Sean McMahon

In the beginning there is the scream of rage.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

The #SpaceX IPO is accumulation through dispossession. The deferred wages of workers will be transferred to speculative capitalists.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

Let's hope gas hits $5/litre. That will get the compensatory, Tonka trucks off the roads. #abpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

Arendt says violence disempowers its agent & Clausewitz is clear that war is politics by other means. While the US-Israel are intensifying their wanton killing, #Iran is winning the war.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

The value objectified in fixed capital is destroyed when the fixed capital is not circulating. All the fixed capital stuck on both sides of the #StraitofHormuz is being destroyed minute by minute.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

The selective closure of the #StraitofHormuz doesn't matter b/c of the oil. That thinking is fetishistic. It matters b/c it endangers the control of the working class capital is able to realize w/ the oil (we cannot be replaced w/ machines if the machines cannot be powered).

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

Since 1979, #Iran has been the revolutionary power in the Middle East. The US, Israel & the GCC statelets are all status-quo states. The imperial violence is further empowering Iran & accelerating the regional reordering.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

Note the weak Treasury auction on Monday. Capital is increasingly disinclined to deficit finance US imperialism which means it costs more for the US to commit its violence #Iran

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

It is not "the war in/on Iran." It is the Persian Gulf front, or Middle East theatre, of the Third World War. #Iran #Americanimperialism

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

The use-value of the imperial war for capital in the US: the requested $200 billion can only be passed through "off-sets" which means taking $200 billion from social infrastructure. This means workers will endure a social wage cut of $200 billion.

https://t.co/3Tj7mAye13

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

#Germany, #France & the #UK are imperial rivals w/ the US. This is why they are not actively participating in the US-Zionist attack on Iran. They know, as Napoleon said, to not interrupt their enemy when it is making a mistake.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

Capital is using the imperial war to devalue workers by reducing our real wages through price inflation, particularly of food. This disproportionately destroys the value of poorer workers. This is exactly what happened in 2011, & remember what followed. #egypt #revolution

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

Imagine how much more genocidal the Zionist entity would be if #hezbollah was not there to defend the Lebanese. #lebanon

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

The use-value of imperial war on Iranian society for capital in Canadian society: the increase in the GST credit reduces the amount of fiscal revenue which, in turn, reduces the social wage (eg, health & child care). Capital is using the war to reduce workers' wages #cdnpoli

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

For decades the Zionist entity sought to enlist the US in a war on #Iran b/c it knew it could not defeat Iran on its own. It turns out that it can't defeat Iran even w/ the US. Iran is clearly the regionally dominant state.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

Iran is in the process of destroying #NATO & US dollar hegemony.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

The Zionist entity & the US are begging for European support.

Proving Arendt's analysis that violence does not build power & only destroys it, Iran is obviously being empowered & further degrading the politically weak #US and its attack puppy.

https://t.co/5p8qqXeEWk

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

The use-value of the imperial war on Iranian society is evident in the destruction of workers' immediate wages & deferred wages in the form of 401Ks. Price inflation & savings redistributed to capital through falling stock prices are immiserating & disempowering us.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

There will be no peace so long as #Israel exists. Zionism was, and always will be, racism.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

Reject the ahistoricism of the imperial powers. Israel created #Hezbollah in 1982 & #HAMAS in 1987 & the US created the Islamic Republic in 1953. Not only have Israel & the US chosen violence, they created the objects of their violence.

[Sean McMahon @T20YC]

US imperialism's violence against #Iran is further eroding its power in the global order. No imperial competitor--China, Germany, France--is going to erode its power to arrest the US decline. This is the end of Pax Americana.

Allies reject Hormuz action https://t.co/3OOMn39jJ1