dessalines

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Admins can see voting patterns.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

The nazi's copying the US colonialist model, but in eastern europe:

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Downvote spam report: 1/4th of the downvotes on this one (so far) are from zero-content accounts.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Part of the post ww2 division of labor. The US would keep its war industry and become western capitalism's primary enforcement arm worldwide, letting its allies or defeated clients host US military bases and develop consumer products industries.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Losurdo has a few good chapters specifically about a lot of the modern german ideological support for zionism in his book War and Revolution.

It's a really complicated subject, dealing with the historical guilt from the judeocide, and supporting Israel being an easy and surface-level way to alleviate that guilt.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Over 10 of the downvotes so far are from zero-content accounts.

It'lll be interesting to see how pro-zionist or political party PACs devoted to social media influencing like (correct-the-record for the US democratic party) will affect the fediverse, and what we can do about it.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

All of Marx's main concepts, surplus value, classes and class struggle, alienation, are just as relevant today as when they were written. Much like Newton, Marx built the solid foundation that scientific socialists stand on today.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

The Obama administration dropped an average of 60 bombs every single day, on the middle east and north africa, during his presidency.

Has there been any reckoning or reflection on that atrocity, within the democratic party?

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