In honour of Argentinian independence day, could someone recommend books about Argentinian independence, Spanish and Argentinian settler colonialism and history of native peoples? I don't know much about Argentinian independence except for a few things to do with Juana Azurduy and San MartĂn and I'd like to know more, especially because Canada Day and the 4th of July are also in July, and they're also settler colonial projects and I would like to know more about native oppression, Colonialism, etc in Argentina
In my view ĆœiĆŸek is a useless distraction from actual Marxism who exists and is propped up for college students to explore until they 'grow out of their Marxist phase', there's barely anything that differentiates his politics from that of your average Red Scare Pod listener in 2020; a comparison I make because he actually went on that podcast himself in 2020.
"The genocide of women (witch hunts) happened to fund the genocide of Native Americans, which happened to begin the genocide of Africans. Genocide isn't an unfortunate thing that just happens, it is what capitalism is fundamentally based on. "
yeah and Marx used the "nigger" slur, the USSR has done mass genocide of ethnic groups, Russia is still doing this now, and every white socialist nation has healthcare while the black and brown communists in the global south suffer.
So communism is based on colonialism and genocide as well.
What if both european political theories are wrong? Shocking to consider for a white woman in poland I know
1. Using a word isn't comparable to genocide, if that's what you're talking about
2. The USSR didn't have mass genocide, coming from someone who supposedly comes from a nation that was 'genocided' by the USSR
3. Russia isn't doing this now, even if it were it's a nothing point because Russia is a capitalist country
4, there aren't any white socialist nations in the world, they're all 'black and brown'. China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba and the DPRK, which all have free healthcare and have a majority population that is 'black and brown' so I don't see what point you're trying to make. If you're talking about communists in non communist countries suffering, maybe that's what they're fighting against?
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I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.
Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
Iâd like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldnât have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how âgreatâ they were.
Hereâs another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didnât get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a âCancel Canada Dayâ event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my countryâs legacy - and itâs not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my countryâs attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for godâs sake.
here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was
Zionism, it has been widely established, has deep roots in Ukraine. Jews were a significant element in the settler colony of Odessa, which
"Ukraine, especially Odessa, was a key locus of the rise of the Zionist movement in the twentieth century. Ukraine âwas arguably the most important cradle for early Zionistsâ according to My Jewish Learning.
First, it produced a very large number of important Zionists. Among the small handful of men who, in the early 1880s, founded the Hibbat Zion (Love of Zion) movement to settle Jews in the land of Israel â the precursor to the Zionist movement Theodor Herzl founded at the end of the century â there were two Ukrainian Jews. A little later Ber Borochov, who was born in a small Ukrainian town and died in Kiev, would create the synthesis of Marxism and Zionism that became the ideology of Israelâs Labor party. Vladimir Jabotinsky, who played a parallel role for the Likud party, was born and raised in Odessa. Ahad Haâam, considered the founder of âcultural Zionism,â was born and lived most of his life in Ukraine. Three of Israelâs early prime ministers were born in Ukraine, as were two of its presidents.
Zionism and Ukrainian Nationalism in history
The apparent elective affinity between Zionism and Ukrainian nationalism is seen in the relationship between Jabotinsky and Symon Petliura, the leader of the Ukrainian National Army (UNA).
Petliura was a proto-fascist and his UNA was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Jewish civilians in 1919.
Petliura was famously assassinated by Sholem Schwarzbard in 1926 while walking on the Rue Racine in Paris. Schwarzbard had lost family in the pogroms and is usually described as an "anarchist" or "communist."
"I have killed a great assassinâ, he is reported to have said after being apprehended by the police. He was eventually acquitted of the murder.
in 1921, Jabotinsky had âsigned an agreementâ with Petliura to supply Jewish soldiers to his army. This was, according to Haaretz,  a âcomplicated and embarrassing episode â for the Zionist movement.
A famous Soviet cartoon at the time depicted Jabotinsky weeping at Petliuraâs grave.
Zionism and Ukrainian nationalism today
Zionist ambivalence about Ukrainian nationalism continues to this day. [...]
On the other hand, leading Zionists in Ukraine such as the oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky funded Zelenskyâs TV career and his election campaign and the extremist orthodox Jewish Chabad movement.
After the 2014 US-backed coup, he created his own far-right militias when he was given the job of governor of Dnipro Oblast. He provided funds to the Nazi Aidar and Azov battalions too.Â
In April 2014, Kolomoiky posed âproudly wearingâ a T-shirt combining, as Haaretz reported, âthe Jewish emblem of the menorah along with the Ukrainian ultranationalist symbol of a trident, all in red and black. Beneath it said âZhidobanderaâ â Zhido in Russian and Ukrainian is a pejorative word similar to âYidâ in English.
