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Roderic Day Profile picture
@RodericDay
Aug 23, 2020 • 20 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
Black Ribbon Day effectively constitutes a collaboration between anti-communist Nazis and collaborators imported into Canada as "refugees" post WW2, and the capitalist ruling class who appreciates their fervent opposition to pro-social communist activism and agitation.
Since 2009, in Canada, both Liberals and Conservatives have been trying to make "Black Ribbon Day" a thing.

The August 23rd remembrance attempts to draw an equivalence between the Holocaust and "the crimes of Communism".
"Nazi hunter" Steve Ramban points out that "between 2,000 and 5,000 war criminals fled to Canada after the Second World War, but not one Nazi has ever been successfully prosecuted in this country".
nationalpost.com/news/canada/na…
The Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, established in 1985, toothlessly probed the matter and did the absolute minimum in response to its findings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschênes…
Black Ribbon Day is quite literally Nazi propaganda, and constitutes a form of Holocaust denialism, as it reframes it as only one among many 20th century atrocities, falsely asserting that it was 1) comparable and 2) relatively small by death count.

For example,
The movement is pushed by the same lobby that pushes for Nazi monuments in e.g. Ottawa and Oakville.
thenation.com/article/world/…
One of the most prominent pushers of this movement is Chrystia Freeland, who during Justin Trudeau's tenure as PM, has held the roles of 1) Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2) Deputy Prime Minister, 3) Minister of Finance.
Her grandfather Michael Chomiak was quite literally a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator who repurposed stolen jewish presses to publish Nazi propaganda.
ottawacitizen.com/news/national/…
Chrystia Freeland often trolls people who know this fact by speaking glowingly about how "our grandparents" were the "greatest generation".
Curiously, the USA heralded her rise in government as "Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy".
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/05/can…
This is of course deeply intertwined with the US project of turning Ukraine into a NATO outpost in eastern Europe, supervising and promoting the rise of extremely overt anti-semitism.
This is also visible in how the US, Canada, and Ukraine voted "No" on a UN resolution to condemn Nazism.
huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/26/can…
This was justified in terms of "free speech", and the demand of an equally strong condemnation of "Stalinism".

This is part of the ongoing propaganda project of erasing the Soviet victory over the Nazis in WW2.
Americans and Brits, not content with stealing credit, go on to portray the mortal enemies as collaborators, against factual evidence.
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
More on "totalitarianism" here:
Alberta Advantage has a fantastic podcast episode discussing the relationship between capitalism, Nazism, Statues, Museums, and Canada.
albertaadvantagepod.com/2020/08/22/the…
I hope people start pushing back against this grotesque project in a major way!
The “Double Genocide” Theory: The New and Official Form of Holocaust Denial (Dovid Katz, 2017)
jewishcurrents.org/the-double-gen…
This rewriting of history is spreading Europe's poison (Seumas Milne, 2010)
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
She's literally out there trolling every day now, and people still go "maybe it's all a coincidence? maybe she didn't know?"

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Jun 26, 2024
The reason I don't have trouble believing Xi is a Marxist is because I don't think Marxism is about being a "good person."

It's about being a smart person, particularly a smart person who is unimpressed by capitalist boasts. And he clearly is that.
Many people frame it like "Do you *really* think Xi cares about poor families when he pushes development?"

Firstly, yes; I do think he cares. But that's besides the point. Many who "care" loudly accomplish nothing with all their caring.

Marxism is about getting it done.
Other people (many of the same people) say things line "China just wants to be another USA."

What person with a brain in their head would want to be a "USA 2.0"?

Again, Marxism is manifest in knowing that is a putrid proposition not because it's evil but because it's mediocre.
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May 30, 2024
This is a problem that Losurdo writes about often, adapting Hegel. "Legality" matters.

But Westerner radicals are very given to brag that legality is the enemy of all good intentions, and that illegalism is basically inherently virtuous, and don't see the point of such pursuits.



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Engels summarized it very succinctly, in a way that simply could not more elegantly expose how scientific socialism is opposed to anarchism:

"Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity."
And Plekhanov says similar things in his philosophical writings, about which Lenin says "nothing better has been written on Marxism anywhere in the world." Image
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May 5, 2024
It's depressing that so many people out there think saying nonsense of this sort is the absolute apex of "deep" thought.

Fascism and the destruction of reason go so hand in hand.
"Distrust logic and communication.

Accept that experiences make groups fundamentally unable to understand each other.

Revert back to natural instincts and traditions.

Be skeptical of rootless, faithless individuals.

Don't think.

Just Do It."
"Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it."

Technophobia.
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Mar 27, 2024
To understand tortured news language today, like goofily not mentioning "Israel" in articles, notice how people relate to history.

Back in the day people knew "The Holodomor" was a Nazi joke. But NYT, etc. were carefully ambiguous. Decades later, all that ambiguity pays off.
Of course, things look unstable and all that "future-proofing" may never pay off.

But just try to imagine a particular world a hundred years from now, where Zionists continue to rewrite history: "Oh yeah? If it happened that way you say, why did no NYT article mention it?"
"Are you suggesting *all* the mainstream was colluding against 'Palestine'? All of it? Psh, ridiculous! A conspiracy theory!"

We mock this today because we see it side by side.

But in a hundred years? Just look at how people speak of the USSR today. "Radicals" ate it all up.
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Mar 6, 2024
401ks make workers into capitalists.

Pensions had them fighting politically for terms.

401ks meekly align their interests with those of markets.

By the end of most affluent careers, "workers" will "vote" against wage raises and safety regulations to protect their "nest egg."
It's not like pensions were amazing, mind you. They're a concession, not worker control.

But people with fat 401ks who cry "Who could callously invest in horrible companies like Exxon and Facebook and Lockheed-Martin!?" amuse.

*You* do!

Restricted funds are a fig leaf.
It's bothered me forever.

Capitalist governments basically figured out that, if the whole point is to tax workers then use funds to repress them, with "tax-free investment opportunities" they could simply skip the middleman and *directly* have workers fund corporations.

Clever!
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Mar 1, 2024
Every once in a while I dive into Rosa Luxemburg's archive to try to find something of hers to put upon RS and I always conclude the same thing:

- She's really genuinely likable
- She's dangerously misguided

She's got a trippy yet familiar combination of charisma and wrongness.
Take her commentary on the Plekhanov-Lenin split.

She's attacking Plekhanov to defend Lenin, but she comes off as naive: she underplays what Plekhanov detects in Lenin, while *also* underplaying the correctness of Lenin's insights on "spontaneity." Image
But she obviously authentically and genuinely believes what she is saying.

Until the very very last (before her murder) she is saying things like "We lose, and we lose, and we lose, but then we'll win!"

She's the ultimate martyr. Image
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