Fellow Mariner

ML-MZT, historical & dialectical materialist. Mostly lurking, learning, and reading. I occasionally post micro-essays about left-wing music.

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

The principles that should animate all of our counter-propaganda are that the white empire has no right to exist, the forces of national resistance and liberation are unconditionally justified in resisting the empire's aggression, and so, they deserve our unwavering support.

[Zitkato (check pinned) @DecolonialMarx]

I need help with an ambulance bill of $700. I had a severe panic attack that resulted in the cops coming and almost shooting me for not following confusing orders while I was panicking. I have several anxiety disorders and so this isn’t abnormal as far as like panicking but

[coretapper @scrollwrack]

“Russia imperialist!” is going around again. What an annoying Trotskyite error. Imperialism forms out of fully-developed capitalist relations, not “big country” behavior or bc “bad things happen there!”

Impotent westerners endlessly attracted to chauvinism/allergic to politics

[RNA2(they/she) @RNAfrikan]

There's a throughline of colonial chauvanism detectable in 9/10s of actual armed struggle advocates wherein they see stuff like this and learn to denigrate skill and the division of labor bc they subconsciously cant reconcile them with their view of those engaged in struggle

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

@Kali_de_Armas Mute him immediately and watch your TL get exponentially better

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

I doubt that any of these books will be worth reading given the framing of the tweet itself.

In the West, works that “critique” China frequently push this narrative about “state socialism” with shallow invocations about Marx and Lenin — who did not use that term bc the trick is

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

Achieving the material and psychological conditions that will resolve this contradiction is still a work in progress at a global scale.

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

As I'm reading Hegel, I'm inferring that at the point where organic consciousness develops to a critical threshold where sapience is achieved, a contradiction arises between the subjective self and the objective world. +

[R.Сам 🦋🐏 @Logo_Daedalus]

“Contemporary bourgeois philosophers and scientists are therefore mistaken when they imagine that they can escape the dialectic—which they find extremely unwelcome—simply by “taking off their Marxist glasses.” That is, they think they can reject some supposedly invented “dialectical method” devised by Hegel and Marx which “distorts reality.”
In fact, the dialectic will remain there in reality itself. If it disappears from a particular study of reality, this proves only that the study does not correspond to reality—or at least that it fails to reflect reality fully, since it has overlooked one of its real and fundamental aspects.”

[White Zohran Mamdani @0xgunboats]

My Saudi friend saw a sign that said FREE MOCHA and panicked that It said FREE MOKHA.

The Saudis are tiiiiiiiiired.

[Bikrum Gill @bikrumsinghgill]

This the highest expression of the anti-imperialist dialectic, the rising contradiction of the equation of force. Over tjme, imperialist force is increasingly absorbed by anti-imperialist force and redirected back towards the imperialists, with the day coming soon that it will hold them to account for genocide

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

@iskrabooks @iskrabooks do you no longer offer the hardcover Stalin collection with the dust jacket editions? Can't find them on your website.

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

@joe_br1ght I'm confused by your logic. If a person is sexualizing everything and thinking of masturbation when they see mundane stuff like the above, wouldn't that indicate a high chance of being addicted to porn consumption?

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

@MrTaha President Xi, launch the misandrist murderbots plz

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

@RyokoPanic @alicirce We can fight and will defeat the patriarchy through treating this as a multi-generational war fought at the societal level, rather than an individual battle for each family. Let Friedrich Engels' confidence inspire you.

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Carney’s speech sounds like there’s real concern that the US will run a destabilization campaign to break Canada apart. As America’s imperial sidekick destabilizing & breaking states the world over, Canada is familiar with the threat. It just wasn’t supposed to boomerang on them.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Is it really true that AI threatens to kill us all? Or is it that AI — in the hands of imperialists — accelerates the tendencies within capitalism that are already pushing us towards the edge of the cliff?

[Nia Frome @NiaFrome]

once our positions become popular, which they will, we should advance and take new positions

[Kramer's Lust for Life @milktsunami]

This is the greatest name of all time

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

@TheGreeneBJ Hmm, I wouldn't put so much stock in the veracity of Ryan Grim (who previously showed his blind spots) quoting a Goldman Sachs executive quoting H**retz. It's third hand info at this point and smells like more "the entity knows everything" hasbara. Or election campaigning.

[Fellow Mariner @FellowMariner]

@guspasho @Mdvdndhbd @uncle_authority Yeah... navigating Twitter is a bit of an art of plucking out the rational, nuanced kernel buried within the absolutely stated hyperbole...