Germany: Ex-AfD aide convicted of spying for China
He isn't conscious of that because that guy is a fucking dipshit who should think before he opens his mouth.
If we care about opposing fascism, the we ought to use words responsibly.
Great, we can keep being perpetually blood feuding with eachother for all eternity, great solution, once we've exiled and eradicated all hateful people the remainder will live in peace and prosperity forever.
This is not Fanon's point, nor is it mine. The Wretched of The Earth Is a seminal text on colonialism for good reason. In it, Fanon is grappling with what it means for the colonized to violently resist.
The settler state is already violent. We just don't usually conceive of state violence as such. Fanon is correct in the same way that the way to deal with a schoolyard bully is to stand up and confront him. Not appeal to his better angels.
(It's not like that thinking isn't basically how we got here or anything)
This misunderstands the situation. This isn't some ancient conflict where both sides are equivalent. The Israeli state is the aggressor here, and that aggression has a clear beginning, with at least the Nakbah.
The land itself is the thing being fought over. Not some nebulous blood feud. The land, the capacity to live on it, work on it, cultivate it, to have history on that land. These are things being denied to the native Palestinians by the Israeli state.
The solution here is the right of return for all displaced Palestinians, restoration of their civil liberties, language rights, etc. So they might be able govern themselves, as they see fit.
For a colonized people the most essential value, because it is the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity -The Wretched of The Earth
Aight, so Imma put on my grad school hat for a minute. 'Maoism' as a term, isn't stuff Mao did, or things that happened in China in that period. Heck, it doesn't really even come from Asia.
Maoism, or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, is an ideology which proclaims itself to be the next stage in the development of Marxism, and was codified, largely, by the Communist Party of Peru (Sendero Luminoso), and the network of parties that it a part of, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.
It's called Maoism because the PCP and the RIM were grappling with the legacy of the Chinese revolution, the Sino-Soviet Split, the Reform and Opening Up under Deng Xiaoping, etc.
Think of it like this, Jesus Christ was not a Christian. Jesus was a Jew, responding to the context of first century Roman Judea. Other people came along later, had a bunch of ideas about what the legacy of Jesus was, and what came out of that was Christianity. But if you hopped in your time machine and asked Jesus if he was a Christian, he would not have known what that meant.
Similarly, Marx was not a Marxist, Lenin was not a Leninist, etc. Other people had a lot of ideas about the legacies of these people, their ideas, and the revolutionary movements that they were apart of, and what develops are these ideological lineages.
So Maoism asserts that, for example, the experiences of the Mass Line, and Cultural Revolution (or at least the idea that class struggle persists under Socialism) from the Chinese experience, are universal lessons, applicable anywhere. Rather than being specific to China.
There's more to it than that. But I really want to make it clear that Maoism is more than just "and then we kill all the sparrows and our grain harvest will collapse!"
So no, not close enough. We don't get to throw around words, if we claim to care about opposing fascism. Don't make me pull out the Sartre Quote.
We can, and should criticize the Trump admin, but we can do it in a way that doesn't boil down to "what are we, a bunch of Asians?!"
Yeah, I'm writing a thesis right now about actual Maoism, and like... Really? That's the phrase they chose?
Words used to fucking mean something!
The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
For the starving people of Gaza, who have lived their entire lives in what amounts to the world's largest concentration camp, the time for "changed behaviour" from Israel is long passed, if it was ever there to begin with.
It started a couple years ago when she went on a bizarre transphobic tirade, against the use of trans inclusive language. From there, it's just been a long downward spiral.
The whole reason she's on this conservative talk show is because she's been making this rightward pivot
Him, and Jesus, apparently
Genocide carries specific legal frameworks under international law, that ethnic cleansing doesn't.
Words mean things.
IIRC, there are Maoist groups who are said to take orders from Beijing
This is untrue.
One of the things that makes Maoists Maoists is that they don't like the modern PRC. They believe that Deng Xiaoping and his successors were 'capitalist roaders' who ended socialism in China.
Compared to Marxist-Leninists who generally believe that China is still on a socialist path of development, and that the Reform and Opening Up initiated by Deng Xiaoping is akin to the Soviet New Economic Policy, or other instances of socialist States courting foreign investment.
