These 3 images pretty accurately describe me:
The druze in Syria really are between tge worst possible options. On one side is quite headchopping Jihadist working at the behest if the west. On the other are genocidal baby killers also working at the behest if the west.
Thus is now only possible because of Assad’s all but fucking morons refuse to admit it.
Like half the milk produced in California is bought by the state and dumped because if it were to hit the market, milk would be like pennies per ounce, and the Farmers would basically go bankrupt.
This shit makes me so mad.
The Bionomist section is so revealing to the sheer scale eugenics is baked into the American system.
Personally I’m very interested in the continued throughline of joint-stock ventures.
Ironically though, I feel a good bit of optimism reading it as well here on California. The amount of relavent information is vast and I think quite helpful in radicalizing other Californians.
Born Muslim and I slowly went down the Bernie-Hassan-ML pipeline, and began reading Marxist texts. I think I started with the Manifesto, then chapter one of Capital, then maybe Blackshirts And Reds. From there I can’t remember what I read exactly but I used multiple reading guides on what to read next. I’ve also reread chapter one of Capital a few times but could never stick with the whole text. I’m going to come back to it after reading a few more things on my horizon which I feel will be useful. (Also so far my favorite text to simply read was Wretched of The Earth)
I’m currently reading Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World, by Malcom Harris, which I’d recommend to any Californian Comrade. Even non-Californians could take something from it as well because I’d say it does a good job at providing an easy to follow narrative for how Capitalism in CA developed, which has been helpful to teaching me how to think about the logic of capital. (At least on a way that is easier to convey then some of Marx’s writings.)
My parents are from Syria and Iran, and weren’t particularly anti-government (not exactly favorable eitheir but considered them better then US puppets) so I was never really inundated with the Imperialist propaganda about foreign adversaries. When you apply the logic that most of the what the US says about your community is bullshit, it becomes very easy to apply that to other countries, making you open to changing your biases when provided with enough evidence.
The imperialists have still not forgiven Haiti for their revolution more than 200 years ago.
Unfortunately I’ve seen basically nothing about Haitian crisis in english speaking media even among many leftist spaces.
As if Modi’s India would snub their fellow Islamaphobic fascist state.