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Roderic Day Profile picture
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Aug 23, 2020 • 20 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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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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May 21
Small thread on what I consider **the** most underrated aspect of Marxist theory:

__The obsolescence of "individual exchange".__

By underrated I mean: not featured enough in discussions compared to alienation, rate of profit, crisis, primitive accumulation, class struggle, etc.
A lot of people link up with Marxism out of anger with society and a desire for justice.

This is good, but peasants also desired justice against aristocrats, slaves against masters!

Marx and Engels argued something had become possible for workers that hadn't been for others.
I think this is argued the best in Engels's work "The Housing Question".

The massive value of this work is somewhat hidden behind what appears to be relatively niche subject, like it only matters if your subject is housing.

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May 8
Back when "leftist" included Obama liberals, it was OK to call "Marxist" people who argued workers weren't inferior and that American imperialism was bad.

In 2026, with "multipolarity" and naked American barbarism, I'd expect a higher baseline/minimum.

I propose 2 key points.
Point 1:

The term "Proudhonism" maybe needs to be updated to refer to some modern figure, but at any rate clearly identified. And Marxists need to make it crystal clear that they are radically *opposed* to it.

This is essential. Proudhonism is an alluring, organic dead end. Image
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This means understanding how "employer profit" is akin with "landlord rent" and "banker profit", and top concern.

"My landlord and the bank take 90% of my salary!"

No!

"Your employer takes 70% of your labour. Of the leftover 30, banker and landlord take 90. You keep 3%."
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Sep 5, 2024
So, for weeks Rocko has been going on a crusade in defense of "genAI" against those upset that Disney gets to rip off IP who also elsewhere mourn the ruling against Internet Archive and free access.

I'm with Rocko. That criticism is sentimental in a bougie way!
I think genAI is subpar technology that won't deliver on its hype (redsails.org/dialectics-and…), but I think all this flowery talk about "small humble artists representing humanity against evil soulless machines" is downright tawdry.
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What this technology is causing is a rift between pro-IP capitalists and anti-IP capitalists. These two camps of capitalists will fight each other no matter what!

Intelligent workers would find a way to tip the odds of this battle as much as possible towards the anti-IP camp.
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Aug 18, 2024
New @RedSailsOrg!

Many institutions peddle confusion about the contradictions of democratic centralism.

Sharp divisive self-criticism is called for. At the same time, unity is necessary. How can these coexist?

Lenin reconciles them in *definite action*.
redsails.org/freedom-to-cri…
@RedSailsOrg h/t @SpreadWhiz and @m1vql1hdwt for the great find, from a while back.

The tell-tale of lumbering, useless, repressive "communist" institutions is that they repress any kind of discussion while accomplishing nothing specific to speak about whatsoever.
@RedSailsOrg @SpreadWhiz @m1vql1hdwt If an institution doesn't call for specific actions with measurable impacts, then its ideas should be discussed openly.

If it calls for actions, we should judge their effectiveness instead.

One way or another the Party is being tested: either in ideas or in actions.
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Jul 11, 2024
New @RedSailsOrg!

You've maybe read Marx's famous line about "ruthless criticism of all that exists." Have you read the 1843 letter it's from, though?

I found existing translations read a bit tricky, so I attempted a new one, to bring its ideas out more.
redsails.org/an-ruge/
@RedSailsOrg 25-year-old Marx, having just earned his doctorate in philosophy two years earlier (1841), is hyping up his friend Ruge towards their new joint venture, a journal.

Marx believes that the only outcome of serious high-soaring philosophy in their day can be… political activity!
@RedSailsOrg It struck me how much Marx emphasizes that "philosopher-critics" should not assert what should be important, but rather sould *explain* why what people already care about *is* important.

He defends a focus on politics and religion.

I thought, meanwhile, in our era, of media.
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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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