no one on any end of the political spectrum in US has a clue about mao or the cultural revolution, even self-declared maoists. there is nothing comparable. completely different material conditions!!

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STUDENT PROTESTORS AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE IN MAINE TOOK A BUILDING LAST NIGHT 👀👀👀

Take a building challenge back on???

I certainly don't have anything explosive to share. But I will say that during Zoom orientation/training for phone banking shifts, numerous people in the chat would ask if the campaign had any response templates for voters who were asking about Gaza. And every question was ignored.

Reading Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's book, Elite Capture, was incredibly clarifying.

student protests did not stop. students protest year-round, even if you only pay attention when you're cheering for cops to round them up. hope this helps

“The liberal establishment has not raised the alarms. Worse, they have often served as the right’s complicit partner, oblivious to the precedents that Trump is now inheriting: broader police power, unaccountable presidential power, generalized repression, and gross restrictions on speech.”

honestly the argument that the US should continue to offer life-saving aid to those in need bc "it's soft power, if we don't do it Chinese and Russia will fill the void" is part of the problem to begin with

In "Discourse on Colonialism" by Aimé Césaire

Very hard to persuade people that the incentive structures established by consecutive administrations, including Democratic ones, greased the tracks to our present reality. Arc of History Derangement Syndrome is strong.

what did dems think that enabling genocide abroad would not lead to reactionary nationalism at home? and that once accelerated here that they had it in themselves to stop it home, when unwilling to stop genocide abroad?

how can people can say they believe in democracy when they go about campaigning by threatening constituencies with pain and catastrophe instead of trying to earn every single vote

at this rate usaid is gonna do a color revolution lmao

Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

a ruthless critique of everything existing everywhere all at once