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Foreign Minister Marc Garneau supported Ukrainian neo-Nazis & Israeli apartheid during time as foreign affairs critic
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/marc-garneau-supported-ukrainian-neo-nazis-israeli-apartheid-during-time-as-foreign-affairs-critic
https://redd.it/kxeeof
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Good overview of Gramsci (from a non-revisionist standpoint)?
Hello. I am looking to dive deeper into Antonio Gramsci's work and I decided to start with an overview before I jump into the notebooks. However, I know that Gramsci has been co-opted by many different theoretical traditions because many of his prison notebooks were written in a coded way that allows for many differing interpretations, so his ideas have been interpreted in many ways. Does anyone know of any overviews of Gramsci's work that generally follow an ML interpretation of his writings? Thanks for reading and I look forward to any responses.
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(Yang Chengxun) Theoretical Origin of Working Together to Build an “Open World Economy”: Practical implications of Lenin’s comments on adapting to and taking advantage of “global economy”
http://en.theorychina.org/c/2020-12-01/1316965.shtml
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Why do you like communism, if capitalism is great?
That’s it, I’m from Mexico immigrant in US, and I love US, with a normal job I can afford everything I want and also send money to my family in Mexico, I went to Cuba for vacations 3 years ago, and let me tell you that nobody would love to live like that, for real, people on the streets were asking all tourist for clothing and basic stuff lol
So my question is, why would someone hate capitalism and love communism?
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Contradictions in the "new" Uighur story by Gulbahar Haitiwaii and Rozenn Morquat
There is a new (not new) Uighur "escapee" story going around on Reddit by Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Rozenn Morgat (sorry, misspelling in the title) and published by the Guardians, translated from French. The husband has been talking with Bitter Winter around 2018, her daughter has been going on TV in France. This Rozenn Morqat person has been doing on an anti-China tirade for years now and basically this is her whole livelihood at this point. Whatever the story this Gulbahar person tells and she's been telling them since 2018/2019 are now well rehearsed in French, but there are still lots of cracks that leave me unconvinced that she's telling the whole truth.
Here are some quotes in the story that stood out for me:
***You must come back to Karamay to sign documents concerning your forthcoming retirement***
She went back to Xinjiang for something like 100-200 Euro a month?
***Karamay was the city in the western Chinese province of*** [***Xinjiang***](https://www.theguardian.com/world/xinjiang) ***where I’d worked for the oil company for more than 20 years.***
Zero details of her work history despite working in the oil company for 20 years. Ok, what was the name of that company. Like what does she have to lose at this point by divulging her past?
***Then one of the officers shoved a photo under my nose. It made my blood boil. It was a face I knew as well as my own – those full cheeks, that slender nose. It was my daughter Gulhumar. She was posing in front of the Place du Trocadéro in Paris, bundled up in her black coat, the one I’d given her. In the photo, she was smiling, a miniature East Turkestan flag in her hand, a flag the Chinese government had banned.***
No details or even a conjecture on how in the hell did some people working at an office got a printed photo of her daughter.
The article then jumped from this point directly to when she was doing some physical exercise in the camp. What the fuck happened in between?
***It was now June 2017, and I’d been here for three days. After almost five months in the Karamay police cells, between interrogations and random acts of cruelty – at one stage I was chained to my bed for 20 days as punishment, though I never knew what for – I was told I would be going to “school”.***
a few paragraphs later
***I had lost all sense of time. There was no clock. I guessed at the time of day from how cold or hot it felt. The guards terrified me. We hadn’t seen daylight since we arrived – all the windows were blocked by those damned metal shutters.***
So is this a contradiction or what.
***So this was brainwashing – whole days spent repeating the same idiotic phrases. As if that weren’t enough, we had to do an hour of extra study after dinner in the evening before going to bed. We would review our endlessly repeated lessons one last time. Every Friday, we had an oral and written test. By turns, beneath the wary eye of the camp leaders, we would recite the communist stew we’d been served up... It enabled us to absorb and regurgitate volumes of history and declarations of loyal citizenship, so we could avoid the public humiliation dished out by the teacher.***
Says that she has been forced to memorize phrases and things but cannot regurgitate any of them as evidence in the article??
