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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  • Venusta [any]
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    2 years ago
    CW hostile, I'm sorry

    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

    and it's back to sectarianism :rosa-salute: you will receive your social credit score and Xi bucks in the mail shortly

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      That is basically the ML (aes) justification that some people have where anti americanism and critical support can just replace critical thinking, where any state is anti imperialist if it does something that’s anti west even if it meets all of Lenin’s and others definitions of imperialism as long as it reduces US unipolarity and all the other details are mostly irrelevant.

      Strawmanning other tendencies with ridiculous caricatures is sectarian, I never hit first, but push me I'll push back :shrug-outta-hecks:

      • Venusta [any]
        ·
        2 years ago
        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

        • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Where are the people on Hexbear who say that Russia invading Ukraine is anti-Imperialist?

          • Venusta [any]
            ·
            2 years ago

            https://hexbear.net/post/214620/comment/2727601

            just type russia imperialist in the search box, although prior months are disabled

            • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
              ·
              2 years ago

              They said that Russia is part of the anti-imperialist bloc, not that Russia invading Ukraine is anti-imperialist.

              • Venusta [any]
                ·
                2 years ago

                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

                • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
                  ·
                  2 years ago

                  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.

                  • Venusta [any]
                    ·
                    2 years ago

                    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

                    • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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                      2 years ago

                      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.

                      • Venusta [any]
                        ·
                        2 years ago

                        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

                        • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
                          ·
                          2 years ago

                          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?

                          • Venusta [any]
                            ·
                            2 years ago

                            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

                            • Venusta [any]
                              ·
                              2 years ago

                              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

            • Venusta [any]
              ·
              2 years ago

              https://hexbear.net/post/211916/comment/2690139

              another one

              • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
                ·
                2 years ago

                Ambiguous. Russia is objectively countering coups. If the later sentence is meant to imply that therefore the invasion is anti-imperialist, that's stupid.

                • Venusta [any]
                  ·
                  2 years ago

                  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