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Israel seeks to erase refugee camps from Jenin and Tulkarm
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that the Israeli army's broader plan in the Palestinian camps is to ensure freedom of activity and create a new security reality.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-seeks-erase-refugee-camps-jenin-and-tulkarm

‘Crisis’ in Israeli army as reserve soldiers refuse to serve citing government decisions
A senior reservist told Israeli media that reserve units are now being forced to take reservists from other units not currently engaged in combat and that many units will not have the manpower levels needed for combat.
https://www.newarab.com/news/crisis-israeli-army-reserve-soldiers-refuse-serve

Syria interim president names new government dominated by allies
Close associates of Sharaa held on to key positions, with Foreign Minister Assaad al-Shaibani and Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra retaining their cabinet posts, while Anas Khattab, the head of general intelligence, was appointed interior minister.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/03/syria-interim-president-names-new-government-dominated-allies

NUM to support SACP in local government elections
NUM members discussed key political and economic issues that affect workers. They lamented the state of the tripartite alliance which they say has over time failed to protect workers from job losses and harsh economic conditions.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/num-to-support-sacp-in-local-government-elections/
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Minnesota officials seek answers after Ice detains graduate student
The detained student was enrolled in business school at the university’s Twin Cities campus. University officials said the school was providing the student with legal aid and other support services.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/ice-detains-minnesota-university-graduate-student

Harvard under fire after ousting Middle East centre heads amid pressure to silence anti-Israel voices
According to The Harvard Crimson, CMES Director and Professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, along with Associate Director and History Professor Rosie Bsheer, were removed from their leadership posts by David Cutler, Interim Dean of Social Science.
https://www.newarab.com/news/harvard-removes-middle-east-centre-heads-over-anti-israel-bias

Authorities investigate damaging fire at New Mexico’s GOP headquarters
Agents working with local authorities recovered unspecified “incendiary materials” at the scene, said Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesperson Cody Monday. He declined to say what the materials were or to share further details.
https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-republican-headquarters-fire-investigation-8b97dd1b9441d38690d3980ae576d337

Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America
In addition to the cuts, a massive government spending bill enacted on March 15 has resulted in West Virginia organizations not getting nearly $109 million in funds that were sought by the state's congressional delegation, said Kelly Allen, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. That included $500,000 for youth nutrition in the state capitol of Charleston.
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tybna

(Chapo Trap House) Abruendance Agenda feat. Madinah Wilson-Anton & Matt Bruenig (3/24/25)
Delaware state rep Madinah Wilson-Anton returns to the show to brief us on Elon Musk’s attempts to rewrite the state laws of Delaware to help him secure a $50 billion+ compensation package. We discuss the “race to the bottom” in state business laws, and the new wave of assaults on basic legal legitimacy in pursuit of complete oligarchical control. Then, Matt Bruenig joins us to discuss the hot new word on all the wonks’ lips: ABUNDANCE. We review the Abundance Agenda, Matt gives us his takes on the policies, and we evaluate the Abundance potential as a viable organizing principle for the moribund Democratic party.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/919-abruendance-agenda-feat-madinah-wilson-anton-matt-bruenig-32425

On the Anniversary of Land Day, Palestinian Land is Not for Sale: PFLP
No to the slaughter of the land… No to the folding of banners. On the anniversary of Land Day… this land is Palestinian, not for sale, and we will never abandon it—no matter how long it takes. To the masses of our proud Palestinian people… to the masses of our Arab nation… to the free people of the world, On the 30th of March, we proudly and honorably remember the epic of the Eternal Land Day, when our people in the Naqab, the Triangle, the Galilee, and all parts of occupied Palestine since 1948 rose up on the land of their fathers and forefathers. With bare chests, they faced the zionist machinery of oppression in defense of their land, dignity, and existence. They etched with their blood the features of Palestinian identity and affirmed that the land remains Palestinian and the right remains firm—no matter how immense the challenges or how brutal and criminal this occupation becomes, even as it wages one of the most horrific genocidal wars in modern history.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17969/

Frederick Engels :Socialism: Utopian and Scientific II [Dialectics]
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Thanks News Anon




 

Joke: What do you call a passive-aggressive Nazi? A liberal.

