Here's my candidate for most cursed conversation in there (sidenote, biased)

Yayyyy certified hellworld moment, love those 🙃

Sounds like the 'LGB Alliance' brand of white supremacy. Many "allies" have no idea whether to listen to them or someone who is intersectional and actually in the community. Depressing

Anyone who isn’t unconditionally anti-NATO and anti-American hegemony is a white supremacist. No exceptions.

A statement that needs to be plastered EVERYWHERE in left spaces. This is our project for this decade, this generation - but god damn is it exhausting.

Consider your invitation to the central committee's annual Worker's Day mutual aid gala REVOKED

Buddy is like 5 years behind in terms of popular communist media and platforms. Yawn. Wake me up when he starts calling out creators on communist TikTok 🥱

Peterson is right; we're being INSTRUCTED not to notice this, and I only take INSTRUCTION from the oppressed Kermit himself.

"Noooooooooo this is different from the Iraq war!!! There's legitimate baddies this time!!! We're not them!!! Putler must go!"

Lets look at one of the actual top comments by Imperial-General: "Very clear that a lot of people who claim to have been "anti-imperialist" in opposing the Iraq War really were just un-American and have spent the last decades pining for a righteous foreign hegemony under a Good Non-Western Country."

Honestly can't believe I just read that lmao. The brainworms on these people...

Viewers beware, that thread is absolutely CURSED. Be suspicious of Vaush fans!

Chinese citizens are so poor they have to use hydrogen balloons to pick pine nuts themselves instead of going to Costco, grabbing a 50 lb bag and 12 gallons of Ranch and Cherry Coke, and puttering my way back to my suburban hellscape home.

China bad

/uj China sounds better every day

Tag yourself, I'm the blonde woman passing out pamphlets under a "DOWN WITH THE IMPERIALISTS" sign 😎

I think this past year or two has been one where all of the flavors of liberal are finally diverging from the left 'socialist' pipelines and showing themselves for what they always were. Depressingly, the circles remaining seem much smaller, but then again I'm sure anyone that went through the early 2000s would say we are much better positioned culturally than then. Pretty clear as soon as Biden got into office that the overarching policy guidelines would be that of silence and immediate quelling of any popular energy.

Gonna be interesting to see how long it takes for another wave our direction. The liberals are making fools of themselves in broad daylight increasingly every day that passes since COVID began, but the bill has not yet come due. Its been building and we've all been feeling it, only a matter of time.

Its funny the longer you're exposed to the reality of what happened during the 20th century, you realize the degree to which most cultures around the world simply could not understand the degree of cold, calculated, sociopathic supremacy the US would fall in line with, time after time. The US, and really the west in general, is and has been under a spell of supremacy culture based violence that's shaped the world for thousands of years. The US was the end result of all of this, "manifest destiny" and the great purge and ransack of the entire newly "discovered" continent was a shock of a scale humanity had not yet seen, and has not seen since. Hitler could only dream of emulating the project of north america. All the western "opponents" of the past hundred years have all made the fatal mistake of overestimating our humanity. The western project is not one of humanism, and never was.

Probably totally tangent from your point, but 🤷‍♀️

I like this take - I think Russia is in uncharted waters historically, it could go a number of different directions. Does a long history of socialist/communist education within a larger national/cultural identity withstand decades of post-fall ad-hoc capitalist stop-gap measures? Will another collapse lead the way Marxists would hope or would we see another autocracy?

I think its impossible for any western analysts to speculate with any degree of certainty, always need to remember our place in national/cultural self determination.

I mean Gorby is pretty universally disliked in Russia these days, its a fairly easy political boost at minimum, but also Putin certainly despises Gorby for dismantling the power of the former USSR and handing it over to the US to be sold off to the highest bidder.

I doubt Putin is in any way marxist in the way that we define things, but frankly I dont know enough background and cultural relevancy to have a solid opinion on Putin lol

There’s definitely a split among demsocs and the soft-left with the actual communists over Ukraine. The Trots are split on it too. Even the fucking Maoists are debating Taiwan. Just about the only group that isn’t split at all right now are MLs.

ML's on the correct side of history again, might I say 😎

Honestly I might have just assumed since all the lib/reactionary Pink Floyd fans latch onto David as a way to avoid Roger and his more obvious politics. It would be so nice to know the whole band is at the very least Corbyn and left of that.

Id agree, huge fan of them, but I'm pretty sure Gilmour is a reactionary but still. Huge statement from Roger, immediately made me like him quite a bit more. I always knew he was the most radical member, but I had suspected it would stop prior to defending existing socialist projects. Happy surprise 😎

Let the plant live their life geeeeeeeeeez

Let us turn to the language of the reviews author, and considering the above about accusations of "stalinism", I quote:

"Horne often combines unrelated statements and events, implying a connection where there is none, or suggesting that a particular statement means something different from what the speaker intended."

Now, where and how have I heard this dismissal used before... You mean to tell me that the written history we were taught before was a fabrication? You mean to say they were aware enough of public image and recorded history to obfuscate??

As I parse through the rest of the review, I can't speak to whether or not some of the falsehoods are or arent, but this review author IMO misrepresents Horne's argument quite a bit, and yet again, as is liberal tradition, we are pinning all the "importance" on what one or two people claim to have said rather than the actions and material changes taken.

Listen to this from the writer of the review and tell me this doesnt sound like a milquetoast neolib with absolutely no idea what an actual Marxist view of American history looks like: "The Marxist view—which dates back to Marx himself—has always held that the American Revolution was a bourgeois-democratic revolution rooted in the development of the middle class in conflict with the ancien régime of feudal property and political relations, nurtured by the ideology of the Enlightenment. Among American historians there has been intense debate over the significance and extent of social conflict among the colonists, and over the relative weight to place on ideological versus economic developments. Nonetheless, there has been universal agreement that the American Revolution gathered force around a series of conflicts over taxation, sovereignty and political representation."

I don't know about you all, but WHEN THE FUCK did any reputable historian actually conclude the American Revolution was ACTUALLY about "taxation" & "political representation" - and I ask for which class/race/group this language referred to? Could this writer not simply do the same thing for the American Civil War and saying it was about "states rights" (which was seen as dog whistle reasoning EVEN BACK THEN as knowledge of the poor image of slavery has been around for centuries).

This writer is quite literally writing in defense of traditional American history, and for this reason I can't take it seriously - plus calling Horne a "Stalinist" and spouting Trotskyist bullshit themselves... Yeah no.

I understand I am not responding to this review with solid refutations, but we all know how twistable reality and wording can be.

Well as long as it leads to the death of the US imperial settler colonial state 🤷‍♀️