Meanwhile, China has a broad policy of "Non-interference", where it doesn't engage in backing non-state actors. The one notable exception to this, isn't any communist insurgency, but the United Wa State Army, in Myanmar. They get Chinese backing because China sees it as beneficial to its interests to have a well funded proxy on its border, to act as a buffer between itself, amd a volatile neighbor. Not because of any ideological affinity.
There are a number of Maoist movement in southern Asia, and they all have a pretty antagonistic line against the PRC, because the PRC as the major geopolitical player in the region, is doing business with the governments they're fighting, instead of them.
The situation was similar in Nepal, though after the monarchy was overthrown in 2006, the Maoists, or at least their leadership, only half-completed the revolution, by entering into a liberal Parliamentary power sharing system which as done fuck all to govern for all that time.
Perhaps, since the ML and Liberal parties are the ones taking the fall for this, the more radical elements of the Maoist movement rearm? That's not a foregone conclusion though, and it certainly won't happen with the help of Beijing.
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New Pipe is pretty good, if Revanced kicks the bucket
Even then, Jerry was always the weakest link on Seinfeld
He got shot at a school, while debating some guy about what minorities to blame for gun violence.
Realize what you have, babe! You can do fucking stratigraphy with that many layers of irony!!!
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I think we've been in one. After Trump got shot, I predicted that political assassination would be the "cool thing" among the stochastic terrorism types, and that seems to have been true, between Luigi, That guy who killed those legislators in MN, and now this.
Likely just ordinary US instigated riots
Ehh, the US definitely has an interest in meddling in a country on China's border.
But Nepal hardly needs help to stir up these protests, after the Nepalese Civil War ended in the overthrow of the monarchy, the Maoist movement effectively betrayed the revolution, and entered into a power sharing agreement, within a liberal, parliamentary system.
That system has been deeply dysfunctional since 2006, with every major issue being punted by the constitutional court until some nebulous later date.
That coupled with economic stagnation, and the contradictions finally boiling over.
All of those things, save for the MRI, are valuable life skills.
I don't need to know everything about an engine, but I have basic competency in changing my oil or replacing my air filter.
I don't know everything about the structure of my home, but I know enough to install some shelves or blinds.
If a problem is outside of my knowledge or ability? I call someone who can fix it for me.
A computer should be the same way. People should have a base level of competency in technology, and that technology should lend itself to people fixing problems themselves.
Everything being a proprietary, closed source, magic mystery box, that spies on you, and can only be fixed by the company that made it, is very bad, actually.
What an absolutely brain dead take on what people should and shouldn't be doing with their time.
Farmers have to waste time hacking their John Deere tractors, just to be able to start fixing them. OP isn't the one dictating what people should or shouldn't do with their time.
Yeah, putting a queer person on the front of an article about robots doing sex crimes feels irresponsible at best, and actively malicious at worst, given the current climate around LGBT issues.
The DSA has everyone from reformist soc dems, to anarchists, to MLs, to Maoist Third Worldists
That's the DSA's ultimate goal, my guy. Use DNC infrastructure to its advantage, and use that as a spring board to breaking with the Dems. At what point that happens is debated within the organization. But this guy will get his wish, sooner or later, especially if the DNC continues to have zero sense of self preservation
Somehow it still exists
I've been bouncing around a theory in my head that the big, mainstream, social media sites are kind of too big to fail at this point.
Back in the day, a change in moderation or ownership on a forum site would lead to a user revolt or an exodus to an alternative, and the old one would die out.
Now, these sites are so big and load bearing that alternatives struggle to get off the ground, and people just sorta stay and take it.
I found myself on reddit the other day, and came across someone complaining "now we're all trapped in this corporate hellscape! I miss forums, BBS, and all that stuff"
Lemmy is right here, and a hobbyist community for old communication platforms like that, could really thrive on a place like Lemmy. Where it's not just about nostalgia for a bygone era, but actively on a platform that can carve out, an alternative to the corporate hellscape this guy was complaining about.
But no, they're still on reddit, yearning for the past, and blinded from seeing a future with any alternative
I think Germany might have its own thing to compare the AfD to....