death to 🇺🇸 as always

I mean, I don't really hate Lincoln. WEB Du Bois seemed to have a fair respecr for him. But still, not as good as some others

(Also I used to fucking like ataturk goddamn why does turkey suck so much I tried so hard to like them. [It's still Istanbul though {cause it's nobodies business except the turks}])

(Also Also it's robespierre behind the W there.)

Wang Jingxi, hero of labor, at the Daqing oil field

I keep having them reccomended to me and wanted to know if any likeminded people here have had any interaction with them, especially her one about gender. I'm sure she's a liberal but is her work still any good? (Also how much about math do I need to know to actually understand her works, or not be duped by Gell-mann amnesia)?

May he rest in piss.

Following Estonia's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the country engaged in a fast-paced neoliberal transition to secure its alliance with the West. Simultaneously, the newly independent state decided to exclude the 500,000 Soviet migrants living in Estonia from its citizenry, thereby making a third of its population stateless. The aim of this article is to explore how the three political projects of independent Estonia – that is, creating and maintaining the ethnonationalist citizenship regime, the country's neoliberal transition and Estonia's Westward integration through a “Return to Europe” – have converged, mutually reinforced each other, and become irrevocably intertwined. To this end, the article traces the historical, material and discursive production of statelessness in Estonia. The initial exclusion of Soviet migrants from citizenship was justified on the basis of “restoring” Estonia to its pre-USSR demographic composition. While many left, those wh

Everyone here knows the Parenti quote referenced in the title by now.

"During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence."

That is to say, if the Soviet Union does something bad, that's bad. If the Soviet Union does something good, that's also bad. "Communism is evil" is an implicit truism Americans and westerners carry with them everywhere.

Parenti was writing for the audience of late 20th century America, before the maturation of the internet. Now, in the 21st century, we still see this thinking (or lack thereof) applied against the PRC, the DPRK, Cuba, and even modern Russia. Even so, it has changed with the times and the media technology available.

For most of the 20th century, there was a relative dearth of information. You only got your news from television broadcast or even radio if not newspaper, meaning geography and language constituted a significant limitation to the informati

From the 1950s onward, lobotomy began to be abandoned,[9] first in the Soviet Union,[10] where the procedure immediately garnered extensive criticism and was not widely employed, before being banned in December 1950,[11]

It us said that the Stalin administration's Ws were so numerous that they couldn't keep track of them all. Many of these Ws were lost in transportation, had to be exported or were left rotting in the fields and there was a huge overcapacity of Ws. The Soviet citizens kept begging the government to reduce W production, but the administration paid them no heed.

Named after Choe Hyon, who resisted the fascist Japanese

Ive seen both reccomended as a proper formulation of genuine political economy textbooks that are more than the theoretical writings like Kapital and such. However I wanted to get a second opinion since I don't see these resources talked about that much and I'm unsure if there is a better fit for a more modern audience (me), or how much they overlap/compliment each other.

What I typed up in my original Reddit post:

I'm trying to use pictures and footage in a way that's not copyright infringement. I'm trying to take a note from Hbomberguy here. But of course, that may be impossible, I'm just not sure. Maybe it's a high bar. Do YouTubers often check or give credit in their pictures?

I'm trying make sure I don't get into trouble and remain ethical, take the moral path, so to speak. I have sources, at least. Maybe not full citations, but I talk about my sources in my book reviews. But the pictures and slides confuse me. Is there a way to cite them or do I just take them from Google images or some stock photo and use them? What about screenshoting some?

What about using footage or footage from other YouTubers? Stock footage? Or footage from another YouTube channel, like historical footage or black-and-white footage? Or, say, you wanted to use a gaming stream footage? I'm trying to cover my bases here.

I'm just trying to not get in trouble an

There may be $10,000 to every mistake one makes when applying for Social Security, from my understanding of the situation.

People probably don't realize the stakes at play here and how thankful they should be for China's unyielding position since "liberation day". The future of the global order literally rests on it.

Basically they keep repeating almost word-for-word the same thing for 3 weeks:

"Tariff and trade wars have no winners... China doesn't look for a war but neither are we afraid of it... If the U.S. wants to talk, it should stop threatening and blackmailing [us] and seek dialogue based on equality, respect and mutual benefit. To keep asking for a deal while exerting extreme pressure is not the right way to deal with China and simply will not work."

Translation: remove the tariffs, approach us as equals, or there will be no deal. Period.

There's a good case to be made that it is this very consistency in China's stance that's: a) emboldening other nations to resist American pressure—not a single country has capitulated to US demands since China took its stand b) forcing the Trump administrati