Itâs no surprise, therefore, that some Ukrainian Jews joined the Ukrainian military including members of the extremist Chabad sect, others signed up for Nazi battalions and up to 40 fought with it in Mariupol in 2022, according to the Ukrainian presidentâs advisor David Arakhamia.Â
In December 2022, one of the Azov leaders, Illia Samoilenko, was welcomed as a guest of the Israeli regime." [...]
The genocide of women (witch hunts) happened to fund the genocide of Native Americans, which happened to begin the genocide of Africans. Genocide isn't an unfortunate thing that just happens, it is what capitalism is fundamentally based on.
i wanna list a bunch of yt channels discussing newest geopolitical events on regular:
breakthrough news
the cradle
geopolitical economy report
dialogue works
glenn diesen
duran
alexander mercouris
danny haiphong
rachel blevins
neutrality studies
carl zha
world affairs in context
radhika desai
they all differentiate in ideological positionings but one thing they have in common is critical stance on usa hegemony. hope it will be useful for someone!
Telling a trans person that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem or that gender dysphoria will pass is so dumb, it's not like I'm gonna wake up in the right body in the morning. If anything it's a permanent solution to a permanent problem to trans people, which is why you can't just tell us to be happy or just forget about being trans. Do you hear yourself?? Just forget??? Think about other things?? God why didn't I think of that, maybe if I try it again it'll work this time and I won't be trans anymore. Maybe if I was allowed to actually be who I want I wouldn't be so fucking sad and suicidal all the time, I'd rather be able to go on hrt and be who I want, than be told to strangle who I actually am and eventually 'forget' that I'm trans.
Its double annoying when you come out to someone 5 years ago and then have to remind them that actually you're not a cis boy. 'i thought you forgot ' maybe think about how you told me to wait before I 'decided I was trans'. Maybe I was dumb enough to listen to you. Of course if you tell me to wait to be happy in my own body I'm gonna suppress and hate myself for feeling things and not telling you about them. You told me not to talk about it so I didn't, it's not like I forgot it's that you basically told me not to talk to you about it. Now you're telling me I'm still 'too young to be trans'??? I came out to you when I was fucking 12 I'm not gonna wait more than how long I'd lived to that point to transition. I'm not gonna wait 13 years as a 12 year old to finally be able to look in the mirror and not have to worry about the future or not have to be almost sick at what I see. I'm obviously not gonna wait 8 years as a 17 year old am I. I've waited 5 fucking years at least have the decency to let me do what I want with my body. Through the waiting I've cried myself to sleep because I wasn't a girl, I've wished I woke up a girl and daydreamed about wearing what I actually want to. I looked up makeup guides and leg shaving guides knowing full well that I wouldn't be able to do them until I was 'old enough '
At least you let me wear makeup and some clothes (not skirts or tights or shorts or whatever but something is better than nothing) at least don't be shocked when I say I want to go on hrt so I don't think about killing myself as often.
And don't tell me 'not to give in to peer pressure' as if you telling me hrt is bad for me and I should wait 8 fucking years to be comfortable in myself, and you telling me I shouldn't transition and that I should be worried for my safety and what other people think of me. That's peer pressure. Not me wearing a skirt, not me being on hrt. You telling me to act a certain way IS peer pressure, just because you're related to me doesn't make it alright. Peer pressure is you telling me what to be, instead of me choosing.
What do we think of social democracy (kinda) in the global south? Qaddafi, PerĂłn, Nasser etc. What should be the Marxist stance on critical support and stuff ?
I feel like those are sufficiently different kinds of guys that you can't make a blanket judgements on them under the umbrella "social democrats".
Qaddafi: very bad man in hindsight.
Peron and Nasser did okay developmentalism and the latter was an actual anti-Imperialist who did actual, literal war against the British and French Empires and Israel, so that's good. But ultimately those are the leaders of capitalist states who did repress workers so.
Just you know, the standard stuff, being a dictator, banning political organizations, being corrupt, firing on protesters. That's what liberals and democrats are criticizing him for too but it's not *wrong*. He also wanted to abolish primary schools for some reason?
Plus toward the end he was liberalizing the economy and trying to cozy up to the west so he doesn't even really get that anti-imperialist cred.
Problems with guys like Qaddafi is they hang out to long, way past the point where the bad has caught up to the good.
Calling him a dictator is a bit of a nothing term, considering under his leadership democratic institutions were formed that could veto policies proposed by the government, and he was 'cozying up to the west' in a similar way China did, or Yugoslavia, afaik at least. He wanted to abolish preschool because he said women should be able to spend more time with children, but the people's congresses (not the name I just forgot the actual name) didn't want this and so blocked the law from passing, which isn't something a dictator would do
