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Jun 15, 2022 6 tweets 5 min read
Timothy Snyder’s ‘Bloodlands’ is ‘propaganda with footnotes’. I’ve only read a tenth of the book, but I can already tell that Grover Furr’s 600-page riposte to Snyder’s pathetic effort is a banger!
mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/grover… Image ‘The reader is evidently supposed to assume that a full professor of history at Yale University, as Snyder is, would cite his sources honestly, and therefore assume that Snyder does in fact have evidence to support the claims he makes in his text.’ #Bloodlands Image
Mar 14, 2022 29 tweets 9 min read
Its worth remembering that the first colour revolution was attempted in China, and led to the events that have gone down in history as ‘Tiananmen Square protests’ (or ‘June 4th Incident’ as they are officially called in China)—at that time without OTPOR & without Soros money. /2 Image But Gene Sharp, whose 1973 book ‘The Politics of Nonviolent Action’ is still considered a must-read by every upright colour revolutionary, was on the ground at the time as a CIA man conducting ‘harmless field research’, ‘interviewing’ student activists like Chai Ling. /3 Image
Sep 25, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Reread this brilliant essay; a reminder that in all things capitalism… follow the money: ‘The stock market did not collapse (in March 20) because lockdowns had to be imposed; rather, lockdowns had to be imposed because financial markets were collapsing.’
thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfill… ImageImage ‘At the heart of our predicament lies an insurmountable structural impasse. Debt-leveraged financialization is contemporary capitalism’s *only* line of flight, the inevitable forward-escape route for a reproductive model that has reached its historical limit.’ Image