CleverOleg [he/him]

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Cake day: May 18th, 2023

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  • I don’t think the following is actually “true”, just describing it this way to get a point across:

    It feels like, maybe two weeks ago, for the first time in years those involved at the absolute heights of imperialist power all got together in a smoky room and planned out their next moves. NATO has ratcheted up support for Ukraine in incredibly dangerous ways (for the first time in over 2.5 I’m starting to get genuinely concerned NATO will risk all out war with Russia). What’s going on in Syria has very obvious NATO and Israel coordination. Then there’s the ceasefire - which I am not a doomer about, but I have also been assuming there must be some sort of unwritten agreement to wind down the fighting in Gaza.

    None of this is dooming, just that this all feels coordinated and very significant.

    The empire strikes back.











  • I could see making a “ceasefire” deal with the Lebanese government and not Hezbollah as political cover. Perhaps “Israel” pulls its troops out of Lebanon and stops the bombing campaign. Then when Hezbollah continues attacking the north, the “Israelis” will say that they’re just being peaceful and Hezbollah is attacking them despite a “ceasefire” being signed. And then basically everything goes back to where it was just before “Israel” tried to invade Lebanon.

    But I am seeing reports (particularly on Al-Jazeera) that it’s a ceasefire with Hezbollah, and for that I have no idea. It would be hard to imagine Hezbollah capitulating, but just as hard to imagine Israel ending the genocide in Gaza.



  • The problem with getting rid of the badposting comm is that it doesn’t stop people from posting that crap. They just do it on other comms so now everyone has to see it. Sucks that the only solution is to log in but I curate my comms and when I’m logged in the Hexbear experience is much better. I don’t like badposting any more than you but unfortunately having a quarantine comm is the only practical solution.







  • Libs cannot imagine that the Cuban people support the revolution.

    I just finished reading Helen Yaffe’s Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution, which documents Che’s time as head of MININD in Cuba as well as his economic ideas. One thing that is clear is that Che thought you need to develop that revolutionary consciousness in the people even in the earliest stages of the transition to socialism. I was a bit skeptical - not because that’s not important, but because it seems like idealism to me to think you can change hearts and minds (the superstructure) while development of the socialist base is just starting the transition away from capitalism.

    But then again, the people of Cuba do seem to fully back the revolution, and to this day Cuba is communist. Meanwhile, folks in the Eastern Bloc were envious of westerners who had rock music and blue jeans, and they have capitulated to capitalism (I know the abandonment of communism in the Eastern Bloc is more complicated than that, but I do think there certainly was a lack of revolutionary spirit was a contributing factor even if it wasn’t the main factor). So clearly I think Che was on to something.