P.S. Etienne Balibar wrote about Marx's thoughts on the monopoly capitalism we live in today, and how we go from "Centralization of the means of production and socialization" to "The knell of capitalist private property sounds." Interesting, hopeful […]

I am particularly interested in ways in which fire-smart prevention is coupled with returning custody of land to indigenous groups, how climate resiliency can be coupled with #landback.

I'm not saying that there aren't a lot of people who don't feel and act in the opposite way. There are, many are doing really great work. But even among many so-called "revolutionaries" there is a strong affinity towards conformism.

A general atrophy of the mind, Can you imagine those gray […]

Note that the Dean visited the student encampment, and expressed her support.

How is it that Deans in Serbia are braver than American ones, when Serbian employees risk losing their jobs for protesting the ruling SNS party?

Part of the reason is university autonomy. Deans are elected by […]

Otpor! was a genuine social movement that advocated for major changes in society, but elements of it were funded by the CIA. One of its leaders, Srđa Popović now runs CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies), which coordinates color revolutions across the globe and has ties […]

Third, the students at these public assemblies have established simple and clear demands of the govt:

1. Publish of all contracts and paperwork related to the canopy collapse. Including secret clauses of contracts with investors.

2. Rescind charges and release of all detailed in protests […]

First, the students are organized in "plenums", or assemblies. They make all their decisions in public assemblies.

Assemblies deliberate actions, discuss current events, hear reports. Then everyone votes. The image shows one of these assemblies in the Faculty […]

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Suvin was born as Darko Šlesinger in Zagreb to a Croatian Jewish family. His father changed their family name to Suvin in 1939 due to antisemitism in royal Yugoslavia. Darko's grandparents perished in the #holocaust.

He was interned in the camp in Korčula with his parents until its liberation […]

The overall argument is made better, and in more detail, in his book "Splendour, Misery and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia":

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1075-splendour-misery-and-possiblities

#yugoslavia #antifascism

To clarify, the solution to this is not the white European understanding of diversity. Which we see plainly at work in large Mastodon instances and in the project’s leadership.