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Never throw away the spoon.

That's the idea. Anti-imperialist accounts get banned all the time there, a thread can just disappear. Takes a little more effort to copy paste everything but it's safer this way.

There is a page in history when the worker first fought back When the might of exploitation at last began to crack In farm and field and factory, in workshop, mine and mill A flame was lit, a beacon bright, that flame is burning still

Connolly was there, Connolly was there Bold, brave, undaunted, James Connolly was there

William Martin Murphy and his Dublin millionaires Tried bribery and corruption, hypocrisy and prayers To smash the Transport Union, their scabs they did enlist But all their graft was shattered by a scarlet iron fist

For Connolly was there, Connolly was there Bold, brave, undaunted, James Connolly was there

When the bosses tried to sweat the lads way down in Glasgow's Clyde A voice like rolling thunder, soon shook them in their stride In Liverpool and Belfast where the workers lived in hell James Connoly rose and gave them hope, the truth to you i'll tell

And Connolly was there, Connolly was there Bold, brave, undaunted, James Connolly was there

Oh Irishmen the day will come when workers one and all Will rise up from their bended knees and rally to the call Throw out the bosses' tyranny and shout from shore to shore For a working man's republic and for freedom evermore

Connolly will be there, Connolly will be there Bold, brave, undaunted, James Connolly will be there

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China was able to maintain sovereign Party control while deploying market mechanisms within a planned framework.

Key was crushing the 1989 Tiananmen CIA/NGO-backed color revolution attempt and removing comprador infiltrators like Zhao Ziyang. This unlike the USSR, where the Party fragmented and capitulated to foreign-backed reformers.

The CPC then shrewdly built state-directed national champions, kept finance under Party command, and tightly controlled integration with global markets — avoiding the asset-stripping that ravaged post-Soviet Russia.

As for the USSR’s “autocracy”, for the most part — including its errors — seems like a reactive posture shaped by postwar encirclement and the imperative to defend against relentless imperialist pressure.

China, in contrast, leveraged its split with the USSR to gain controlled access to Western capital — a strategic move that fueled development without surrendering sovereignty.

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Damn, the US couped the Vatican? Oh well, anyway...

Agreed. It's easier to be a "doomer". It lets you feel good about yourself without having to do anything. Revolutionary optimism takes effort, but it is also the only way to get anything done.

Eh...it's a start, but it's not particularly impressive. Ethnic nationalism is a threat to the multi-ethnic Russian state, so of course someone whose primary interest is in preserving that state would adopt this view. Not to mention the fact that fighting literal Nazis for three years kind of pushes you in this direction regardless whether you wanted it or not. So it's not that he is any less reactionary than he has always been, it's that the circumstances in which he finds himself leave him no other choice. It would be actually based if he restored the name of Stalingrad. Sure, that would also just be symbolic, but it would be a much clearer signal that the Russian state, even if still bourgeois for the time being, is looking seriously to its anti-Nazi roots.

For the time being.

I've never used it, so i can't say. But i know it is popular and a lot of people relied on it.

Our mods are great! 😊

It's not that easy to just make a "second China". Because what made China China wasn't just cheap labor costs, it was the entire foundation built during the Mao era. Even India with its similarly large population size as the other comment here suggests can't just replace China overnight. If they could they would have done so already.

But India is pursuing a fundamentally different model of economic development and the US can't magically transform it with just their "carrot and stick method" that you mention. They would need not just to invest massively in a kind of Marshall plan style without immediate prospects for a return on that investment, which US capital is not going to be easily persuaded to do, but also change the entrenched oligarchic and political structures in India that stand in the way of China style industrial development.

And India is where the US's chances are highest. In South East Asia they stand even less of a chance, countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, they are much more highly integrated into China's economic orbit. And yes, the Philippines is a US neocolony that can serve as a military launchpad, but they definitely can't economically replace China. I think if the US imperialists really are thinking along the lines you laid out they are severely deluding themselves.

Ah, that's too bad. No i haven't archived it, but the main text of the post is basically the entire text of the thread in the linked tweet. I only added the italicized bit at the top, the rest is the original thread's text copy pasted.

"We're coming home!" Crimea celebrates after 97% vote for joining Russia

"We came back home to Mother Russia. We came back home, Russia is our home"

"We are Russia, we have always been Russian people in our souls here in Crimea" "We have been waiting for this day for 23 years"

96.77% of Crimeans vote to re-unite with Russia

"We are going home, Crimea is going to Russia", said the republic’s prime minister

Majority of Crimea citizens one year after referendum do not regret joining Russia

Crimea celebrates 2 years since historic referendum to rejoin Russia

Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since

The Majority of Crimeans Are Still Glad for Their Annexation:

"it is incontrovertible that most [...] Crimean residents welcomed joining Russia. Numerous polls at the time of the annexation and in its immediate aftermath revealed broad support for joining Russia"

"Crimea’s annexation in 2014 gave residents grounds for optimism, with a majority of Crimeans hopeful that their lives would change for the better."

"The majority of Crimeans do not experience Russian rule as oppressive, alien, or unwelcome. Instead, based on the evidence of our surveys, they are reasonably happy to be living in Putin’s Russia."

—Foreign Affairs Magazine, official publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, arch-imperialist US neocon think tank

No, i should have made that clearer in the post.

You are misunderstanding. This post is a repost from the Revolution Report. They are the ones pointing out the presence of pro-NATO elements in this protest.

Lots of Ukraine and USA flags there.

Okay, that sounds like it was even worse than i initially assumed. I thought someone just snuck in the NATO part on the poster, but apparently this was way more of a lib fest than i thought.

I was looking up more about this event and saw a bunch of photos of people with signs calling Trump a "Putin puppet" and "Moscow agent". That plus the Ukraine flags and the "we're the real American patriots" flag-waving jingoism, makes apparent that the pro-NATO poster is not an accident at all but absolutely intentional.

And the absence of pro-Palestinian messaging that others are also pointing out is a massive red flag that there is some co-opted bullshit going on here rather than genuine grassroots protest.

Leaving aside which of the two genocidal fascist choices was worse, because i think that's just splitting hairs at this point...I for one appreciate Caitlin Johnstone's writing. I don't see it as whining at all. Yes she keeps repeating herself but that's because what she is saying about the brutality and inhumanity of US empire is something that needs to be repeated over and over ad nauseam until it sinks in with everyone who can be a potential ally in the fight against this genocidal empire, against this enemy of humanity.

with Russian companies owning majority share in any joint projects.

So they are taking a page out of China's playbook? If that is really the case that's a very positive development for Russia. It would be good to see them finally come to their senses on economic policies.

Germany, Finland, Netherlands for sure. Also Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Not to mention the Butthurt Belt states: Poland and the three Baltic villages. Romania too.

It's better to ask who in Europe is not fascist. The number of European countries that are not yet already there or well on their way can be counted on one hand.