Non-archive: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/world/asia/china-tariffs-trade-warning.html

This is actually some interesting strategy from the US. Rather than trying to actually reindustrialise the USA itself, they could move their offshore labour to some other aspiring third world country. The carrot of becoming a "Second China" against the stick of suffering sanctions could be enough to convince some massive country like the Philippines to also embargo China.

They can also extract more surplus than corporations in China due to less labour regulation and class struggle.

Vietnam seems like a prime candidate to become to China what China was to the USSR in the 70s. Despite statements of solidarity and friendship, they can easily fill China's niche in the world market.

Ironically, this competition between the old economic bloc and the nascent Chinese one could lead to industrialisation efforts in the periphery of both.

I'm not as positive on China as most users here, so I see a c

Seems genzedong.xyz is down?

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/876796

The U.S. relationship with Ukrainian fascists began after the Second World War. During the war, units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) took part in the Holocaust, killing at least 100,000 Jews and Poles.

Mykola Lebed, a top aide to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the fascist OUN-B, was recruited by the C.I.A. after the war, according to a 2010 study by the U.S. National Archives.

The government study said, “Bandera’s wing (OUN/B) was a militant fascist organization.” Bandera’s closest deputy, Yaroslav Stetsko, said: ““I…fully appreciate the undeniably harmful and hostile role of the Jews, who are helping Moscow to enslave Ukraine…. I therefore support the destruction of the Jews and the expedience of bringing German methods of exterminating Jewry to Ukraine….”

The study says: “At a July 6, 1941, meeting in Lwów, Bandera loyalists determined that Jews ‘have to be treated harshl

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7631136

“Ruweida Amer, a journalist and teacher from Gaza, joins the show to report on Israel's US-backed genocide of Palestinians amid relentless bombardment and the total blockade of the besieged strip. Having worked on BreakThrough's film “The Encampments”, she discusses "Israel's" systematic destruction of Gaza's education system, where over 70% of schools have been directly hit and all universities destroyed since October 2023.”

" When I finished Carlyle's French Revolution in 1871, I was a Girondin; every time I have read it since, I have read it differently being influenced and changed, little by little, by life and environment (and Taine and St. Simon): and now I lay the book down once more, and recognize that I am a Sansculotte--And not a pale, characterless Sansculotte, but a Marat. Carlyle teaches no such gospel so the change is in me--in my vision of the evidences.

People pretend that the Bible means the same to them at 50 that it did at all former milestones in their journey. I wonder how they can lie so. It comes of practice, no doubt. They would not say that of Dickens's or Scott's books. Nothing remains the same. When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: there is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for. Shrunk how? Why, to its correct dimensions: the house hasn't altered; this is the first time it has been

The Communist and Workers’ Parties, which co-sign this Joint Statement, would like also in this way to honour a great revolutionary and theorist of scientific socialism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, as 22 April marks the 155th anniversary of his birth.

The imperialist war that is shedding the blood of the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, has been going on for more than three years, while the trade and economic wars and the militarization of the capitalist economies are intensifying. These are signs that show the anti-social and parasitic nature of the capitalist system, in the face of the new crisis —the burdens of which are again being shifted on the shoulders of the workers—, the aggressive nature of capitalism and the escalation of imperialist competition, which pose new dangers to peace and the peoples. Especially in the present conditions, we feel even more the need to refer to the historical physiognomy of V.I. Lenin. A personality that dedicated his life to the cause of the wo

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7598110

I was listening to a podcast and the guy was making a point that the Jedi were just like the janissaries of the Ottoman empire because they "stole children" and I just... got so annoyed that I couldn't listen to it anymore, even though I kinda wanted to due to the other host.

I know where the argument about the Jedi comes from, which comes from the days of the old EU and Karen Traviss and all that stuff, but I just sort-of had a flash of anger. It's just a pop culture franchise, right? It's literally just a story. Hell, The Acolyte was pretty rough on the Jedi's portrayal and I enjoyed it.

Anyway, I just found it pretty dumb, but for some reason, I found that I couldn't continue. It's like I had a mental block.

I paused for a moment but then the Spotify episode remained paused.

I wasn't even that angry, but I... just found myself not interested in this spiel even though I'm normally interested in the podcast

I'm not quite sure what to think of this yet. A few months back I remember there was talk about a marxist winning an election in Sri Lanka, but now it looks like things are a lot more complicated than I'd thought. What do we think about this?

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I haven't seen anybody mentioning this, the only sources I could find related to it are religious and/or anticommunist sources.

So, Romzha was a Catholic priest in the USSR. After World War II, the Russian Orthodox Church wanted the Greek Catholic Church in the USSR to merge with them, but Romzha refused this, and he was reportedly threatened by Soviet officials.

In the end, Nikita Khrushchev ordered the NKVD to assassinate him. This resulted in him getting rammed by a military truck before being sent to the hospital and killed via lethal injection. He would later be called a martyr.

Is there any Marxist-Leninist source on this?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7579524

What do you all think of this?

Video is only 6 minutes and 44 seconds long.

Project is called "Mouseless" and seems to be a keyboard mod.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7572635

I should consider this...

I wonder if Virginia has anything like this.

It's useful to understand how it'll work in practice beyond all the rhetoric and demagogy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7551653

Body-wise, I was feeling weird when I had a sudden burst of energy and "heart flutters" and that may already be the answer to my question as to what was ailing me or what I felt physically "bad."

Thing is, I couldn't tell you otherwise what was bad and why my mood dropped when my energy rose.

It may be that, when I get energy, I feel angst or anguish over realizing the state of things as my mind becomes clear or perhaps I'm feeling my own body or lack of depersonalization for the first time (it's happened multiple times but you know what I mean).

I don't want to be unscientific so I thought I'd ask others here with the hopes that someone will have the valid answer (of course, I'm using Google or Bing so it's not like I'm just relying on the opinion of random people, though maybe the search results aren't that good either).

Donald Trump's trade war went nuclear, hitting China with 145% tariffs, aimed at economic decoupling. This is already backfiring on the US economy, which is heavily reliant on Chinese imports. The volatility also fueled a crisis in the bond market, with Treasury yields rising. Ben Norton explains.