tldr the kind of repression and state control that @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de notes in Cuba as disqualifying it from the label of ‘socialism’ and making it ‘communism’ instead are actually the precise things that make Cuba a socialist state, as opposed to a communist post-state society.

It’s an error to just use the words like ‘socialism’ = ‘cool and good’ while ‘communism’ = ‘bad and scary’ because that’s just 2nd grade tier analysis that doesn’t clear anything up at all, and just confuses you further.

One thing that’s worth noting is that Israel and the US are the two countries that voted against making food a human right at the UN and both are actively committing genocide via starvation.

These two processes are actually intrinsically connected and are part of a broader strategy I fear is only going to see more examples as climate collapse plays out. There’s going to be more groups that the imperialist powers will want to wipe out and ecosystem collapse will cause famines that a blockade can escalate into a mass death event.

There was also a famine in the 30s in Kazakhstan, not just Ukraine. A similar number of people died.

Well he is creating something new and very annoying

Makes sense. If the US succeeds in regime change, the comprador government in Iran would probably assist in a future occupation or interventions in Afghanistan.

Yeah probably

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Why so straight today?

Read Blackshirts and Reds

Watch the 1986 Yellow Lecture

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How does everyone have the emojis for this comic in this thread? Are y’all manually copying them from somewhere?

Because that could be false in a few different ways, as Ziggurter said.

Yeah that’s exactly what I mean, but the sticking point is that applying his rule means anyone who says “Israel should stop existing and Palestine should be the only state in that territory” is out of line. Sure, it’s because of his respect for international law (which is what makes his work as an academic rock solid) but it’s still a rule that is incompatible with the realities of imperialism.

You’re missing the point, we aren’t distrusting the Venezuelan source. The question remains, if the news is fake, which part? That’s what Ziggurter was asking about. The only thing the source is doing is denying the entire claim without any clarification.

The article doesn’t actually answer his question. The article just relays that a Venezuelan official posted the screenshot with the red “fake” overlayed on his Telegram.

This is true but there’s a lot of things I would criticize Norm for before that. If knew Noam was so close to Epstein he wouldn’t have acted that way, that much is clear from how Norm acted towards Epstein and Dershowitz.

Yes. He has explained his reasoning as being based on upholding international law insofar as it holds Israel accountable for its crimes but also with the right that it grants Israel to exist. He then criticizes BDS for having their cake and eating it too, since some leaders in BDS have said that they don’t want Israel to exist anymore, while BDS generally upholds international law to justify their criticism of Israel.

The lesson you should learn from Noam disappointing you is not to idolize intellectuals.

Norm isn’t a pedophile but he’s transphobic and kind of a crank. He’s expressed distaste for BDS on the grounds that BDS doesn’t strictly endorse Israel’s right to exist. He still denounces ‘political correctness’ which is kind of endearing because it means he’s not online enough to know it’s called woke now. He basically wrote a whole book lamenting how idpol and DEI are ruining everything.

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