You can just learn the alphabet without learning any vocabulary.

Just one more humanitarian intervention…

If you went on top of the empire State building and threw multiple hand grenades on the street below, where white people could be walking, would you call that malicious? Or a terror attack? Can you see how him shelling a neighborhood where brown people live is similar? I’m not trying to be mean, but anyone who struggles to see how bad this is, might just have their ability to emphasize impaired by racism. It might not be their fault, people often absorb racists believes unconsciously or have a hard time extending the same amount of empathy, they would to white people to racialized people, if they rarely interact with them. People reading this, who suspect this might apply to them even in a limited way, should really take this to heart and try to reflect on their racist biases and ability to empathize.

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Yes, 100% agree

Forgiveness can be great in certain circumstances, but it has to come from the victims, not from the perpetrators, enablers and benefactors of the violence (Democrats).

I appreciate the critique, but no, money is not

only worth anything because if you don’t pay the state then it will do Bad Things™ to you.

That’s “modern” (from 1905) monetary theory (MMT), which ignores that money is a commodity and can and did historically exist before states.

Michael Roberts writes:

Modern states are clearly crucial to the reproduction of money and the system in which it circulates. But their power over money is quite limited — and as Schumpeter said (and Marx would have said), the limits are clearest in determining the value of money. The mint can print any numbers on its bills and coins, but it cannot decide what those numbers refer to. That is determined by countless price-setting decisions by mainly private firms, reacting strategically to the structure of costs and demand they face, in competition with other firms.

Marx argued that money in capitalism has three main functions: as a measure of value; as a means of exchange; and “money as money” which includes debt payments. Marx’s theorisation of money as a measure of value derives from his labour theory of value; and this is the main difference between Marx and the Chartalists/MMT supporters, who have no theory of value whatsoever.

Money only has value if there is value in production to back it. Government spending cannot create that value — indeed some government spending can destroy value (consider the case of armaments, for example). Productive value is what gives money credibility. A productive private sector generates the domestic product and income that gives government liabilities credibility in the first place. When that credibility is not there, then trust in the state’s currency can disappear fast, as we have seen in Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Argentina.

MMT essentially boils down to good old keynesianism in the end. It’s still a thousand times better than neoliberalism of course, but merely reformist, not equipped to handle capitalism’s crisis and not willing to transcend it.

Maybe, but no reason to get lazy though. It’s citizens are way more powerful and better armed than it’s victims. They have way more moral responsibility to do something and who will build up socialism inside North America after the revolution, if there’s no strong, organized left? The reasons to get out and organized are no where as strong as inside the empire and the excuses not to do it nowhere as weak.

No one will bother to come and rescue US people from capitalism, if they don’t demonstrate the will to at least take responsibility and rule themselves after. There’s no way around preparing for revolution, even if you think it will rely on outside help.

Maybe just editing it to say it’s not real quote would be enough. Also, at this point, it probably doesn’t matter.

Good sentiment, but bullshit quote. Fanon only indirectly criticized peaceful protests.

Here’s a real Fanon quote:

“Colonialism is not a machine capable of thinking, a body endowed with reason. It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence.”

I think you should delete this post and stop seeing anyone as credible, who uses famous comrades names and image to spread their own ideas. I mean, I agree with the content, but still. It’s like using AI.

Why the down votes? It literally happened exactly this way. Who could possibly deny this?

I have great respect for the task of being a parent in our time. Not just the social pressure and the workload is immense, figuring out how to share it is a hard task on it’s own. It’s great, that it seems to work for you.

I’m just always a little irritated, when people talk about men “helping out” in care work, as if it is not their main task, as if it is extra applaudable when it’s men that do the same exact thing. I might read way to much into this choice of words, so feel free to ignore, but would you call what you do as a parent “helping with parenting”? Whenever workers share an equal workload e.g. on a construction site, one wouldn’t usually say about the other:“they helped out”, they would say:“they did their part, same as I did, same es everyone else”. Directing people, keeping everything in mind and telling them when something needs to be done is a lot of work too, a kind that’s easily ignored.

I guess if one person has to do a lot more wage labor than the other to fill a shared account, than that’s a piece of their part of the work too and that might mean less care work. In the end whatever setup works for everyone involved is fine, as long as it is consensual and meets everyones needs as much as possible.

Yeah, I remember a while back I introduced a friend to some simple basic facts about capitalism and it just made him really sad to the point of passivity and not wanting to learn any more. I guess my approach was wrong at the time. I have more success now, but I’m not sure what I do differently. Maybe contradictions have just increased.

You could write a whole article about this. I’d read it. I’m mean, you basically did. Maybe with some statistics added in about more commodity export than capital export and about how countries benefitted from trade with China and about how China is mostly a victim of and not benefiting from unequal exchange.

The slogan “oppose all equally” may sound revolutionary in its refusal to compromise, but detached from dialectical and historical materialism it collapses into abstract moralism that objectively serves the very hegemony it claims to reject.

Yes! Say it louder for the people in the back. Even some well meaning western marxists really struggle with this, because it touches on their privilege.

Don’t judge

Thank you :)

Wow! It really works:

• Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
• Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.
• The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make a friend.
• He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
• Success lies in the hands of those who wants it.
• Patience is your alley at the moment. Don’t worry!
• It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
• I am worth a fortune.
• Do not mistake temptation for opportunity.
• Don’t pursue happiness – create it.
• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
• It’s amazing how much good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.
• Happiness isn’t an outside job, it’s an inside job.
• Enter unknown territory.
• He who expects no gratitude shall never be disappointed.