1. Marxism is not a religion or celebrity cult where people "stan" Marx and the validity of his theories is proven by his exemplary personal life, it's a science of political economy that's been used, adapted, critiqued, and modified by billions of people for almost two centuries. It's called "Marxism" for the same reason it's called "Darwinism" - he's the guy that laid the theoretical foundations of a scientific theory.

2. Presuming this is about "On the Jewish Question" (one of Marx's earliest writings which predates The Communist Manifesto and indeed his own formulation of Marxism), the myth that it's a virulently antisemitic text has been repeatedly debunked (short version from Jacobin, long version from Jewish socialist Hal Draper). He was in fact arguing for the emancipation and granting of citizenship rights to Jews within the overwhelmingly antisemitic climate of early 19th century European politics.

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Not so brave when they can't take helicopters through uncontested airspace to go sit on mountain peaks and laser designate poor dirt farmers from miles away

Another facet of why I don't in the least bit believe that Ukraine was ever capable of defeating Russia regardless of how much support it got. Ukraine was trained "up to NATO standards," but for the past 30 years NATO hasn't fought a single war against a peer-competitor.

And we've seen over and over what happens when armies are trained to fight like NATO/The US: they lose. The Afghan National Army is just the most recent example. Before that, South Vietnam. Without the overwhelming productive capacity of the US to back it up, or the virtual guarantee of theater air superiority (among other things), they almost instantly fold.

And the people running the show from Washington don't have any understanding of that. Maybe the people at the Pentagon do, on some level, but they're creatures of the MIC now too. They don't know how to fight and win, only to fight and win profits for the companies they'll eventually sit on the boards of. As far as the politicians are concerned, they're still fighting the Soviet Union (of their recollection), which is a Nazi mirage. At best they still think of Russia as it was in the late 90s. They have no idea what it's like now, what it's capable of, or what it's willing to do to defend itself.

And here you have the perfect underscore to just how unequipped NATO is to deal with Russia. Fully trained, experienced veterans going through war with a country that has every capability that they do, and in this instance even more capabilities that they do, getting a taste and saying "no fucking thank you." In Iraq and Afghanistan there was at least the general guarantee of safety in the "Green Zones," where at worst you had to worry about a couple mortars being lobbed into your camp, which only briefly interrupted your rounds of Halo. In Ukraine, no one is safe, because no where is safe. It's real fucking war, and NATO soldiers don't want any fucking part of it.

@theculturedmarxist Um....Russia also hasn't fought a war with a peer compactor in 30 years. Like the least wars Russia has fought include

A brutal colonialist nationalist war with Chechnya (lost), a renegand province without an army

A second even more brutal nationalist war with Cechnya (won), again a renegade province without an army

A brutal imperialist war against part of Moldovia (won, but ocme on, its Moldavia)

An incompetent corrupted and humiliatingly badly run invasion of....Georgia....a country with a smaller population than the state of Georgia (Won, but very winter war)

A series of small scale Central Asian skirmishes (won mostly)

Assisted Assad's regime in Syria, mostly via air support (still ungoing)

Seizing Crimea from a vastly inferior Ukraine (won)

A full blown invasion of Ukraine which has gone...badly.

Russia hasn't fought a peer rival since...honestly WWII, though if you count the Cold War than 1991. And unlike NATO, Russia's ultra conservative super masculine military structure is deeply dysfunctional. They have lost about 50% of there military capacity in this war already, and in the last few days Ukraine seized about 30 miles of territory. Russia could still win, they (were) the second most powerful military force in the world and 4 times there population, a better economy (until yesterday) and far more resources, but the fact that Ukraine, a much smaller nation who have never fought a war before 2014 has managed to drive them back to the eastern provinces is massively humiliatingly. Like US in Afghanistan level humiliatingly, its a joke. Russia by all rights should have won by March 2022, the fact that its August 2023 and Ukraine is still retaking territory is just a fucking joke. And NATO isn't even in the war directly, if Russia is having this much trouble against fucking Ukraine (who wasn't even rated in the top 20 militaries in the world), you think they can take on the nations who actually have fully trained armies?

