupported. What exists instead are constrained decision-making processes embedded in biology, development, and environment. Responsibility is not metaphysical; it is a social practice invented and enforced by humans to shape behavior while brains are still alive and responsive to incentives.

There is no evidence that accountability survives death. When the brain permanently ceases to function, the person is gone. What remains is matter, not an observing subject.

These conclusions are not radical inventions of modern science. The dependence of mind on the condition of the brain has been observable since antiquity through injury, disease, and degeneration, and has been progressively clarified by advances in biology, chemistry, and physics. What is new is not the insight itself, but the precision.

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>>2670503
>not him but why is everything in marxism like this?
thats how all of science and philosophy is because the enlightenment came out of religious scholars in the middle ages where the church was the center of education and everyone was bi-tri-lingual and studied latin and greek.

also when you have to distinguish between two closely related concepts. like knowing and understanding. they arent inventing technical differences they are just being precise

>But then you have anons on here who insist that nearly every worker in the 1800s read Capital with massive ease

people do say that but they are wrong. workers werent reading capital they were reading pamphlets. you dont have to read it to participate but the leaders of the vanguard should know what they are talking about

>>2670509
>If you're asking why they specifically use terms that already have "colloquial" definitions which are completely different and easily confused with their special poetic definitions inherited from Hegel?
i think its the other way around. the words had specific definitions that get watered down by their popularization

>>2670528
>How did Hegelians manage to transform the original definition:
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>>2670925
free will isn't real whether or not the universe is "random" or "deterministic"

>>2670944
>nah thats just anti-intellectualism. learning any science takes just as much work some things are just complex and dumbing it down loses the meaning such that the explanation does not map onto the subject

it's hard to walk the tightrope between vulgarization, i.e. "watering stuff down" and obscurantism, i.e. "making it hard and confusing on purpose to limit who gets in."

both are anti-intellectualism imo

>>2671264
>it's hard to walk the tightrope between vulgarization, i.e. "watering stuff down" and obscurantism, i.e. "making it hard and confusing on purpose to limit who gets in."

>both are anti-intellectualism imo



Agreed. You see this a lot.

Vulgarization: “Quantum physics proves reality isn’t real, man.”

Obscurantism: “Nonlocal ontological indeterminacy arises from Hilbert space formalism.”

Tightrope: “At very small scales, particles don’t behave like everyday objects, and we need probability to describe them.”

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>>2671087
The dates you've raised are all very close, it's grasping at straws to suggest that quote from Trump is not representative of the US side in weeks or perhaps even months of negotiations with Russia.

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>>2671145
it could be two days apart. it doesn't mean anything. you're just assuming trump offered them "energy ceasefire from ukraine + no useless sanctions" as opposed to just "energy ceasefire from ukraine." no useless sanctions is not enough to remove the abject cuckoldry of

https://www.rt.com/russia/614918-kiev-cannot-control-military-kremlin/
>The Kremlin then said that it intended to maintain the 30-day partial ceasefire as a gesture of goodwill [LOL!] to Washington, even if Kiev fails to honor it.

I'm so bored with your dumb sanctions argument that…… as a gesture of goodwill he he…… I'd like to make it stronger by proposing that instead of getting no toothless sanctions, russia got something like goodwill domestically or among the global south or some such…… this is why I miss intbrig… he would've gone for that instead of your lame pumping up of toothless sanctions

>>2671150
The fact you're continually trying to refocus this on how mid you think the actual deal was demonstrates you know how little water your coping about dates holds.

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A dictatorship of the proleteriat will never work because a system where the proleteriat has no say and doesnt choose their own leader will result in the government of a socialist country not actually being beholden to the proleteriat at all. And thus has no incentive to or even need to act in their interest.
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>>2665976
To be fair Donald Trump has never gotten a majority of the vote at any point. Even when he "won the popular vote" in 2024 (after losing it in 2016 and 2020) it was a plurality (sub-50%), not a majority. Then you have to factor in the massive amount of people who are eligible to vote but do not.

