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Koba of Lacustria ☭ 🏭 🌽 Profile picture
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Jul 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Ideological: Nativism/Cosmopolitanism.
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Structural: States/Federal.
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PolEcon: Rural/Urban.

That's the fractal contradiction of the US political form (the Duopoly). Class struggle is its material hypostasis, the essential content of both the whole and its constituent parts.
This formal political contradiction, like the bourgeois republic it corresponds with, is a universal abstraction of a concrete society and its particular contradictions. It's a heuristic, a starting point for practical investigation and work rather than a definite conclusion.
You can reasonably apply this contradiction to all of US history since the Constitution was established in 1789.

Federalists or Anti-Federalists, protectionism or free trade, North or South, Wilsonian idealism or isolationism, Bernie or Trump, FBA or Pan-African, and so on.
The Civil War and Bretton Woods had the biggest impact on the development of this contradiction. The former consolidated Federal power over the States. The latter fully subordinated US politics to the imperial world system with the responsibilities and benefits of preserving it.
Both sides of this layered contradiction contain a proletarian/revolutionary element, which is why it's important to avoid one-sided thinking. The role of Communists is to discover those concrete elements and unite them with the vanguard.

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Koba of Lacustria ☭ 🏭 🌽 Profile picture
Jul 17
You understand my threads if you understand their relation to this pic.

The unique feature of our species-being is the ability to express/transform our social being and objective premise consciously. That novelty, however, arises from the qualities all social animals share. Image
Wolf packs don't consciously delimit borders on maps, but they unconsciously demarcate them according to natural laws of development.

Objective contradictions—between particular wolf packs and between wolves in general and their environment—produce shifting pack "fiefdoms."
Wolves are unconscious social beings. Their relationship with the world is reactive and instinctual. Wolf "societies" are objective and reproduced cyclically unless externally disrupted.

Humanity's great ape cousins and (most) ancestors are also unconscious social beings.
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Koba of Lacustria ☭ 🏭 🌽 Profile picture
Jul 13
🧵: Nothing proves the Americanness of Black Americans more than their division on the national question between two extremes—parochial "fuck you I got mine" nativists and cosmopolitan "USAID Pan-African" radlibs, which mirrors (in essence) the division between White Americans.
The Black radlib view of Pan-Africanism, like the White radlib view of SocDem Pan-Europeanism, is an empty universal that denies its particulars. Both groups deny their Americanness.

This contrasts with Sahelian Pan-Africanism—a concrete universal unified with its particulars.
FBA nationalism is a lot like the old Know Nothing Party's nativism—a narrow particularism, a parochial view of Americanness that defines itself in opposition to a universalized Other (Whites, Black immigrant "tethers"). This opposition is transactional at best, bigoted at worst.
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Koba of Lacustria ☭ 🏭 🌽 Profile picture
Jul 12
🧵: The basis of my support for the ACP is that it is the first organized break from the tyranny of 1968 and the moribund legacy of the academic "New Left."

It represents a *new beginning* for left-wing politics in America, the first step on a long-abandoned and unfamiliar path.
It challenges the ideological subjectivity of the Left, yes, but more fundamentally, it questions the subconscious assumptions about objective reality that subtly influence the ideological subjectivity and activism of the Left—assumptions that have led it to its current nadir.
I can't see the future—the ACP might eventually lead the Left, or it could dissolve—what I'm certain of though is that the Left MUST redefine itself in response to the qualitative rupture formally identified by the ACP, or get left in the dust of the real movement of history.
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Koba of Lacustria ☭ 🏭 🌽 Profile picture
Jun 14
Symbolism 🧵:
I understand why the consensus "Heads of Communism" ends with Mao, but ending it there feels incomplete. Five is an ugly and undialectical number.

Either remove Stalin and Mao to make it three heads (which I hate) or add Deng to make it six heads (what I prefer). Image
Five is an undialectical number because the Hegelian dialectic has a triune structure (sublated unity of opposites, three in one).

Limiting the Heads to Marx/Engels/Lenin makes sense because Lenin "sublated" the revolutionary science of Marx/Engels into a revolutionary state.
I prefer the idea of adding Deng to the Heads though, because it creates three dialectical pairs (somewhat visualized below) that better signify the fractal unity and development of DiaMat and HistMat.

Marx/Engels/IWA
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Lenin/Stalin/USSR
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Mao/Deng/PRC Image
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Koba of Lacustria ☭ 🏭 🌽 Profile picture
May 20
If you want a concrete understanding of the dialectic between "War of Position" and "War of Maneuver," you should study Ukraine's 2023 Offensive and the Russian defense.

The first map depicts the Ukrainian plan, and the second shows their actual gains (blue stripes, not arrows). Image
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Don't ignore the granular details in favor of the big picture; that will only keep you trapped in the realm of abstraction.

Study the *particular* positions and maneuvers held and taken by each side during their summer struggle on the Pontic Steppe.
Every "War of Position" contains struggles to maneuver, and every "War of Maneuver" contains struggles for position.
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Feb 25
THREAD:
Russia's leverage in negotiations comes from the assertion that they're ready to abandon talks and switch from positional war to maneuver war at any time.

The RU MOD posting this video is part of the public jockeying process.

The question is if it's a bluff or not.
Russia has the manpower/material reserves to conduct a Dnieper crossing and reopen the Kherson front, while Ukraine lacks enough of those things to do anything more than a fighting retreat.

Even with that objective (im)balance of forces, this would be a costly operation.
River crossings are always risky, especially in our age of drones—and contrary to what many of my fellow armchair generals believe, forcing a war of maneuver, even successfully, is FAR costlier for Russia than leveraging its superior firepower in a simmering war of position.
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