Edit: I went back to look at your takes on the Russia-Ukraine conflict back in Jan-Feb of 2022, and wow, its like rewatching those CNN pundits saying that America would be out of Iraq in 13 months tops.

Like this bit here

were you are like "its American propaganda that Russia is going to invade Ukraine"

Or here, in March of 2022, where you predict that Ukraine is going to collapse imminently unless NATO sets up no Fly Zones

"From what I’ve heard Zelensky is getting ready to capitulate and give Russia whatever it wants." wow friend, you really need to check where you get your sources from because....wow, that...did not age well

Or here, where you are like "I don't think Russia's military would do atrocities, they are so professional" which shows you have not been paying attention to Russia's military for at least 30 years friend

Or here, where you predict that Ukraine is going to fail and NATO is in panic mode

I mean Ukraine just had a small breakthrough less than 15 hours ago as of time of writing but like...maybe you should stop making predictions mate, you are really bad at it.

This one isn't wrong its just...bad logic. Because Russia (also an Imperial power, and has been for centuries) is often participating in the same crimes as the US, they teamed up a lot during the War on Terror days. But like, we have numbers for how many people died to drone strikes under Obama, it is not comparable to Russia in Syria friend

This one is fascinating because it says so much about how you think. You really seem to think that the US is just kinda...unique in how stupid and sadistic its leaders are (but saying "I know more than you")while linking to Greyzone, a news organization funded by the Russian goverment is just...chefs kiss man

I shouldn't be surprised though, you regularly reblogg the Greyzone, a deeply reactionary russia funded news network that pretends to be leftists while hating trans people and going down into conspiracy theories (when you aren't coming to defense of Fox News, very leftist of you) Its like dealing with bloody TERFS, supposed leftists who spend all of there time agreeing with the far right and trying to justify human rights violations

here is you really showing your progressive bone fides (might want to apologize for that bit friend)

Or like this, which like....dude read a book, for fuck's sake, there is a reason why the West German Gay scene was so much more powerful

@sapper-in-the-wire America's actions in the middle east was an unrelenting series of brutal war crimes, but it is weird that you aren't upset by Russia doing...even more. Like the US caused, directly or indirectly, around a million civilians deaths (using the highest credible estimates I can find), over the course of an 8 year war+11 more years. of smaller conflict. The lower estimates are around 600,000 losses (to be clear, Bush and his cronies should be tried in the Hague) Russia has been in Ukraine for about a year and a half, we we are already seeing somewhere around 130,000 civilian causalities, including reports of mass rape, torture, and deliberate massacres and in fact this has been a pattern since 1991 the Russian army as well as Wagner have a horrific human rights record.

Edit (again) oh dear god, you are a Joe Rogan Fan, and maybe an antivaxxer. Abandon all hope ye who enter here. I'll say some nice things at the end i guess

Your pro Trans, which makes you regularly siding with Russia really fucking weird. Russian military advertisements actively say that the war is to prevent the "infection" of trans "degeneracy" from coming to Russia, its worse than the US (its even worse than the UK). There is a reason why so much Russian state media praises Desantos and Visa Versa

I do feel sorry about your rent situation, send me a message if you need any help (that isn't a power move, genuinely send me a message).

Also you really need to stop getting your news from right wing sources, like Jesus Christ half of your biden takes come from the Right. Stalin isn't somebody to emulate, stop getting your news from fucking youtube, actually study the history of a region for its own sake not just to use it as a token in an imaginary ideological conflict. YOur like 19, your are still seeing the world in this fucking high school perspective, its more complicated than that, get out of the conspiracy place and the ideological rigidity

PPS> You have almost never posted about the Wagner Group and that is super telling

I've been meaning to go back and look at some of my old posts to see how they hold up, so thanks for that at least.

