Welcome Welcome, please make yourself at home, have a chocolate milkshake. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Our party made a documentary called ‘Mutiny’ about how the Global South is now actively resisting The West’s policy and we have been invited to show it at Cannes Film Festival for some reason
Here is the link though it is in Dutch (or French). I hope we can get an English version as well.
re reading Dialectical and Historical materialism and taking notes. Had some life issues that led me to stop reading theory for a while, but I’m back
I hope you all have a nice week :D
Who is this “you all” you keep wishing a nice week to every week, I do not know anyone by the name You All
I have evidence of you not oppvotingpat pen the dog video I sent you last week there for I will not send you one this week
What are you talking about I have proof of doing it right here… I totaly did not just do that because I thought I upvoted last week and just learned I did not… no what are you talking about
I’m going to meet Vijay Prashad next week so like
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do y’all have any questions I should ask him? I can try to get some in if he’s available toward it.
Did he have any disagreements with Noam Chomsky when coauthoring a book with him?
he recently visited south korean parliament for some sessions. can you ask more details about that? i can’t find any online.
In what context will you meet him? Are you going to interview him or just casual?
No questions but that’s really neat, and I hope it’s a great, informative time!
right deviationism, they have been exceedingly liberal, socdem at best in the states they have attained power in, and have engaged in counter revolutionary events like that in nandigram. moreover the party’s violent policy against the cpiml in the 70s is partly the reason the naxalbari movement turned out the way it is rn.
In the three years of the revolution our ideas on this subject have changed greatly. A new philosophy, which has little m common with the old ideas, is in the making. Three years ago we regarded a merchant as a completely respectable person. Provided his accounts were in order and he did not cheat or dupe his customer too obviously, he was rewarded with the title of “merchant of the first guild”, “respected citizen”, etc. Since the revolution attitudes, to trade and merchants have changed radically. We now call the “honest merchant” a speculator, and instead of awarding him honorary tides we drag him before a special committee and put him in a forced labour camp. Why do we do this?’ Because we know that we can only build a new communist economy if all adult citizens are involved in productive labour. The person who does not work and who lives off someone else or on an unearned wage harms the collective and the republic. We, therefore, hunt down the speculators, the traders and the hoarders who all live off unearned income. - Alexandra Kollontai
Can we add this unfathomably based quote?
