Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of (four) 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb.

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  • According to the journalist Sennen Andriamirado, who wrote two early books on Sankara, the Burkinabè leader believed that “Stalin killed Leninism by stifling the soviets and making all-powerful the Cheka [secret police], the military,” and other repressive bodies.

    Hmm, I wonder if protecting the socialist leadership was a factor in this. Too bad he got assassinated, proving that using state power to oppose the reactionary forces is critically important in a nascent socialist state.













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    Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts : Western Ukraine’s fascist settlers :: Gaza and West Bank : Israel’s fascist settlers

    That’s why Ukrainian nationalists (Banderites) burned down a Trade Union building in Odessa in 2014. Ukrainian nationalists supported by the US took power in a coup. There was then an anti-Russian ethnic cleansing campaign across Ukraine but most especially in the ethnic Russian regions for 8 years along the Eastern border.

    History does not start in 2022.






  • culprit@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.ml"cuz, y'know, China bad."
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    • modern electricity grid quickly moving away from fossil fuels
    • high speed train network
    • cheap fresh produce
    • affordable housing
    • transitioning to socialism via the development of productive forces
    • strong investment in education and R&D
    • quickly advancing tech in almost every sector that matters
    • people-directed governance that is not subservient to capital (foreign or domestic)
    • very low crime
    • ecological restoration that won’t get cancelled by the next elected administration
    • cheap and good quality healthcare
    • bold long term vision and consistent achievement of it over time

    objectively better than just about any other place



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    There’s an interesting blog that analyzes the transition of political economy from medieval europe to the rise of capital through a perspective of the mechanics of occult practices. It’s pretty well thought out and compares church occult practices and their relations to “capital occultism” via social relations and rituals.

    This post is about how money aka capital is transmuted to embody commodified labor value in a similar structure of social relations (“occult magic”) as the holy cracker being consecrated and transmuted to embody the flesh of Jesus Christ.

    https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/dark-eucharist-of-the-real-god/

    The previous post is also quite good that covers the concept of Marx’s “real god” that is manifested via the capital imperative to continuously increase profit and accumulation.




  • Guess you haven’t been following the news lately.

    Yet just as these creative expressions of national resistance reached peak global influence, YouTube jumped in. The platform suspended the Explosive Media channel under baseless allegations of policy violations, effectively silencing a powerful voice of dissent

    What followed was a transparent smear campaign by Western media outlets, led by the BBC, aimed at discrediting the creators and justifying the censorship. Their goal was clear: to silence any narrative that dared challenge the official US-Israeli framing of the aggression.




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    “Territoriality” implies defense of an area, and many researchers create maps that help graphically illustrate the range, or territory, of a given wolf pack.

    However, the area defended is not as clearly defined as a map may indicate. Territory shifts can occur seasonally or year to year.

    Also notable is that neighboring territories may overlap. However, while the same area may be used by several packs, use will not occur at the same time.

    https://www.nps.gov/articles/life-of-a-wolf.htm