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Polish nationalism and anti-communism caused ww2 btw and im no even joking

There is a tendency in left liberal circles to be dismissive of processes of consciousness-formation within mass movements. "The crisis is now so we must act now. We cannot wait on movements to have their meetings and issue their statements." But what sits at the root of the crisis? What is the content of the proposed actions? What are their underlying strategies? And who will carry them out? The failure to contend with these questions historically and dialectically produces practices that are shallow in form and counterproductive in substance. In form, the tactics they deploy are not very different from the politics they criticise. They operate purely on the informational terrain, convening meetings, issuing statements, publishing op-eds that appear to respond to the urgency of the moment. They might have greater sheen than a movement meeting in a village hall, but the fundamental output is the same: information. But when we dig into the substance, we find a fundamentally different political methodology at work — and it is precisely here that the inability of the left liberal movement to respond to the crises it diagnoses as urgent becomes plain. I see that inability as having three principal sources. First, the sense of urgency requires the summoning of political forces perceived as having the capacity for immediate action — that is, individuals or organizations with a high degree of visibility and likely a significant amount of funding. Little thought is given to the political economy of knowledge production that elevates certain individuals over others, generating perceptions of power and influence in the process. This selection mechanism necessarily excludes most revolutionary formations. Second, the exclusion of revolutionary formations precludes the use of methodologies capable of assessing precisely the contradictions at play in any given moment. The failure to think dialectically and historically through politics produces agendas that claw hopelessly at surface-level phenomena — bad actors, acts of violence, democratic backsliding, etc. — without a vision for confronting them in their systemic totality. Third, because they are not rooted in revolutionary formations, the informational interventions produced within left liberal spaces are not metabolised into processes of movement building. No one becomes stronger, or more conscious, or strategically sharper as a result of the interventions produced — and, indeed, the lack of a Marxist analysis produces ideas that carry the grave risk of misdirection. Why build a revolutionary movement, for example, if we can rely on international law? In fact, the development of a correct political orientation in the context of an organized mass movement is the only method proven within history for overcoming the kinds of existential crises we see today. This work is necessarily patient. Those of us who are not on the frontlines of the war against imperialism are operating in the register of the battle of ideas. This battle is not insignificant. Ideas, as Marx taught us, acquire a material force once they are adopted by the masses. Then and only then do they carry the possibility of delivering systemic transformation on the scale required today. The task — the only task — of left forces is to organize the people in ways that create mass revolutionary consciousness and therefore the capacity for strategic, transformative political action. Anything that pulls us back or misdirects us in that struggle simply prolongs the crises that we all seek to overcome. It is not that the present moment is not urgent. But there is a reason why some of our most-repeated aphorisms have us think before we act. "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones,” an old Confucian proverb says. Or, perhaps more harshly: "A blind horse always frightens itself."

I'm sorry but "Jews trained dogs to rape prisoners" is an IQ test and a lot of you are failing

"(My dog) took care of some Nukhbas in Sde Teiman" Judeo-Nazi settler-soldier Elkana Federman was on CH14's HaPatriotim tonight and brought his gun and dog with him. The same dog you can see in the quoted tweet. I hate to think what he'd done to the poor abductees at Sde Teiman. This deranged sadistic psychopath comes from an infamous family of Kahanist terrorists. He was the head of security at the Nova Festival on October 7, and has already been featured on Channel 14 in the past.

Deranged Kahanist settler-soldier Elkana Federman continues to abuse Palestinian abductees in the West Bank, as part of his army service. This time he set a dog on a frightened, cuffed and blindfolded abductee. I don't want to imagine what this Judeo-Nazi sicko does off-camera.

Let's play This or That👀

Who would she choose?

The way we reject the 0-sum idea that some communities win at the cost of others is by using opportunities to address issues intersectionally - to highlight that Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all bigotry serve the same ends & that we prevent division by championing one another.

It’s not imposter syndrome when institutions actually do treat you differently yet pretend they don’t It’s not imposter syndrome when institutions treat hardworking newcomers like invaders, yet normalize & accept deep corruption or incompetency from ppl we’re “used” to in power