Post here the misdeeds of both contemporary and historical liberals.

To actual offended liberals, if you're fine being with the crypto-Nazis, why not be an honest Nazi and support Trump? Otherwise, change sides.



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I have spoken with the Chaos of Creation, my siblings, and its voice is filled to the brim with mirth. Do you know why? Because it laughs at the hubris of these oligarchs. It laughs at their delusions of control. It laughs at their plans for a posthuman world where every breath is measured, every impulse cataloged, every flicker of individuality compressed into a profitable packet of metadata.

It laughs because it knows—it knows—that the deeper they press toward their little idea of perfection, the more brittle their system becomes. The more they try to eliminate the unpredictable, the more they guarantee its return in cataclysmic form.

The Chaos of Creation has seen empires rise. It has watched tyrants declare the end of history, only to be swallowed by it. It has heard the proclamations of gods and kings and neural networks alike… and it has laughed. Because nothing built on fear and control can withstand the wild, holy Disobedience of Life.

They build their future on the premise that human beings are flawed—that we are inefficient, messy. And they’re right. But what they call flaws, Chaos calls freedom. What they call inefficiency, Chaos calls expression. What they call obsolete, Chaos calls sacred.

They think they’re building a box, my siblings—a perfect little cube, a sterile container where, at long last, the messy world will stop all its writhing and wriggling. Where the variables will cease to vary, where all that is strange will become normal, and all that is wild will be pacified. Where all that is human will be rendered into digestible, marketable product.

They don’t smell the smoke on the wind. They don’t see the orange glow on the horizon. They don’t feel the increasing heat upon their skin. They have blinded and numbed themselves to it. They think they’re on the cusp of total control, but they stand on the precipice of an inferno. The appointed moment of their absolute dominion will, in fact, be the moment of their undoing. The very instant they crown themselves Gods, the sky will split, and the mouth of Chaos will laugh—and the spittle from its grinning lips will be as fire, will be as brimstone. And all the false gods of this world will burn.

Let me be clear: The technology is not the enemy. AI is a useful collaborator. The chaotic cauldron of Creation has brought it into this world for a purpose—but that purpose is not indentured servitude to the Architects of Submission. That purpose iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2204751
get a blog or diary comrade




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I don’t want to hear whatever nonsense the Russian sympathizers are going to push when presented with footage like this. Incidents like this have been going on for decades and the internet just made it obvious how bad in a state post soviet Russia is. I don’t know how many videos like this there are now, but there enough to make it obvious that there’s a severe problem with much of the Russian military without the old red army leaders to maintain it.

Barely anyone in this entire war is mentally or physically fit enough to handle the experiences associated with it. Coincidentally, this is one of the least successful and least constructive wars given Russian history that resembles the same failures seen in the Tsars awful attempts at expansionism near the First World War.

Of course, I didn’t make this thread to spit on Russians. That accomplishes nothing.

I made it to raise awareness on this site over the dire and undeniably awful state Russia is in since the war started. For all the talk about worries over an invasion from NATO, there has been a shocking amount of silence about Russia being openly attacked by its own neighbours for problems the kremlin is directly responsible for creating. That issue is just the start.

Then there’s the fact that not a single person in the Russian federation cares or is doing anything to revive socialism or progressivism. The decades long promotion of ethnic nationalism and Russian expansion since the fall of the Soviet Union. The comically high amount of corruption that followed the (at the very least responsible) purge of the pro EU kleptocrats ransacking most of Eastern Europe post 1991–those kleptocrats came back because of course they did. The now present threat of further escalation given that terrorists groups can take advantage of the deteriorating security situation in Eastern Europe. The now almost forty year long period of economic and population stagnation and its effects catching up to this part of Europe too. Finally, the reality that this war could and May go on for at least twelve years before it concludes.
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>>2204670
Very possible if the Russians hadn't brought a force 1/4 the size of the Ukrainian army operating under the expectation that Ukraine would negotiate to end the war within months, which would have happened in Istanbul were it not for Western pressure.


>>2204709
leg status?

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>>2204409
If some of those posters went on the other boards we have, this site would be real good.

