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Jun 15 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Drought is cascading across the world. The climate crisis is rapidly becoming terminal. 🧵#SocialismorExtinction factly.in/review-a-recen…
The southwestern US is in the worst drought in recorded history. ft.com/content/9f00df…
Unprecedented drought is wracking the horn of Africa. africa.cgtn.com/2022/06/10/mil…
Severe drought in Italy. theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…
Severe drought across all Portugal. euronews.com/green/2022/06/…
France.france24.com/en/tv-shows/fr…
India. dw.com/en/farmers-in-…
Chile. channelnewsasia.com/world/chile-pe…
Iraq. forbes.com/sites/priyashu…
The food crisis is the result of the entire history of the capitalist mode of production and its bleeding of the planet. The fertiliser crisis is the result of capitalism's internal contradictions, driven by a decline in profitable investment. Be clear.
The task is so much bigger than defeating some sanctions or ending a war. Propaganda for either faction of the warring imperialists cannot be allowed to eclipse the reality we face. We must fight tooth and nail to make this clear to as many people as possible.
There is a solution. No more fucking around. No more beating around the bush. We need communism.

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Jun 14
The first high-quality guano reserve opened to capitalist exploitation was depleted in 1870, three years after Marx wrote that every progress made by capitalism in increasing the fertility of the soil is “a progress toward ruining the more long-lasting sources of that fertility”
The guano fertiliser industry only started in 1924, with the shipment of two casks to the US. It ballooned rapidly - half a million tons shipped to England and the US combined by 1850.
The tendency to treat Marx as a prophet, I think, is rooted in a fundamental failure to understand that the tendencies of capitalist exploitation we now see acting at a somewhat apocalyptic level have always been present.
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Jun 14
Record breaking fall in real wages. independent.co.uk/news/business/…
Unemployment uptick likely significant and could be the start of quite a brutal wave given other economic indicators. ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
Bounce back of employment in the pandemic, btw, was partially due to people needing to work more, partially due to a decline in self-employment (so, either petit-bourgeois or contract workers) ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
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Feb 25
Anti-war and anti-imperialist movements are distinct, but the former is a pre-condition of the latter having the political space to form. If you don't directly contest the leadership of the former, and engage with the movement wholly, the latter will simply not form.
Remember this before you get too into denouncing things as liberal or inadequate from a distance. As I've said: a lot of you need to be far more patient.
Revolutionary defeatism is the strategy, not agitation which can achieve itself by blank repetition.
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Feb 24
So many fucking patsys on here jesus
It's not a "two things are bad" moment. It's not a "victory to Russia" moment. It's not a "NATO must sanction them" moment.

It's a "we demand communism and an end to the economic basis of war" moment.
Moral relativism can get in the fucking bin.
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Feb 24
The speed at which Russia's military operations are progressing is honestly jaw-dropping. Modern high-intensity warfare is unlike any this planet has seen before.
If world war does break out then the world will be consumed by it in days. The planet cannot survive that.

Socialism or extinction really are the options.
They're already at Kiev.
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Feb 22
Comrades, what we need to do is explain *why* this is happening to working class and oppressed people. We do not need to stomp around in an imagined moral Cold War with the press and each other about what banner our continued impotence ought to carry.
So much talk on here assumes we’re thrashing out the positions of a movement, rather than attempting to prepare the pre-requisites for one to exist.

We have built more than the cynics in our midst think, but not into a real material force by any metric.
We need to explain the economic basis, imperialist competition, clearly and patiently, over and over, to whoever listens. Some of you are going to have to become a lot more patient.
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