Besides their "War on Russia" and multiple times hacking the PRC, a big example would be them attacking Syria for claims that the government took out communication infra during a "crackdown". It turns out, it was the US NSA that took down Syria's telecoms during an ISIS invasion so Anonymous went out of their way to prevent any messaging between the government fighting ISIS and the civilian population.
No, and they aren't even "anti-Auth", the US isn't on their chart, Britian ain't there either. They are basically middle class moralists and join their colonial governments in terrorizing the infrastructure of states oppressed by Imperialism. They are little digital missionary rats.
Tamils have lived on the Island for over 2000 years and their angst against the Republic is for issues in the last two centuries with land grabs and displacement targeted at them. Referring to them being "colonizers" is very irrelevant to the struggles in the country.
i've been saying this, and Canada is just a front for the Hudson Bay Company
the settlers are along for the ride
Zelensky has been ruling unelected for like a year now, and the president before him was unelected. The president before that was impeached by a Parliament that blocked his party from voting the day after neo Nazis tried to assassinate him.
Using python makes it much easier to maintain scripts especially if they are useful for many people. I like bash for adhoc stuff on my machine or my sandbox, but most of my coworkers are not strong in it so it's not good for prod ops.
~50k soldiers in a population of 1.4M, this is a pretty absurd contribution to the problem by the military
Hasn't there been multiple attempts on Booker?
Rural land is organized in communes, you can move to the countryside from the city, but you must be invited into the commune or rent from it as a tenant, costing you for the privilege of using their land.
The cities are only so big as they are developed, and growth takes time and energy. Due to the market, living in the cities costs more, so you can move from the countryside to the cities, if you can afford it (i.e. stable job), which is hard because the city can only plan for so many jobs in any given time.
Moving like that is difficult, and is more expensive than staying put, because the real economic cost of such a move has an expensive impact on the whole economy. This applies everywhere, which is why some lineages haven't left Southside Chicago or South Central LA since it those neighborhoods were redlined, and the life expectancy is almost a decade shorter than the metro average:
Movement only "feels free" in the US, because much of the population is able to pay for the freedom of movement (using surplus labor).
This system is also partially why many of the big cities are provinces in their own. It gives provincial, and hukuo powers to the urbanites to decide how they want to grow (within the constraints of the overall state plan). In the US, instead it's often people with freedom cash pushing out existing urbanites, sometimes into the outskirts, sometimes into more concentrated enclaves, sometimes onto the streets.
Nah the math still checks out, just don't take his political conclusions for shit
Worldwide Law of Value - Samir Amin
MIM's Imperial Class Structure 1997
Divided World Divided Class - Zak Cope
Labor Aristocracy, Mass Base of Social Democracy - HW Edwards
Lenin at the international: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jul/x03.htm#fw4
In fact you can think of much of the way the state and bourgeoisie has acted since 2008 has been to ensure that line recovers to where it should have been if no collapse. Yes, Obama foreclosed on people (mostly "new wealth" Black and Latino people), but he "saved" hundreds of millions of (mostly white) portfolios.
The Bourgeoisie knows that line is necessary to deflate class struggle, they know they'll struggle with military recruitment if soldiers can't expect to own a home at the end of their service.
For tailing it's falling for the 80% of landlords that are "small" crying about corporate competition in their little dictatorships: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6510977/5686588
The thought that they’d buy single family homes to rent out is novel to me at least; I’d never heard of such a thing before.
They started getting involved in SFH after the foreclosures of 08, because they did not lose much relative net worth compared to people who own 1-10 homes, who lost net worth on all their assets at that time. They didn't get involved before that because not many people were renting SFH in the 80s and 90s and prior, those homes were only for the middling strata and up. Also, by just financing homes in the past while prices continued to rise, there was no reason to get their hands involved to add more work when they can just seek interest on all development. When hundreds of thousands of homes suddenly became available, that's when they took the opportunity to turn it into a business. And yeah I'm minimizing them because they are indeed a minimal (0.6% of all SFH stock) component of the market and concentrated in a few markets, but that is not tied to the overall indeces of those markets whatsoever. Any investor who owns the home would have the same position as any other, corporate or "mom and pop", the resulting market will be the same.