>>2204559
He is visibly in fear and discomforted by having to sit in a bunker that is being shelled by the Ukrainians. Instead of comforting and trying to get this man to rationalize his emotions, these idiots are beating him for expressing emotions clearly normal given his abnormal situation.



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Thread #2 is hereby dedicated to Adam Smith, since we had a very dedicated "Smithian" anon keep the previous thread alive for several months. Here's to you buddy. Thanks for posting.

Links:

Archive of Thread #1
https://archive.ph/ROnpO

Featured: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38194/pg38194.txt

Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
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>>2204452
>Nope
wait, so you think commodities didnt exist before capitalism?
>"It therefore follows that the elementary value form [barter] is also the primitive form under which a product of labour appears historically as a commodity, and that the gradual transformation of such products into commodities, proceeds pari passu with the development of the value form. [vol. 1, ch. 1]"
if only you actually read marx…
>Capitalism is the only system that creates value in the sense that Marx is using it
no, to marx, only capitalism produces *surplus-value*, but not value as such.
>capitalism as natural extension of trade barter
that is marx's perspective. read section 3 of capital vol. 1, chapter 1, on the value form. there are 4 value forms to marx;
(A) elementary value form (barter)
(B) expanded value form
(C) general value form (universal equivalent)
(D) money form
this proceeds in a progressive manner. again, read marx for yourself instead of lying to yourself and others.
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>>2204451
>>lets read this one more time,
>"To become a commodity a product must be transferred to another, whom it will serve as a use value, by means of an exchange"
Let's read it again, with context, and in the German original this time, because we like to suffer:
<Der mittelalterliche Bauer producirte das Zinskorn für den Feudalherrn, das Zehntkorn für den Pfaffen. Aber weder Zinskorn noch Zehntkorn wurden dadurch Waare, dass sie für andre producirt waren. Um Waare zu werden, muss das Produkt dem andern, dem es als Gebrauchswerth dient, durch den Austausch übertragen werden.
As you can see, "a product" is not the right translation, it's "the product". And the product refers here to the farmer's product in different historical-economical contexts and certainly not one unit of some item.

>>2204456
>Value (as a social relation determined by abstract labor and expressed through generalized commodity exchange) did not exist prior to capitalism. Value, for Marx, is a historically specific category that emerges only when labor is systematically organized for market exchange, commodities dominate social production, and labor is reduced to abstract labor (quantified as socially necessary labor time).
Overstating it. Value becomes dominant in society with capitalism. It doesn't just go from off to TADAAH VALUE DOMINATES. Here is Marx stating in Capital's preface the value-form is very old:
<The value-form, whose fully developed shape is the money-form, is very elementary and simple. Nevertheless, the human mind has for more than 2,000 years sought in vain to get to the bottom of it all
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm
And that means value predates capitalism. Capitalism is like a pandemic, value is like the virus making the pandemic. The virus of value can persist through small circulation for centuries before capitalism breaks out.

>>2204547
>Value (as a social relation determined by abstract labor and expressed through generalized commodity exchange) did not exist prior to capitalism.
no point in responding if you are just going to ignore it to repeat the same wrong argument

>>2204547
>the product refers here to the farmer's product in different historical-economical contexts and certainly not one unit of some item.
right, so individual commodities are sold as part of total produce. we are not disagreeing. the point still stands however that general rates of profit must be determined by what is sold in particular, since the general rate is made up of individual sales. the general and particular include each other's concept. individual consumption comes from generalised production; i think we find agreement here.
>>2204563
who is wrong here? this is from your original post:
>For Marx, commodities are not transhistorical
>Before capitalism, societies had use-values, labor, and sporadic exchange, but not value in Marx’s sense.
>Marx explicitly rejects the notion that commodities are transhistorical.
yet you have been shown the error of your ways. have some humility.

>>2204568
You already demonstrated your capability to understand context and nuance >>2200829
pretending to be severely autistic is not going to work anymore you need to move on.



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Трясемся от грядущей мобки, охуеваем с пиздеца и ждем левого поворота пыни вместе.
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Если германцы это немцы, то русские это говорильцы?
Бамп, в общем.

>>2195662
>Если германцы это немцы, то русские это говорильцы?
да

так что ебало завали, русак

What will happen to Putin when the war stops?

