Marxy Poppinisms

When trying to express oneself, it's frankly quite absurd, To leaf through lengthy lexicons to find the perfect word. A little spontaneity keeps conversation keen, You need to find a way to say, precisely what you mean...

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“Gun-toting conservative media darling Kyle Rittenhouse has taken to Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo to announce that he’s broke. In a tweet Wednesday, Rittenhouse, 20, said the “legal bills are piling up” as he battles a wrongful death lawsuit in the killing of Anthony Huber—one of three people he shot during protests in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in August 2020.”

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Kyle Rittenhouse Begs for Donations as ‘Legal Bills Are Piling Up’

Eat all the shit and choke on it, Kyle. You’re a murdering little fascist fuckstain and I hope you spend the rest of your life enjoying the consequences of your actions.

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I like that my favorite Star Trek people are still my favorite Star Trek people... for reasons

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It is now becoming generally accepted that demonstrations, marches, spectacles and shows don’t lead anywhere. Waving banners, putting up posters, handing out leaflets, attacking the police are all activities which perpetuate a certain ritual - a ritual wherein the police are always cast in the role of invincible subjugators. The methods of struggle therefore must be put through a thorough analysis because they present an obstacle to the creation of new modes of action. And for this to be effective, there has to be a refusal of the old terrain of struggle - both in the workplace and in the streets. As long as revolutionary struggle is conducted not on its own ground but on the terrain of capital, there can be no significant breakthrough, no qualitative revolutionary leap. This is where we must concentrate our attention; it is a question which has to be faced now if revolution is not to stagnate and destroy itself, a setback which could take years to recover from. If we are to successfully abandon the old centres of struggle, it will require a simultaneous movement towards the creation of new modes of life. What’s the point of occupying the factories - like car factories for example - where production must be stopped anyway? The cry goes up: “Occupy the factories and manage them ourselves !” So all the prisoners of the system are supposed to take over their prisons and begin the self-management of their own imprisonment. A new social form is not founded on the old, and only rarely in the past do we find civilizations superimposed on one another. The bourgeoisie triumphed because it staged the battle on its own terrain, which is the cities. But in our present situation this can only be helpful to the emergence of communism which is neither a new society nor a new mode of production. Today humanity can launch its battle against capital not in the city, nor in the countryside, but outside of both: hence the necessity for communist forms to appear which will be truly antagonistic to capital, and also rallying points for the forces of revolution. Since the advent of May ‘68, capital has been obliged to take account of the fact that revolution had presented itself again as a vital imperative, a necessity. In response, the counter-revolution was compelled to adapt and remodel itself (remembering that it has no existence except in relation to revolution). But however much it tries by its usual methods to limit the development of its adversary, it can never totally succeed, because revolution will always present itself as real, and therefore as irrational. This irrationality is its fundamental characteristic. Whatever is rational in relation to the established order can be absorbed and recuperated. If revolution operates on the same terrain as its adversary, it can always be halted. It cannot rise up; it is thwarted in its most passionate desire, which is to realize its own project and to accomplish it on its own ground.

Against Domestication (via theyfab)

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‘Paul Robeson - Anti-Fascist, Anti-Imperialist, Cultural Worker’, Historical Research Club / Alive Production Collective, Guelph, Ontario, [late 1970s].

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https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/824309899890831362

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Ready for Revolution: George Jackson and the Attica Uprising

Black Lives Matter Portland and All African People’s Revolutionary Party - Oregon present a political education event for the September 9th National Prisoner Strike. Join us to discuss the life and work of revolutionary Black Panther George Jackson, the Attica Prison Uprising of September 9, 1971 and the conditions that led to it, and the history and present state of the prison resistance movement. We’ll also talk about how you can get involved with Portland’s organizing in support of the National Prisoner Strike. This event is FREE and open to all.

Join us from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Wednesday, August 31st at In Other Words Books - 14 NE Killingsworth St. Portland, Oregon.

This event is organized in in solidarity with PDX March to End Prison Slavery: September 9th and National Prison Strike September 2016 About George Jackson George Jackson was 18 years old when he was sentenced to a year in prison for stealing $70 from a gas station. Shortly after the start of his prison term, Jackson met and began to organize with African political prisoners. Together, they helped form a revolutionary organization, the Black Guerrilla Family, and Jackson would go on to join the Black Panther Party. 

His punishment for daring to struggle for African liberation was the indefinite extension of his prison term without trial. George Jackson would spend 10 more years in prison on a 1 year sentence, 7 of them in solitary confinement. While held captive for a decade, Jackson dedicated himself to the liberation of African people and all colonized peoples, organizing tirelessly to build the consciousness and power of prisoners across the country. 

