A wide-ranging discussion by Garland Nixon and Joti Brar on the tasks ahead to save humanity from the collapse of imperialism, a process that connotes constant wars, increased repression, and the immiseration of the working class across the globe. Garland also dissects the Neocon’s “Narcissist” personality which suits the empire to a “T”, given the US empire’s pathological arrogance, criminality, and complete lack of empathy, among other narcissistic traits. Incidentally, even Google accepts that: “Marxist–Leninist states are commonly referred to as “communist states” by Western academics. Marxist–Leninists reject anarchism and left communism, as well as reformist socialism and social democracy. They oppose fascism and liberal democracy, and are anti-imperialists.”
CLASS STRUGGLE
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JOHN PILGER—In McCarthy’s time, there were bolt holes of truth. Mavericks welcomed then are heretics now; an underground of journalism exists (such as this site) in a landscape of mendacious conformity. Dissenting journalists have been defenestrated from the “mainstream” (as the great editor David Bowman wrote); the media’s task is to invert the truth and support the illusions of democracy, including a “free press”.
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Losurdo, Chomsky, Brar: Highly Recommended Books & Documents
13 minutes readEDITOR—In Stalin: History and Critique of A Black Legend (2008), Losurdo stimulated a debate about Joseph Stalin, about whom he claimed is built a kind of black legend intended to discredit the whole of communism. Losurdo clearly saw that the nonstop demonisation of Stalin was simply the utterly cynical propaganda part of the West’s multidirectional war on the Soviet Union, a war that the collective West had been waging on the Bolsheviks from the moment the revolution came to power in 1917.
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GABRIEL ROCKHILL—Given the nature of these political positions and their amplification by the bourgeois cultural apparatus, one might assume that the thinker in question is a right-wing ideologue promoted by imperialist think tanks and the U.S. national security state. On the contrary, however, this is a commentator that anyone perusing online for radical theory or even Marxism is likely to encounter almost immediately, because he is one of the most visible intellectuals taken to represent the Left: Slavoj Žižek.
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EDITOR—John Oliver discusses freight trains and railroads, how they’ve put profits over safety, and, crucially, what shows he watched as a child that explain…everything.