Castile soap is an olive oil based hard soap made in a style similar to that originating in the Castile region of Spain. The origins of Castile soap go back to the Levant, where Aleppo soap-makers have made hard soaps based on olive and laurel oil for millennia. Early soap-makers in the Mediterranean area did not have easy access to laurel oil and therefore dropped it from their formulations, thereby creating an olive-oil soap now known as Castile soap.
In the 17th century, the soap caused controversy in England, since it supplanted the unnamed local soap after the Spanish Catholic manufacturers purchased the monopoly on the soap from the cash-strapped Carolinian government. Its ties to Catholicism caused a public-relations campaign to be established, featuring washerwomen showing how much more effective local soaps were than Castile soap. The sale of a monopoly in Protestant England to a Catholic company caused a great uproar, ending with the Castile soap company eventually being stripped of the monopoly.
Nabulsi soap is a type of castile soap produced only in Nablus in the West Bank, Palestine. Its chief ingredients are virgin olive oil (the main agricultural product of the region), water, and an alkaline sodium compound. The finished product is ivory-colored and has almost no scent. Traditionally made by women for household use, it had become a significant industry for Nablus by the 14th century. In 1907 the city's 30 Nabulsi soap factories were supplying half the soap in Palestine. Project Hope and other local non-governmental organizations market the soap in the West to raise funds for their other community projects.
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I don't fuckin care, all I need from him is more anti-nato, anti-US and anti-biden rhetoric, the western "left" is drowning in the opposite, so don't look a gift horse in the mouth and demand ideological consistency from a goddamn artist of all things, in kinda hilarious when it's the mls being less dogmatic than whatever ultra tendency you happen to be
This is so fuckin dumb, you do realize Yemenis and Palestinians are being genocided under the current uni-polar world, so positing some ahistorical hypothetical about future genocide is pretty disingenuous, yeah I'd like to see how Israel and Saudi Arabia fair without US arms, funding, intelligence and the dominance of the petrodollar, ask any Yemenis and Palestinian which world they would rather fight their struggle in.
Russia can invade Ukraine, but do you think it can pull off an Iraq War? A total sanction of Iran or Cuba? A Libya? A drone war in Pakistan? A shadow war in the Sahel? Hundreds of billions in arms and funds divvied out to 15 dictators year after year? All of that simultaneously?
See this right here is where the ultras utterly lose the plot, historically communist and socialist struggles have always advanced under the rubric of the multipolar world, the opposite is a uni-polar world which always implies a hegemonic superpower, which is NOT a communist goal, ideally, practically, or socially, we want multiple experiments out there, regional blocs breaking up the supply chains that feed global capital, the creation of independent networks able to advance the project thru understanding ** local conditions** not blindly following the lead of some western theorists halfway around the world
Ok well that leads all the way back to the original point, it's kinda hard to "FOCUS" on the "working class of the world" when we're dealing with the reality of US global hegemony every second of the day, US imperialism isn't some specter mls made up to distract them from the "The Great Socialist Revolution" it's a concrete global phenomenon that will fuck your shit up if not dealt with, there's no opt out option here
The US is the underwriter, the guarantor, the Sheriff and the mob boss of global capital, ultras constantly trip head first into idealism tryin to ignore this reality, as if this were 1929, and we're just dealin with a gaggle of decaying empires and then those darn new fangled Soviets who don't want to the push the communism button, those bloody revisionists....fuckin nonsense, live in the real world or don't
CW Hostile. I'm sorry
"I waste my time reading bad takes on reddit and twitter and I'm gonna base my ideology in opposition to them"
Imagine existing in this day and believing propaganda doesn't matter, the only thing Waters has going for him is he's famous, that's all I want or need from him
Also reddit/twitter is a better place to get takes then Twitch, just sayin
CW Hostile. I'm sorry
the "tankie" proletariet is for sure mostly on twitter and reddit lol
Marxism-Leninism is the dominant political and social movement everywhere in the globe not dominated by parasitic imperialists.
CW Hostile. I'm sorry, Also this was not a good faith comment iirc
It is the default ideology and I am right bc I am the default, you simply don't understand
Your assertion is stupid bullshit from a Westoid.
do you currently live in the west ?
