“Humans caused this” no. humans have lived alongside and even grew ecosystems for hundreds of thousands of years. What has caused this is European-driven and influenced settler-colonialism and mass industrialization. There’s no way around that.
True love, unfettered by property relations, exists only among communists. We fight to abolish every social relation where one human becomes the property of another. Love is truly free only when humanity is free. Communists are the true defenders of love.
Her name was Marion Stokes and in addition to being an amateur archivist, she was also a civil rights activist and got fired from her job as a librarian for being a communist.
It’s sooo weird watching people describe 40 degree temperatures in Europe as an unimaginable future when tens of millions across Sudan & other parts of the Global South are already living it + with limited infrastructure, 12+ hour power cuts and barely any global attention
Here’s the thing with obedience-centered parenting: it totally kneecaps your ability to be an adult. Totally. Adulthood requires a willingness to act upon and change states of affairs that the logic of obedience is totally opposed to
And what ppl call “Dengism” didn’t emerge in an intellectual vacuum. Chinese reformers drew heavily on Caribbean economists like 🇱🇨 Arthur Lewis who wrestled w/how underdeveloped countries build productive capacity, industrialize, and raise living standards w/o remaining dependent appendages of rich countries…How markets interact w/the state as the commanding height of the economy.
The left sleeps on the Caribbean as a site of intellectual production..but yea, I think the Cuba discourse is insufferable to me bc China’s reforms responded to Chinese developmental challenges.
Cuba’s reforms will respond to Cuban ones and those reforms can’t be separated from imperialist pressure. But how a socialist state adapts to those pressures while preserving sovereignty & its wider developmental goals still matter. I will defend Cuba 🤷🏾♀️
the whole “so much for pan-Africanism” when a diaspora fight breaks out does not move me, because even siblings fight. but they don’t stop being siblings. presence of conflict doesn’t change our common ties to the motherland, overlapping of cultural expressions, and DNA.
It's wild that the term "Free World" emerged in Western discourse in the 1940s, at a time when the Western European powers exercised authoritarian control over the colonised territories and the US was an apartheid regime with institutionalised racial segregation.