just a spooky little ecostalinist who got locked out of my main account because my outdated smartphone isn't smart enough to "verify that i'm human", for the handful of folks who might care~
it all started when he refused to sell out Assata Shakur! and now he's been locked up for the last 24 yrs!
free Kamau Sadiki! free all political prisoners!
also here's his address for letters of support & solidarity!
@stealyoredbull I'm also harshly critical of how legalization has turned cannabis into another industrial consumer product, but I'm curious to understand why you would support recriminalization, which has largely just acted as a gateway for mass incarceration.
we critique socialism in order to improve it
it is very easy for me to say stalin implemented rabidly homophobic policies and that i condemn that.
i still view the ussr positively and communism positively
The last homegrown blockbuster of the summer is coming to Chinese theaters in a few days, and it’s about a Chinese restaurant owner in an unnamed Middle Eastern country whose life is upended by the invasion of (clearly) US forces. Very curious how this one’s gonna turn out…
In 1991 the Soviet Union folded like a wet paper bag and died, allowing the capitalist revanchism and neoliberal shock therapy that replaced it to murder millions in eastern Europe. The proper criticism of the Soviet Union is that it had too *little* authority, not too much.
the fact he managed to make the mask vanish in an instant means that hes well trained and knows the secret of the mechanics behind sichuan opera masks. he must have lived in china for a while. its nice to see people share cultures.
"we can compromise with self-identified capitalists who defend u.s. imperialism at home & abroad, but we draw the line at those damn trots with their newspapers & idealistic but well-intentioned notion that revolution can be internationally forced" idk i think the former is worse
i will never understand the people who will bend over backwards to defends collaborating w/ DSA revisionists but consider trots to be a line too far. I mean, I too have a thousand critiques of trotskyism, but none of them are worse than the folks tailing the literal dem. party???
Former senior CIA agent John Stockwell:
"We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast."