"I understand that imperialism is how the US has succeeded and by god am I going to keep it that way."
If you read Lenin and you're still an imperialist... Well then, you must just be a real imperialist.
MBAs, finance people, and think-tank gurus who "get it" (i.e. don't have to jestermaxx on cable news to stir up the plebs) have a better understanding of Marx than most self-declared Marxists.
take it in small batches. Sometimes it's easier to just say, "i'll read 30 mins/1hr" or whatever and just do that every day (usually at a set time helps) and you can knock out quite a bit. Thing is too, sometimes theory gets hella interesting and you'll keep wanting to read. when things start clicking, i always want to keep reading a bit so that 30mins turns into two hours easily without realizing it.
some theory is daunting with how big it is if you don't read long things much, but just set small goals like a time or # of pages, good luck dude
Y'all act surprised, but you have to remember that the us imperialist machine is lead by highly intelligent people. There are many who simply don't understand socialism or capitalism or imperialism. But at the top, those are true believers- the most dangerous kind of people
Yep, and it's also why someone like a Kissinger is so revolting - it's US hegemony above all else. Here's an excerpt from a Politico piece a few years ago, detailing Kissinger's relativism:
For instance, Kissinger’s five year bombing of Cambodia (which, by credible estimates, killed 100,000 civilians), along with his “savage” (Kissinger’s word) bombing of North Vietnam, was motivated by the opposite of realism: to try to bring about a world Kissinger believed he ought to live in (one in which he could, by the force of military power, bend peasant-poor countries like Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam to his will) rather than reflect the real world they did live in: one in which, try as he might, he was unable to terrorize weaker nations into submission. “I refused to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point,” Kissinger once complained.
yea i mean the marines have literally published a book on mao and guerilla warfare, and it's not because they're maoists
For real, I see libs being like "Yeah, Army Man good", just like all those jerks who were going ACAB being like "But January 6th showed us we need the police!"
Wait, Gaetz hasn't been locked up? And he's still politically relevant? Fucking hell.
Matt was right that the only hope for revolution in the US is a military-led left wing coup a la the carnation revolution lmao. Top generals are better read in left theory than most of us/the people we follow on twitter
Yea my joke is more that the US left is small and weak (and incredibly online), not that the US military will actually save us from capital
Fair, just thought I should elaborate before anyone gets ideas about restarting the troop struggle sesh
I actually had to google the spelling of his name that way because of how he said it.
always has, for the officers that is. Like most of the serious combat branch offices don't just read nNapoleon's diary and Alexander the Great's history and call it a day, they chow down on history and theory across the timeline. An example of that is that the Generals in charge of planning the invasion of Iraq read up on the history of the country and military conflicts in the region and noted, much like the then-contemporary Iraqi military planned to defend against, that invasions from the southern border of the Iraqi region traditionally followed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as those were fresh-water rivers that provided the lifeblood to anyone that wanted to not die of dehydration in the region. So, knowing that historical context the U.S generals launched a rear strike to hammer the main Iraqi Army defence lines behind by crossing across the desert with air assault and airborne forces being deployed from across the hostile desert, and the main mechanized and armored U.S forces formed the anvil to pulverize the Iraqi army against.
Point is, the bonafied war beasts of the military are what they are because they singularly devote themselves to the craft of warfighting to the point they will study anything that could give them the most remote edge in a combat situation. That said, they're thankfully few and far between since genuine war freaks tend to be aberrations in contrast to the rest of the officer population. Funny enough they tend to be pushed aside by the political establishment because the military when you get high enough becomes a political institution and the majority of officers that thrive in that environment are closer to politicians that soldiers.
An example of that is that the Generals in charge of planning the invasion of Iraq read up on the history of the country and military conflicts in the region and noted, much like the then-contemporary Iraqi military planned to defend against, that invasions from the southern border of the Iraqi region traditionally followed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as those were fresh-water rivers that provided the lifeblood to anyone that wanted to not die of dehydration in the region. So, knowing that historical context the U.S generals launched a rear strike to hammer the main Iraqi Army defence lines behind by crossing across the desert with air assault and airborne forces being deployed from across the hostile desert, and the main mechanized and armored U.S forces formed the anvil to pulverize the Iraqi army against.
Is this shit really so complicated that they have to read theory to come up with it?
"Bomb the shit out of people in the desert. oh and uh flank 'em or something" simple, done
Yes. Try to organize something more complicated than an online reading group and you'll barely scratch the surface of the sheer amount of planning, training, logistics, and organizing it takes to move a military force.
Yes, if you're going to enter into a war of ideology then knowing the ideology of your enemy helps equip you with the knowledge of how your enemy thinks and lets you draw plans around their possible plans.
Additionally it helps in counter-intelligence to know how your enemy behaves and talks.
I remember that trueanon episode about the UK spy cops. The cops knew the most theory.
Meanwhile cops in the US complain that anarchist groups are too hard to infiltrate because anarchists are too well read lol
US pigs really are just notably stupid.
Meanwhile cops in the US complain that anarchist groups are too hard to infiltrate because anarchists are too well read lol
I'll get :bonk: for sectarianism if I make the
obviouscomeback to this statement.joke's aimed at the terminally online left, not comrades IRL lolAlso cops are def dum. that's why they became cops.
