It’s kinda funny how anti-communists are unable to use Pol Pot’s genocide as a gotcha like they do with the USSR’s and PRC’s famines because not only was the Khmer Rouge taken out by Vietnamese Stalinists but also because once out of power they immediately went on the CIA payroll
@btharris93 There are 1.5 million less people living in the Baltic states today than in 1991 because of the social catastrophe and economic ruin that post-1991 capitalism brought forcing much of the youth to go abroad as cheap and highly exploited workers for the rest of the EU
@CeccCoal The fact it’s a term that is used across the political spectrum from NazBols like ACP to the most generic liberals imaginable to them really goes to show that it is just a vague populist term with no class content
More proof that the immigration court system is an anti-democratic farce.
Immigration Judge Amy Lee orders dead non-citizen deported, finding "insufficient proof of death."
You can't make this up!
@JohnBraddock15@Lady_FanAccount It’s always funny to me that the ICFI has a better track record of entryism than the professional entryists. They snatched the entire Labour Party’s youth movement out from under them
@Lady_FanAccount At their height, Mungo Jerry played memorable benefit gigs for the British Young Socialists, the youth movement of the then Trotskyist Workers Revolutionary Party. #WSWS
"What we need is some real class consciousness in this country. An immigrant is not your enemy. The enemy is the boss, the one making billions of dollars while you make pennies and your wage has not increased since the 1990s." #DelaneyHall
The radicalism of the youth of the 1960 was not "drug inspired." It was a response to Vietnam, the struggle for civil rights, and, even more fundamentally, the fresh and not-forgotten horrors of the two World Wars. The 1917 October Revolution had not disappeared from memory, capitalism and anti-communism were in bad odor, Stalinism was increasingly discredited, and there was a revival of interest in Trotsky, whose extraordinary books were recognized as political and literary masterworks. This resurgence was suppressed by the reactionary political climate of the Reagan-Thatcher years to which Mr. Luce was exposed, to his own misfortune, during his intellectually formative years.
But Mr. Luce correctly detects a process of radicalization among the world's youth. The question is, at what point will this radicalization break beyond the bounds of the media-vetted pseudo-leftism of people like Sanders and Mamdani and reestablish contact with the the genuine Marxian-socialist political perspective and culture that was exemplified in the October Revolution and figures like Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg. This break must and will occur, and the rediscovery of Trotsky's extraordinary political legacy and writing will be a critical element of the reemergence of Marxism as a mass socialist movement based on the working class.
Piker reminds one of Trotsky's description of Kerensky: "He had no theoretical preparation, no political schooling, no ability to think, no political will." He has "that kind of eloquence which operates neither upon mind or will, but upon the nerves."
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@PetrieDaParrot Like DSA people love calling SEP sectarians for being open and strong with their criticisms but then will turn around and act like getting the cops called on SEP campaigners is actually perfectly fine and is actually their fault for, you guessed it, being sectarian 🤦♂️
@PetrieDaParrot Easily one of the most misunderstood and misused terms in leftist discourse, most of the time just boils down to “standing by your own stated principles is bad”