Sorry, but communism is alive. Our struggle for a better society is here, as it has been for more than a century.
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My approach is to try to understand the people based on their historical context and accept the existence of contradictions in the way they see the world. I'm not an anarchist, but Proudhon was essential to the development of the anarchism (i.e., the social and anti-capitalist libertarian ideology and philosophy) and very influential in the socialist development (together with Marx, Blanqui...) and to construct the ideological frameworks of socialism from the previous utopian socialists.
You Deserve It and Bait Provoked Reaction.
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I have had the same cringe reaction to your original message that have got @poVoq@slrpnk.net. There you speak about genetics, no ethnicity.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17339715
Ghassan Kanafani Assassinated (1972)
Sat Jul 08, 1972
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian author and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), assassinated on this day in 1972 by Israeli forces in retaliation for the Lod Airport Massacre, claimed by the PLFP.
In May, when the outbreak of hostilities in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War spilled over into the city of Acre, Kanafani and his family were forced into exile while he was still a child. After fleeing ~eleven miles north to Lebanon, they settled in Damascus, Syria as Palestinian refugees.
In 1969, after establishing himself as an author and journalist, he joined The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and, resigned from his post as editor for the magazine Al-Anwar to edit the PFLP's weekly magazine, al-Hadaf ("The Goal"). He drafted a PFLP program in which the movement officially took up Marxism-Leninism, a notable departure from pan-Arab nationalist ideology.
On July 8th, 1972, at the age of 36, Kanafani was assassinated via car bomb by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad for his role in the PLFP, which claimed responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre.
The massacre, committed by three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the PLFP, killed 26 people, injuring 80 others.
Ghassan Kanafani was an influential author, whose literary works have been translated into at least 17 languages and published in 20 countries. He began writing short stories when working as a teacher in refugee camps. Often written through the eyes of children, his stories were designed to help his students contextualize their surroundings.
"Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause."
- Ghassan Kanafani
- Date: 1972-07-08
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.middleeastmonitor.com.
- Tags: #Marxism, #Assassinations, #Massacre.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16976545
Founding of the IWW (1905) The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, is an anti-capitalist and internationalist labor union whose slogan says "An...
Founding of the IWW (1905)
Tue Jun 27, 1905
Image: The IWW logo
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, is an anti-capitalist and internationalist labor union whose slogan says "An injury to one is an injury to all!"
The IWW promotes the concept of "One Big Union", and contends that all workers should be united as a social class to supplant capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy.
The IWW was officially founded in Chicago, Illinois on June 27th, 1905. A convention was held of 200 socialists and radical trade unionists from all over the United States who opposed the policies and politics of the more moderate American Federation of Labor (AFL). In particular, the IWW opposed the American Federation of Labor's acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions.
The IWW's founders included many historically important labor activists and socialist thinkers, including "Big Bill" Haywood, James Connolly, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others.
- Date: 1905-06-27
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, iww.org.
- Tags: #Socialism, #Labor, #IWW.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
PTB.
The USA is not only supporting the genocide with money and arms; they (and the UK) have also been bombing the only state (Yemen) that has tried to fulfill the international principle of Responsabilty to Protect (R2P) and has deployed their naval army to prevent others states to do it and/or to help with the genocide.
For me, that's enough to speak of an Israel-USA-UK genocide.
And sorry to go off-topic. 🤷🏽
Edit: added wiki link snd typos