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It is truly impossible to articulate the levels of horrific evil exhibited by the regime. What kind of "pro-life" ideology justifies necrotic gestation? It’s hard to put words to the evil, to the body horror, to something more despicable than anything depicted in a Cronenberg film—whether The Fly, Scanners, or anything else. What the state has done to this woman is in the same league as Josef Mengele's experiments.

These people operate under the belief that they are morally correct—that the horrors they inflict upon women are just, justified by their religion, their financial interests, their innate sadism, or whatever else. This woman was left on life support after brain death. She has been dead for nearly three months. She was not allowed to die. The state deemed her death incompatible with their sadism, their policies, their morals, their profit margins.

Adriana Smith was left to rot in a bed, her skin sloughing off as bedsores grew. Modern medical devices were attached—catheters, feeding tubes, blood-cleansing machines. The visuals of this send shivers down your spine. It is so utterly grotesque that I struggle to describe it, and I’ve written splatterpunk horror many times. I’ve written about death, but this is something beyond. This is not normal death. This is necropolitical control.

The state mandated that she could not die because she was pregnant.

The baby was delivered today.

One pound and thirteen ounces.

Pound. 13. Ounces.

The baby has no mother. Born to elder, retired grandparents who are now drowning in medical debt. His entire existence is predicated on cruelty—on the sadism of the state, of the regime, of those who seek to dehumanize women and relegate them to a separate caste.

We must take a moment to consider what happens when a body is kept on life support for months. This was a dead person. This woman was dead, yet she was not allowed to properly die. Her body was used as an incubator against her will, against her family’s will, against her last testament—because the state demanded it.

“I think it is completely appropriate that the hospital do what they can to save the life of the child,” he said. “I think this is an unusual circumstance, but I think it highlights the value of innocent human life. I think the hospital is acting appropriately.” — Republican State Sen. Ed Setzler

Her body was left to rot. Her funeral will almost certainly not be open-casket. Can you imagine it? Can you imagine the funeral after this necrobirth? Can you imagine her condition after months of being a necro-incubator?

For those who support this: Do you have any idea what a body looks like after being forced to stay "alive" on a ventilator? Would you subject your loved one to this same nightmare just so a fetus might live—even without any quality of life?

By the time her family is granted the right to bury her, she will be unrecognizable.

To keep her heart beating, she was pumped full of medications. A ventilator forced air into her lungs. Liquid nutrition was fed through a tube. The fluids caused swelling, which made her skin leak and slough off. It became so fragile it practically melted away, hastening the spread of bedsores. Those sores festered, grew, and each carrying potential to infected. Multiple nurses, doctors and medical experts were required to keep her body in this state of incubation.

She required constant care—yet she was already a corpse. She was denied the right to rest. To decay. To return to the earth. To die as all of us will.

Can you imagine her parents burying their daughter after she was forced to rot in a bed for months? Can you imagine the debt they now bear because of the state’s sadism?

We wonder why Luigi Mangione allegedly did what he did.

No—we don’t wonder. We know. We understand. We empathize.

This incident goes beyond the routine cruelty of the system. It enters the territory of deep-seated, intentionally sadistic necropolitical control. This regime is not pro-life. It is anti-human. It worships control. It worships profit. it worships death. It demands necro-incubators. It demands children with no future born into suffering, into debt, into lifelong defects. It demands corpses be turned into factories.

“Weapons are deployed in the interest of maximum destruction of persons and the creation of death-worlds, new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjugated to conditions of life conferring upon them the status of living-dead.” — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics

This is the kind of atrocity that convinces me the only path forward is revolution. There is no reforming this system. There is no reforming the people who enabled this. There is no fixing the sadism inherent in our institutions without destroying them entirely.

“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?” — Isaiah 10:1-3 (NIV)

The inhuman treatment of this woman—the use of her corpse as an incubator, the absence of ethics from those who claim divine justification—should disillusion everyone with the regime, with the powers that be, with anyone who allowed this Clive Barker-esque horror to unfold.

Because the fact is: This woman is the first.

She will not be the last.

There will be dozens like her—forced to rot, forced into necro-incubation, their children born with lifelong defects, born to suffer, born to drown in medical debt. Debt that ultimately serves to enrich the richest. Make no mistake, one cannot ignore the class element here. One cannot ignore that her child, should he live, will almost certainly be destined to work a low wage job, destined for prison, destined for hyper exploitation. The medical costs of the state's necro cruelity will be bared by those who are the poorest. Make no mistake, the race of the woman in this cannot be ignored either. Black women have always faced worse outcomes from our medical instition. One can imagine that, if this was a white woman, the political outrage would be much more intense, one can imagine that, if Adriana was a white woman, she wouldn't have been misdiagnosed in the first place. Did you know black women are twice as likely to die during child birth in comparison to white women? This is medical apartheid. This is the intersection of class and race, and black women have always faced the harshest of this intersection.