Liberal/Petty Bourgeois media is taking advantage of the novelty of corporate investors in SFH to use us to fight for protections backing "small investors" worth millions against competition.
Housing costs (and building) are raising extra fast post 2009 because they received basically 0% interest rates to finance more homes to "recover" from the financial crisis. That corporate investors got in at that time is a simultaneous symptom of the crisis, which always benefits the highest bourgs as they eat up small capital owners (good riddance).
There is finally the last aspect that SFH cities or neighborhoods have become the "standard model" of US housing culture since the early 2000s, this is related to the eventual financial crisis too.
Artificial scarcity isn't real in the housing market
There has never been more houses to workers in the US than ever before, supply and demand is hardly a factor in the price of ground rents, those are directly tied into Imperialism's health.
Corporate investors cannot raise prices above the whole market, and if they do, all homeowners (the majority of which are "proletarians") benefit the same, so they all engage in price raising politics.
Housing prices == rents and vice versa. If housing prices collapse so will rents, because they are the same thing. As long as someone or something is able to purchase at an ever increasing price, housing costs will continue to rise.
This battle over purchasing houses, is between the petty Bourgeoisie and the haute Bourgeoisie. The only difference between mortgaging out and paying rent is whether a so-called worker can profit from their investment in years time, it's a class transition into the petty Bourgeoisie. You can look at historical charts that the price differences for renting vs loans is most often favorable towards renting, but the differences are slight.
These are also SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, 15% are rented out, 4% of those are rented out by corporations, so 0.6% of all SFH are owned to rent by corps, that 0.6% of landlords is raising the prices of all homes country wide? Besides, SFH should be for the most part destroyed for climate reasons when Socialism comes.
Home-ownership is hardly related to healthcare costs besides both being financialized sectors that seek rent, I'm not sure what your connection is.
"Corporations" are a red herring in the housing question, the fault is the bourgeois structure of US housing culture which empowers tens of millions of people to surplus value and property rights.
Y'all need to read Engels on the Housing Question, don't tail the petty bourgeoisie on this.
CPUSA writer responds to my thread on Settler Colonialism in the US
Kaffe: The author of the CPUSA article I responded to the other day has issued a response, here it is with my in-between responses. I had to transcribe the response from an image with some software so there might be mistakes, please check the source first if something looks weird, it could be my mistake.
Recently, a twitter user by the name of @probablykaffe released a criticism of my article "Questions of Settler-Colonialism in the U.S." on the party website (https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5450487). The criticism was posted on Lemmygrad, a Marxist-Leninist substitute for Reddit founded in 2019 in response to Reddit's crackdown on Marxist content on their platform. I don't plan to respond to all points made, as I do not believe that is productive and would lead to a back and forth conversation that I do not have the energy for. However, I do see this as an opportunity to elaborate on some points within the article a little further. This is not a formal response, nor is this represent
Criticism of CPUSA published “Questions of Settler-Colonialism in the U.S.”
The article in question: https://www.cpusa.org/article/questions-of-settler-colonialism-in-the-u-s/
This is a response to a CPUSA published article concerning the topic of Settler-Colonialism in the US. I quote the article at length so you cannot miss any points they have made. Wrote this right after reading, there's likely mistakes in here. Feel free to crit me and ask for sources and stuff. This is not a formal response, and I do not represent any org here, this is comradely crit for an article carrying theoretical mistakes. I'm criticizing from the angle of a New Afrikan. Emphasis is mine unless I reformat better and have to make the distinctions clear.