Oh yeah this story omits a bunch of stuff from 2018 such as getting monthly visit from her mother and her sister. So she was deemed an extremist because of her daughter's activities but her relatives who were already living in Xinjiang weren't, and were allowed monthly visit to her at the camps?
From a related story in 2019: ***one- or two-word reassurances via the Chinese social media platform WeChat from Gulbahar’s sister who claims she or her mother are visiting once a month***
There are zero pictures of her time in China and the article is filled with some pictures used in unrelated stories, somewhich were already proven to be exaggerated.
And here is the kicker:
***When the nurses grabbed my arm to “vaccinate”
A brief and interesting video on American Imperialism in Honduras. Script written by a first generation Honduran-American.
https://youtu.be/beHtTD_ra80
https://redd.it/kw5gj9
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Texts on the Neoliberal University
Hey y’all, I’m looking to begin a reading group with some other student organizers at my university and want to begin with an understanding of neoliberal university, especially the University of California. Does anyone have any recs of videos or texts about this topic?
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What is the Maoist perspective on the dprk and how does it differ from the ml perspective on the dprk?
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Counterarguments to the claim made that in Cuba, socialism/collectivization is the reason behind their current supply shortage?
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Books about the planned economy of DPRK?
I’m looking for books that cover the development and successes of the planned economy of the DPRK from inception to modern day. My understanding is that the DPRK was actually more successful than the south for a few decades until the late 70s — I understand Stephen gowans has some good writings but curious if anyone can point specifically to texts online or otherwise that explain command economies in depth — I know some ML channels on YouTube have some great Marxist book reccs on ussr and China and i have a few on east Germany as well — but books on the DPRK or other lesser discussed socialist nations like Hungary Bulgaria Poland etc. anyone have any resources on these nations ? Videos or articles books etc thanks comrades
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Are Native Americans a good example of how Marxism could work?
I’m not talking about all Native Americans, I’m talking about those who lived in the north eastern regions of the United States. They had a classless system (except the leader of the village, even then they’re mostly equal to others), they didn’t really have a currency, everyone shared, nobody was poorer nor richer than others, everyone worked except the children and elders, etc.
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The Gulag Archipelago
How does this subreddit feel about it, have any of you read it and if so what should I bare in mind while reading. I’ve heard it’s quite heavy.
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Resources for learning about the crimes of Imperial Japan, as well as the Japanese Communist Movement?
Hi there comrades, I don't know about you but in school I was never introduced to the true magnitude of the imperialist crimes committed by the Japanese empire. Through learning more about the history of the DPRK & China since then, I've learned more about the truly nefarious and inhuman nature of Japanese imperialism, but even so this information was not exactly the main focus of the books I read. I'm basically looking for resources that look critically at Imperial Japan, earnestly examine its history and actions, and also how the communist movement tried to combat this. I know the JCP had representatives in the Comintern, so there must be something out there. Maybe something on the Soviet-Japanese relations from the 30s & 40s would be really good to. Thanks, as always! <3
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Capitalism is not just immoral, it's also inefficient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld0YbG5WBNs
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Election of Kim Jong Un as General Secretary - Day 6 of 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_q0GnwHNJQ
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PSL Chicago/On Alienation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UweBPpO_A8TEvp30Uo_Xt6lD9WEPpzlFOA4OQ4WJgmE/edit?fbclid=IwAR3mGgRm6vK_vBcaZO9ft7M2kR7n0qTebr8U5cUDxQNKaLr1G0aZp4QealY
https://redd.it/kxcjje
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Any struggle to rejoin the EU is futile – Britain must seek a socialist path outside of the neoliberal bloc
https://redactionpolitics.com/2021/01/10/any-struggle-to-rejoin-the-eu-is-futile-britain-must-seek-a-socialist-path-outside-of-the-neoliberal-bloc/
https://redd.it/kwv6lj
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Mastracci's journalism list provokes anger: Do You Have to Remind People We’re the Establishment?