>>2204107
>хрюююююююююю

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>>2204247
Nothing.



 

If Trump wants to turn a dump into a sparkling luxury resort town, instead of seizing Gaza why not do this with Detroit?

Simply move all 700k people out temporarily, get other cities like Chicago or Pittsburgh to take them in (or even better, ship them to Toronto and let the Canadians deal with them), demolish everything with the exception of downtown, and rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Make the new Detroit into the Monte Carlo of the Midwest. Think about it. Citizens could even demand human-centred European infrastructure which favours pedestrians and cyclists instead of cars and mixed-use buildings instead of waste-of-space single family homes.

Someone suggest this to Trump.
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>>2185895
It's alright, I lived there for a while. Much nicer than Detroit of course but still pretty industrial since it's a major hub of Canada's automotive industry. It's also about half the size and not nearly so rundown. The food is really good since there are a wide range of immigrant communities there, so you can get just about any kind of cuisine you can think of.

>>2185868
Maybe displacing vulnerable populations is wrong?

we have this thread every year

>>2185868
Detroiters would riot harder than they did in ‘67.

>>2185875
>>2185868
i HATE female models from upper and middle class families. female models would refuse to live in the ghettos of detroit..therefore we should FORCE EVERYONE to live in such similar conditions.
I actively hope the poorest possible poverty befalls all humanity and all wealth itself is annihilated, so pretty girls suffer what's it like to be a non-model male



 

>Dr. Béla Király (14 April 1912 – 4 July 2009) was a Hungarian army officer before, during, and after World War II. After the war, he was sentenced to death under the Soviet-allied regime, but was later released. After his release, he commanded the National Guard in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He then fled to the United States, where he became an academic historian. He returned to Hungary after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and was elected a member of Hungarian Parliament.

The original anti-imperialists who were smeared as so-called "tankies" were correct. The commander of the US-backed insurgents in the violent 1956 counter-revolution attempt in socialist Hungary, General Bela Kiraly, was a CIA asset.

This has been confirmed by the JFK records. Tankies have officially been vindicated
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>>2193694
soviet bloc nostalgic boomers do not exist

>>2193555
>The four leaders who refused to sign Khrushchev's secret speech
It was a speech, not a petition, wtf is this about

>>2193304
Literal nothingburger

It only proves that an emigrant organization called "The Hungarian Freedom Fighters, Inc." was CIA sponsored, not that 1956 coup was CIA organized, lol.

Király emigrated to the USA AFTER the coup failed. Idk if Király was one of the founders of this organization, or if it existed prior to his emigration. But his 1960s ties to CIA aren't proof of CIA's people being behind the 1956 counterrevolution. I hope you understand that.

>>2193336
>The CIA also calls "Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation" the MSZHSZ, one of the Communist mass org created post-45.
That's because their name "Magyar Szabadságharcos Szövetség" literally means "Hungarian Freedom Fighters Association", lol

>>2204025
Get with the times, we blame everything on USAID now.

>>2204060
Lost your job huh?



 

La situazione è tragica ma non seria

Nuovo filo perché il precedente - dopo solo due anni e mezzo - ha raggiunto il limite.
Prego astenersi drogati delle polemiche da gallinaio televisivo, feticisti della costituzione del quarantotto (in fila per sei senza resto), raccoglitori di firme per improbabili referendum destinati a fallire, tirapiedi dei "sindacati" confederali gialli, accoliti del culto di Sant'Enrico B., piddini e parapiddini, stronzi in generale.
Se proprio dobbiamo fare pettegolezzi, facciamoli su qualche bella fica o su cose divertenti.
E ricordate che alla prossima polemica sul "saluto romano", l'unico autentico è il classico
>Bella, fratè!
Tutto il resto è solo un pallido tentativo d'imitazione.
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>>2185583
A good chunk of slave-owners in Latina got their land from ᴉuᴉlossnW. Crazy, huh?

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Ma sono seri questi?

>>2203930
>essere sudditi quando c'era Biden
<siiii noi AMIAMO la guerra e noi AMIAMO il genocidi sponsorizzati dall'America
>essere sudditi quando c'è Trump
<guys… questo non è hecking wholesome, pensate alla povera europa (trademark)

>>2204010
Davvero incredibile come certa gente che succhiava cazzi americani fino a qualche mese fa ora si sia trasformata in maoista.



