Pure coincidence that it happened immediately after Spain and Portugal brought all that gold and silver into Europe. It's not connected in any way. The Incas could have created capitalism too if they tried harder
When you're rich, you can budget in terms of years. In fact, almost all "successful" businesses operate at a loss for five years or more before they are consistently profitable. The whole thing is held together with debt, family fortunes, and con jobs
Didn't Mamdani announce that he's going to work on building a mass movement mobilization org? And this announcement came after he already won the election. If he follows through on that, and the org is used for more than just electoralism, he may represent an advancement to a higher stage of struggle compared to AOC/Bernie etc. Especially with the very local nature of his political constituency, I'm holding out hope that he may build class consciousness in a way that we haven't seen in the US
Why not just translate the whole thing to English? No reasonable person will have a negative reaction to "globalize the resistance". Most Americans associate the word "intifada" with the suicide bombing tactics of the second intifada, it's not a betrayal of Palestine to recognize the cultural context of Americans that creates a negative connotation to that word, even if fully educated comrades recognize the actual meaning of the term "intifada" is very different. If Mamdani's stance is purely the discouragement of the specific wording, without being opposed to the true meaning of the phrase itself, then this stance is perfectly acceptable. Based on the totality of his statements on Zionism and the genocide, I believe this to be the case.
There was a point in high school when I realized I missed that phase, and tried really hard to make cars my special interest for a month to learn the makes and models.
I couldn't do it. It just didn't work. I don't know what it is, but some of us aren't "car people". Like I learned a little bit, but there is no chance that I could look at a car on the street and say "oh that's a ____" unless it's something I've personally owned before
Chinese students are subjected to rote learning—memorizing and obeying rather than questioning or thinking independently.
Couldn't this be said of most education systems in the world? Teaching students to think independently is difficult, hard to scale, and typically creates friction with whoever is in charge (even if they're communists). I definitely remember having this criticism of my American schools
Fwiw I'm fine with comraderat's comment, my low effort comment was meant to be ironic and in retrospect was in bad taste. (Now removed) Obviously, downplaying COVID's ongoing effects is liberalism. If I thought someone was a chud I would also tell them to go fuck themselves, I think that should be allowed here.
Pure coincidence that it happened immediately after Spain and Portugal brought all that gold and silver into Europe. It's not connected in any way. The Incas could have created capitalism too if they tried harder