c_man posted:i feel like a lot of the mtw analysis of the current global situation makes lots of sense but there seems to be a tendency to get kind of goofy when talking about organization
funny, its almost as if COINTELPRO doesn't particularly care what people are saying as long as they can't/won't effectively organize around it...
Keven posted:I'm still pretty sure mtw is objectively correct revolutionary science but it's no way for me to live my life. Sorry everyone.
fape posted:
fape posted:
When joining the European Union — as the former Communist countries have done since 2004 — nations are asked to pledge support to a raft of so-called European values, including open markets, transparent government, respect for an independent media, open borders, cultural diversity, protection of minorities and a rejection of xenophobia.
But the reality is that the former Communist states have proved sluggish in actually absorbing many of these values and practicing them. Oligarchs, cronyism and endemic corruption remain a part of daily life in many of the countries, freedom of the press is in decline while rising nationalism and populist political movements have stirred anti-immigrant tensions.
Anti-racism is as potentially co-potable as anything else.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/world/europe/eastern-europe-migrant-refugee-crisis.html
it's like: guess what Western liberals? the Soviet Union was once a place the Third World & PoC looked up to and were well treated in. you undermined it and sabotaged it at every turn and, while you felt uneasy about that Reagan guy's arms buildups and genocidal proxy wars, you ultimately embraced the end result as the birth of a new "open society."
in conclusion: .
discipline posted:Urbandale posted:if theyre doing it for increased access to labor then why the strict controls against ukrainians
they have literally no control over the massive influx of refugees without it becoming an incredible disaster.
oops they did it anyway. lol. germany just invoked emergency powers to (every sentence starting like that is always a good time) impose border controls and ignore Schengen. "temporarily"
Germany introduced border controls on Sunday, and dramatically halted all train traffic with Austria
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/13/germany-to-close-borders-exit-schengen-emergency-measures
HenryKrinkle posted:yeah it's really frustrating watching Eastern European xenophobia get blamed on Putinism, Slavic backwardness, religiosity and not, you know, the massive economic dislocation that hit the region after the USSR collapsed.
it's like: guess what Western liberals? the Soviet Union was once a place the Third World & PoC looked up to and were well treated in. you undermined it and sabotaged it at every turn and, while you felt uneasy about that Reagan guy's arms buildups and genocidal proxy wars, you ultimately embraced the end result as the birth of a new "open society."
in conclusion: .
some looked up to them, others not so much:
https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/historpedia/home/politics-and-government/the-secret-war-and-hmong-genocide-fall-2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar_Revolution
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/masters-of-ethiopias-red-terror-face-trial-for-genocide-1302752.html
drwhat posted:discipline posted:Urbandale posted:if theyre doing it for increased access to labor then why the strict controls against ukrainians
they have literally no control over the massive influx of refugees without it becoming an incredible disaster.
oops they did it anyway. lol. germany just invoked emergency powers to (every sentence starting like that is always a good time) impose border controls and ignore Schengen. "temporarily"
Germany introduced border controls on Sunday, and dramatically halted all train traffic with Austria
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/13/germany-to-close-borders-exit-schengen-emergency-measures
Just in time for a meditation on Kant by Yanis
http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/09/14/on-german-moral-leadership-english-version-of-op-ed-in-sundays-frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung/
swirlsofhistory posted:HenryKrinkle posted:yeah it's really frustrating watching Eastern European xenophobia get blamed on Putinism, Slavic backwardness, religiosity and not, you know, the massive economic dislocation that hit the region after the USSR collapsed.
it's like: guess what Western liberals? the Soviet Union was once a place the Third World & PoC looked up to and were well treated in. you undermined it and sabotaged it at every turn and, while you felt uneasy about that Reagan guy's arms buildups and genocidal proxy wars, you ultimately embraced the end result as the birth of a new "open society."
