HeavenAndEarth 3mo ago • 100%
Check out the work of Wayne Price. Pick whatever seems interesting https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/wayne-price
HeavenAndEarth 3mo ago • 75%
Analysis I don't agree with = coping and malding?
HeavenAndEarth 5mo ago • 0%
Start making love instead
https://slavoj.substack.com/p/a-leftist-plea-for-new-imperialist He's earnestly advocating for imperialism. I'm just going to post the last paragraphs and bold of the most eyebrow raising sentences. >So how are we to act in this depressive situation? We should above all avoid the false “public use of reason” which advises neutrality and the search for peace through negotiations. The most disgusting thing to do at this moment is to repeat with triumph the old motif “we were telling you for years that Ukraine cannot win…” – obviously true, but whatever the final outcome will be, Ukraine achieved an unexpected miracle in resisting Russia for such a long time. **Another stupidity is the idea that the Ukrainian war is just a moment of the conflict between Russia and NATO, with thousands of Ukrainians sacrificed to the NATO interests to weaken Russia. Are Ukrainians really so stupid to play this role while they could have enjoyed peace?** What peace? Russian occupation which would annihilate them as a nation… This is why the alternative “peace through negotiations or war” is a false one: Ukraine will be in a position to negotiate only if it will remain strong enough to present a real obstacle to Russian invasion. >In such a predicament, the only serious option is to finally accept that we are entering a global emergency state: we are at war and only a full Western commitment can give Ukraine a chance. The same holds for Gaza - here again only the US military intervention can save things. Not long ago a picture circulated from inside Gaza showing smoke billowing from the explosion of a US-supplied bomb, and discernible in the background was the outline of eight black parachutes dropping US aid in precisely the same neighborhood.[2] This photo renders perfectly the opportunism of the US politics: supplying the arms to bomb Gaza and then helping the people whose lives were ruined by these same bombs – this is what humanitarian help means today. >The US has been humiliated again and again. As crazy as this may sound, the fact that the US are no longer able to act as a global superpower also has its bad aspects - history repeats itself, just recall the US army’s withdrawal from north Syria to protect the Kurds, as well as the premature withdrawal from Afghanistan. **As I already suggested in a recent text of mine, ideally the US (with some allies) should simply invade Gaza from the sea, establish its own power zone there where millions of civilian refugees will be safe, providing for their elementary welfare and in this way constrain Israeli power - it is a safe bet that Israel would not risk an open conflict with the US. In crazy times, crazy acts are needed. **Before you dismiss this idea as madness, think realistically what would happen! It would be a great relief for millions of starved and bombed civilians. Similarly, one should take the risk to raise the Ukrainian war to a higher level, setting clear red lines that Russia should not overrun. One should, of course, proceed very carefully not to provoke a global war – but, again, the only way to prevent a new global war is to take calculated risks now. >Will something like this happen? **The one thing one can rely on is that the US regularly miss the opportunity to use (whatever remains of) its global imperialist power for a good cause.**
And what's an example of a non-atomized society?
https://twitter.com/itamarbengvir/status/1788458123436433783 Reality stranger than fiction etc etc...
https://twitter.com/MavenNavarro1/status/1785785576571994299 
https://twitter.com/AShihipar/status/1784970226674634904 The tides are turning, lmao
https://twitter.com/BRICSinfo/status/1783257899147395519
https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1784137358625108231
https://twitter.com/johnkvallis/status/1779303075364442585
HeavenAndEarth 6mo ago • 0%
Does anyone know what this means practically?
