@VersoBooks "Campism" is capital's pejorative term for international class struggle. If you're against "campism", you're a pig supporting the status quo of imperial domination and value extraction from oppressed nations. Read Losurdo. https://t.co/kO30OslDgu
@NiaFrome The slave owner considers it perfectly natural for the slave to have no rights whatsoever, and the bourgeois considers it perfectly natural for his property rights to trump the rights of his class's collective quasi-slave class.
@5149jamesli Capitalism has been crony from the start. In 1848 Marx and Engels wrote "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
@ProudSocialist That's why communism is the greatest threat to America. Countries in the global south prosper instead of exporting their blood and gold to the king of vampires.
Abdul Al Sayed isn’t even that far left. But watch as the Democratic Party chooses to kneecap him to snuff out even milquetoast left wing politics in the senate. They would rather have the republican win, no question.
Nexperia seized in the Netherlands. TikTok forced to sell in the US. Rare earth investment blocked in Australia. British Steel expropriated. The governments that spent decades demanding China open to foreign capital have shown the rules only run one way.
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@lizardmech@SpaghettiKozak US attempts to weaponize Ukraine against Russia go back much further. But it's true that in 2014 Obama helped stage a coup resulting in a Ukrainian civil war featuring the dehumanization and attempted ethnic cleansing of Ukrainian Russians, in which Russia intervened.
King Leopold of Belgium long ago masked his true motivations of brutal colonial dominion over the Congo— of mass extraction and exploitation— by arguing that establishing his enterprise over it would help to end the slave trade and allow for further humanitarian and philanthropic missionary/ *civilizational* work, and to establish free trade.
We have similarly heard this logic used by the Americans for the need to administer control over Gaza; that it is about *saving* Palestinians and for their own benefit.