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Trashcanman
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“What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura”

Sound familiar?
#Thewholethingithinkitssick
#gobacktosleep

BookwormAHN Unfortunately 🤦🏼‍♀️ 2d
Leftcoastzen Indeed 2d
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Trashcanman
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“Is fascism merely a dictatorial force in the service of capitalism? That may not be all it is, but that certainly is an important part of fascism‘s raison d‘être.“

The Cheeto and his minions co-opt nationalist rhetoric and militarism to channel discontent away from economic inequality and toward scapegoated groups. The Cheeto wants workers to remain divided and unable to organize effectively against exploitation.

#gobacktosleep

Deblovestoread Yep, this is where we are. Unbelievable, isn‘t it? 💔 2d
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Trashcanman
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History teaches us that all ruling elites try to portray themselves as the natural and durable social order, even ones that are in serious crisis, and that threaten to devour their environmental base in order to continually recreate their hierarchical structure of power and privilege.

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Trashcanman
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Third World revolutionaries are branded as the enemies of stability.
“Stability” is a code word for a society in which privileged social
relations are securely entrenched. When popular forces mobilize
against privilege and wealth, this causes “instability,” which is judged
to be undesirable by U.S. policymakers and their faithful flacks in the
U.S. corporate media.

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goddan
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Great analysis of the overthrow of bourgeois society by the people and its eventual suppression by the collusion of Prussia and the French government.

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bibliothecarivs
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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Karl Marx: His Life and Environment by Isaiah Berlin
📖 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

Leftcoastzen 👏👍 2mo
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breadnroses
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“All fixed, fast-frozen relationships, with their train of venerable ideas and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become obsolete before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and men at last are forced to face with sober senses the real conditions of their lives and their relations with their fellow men.” (The Communist Manifesto)

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Xclamation
The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Mehso-so

It's fine. At this point in history the Communist Manifesto is more of a novelty than anything else. Discovering that about a third of this plus-sized pamphlet is devoted to shit-talking other leftists really drove home that nothing in it was new or scary even at the time. The Communist Manifesto is, upon inspection, revealed as really nothing more than a single piece of a long running, much more widespread conversation.

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Robotswithpersonality
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Change the system, not the climate.
An accessible introduction to the idea of ecosocialism. Makes clear that capitalism cannot be made environmentally friendly, nor can leftist/neoliberal governments who are backing corporations/capitalism, no matter how many green washing initiatives are advertised, an obvious conclusion given decades of international environmental conferences without seeing meaningful reduction in carbon emissions, etc. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Explains the socialist experiments of the 20th century failing for specific reasons, mistakes that do not have to be repeated, as well as the ways the original idea of socialism should be upgraded from modern sensibilities. Clarifies how the conjoining of eco- with -socialism allows for the best path forward to ensure both global justice and environmental recovery. 4mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Heavy emphasis on solidarity, acknowledging where indigenous and labour movements have made some progress against corporations which sought to harm and harvest, i.e. the Amazon rainforest, while acknowledging the obstacles, the work needed on the ground to remake government and society in such a way, and the need for more detailed plans. 4mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/? I am glad that the author never missed a chance to remind the reader that working toward this vision should not stop the attempts to get certain environmental initiatives happening ASAP, even within the existing governmental framework, as time is growing short in respect to the effects of global warming. 4mo
Robotswithpersonality 5/6 A collection of essays, with an appendix of manifesto and declarations, this lays the groundwork that lets me understand the importance and the goals, and empowers me to do further research, investigate avenues of action in support of ecosocialism, because the case made here is a strong and convincing one. (edited) 4mo
Robotswithpersonality 6/6 If I have one complaint it's that the same ground appears to be covered multiple times in a short space, but insofar as that increases the chances of any reader absorbing the salient points, I can't blame Löwy for that approach. 4mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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