According to Telegram sources Brazil just authorized the military to intervene

Having the football kit become a fascist symbol

What do you guys think about the concept of a possible East African Federation? Do you think the DRC and South Sudan should be included?

Blue kit>

Tbh weird how this never came up at the AU meeting

Especially AU agenda 2063 is to become a (con)federation

doing this over Bolsonaro is crazy

It's one of the biggest opportunities for the continent to become stable with a major power at the helm. But obv there's a lot of issues/potential problems they need to work against, so I'm surprised it didn't pop up either

How'd it go btw

They've been gathering at their local military bases begging the military to do a coup ever since the election. Pretty funny when they were doing this in Salvador de Bahia and they started arguing cuz one of them got sent that video of Bolsonaro grocery shopping in Florida

America got real close to the nazi with the Korean + Vietnam wars im a take Lukac side on this

mm thinking about getting Gundrise after Capital now

Never read, lmk what you think if you do. Supposedly it’s much more Hegelian than Capital

Fella you still have most of volume 1 and then two more volumes ahead of u

yeah after that when i’m gonna start it

Haven’t read either yet heh, I think I’m gonna read Grundrisse first tho - from what I understand it’s the theoretical precursor or literally “floor plan” to Capital’s practical proposals

This is my issue lol I wanna read everything at once but I’m a slow ass reader and have this aversion to reading pdf’s over physical texts. And I’m still in my phase of reading modern anti-imperialist stuff. I’ll get to the real theory s*** eventually

What you guys think about Althusser's stance on a break between and late Marx? @cloud_rap @PhilipMorris

Well for me personally it went rly well i was very nervous the day before but once i arrived it was all natural

Me and the girl who i went with were also pretty much the only ones there under 30 lol so a lot of people were happy we were there. We even got a chance to speak in front of everybody so crayz stuff

But it was honestly very lib lol, i was surprised by how explicitly pan-african they were in rhetoric tho

Qanon sticker in Rotterdam mfs terminally ameribrained its crayz @elvis @thankmelater @Hefstan

A friend of me lives in charlois near dorpseweg. There’s a guy( or girl) there who’s entire first floor window is covered in qanon and thierry posters and news articles

IYKYK

LOL literally same here. Some crib I drive by pretty often has the windows full of that s*** too

Rotterdam?

Roermond

I think he takes an overly hardline structuralist view on it. I wouldn’t cast aside the Young Marx writings entirely the way he basically does, there is value to them. That being said he’s absolutely correct that those writings are often weaponized by revisionists/rightists to justify a much more liberal interpretation of Marxism, and they are definitely much more Hegelian than Marx’s later writings obviously. I think Althussers correct that in pointing out that thinkers such as Marx aren’t simply Marxists when they come out of their intellectual womb. Every thinker develops and matures their thoughts over time so it would be silly to think that someone’s early writing are necessarily fully compatible with their later works, even if they contain the seeds of their mature thought. This should of course be pretty obvious but many people seem to forget this. You also have to remember that Althusser was writing at a time when the Young/Mature Marx debate was a very hot topic, and the relatively recent release of a lot of those texts had a big impact on how people thought about Marx and were the subject of much debate. I think he offers a useful corrective of “needing to bend the stick too far in the opposite direction” at a time when revisionism - often times largely being justified by the early works - was gaining a lot of steam and needed to be combatted. So while I don’t agree with throwing those works to the side, I do think there is definitely a tendency for people to over focus on these while never even attempting to read works such as Capital, and this leads to a lot of bad tendencies. There’s useful things to be gotten out of those works but Althusser provides some good asterisks and caveats in regards to them that I think we need to take seriously even if we don’t take as rigid of an approach to it as he does

No suprise then 😭