To let the piece open itself:
The question of settler-colonialism and its place in the web of contradictions in the U.S. have resurfaced, and of the Communist Party’s position, so it bears addressing. Without a concrete answer to these questions, our party’s abil
February 6th Effort Posting, Death of Wesley Bad Heart Bull and Riot in Custer, SD 1973 | Chunka Luta Network
X-posting late, but in preparation of a post on Captain Cook incoming. CLN posts have been covering a narrative leading into the Occupation of the Wounded Knee hamlet by AIM in 1973.
OG Post on Hexbear: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3566703?scrollToComments=true
From perspective of @[email protected]:
We last left you discussing the concept of the bordertown and the racialized violence enacted there through settler vigilantism, which is obvious through physical violence. In a new era, however, what about online discourse? This is one thing I’d like to introduce to our discourse and hopefully help settler allies understand when they might accidentally dawn a hood and cape for the state. I see settler vigilantism as synonymous with Kluxism, or at least they stem from the same psyche. The spirit of Manifest Destiny seemingly possesses these settlers to act out in monstrous ways, depriving us and themselves of humanity and life. There a
The Atlantic attacks the definition of Settler-Colonialism, Turtle Island, in recent Imperialism rag.
Wounded Knee: The 1973 Part, well almost | Chunka Luta Network
og on hexbear
Sungmanitu of Chunka Luta Network: Would it surprise you that I had more to say? Due to the character limit, this wonderful and relevant story had to be broken into 2; this one I called the 1973 part, well almost. The day I released the first parthex was not on the massacre date, but instead the day they assassinated Tatanka Iyotake, Bull Who Sits on Hind-legs or Sitting Bull. This name is given to him by a Canadian Mountie officer ignoring the commands of his higher officers, to offer refuge to the radical band of Tatanka Iyotake who were waiting to rendezvous with Tasunka Witiko, Crazy Horse. This rendezvous never happens as they are able to trick him, arrest him, and then kill him on his way into the jail. If you believe our Medicine Men, he saw this, and on Bear Butte he did only 3 days of a traditionally 4 day vision quest called hembleycha, in hopes he w
OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE CHUNKA LUTA PODCAST (A BANDS OF TURTLE ISLAND REBOOT)
"x-posted" from https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/62e0ddcf-3213-47d5-8200-c8845ac3faef.png since x-posts don't seem to show up on front pages.
Today we launch the official feed for the Chunka Luta Podcast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chunka-luta-network/episodes/Ep-1-New-Directions-e2d11rb/a-aaneqt5 that is replacing the former Bands of Turtle Island pod. BOTI was started to tell the story of AIM, then I got paid to tell that story so why would I keep posting it free if Im posting it free down the line and actually well produced? The last few episodes on the feed will be that story completing a circle I started at 19, and we will start this circle with that same story; the story of Wounded Knee 1973. While documenting this story, somehow I ended up forming an International collective of Decolonial Marxists (MLs to be more correct, as to mean the scientists of Liberation) we have plenty in the pipeline for this podcast so I highly recommend following it and staying up-to-date
How did settlers get to California through all those mountains? A thread from comrade Sungmanitu
"x-posted" from @[email protected]
Original twitter thread: https://twitter.com/DecolonialMarx/status/1736248614035272113
There's a lot of misleading things about this presentation; for one only the poorest of people were crossing the plains and Mountains. Instead those who could afford it preferred to sail to Nicaragua and walk across the isthmus, to then sail up to the West Coast. Yes the mountains were tough to pass, but not because they are mountains, but because the easiest paths are controlled by, and tolls are enforce by Indigenous nations across the west. Meaning it was not the Mountains that discouraged them, but instead the idea of following Indigenous laws; i.e. it's a political barrier. This barrier prevents a western expansion preferring instead almost a Roman style, build a fort around your enemy, style of invasion.