At age 29, George Jackson was executed by a prison guard in San Quentin State Prison - shot in the back while standing in the yard. Two days after his murder, one thousand prisoners rose up in rebellion and seized control of one of the nation’s most brutal and inhumane prison facilities - Attica prison. Their demand was to be treated as human beings. About the National Prisoner Strike On September 9th, 1971 prisoners took over and shut down Attica, New York State’s most notoriously cruel prison. On September 9th of 2016, prisoners in the US who have been forced into slavery by corrupt politicians and greedy corporations will begin a strike to shut down prisons and detention centers across the country. Prisoners will not only demand an end to prison slavery, they will end it themselves by ceasing to be slaves. This is a call to action to end slavery in America. Learn more: bit.ly/September9thSolidarity

Join us in the streets on September 9th: https://www.facebook.com/events/141545629620383/

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The Lie of Black Capitalism

#BlackLivesMatter needs a class analysis alongside it’s race analysis. Nothing has driven this home more to me than being in Ghana and seeing African owned shops, African owned banks, African owned corporations, African judges, African police, and an African president and yet the masses of people there are still poor, still struggling, and still exploited and oppressed. It’s extremely common in Accra to see huge, huge houses with humming generators behind six foot high walls topped with broken glass and barbed wire, houses owned by wealthy Africans. Next to this ostentatious wealth you’ll see rows upon rows of reclaimed shipping containers turned into homes, or concrete huts with sheet metal roofs, often without running water or consistent electricity, housing families of four, five, or more poor Africans. What does this obvious inequality tell you?

If the solution to African oppression in the US is just more and better integration, more representation in the justice system, in business, and in government, why is the situation in Ghana what it is? Or alternatively, if the solution is separate Black owned and led institutions, created for us and by us, then WTF Ghana?

Black business will not save us, y’all. Black capitalism will not save us. A Black president damn sure didn’t save us. Neither did having Black congress people, Black cops, or Black judges, no matter how many of them we find and raise up. Black nationalism isn’t going to save us either, unless the ideology is tied to an understanding of class, capitalism, and colonization.

There’s no such thing as true equality under capitalism. There’s no such thing as capitalism without exploitation. Capitalism can not function without structural oppression. White supremacy and anti-black and anti-indigenous racism were all created with the express purpose of creating a justification for capitalist exploitation. Why? Because Africans and Indigenous folks had the land and the resources, and capitalists needed both to build their empires. They justified  theft and genocide by dehumanizing us and it’s STILL happening. We will never be free under capitalism.

If the structure of a system is broken, it’s gonna stay broken no matter how many Black faces you plug into it. And it’s important to understand that there are African (Black) bourgeois just as surely as there are European (white) ones - ask poor Africans - and they have a vested interest in the survival of capitalism and the continued oppression of all of the rest us. The more they steal from us, the less power we have to stop them, the more wealth they have. It’s as simple as that.

Building the power of the African masses both on the continent and in the diaspora is the only thing that’s going to save us. Dismantling capitalism and pushing for socialism in the US and on the African continent - an economic system where every single person is truly considered equal, where the masses of people own their labor, resources, and means of production, and where no land or nation can be exploited for the benefit of a callous few - is what’s going to get us free.

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“Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches. This it was which created the earliest capitalist. For, before the surplus value, about which people are so fond of talking, could begin to be accumulated it was necessary that there should be poverty-stricken wretches who would consent to sell their labor force rather than die of hunger. It is poverty that has made the rich. And if poverty had advanced by such rapid strides by the end of the Middle Ages, it was chiefly because the invasions and wars, the creation of States and the development of their authority, the wealth gained by exploitation in the East and many other causes of a like nature, broke the bonds which once united agrarian and urban communities, and led them, in place of the solidarity which they once practiced, to adopt the principle of the wage-system. Is this principle to be the outcome of the Revolution? Dare we dignify by the name of a Social Revolution that name so dear to the hungry, the suffering and the oppressed - the triumph of such a principle as this?

It cannot be so. For, on the day when ancient institutions splinter into fragments before the axe of the proletariat, voices will be heard shouting: Bread for all! Lodging for all! Right for all to the comforts of life!”

— Peter Kropotkin | The Wage System (1888)

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At Midnight, August 19, 2015

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FINALLY SOMEONE WHO IS ABLE TO SPEAK HOW I FEEL.

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God bless Chris Hardwick.

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god bless the king

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MY KING RIGHT HERE. THIS IS MY KING AND I WILL VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN.

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Political Dissidents: Raif Badawi

    Saudi Arabian activist journalist, blogger, and founder of Free Saudi Liberals has broken his silence in his first letter from prison. In his letter, he describes how he “miraculously survived 50 lashes” whilst surrounded by a crowd cheering “Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest).” 

