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- Sun May 02, 2021 7:08 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: The Long Ecological Revolution
- Replies: 356
- Views: 193158
Re: The Long Ecological Revolution
Waiting for Capital to commodify the melting polar ice caps...perhaps it'll be "climate change chic."
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:59 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Chomsky
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16824
Re: Chomsky
Chomsky is definitely the "go-to" guy for people who want quotes to criticize capitalism and imperialism without fundamentally or at the very least, coherently critiquing either in any serious manner. He's made some good points here and there, I've read a few of his books and several of his articles...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:51 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: What an asshole: Barack Obama (post-presidential edition).
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4379
Re: What an asshole: Barack Obama (post-presidential edition).
Barack Obama – ‘Yes, We Can’ champion of the rich ---- OPINION: By John Minto Former US President Barack Obama won office decisively on the basis of a fervent campaign driven by his supporters believing he would bring real change. Obama’s two terms did nothing of the sort. He was elected US Presiden...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:49 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: What an asshole: Barack Obama (post-presidential edition).
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4379
Re: What an asshole: Barack Obama (post-presidential edition).
How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth ---- The Obama presidency was a disaster for middle-class wealth in the United States. Between 2007 and 2016, the average wealth of the bottom 99 percent dropped by $4,500. Over the same period, the average wealth of the top 1 percent rose by $4.9 million. This drop ...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: What an asshole: Barack Obama (post-presidential edition).
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4379
What an asshole: Barack Obama (post-presidential edition).
Thought that this might be helpful... ---- CHICAGO — Last month, when hundreds of people showed up at a downtown convention center to hear plans for the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), a campus dedicated to the legacy of Barack Obama, the former president himself arrived unannounced and in full cam...
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:19 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Lenin: A Letter to the German Communists (1921)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5116
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:32 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Leon Trotsky
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9086
Re: Leon Trotsky
[quote=blindpig post_id=1009 time=1515674767 user_id=48] Is true once you get off line or off campus Trotsky is totally irrelevant. [/quote] As is "Stalinism" - poor guy's been dead for 65 years, can't even defend himself, his corpse could qualify for Social Security and Medicare, and yet he continu...
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:26 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Leon Trotsky
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9086
Re: Leon Trotsky
I know, I know, Jacobin...but this excerpt is relevant to the (partially, at least) Trotskyist intellectual, ideological, and ultimately political origins of "neoconservatism" as it is properly understood, I think... ---- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, and their milieu learned the art of polem...
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:18 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Lenin: A Letter to the German Communists (1921)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5116
Lenin: A Letter to the German Communists (1921)
Dear comrades, I had intended to state my view of the lessons of the Third Congress of the Communist International in a detailed article. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to start on this work because of ill-health. The fact that a Congress of your Party, the United Communist Party of Germany...
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 4:05 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Russophobia and the Logic of Imperialism
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3536
Russophobia and the Logic of Imperialism
Thought this was interesting.... --------- On the border between "Europe" and "Asia", Russians have historically maintained at best a vacillating, conditional relationship with whiteness and "European civilization". The most historically openly terroristic, revanchist manifestation of European supre...