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19 Feb, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Tsk tsk, seeing some Canadians out there not buying into the Canadian propaganda blitz that baselessly projects our own crimes and atrocities onto China to feel better about ourselves.

πŸ‘ Do πŸ‘ better!
Canada's Communists vs. Canada's Radlibs in a nutshell:
What gets me about these flatworms is that they're always going on about the "undeniable evidence" and never, ever citing it.

Meanwhile I'm here trying to see if I can cram a QRT, 4 screenshots, and a text-quote into a single tweet to support my claims.
"The body of evidence is unambiguous."

The body:
And what's up with "gross"?

There's something revealing there. I call people racist, shill, coward, etc. Insults I substantiate.

Isn't "gross" meek, given the topic? The charge is not immorality, but ickiness.

An opportunist offended at dissent, rather than a particular claim.
Exactly! There's no substance there, it's just "conform!"
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21 Feb
A lot of this Marxism vs. Religion discussion seems to be approached by people trying to show off how inclusive and open-minded they are, rather than breaking down the problem into constituent elements and explaining how to tackle them.
The problem with unchecked religious organizing is real and concrete.

The case of coup-era Bolivia is a very clear example of radicalized cops on the streets chanting prayers, before they charge in to slaughter indigenous people.
ETIM in China is another example of the US funding religious radicalism as a geopolitical weapon. In this case, Wahhabism within Islam.
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20 Feb
"Tankie vs anarchist discourse" is another name for the question of anti-imperialism.

Maybe you won't have to deal with it in local work, but the problem still exists. In the past, it affected Muslims, now it targets Asian people.

"Both sides are bad" solves nothing.
Innumerable people have written excellently on the problem of theory over practice.

Good writing on the problem of practice without theory is less common.

Assata Shakur definitely had some good lines on it, though: Image
Hα»“ ChΓ­ Minh also wrote about this subject.

There was a time when discussions about "2nd vs. 3rd international" were nonsense to him.

However, rather than embrace a dismissive anti-intellectual arrogance, he studied.

Is what he achieved in question?
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17 Feb
If you don't call out Saddam Hussein for his WMDs and Incubators you πŸ‘ don't πŸ‘ truly πŸ‘ care!
Caring is repeating White Supremacist propaganda.

The more you repeat White Supremacist propaganda, the more you care. ImageImageImageImage
"If it's not from Bezos Post or the NYT or British State Media I πŸ‘ don't πŸ‘ want πŸ‘ to πŸ‘ hear πŸ‘ it!"
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17 Feb
Americans are truly disturbing.

Their genocidal fascism is spilling over, and it's especially foul when served as puke-worthy liberal "analysis." ImageImageImageImage
The notion that Xi Jinping is cynically scheming environmental 5-year plans just to play second fiddle to a goo-brained rapist like Joe Biden is just... πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚ πŸ˜‚

Humour aside, though, it's literal Nazi logic.
"The scheming, calculating <insert group here> does not ever pursue virtue for its own ends, it's all shadowy plotting and scheming. They're trying to usurp the rightful place of our dear leaders, who truly are virtuous."

Soviets, Jewish people, Chinese people... you name it.
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17 Feb
Cool new leftist account just dropped.

Starting goals? Arguing Cuba isn't socialist, and China isn't socialist either.

Why, yes, they are an American Maoist. Why do you ask? ImageImage
Here's a thread on Shining Path and "Gonzalo", the lunatic these people "uphold."

Assassinating Afro-Peruvian leaders, dynamiting the grave of the enacter of Land Reform, hanging dead dogs to lampposts with "Deng Xiaoping" written on placards.
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More on "Gonzalo", the brilliant mind that inspires so many "principled Maoists" in the USA to denounce Cuba and China as their first points of order.
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16 Feb
The fact that Americans

1) keep insisting art/entertainment should be spared political treatment,

2) react with endless whining if anyone dares challenge this directive,

suggests to me that it is a domain where capitalist hegemony is fragile and vulnerable.
Contrary to what a lot of "leave media alone, all that matters is your fleshy presence in the streets" people argue, revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao have historically treated art *extremely* seriously, as propaganda.
redsails.org/mao-on-literat…
The idea that one can *uncritically* consume a White Supremacist Capitalist fantasy like "Breaking Bad" without it having any significant impact on their politics seems incorrect to me.
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