So far the new Futurama episodes are about as good as the Comedy Central era eps. Hoping there will eventually be some as good as The Prisoner of Benda, The Late Philip J. Fry, or Meanwhile
I know Corey Doctorow is an anti-monopolist and not a true socialist or whatever, but honestly, if I had a regime, I'd make him a big policy advisor or something.
Saw a twitter thread from Ben Norton (WARNING: twitter/x link, sorry nitter doesn't work for me anymore) detailing how they've been moving to the right and supporting the imperialist hybrid war against their country:
Many supposed "leftist" critics of Venezuela are objectively allied with the imperialist right wing.
The so-called "Communist" Party of Venezuela (PCV) has been moving to the right for years, and formed a de facto alliance with far-right US-backed coup plotters like María Corina Machado, who has openly called for a US military invasion and coordinates closely with Washington.
PCV leaders were also collaborating with opposition "NGOs" funded by the US and EU.
They took a ridiculous ultra-leftist position, portraying right-wing agents of imperialism as a lesser evil compared to the elected, constitutional President Maduro.
This is why the PCV leadership was changed. The previous leaders were objectively aiding the murderous imperialist hybrid war on their country. (Illegal, unilateral US sanctions on Venezuela have killed at least 100,000 civilians, in a conservative estimate.)
There has been a similar ideological crisis in the "Communist" Party of Greece and some other parties that follow its misguided line, taking positions that objectively ally them with imperialism and the right wing.
In addition to aiding the US government's murderous war on Venezuela, they absurdly demonize China as "capitalist" and claim it is allied with imperialism (while they are the ones objectively siding with imperialism!).
They ridiculously claim that the NATO proxy war in Ukraine is "inter-imperialist", and some of their leaders go so far as to support Ukraine, claiming its far-right US client regime is defending "self-determination" (while it tragically sacrifices Ukrainians as cannon fodder to defend imperialism).
Some of these same "orthodox" "communist" parties also backed the violent right-wing US-sponsored coup attempt against Nicaragua's democratically elected Sandinista government in 2018.
They also took an ultra-leftist position in Mexico, claiming progressive nationalist President AMLO is just another bourgeois politician, essential siding with the right-wing, oligarch-run opposition against him.
Many praised the US-backed violent riots in Iran as well.
These parties are in profound crisis. They are also mostly small, and are hemorrhaging the support they do have, largely because it's increasingly obvious how they have become useful to imperialism.
They really must reconsider many of their positions and forge a new path -- one in alliance with the majority of anti-imperialist socialist movements in the Global South, which have long been and are the leaders of the international left.
Every friend group got the lava guy, the water arms lady, the chick who can blow things up with her mind, and the motherfucker who won't stop going on about Guru Laghima.
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So far the new Futurama episodes are about as good as the Comedy Central era eps. Hoping there will eventually be some as good as The Prisoner of Benda, The Late Philip J. Fry, or Meanwhile