   In 2014, the husband and father-of-three was sentenced to ten years in prison, 1,000 lashes, a ten-year travel ban, and over $250,000 in fines. After the first Friday of lashings, his sentence has been postponed for medical reasons. Doctors charged with his care said he simply would not survive more lashings. Raif Badawi’s original crime was “insulting Islam,” a charge based on his writings. He promoted secularism in government, and advocates free speech. He now faces the charge of apostasy, for which the penalty is death by beheading, because it was discovered that he liked a Facebook page for Christians in Saudi Arabia.

   Saudi Arabia’s government upholds the strictest form of Sharia Law. The British Humanist Association recently urged the UN to end support of blasphemy laws because they are the ‘embodiment’ of hypocrisy. Saudi Arabia’s enforcement of the death penalty for the supposed crime of apostasy is one such law, and should the UN get involved, this could mean the end of Saudi Arabian relations with many powerful countries. Sweden, Germany, and Great Britain have already voiced their disdain over the plight of Raif Badawi. Sweden ended a decade-long arms deal, and Saudi Arabia retaliated by refusing work visas to Swedish nationals. Saudi Arabia remains one of the United States’ largest trade partners, with revenue amounting to over $80 billion in 2014. The US has its largest arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Free speech is a right that Americans hold near and dear, so the question becomes “What is more valuable to the US: Values or dollar value?”

   Raif Badawi’s blog posts, which were previously taken down, are due to be published on April 1st in Germany, in a book entitled “1,000 Lashes: Why I Say What I Think.” The German government has expressed concern that publication of this book could endanger his life, and his wife is very fearful of this outcome.

   Amnesty International has numerous petitions circulating the internet in the hopes of reaching government officials on behalf of Raif Badawi. It is unlikely that he will ever be safe, with Saudi Arabia releasing a statement saying they are “surprised and dismayed” that the rest of the world feels there is a human rights violation in the case of Raif Badawi. Until Saudi Arabia’s ally and major economic contributor, the US, stands in solidarity with Raif Badawi, this will not change. Journalists, activists, and free-thinkers will continue to be extinguished for promoting dangerously progressive ideas. It is time for rationality to take precedence in our societies as a whole.

Below are five ways you can help Raif Badawi:

Credit goes to Amnesty International for this.

It would be great if you could include #FreeRaif and @AmnestyOnline on any tweets you send.

1. Tweet Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia is very sensitive about its public image and international standing. If we target officials publicly, they could be forced to respond and publicly shamed into stopping the flogging. Here are a few Twitter accounts to try:

Ministry of Justice: @MojKsa National Society for Human Rights: @NSHRSA Ministry of Foreign Affairs: @KSAMOFA Crown Prince and Minister of defence, Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud: @HRHPSalman

2. Get your government to pressure Saudi Arabia Your government should be doing all it can to make Saudi Arabia do the right thing. Tweet your government’s official accounts (for example, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or your country’s embassy in Saudi Arabia) and ask them to push Saudi Arabia to stop the flogging and release Raif now. Here are the Twitter accounts for some country embassies in Saudi Arabia:

UK: @UKinSaudiArabia Netherlands: @NLinSaudiArabia Sweden: @SwedeninKSA USA: @USEmbassyRiyadh Germany: @GermanyinKSA EU: @EUintheGCC

3. Contact the Saudi Arabian embassy in your country Search online for the phone or fax details of the Saudi Arabia embassy in your country, and call them up to demand that Raif is not flogged again and that they release him immediately. We know this can be a particularly effective (and annoying) form of campaigning. You could also Tweet them, though the only Saudi Arabian embassies known to have Twitter accounts are the USA @SaudiEmbassyUSA and UK @SaudiEmbassyUK.

If you’re not on Twitter, you can find the contact details of the Saudi Arabia embassy in your country here.

4. Demonstrate outside the Saudi Arabian embassy Across the globe, campaigners have started to organize protests outside Saudi Arabia embassies. Contact your local Amnesty International office to see if something is already planned, or get some friends together to organize your own demonstration.

5. Tweet your support to Raif and his family Please send your messages of solidarity to Raif’s family, so they know we are standing with them and pressing Saudi Arabia to release him. Tweet to @raif_badawi (Raif’s official Twitter account) and @miss9afi (Raif’s wife, Ensaf Haidar, who lives in Canada with their three children).

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Contribution from a comrade at The No-Bullshit Institute

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The World is a business (Network, 1976) 

There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-varied, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rands, rubles, pounds and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic and galactic structure of things today. Am I getting through to you, Mr Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their Councils of State? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, mini-max solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bye-laws of of business. The world is a business, Mr Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr Beale, to see that … perfect … world in which there is no war nor famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit. In which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided. All anxieties tranquilized. All boredom amused.

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Better late than never

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