this one is really fucking funny
good post
too bad, maybe that could have been the route to peace and prosperity for all
a fleet of f-22s in chinese silk cowboy hats
Scheidler covers both the the fact that European elites legitimacy may now be tied completely to the Ukraine war, after three years of wall to wall propaganda, and rearmament as a convenient stalking horse for gutting European welfare states. It's gratifying to read in a respected outlet, as these particular points have weighed heavily on my mind for the last year or so.
Preventing Peace - Fabian Scheidler in NLR
Short, but very insightful piece on Europe's absurd maneuvering regarding Ukraine since Trump's second term began.
man this popular geopolitical wishcasting is just beyond absurd
advertising boards being replaced by advertising screens with video. it makes me apoplectic
welcome!
any good marxist movies from korea?
lmaaao
trump says some silly shit; slow pan to xi who is staring into your soul
minutes to midnight as anything else than nuke danger
hoover institution
only possible solution is cuts
FUCK outta here
chad xi not even making eye contact lmao
all the best on your birthday
such a great, concise title; I really am beginning to appreciate this guy
it really is an incredible own goal on the soft power front, I was genuinely and surprisingly asked recently by a close friend, whether it has always been like this
the answer to questions of this type, which many people here should be able to give, should be: yes and
if i listen intently I can actually still hear jaws hitting the floor in europe – the shock is palpable
I suspect the european elites are instrumentalising the crisis to smash their domestic welfare states on the grounds of national security
there's class war in europe too, there really is no "european interest" as such
it's not supposed to do that? excuse me hello?
I would be curious to read some marxist feminist texts. I've read Make Way for Winged Eros by Kollontai before by chance and thought it was interesting
can someone make some suggestions? I'm not insisting on them for the reading group necessarily
why not 100% of GDP and just replace everything in the economy with armaments? the best porcupine is made completely out of steel spikes facing both outward and inward, with the pleasing tertiary benefit of skewering any potential fifth column!
why not replace train carriages with mobile artillery, farmland with minefields, and hospitals with ICBM silos?
now that would really show the russians what's what
happy birthday :)
I really like the wire too and I would definitely read long form marxist text about it, even if it got ripped to shreds
it's tradition after all
At the Summit: The last days of Davos
Long, but very interesting and well written article in Harper's Magazine by Caitlín Doherty on the state of dysfunction at the WEF last year
Financial Times Comparison of Nvidia and Cisco (Dotcom Crash) Valuations Over Time (16:48 GMT)
Samir Amin on Communism in Egypt
"He has forgotten nothing and learned nothing, he is living in 1956."
The "Modern Day Slaves" Of The AI Tech World
The gig economy circle of hell holding up the FAANG bubble. shit title, good documentary
content warning: desperate poverty and techbro callousness
Non-violence and the Anticolonial World Revolution - Domenico Losurdo
This video has decent AI generated english subtitles (added by the uploader). I think it's a fantastic lecture, including some references which are quite apropos as we think about contemporary events.