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."
Thursday, January 1, 2026
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
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
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