INDRAJIT—American propaganda was based on repeating one big lie — that they were the ‘good guys’ — across news, entertainment, and media in general. They repeated that lie so often it felt like truth, but now they’ve lost control of the narrative completely. Whatever’s left of the American reputation is buried under Gaza now.
BOURGEOIS VALUES
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—With decades of anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist fighting clearly under threat from domestic reactionaries, in 1966 Mao supervised the Party’s May 16 Directive to state the threat clearly: “…they will seize political power and turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” Decoded: the corrupt pro-capitalists will turn China into a West European (bourgeois) democracy.
And from a foreign policy perspective in 1966, a crisis was undoubtedly at China’s doorstep: the U.S. was massively invading Vietnam, and the largest communist party in the world not in power was being the victim of a literal genocide in Indonesia, with U.S. support.
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Who really rules you? Understanding the power game.
7 minutes readEDITOR—Garland Nixon and the inestimable Joti Brar, a leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CP-GB), clarify in a few minutes, in plain language, who really rules our lives. Forget about the party and election circus. Or what the President is up to in the White House. That’s NOT where power really resides in capitalist society. Instead, a huge machinery of distraction —the media, entertainment (films and sports), phony politicians, etc.—hides the actual ruling class [the billionaires and financial blocs who make all the big decisions behind closed doors, in practical anonymity and without any accountability, acting in fact as a dictatorship), while the charade of bourgeois democracy plays on for the masses…
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ROCKHILL: Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia
123 minutes readGABRIEL ROCKHILL—In addition to helping displace class politics and analysis within the Western left, identity politics has made a major contribution to dividing the left itself into siloed debates around specific identity issues. Instead of class unity against a common enemy, it divides—and conquers—working and oppressed people by encouraging them to identify first and foremost as members of specific genders, sexualities, races, nations, ethnicities, religious groups, and so forth. In this regard, the ideology of identity politics actually is, at a much deeper level, a class politics. It is the politics of a bourgeoisie aimed at dividing the working and oppressed peoples of the world in order to more easily rule over them.
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EDITOR—This 21st-century fascism, spearheaded on behalf of the globalist 0.001% by the US Democrats in cahoots with powerful sections of the Deep State, and their media lackeys, is now caught in an existential dilemma: It has accumulated so many crimes that it cannot “come clean”, as that might trigger a catastrophic class rebellion likely to overthrow the reigning affiliated oligarchies across the planet. The pent-up frustration is so widespread and profound at this point, that axes, pitchforks, and even the guillotine come to mind.