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Even though the Syrian Communist Party had around 35k members in Syria and Lebanon by the late 1940s, its membership sharply contracted to only "several hundred" in the two years following the leadership's endorsement of the USSR's 1947 backing of the partition of Palestine
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Yes this was tried in the 18th century. It started a political movement called Everything That Has Happened Since Then
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Trump today at his rally in Allentown, PA: "By the way, nice trucks. You think I could hop into one of them and drive it away? I'd love to do it. Just drive the hell outta here. Just get the hell out of this. I had such a good life. My life was great."
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AA lot of 20th century marxists basically forgot that their political project is something distinct from the most progressive form of liberalism and a lot of developments in the leftist subculture since 2020 are basically like a farcical repetition of that.
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Pushing electoralism/reformism so workers "learn a lesson" when capital sabotages it is a disastrous failure. Look at Syriza, they funneled Greece’s mass strike wave into an election and a referendum. When they capitulated, the class lost all its momentum and class morale broke.
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The Master said, "Were anyone today to serve his prince according to the full prescription of ritual, he would be thought a sycophant." (An. 3.18)
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Ironically, in Lithuania (and I'm sure many other eastern bloc countries) it's in large part bc of the Soviet Union that there is no existing socialist organizing tradition. In Soviet times, communist organizing meant institutional state politics, led by career politicians.
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The photographer didn’t use any filters on these photos.
The sky actually appeared yellowish due to the forest fires which has last for 4 months. Meanwhile, Indonesian government do nothing about it. It’s truly tragic and sickening.
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in the 20s and 30s the CCP had a period of trying to salt warlord troop factions, a strategy called bingyun (兵运). It basically worked exactly like this, you join up and try to convince some junior officers to just walk off in the middle of the night
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They've done it, Albanian and Serb students pressed the International Proletariat button
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things are always veiled and subconscious on here. how about we all come out and tell each other how we really feel.
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the more goods and services you purchase under capitalism, the closer you get to being truly human. thanks marx!
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the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life—the greater is the store of your estranged being." 2/2




