Think about that. How can these people, in one breath, preach the sanctity of life while, in the next, create literal necro-incubators from human corpses?

This is unprecedented.

But it is now our new normal. This is the death world the capitalist seeks to create.

If you don’t want this to be our future, then we must organize. We must get angry. We must abandon the delusion that this horror can be reformed.

It cannot be reformed.

It must be destroyed.

Published in HOUDINI Magazine on 06/18/25

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Looks like that letter maybe more than bark. See what happens

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A crisis of capitalism has arrived. We have to remember that this works both for and against us. Please bare with me for like, ten minutes.

With today's developments of US refueling aircraft, among a trove of other weapons being shipped to West Asia, I think it is likely Iran will strike at oil infrastructure and stall western trade. When this happens, the simulated reality of western existence will shatter. The economy, or at least the domestic ambiguity and vague notion of materiality Westerners understand it as, will break.

"Great for us as communists" you may think, "organizers can finally recruit more seriously." True in the long run, not in the short. Remember you are dealing with reactionaries. Never in history has an imperial population, upon it facing military and economic defeat, woke up the next day saying "Oh man, this system is really fucked up! Burn it all!"

They double down. You are about to witness the most despicable racist, classist, violent tendencies of liberalism bare its teeth at the world. At you, my friend. Western communists, you have to ask yourself this: are you prepared to undergo the same struggle you have so far only watched colonized people go through?

If the answer to this is no, you must immediately work to prepare yourself in a way so that you can instead say yes. This isn't to be moral about revolution, I am telling you that you cannot escape the upcoming struggle. No matter the nuances of your life, your class intersections, who you know and where, you are the enemy of the ruling class. And the ruling class is presently worshipped in the West. To them, you are a dog which must be put down. And the ruling class has developed immensely powerful tools to facilitate this.

I would bet every American dollar in my bank account that everyone who posts here, or anywhere related to a principled communist forum, has their IP address logged in a list somewhere within the Department of Defense. And the ruling class also has recently and conveniently developed the AI tools to make combing through such a dataset and identifying individuals trivial. There is no universe in all of its potential where you can hide, escape, or wait for someone else to handle it. You will never be able to deny your principles because they were written down and copied a thousand times to a thousand different devices. And they care to look. This is not to make you afraid, but you must understand that just by thinking aloud online you have already picked a side. And a failure to fight now is to seal your own doom.

The notions of nuance, manners, tolerance, and virtue which spare imperial citizens liberalism's worst instincts will evaporate quickly. You must be ready for people to not only be transparently willing and motivated to discard your life for their own material gain, but to be aggressively pursued and persecuted. It is inevitable.

You must join an organization, and if there are none you must start your own. I don't care what your personal gripes about your local communists are, join anyway. I have my personal issues with the PSL but I've joined. Because it's not about MY politics, it's about OUR safety.

An organization is a social net which has the potential to keep you safe. And you need people who are not your friends and family to keep you safe, because your friends and family will abandon you when their safety is on the line. It's happened before and will happen again. You require organized ideological resistance to the framework of your society to keep you safe, because it is your society which is coming to harm you.

Orgs label you, yes, but remember that you are already labeled. Does your mother have the capacity to help you when men with guns knock on your door? Will your partner choose your safety over the entirety of their property and all they have ever worked for? Even if they would, could they?

No.

And if you are in an organization, you need to begin having difficult conversations about militancy. If your organization's leaders are against this - say, even in the spirit of democratic centralism - you must do it anyway among your peers. The moment requires it. Because there will be a time that comes where you will be either grateful you had, or you will no longer be.

Always remember that a liberal will watch you die a thousand times over for a penny. Where are your communists? Where are your comrades? I don't care if you don't like them. You need them.

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Original Title: Iran bombed 'Aman' base, a key 'Israeli' intelligence facility that also oversees the infamous Unit 8200—known for covert operations, spying, surveillance and cyber warfare. 'Israeli' media reported that military censorship has imposed a blackout on the location targeted.

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Original Title: My West European comrades, please, tell me, what is the strategy? Labour aristocracy is strong here especially among the whites, any empathy with the global South/revolutionary politics is nonexistent. Whats a strategy? We can only hope the global South becomes independent/worsen the conditions here

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