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  • Well, my brother, besides, of course, negative reinforcement (backpedaling on some certain policies, as long as it doesn't wreck the overall anti-imperialist, if not socialist system), or crackdown (destroying western-funded media)

    Assuming you are a country of that type, you may have to create economic policy of material incentives to undermine the source and causes that indirectly can be redirected by foreign powers to color revolution

    For example, in the "China has billionaires" essay, regarding the Hong Kong protests:

    Hong Kong’s opposition has been tamed. Now, Beijing is turning to the city’s wealth gap and lack of affordable housing, which it blames for the social unrest. Up for consideration: Reforming the tax structure and increasing land supply. [17]

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Some vocab gives a whole new angle to Neo-feudalism

  • What is a roblox lift community?

    I know what roblox is, but are you talking about a game in the platform?

  • native informants

    We have a term for them: collaborators, when it comes to allying with western military, or compradors, when it comes to economic looting of their own country.

  • Amen... And I suppose if it ain't solved, "Pax" Amerikkkana will take advantage of it

  • How much of the Palestinian solidarity from them is equally thin and motivated by sectarianism rather than genuine humanitarian outrage? It’s deeply disappointing and reveals that we have all failed as supporters of Palestinian freedom to educate enough people as to why the cause matters.

    Divide and conquer. The Qatari comprador capitalist hegemone have their own interest. The Saudi-UAE-led Khaleej too. The Turks too. Which all align with the interests of the Western American-European clique, in regards to Syria.

    Using the cudgel of fighting for Syrian Democracy against Syrian Baathist 'authoritarianism', then later "Iranian influence" and Political Shia'ism, they reason and condition with their local populations that they have a stake to behold in such endeavors, and thus in funding them, sending in foreign fighters and guns, sanctioning them and so forth

    After all, the Shia and Baathist ideologies are often anti-western imperialism, socialist-oriented, and all revolutionary, threatening the spoils of empire for the following Sunni hegemones.

    As you can see, in 'The Assassination of Julius Caesar, A People's History of Rome, by Michael Parenti'

    But ideology is not merely a promotion of class interest. The function of ideology is precisely to cloak narrowly selfish interests, wedding them to a more lofty and capacious view of society. These might be summarized as follows:

    First and foremost, the oligarchic clique represents its own privileged special interests as tantamount to the general interest -

  • First off, majority are Sunni, and Sunnis were kinda disenfranchised in Baathist Syria, kinda like how Shias were in Baathist Iraq

    2nd, Al Jazeera is funded by Qatar, which itself has funded Syrian rebels

  • You can kill lots of em but the cause of which that makes them, keeps them spawning, like a video game

    Edit: downvoter, the f you want?

  • It's not coming back, and it's worse

    Arab socialist states are being wiped out (Iraq, Libya, Syria), this past 20 years

  • But during the USSR's existence? No.

  • Vietnam

    They had a chance? Weren't they aligned with USSR, especially during the Sino-Soviet split? They would've treated the damn nation like MPLA Angola, at best (fund any economic, military, and media measures of sabatoging, if not destroying any post-reconstruction efforts)

    And they've already done worse so, as we've seen before, post-first war of independence, up to the end of the Soviet Union (sanctions, direct intervention via troops et mass bombing, anti-govt propaganda)

  • Happy birthday!

  • I disagree. At one point, it's not that all people are being brainwashed, though educated and conditioned, but that now, especially in the Global North, it becomes a license for them to feel good about their social position, that is dependent on capitalism.

    They may see the system as the source of their wealth or current lifestyle, as a last resort of 'rationality'

  • If I had a coin for every time a seemingly-Marxist Leninist militant org turns into pro-imperial direction, in the wake of U.S backing, I'd have three, the Khmer Rouge, the Mojahedin e Khalq, et the Kurdistan Workers' Party

    What could've been... co-option is fuck

  • And his fate that he was executed by the Roman gov't and its Judean Pharisee collaborators, for challenging the latter, and to an extent, the former's rule

    Was he pro-imperial when he got killed for that, like the commenter said?

  • World News @lemmy.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6331587

    cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6331585

    A path to reconciliation with Tamils?

    memes @hexbear.net
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Israel Redefines Evil

    cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6196653

    That being said, Bashar Al Assad would prolly want me to go

    Memes @lemmygrad.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Israel Redefines Evil

    That being said, Bashar would prolly want me to go

    news @hexbear.net
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Chapo wins Mozambique presidential election

    🎶 All I wanna be is El Chapo 🎶

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Hot take: unless U.S's foreign "blowback" reaches home, I don't think any internal problems, such as an attempt on Trump, would really affect the U.S.A

    Unless something more material like a whole continent turning anti-imperialist, if not socialist, and deciding collectively to nationalize the fruit and veg produce, and thus disrupts U.S's produce imports -

    I don't think any internal problems in America would reach to a boiling point, as to end on a conclusive note

    So what if it's a big deal to you, huh, America is the most armed-country, and has a lot of guns, yet no civil war(s) has occurred recently... it's just reactionary settler business as usual

    Im America, nichts neues

    Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Thoughts on Cambodia 1975-1982 by Michael Vickery?

    Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to:

    prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups.

    Specifically, D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest...

    1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate...

    Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982...

    I reached this section over here:

    Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; an

    Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Is Hexbear sundowning?

    As an easter egg: if you recognize which user I am in hexbear, then ye know...

    Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    How do YOU apply dialectics to broader analysis of society?

    cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2858492

    I think I understand the simple model of base and superstructure (but that was Gramsci's model)

    The simple use of quantitative to qualitative change, and vice versa

    The simple fact that contradictions can exist in a society, manifesting in the form of problems, which are symptoms of its economic systems...

    I don't think its about thesis + anti-thesis -> synthesis.

    I think its about one economic class, like capitalist to feudal lord, dominating over one class, and absorbing its birthmark attributes, before surpassing its birthmarks overall...

    Or as if a capitalist upon its created proletariat, not only ruling over them, but co-opting or destroying any of its measures

    To me, its about who the ruling most HEGEMONIC class is, and how it operates...

    Other than that, I don't know how else to apply it, let alone know if its somewhat broadly accurate....

    Correct me if I'm wrong, if not elabor

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Why does English dubbed media sound like the way they do?

    Most of the time, it's not the voice-acting quality that's bad...

    It's just a bit of an awkward uncanny valley hearing it...

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml

    Here's a potential litmus test for Lemmy users (repost)

    Ask them if they've read about Dessalines, and ask their thoughts on them?

    Whether it be the Github user who founded Lemmy, with his Anti-American and Marxist Leninist essays,

    or

    the Haitian general who fought against the French in the Haitian Revolution, and thus had a hand in wiping out many remnants of the white slave-owners... to create the first abolitionist country.

    Just ask what they know and what they think of him?

    Originally from https://hexbear.net/post/611602

    Edit: just a little one...