Hmm... I'd maybe include the URL but not make it a hyperlink? I'd be worried about the security if there were links in the text. I don't know whether there is a security risk, but I'd want to play it safe.
How do you go about doing these? Do you convert the PDF with something like Calibre then read it through to fix the typos, etc, and add tags (html tags)?
I just wanted to say that committed liberals can be radicalised because I was one of them. I'd read the main theory and thought it was the best thing ever. I was easy to radicalise when a Marxist highlighted the contradictions in that theory. As I knew the texts well, I grasped the critique quickly. It awoke some questions that I had repressed e.g. about how to solve poverty if there's capitalism. Maybe the first step was showing me that liberal thought is capitalism and all the bad shit that entails.
Not to say there wasn't any cognitive dissonance. I had a very uncomfortable few years as the world lost coherence and I had to build it back up. A lot of people will just refuse to grapple with the logical implications of Marxism. But they can be reached if you can have good faith conversations with them.
When I first started looking up Cuban news I couldn't figure out what was going on. The stories were clear enough. But the style… the atmosphere… different, to say the least.
Have you read any Julius Deutsch on sport? He tried to develop a system of proltarian sport. Would be good to see China develop that and a similarly proletarian culture for export as well as domestically. It's doing some movie stuff but the Deutsch thing is decidedly less commodity-based. Maybe it's already doing similar things – it's hard to learn of this kind of thing from the outside.
It's because hospitals, public infrastructure, etc, look like military targets to the yanks. So this is China making it easier for it's drone operators to see what to hit.
That's my thinking, too. I'm curious to know whether the institutional racism built into the military makes it kind of 'natural' for superiors to interpret the common soldier's motives as racist. Like an internal/introspective projection. That, in combination with the fact that military officers probably aren't the brightest in terms of being critical of the world and mainstream narratives of Israel/Palestine. They're not paid to think outside the box or question received wisdom (orders) unless it comes to military tactics, after all.
If they're self-declared anti-Semites it's a problem. There's also a lot of problematic, latent anti-Semitism that we should and must stamp out, too.
I think the bigger issue is saying that anyone who doesn't want to fight Palestinians is automatically anti-Semitic. That's even more of a stretch than saying that anyone who opposes Zionism is anti-Semitic.
Both claims mask real anti-Semites and let them hide in plain sight with what they think they can project as a legitimate reason to be anti-Semitic. Those people are just as likely to be Islamophobic as they are anti-Semitic.
While we might be happy that US soldiers have found a war they don't want to fight in, I don't think we should brush off the fact that it stems from anti-Semitism (to the extent that it does) just because there's a positive outcome in this instance. Because ignoring that anti-Semitism will come back to bite us round the corner; it's the same kind that sees people support Israel because it encourages Jews to emigrate, which makes life worse for Palestinians and Jews everywhere.
It's also worth noting that Zionism is anti-Semitic and does not protect Jews from anti-Semitism. It could even be anti-Semitic itself. Both types of anti-Semitism, Zionist and anti-Zionist, should be opposed.
I think this is markedly different to 'necessary alliances', like between a national bourgeoisie and a national proletariat against an international bourgeoisie. I think we should be extremely careful about even appearing to be willing to ally with racists even if it seems that our goals align for a brief moment.
Have to say I wasn't quite sure where you were going with your first comment because I read 'cracker' as a synonym for 'white supremacist'. I'm glad you followed it up with this. Persuasive.
One challenge I have is that race is real, though. Not biologically real. But it affects people in material ways. I think you've captured this already in your wording of 'ideological excuse' and 'race theory' but thought I'd mention it, anyway.
Good post, comrade.