It was racism all along?  https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1776874195848159658
https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1774780636563144852 Completely normal country
https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1765424502870081901
www.vaticannews.va
>Addressing participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God.” Pope Francis describes so-called gender ideology as the "ugliest danger" of our time, because it cancels out all differences that make humanity. Pope Francis on Friday again spoke out against gender theory describing it as an “ugly ideology of our time”, because it erases all distinctions between men and women. To ceancel this difference “is to erase humanity. Man and woman, instead, exist in a fruitful ‘tension’”, he said. ## The Symposium The remarks came as he opened his address to participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God. Towards an Anthropology of Vocations" held in the Vatican on March 1-2. The Congress is organized by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Bishops, together with the Centre for Research and Anthropology of Vocations (CRAV) and is a follow-up to the previous 2022 Symposium dedicated to the theology of the priesthood. Introducing his address the Pope said he still has a cold and asked his assistant Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli to read it out for him, "so I don't get so fatigued.” In the prepared text the Pope reflected on the theme of the Congress which is aimed first of all at highlighting the anthropological dimension of every vocation. ## The human person is a vocation Indeed, he remarked, “the life of the human being is a vocation” which has a relational character: “I exist and live in relation to who generated me, to the reality that transcends me, to others and to the world around me, in which I am called to embrace a specific and personal mission with joy and responsibility.” “Each one of us discovers and expresses oneself as called, as a person who realizes oneself in listening and response, sharing our being and gifts with others for the common good.” This fundamental anthropological truth is sometimes overlooked in today's cultural context, where human beings tend to be reduced to their mere material and primary needs. Yet, Pope Francis said , they are more than this: created by God in His own image, man and woman “carry within themselves a desire for eternity and happiness that God himself has planted in their hearts and that they are called to fulfil through a specific vocation.” “Our being in the world is not a mere fruit of chance, but we are part of a design of love and are invited to go out of ourselves and realize it, for ourselves and for others,” the Pope said. “We are called to happiness, to the fullness of life, to something great to which God has destined us.” ## We all have a mission in Church and society Recalling Cardinal Saint John Henry Newman’s “Meditations and Prayers” Pope Francis further remarked that not only we have all been entrusted with a mission, but ”each and every one of us is a mission.” The Pope therefore welcomed the symposium and the studies conducted on this topic because, he said, “they spread awareness of the vocation to which every human being is called by God”, and are also useful to reflect on today’s challenges, on the ongoing anthropological crisis, and on the need to promote human and Christian vocations. ## Promoting a more effective "circularity" of vocations He also emphasized the importance of promoting “a more effective circularity” of the different types of vocations in the Church, including lay vocations, ordained ministry and consecrated life, so they “can contribute to generating hope in a world overwhelmed by death.” “Generating this hope, placing oneself at the service of the Kingdom of God to build an open and fraternal world is a mission entrusted to every woman and man of our time,” he said. ## The courage to seek God’s will Closing his address, Pope Francis encouraged the participants in the Symposium not to shy away from risks in seeking God’s will in their work, reminding them a living faith is not an artifact in a museum:”The Holy Spirit asks us fidelity, but fidelity moves, and often leads us to take risks”, he said. “Move forward with the courage to discern and risk seeking God's will.”
Shame on you all
youtu.be
Is liberal socialism a contradiction in terms? An oxymoron? Or are liberalism and socialism necessary for the realization of the political objectives that each share and profess? We are joined by Matt McManus, author of the forthcoming book, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism to make the case for his vision of a renewed liberal socialism for our time.
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
Beware that, when fighting monsters dunking on posts, you yourself do not become a monster dunked on
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
If someone is debating better than you, you call them a debate pervert 
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
It's a shibboleth for this community. Something you use to alienate people who don't know that, under all those layers of irony, you don't actually want to kill white people. Also preserves the identity of the community as an edgy/crass leftist space.
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
You're telling me a corporation condemns Hamas? 
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
Will you send me a Valentine's even though I'm not white? 
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1750376543078232169
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
They were correct so far on the resilience of capitalism
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
Love me some chapo
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
Graeber's rejection of the concept of the state undermines one of the basic assumptions of anarchist thought, which is anti-statism. As the reviewer says,
But this “simplistic” conception of the state is also the conception that fuels or articulates the anarchist critique of the state, from William Godwin to Mikhail Bakunin to Emma Goldman [...] In late Graeber, this looks simplistic and nonempirical. “The state” is a concept that falls apart under analysis and should be abandoned. Of course, that makes anti-statism just as senseless, for what is an anti-statist fighting against, really?
Same logic applies to his rejection of egalitarianism, which is also an important aspect of anarchist thought. I think late Graeber would dismiss anarchism as based on the same flawed Enlightenment assumptions that he spends debunking in The Dawn of Everything.
I think Graeber remained a radical throughout his life, but not an anarchist in his later works. Unless you're using a more expansive definition of anarchism?
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
I think this article is good. Dismissing the concept of egalitarianism and the state does seem like a move away from anarchism
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
gatekeep gaslight girlboss
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
I had the same thing a few weeks ago
It didn't let me ban anyone though 
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
Do you disagree?
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
How did Vivek get 8 percent
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
I think sectarian posting should be allowed, as long as it's high effort analysis and not deliberately trying to be antagonistic. I think that would encourage more dialogue rather than stifling it.
HeavenAndEarth 9mo ago • 100%
He's not a Marxist? Damn I guess it's good to spread libel then