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Fat Neckbeard contrarian Twitter journalist in a similar lane to people like Matt Taibbi but way more obnoxious. Tried to position himself as one of those radical centrist “real leftist” types but most his takes are just provocative

Sometimes has relatively okay takes just by saying the opposite of whatever the stale lib take is but it’s hollow since it’s shallow contarianism

Recently tried arguing Pearl Harbor wasn’t an act of war, the US should have stayed neutral in WW2, and got into a huge argument over if the Holocaust was actually curtailed by the war or not amidst arguing all of this

really curious what the maoist doing there rnespecially in brazil political climate u know anything @Cudderwalks ?

Marxism is a philosophy

Dialectical materialism is the philosophy of Marxism. Marxism encompasses philosophy, political economy, praxis in the form of class struggle, and a scientific understanding of history being driven by that struggle

Semi-related

Idk this guy and he seems wrong, but there's something interesting about that last point. People always point to WW2 as an example of humanitarian intervention but that's not at all what happened. The allies fought Germany because Germany attacked them, not because they wanted to stop the holocaust. Of course the Holocaust as we know it didn't really start until like 1941 but there was still a lot of discrimination before this and none of it prompted declarations of war.

This is just speculation, but I think Hitler could've started shipping people to death camps in the 30s n we still wouldn't have seen a single declaration of war.

And I think that brings up an interesting question about humanitarian intervention. How should countries react to these kinds atrocities? Who has the moral legitimacy to invade? Would military intervention even work? Germany was already in the midst of losing the war and there was a huge power imbalance between the two sides of the "War on Terror".

Of course all of this is in the context of a liberal world order

no way they had 6 million retards in a country of 170M at the time

Of course the US didn’t intervene in WW2 because of the Holocaust (neither did the rest of the Allies) - the only people who think this are libs dependent on mythologizing the past. However acting like the byproduct of the Allies joining the war didn’t lead to the end of the Holocaust is just incorrect. Tracey was trying to say the Allies made the Holocaust even worse by joining the war, as the war not happened, nazi germany simply wouldn’t have committed genocide. That’s just a contrarian take relative to the lib mythology take.

The LCP the peasant Maoist mass org in a Brazil published something against the election.

They called Lula a “corrupt unionist”

demvolkedienen.org/index.php/en/42-nachrichten/lateinamerika/7138-translation-lcp-speaks-out-against-the-electoral-farce-and-denounces-demagogy-of-candidates

The party's newspaper also put out an article an election edition called "Election No, Revolution Yes"

anovademocracia-com-br.translate.goog/noticias/18189-editorial-semanal-eleicao-nao-revolucao-sim?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

appreciate it

What's wrong with unions

theyre just calling Lula corrupt, they arent talking about unions in general lol

Folka at the barbershop saying LePutin is being exposed for only winning Mickey mouse wars... thoughts!?

Ultras have a tendency of calling other leftists weird -isms if they deem them not radical enough

There's also workerism

ECONOMISM

DISTRIBUTIONISM

Am i tripping or isn't she non-black herself

She saying she's the only non-black person allowed to weigh in on unions?

have u read the articles they have some good critiques of lula with regards to agrarian reforms

and if ur gonna say why aren’t they talking about bolsonaro, they do 80% of the article is about him

anyone quick to jump to rightist or ultra tend to be the exact opposite themselves it’s like some compensation thing lol

many cases

Just pointing out a pattern i nooticed, ofc there are worthwhile critiques of lula and the pink tide more broadly, i haven't read the article i wouldn't know if that's one of them

Could someone please explain why the concept of private property wasn’t always a thing. Im trying to understand what differed between the feudal ages and why isn’t land owned by a Lord and worked on by serfs considered private property by the Lord. If anyone can clarify or correct