I love posting these JFK quotes on Cuba:

I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country's policies during the Batista regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear.

— U.S. President John F. Kennedy, to Jean Daniel, October 24, 1963

Fulgencio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years ... and he turned Democratic Cuba into a complete police state—destroying every individual liberty. Yet our aid to his regime, and the ineptness of our policies, enabled Batista to invoke the name of the United States in support of his reign of terror. Administration spokesmen publicly praised Batista—hailed him as a staunch ally and a good friend—at a time when Batista was murdering thousands, destroying the last vestiges of freedom, and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the Cuban people, and we failed to press for free elections -JFK, October 6, 1960

Karl Marx congratulated Abraham Lincoln when Lincoln got reelected

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-Reagan aid and coconspiritor John Erlichman said "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

-During the Nixon administration, a Nixon appointed committee recommended a moratorium on prison construction.

-the modern border regime was created by Clinton

-adam smith and john Maynard Keynes opposed landlords

The phrase "open the economy up" drives me bananas. You cannot turn an economy off or on. There is something called a closed economy, but that's something else entirely and not what they mean.

Is the conflation of business and economy mostly a US thing?

You eat 8 spiders a year while sleeping

The New York Tribune, a Republican-aligned newspaper, employed Karl Marx as its European correspondent between 1852 and 1862

I thought Marx was a cool unemployed intellectual, and you're telling me he was actually a media ghoul?

I would just like to make the slight correction that markets are integral to the capitalist system as well as the contradictions within it and have always been understood as such. You are correct that capitalism!=markets however.

"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce." - Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith.

Also, Eric Blair/George Orwell might be a bigoted cop but "he's actually a socialist" is a good breadpill that might sets 1984 fans down the pipeline.

if they cared about any of these things at all they wouldnt be liberals tho

Willich was an absolute chad. His famous frontal charge up Missionary ridge is what broke the South.

He once challenged Marx to a duel because Marx was a lib and he was the one true leftist on the sub.

One of the only decent commanders of 1848, hung out with Engles for most of it looking cool.

Jenny Marx had this to say about him

"Willich has gone so far as to send red Becker 3 decrees for forwarding to the Cologne Landwehr in which he gives them orders from here to mutiny, to nominate a provisional government in every company and to overthrow all civil and military authorities and have them shot if need be. And the Cologne Landwehr, at that, who are now quite happily talking pot politics in the city of their fathers on the Rhine's cool strand. If Willich is not ripe for the lunatic asylum, then I don't know who is. Schapper has obtained a passport from Hamburg, to enable him to take over in person Haude's occupation of emissary. Good luck to the hippopotamus!

We have also heard from Dronke. Mrs Moses has again persuaded her husband that he is 'poss' of the 'gommunists'. But you'll soon be here and can hear and see for yourself everything that's been going on. The Caperonians set upon and beat up red Wolff one night, and our friend had Wengler taken into custody. The next morning, when he had been sentenced, Willich ransomed him for 20 shillings."

Malala is unfortunately involved with a conservative student union at oxford, she said some nice things about socialism in 2013 but unfortunately idk if she could be classified as one

people here like to shit on orwell but he gets props for fighting the fascists in spain at least

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btw russia/the ussr has also used depleted uranium munitions for a while. it's extremely dense and makes for better kinetic energy penetration

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