Both OP and comments must all READ WALLERSTEIN (specifically city-countryside exploitation)!!! And Samir Amin for his commentary on post-apartheid South Africa (Maldevelopment). If I have time I will track all these people down and show them the damn book screenshots.
I think it’s a mistake to attribute the Patsoc movement to any kind of organic tendency or “ideological drift” when it’s mostly Maupin, who came out of the same RT program as Abby Martin who is interviewed there, who mister blogster here has soured on as well (don’t get me started on Rob, or Prysner lol), a law student (who gets 300 viewers (and mainly beefs with a tiny group of ppl who live off Amazon and Google salaries and kids’ pocket change while espousing NAFO socialism or whatever the fuck they came up with by now)), and a guy who used to talk relly flamboyantly and work for pelosi before doing a pro wrestling style heel-heel turn and becoming a “republican communist” caricature now psyopping the people of Yemen (who deserve the greatest victories and global adulation and do not deserve perfidious white boys in suits coming on positively)
Made me really sad to say someone say “let’s call a spade a spade here, if Hinkle wasn’t reactionary he wouldn’t be hosted by the Yemenis” wtf. No it’s because he’s an artificially boosted influencer he literally connected with them thru twitter in between doing this to afghans with sameera khan etc and Spaces with Israelis where he said George Floyd false flagged america just like Hamas
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So what I’m saying is this isn’t just where someone is on the political compass or whatever, it’s some kind of policy issue hobby horse that gets people caught up in stuff like “fuck it Tucker interview” they take the bait out of spite or something.
My criticism of the PSL is they are too much alike the libertarians and seem to be part of the same activist NGO complex.
We have to look at the purpose of this larger funding network not by what its various ideological mouthpieces say but by looking at how people absorbed into it end up functioning, what end they serve. Seems to keep people invested in electoralism and cold war style cargo cult “just get out there and say what you have to say” stuff while identifying themselves scrupulously.
If that’s so, I really don’t see it in that essay-response to the Martin-Becker intervew. If he’s seriously articulated misguided Patsoc beliefs (where?), surely you can reason with a guy quoting Kim Il-Sung to criticize Becker using the same pseudo-“Leninist” (don’t laugh!) arguments Politstrum and Konstantin Syomin make to denounce Hamas as imperial proxies?
I think it would be awesome if the PSL reached even the level of achievement of the KPRF, but more in touch with working class civil rights issues, but they aren’t. Instead they’re part of a boutique industry of nonprofits in the USA
that’s the entire comment section like I said in another comment specificity really goes a lot further than more emphatic denunciations
Are you fucking kidding me? They already did this one years ago. “They hacked his hot dog stand. He took down their country’s internet” one second let me go get it. Disgusting
Okay it’s the same guy as two years ago. BORING. GET A LIFE OMG. lmao https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/
Yes but what was the alliance with fascists in question?
Mearsheimer seems to think that it’s mostly because of the lobby
Man the spooks are really on one lately. did you notice Hersh trying to discredit the Russian govt by pretending a terrorism warning that had expired like a month before should have covered Crocus Hall attack.
Hersh also treated info he got about the Ukrainians and the British somehow being more independently responsible for the Nord Stream attack than the US. In light of this I have to assume it’s a further expression of the CYOA disclosure to journalists who have a patronage relationship with the CIA Doug Valentine pointed out in The CIA as Organized Crime
is it because of the Israel lobby, or because
1 is a part of 2, israel’s lobbying and financial + technology influence also serves US interests. it backfires too like with giving shittons of tech to the Chinese.
Israel serves some sort of strategic purpose?
Israel is really the perfect sub-imperialist state for the US. It’s more than simply military power projection.
lol this guy needs to touch grass
wait, you don’t know everything everyone online has ever said?
Can you at least give me something to work with other than assuming I also have completely unlimited computer time and memory?
I need to store a lot of mana costs and damage values in here. Important stuff!
🎶 Hezbollah has parity with Zionist missiles without going nuclear. Zionism is in free fall. Destructioooon is mutually assuuuuuurred 🎵 🎤🥰
arguing for a Red/Brown coalition
Am I supposed to know what your particular use of this jargon means here?
@Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net this is p much it. Gonzalo CIA Maoists do not uphold Mao Zedong thought and currently define themselves by opposition to it, same thing
Cornell West mega sussy
At any point during that time did you attempt to reason with the man who has only two comments on his substack and a dozen faves? He’s almost 15% of the way to figuring something out! People like this, once you renovate them, blog away for you in absentia. That is unless you decide to have a struggle session in absentia where nobody sees it? Makes me sad for both Shea and Hexbear. Lol. Posting is about bringing ideas together!
@Maoo@hexbear.net @zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net @Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net @taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml
To start off, you’re only beginning to approach a real criticism of what Shea was saying here and you all went off talking about your opinions on Trotskyists. “Not always 100%” could be taken to mean the MAN HIMSELF is not always at 100%. He clearly belongs to the category of GrayZone contributors who have their little articles and haplessly become Blumenthal’s bitches in the hopes of getting what they see as important messages out there. Mate seems like more of an operator. Nevermind, unread that sentence. Let’s continue.
INDONESIA IS A PERIPHERAL COUNTRY. Any amount of military force and death is almost justifiable if it can still conceivably enclose the entire country. To (mis?) quote Stalin every historical parallel is perilous, this one is asinine. Militarized killings of communists continue in Indonesia to this day. The US does not need a Jakarta method, it has the PSL, CPUSA, DSA (if you ask me).
I disagree with the notion that PSL ghosting the Uhuru movement and then scheduling a march to draw attention away from theirs isn’t harmful. The best you can really say about the PSL is they are keeping their sponsors and participating in electoralism while also being as visible as possible activism-wise. If you start looking into their webs of funding and all these organizations like ANSWER it’s a really small world.
I don’t think this is going to lead to an Indonesia-style mass killing. That’s insane. But Shea isn’t advocating any solutions here either. Just kind of implies people should try harder?
You want to know what my solution is? Fuck you! I’ve been waiting years for yours! I am moving to VIETNAM!
Final note for the time being as I’m being picked up (😳 (I am being doted upon (TERROR!!!)) FEAR!) but I think that the mistake is thinking for some reason an alliance with petit boug in the imperial core is somehow the move because we can transplant Mao Zedong thought to the USA. The way people bludgeon each other with these unanalytical historical parallels drives me up the wall. Look, I like MAO ZEDONG THOUGHT 🗣️ a LOT. That’s why I am NOT DOING THAT.