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>>2670755
Really funny, comrade. /s

>>2670755
very illustrative of your contention anon

>>2670751
oxymoron



 

A new merch drop from Hakim, Ugopnik and SecondThought.
With Lenin passing you a cigarette. Do I really need to explain why that's a horrible imagery? I'll do just in case.

Cigarette companies are the worst example of capitalism. Was one of the building stones for me becoming socialist. They used every possible scheme to intentionally get people addicted to their poison and acquire "lifelong clients". No one was off the table: men, women, children, elderly. They bribed doctors, made up with fake data and research, promoted their poison in tv and movies, payed celebrities, hooked up soldiers, infiltrated feminist movements and on and on and on. Worst part? They admit to it now but still do it in poorer countries to this very day. "Tobacco causes approximately 8 million deaths annually worldwide, with over 7 million resulting from direct tobacco smoking and roughly 1.2 to 1.3 million resulting from non-smokers being exposed to secondhand smoke. It is a leading cause of preventable death, killing up to half of its users." (Source: W.H.O.)
This isn't several decades ago, this is happening NOW. To this day they still try to get a grip on people. Promoting it as cool, mature and sexy.

I'm not saying that one meme t-shirt will cause people to start smoking but it will plant seeds of positive perception about smoking in them. And slowly with each movie, each meme, each celebrity smoking people will be subconsciously pushed towards it. That's how the cigarette companies pushed it through Hollywood before.
As a content creator with a large audience it is extremely important to pay attention to what imagery you're promoting on your platform. Indirectly promoting one of the worst sins of capitalism for a coin is horrible and hypocritical.

I'm disgusted.
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>>2670453
i wish i was you tbh, i still want to go out with some weeb girl we met through tinder and at shopping, we seem both to like sociology and we like eachothee, althrough she works from monday to saturday for 8 hours each day, so she will never have a free time for us or me

>>2670520
>I can't date a girl because she has a full time job
Bro wat. So do most people. Just hang out after work.

>>2670523
nah she works at a shopping and i do not like much closed spaces
nevertheless we once meet at interval of her full time work once.

So future socialist society won't have cigs because they're bad for you, how about sugar, alcohol, plastic, TV, cars, should we become Amish.

>>2670653
>future socialist society won't have cigs
Correct.
>sugar
Sweeteners, they are more efficient and healthy.
>alcohol
Correct, there won't be alcohol, or will be heavily discouraged.
>plastics
Petroleum-based plastics probably will dissappear in favour of healthier and better materials. It might not dissappear from all places but at least it will from places that harm people.
>TV
It is already falling out of favour by itself among younger generations. It will probably be replaced by IPTV and streaming (or downloading) services.
>cars
Public transit (buses, trams, trains, airplanes) will be prefered and prioritized but people will be able to afford a car for travelling to remote areas or in emergency situations or call a taxi.
>should we become Amish
Wrong. The luddite Amish way of life will perish.



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>>2668851
I really should go eat a meal there in support. It was great food last time I had it.

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>>2669724
Mossad cannot combat true cuisine

the isaac herzog protests are coming up. either they're gonna be huge, or the coppers are going to be violent. either way labors going to burn the 20 year mandate that scomo gave them.

>>2669868
Mossad btfo by a falafel



 

Indigenous protesters block Cargill facility in Brazil over President Lula’s decree
Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting for almost a week at a Cargill facility in Santarem in northern Brazil against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva allowing the federal government to consider private concessions for waterways, shifting responsibility for maintenance, dredging and vessel traffic management to operators. The Tapajos and Arapiuns Indigenous Council, which represents 14 Indigenous peoples and is leading the protest in Para state, said the government failed to consult affected communities, as required by legislation and international conventions. The group warns that dredging projects threaten the Tapajos River, Indigenous territories and the environmental balance of the Amazon rainforest.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-rainforest-cargill-indigenous-protest-soybean-e83edf0677250700bf899522a1af6020

