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Call me crazy but I find it very difficult to care about presidential election when we're on the cusp of two potentially global wars that both candidates are all but promising to see through.
the most meaningless electios, both are hitler
Hitler was only imitating the war crimes by Europeans against other races, so this analogy is accurate in reality.
Man, this week has been an absolute NIGHTMARE. Thank god it’s over. Hope everyone is doing well!
Agreed comrade, I am ready to enjoy a long weekend
In another weird turn of events our party is now accused of supporting the Taliban for some reason
Ik lmao, tbh if thats the worst they can find we are pretty safe and it shows how incompetent the bourgeois parties are
I mean I know it's not true but I'm curious as to why they say it lol. Like, we do take sides when it comes to Xinjiang or perhaps Russia but I've never heard or seen anything about the Taliban???
I have to deal with a lot of aggression at work. Like, on a daily basis there is shouting, threats and sometimes fights or police involvement.
Today I had a guy who exploded in an instance just because a female coworkers asked me something while I was busy with his questions. Told her he wouldn't tolerate a women lecturing him (she wasn't) and called her the Devil for some fucking reason. Told him he could kindly fuck off. Normally I can see the thought process leading up to a rage fit but this was just 0-100 in less than a second.
It's sad but you get used to it. A day without aggression gets labeled as a good day these days, which is absurd of course.
And my job is to help people even. I'm not even influencing them in any bad way whatsoever. But still there is aggression.
I just hope to one day experience a world in which all of this is not necessary anymore.
China policy about limited time visas for europeans is actually working, my comically reactionary dad told me he wants to visit China after watching several videos from a german youtuber that went to China lmao.
Here is a Dutch vid by marxist YouTuber Left Laser about both a pro Israel as a pro Palestine demonstration happening the same day in Amsterdam. The contrast between how demonstrators are treated is huge.
It's in Dutch so most of you won't understand but it's still interesting to see ground level footage of events unfolding.
I kinda regret not going. Hopefully there's another demonstration soon
Weren't there daily protests in Amsterdam or was that somewhere else
Not in Amsterdam
If we had real foresight before WW2, we should have convinced Hitler to invade Zionist Israel. Have the fascists annihilate each other. If the only thing the Nazis cared about was 'fighting world Jewry', the logical thing to do would be to invade Israel, the center of it all.
Of course, this never happened because:
I think that the Nazis wouldn't have cared enough to invade at the time, the Nazis were busy fighting their biggest threats.
To all our US comrades on this site who are facing Milton: stay safe please and good luck. It seems to be an incredibly rough one.
In expected socdem fashion the Socdem Party and the Greens are saying they don't want to 1) govern with us 2) see us govern at all and they'd rather get behind the ruling neolib parties that have been ruling for the last two decades. They'd rather go for another 6 years of racist austerity than for a leftist coalition.
We shouldnt give up hope yet - we got more then a few clandestine members in vooruit and groen that will try to help put pressure on their leadership after sunday. Ig its gonna depend on how high our score is although its no doubt gonna be hard w conner running things atm considering his love fest w de wever. It would be awesome to have a ml mayor of antwerp but i dont think its gonna be in the cards this time, we should be able to enter local gov in some other places though
Not that the Greens are the ones to talk. They are struggling to beat the election cutoff and might turn irrelevant in the city. The Socdems are doing a bit better but marginally so. Turns out neoliberal policies don't go well with your left wing voters. Meanwhile 1 in 4 people voted for us in the national elections back in June. 1 in 4. We could very well have a coalition solely consisting of left wing parties to do whatever we want.
But nope. Call us extremists instead and focus on the neolibs.
Where should I start with Immanuel Wallerstein and Arghiri Emmanuel?
Historical Capitalism by Wallerstein is good and it's short. Can't really speak to Emmanuel but I believe the main work is the one on unequal exchange.
The media campaign against our party for the upcoming elections this Sunday is running on full force.
They are afraid and it is great to see.
I finished reading AntiDrug Capitalism(is from an author that could be considered trotskyist). If I could summarize the book in important points will be like this:
Cartel members and criminals served the imperialists to expand in markets that were locked away before.
Just in Mexico, cartel members served to purge places out of any resistance such as activists, indigenous people and others. This allowed the state and the imperialists to extract resources while reducing the likelihood of people organizing against it.
They also served to curve immigration by kidnapping immigrants and extorting them.
Every latin american country that received money from the USA to "fight the drug war" had spikes of violence.
Cartel members could be classified as counter insurgency. In other words, they are the capitalists dogs with the only purpose of destroying popular resistance and misleading working class people. They extort middle class people and petty bourgeoisie(small fruit stores, taco stores, convenience store) while benefitting the big capital(Walmart).
If I could conclude, the USA is directly responsible for creating the ideal conditions to exploit latin america out of its resources and out of its people through cheap labor.
They did the same (but to a less extreme extent) in southeast Asia (the "golden triangle") and of course in Afghanistan. TBH wherever there is organized crime (esp. drugs and human trafficking), terrorism, religious extremism and cults, fascism, or tribalism/separatism, look deeper and you'll find the CIA 
I finished reading AntiDrug Capitalism(is from an author that could be considered trotskyist).
Man, trots can be interesting
They can put succinct analysis like this, or end up being kooky as hell a la Larouche or Living Marxism, anti-Stalin line notwithstanding
Or they can literally do both things(succinct analysis and kooky)! Let me show you some proof right from the author of the book:
Jayzuz...
You know what saddens me the most? That this person is someone with abundant knowledge on how the USA has destroyed latin america and, with all of that knowledge, she ended up aligning with the pro imperialist propaganda against the non-aligned non-western countries. It is very sad.