From what I understand he has been unwell for a while but it is still a very sad day.
Thank you comrade for your gifts to us all. You have helped a lot of us become better human beings. May those seeds help bear fruit to emancipate the world.
As va11kyrie said, from the Peace, Land and Bread issue - though the author conveniently skips significantly the positive development of socialism under the communist party. Before becoming ML Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine introduced me to shock therapy but as an ML I probably need more accurate sources (the only one I can think of top of my head is To Kill A Nation by Parenti but that only touches on this as a tangent).
I reckon they must be using AI to do quick searches on marxist literature for choice quotes which honestly I am perfectly fine with. I might start reading Wire again just for this series.
That last quote is just plain awesome, especially considering what sort of site is saying it. This must be one of the best "China is bad"/ cope articles I have read in a while.
For years tankies kept saying that no, Russia won’t take over Europe, the US is the biggest threat, and you were called a Russian bot for it
Now Trump has shared a vid of him literally planting a flag on Greenland and calling it a US territory
And if recent events still won't convince them otherwise it just goes to prove that they weren't brainwashed to begin with (if rationalising Ukrainian nazis and clapping for them, while denigrating palestinian fighters against genocide, wasn't enough). There's literally a live example of their purported paradigms coming to shatters which would logically dictate that they should change their worldview but if they don't then it is because they exist along the axis of perceived benefit as (sub)imperialists; they were intelligently seeking narratives as license for their bigotry.
As Parenti says most of the world is capitalist and most of the world is poor; the relations amplified by capital ends up atomising families and individuals - they can end up losing their communal solidarity and could be left with nationalism without the liberation struggle, often along sectarian or religious divisions. I think the defaulting to individualism as a means of survival is a relatively new phenomenon.
(1) Because the Western ones have been bribed separating themselves from the global proleteriat (2) and the others are having to deal with both their own bourgoisie and western imperialism at the same time.
He's my favourite US president; he's the most personified form of the phrase "capital sows the seeds of its destruction" and he does it with such unintentional levity.
If you had to point to a single document that so quickly conveys that the material always come before the idea then it would be this; the two brain cells that strained to write this would not have any power if it was not for a whole system that allows it.
It lays bare naked the dictatorship against the global proleteriat; capitalists are but servants at the altar of capital.
Attempt to bolster the security of the Bourgoisie Proleteriat and petty-bourgoisie by reducing the pool of eligible candidates, using perceived lack of allegiance to Whiteness as a filtering mechanism.
One could consider, maybe crudely, what the attempt at the pro-social project of the NHS in the capitalist country of UK is to what mechanisms of capital, including its idea of markets, is under a dictatorship of the proleteriat.
He's taking the piss (ie sardonic/ironic) given his whole angle (see below).
Doesn't mean he's always right (though his irony here in this is example is just generally correct) or even a scientific socialist given his anti-russian and anti-chinese rhetoric echoing imperial talking points (even anti-maduro stuff in the past regarding elections, from what I recall).
But he is otherwise quite anti-west including holding most westerners (especially USAmericans) accountable for the crimes of their countries. Which is why he sometimes comes off sounding correct because even if you don't know a thing about socialism or imperialism, being anti-western can sometimes be not too bad an heuristic on politics given how awful the West is and the commanding heights of imperialism being the US.
He openly admits that his viewers have a parasocial relationship with youtubers, that his channel isn't some revolutionary avenue, and that he is happy to make money making easy dunks such as on pro-zionists. Some of the videos on his main channel can be educational (such as on Nazi Germany's inspiration from the US with manifest Destiny and Lebensraum).
But he is also a good example that if one wants to extend their political educstion beyond BE level of anti-western imperialism then self claimed marxists better get to grips of prodhounism, dialectical materialism and start reading broadly beyond Settlers*.
*= has no real grounded theory of political economy on why the global labour aristocracy / bourgoisie proleteriat also includes people of colour, especially in the West. It's great book to introduce someone how bad the history of white western proleteriat is but then hits its limitations quickly.
From what I understand he has been unwell for a while but it is still a very sad day.
Thank you comrade for your gifts to us all. You have helped a lot of us become better human beings. May those seeds help bear fruit to emancipate the world.