The Ghost of Tom Joad

Mono-culture farming devastates the rest of nature. Farmlands continue to lose much of their wildlife, bees, birds, insects, amphibians. But each generation measures "normal" nature against what existed in their childhood; not what existed before. So we don't mourn the Auroch, Quagga, Eastern Elk, or drained wetland. We never knew them. We each inherit a slightly emptier world & call it normal, a shifting baseline syndrome. Humans are remarkably adaptive... dangerously so.

Israeli forces attack Palestinian Muslims who approach Al-Aqsa Mosque for Eid Prayers.

1924'te Khodynka'da Paris Komünarlarının Sancağının Moskova İşçilerine Teslimi

Delegitimizing your own country’s revolutionary leaders, struggles, and outcomes due to perceived morale imperfections is what the Chinese Communists call “national historical nihilism.” And they view it as a huge mistake for any Communist Party. You can’t apply modern morale standards to leaders of the past. You should appreciate their progressive elements & struggle to overcome the reactionary elements that they left behind. Most of the modern American left is historically nihilistic because they were taught by university professors to view history through a morale lens. On the other hand, Communist leaders like Ho Chi Minh appealed directly to the American Revolution & the founding documents of the US, which inspired him greatly when he read them while traveling through France.

@OccupiedDan @damn_jehu None. I've never liked Haz very much.

@therealmvmnt @damn_jehu How much of that weird guy with the sword on his wall pretending to be a communist do you watch?

I'm coming around more and more to @damn_jehu 's point. Marxists today don't agree with Marx.. and apparently I'm not a Marxist, since I do.

@1etesiae @BolshevikBeyond counterparts here in the U.S.

@1etesiae @BolshevikBeyond yeah, I agree, they suck. energy is probably spent organizing elsewhere. but I'm not making a moral argument and I don't advocate liquidationism. where there is a proletariat in "Israel" there lies some revolutionary potential. but the onus is on them, and ostensibly, on their

Everyone from Marx to Ho Chi Minh and Huey Newton upheld the American Revolution.

@OccupiedDan @damn_jehu If the U.S.A ceased to exist today I'd shed no tears. I recognize a revolutionary tradition and take pride in it, not in a nation state.

@therealmvmnt @damn_jehu If you lived in Israel you’d put a hammer and sickle over a flag of Israel. You’re fundamentally a labor zionisst. I see straight through you.

@ContentionNews @BolshevikBeyond have no country.

@ContentionNews @BolshevikBeyond Not much, they definitely suck! I never said they didn't. I wasn't really trying to say they ought to be the focus of our own efforts, but where there are any that have achieved class consciousness they shouldn't be rejected on the pretense they're settlers alone. proletarians

@probablykaffe snake. But I can concede that.

@probablykaffe I didn't really mean to imply that's where the logo came from entirely, just that it's use on a yellow background was meant to invoke it. That, and Bobby seales quote about the nature of the panther is almost word for word part of the reasoning for the choice of the timber rattle

you're making shit up the panther logo originates in the Lowndes County organization and the BPP Oakland reached out to them for permission to use the symbology, completely unrelated to "no steppy snek"

It's lived a long, full life.

@lm0y @DecolonialMarx @BolshevikBeyond I agree with you actually. And I'm not very concerned with it, I just don't think it's very pragmatic to write them off wholesale and practice liquidationism - or, to reject the American revolution in its entirety either.

@therealmvmnt @DecolonialMarx @BolshevikBeyond Why are you so concerned with the "white proletariat"? Why are they so essential to you? The "american nation" is more or less a straight ideological proxy for the interests of capital accumulation. It deserves nothing but our contempt and its complete abolition.

@sigfig @boss_on_here I still keep my red card behind my ID..

learning about the 2007-2010 attempt to organize an iww branch against jimmy johns

legendary

@FUncompromised @SizweLo funny because that's LITERALLY what it is. instead of socialized production for private profit, it's socialized production for social good. you absolute dunce.

@SizweLo This is how communism gets glorified: by lying about it. It has nothing to do with how the production output is distributed. Communism isn’t “free shit”

Communist test

@OccupiedDan @damn_jehu of course you won't. because there is absolutely nothing I have said or done that would imply I believe Jewish people have a right to an ethnostate.

@therealmvmnt @damn_jehu I wont even explain how i know you’re a labor zionisst. You’re pretending to be dumb or you are literally demonic. Either way suck my balls

@OccupiedDan @damn_jehu under ANY circumstance.

@OccupiedDan @damn_jehu in no way shape or form do I believe in Jewish nationalism or the right of Jewish people to an ethnostate on Palestinian land. israel shouldn't exist and I wholesale support the Palestinians national liberation struggle. Where did I ever say Israel or Zionism should be a thing