in conclusion: .some looked up to them, others not so much:
https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/historpedia/home/politics-and-government/the-secret-war-and-hmong-genocide-fall-2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar_Revolution
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/masters-of-ethiopias-red-terror-face-trial-for-genocide-1302752.html
lmao you moron
discipline posted:Urbandale posted:if theyre doing it for increased access to labor then why the strict controls against ukrainians
they have literally no control over the massive influx of refugees without it becoming an incredible disaster. they were hoping the hungarians could do their dirty work. but when the media started to report on hungarians writing numbers on people and putting them on trains they knew they were hopeless. besides these people are walking to germany - what will you do, gun them down?
they will settle with them sleeping in train stations for a while before the germans start to complain. most likely they're going to start building camps for these people, but they won't call them camps. they will set them up as little prisons where people can work for a tiny wage. these people will open little shops and become little entrepreneurs. this is what will happen in the short term.
in the long term I don't even want to think about it.
http://www.rt.com/news/315168-buchenwald-refugees-housed-germany/
Crow posted:discipline posted:
Urbandale posted:
if theyre doing it for increased access to labor then why the strict controls against ukrainians
they have literally no control over the massive influx of refugees without it becoming an incredible disaster. they were hoping the hungarians could do their dirty work. but when the media started to report on hungarians writing numbers on people and putting them on trains they knew they were hopeless. besides these people are walking to germany - what will you do, gun them down?
they will settle with them sleeping in train stations for a while before the germans start to complain. most likely they're going to start building camps for these people, but they won't call them camps. they will set them up as little prisons where people can work for a tiny wage. these people will open little shops and become little entrepreneurs. this is what will happen in the short term.
in the long term I don't even want to think about it.
http://www.rt.com/news/315168-buchenwald-refugees-housed-germany/
ahahahahaha
http://www.globalresearch.ca/social-engineering-101-how-to-make-a-refugee-crisis-destruction-of-all-prevailing-political-orders-in-the-middle-east/5475758
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HenryKrinkle posted:yeah it's really frustrating watching Eastern European xenophobia get blamed on Putinism, Slavic backwardness, religiosity and not, you know, the massive economic dislocation that hit the region after the USSR collapsed.
it's like: guess what Western liberals? the Soviet Union was once a place the Third World & PoC looked up to and were well treated in. you undermined it and sabotaged it at every turn and, while you felt uneasy about that Reagan guy's arms buildups and genocidal proxy wars, you ultimately embraced the end result as the birth of a new "open society."
in conclusion: .
I find it difficult to believe any narrative that casts russian people as heroes, or indeed anything other than half mongol and half cirrhosis
Crow posted:.custom287572{color:#04048C !important; background-color:#F7F7F7 !important; }discipline posted:.custom287474{}Urbandale posted:if theyre doing it for increased access to labor then why the strict controls against ukrainians they have literally no control over the massive influx of refugees without it becoming an incredible disaster. they were hoping the hungarians could do their dirty work. but when the media started to report on hungarians writing numbers on people and putting them on trains they knew they were hopeless. besides these people are walking to germany - what will you do, gun them down?
they will settle with them sleeping in train stations for a while before the germans start to complain. most likely they're going to start building camps for these people, but they won't call them camps. they will set them up as little prisons where people can work for a tiny wage. these people will open little shops and become little entrepreneurs. this is what will happen in the short term.
in the long term I don't even want to think about it.
http://www.rt.com/news/315168-buchenwald-refugees-housed-germany/
by the living standards of much of the third world buchenwald is luxurious
Germany introduced border controls on Sunday, and dramatically halted all train traffic with Austria, after the country’s regions said they could no longer cope with the overwhelming number of refugees entering the country.
Interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, announced the measures after German officials said record numbers of refugees, most of them from Syria, had stretched the system to breaking point. “This step has become necessary,” he told a press conference in Berlin, adding it would cause disruption.
Asylum seekers must understand “they cannot choose the states where they are seeking protection,” he told reporters.
All trains between Austria and Bavaria, the principal conduit through which 450,000 refugees have arrived in Germany this year, ceased at 5pm Berlin time. Only EU citizens and others with valid documents would be allowed to pass through Germany’s borders, de Maizière said.
Cool if true