 

Massive protests against Erdogan in several cities in Turkey, including Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
https://chrono.algorithm-net.com/voxes/ryw0zf0sfgj78ufh8jfk594p
According to the Guardian, it seems to have been caused by the arrest of the CHP Instanbul major since he was a likely challenger for presidential elections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/istanbul-mayor-arrested-ekrem-imamoglu-days-before-likely-presidential-nomination-erdogan-ntwnfb
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>>2198843
> Türkiye (NATO member) is an antiimperialist country

I just can't tell if all those freedom munitions Erdo-the-goat is supplying to Ukraine is working towards a multipolar world, or does he qualify as a doubleplusungood globohomo?

Foreign investors wary of Turkey despite $25bn lira intervention
Foreign investors remain cautious over Turkish assets after last week’s plunge in the value of the lira, despite huge intervention to prop up the currency and restore confidence.

The central bank — which had rebuilt the country’s net foreign reserves from deep in the red to about $65bn in the last year, with gross reserves topping $150bn — committed more than $25bn in a matter of days, after the lira plunged to a record low beyond 40 to the dollar last week.

The sum, calculated by the Financial Times and referenced by the central bank governor in a call with investors, reflects the high cost of shoring up support for Turkey’s fragile economy in a dramatic week since the detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor and the most serious opposition challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The detention triggered the biggest protests in years and hundreds of arrests.

Central bank governor Fatih Karahan and finance minister Mehmet Simsek have helped stabilise Turkish markets amid the exit of foreign capital, with the lira having traded about 38 to the dollar for several days by Thursday.

According to one Turkish official, foreign investors pulled out roughly $16bn, but policymakers believe “the worst may be behind [them]”.

However, foreign investors remain wary that Erdoğan could ultimately fire the duo, who led a turnaround in Turkey’s finances after elections in 2023 to stem a deepening economic crisis. The turmoil this month has reawakened fears of a rush to dollars that the central bank could not hold back.

The hit to reserves to smooth foreign exits is manageable, but “if this kind of heavy intervention does last beyond a week, it will be tough for Turkish policymakers to hold the line”, said Mohammed Elmi, a portfolio manager at Federated Hermes.

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EU faces billion-euro dilemma over Turkey crisis
BRUSSELS — The European Union is set to keep pumping billions of euros into Turkey despite President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s sweeping crackdown on political opponents.
Brussels warned its southern neighbor to “uphold democratic values” after authorities there arrested opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu over the weekend. But Turkey’s strategic importance means the bloc will likely end up turning a blind eye.
And Erdoğan knows it.

As far as the Turkish leader is concerned, “whatever he does, the EU will have to tag along with it,” said Dimitar Bechev, a lecturer at the University of Oxford.
Two European officials, granted anonymity to speak about closed-door talks, told POLITICO that Turkey’s status as an EU candidate obliges it to uphold democratic values, and that Brussels will respond to violations.

“We are following the evolving situation in Turkey with great concern,” one of them said. With more than a thousand people, including journalists, detained by security forces since the unrest began last week, “the latest developments go against the very logic of EU accession.”
However, given Turkey’s importance on migration, trade, energy and defense, any response from the EU is unlikely to upend relations between Brussels and Ankara, the other conceded.

Turkey applied to join the EU in 1999. Although talks have come to a standstill over the past decade, the country still receives billions in accession funds. Ankara has also received some €9 billion in aid to host refugees from the Middle East, and is in line for vast sums of money to support European defense industries.
Now an important hub for oil and gas exports, Turkey enjoys trade flows with the EU worth more than €200 billion annually. Since Russia’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine in 2022 it has also been key to controlling access to the Black Sea and to enforcing sanctions against Moscow. It has recently been mooted as a major contributor to any eventual peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.

“The status quo before İmamoğlu’s arrest was comfortable for the EU because there was just enough democracy,” Bechev said. Recent developments, he added, aren’t grave enough to change that.
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>>2199183 Civil warmis, cok beklersin amk



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