Senior Hamas official on disarming: “Trying to tie the establishment of a Palestinian state to the issue of weapons is deception. Give us a sovereign Palestinian state, and all resistance weapons will become part of the official defense structure of that state. The fighters will

Yes. Since empires are exploiter-class phenomena, the second or third generation become stupid and mercenary after the empire wins. They get drunk on triumphalism and start carving it up into fiefdoms for short term gain, destroying the foundation of hegemony.

As awful as things have been, this chaos is weakness in the ruling class. We should not wish for a return to stability and normalcy, we should not wish for another FDR, which would save capitalism and US imperialism. We should work to take advantage of their idiocy to end it.

before i knew better, and i was campaigning for him (lol), i remember us all being in the volunteer slack when he conceded and saying "well, this isn't over, look at what we've built! we're organized now! we can turn this into something else!" and then they deleted the slack

You know, mutual aid played a significant role in collectivization in China. I think the problem with ""mutual aid"" as usually practiced is it's not mutual aid, not a living, ongoing economic relationship among neighbors. It is almost always just charity between strangers.

I've never known so many deceased people by face & name. This is actually destroying me on a spiritual based. Social media has become a digital cemetery & this is what our world leaders deemed permissible.

There really is not much more to Dengists' belief that China is socialist than just literally believing that socialism consists of a sufficient degree of government control over society, with only cursory inquiry about relationship between the government and the people.

The amount of redditors slobbering like cartoon wolves over Newsom's EPIC TAKEDOWNS of Trump shows how many of them care more about being on the winning team than humane policy. Not a new observation, but still, they're going hog wild for it.

Engels on "people's war until communism." marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/w…

Big thanks to lin van, this document is "I think it was 1958, the CPC put together a collection of every quote from MELS (and at least Bebel too) on what communism is." (in Chinese)

What never hearing about the struggle to produce does to a mf.

To seek the right to make money through commodities is to seek the right to exploit other human beings.

Part of it is an internalized misanthropy that the masses of people are irrevocably grubby, selfish, stupid, and low, and can never be motivated by justice or the understanding that a better world is possible.