[perfectlyfreewasteland]

my message 2 the world

[cinturongazo]

[natoapologistblocker]

Keep in mind that much of what we "know" about history, economies, and the outcomes or causes of particular events is shaped by a very specific intellectual environment operating within particular parameters of funding, grants, and institutional interests. The European Union, for example, is often willing to invest substantial sums in academic research on topics such as the "threat of authoritarian regimes to scientific knowledge" or the "effects of totalitarianism on girls' education," and similar themes. This scholarship can go largely uncontested for a very long time, and so much of it is produced simultaneously that it becomes costly to refute, let alone challenge in any meaningful or systemic manner.

On top of that, much of this work is qualitative research, meaning the author's subjectivity inevitably plays a role in the analysis. In many cases, the theoretical frameworks being used can predispose researchers toward particular conclusions. The result is that some studies end up functioning as legitimacy stamps for liberal policy preferences, cloaked in the veneer of academic rigour when, at times, they amount to little more than a mass-produced intellectual echo chamber.

[read-marx-and-lenin]

So is there info on why North Korea is so secretive cause all it seems to do is make it easier for the imperial core to make up bullshit propaganda against the DPRK

Apart from during the pandemic, the DPRK has never shut down travel completely, and it has always been possible to send and receive letters, phone calls, emails, etc. from people within the DPRK. There are newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, and websites from the DPRK that can give you plenty of information about life in the country. It is travel and communication to and from the US and the ROK that has suffered the most restrictions. Likewise, travel and communication to and from Russia, China, and Mongolia is fairly easy these days. So "secretive" is a matter of perspective.

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A. B. Abrams - Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order : A. B. Abrams : Free Download, Borrow, and Strea

Atrocity fabrication - the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary without knowledge that they ever occurred - has a

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Read Patriots, Traitors and Empires(Stephen Gowans, 2018) on ProleWiki

The Koreans have as little use for an American Korea as they had for a Japanese one. They want a Korean Korea.

[intactics-deactivated20250505]

the well ok of it all

[degeneratedworker]

"Cuba yes, yankees no!" Cuba c. 1980s

[sternenrot]

bedazzled gdr flag on my co-workers desk oh that's so sexy

[sternenrot]

Our massacres are only interrupted by commercial breaks. Judges legalize them. Correspondents kill us with passive voice. If we are lucky, diplomats say that our deaths concern them, but they never mention the culprit, let alone condemn the culprit. Politicians, inert, inept, or complicit, fund our demise, then feign sympathy, if any. Academics stand idle. That is, until the dust settles, then they will write books about what should have been. Coin terms and such. Lecture in the past tense. And the vultures, even in our midst, will tour museums glorifying, romanticizing what they once condemned, what they did not deign to defend—our resistance—mystifying it, depoliticizing it, commercializing it. The vultures will make sculptures out of our flesh.

mohammed el-kurd: perfect victims and the politics of appeal

[mockva]

The Palace of Soviets, Moscow (495 m) - a cancelled project from the 1930s.

[sapph1c-l0ser]

Photo dump, I need to delete stuff

[stillnaomi]

Marxism is about changing the current state of things in practice, not about mental masturbation. this is why liberal institutions view Marxism-Leninism with such hostility. it's fine to teach sophisticated seeming versions of Marxism in the university when they're detached from revolutionary practice. it's fine to give their authors air time on your shows or write ups in your magazines. the same goes with platforming anti-communist socialists who condemn Marxism-Leninism, and with it all the countries in the world that have made significant steps towards building socialism. the construction and reproduction of this compatible left by liberal institutions is a powerful weapon for making sure that imperial core socialists are anti-communist, and are detached from practices that actually threaten to overthrow capitalist rule. don't fall for their bullshit when Marxism-Leninism is right there

[segamascott]