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2 Mar, 12 tweets, 4 min read
I need people to understand that it's no hyperbole to state that the vast majority of "Marxist Academics" in the West are simply paid to produce anti-communist propaganda and make up stuff like this Deng "quote."

It's not an edgy statement, it's a viable really-existing career.
ChuangCN writes about "the slaughterhouse called capitalism" while publishing a Kissinger Institute Fellow.
Jacobin publishes this nerd who literally drills his students to hate Stalin and China, tells them not to read Marx directly, and recommends they read instead him and a guy who got a medal from the NED.
Jacobin and NovaraMedia defend Navalny, attack Evo Morales and Maduro, explicitly demand that we "side with western imperialism" against China.
Here's a whole thread on absurdly ugly white anthropologists calling Evo Morales' MAS a fascist party, neoliberalism with an indian face, etc.
More.
More.
Compare all of these obsequious western chauvinist "we can never know anything" nerds I just linked to with Deng himself:
With Stalin:
With Assata Shakur:
The job of these losers at the New School or the Verso Loft or whatever is to displace these brilliant communists who not only wrote infinitely more practical and insightful and relevant things, but had organizing deeds to go along with them.
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24 Feb
Western academics have kidnapped Marx and made him so goddamn boring. And largely erased Engels.

They're all deformed by their hardcore anti-Stalinism and anti-communism.

Unless you challenge their readings, it's hard to see how such writings ever triggered a revolution.
Engels: "If mankind, by dint of science and its inventive genius, has bent the forces of nature to its will, the latter avenge themselves by subjecting humanity, insofar as it employs them, to a true despotism independent of all social organisation."
Marx: "It is not individuals who are set free by free competition; it is, rather, capital which is set free."
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23 Feb
Mildly interesting China Watcher find, revealing how they pad their work with fake personas.

One of the first bits of Uyghur atrocity propaganda I ever encountered was @chuangcn's infamous "Spirit Breaking" long essay.

It's a terrible piece of writing.
One thing that I always found weird is that there was simply no trace of its author, "Adam Hunerven", anywhere online.

He seemed to exist *only* for that piece.

And it's one of the favourites of the anarcho-decolonial-ecosocialist crowd, because of its wounded language.
Looking over my notes from a past thread, though, I noticed something.

"Spirit Breaking" is also the title of Darren Byler's thesis.
digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/…
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23 Feb
I've heard people endlessly complain about cebrity culture, the worthlesness of being on social media, etc.

Along comes one bluecheck with some decent positions and everyone's like "he's the biggest asset we've ever had, you don't understand His plan."
The demands seem to be:

1) be grateful that a famous person echoed some of your work
2) be content with any partial understanding
3) be tolerant of repeated trashing of book clubs (which is how the research got done in the first place)

I disagree on all counts, of course.
I've always been diplomatic when disagreeing with Q/Andray, and this is how he lashed out last time I called out his unprompted mocking of book clubs.

Didn't see anyone demand he calm down or anything.

Why the double standard?
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22 Feb
Someone showed me some "Anarchist Ugyhur Genocide Debunk Debunk" video.

I don't want anything to do with these people.

Anarchism is an ideology that says its members should *not* be holding each other accountable, and it results in this.

Down with "lefty unity."
me: Up to my neck in research explaining every major action by the USSR, China, Cuba, the BPP, etc.

them: Proudhon and Bakunin's antisemitism irrelevant, Bey's pedophilia irrelevant, CHAZ murders irrelevant. Anarchism cannot be held accountable for any one anarchist's actions.
These people dismiss @moghilemear13's absolutely brilliant research work as "just a medium blog" only to turn around and shovel Adrian Zenz's medium blog in their source list.

And for all the "No Gods No Masters" preaching, they sure do have a lot of respect for AP and the NYT!
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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
Hồ Chí 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?
redsails.org/the-path-which… Image
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