Castile soap is an olive oil based hard soap made in a style similar to that originating in the Castile region of Spain. The origins of Castile soap go back to the Levant, where Aleppo soap-makers have made hard soaps based on olive and laurel oil for millennia. Early soap-makers in the Mediterranean area did not have easy access to laurel oil and therefore dropped it from their formulations, thereby creating an olive-oil soap now known as Castile soap.
In the 17th century, the soap caused controversy in England, since it supplanted the unnamed local soap after the Spanish Catholic manufacturers purchased the monopoly on the soap from the cash-strapped Carolinian government. Its ties to Catholicism caused a public-relations campaign to be established, featuring washerwomen showing how much more effective local soaps were than Castile soap. The sale of a monopoly in Protestant England to a Catholic company caused a great uproar, ending with the Castile soap company eventually being stripped of the monopoly.
Nabulsi soap is a type of castile soap produced only in Nablus in the West Bank, Palestine. Its chief ingredients are virgin olive oil (the main agricultural product of the region), water, and an alkaline sodium compound. The finished product is ivory-colored and has almost no scent. Traditionally made by women for household use, it had become a significant industry for Nablus by the 14th century. In 1907 the city's 30 Nabulsi soap factories were supplying half the soap in Palestine. Project Hope and other local non-governmental organizations market the soap in the West to raise funds for their other community projects.
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I don't fuckin care, all I need from him is more anti-nato, anti-US and anti-biden rhetoric, the western "left" is drowning in the opposite, so don't look a gift horse in the mouth and demand ideological consistency from a goddamn artist of all things, in kinda hilarious when it's the mls being less dogmatic than whatever ultra tendency you happen to be
This is so fuckin dumb, you do realize Yemenis and Palestinians are being genocided under the current uni-polar world, so positing some ahistorical hypothetical about future genocide is pretty disingenuous, yeah I'd like to see how Israel and Saudi Arabia fair without US arms, funding, intelligence and the dominance of the petrodollar, ask any Yemenis and Palestinian which world they would rather fight their struggle in.
Russia can invade Ukraine, but do you think it can pull off an Iraq War? A total sanction of Iran or Cuba? A Libya? A drone war in Pakistan? A shadow war in the Sahel? Hundreds of billions in arms and funds divvied out to 15 dictators year after year? All of that simultaneously?
See this right here is where the ultras utterly lose the plot, historically communist and socialist struggles have always advanced under the rubric of the multipolar world, the opposite is a uni-polar world which always implies a hegemonic superpower, which is NOT a communist goal, ideally, practically, or socially, we want multiple experiments out there, regional blocs breaking up the supply chains that feed global capital, the creation of independent networks able to advance the project thru understanding ** local conditions** not blindly following the lead of some western theorists halfway around the world
Ok well that leads all the way back to the original point, it's kinda hard to "FOCUS" on the "working class of the world" when we're dealing with the reality of US global hegemony every second of the day, US imperialism isn't some specter mls made up to distract them from the "The Great Socialist Revolution" it's a concrete global phenomenon that will fuck your shit up if not dealt with, there's no opt out option here
The US is the underwriter, the guarantor, the Sheriff and the mob boss of global capital, ultras constantly trip head first into idealism tryin to ignore this reality, as if this were 1929, and we're just dealin with a gaggle of decaying empires and then those darn new fangled Soviets who don't want to the push the communism button, those bloody revisionists....fuckin nonsense, live in the real world or don't
CW hostile, I'm sorry
and it's back to sectarianism :rosa-salute: you will receive your social credit score and Xi bucks in the mail shortly
Strawmanning other tendencies with ridiculous caricatures is sectarian, I never hit first, but push me I'll push back :shrug-outta-hecks:
CW Hostile. I'm sorry
When you say Russia invading a country is somehow antiimperialist that is is the face of the most popular and regarded definitions of imperialism, and, that is a common take, I don't think that would be disputed. A better word for it would be anti west, but anti imperialism makes you sound smarter and less campistWhere are the people on Hexbear who say that Russia invading Ukraine is anti-Imperialist?