From Ju-Hyun Park, a Nodutdol organizer:
“While far from an anti-imperialist or a socialist, Lee Jae-myung really has no equal among western liberal politicians in his willingness to somewhat stand up to the current govt and even take personal risks like hunger strike. If he goes, the Yoon govt will only be stronger imo”
Have you read Lenin’s Left-Wing Comminism? He makes a pretty good argument for why communists should run in bourgeois elections.
Both are extremely important. Widespread transformation of public consciousness doesn’t happen without massive marches in public.
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
That number will only go down. It’s just a matter of staying in the streets and keeping the energy up. The Zionist crowd will never draw anything 1/10 the size of the pro-Palestine protests that have occurred all over the country this past week. This is also a great time to get to know your local orgs and get involved if you haven’t already!
Never trust a content creator that isn’t active in an org.
and the end of the military junta in South Korea that is to blame for the DRPK’s woes
Interesting, could you expand more on this point?
Probably cause PSL sees elections as a means to spread their revolutionary message and not an end in itself
The author Cixin Liu was actually attacked in Western media three years ago for defending China’s Uyghur policy. He’s definitely nationalistic towards China.
Considering this is the image of Tiananmen that lives in the western popular consciousness, I think there is real value in deconstructing this myth though. When I learned that western journalists are all in agreement that no massacre took place in the square itself, I became more interested in researching the events myself because other Western views concerning what happened could also be misleading or outright lies
they were
Love Gabriel Rockhill! He just did a podcast about Western Marxism with Momodou Taal (the student that Cornell tried to deport for disrupting a weapons company career fair) that is incredible https://open.spotify.com/episode/4pz62hjiW2VgWp6OJxN8Am