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Mar 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Here are the five reasons why the Marcoses are back:
Reason 1 - Social Failure.
#BongbongMarcos #NeverAgain
Reason 2 - They were Rehabilitated
Reason 3 - Miseducation
Reason 4 - The Cycle of Illusions
Reason 5 - The Great Reversal

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Mar 26
Stalinism is fundamentally the nationalist betrayal of Marxism. It is a historically developed phenomenon. What follows is a careful outline definition. 🧵
Lenin and Trotsky led the Russian revolution of 1917, a socialist revolution which created the world's first workers state, which they defined as a transitional form between capitalism and socialism. 2/
Russia confronted tasks that were classically referred to as the democratic revolution, tasks historically associated with capitalism:
a. break-up of landed estates
b. overthrow of autocracy & establishment of democratic governance
c. national unification & integration. 3/
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Mar 26
The racist attacks against me by the Stalinists were most recently occassioned by my criticism of their use of bestial and demonic iconography, drawing upon the racism and anti-Semitism of the far-right. In the thread I'm retweeting here I examined its history. 1/
Here is an example of what I am criticising. It is repugnant and monstrous. This is the man they heralded as "socialist" three years earlier. They will not explain his social role, so they draw on the iconography of fascism & Catholic medievalism. 2/ Image
Their hysterical response has only confirmed my criticism. They are not appealing to reason, or making historical arguments. They are dredging up filth from the sewers of fascist portions of the internet and throwing it at me. 3/
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Mar 25
There is not one context. These racist attacks are a repeated pattern of behavior from Stalinists and their supporters. Look at the quote tweets sharing my video sampling and you'll see more of the same. 1/
This began in August-September 2020 when I delivered a lecture exposing in detail how both the National Democratic movement and the CPP supported Rodrigo Duterte. 2/
wsws.org/en/articles/20…
There were attacks of all sorts against, including the lying slander made by Joma Sison that I was a paid agent of the CIA & an informant for Duterte's death squads. Images of icepicks were widely circulated invoking the murder of Leon Trotsky and threatening me with the same. 3/
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Feb 23
1/ The use of bestial and demonic imagery to depict opponents originates with the racism and anti-Semitism of the far-right. This found its sharpest expression in the propaganda of the Nazis. Such artwork has nothing to do with genuine progressive or left-wing politics. A thread.
2/ This kind of imagery cultivates visceral hatred but not principled political opposition. It appeals to superstition and backwardness, not to a rational understanding of society. One learns nothing of capitalism from these effigies. It is a medieval bestiary.
3/ The bestial imagery of anti-Semitism found particularly vulgar expression in the anti-Communist material produced by the Russian White forces after the October revolution. The chief target of this was Leon Trotsky, who, along with Lenin, led the October Revolution.
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Feb 22
A critical factor in the stabilization of the martial law regime was the support given to the #Marcos dictatorship by a wide layer of intellectuals.
Miriam Defensor Santiago, for example, was an apologist for martial law from its inception.
facebook.com/HistorianJosep…
The newsmagazine in which this was published, Focus Philippines, was a key pro-martial law publication.
It was edited by Kerima Polotan, managed by Gregorio Brillantes. 2/4
Focus Philippines employed Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, Alfredo Salanga & JV Cruz.
Magsanoc is someone who is now remembered as an opponent of Marcos, but she was part of its propaganda publications in 1972. 3/4
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Feb 21
This tweet of mine has aroused a good deal of hostility from NatDem forces on Twitter, who attack me for "humanizing Marcos." 🧵
Marcos was brutal dictator. He presided over an apparatus of repression. He shut down the press, arrested 60,000 people on political grounds in the first five years of his dictatorship, was responsible for nearly 4,000 deaths. 1/
Attacking him for singing an Ilocano love song to a woman with whom he was having an affair erodes the democratic sensibilities of the public. It aims to focus public ire not on repression and dictatorship but on a sex scandal. 2/
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