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Italy: Alfredo Cospito and 11 Other Anarchists Acquitted
There is no place to proceed for Alfredo Cospito and 11 other anarchists. This is what the judge of Perugia, Angela Avila, decided today, January 15, in the afternoon, at the end of the discussion during the preliminary hearing.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/13763/

Over 70 arrested at London pro-Palestinian rally on eve of Gaza truce
The 70 arrests at the demonstration were the largest number since the rallies began in London in October 2023, according to the Metropolitan police. The demonstration was set to be a static rally in Whitehall, site of the main British government offices, after police rejected the route initially proposed by organisers – which the Met police said would have been in the vicinity of a synagogue.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250118-thousands-join-london-pro-palestinian-rally-on-eve-of-gaza-truce
https://archive.ph/Col8s

Two Iranian supreme court judges shot dead
Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh were killed after a gunman entered the court, in the capital Tehran, on Saturday morning. The attacker killed himself while fleeing the scene, according to the judiciary's news website, Mizan. A bodyguard was also injured in the attack. The motive for the attack is unclear, but both judges are said to have played a role in the crackdown on opponents of the Islamic government since the 1980s.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4mvllgd1mo

Palestinian Authority, Jenin fighters reach deal after weeks of deadly clashes
Salah, head of the committee, told Anadolu that there would be no handover of weapons or members of armed groups, but the agreement stipulates an end to armed demonstrations and gives PA forces permission to enter the camp.
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In reactionary systems, life is struggle, therefore, people must feel a constant state of insecurity, when a country starts its demographic transition, due to rural to urban exodus, there is a sudden fertility boom, as there is a sense of security but also of fear, which estimulates ovulation due to increased oxytocin levels.
Thus, females developed a mechanism where they produce kids if they need some guidance or defender within a family structure, or within a enviroment which is not familiar to you.
Eventually, due to increased comfort, the necessity to have kids becomes less prominent.
Nationalism and religion is born from a sense of integral identity, its irrational, its reactionary because it takes the least utilitarian elements and simplifies them to mere orders, among those, to instigate fear and dependence, its sloganery, to give rational explainations to the phenomenom of life, which is painful, is impossible, life is not utilitarian, it is egoistic and only replicates that which survives, regardless of the means it needs, even if its painful, or terrifying, or perverted.

You know how in old British fiction, the poor were described as eating in an ‘uncivilized manner?’ Well most people still eat like that today.
I think a bigger factor in North American obesity isn’t just the quantity of food people eat but how people eat. North Americans don’t really prepare food. They rarely wash their hands, they rarely eat with utensils, and they most certainly don’t wash their dishes afterwards.
There is little patience for food in North American society. People eat as if they’re heading off to a war. Understandably, this creates a culture of impulsivity with how people approach food. Foresight into things like nutrition, safety, and preference are disregarded for any immediate pleasure or comfort food can offer. I think that this mentality causes a lot of people to end up eating much more than they would if they were more patient about how they eat.

For reference, just look at Japan, some middle eastern, and some African countries. People there can be bothered to prepare food for themselves first before consuming in excess.

The average American barely knows how to use a knife.

First time going to a protest on January 20th. It’s a PSL organized thing but I’m hoping some other lefty groups show up so I can find one that aligns more with my specific beliefs. I’ve struggled to find anything besides the local DSA and PSL branches around me. But hey, if not, I can tolerate them long enough to protest against the incoming fascist state and possibly more in the future alongside them.

Any advice/thoughts?

Remember: Maybe don't wait for Trump.

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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>I talked with Mao and then suggested to Stalin that he receive him. He was a clever man, a peasant leader, a kind of Chinese Pugachev. He was far from a Marxist, of course–he confessed to me that he had never read Marx’s Das Kapital. When I was in Mongolia talking with the Chinese ambassador–he was nice to me–I said, “You want to create a metals industry quickly, but the measures you have planned–backyard blast furnaces–are improbable and won’t work.” I criticized the Chinese, and our people reproved me later. But it was such obvious stupidity!…Backyard blast furnaces to produce worthless metals–nonsense.”

<Felix Chuev, “Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics” p. 81.

How do we deal with the fact that Mao, one of the theoretical figureheads of the movement to many Marxists, never read Marx in his life?

I always wondered why Mao was making up citations when quoting theory. Now I know it is because he never bothered to read it. Now in retrospect I can see why he was so adamant about "opposing book worship" which is antithetical to what Marx & Lenin taught and his "On Contradictions" fails to grasp what Marxist dialectics are.

So if a renowned revolutionary and theoretician like Mao could just get away with making shit up, doesn't that reflect bad on the movement in general? How are we to deal with revisionism today if we've accepted that of the past?

If you increase the supply of residential and commercial space in any given settlement, people tend to become invisible, but buildings remain in clear sight everywhere. Countries like Russia, Ukraine, Canada, many African countries, and the midwestern part of the USA all have so many of these spaces. Meanwhile, countries in like japan, India, china, every European country ever, and much of South America you see people everywhere and outside.

It’s not just that most of the former countries are cold, but that they’re overbuilt. Canadians in particular almost never go outside. You can drive for dozens of minutes here and not see a single person even in some of our more populated settlements. It’s fucking creepy.

Why the hell is there no discussion on this effect?

Why has Western culture (Anglo culture in particular) so heavily embraced infantilism and anti-intellectualism (both left and right)?

The right-wing is infantile because it has no solutions. Climate change is a tough issue to face. Capitalism reaching the point where it can no longer expand without falling into imminent crisis is a tough issue to face. The fact the straight white Christian male is no longer society's "default" is a tough issue to face. Because the right can't solve anything, it resorts to fomenting outrage – "transgender surgeries on illegal aliens", "Haitian immigrants are eating the dogs", "abortion up to the moment of birth", "trans people are brainwashing little kids into being trans", etc. Just look no further than Trump, whose entire political appeal is how much of an adult child he is. Or Ben Shapiro, who in spite of his "facts over feelings" mantra always sounds like he's on the verge of a temper-tantrum. Nearly all right-wing talking heads appeal to outrage and anti-intellectualism, being stupid and overly-emotional.

The left embraces infantilism because it's afraid of its own power. The left has the solutions, but is too chickenshit to implement them, because it assumes that once it takes power it now becomes just as evil as the people it's fighting against. "As soon as we have power and can do something we run the risk of doing the wrong thing, so in order to preserve our innocence we should just do nothing." In fact, I'd go so far as to say this obsession with preserving one's innocence has become the entire MO of the left for the past 10 or 11 years, which in effect breeds infantile thinking – "how can we do evil if we are nothing more than children?" Identity politics has become entirely about wanting permission to be a child whereby idpolers leverage their identities as means of not having to be proactive and take charge of their lives. They want to remain mentally and emotionally 10 years old forever.

But all of this has become incredibly toxic in-practice and infantilism has lead to many toxic things: narcissism, solipsism, the inability to understand the world beyond your initial emotions. No one can handle the confusion of the modern world so they resort to being child-like as a shield. A child is never expected to fix the world or take responsibility or pick up their own poop. What infantile people want is to be allowed to play without needing to deal with the world around them.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.