Thursday, January 1, 2026

Orientalism rears its ugly head again

 Marx, "British Politics" (April 7, 1853), Collected Works, Vol. 112, p.7: "The real point at issue always is, Turkey in Europe--the great peninsula to the south of the Save and Danube. This splendid territory has the misfortune to be inhabited by a conglomerate of different races and nationalities, of which it is hard to say which is the least fit for progress and civilization."

Anti-imperialist and pro Hamas?

 Scratch a bothered white woman and a racist fascist bleeds.


https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/no-kkkings


Allah al ackbar

Conservative morons

 Keep taking the veterinary dewormer

Study confirms that neither Tylenol nor vaccines is responsible for the rise in autism BECAUSE THERE IS NO RISE IN AUTISM TO EXPLAIN just a change in diagnostic standards.

Give the traitor his reward

 Tech cares less for dissent. Its movements are more herdlike, in which companies and startups chase one big technology at a time. Startups don’t need dissent; they want workers who can grind until the network effects kick in. VCs don’t like dissent, showing again and again that many have thin skins. That contributes to a culture I think of as Silicon Valley’s soft Leninism. When political winds shift, most people fall in line, most prominently this year as many tech voices embraced the right.

KGB tool supports Marxist style economic planning

 Moscow Times

U.S. Finds Ukraine Did Not Attack Putin’s Valdai Residence – WSJ


Donald Dumbfuck played like a prize chump -  again

RUS DELENDA EST

Human Rights and Politics

 

“Human Rights and Politics”

Reading Lefort’s article as a foil to Marx’s 1844 article is salutary—and I thank Jean Cohen for proposing this pairing—because Lefort’s article presents one of the most compelling historical challenges to Marx’s position. It presents what we call, in jurisprudence, the “hard case,” perhaps the hardest case: a situation where human rights discourse is very legitimately being deployed against communism

Apologism for left-fascist dictatorships

 https://the1313.law.columbia.edu/2025/05/27/bernard-e-harcourt-the-late-marx-of-the-gotha-program-bakunin-and-zasulich-introduction-to-the-last-seminar-of-marx-13-13/

Nationalist.  Jew hating. Dictator loving.

Cheka mate

Gates crying all the way to the bank

  Hyperscalers driving the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution have been spending hundreds of billions annually since 2024 to build AI i...