>blah blah don't care didn't ask

>They have lost about 50% of there military capacity in this war already,

I don't know what you mean by "military capacity" because Russia's military production facilities and infrastructure haven't been impacted at all. It's losses are a fraction of Ukraine's, which is having trouble replacing its losses while Russia enjoys a glut of volunteers to the point that it's expanding two include two new military districts and projects to have an entirely new reserve army by next year.

>and in the last few days Ukraine seized about 30 miles of territory.

Big whoop. After 3 months of smashing their heads against the brick wall of Russian defensive lines they've managed to capture a bunch of empty fields and some towns that have been leveled to the ground. They've created a salient by Robotyne that has brought them into contact with the first line of defense, after which there are two more of increasingly dense defensive lines. Even if by some miracle they did manage to breach them, right behind them is Tokmak, which is also ringed with defenses, and the Ukrainians have no hope of successfully taking. They've committed the last of their reserves, and without ample reserves to capitalize on a successful breakthrough all they're doing is wasting Ukrainian lives.

>the fact that Ukraine, a much smaller nation who have never fought a war before 2014 has managed to drive them back to the eastern provinces is massively humiliatingly.

I guess? It doesn't look good, but I don't think it was designed to look good. Instead of spending men and material that they didn't have for territory they didn't need, Russia strategically withdrew to prepared positions, which made Ukraine commit to a costly advance that ultimately got them nowhere. Russia husbanded its forces and has been achieving its goal of demilitarizing Ukraine. Russia's now in a position of increasing strength while Ukraine is scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find bodies to fill in its increasingly decrepit front lines. Meanwhile, there's talk of Russia opening up a new front to the north.

>Russia by all rights should have won by March 2022, the fact that its August 2023 and Ukraine is still retaking territory is just a fucking joke.

I don't think you really understand the situation at all. I don't think you really understand Russia's intentions or goals in 2022 or 2023. You seem to also be under the delusion that Ukraine is successfully defeating the Russians, when the reality is that they've been suffering months and months of horrific losses.

Just take their gains in Kharkiv for example. If Ukraine is kicking Russian ass, why have did they stop? At the rate they were going, they should have been in Moscow by now.

The reality is that the Ukrainian military is in shambles. Their losses are horrific, and completely unsustainable, particularly because Russia has an artillery advantage to Ukraine of 10-1.

I mean, we can see just how much territory Ukraine has "retaken."

May 1

August 17

And when you look at the territory that Ukraine has retaken, you'll see that it's a bunch of empty fields. Great job. Slava Ukraini!

>And NATO isn't even in the war directly, if Russia is having this much trouble against fucking Ukraine (who wasn't even rated in the top 20 militaries in the world), you think they can take on the nations who actually have fully trained armies?

If Nato were to get involved it would be an absolute embarrassment for them, for a bunch of reasons which I've already written about at length and which you're more than welcome to read. Maybe you might learn something.

>were you are like "its American propaganda that Russia is going to invade Ukraine"

Which it was. Putin and Russia were being portrayed as slavering at the bit to go and conquer Ukraine, in spite of the fact that Russia had spent the previous 8 years attempting to avert that and support the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and even after the invasion had been trying to achieve a diplomatic solution. All of which the US ignored and actively worked to subvert.

>Or here, in March of 2022, where you predict that Ukraine is going to collapse imminently unless NATO sets up no Fly Zones

What I actually said was

Which was true. We know at the time that Ukraine and Russia were negotiating to try and bring the war to a close. We also know that discussions were progressing into April. And then Nato sent Boris Johnson in to shut the whole thing down, and from that point on Ukraine's position was that there was nothing to talk about until they retook all their territory.

And yeah, the lack of air support and air superiority has been devastating for Ukraine, especially if they're trying to fight using Nato tactics, which virtually require them.

