Morgan Phos

'We direct ourselves to problems, not to events.' - S.V. Tsukasov

Writer of The Red Compass, an anti-colonial communist publication. 🏳️‍⚧️☭

[Morgan Phos @MorganPhos]

My latest article is, "At the Party's Expense: The Meaning and Creation of Professional Revolutionaries"

Thank you to everyone who's waited for this article! The poll for my next topic will be released March 8th
https://t.co/Wps0Je7Gld

[Dialectical Library @DiaLibraOrg]

@MorganPhos In a case of very bad timing, our provider that is graciously hosting our site for free is suffering an outage. Bookmark it and try later, our apologies!
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[Dialectical Library @DiaLibraOrg]

Leslie Feinberg's "Transgender Warriors" combines personal memoir and history of trans resistance, but @MorganPhos argues that it also serves as a rebuke to anyone who would sever LGBT issues from the broader class struggles.

[ℵ 🔻 ☭ @chikodesalonika]

Here is the finished version!! I’m so happy so many people have liked this piece !!! Thank you all for all the love

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

“The shared socialist ideal is the defining character of China-DPRK relations. The Communist Party of China and the Workers’ Party of Korea are both Marxist ruling parties, and China and the DPRK are fellow travellers on the socialist road. I firmly believe that as the two parties and two countries join hands to push forward each side’s party and state cause and continue to strengthen pragmatic exchanges and cooperation, this will powerfully promote national prosperity and strength and the happiness and well-being of the people, and will continuously demonstrate the marked advantages and bright prospects of socialism.” 🇨🇳🇰🇵✊🏽❤️

[Nia Frome @NiaFrome]

don't you hate it when between a goal and its realization lies the arduous process of actually bringing it about and that process elicits complicated not-entirely-positive-feelings like fatigue, resentment, and apathy?

[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

"Reactionary revolution"-- pure Islamphobic discourse and guiding assumptions in this oxymoron. Islam must be a reactionary social force so even though it looks like a revolution, overthrew a corrupt and oppressive imperialist-aligned monarchy, established a populist and democratic republic based on an Islamic constitutional order that protects religious rights of non-Muslims, and opposes ZioAmerican imperialism in the region and beyond it cannot be a progressive political revolution. This is just bigotry as well as intellectual and historical confusion.

[The Red Clarion @red_clarion]

Read the article here: https://t.co/7ubgittSq2

[Nia Frome @NiaFrome]

https://t.co/hCB24qzJC2

[Bikrum Gill @bikrumsinghgill]

The problem with seeing anarchist-abolitionists despair about the absence of an anti-war movement for Iran is that they still refuse to reckon with how they have vociferously participated in the delegitimization of the Islamic Republic, and cannot still bring themselves today to recognize that it has paid a price for refusing to abandon Palestine.

If you have been arguing for the dismantlement of the IRGC, and therefore the Islamic Republic, for years, how could you expect anything but a defanged anti-war movement today, especially if you still cannot bring yourself to accord any legitimacy to the state formation whose collapse is the strategic aim of this genocidal violence.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Iran just published a video about how they did shot F35

[David Ramírez Álvarez 🇨🇺 @DvidTwit]

🚨After 29 hours, our electrical system is fully operational again. In Latin America, it can take weeks to restore national electrical grids.

The fact that Cuban electrical workers accomplished this in such short time is a testament to the tenacity, and ingenuity of our people.

[Morgan Phos @MorganPhos]

My next article will be about the lumpenproletariat's role in a revolution within the US. Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll! This is a topic I've wanted to tackle for a while and I'm excited to dive in.

[Morgan Phos @MorganPhos]

The poll for my next topic is live and will run until March 14th: https://t.co/GYISGTqK0l

There are only two topics this time, both focused on investigating a different subject of class struggle in the US: The middle class or the lumpenproletariat

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

“I have been crying for what is happening in Iran — for their leader, who was killed by US imperialism. Because I saw how in 2018, 2019, and 2020, ships from Iran delivered gasoline to us when we had none. It was Iran who helped us. We feel the Iranian people in their struggle; just like we feel the Palestinian people in their struggle.”

Anacaona Marín, militant of the Fuerza Patriótica Alexis Vive and spokesperson of the El Panal commune. Venezuela.

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

Lenin wrote in 1915: “If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on [World War I era, pre-revolutionary] Russia, and so forth, those would be just, defensive wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every socialist would sympathize with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory ‘Great’ Powers.”

In this instance, of course, Iran did not attack first. But that only strengthens the point that today, every socialist, every anti-colonialist, every opponent of genocide, every supporter of the most basic principles of sovereignty and equality, must stand firmly with Iran, waging a defensive war against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory United States and Israel.

[Dialectical Library @DiaLibraOrg]

Can existentialism and Marxism ever be reconciled? George Novack’s 1966 anthology argues not, framing existentialism as a reactionary “third way” that seeks to supplant dialectical materialism with its own metaphysics. First-time contributor @dyalectix reviews. Link below ⤵️

[Alice Malone @alicirce]

I like this Lukács bit on types of capitalist apologia

Direct apologetics: deny capitalism has any issues

Indirect apologetics: acknowledge capitalism's issues, but frame them as inevitable/insurmountable

The latter can even be "leftist", but makes class struggle seem absurd

[Morgan Phos @MorganPhos]

@alicirce Thank you!!

[Morgan Phos @MorganPhos]

My latest article is, "At the Party's Expense: The Meaning and Creation of Professional Revolutionaries"

Thank you to everyone who's waited for this article! The poll for my next topic will be released March 8th
https://t.co/Wps0Je7Gld

[Morgan Phos @MorganPhos]

@alicirce as they switch to other areas, even if they do so remotely from one location. Being immersed in an environment gives more knowledge of it, so travel remains useful, but it’s *more* about applying one’s labor to a variety of situations than physical traveling through areas.

[Morgan Phos @MorganPhos]

@alicirce I think the educative role of travel remains, but it’s less about the physical transport of the revolutionary and more about the variety of environments they’ve worked on. A party leader coordinating activities in a certain locale will gain more experience and flexibility ...