Yeah it's how I recognize bugs like you
CW Hostile, but not sorry, that was rude
oh boy keep on going, bugs seems a little tame
CW hostile, I'm sorry
and it's back to sectarianism :rosa-salute: you will receive your social credit score and Xi bucks in the mail shortly
Strawmanning other tendencies with ridiculous caricatures is sectarian, I never hit first, but push me I'll push back :shrug-outta-hecks:
CW Hostile. I'm sorry
When you say Russia invading a country is somehow antiimperialist that is is the face of the most popular and regarded definitions of imperialism, and, that is a common take, I don't think that would be disputed. A better word for it would be anti west, but anti imperialism makes you sound smarter and less campist
Where are the people on Hexbear who say that Russia invading Ukraine is anti-Imperialist?
https://hexbear.net/post/214620/comment/2727601
just type russia imperialist in the search box, although prior months are disabled
They said that Russia is part of the anti-imperialist bloc, not that Russia invading Ukraine is anti-imperialist.
if you are part of an "anti-imperialist bloc", an invasion you do is by that logic anti imperialist, you literally cannot perform imperialism if your state is inherently somehow anti imperialist in nature
You're working backwards from your belief that all the icky Marxist-Leninists are campists who believe that enemies of the US can do no wrong.
I don't think that at all, most are not like that and pleasant, mostly just the ones that rant about western chauvinist radlibs and ultras
Haven't come across a lot of MLs who don't hate all these people. Hard to understand why they wouldn't.
western chauvinist radlibs are all just word soup insults that don't mean anything other than you are mad
and ultras is literally the same insult as tankies but just for tankies lol
You've conceded that Americans would commit genocide for McDonalds, yet you don't think that there's chauvinism reflective of that among Americans who call themselves Leftists? Where have these people undergone re-education? How did they unlearn all the propaganda from the Fourth Reich in which they reside?
Not as much as people like to imply there is, maybe redditors and people on twitter, but the way it's used here is just to disagree, also 90% of the people who say it are from the west (specifically Ohio) and it's asinine to add that in as if having "the based views" makes you # not like the other westerners
it is almost just copied from content creators like bayarea and it sounds like a very epic own you can throw out to instantly just win arguments, you know people haven't read a lot of theory when they speak a sentence that's 90% buzzwords / word soup copied from the sidebar of the reddits
https://hexbear.net/post/211916/comment/2690139
another one
Ambiguous. Russia is objectively countering coups. If the later sentence is meant to imply that therefore the invasion is anti-imperialist, that's stupid.
that posters really likes the guy who just posted Z a lot, and wants him unbanned, so I don't think his analysis runs too deep
CW Hostile. I'm sorry
why does China trade with Israel and Saudi Arabia rn ? Why would that magically stop if they gained more hegemony ? sounds like you're the one being ahistorical
Chinese trade with Israel is microscopic and China engages in it because Israel is a major tech and pharma hub thru which American IP tech could be acquired semi-legally
China has a $24 billion trade deficit with Saudi Arabia out of a 16 trillion dollar economy, also it's a major energy nexus, you know energy, that thing you need for rapid industrialization
Either way your point is mute, those countries exist by the grace of the US, should China become a "hegemon" (which is not something China actually wants), the concept of Chinese trade with those countries is transformed overnight
google search
well that was a fucking lie
I'm only commenting cause I don't want others to be misled by you, you're a troll, and you revealed your colors in another thread
So I'll point out the obvious, 10 billion in trade is microscopic
CW Hostile.
lmao I'm a troll, :cursed: okok
CW Hostile. I'm sorry. Also you didn't help the situation by putting ultras into your response like 5 times.
You don't really care about this conversation other than justifying your own insecure and shallow beliefs, you wouldn't have turned to writing "ultras" like 5 times in your response
I literally answered in good faith but ok get butthurt because you don't anything about global macro-economics
Also stop obsessing over stupid internet posting labels, yes internet ultras are universally dumb and idealistic, your conception of "sectarianism" doesn't exist in the real world
CW Hostile. I'm sorry
lmao
CW hostile. I'm sorry
I'm gonna do this once to see how it feels, bc the arguments here are so fn bad / bad faith , .... tankie