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/mastraccis-journalism-list-provokes-anger
https://redd.it/kwkt26
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me, I thought they were poisoning me. In reality, they were sterilising us. That was when I understood the method of the camps, the strategy being implemented: not to kill us in cold blood, but to make us slowly disappear. So slowly that no one would notice.***
Really? Sterilizing a woman (in her 50s) who has 2 child in a camp with no men at a time when the maximum limit of children by Uighur minorities during her time there was 3, by needle injection? Give me a break! This some 50+ year old woman with a then 26 year old daughter going to give birth?
And then they just let her go back to France. Like what?
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LF Summary of Israel and Palestine from a left perspective
A coworker and I were talking about something unrelated when Israel came up. She casually mentioned that she doesn't know anything about Israel and Palestine. We had to cut short the conversation because our boss walked in, but she's indicated that she'd be willing to talk about it with me, since I seem to know more about it than she does. (She's a centrist and she knows I'm left leaning but not how far.)
Unfortunately, my knowledge isn't that extensive. I have some vague idea of the background of the founding and how it's basically colonialism (with the difference perhaps being that unlike European colonizers, it's not "in the name of the homeland"), and also that the Israelis commit atrocities against the Palestinians daily, but not much else. No details.
So I'm looking for a good summary and some sources so I can bone up on this topic.
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Learn about communism
What are some good sources, texts, and commentaries that can help me start learning about the Marxist and Communist philosophy? I am not able to find good philosophical literature on the subject given that most of the internet is filled with ideological junk and propaganda, from both sides of the political aisle.
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Exposing the REAL George Orwell.
https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/05/19/unmasking-st-george/
https://redd.it/kvt0ge
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On this day in 1962, the US military began its 11-year chemical warfare campaign against the people of Vietnam and Laos, dropping 19 million gallons of Agent Orange over 20% of both countries, poisoning at least 3 million people and causing over a million birth defects.
https://twitter.com/Americas_Crimes/status/1349149076651200515
https://redd.it/kw66ba
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What degrees should I study for as a Marxists?
They're will be no need for extra intellectuals in the revolution. But what kind of college educated careers will be desperately needed?
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India's Supreme Court Rules to Suspend the BJPigs Farm Laws.
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-india-legislation-courts-new-delhi-e081866827cd67f8f3c0df2e86276700
https://redd.it/kw2bo7
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What are some of the largest non ruling communist parties in the world?
Title, what are some of the largest or politically significant socialist parties in the world today? Would love to hear about parties in Africa in particular.
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is a political project
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/canadian-museum-for-human-rights-is-a-political-project
https://redd.it/kv7qny
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USSR: 70 Years That Shook the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Qr032BZ2w
https://redd.it/kv7ky2
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The next step for social media activism.
Right now we have loads of meme pages with tons and tons of followers on some of them, this is great.
We also have loads of small local leftist organizations like the poor people's campaign, climate protest groups, tenant unions, and others with facebook pages that don't get nearly as much traffic but need people to show up for the protests and events they organize.
We regularly see meme pages boosting each other, this is great because it helps with exposure for smaller groups to get started growing. What we need now is for those same meme groups both large and small to start linking and boosting the on the boots on the ground side (with permission from those groups of course) It doesn't have to be a constant thing, just a shoutout to a group ahead of a public event they are organizing to boost attendance, or tagging them in a post to thank them for work they're doing in their community can have a huge impact from a meme group with literally thousands of members in terms of helping our activist networks grow stronger and reach more like minded people in their communities. You could even advertise fundraisers for these groups (if they have any and are ok with it).
Use the social media algorithms to your advantage to get small local groups that have an impact trending so they can really grow.
https://redd.it/kvs1l8
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What is to be done?
Organization is non-existent in America. There are small communities and reading groups, however that hardly constitutes "organizing". Our political groups are split into many parties and none have an ounce of support.
Ideas on actually getting a national organization together?
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