NYT disseminating more US propaganda under the guise of journalism. The US has stepped up its propaganda war against China ever since it shot down what was likely an errant weather balloon that strayed off course over the US (for all to see). For the MSM the US official position (''a spy balloon") is simply taken as gospel and so reported. But google the following website, https://www.aerosociety.com/.../chinas-spy-balloon-a.../, for an article by a top expert at the Royal Aeronautical Society in the UK. The fact that this organization is heavily funded by Boeing, part of the US controlled MIC, removes suspicion it is Chinese propaganda. All things considered the Chinese position (errant weather balloon) is more likely true than the US position. Earlier reports in the NYT indicated that the balloon could not have gotten any useful information the Chinese didn't already have from its satellites. So why is the US making a federal case out of this meaningless incident? It is to prepare the mass consciousness of the usually uninformed American people to accept stepped up cold war policies against China and present China as a threat to the US (which has over 700 foreign military bases, many as part of an encirclement program against China, versus China with 1 foreign military base -- in Djibouti to fight piracy around the Horn of Africa). Now the US is warning China not to give military supplies to Russia while it gives whatever it wants to Ukraine. But there are two sides to this war--Russian aggression against Ukraine versus Russian defensive counter-attack against US/NATO aggression against Russia and the Russian population in the Donbas. Which position you take on this issue reflects your views in favor of, or against, US imperialism. China so far has been neutral, only giving non lethal aid to Russia and calling for a negotiated peace so the US is just picking a fight by ''warning" China about what it can and cannot do. These imperial dictates are just what one expects from an Empire to subordinate states. But China is a major country in its own right and will not be dictated to by US imperialism. So the US is starting to play a potentially disastrous game with its saber-rattling with China. So,''Ho. Ho. Biden has got to go''-- the left has to see to it that the next president is a peace president and a pro-labor president not the faux-pro labor hypocrite now in the White House. The best way to defang the Republicans is to run real pro labor and peace candidates, so far as possible with Democrats until we are strong enough to field real socialist candidates.
Monday, February 20, 2023
Thursday, February 02, 2023
Will the real Zizek stand up
This is long but well worth reading. Anyone on the left admiring Zizek will realize what an anti-socialist clown he really is. He calls himself a "Leninist" yet supported Trump for president as well as lauding Obama, the leader of world imperialist repression and international supporter of pro-imperialist fascist regimes and movements. No one with any understanding of Lenin would put up with such nonsense.
“I am a Leninist. […] This is why I supported Obama.” "This is one of his best jokes of all time. The deadpan delivery is killer because he actually means it. He literally equates Leninism with supporting the neoliberal Deporter-in-Chief whose diversity cred provided thin cover for revving the engine of the U.S. imperial machine around the world, leading to Obama’s infamous statement about his assassination program, namely that he was “really good at killing people.”
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
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Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan....
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Thursday, January 26, 2023
Marxists & The Democratic Party: Coalition or Collision?
Comrades who think we can stop the fascist onslaught speared headed by the MAGA Republicans by supporting the Democrats, who themselves use fascist methods when it suits them, should think again. Fascism is a ruling class program and if the Republicans can't do the job, the Democrats will -- it won't be as blatant but it will be fascism just the same. Only an independent working class mass movement can deter fascism. Marxism and the Democrats are not in a coalition, but a collision. That doesn't mean we can't work along side the Democrats to defeat MAGA, but we can't paper over the fact that they are a party of the class enemy and are an enemy of the working class as well, however the leadership tries to disguise the fact.
Saturday, January 21, 2023
A Stained Legend?
An interesting review but I don't think the title is really apropos. These two sisters were radical abolitionists way ahead of their time (but not completely in accord with our time) and they were embedded in a culture that "was saturated with sexist Victorian morality, colorism and white ideals of intellect and propriety." If we judge the people of the past by the values of the present we will always find "stains." That the Grimke sisters were able to revolt against this culture in any progressive manner at all should be lauded and a better title for the review would have been "How two early abolitionist sisters fought for women's rights and the abolition of slavery." For their time they were woke even if they appear a little drowsy in this century.
Sunday, January 15, 2023
MLK's ''awokeness''
''But the war on “wokeness” will no doubt continue. Its power lies in its ability to erase history and context, to act as if the inequalities that persist sprang into existence haphazardly and require only redoubled efforts of the poor to bring about change. That is the reason for eliminating the discussion of the troubled parts of our history from the classroom. Learning about how our past led to the sufferings of today inevitably raises questions of present responsibility.'' An interesting. perspective on MLK's last Sunday sermon. It advocates a philosophy of love and an interpretation of Christianity based on this view. Since religions are not based on a scientific worldview they can be interpreted anyway you like. In broad strokes Christianity, as well as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism or any other mass religion can be interpreted from the point view of the ruling classes or of the oppressed. The values of MLK's form of Christianity are based on the interests and concerns of the latter group. To bring about an earthly realization of these ideals requites a scientific worldview and understanding of reality that religion, based on supernatural causes and effects, is unable to provide. However, almost all the values championed by MLK are to be found in the doctrines of scientific socialism AKA Marxism-Leninism. The only major difference is ML does not condemn the use of violence by the oppressed in self defense when the ruling classes unleash violent behavior on them. When the dust settles, the only way the ideals of MLK can come to fruition is by the abolition of capitalism and classes and the formation of a world socialist order based on the values of communism. Or you can wait for the Messiah.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Iran Today
What is going on in Iran? The Tudeh Party of Iran, which represents the international communist and workers movements against US imperialism and fascist movements, has issued this statement which reflects its views. Progressives and people against war and fascism should take it into consideration when trying to understand the contradictory forces at work in the Middle East and the struggle against US Imperialism and repressive governments.