Palo Alto was further from the White House than it was from Mexico City. Frémont felt safe massacring unarmed indige
Wounded Knee from 1890 to 1973
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3005738
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1336560
From comrade Sungmanitu:
Last thread we dispelled some major misconceptions of Indigenous people and the founding of America, but what about Western Expansion? How much do you honestly know as a historical materialist? One of the most common misnomers I hear in educating people is “why should we care about something that happened hundreds and hundreds of years ago?” Capital was written 1867, the same time we signed our first treaty. When I say we I do not mean some homogenized conception of Indigenous people, but rather I am speaking specifically about the Oceti Sakowin and the ending of Mahpiya Luta’s (Red Cloud’s) War. Classically the story goes that as the US moved westward they conquered and erased nations in their wake, a seemingly unstoppable machine of capitalist expansion. In reality, the US lost many wars and only won the ones they started by surprise.
Thanksgiving - Chunka Luta Network
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2778930
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1157520
When studying the US or Canada, we are not studying a nation, but rather a prison house of nations bent on replacing the native or totally assimilating. Like Israel, this is the stated goal of the US project and it is no wonder why ‘manifest destiny’ bears barely any discernible differences from ‘lebensraum’ or ‘Zionism’. The most important aspect to these projects is the myth making that underlies their so-called rights to the land, and none of them are particularly unique. Instead all find themselves firmly justifying and creating the “white” identity, ever fluid, they pick and choose who constitutes ‘white’ and define it based on exclusion of an ‘other’. This is a trend we see manifest itself in medieval antisemitism which lies at the root of the story of the Zionist entity's creation. We also see the beginnings of whiteness form in the crusades and Spanish Reconquist
Hello relatives, comrades, and allies. My name is Sungmanitu. I fo… Sungmanitu Bluebird needs your support for Red Road Construction Drive and Wheelchair Pls
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/379642
Hello relatives, comrades, and allies. My name is Sungmanitu. I formed this collective of activists last winter in order to fundraise and bring out wood to keep elderly alive during the winter. This was a great accomplishment for us, and so this summer we helped put on a traditional ceremony known as Sundance that is historically one of the longest standing Sundances that was continued in the Badlands during the period of history they were outlawed.
The way of life the Sundance helps preserve is called “the Red Road” or Chunka Luta which is where our name comes from. It is a message of hope and an offer of direction to those who lack direction, but know it is time to do something to build the world we want to see for the next generation. This traditional seat of power has withstood the test of time against US Imperialism, and therefore I think is worth investing our time and energy in. So we hope to raise a grand total of
Greens in Germany kill nuclear power, replace it with LNG, and celebrate.
The anti-nuclear movement must be a big oil operation.
Pentagon-Ukraine war plan leaks, Pentagon says leaks are true but claims casualty estimates are doctored
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
Archive Link: https://archive.ph/3mAVd
emphasis [mine]
WASHINGTON — Classified war documents detailing secret American and NATO plans for building up the Ukrainian military ahead of a planned offensive against Russia were posted this week on social media channels, senior Biden administration officials said.
The Pentagon is investigating who may have been behind the leak of the documents [find the snitch], which appeared on Twitter and on Telegram, a platform with more than half a billion users that is widely available in Russia.
So these leaks are real, and the Pentagon is looking for the mole.
Military analysts said the documents appear to have been modified in certain parts from their original format, overstating American estimates of Ukrainian war dead and understating estimates of Russian troops killed.
The modifications could point to an effort of disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said. But the disclosures in the original documents, which appear as pho
Are they projecting the recent Azov revival on Russia now?
Azov got destroyed in Mariupol and this last week the Imperialist rags have been talking about Azov building up for an offensive.
Fascist Ukraine State is evicting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from its historic location within Kiev
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church used to be in a union with the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. It broke ties due to the war, which the Russian branch supported.
However, this isn't enough to escape persecution from the Fascists in Kiev. The church is still under assault: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230325-monks-at-historic-kyiv-monastery-defy-eviction-order
There is a religious war underneath the civil war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which collaborated with the OUN-B, the Plast organization, and the Nazis, is well represented within the Ultra-Nationalist movement and is attempting to solidify a national-religious Ukrainian identity centered on the church.
The assault on this church is part of the De-Russification campaign of the Maidan regime.
