I can sniff you from afar
Replace Palestinians with Israelis, and that is the actual dilemma of the Middle East
Coup or revival of National Liberation Front?
One has to separate Zizek the philosopher,
Zizek the pop culture philosopher.
Well, what’s the difference? I know his foreign policy and his role as “jester of capitalism” is quite marde, as Gab Rockhill pointed out…
Critical support to Sri Lanka in living up to its name, despite its brainworms!
Seems like old news
“Strategic Provocation and October 7th attacks”
Popular narrative development (lead-up to attack)
Impossible demands (lead-up to attack)
Military/political “noise” (lead-up to attack)
Narrative escalation (lead-up to attack)
Intentional personnel sacrifice (during attack)
Cross-border lures (during/just before attack)
Atrocity allegation (during/immediately after attack)
Rapid condemnation (immediately after attack)
Pre-positioned response force (during/immediately after attack)
Rapid post-condemnation violence (immediately after attack)
critical support to TSMC for filibustering Amerikkkan plans to dekkkouple and the Amerikkkan labor unions for standing for their own individual rights against ROC work culture (if it were about importing Mainland BYD cars, I’d call them chauvinist)
They can both ratfuck Amerikkka’s ass
Continuing on this
Western efforts to propagate each ideas produce instead a reaction against “human rights imperialism” and a reaffirmation of indigenous values,
Justifiably… as said from above
as can be seen in the support for religious fundamentalism by the younger generation in non-Western cultures.
I call bullshit… Southeast Asia, East Asia, and South-Asia aren’t really religiously-defined
Besides, in the Middle East and other Muslim countries, I’d argue religion, if its not an opium of the people, it is the proxy of a new economic mode of organization, or at least a political organization…
Similarly, at another stage of development a century earlier, Cromwell and the English people had borrowed from the Old Testament the speech, emotions, and illusions for their bourgeois revolution. When the real goal had been achieved and the bourgeois transformation of English society had been accomplished, Locke supplanted Habakkuk.
The very notion that there could be a “universal civilization” is a Western idea, directly at odds with the particularism of most Asian societies and their emphasis on what distinguishes one people from another.
And what does this universal civilization presuppose? A standard of who? China? India? Indonesia (This was written in the context of ‘End of History’, as Francis Fuk-his-ma said, so you can guess whose values to adopt)
Man, you have alotta western brainworms but I’ll tell ye this
The reason why, in a short answer
Western ideas of individualism, liberalism, constitutionalism, human rights, equality, liberty, the rule of law, democracy, free markets, the separation of church and state, often have little resonance in Islamic, Confucian, Japanese, Hindu, Buddhist or Orthodox cultures.
But why is it so? Maybe, perhaps they undermined the local and national hegemonies there, but at the same time, these ideas, if I must say, are more or less a pretense to introduce their own economic hegemony, in this case, western capitalist imperialism.
The superstructure of such ideas, law, culture, government and so forth, are often reflective of the economic base of the western imperialist hegemonies, and in turn, the superstructure justifies and influences back the economic base
I have never posted in that comm. (em POC)
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Other than that, I agree…
I am a subordinate, but I shall take this request to the Lemmygrad.ml mods. It is currently pending whether they would respond / s
For early Europe we went over the Dutch Revolt and how the Netherlands was able to become a big deal in Europe with regard to their wealth. They were really good at trading and invented the food grading system that we see today, I guess that made them trustworthy and people started to really like Dutch products due to that. We learned about Dutch society back in the seventeenth century as well and how it was a bit of an outlier, mostly because of the religious tolerance. But by the eighteenth century the power shifted towards England, but it’s not like they completely declined.
The Bank of Amsterdam, in 1609, was not epoch-making in the development of the modern credit system any more than that of Hamburg in 1619. It was purely a bank for deposits. The checks issued by the bank were indeed merely receipts for the deposited coined and uncoined precious metal, and circulated only with the endorsement of the acceptors. But in Holland commercial credit and dealing in money developed hand in hand with commerce and manufacture, and interest-bearing capital was subordinated to industrial and commercial capital by the course of development itself. This could already be seen in the low interest rate. Holland, however, was considered in the 17th century the model of economic development, as England is now. The monopoly of old-style usury, based on poverty, collapsed in that country of its own weight.
During the entire 18th century there is the cry, with Holland referred to as an example, for a compulsory reduction of the rate of interest (and legislation acts accordingly), in order to subordinate interest-bearing capital to commercial and industrial capital, instead of the reverse. The main spokesman for this movement is Sir Josiah Child, the father of ordinary English private banking. He declaims against the monopoly of usurers in much the same way as the wholesale clothing manufacturers, Moses & Son, do when leading the fight against the monopoly of “private tailors.” This same Josiah Child is simultaneously the father of English stock-jobbing. Thus, this autocrat of the East India Company defends its monopoly in the name of free trade. Versus Thomas Manley (Interest of Money Mistaken — Thomas Manley was not the author of this book. It was published anonymously in London in 1668. — Ed.) he says:
Something about how the creation of a standardized credit system in Holland not only aided commercial, financial, and industrial matters, but destroyed usury, and thus created an example for England
Usury, in the context of the chapter, can be accelerationist in its ruination of the feudal economy, if not revolutionary, if used by the bourgeoisie to create its own system, but otherwise mostly reactionary, as economic policy, due to its parisitism…
I agree with its 6 xpoints
The U.S. is entering a period of intensified class struggle.
Many people stayed home.
The election may have been lost at the grocery store and the gas station
People are tired of war.
Fascism wins by appealing to real demands, not only hatred and fear.
The movements will survive; the resistance starts now.
some people will point out the newspaper is connected to CPUSA, who has a stance of lesser-evilism and support of Dems, especially if they’re a Hexbear user like Alaskaball, and then proceed to criticize you to holy heaven
Consider it a foregone conclusion
This must be yer slammer moment
Slava baloney!
but the point is that there would be a lot of scumbags in in his traps these days.
“Hello, Yaakov Fauci, I would like to play a game”
Netanyahoo would prolly smile at dead babies…
Bashar would have shocked by the IOF casually recording their war crimes on Tiktok
It’s just a “theoretical” situation, according to her
Just like how theoretically she would throw the current president Bongbong’s father into the West Philippine Sea, due to her opposition to Bongbong’s China-hawk foreign policy