Capital can be resilient. Far more resilient than many revolutionaries have anticipated. Marx predicted that communist revolutions would initially come in the countries where the productive forces are most developed. But save for the eastern part of Germany at the cost of a catastrophic war, none of the core imperialist countries have so far undergone such revolutions. In these places, capital has held on in the face of multiple world wars, depressions, and pandemics, allowing them to continue holding back revolutions in most other places through imperialist meddling.
Anti-Asian hate is a symptom of intensifying capitalist reaction
Day: November 2, 2021
Congress Is Waging a Two-Front Offensive Against China
To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations
The timing IS suspicious, as they didn’t reveal anything new.
Rather Than Pass Wage Increases, GOP Legislatures Move to Weaken Child Labor Laws
Politico’s hallucinations
Israel’s secret ‘evidence’ against rights groups is based on torture and lies, and Europeans rejected it — Palestinian leaders tell a DC audience
The Internet Is Not Facebook; Regulating It As If It Were Will Fuck Things Up
The Internet Is Not Facebook; Regulating It As If It Were Will Fuck Things Up
There’s only one problem: What is health misinformation? I know of no oracular source of truth about Covid-19. Scientific consensus has shifted dramatically during the pandemic, and even now experts are divided over important issues, such as whether everyone should get a vaccine booster shot. Klobuchar and Luján’s bill elides these complications. Instead they designate an all-knowing authority: Health misinformation, the bill says, is whatever the secretary of health and human services decides is health misinformation.
Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate
Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate
Environmental activist and writer Chet Bowers claimed that their social agenda includes the imposition of barriers to people’s ability to vote; the use of the prison system to control a large segment of the poor and non-white population; the intertwining of fundamentalist religions and segments of government focused on national security; and the use of the military to globalize the American way of life; the suppression of basic human rights, especially for women; the undermining of the rights of workers to organize in order to oppose being exploited; and the authorization of fraudulent elections in which the
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