Massimo retweetledi
I’ve been saying this for years, but arrogant Western journalists and analysts scoffed and said this was "regime propaganda." Their imperial and Eurocentric arrogance has led to an unprecedented global economic crisis.
English
Massimo
686 posts
Massimo retweetledi
I have always said that the enormity of what is inflicted on Palestinians is most legible in the details. Not in the headlines, but in the quiet, grinding cruelty that structures every single life. Let me tell you about Haitham from my own family.
English
@JTWerle @LouisABlanqui @Khadijahaynes1 5) Not to mention that the flip side to the stabilization of the US dollar is the destabilization of its competitors. This maintains the dollar as a conveyor belt of value towards the Global North.
English
@LouisABlanqui @Khadijahaynes1 This makes sense when it comes to the extraction of surplus values from workers where the colonial extraction is optimized when workers die as soon as they are not productive anymore. This does not yet (to me) explain the profit from dead children. Can you elaborate?
English
Ali Kadri's book Accumulation of Waste, argues that the massacre of people in the global south- the industrial wasting of lives- is itself, a form of surplus value and profit. The imperalist slaughter of 80 little girls ends up as a commodity traded in the circulation of capital.
English
@JTWerle @LouisABlanqui @Khadijahaynes1 4) Also, killing is the precondition of civilian use commodity industries. The argument is that even though the dead aren’t accounted for in capital’s bookkeeping, they are an input into production. In this way, the dead are inputs and outputs: de-subjectifying labour = 💰
English
@JTWerle @LouisABlanqui @Khadijahaynes1 3) It’s all about shifting costs onto society, reducing the cost of inputs into production.
English
@JTWerle @LouisABlanqui @Khadijahaynes1 2) For example, it increases the stock prices of the bomb manufacturers. If the targeted nation is stripped of sovereignty in the process, the premature death of the colonized reduces the amount of resources allocated to reproducing society.
English
@JTWerle @LouisABlanqui @Khadijahaynes1 1) Depending on the final outcome on the balance of forces, the killing is a process that is meant to result in the reduction of necessary labour by reducing the bargaining power of the targeted nation, and it also creates demand for militarism and increases profit directly.
English
This is what passes for “imperialism” to Western Marxists.
Carlos@agent_of_change
“Thanks to Chinese technology, the Caribbean island has 34 solar parks in operation with a capacity of almost 1.2GW, a 350 per cent increase on 2024, enabling Cuba to more than quadruple its proportion of solar-powered generation by the end of last year.”
English
@Perfectly_Fine1 @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 No need to apologize! I can see why there was so much confusion: you don’t understand what the Global South is. I’d recommend reading the work of Samir Amin. Good day to you.
English
@omissamoris @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 I'm sorry, what definition is there for "the global south" OTHER than economic development? Oh, sorry, I meant "productive forces". Can't ever not use the jargon.
English
The Western left has a very base, superficial understanding of geopolitics. The complexities of building transitional socialist states while under imperalist encirclement are deflated into haggard rhetoric accusing China of "not doing enough", while they, literally, do nothing.
English
@Perfectly_Fine1 @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 1) The onus is actually on you to demonstrate that there has been an qualitative change: why does China cease to be part of the Global South? The North-South divide is a power structure exemplified by a history of colonizing nations underdeveloping colonized nations…
English
@omissamoris @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 "a historical understanding of imperialism". As opposed to the criminological one? You don't have to sling words together unnecessarily. Verily so, ergo!
I'm assuming this somehow translates to: "China is part of the global south because it used to be exploited by imperialism"
English
@Perfectly_Fine1 @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 That isn’t the argument, clearly. The point is that the party is representative of the society. Comparing the CPC and NSDAP in terms of membership in quantitative terms while ignoring the qualitative differences is un-Marxist.
English
@omissamoris @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 At its peak the NSDAP had 1/10 of the population as members. What does it matter, exactly? I want you to state for the record "the PRC is not bourgeois because it's ruling party has a lot of members. Proletarian rule = big membership party."
English
@Perfectly_Fine1 @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 3) I disagree that China “used to be exploited by imperialism”: value is still drained en masse from China to the Global North.
English
@Perfectly_Fine1 @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 2) You haven’t said why you believe China isn’t part of the Global South. I assume you are making an empirical argument, e.g. China has x GDP and therefore isn’t Global South.
English
@Perfectly_Fine1 @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 To understand how China can be designated as part of the Global South requires a historical understanding of imperialism. China doesn’t cease to be Global South because of its successes. I hope this helps.
English
@omissamoris @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 Both are ruled by the bourgeoise. Also I'd like to know how China in 2026 counts as "the global south".
English
@Perfectly_Fine1 @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 On a world scale, the camps of Bourgeois/Proletariat are reflected in the Global North/Global South divide.
English
@omissamoris @manfromdelaware @Khadijahaynes1 Campism is not this Marx quote.
It's not about internment camps. It's not about labor camps. It's not about summer camps. "Campism" is about the western/anti western geopolitical camps.
English
Crazy idea: Let's split a country in socialist and capitalist halves and check in on them in 75 years.
English
@AaronBastani Are you comparing the Nazis to the Islamic Republics of Iran? What’s wrong with you?
English
Josef Stalin was more humane than Trump, and certainly never engaged in anything like this rhetoric.
Stalin.
MonitorX@MonitorX99800
🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– Reporter: How would it not be a war crime to strike Iran’s bridges and power plants? Trump: They’re animals.
English
Massimo retweetledi
boycott Wonderful Company brand products, owned by the resnick family. they spent years lobbying DC for war to decrease iran’s global market share of pistachios. this strike was a personal gift to the family, who also donate their money to the IDF.
Mehdi H.@mhmiranusa
انبارهای پسته شرکت پسته ایرانیان در نزدیکی فرودگاه رفسنجان در هفته اول فروردین، هدف جنگنده های آمریکایی/اسرائیلی قرار گرفته است. جئولوکیشن: 30.3149, 56.0312 maps.app.goo.gl/Vo6ZjgZ4ZaZo8s…
English
Massimo retweetledi
