You see that tank over there? The commander is gonna let us drive it after this is over.

I’d also like to know this, especially from columbian comrades.

Finally some good news.

CIA agents in 2025: “how do I convert pdf”

Dang, this is huge news.

In the words of Omar Mukhtar, the Libyan resistance leader who fought the Italian fascists in his country: “They are not our teachers.”

The best response to this, is to tell the cowards to post the whole video. Just a tank trying to drive around a guy, stopping, guy gets in the way again, climbs on tank, repeat a few more times, then some ppl come and no one gets hurt.

US cops kill like 100 ppl a month, and run over people and protestors fairly often.

Thx!

Taking a firm proletarian stand on how good this book is. It should be required reading for all communists.

Notes, Todo lists and links? A DB is not what you need.

These are all different concerns each with specialized software for them.

For todos and lists, I like tasks.org

For Notes and links, use a folder of markdown files, and an editor like Obsidian or Markor.

Devs, fight!

This, but maybe slackware with the hannah montana ui.

100% agree. A few articles on KCNA and a vague legal reference is not enough evidence to make any claims about either the government or citizen’s stances on LGBT ppl and how they are treated and viewed.

Wikipedia, I know, but Latvia was one of the most enthusiastic holocaust participants. They left only ~3k jews alive out of 60k before the nazis came in.

The biggest difference IMO, is the focus on integrating rather than de-linking with the world economy. The PRC and the USSR were both demonized cold war targets, so why did one thrive, and the other stagnate?

With the Deng Xiaoping era and the opening up to the world economy, we have the answer. The focus shifted away from a the ideological struggle that exemplified the Cultural Revolution. The lesson learnt there: you cannot better people’s material conditions, and end poverty with ideological struggle, or isolationism.

The USSR, through historical inertia, and an emphasis on siege socialism, demonstrated an unwillingness to pursue opening up. Deng Xiaoping by contrast stated: “we don’t need to be afraid to open the window just because a few flies might get in… The fresh air will do us good, and the flies are nothing to we can’t handle.”

Since then, the focus shifted to economic construction and technological advancements gained via an open market system with the west: the superiority of socialism over capitalism must come through it’s better development of the productive forces, and better ability to feed your people.

The USSR had to use spycraft to get tainted western microchips already a few years old. Yet since the 1980s the west is falling over themselves to build factories and export tech to China.

There’s a lot of nuance to this strategy, because integration with the west almost always means getting caught in the low-wage-trap, but SWCC organized this bargain in their favor. They traded limited wage exploitation, in exchange for long-term technological expertise… A strategy that’s clearly been paying off.

Some more resources here: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#is-china-state-capitalist

Settlers is an absolutely vital US history book. This is a repost of a comment I made about it a while back. I’ll also say, be extremely wary of “debunks” to this book: settlers is an extremely long book, so there are very few of us who have read it, so those that haven’t tend to rely on essays that miss all the fundamental points and history laid out in the book.

First I will say that Settlers isn’t primarily a theory book, but rather a history book with a guiding central thesis. In reading it, you’ll find that it often doesn’t define the undercurrents or do analysis of, the historical events it focuses on. Its less “analysis” and more “history” focused, but of course it does have a few central ideas and themes that Sakai feels drives US history.

The main thesis of settlers stands, that is proven thoroughly throughout, is that the US perfected a system of socialized bribery that allowed a minority of capitalists and slave-owners to recruit white settlers from europe, to form a settler garrison in the US, and gain from the genocide and conquering of hundreds of Indian tribes, and to steal the country from coast to coast, in a phase of orgiastic primitive accumulation. The bourgeoisie then continually invented new ways for this absorption into the murican dream and whiteness to occur, and had a mass base to carry out their goals, always at the expense of the oppressed nations living within the US’s borders, the black nation, the indian nation, etc whose class interests were at odds with the settlers, and who had no path out of exploitation.

TL:DR; want some free land? All you gotta do is kill some indians to get it. And thousands of poor white proles from europe very loudly said yes.

Its an expose of the US’s settler-colonialist foundations, its history of genocide, exploitation, social bribery, and the spoils that went to those who willingly absorbed into whiteness and the murican dream (even if they had to kill indians to get some cheap land to do so.) Also has an excellent and unique analysis of FDR’s new deal as the bribery and absorption of the labor movement into settler colonialism that I haven’t seen elsewhere.

The spats with other leftists, and detractions from the book are really incidental IMO… the “READ SETTLERS” meme is important because there’s nothing more dangerous to the pride of western leftists than telling them they’re likely descended from generations of bastards. Making sure people don’t read settlers is the best way they can defend their identity and race pride, which must be eradicated for any true internationalism to arise. This book really separates the social chauvinists from the internationalists.

Also there’s a tendency for imperialist leftists to dismiss the book by calling Sakai racist, or claim that he was a race essentialist, which has been disproven many times: Settlers probably more than any other book first elucidated the complicated overlap between race and class; how they are inextricable, and how those US leftists who attempt to split the two are committing a mistake, and have their progenitors in the history of the US labor movement.

Oh one other thing, the New Afrikan thing doesn’t have to do with Maoism (In a post-interview that I recorded as part of the audiobook, he talks about how he has great respect for mao, but he isn’t MZT or MLM), it has to do with the idea of “colonized nations within the borders of empire”: IE peoples with shared traditions, origins, and class interests, that should make up a nation with its own autonomy and system of governance, but is prevented from doing so. This is “the right of nations to self-determination”, but within the US’s borders, that everyone from Malcolm X to Indigenous leaders to puerto rican anti-imperialists pushed for.