Imperialists keep having to invent socialist massacres to deflect from the reality that capitalism is one continuous, world-spanning genocide.
We often hear about the 140 people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over a period spanning 28 years. But we never hear about the 9,900 people who die every single day because they lack access to healthcare — a direct outcome of imperialism's denial of sovereignty to the global periphery.
We often hear about some number of people who supposedly died at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a highly-contested narrative. But we do not hear about the 1,545 people who die every single day because of Western sanctions — 38 million people in total over a fifty year period.
Given the sheer barbarism of the imperialist world system, we should marvel at how mild the actions of socialist and revolutionary projects are by the standards of the systemic and unrelenting violence they are forced to confront. And there is certainly no need for progressive forces to be apologetic or ashamed about these measures.
What’s worse?
A. Gas chambers
B. Being raped to death in an underground Israeli torture dungeon?
We are dealing with unprecedented evil, normalized & institutionalized.
@HeracAnderson@FringeViews If you believe Wikipedia that's a personal failure.
Wikipedia is the limited hangout.
It's got Five-Eyes fingers all over it.
You can't afford a house. So you rent.
Rent gets too expensive. So you buy an RV.
It's illegal to live in an RV. So you try to live in your car.
Still illegal.
So you end up homeless.
And it's illegal to be homeless on the street too.
America made every affordable alternative to a house illegal.
Then wondered why homelessness keeps climbing.
Can you imagine how explosively the right would shit themselves if a group of Muslims were driving around London impersonating police officers and intimidating non-Muslims under the justification of countering Islamophobia? The shrieking about "Sharia law" would shatter glass.
In the last few weeks Jacobin attacked Ibrahim Traore and Chris Smalls. I can tell you guys first hand there is nothing more the western left hates more than when Black men start to reject liberalism and embrace revolutionary politics
The New York Times accidentally revealed the moral bankruptcy of capitalism.
China is making breakthroughs in cancer drugs, clinical trials, biotech research, and life-saving medicines.
The first American reaction is not:
“How many patients can this save?”
It is:
“Will this threaten U.S. dominance?”
“Will American biotech lose its edge?”
“Will Big Pharma struggle to keep up?”
That tells you everything.
In a sane world, better cancer drugs would be a human victory.
In Washington’s world, even medicine becomes a battlefield the moment China helps people live.
China’s biotech rise is not just about winning.
It is about responsibility to a massive patient population that cannot wait for American monopolies, American prices, or American permission.
Cancer patients do not care about U.S. dominance.
They care about staying alive.
And that is exactly why China cannot leave this field to America.
The Kushners are building a “luxury resort” in Albania.
Just like the “spa” the exact same Rothschild Zio cabal is building at Ontario Place in Canada.
Why are they lying? They’re still scared of us.
@HeracAnderson@FringeViews They're two comics who have been in the industry decades.
Duncan has an animated Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel.
Kurt writes comedy for anyone for money.
They still do stand-up tours.
Bolivian police have arrested indigenous women's leader & ex-senator Simona Quispe. She was grabbed off the street by men in civilian clothes, thrown in an unmarked vehicle and taken to unknown location.
The general strike against neoliberalism continues, despite the repression.
Mark Carney is actively arming the genocide of Palestinians.
As the son of a Residential School principle oppressing Indigenous people is part of his heritage
Go ahead, Carney. Build those data centers. Give this country the class consciousness it's been sorely lacking. I already have pamphlets good to go.
I'm ready. I've BEEN ready.