You think the Marcos government returned from partial alignment to the full alignment with the previous neocolonial regime under the thumb of the primary global superpower that already occupies their country and has done so for over 100 years because “China scary”?
lmao
That’s the joke lol
Capitalists: why should I have to pay for your training? Go into debt so that you’re pre-trained. Thanks! And by that I mean submit.
The current Marcos government is a shift towards the United States and is gladly offering up The Philippines, a neocolony of the United States, as a forward base for the “containment” of China. This includes a reversal in both policy and propaganda when it comes to the South China Sea.
The essential concept is that overthrowing the current order is the most authoritarian thing you can do. It is imposing your ideas on the overall system and it will require coercion. Mutual liberation requires the imposition of a political program that runs counter to the behaviors and interests of the current ruling class. The class with the cops, the armies, the money, the trade. You will have to oppress them or they will kill your movement in its infancy. They will invade you and kill all of your friends. So you will fight them or die and you will have to institute policies against them or die. We do not have the privilege of living in a world where the material forces against us will give fairly give in to popular will or do what is right or not bomb is and our children.
I would add that “authoritarian” is a label that is applied so selectively that is it actively misleading. It is usually a means by which to spread anticommunist thought that ends up reinforcing the far more authoritarian status quo. If one does their best to excise this selective use from themselves, we then end up talking about he first point of brass tacks of what choices are offered to us when we have our own anti-capitalist nation-states. They are, unfortunately, limited given the relentless violence and maximum pressure from imperialist nations. Nuclear Armageddon was only prevented by a far more humanistic socialist bloc on several occasions. The imperialists were ready to go and pushed right up to the limit. There are many examples of this tendency, but Korea is a salient example. They bombed every single population center in the north. Genocidal. It wasn’t even their country. It was just to “contain” the Korean left, which was otherwise going to win without US imposition because it was, organically, more powerful.
What is more authoritarian than a bombing campaign that destroys your entire village?
Let’s look at how many women had been let into administration and top-tier government work.
A higher number than in capitalist countries at the time.
Several of my relatives had papers recognizing their optimization effort, but the directors were always men. You won’t see women in charge here. Read the brief USSR history and try ro find any woman here.
What in earth is “the brief USSR history”? Don’t do that. Actually read about the experiences and representation of women. Dive deep. Compare to the US in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, etc.
The ruling class wasn’t that woke to invite women.
The ruling class of the USSR was roughly 50% women.
And Tereshkova is a demented opportunist who has been never cared for before she started to slurp-slurp putin’s dick in her 70s and unconstitutionally prolonged his service without reelections. She should be cancelled hard.
Tereshkova is the first woman in space, something you can never take from women nor the USSR.
What Cuba accomplishes despite US blockade is truly commendable.
Democrats say: unlimited ethnic cleansing
Everyone has the choice to not consciously oppress other people.
Cops have both individual and systemic roles in oppression.
If you do work irl the cops will eventually use their violence on you.
Sorry sweaty, that’s whataboutism. What time is it in Moscow?
Oh, you’re a Trotskyist? What are you thoughts on transitional programs?
Channeling the racists that the Banderites love so much.
Every “good cop” is one that looks the other way when the bad cops do bad cop things. Or they are actively in the process of being harassed out of the department for “making trouble”.
Though it should also be said that the modem anti-cop movement comes from the correct understanding that their primary purpose is to protect private property interests, not your safety. Even the theoretical “nice” cop is spending their time, effort, and focus on store break-ins and broken windows and harassing homeless people that a business owner calls an “eyesore” or worse. But again, if they don’t carry water for the rest of their gang members that “nice” cop is getting kicked out of the department.
Countries like the UK weaponize aid. It’s not simple charity, it is another means by which to exert power. You can see it right now with the defunding of UNRWA, the blockade of Gaza, sitting by while Israel blocks aid. It is part of a pressure campaign.
It also acts as PR.
As Thomas Sankara said, “he who feeds you, controls you”.
This is why Western powers react negatively when other countries seek food sovereignty.
Luckily there’s an easy fix: stop supporting genocide.
Literally a Peruvian port in Peru. But maybe WSJ editors know that their readership don’t know where Peru is.
The directors also arrive at the exact wrong advice. You cannot fight International resource extraction by making consumer choices as an individual. To address the problem identified by the film, you have to understand the material basis for why it’s happening and then fight that. And I guarantee it is more powerful than consumer choices.
In fact, consumer choice recommendations are a preferred PR strategy handed down by companies and governments (the latter is usually an expression of the former) that do this kind of extraction. It is a false catharsis that reassigns blame from the actual culprits and then resolves the blame by having you do something that they can gladly ignore.
I agree that would be good to see some advocacy for veganism. That has the potential to become a larger social movement even though it is often, incorrectly, framed as just another consumer choice.
A single hand pie filled with brown sits in the center, slowly crumbling to bits