https://open.substack.com/pub/rainershea/p/to-be-respectable-in-the-online-left
There’s a difference between what’s best for gaining popularity within online “left” spaces, and what’s best for advancing the revolutionary struggle. It’s not hard to notice this problem, the members of the left-wing video essay community “Breadtube” have repeatedly observed how there’s an issue with making politics into a fandom. Yet it’s not like merely recognizing this problem makes these creators able to see what the solution is. That solution is to not just become disillusioned with the notion that consuming Breadtube does anything to change the balance of class power, but also give up the ideology that underlies this false solution. To sell the illusion that online politics represents something genuinely offensive towards the existing power structure, the facilitators and spokespeople of these fandoms have to propagate a certain idea: that anybody who deviates from what’s considered the approved narratives within left spaces is an enemy, that to be considered “respectable” you’d better know what not to think and say.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230515/pepe-escobar-us-empire-of-debt-headed-for-collapse-1110374196.html
Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point” is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic...
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/a-history-of-russian-innovation
On this historic date of May 9th, join me in taking a leisurely stroll through the history of Russian achievement.
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/economics-and-empires-4
Strategic Considerations about Developments in Asia
https://open.substack.com/pub/rainershea/p/left-sectarian-attacks-on-rage-against
Image from Tampa Bay TimesThanks for reading Rainer’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. When Marxists Speak Out wrote their recent May Day statement The Escalation of the World War Danger and the Need for a New Communist International
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/apocalypse-operation-barbarossa
The History of Battle: Maneuver, Part 11
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vgturf3ZjF8
Lenin is Always With You is a tribute to Lenin himself. Lenin was a great man with great ideas but history has since slandered his name. Lenin made many acco...
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/x01.htm
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
I’ve become very skeptical of the concept of “brainwashing.” Over the past few months this skepticism has boiled over into open and explicit disagreement with even well-meaning pushers within the Marxist-Leninist corner. I often find it difficult to explain concisely why it is…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WndEX9A5FBk
#china #chinaspace #nasa #chinaspaceraceChina's space program has been rapidly expanding and has become increasingly aggressive in recent years. The country...
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