Mexico’s president says cancellation of oil shipment to Cuba is ‘sovereign’ decision
Mexico has cancelled a shipment of oil to Cuba, the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, appeared to confirm on Tuesday, but she insisted the decision was “sovereign” and not a response to pressure from the US. Fuel shortages are causing increasingly severe blackouts in Cuba, and Mexico has been the island’s biggest oil supplier since the US blocked shipments from Venezuela last month.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/mexico-cuba-trump-oil

Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office Raids on Homes of Citizen Revolution Leaders
As part of a case known as “Petty Cash” (Caja Chica), the Prosecutor’s Office led an operation over alleged “organized crime for the purpose of money laundering.” “It is presumed that illicit cash was brought in from Venezuela to finance the 2023 presidential campaign,” the Public Prosecutor’s Office wrote on X. It did not release names. In another post that included photos with faces blurred, the Prosecutor’s Office said that, together with police, it carried out “raids on three properties in Pichincha proPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Indication That Alex Pretti Was Known to Federal Agents Raises New Questions Over Protester ‘Database’
CNN reported Tuesday that Pretti, the Minneapolis nurse who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents while acting as a legal observer and trying to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed by one officer, was known to federal officers before his killing last weekend. About a week earlier, he had been tackled by a group of agents who broke his rib when he was protesting the detention of a community member.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/protest-database

Officers confront protesters at Texas facility as lawmaker visits father, son detained in Minnesota
As protesters moved closer to the facility in the small town of Dilley, Texas state police officers arrived on a school bus and shouted instructions for the crowd to move back. Some of the officers then deployed pepper balls, dispersing the crowd. Castro later posted a picture on social media of his visit with 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-crockett-ice-5yearold-minneapolis-27d8a75f2e51a18d97933b5ae99adf10

‘Do Your Job!’: Protesters Gather Outside Walz’s Office to Demand Criminal Charges for Trump’s Killer Agents
“We are demanding that they bring charges against the killer officers,” said Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for Minnesota, which organized the protest. “We want the identity of the officers. We know the federal government is not investigating. They are lying to the American people. They are denying us justice. It is time for the state to do their job.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tim-walz-ice-protest

Alabama inmate activists from an Oscar-nominated film are moved to solitary, attorneys say
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Tybna

The ACLU Wants to Shrink Workers’ Speech Protections
Back in 2024, I wrote about a curious case at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was pursuing exotic legal theories that would, if adopted by the NLRB or courts, curtail the rights of workers across the country. This included the theory that the then–general counsel of the NLRB, Jennifer Abruzzo, was illegally appointed and the theory that the NLRB must defer to private arbitration proceedings even in the absence of a collective-bargaining agreement. The former theory would have invalidated a large amount of precedent established by General Counsel Abruzzo, while the latter theory would have allowed employers to limit the rights of workers to pursue unfair labor practice charges at the NLRB. The ACLU was pursuing these theories as part of a scorched-earth effort to not provide back pay and reinstatement to one of its former employees, Katherine Oh. Oh, along with her coworkers, had criticized the way certain managers treated employees and the ACLU fired her in response to those criticisms. In firing her, the ACLU claimed that Oh, who is herself nonwhite, was being racist by criticizing her likewise nonwhite bosses even though her statements contained no racial content at all. Both a private arbitrator and an NLRB administrative law judge (ALJ) have since ruled in favor of Oh and against the ACLU. The arbitrator ruled that, in firing Oh, the ACLU had violated its own just-cause termination policy, while the ALJ ruled that, in firing Oh, the ACLU had violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act. Despite losing in both forums, the ACLU still has not reinstated or compensated Oh. Instead, they have opted to keep litigating against their former employee by appealing decisions and contesting remedy calculations.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/aclu-speech-protections-labor-nlrb

Anti-Communism in Iran: From the Pahlavi Dynasty to the Islamic Republic
In modern Iranian history, anti-communism has never been an accident or a mere ideological reflex. It has been a permanent weapon of bourgeois state power. Across regimes that appeared to stand at opposite ideological poles — the pro-Western, secular monarchy of the Pahlavi dynasty and the theocratic ordPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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