When people say, "Many other cultures had similar ideas to Marx," what they usually reveal is that they haven't actually read Marx and instead assume that Marxism is simply the idea of communism. But Marxism is far more than the belief that society should be communist.
transmedicalism becoming trans person who encourages medical transition or even trans person who medically transitions instead of what it originally referred to is an actual terf victory
Playing HoI5 and when you try to bum rush Germany as soon as they demilitarize the Rhineland a pop-up appears saying “the historico-material forces at play do not allow you to do that”
"a whole civilization will die tonight, never to come back" is the kind of thing a mad king set on an omnicidal war would hear from the oracle of delphi immediately before destroying his kingdom forever
@PhilipDBunn "Nuking Iran" is an absurd framing meant to rhetorically protect the president. He could carry out his threat to systematically bomb Iran's infrastructure (and ensure Iran's response on the GCC and Israel), and his supporters will say: "See, he didn't NUKE Iran, you panican!"
She’s a hero. But we need to be very careful with the category of “terrorist”. It’s a category of the state and of repression, it’s a racist category. We need rid of the whole category not upholding it while saying Palestine Action aren’t terrorists.
These people at Drop Site - whether they know it or know how to explain it plainly and put a name on it or not - are Third Position fascists working diligently to syncretize liberal and far right US varieties of fascism and airing this guy's little speech is just more evidence:
i'm showing up to the RCI tables like a right-wing debate guy, only to demand they explain their opinions on black holes, the big bang, and extinction by meteor.
the italian general strike didn't make the italian government send the navy vessel, and the navy vessel did not protect the flotilla. people need to be honest about successes and failures of general strikes instead of writing fanfiction
Hamas representative in Iran, Mujahid Khaled Qaddoumi, said the theory behind October 7 was not a war to liberate Palestine in a short time, but rather "a beginning of upcoming wave of wars that would ultimately liberate Palestine through crisis."
He said it w full confidence.