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Class, not caste. And what you're describing is the condition of the proletariat as a whole: the limit of spontaneous consciousness is trade union consciousness (see Lenin's What Is To Be Done)

[–] Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is just anti-intellectual schlock

[–] Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Those quotes sound like something out of a semiorexte book. Dress it up a little and this guy could be the next big thing for Critical Theory.

Where do you think they're getting all those soldiers from? Clone army.

[–] Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm already behind :(

[–] Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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Cobalt is an amazing band! Missed opportunity to not use their (admittedly generic) logo though

We love reformism here! Incremental progress! My favorite hobby is to watch elections--things will totally be different this time.

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Also I wrote this on my phone so typos galore!

[–] Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wish I had any. Unfortunately the waters have been muddied by fields like criminology, which are basically limited to a liberal analysis of the all-to-abstract individual, psychology, etc. Like of course things like crime, and justice are a reflection of class-struggle--so in analyzing things like gangs, especially in the period of history you referrence, this generally becomes subsumed into broader theoretical concerns.

To (try and) answer your questions what separates the BPP from something like the crips is, first of all, ideology (see Revolutionary Action Movement), which, through the struggle of some dedicated revolutionaries, precipitated into a line, and program, which responded to the conditions of its time.

What confounds us is how can something like the Crips--which as far as I know was started because some guy got mad at being beat up at the gym...--come to dominate a whole era after the demise of the BPP?

At this point I can only speculate: yes, from the broadest view point the gangs that came to define the 70s--90s were a counter-offensive against the Black nationalism of the 60s, and insofar as the Black national question is a (big) component of the proletarian class struggle in this country we could call it a counter-offensive of the ruling class. BUT, the question remains, was it a conscious effort by the state, or a secondary effect of the decline of the World Proletarian Revolution that was happening at the same time? Was it a strategy, or simply a tactic to nurture these violent, petty conflicts against these revolutionary organizations. Etc. the connection is there, but remains to be fully fleshed out.

[–] Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/05/5860/

"Rodriguez’s operation not only revealed the limits of liberal discourse; it also restored the value of direct action as a mobilizing and agitational tool, placing everyone before their responsibilities. The broad popular response to this operation, particularly among youth and within Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities, reveals that popular sentiment remains aligned with armed struggle and a revolutionary position on Palestine. The battle being waged by the Palestinian people is not confined to the West Bank and Gaza, but extends and expands globally within the framework of revolutionary struggle against imperialism, Zionism, and reactionary and fascist regimes"

 

"The truth is we live in a “dictatorship of the capitalist class”—that is, ultimately the things they absolutely insist on (such as their ability to continue to rule society) will be enforced through violence whenever necessary, regardless of legality.

Elections cannot be used to end their rule. The undeniable proof of this is the 40+ governments the US military and intelligence have worked to overthrow in the past 100 years, which happens like clockwork whenever some government in the Third World creates too much trouble for US global rule and imperialist profits. An equally clear proof is in the massive, disproportionate, and often illegal repression and murder wielded against domestic movements demanding deep reform whenever they get big enough, even if they are committed to nonviolence.

But since the ruling class are willing to use violence to get their way in some situations, why do they mess around with the electoral system—why don’t they simply always use violence to get everything they want? They don’t always use violence because it is far cheaper, easier, and more stable to use the electoral system to suppress the emergence of revolutionary movements in the population, and even to suppress independent non-revolutionary movements that might cost them profits or weaken their rule."

 

The logic of monopoly capital and imperialism as it operates in the global semiconductor business.
Some key takeaways:

"The great contradiction that they face is the fact that for every major chip firm, the Chinese semiconductor industry also constitutes a huge market, often a bigger customer than any other. Hence, Washington and the U.S. chip industry are caught between trying to limit the Chinese industry and maintaining trade relations."

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"U.S. strategists have been earnestly arguing for a scorched earth policy in Taiwan, meaning that the United States should seriously consider destroying TSMC plants in case of a credible threat from China, in order to prevent the Chinese from wresting control over production"

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