>Or here, where you predict that Ukraine is going to fail and NATO is in panic mode

Yeah, because they are, and they are. Ukraine has no hope of beating Russia and Nato is already starting to feel the consequences of their failure to bring them to heel.

>This one isn't wrong its just…bad logic. Because Russia (also an Imperial power, and has been for centuries) is often participating in the same crimes as the US, they teamed up a lot during the War on Terror days. But like, we have numbers for how many people died to drone strikes under Obama, it is not comparable to Russia in Syria friend

I don't know what point you're trying to make here. That, like, Russia and the US are both just as bad? Does the word "context" mean anything to you? Like you're trying to make the Russians out to be just as culpable for a conflict which has everything to do with conditions created by the US, with forces funded and sponsored by the US, in a country illegally occupied by the US. Even if none of that were true, to try and create a false equivalency you have to ignore all the other devastation and destruction Obama was responsible for. Great "logic."

>This one is fascinating because it says so much about how you think. You really seem to think that the US is just kinda…unique in how stupid and sadistic its leaders are (but saying "I know more than you")while linking to Greyzone, a news organization funded by the Russian goverment is just…chefs kiss man

You really are just a massive fucking idiot, aren't you?

Yeah, actually, Brendanicus is right. The leaders of the US are unique in how stupid and sadistic they are. Even if everything that Putin was ever accused of was true, there's still no comparison when it comes to the casualties of his regime and the US's bodycount. There's no possible way to deny that.

As for my sources, I'm not really bothered by what you think of them. I choose them based on the information they provide and the soundness of their arguments. If you actually had anything worthwhile to offer you could try refuting them instead of "pitiful and baseless "hurr everything I don't like is Russian propaganda."

That's really all you're able to offer, really. You can bray about what I think like an ignorant jackass, but you haven't offered any substantive refutations of anything I've written or posted. You're just kind of a fucking idiot.

>(when you aren't coming to defense of Fox News, very leftist of you)

You really don't have any kind of reading comprehension, do you?

>here is you really showing your progressive bone fides (might want to apologize for that bit friend)

No. 😌

>Or like this, which like….dude read a book

I suppose I could take a look. What coloring book did you get your information out of?

>America's actions in the middle east was an unrelenting series of brutal war crimes, but it is weird that you aren't upset by Russia doing…even more

First, you're a massive fucking idiot if you think Russia has done worse in a year of war with Ukraine than the US has in a 30 year campaign of terror that has stretched around the entire fucking planet.

Second, I'm not very concerned with whatever the West accuses Russia of doing, because the entire point, even if it does happen to be strictly speaking true, is to generate support for even more destructive conflicts. Further beyond that, if at this point you believe any of the bullshit coming from the Western press, you're just a fucking rube. A real Grade-A moron. We've heard all this shit before about how whoever the US wants to go to war with is Uniquely and Exceptionally Evil and Needs To Be Stopped, and by and large it all turns out to be horseshit. Saddam Hussein wasn't yanking babies out of incubators and smashing them on the floor and he didn't have weapons of mass destruction. The Taliban weren't harboring Osama bin Laden and weren't responsible for 9/11. China's not exterminating the Uighurs, North Korea isn't feeding peasants to dogs, and Iran isn't building a nuclear bomb to attack Europe.

And third, I really don't have any shit to give about crocodile tears about civilians supposedly killed by the Russians when for the better part of a decade Ukraine was waging war on its own population while aided and abetted by Nato. Again, which Russia tried to avert with the Minsk I/II agreements, and which Nato subverted.

So considering that, as well as the fact that this entire conflict was caused by the desire and designs of the US, I don't really feel and special angst about what Russia is alleged to have done. Instead I'm much more interested in offering alternatives to Western propaganda, if only because there's so many fucking idiots in the world like you which thoughtlessly devour it.

Anyway, Joseph Stalin did literally nothing wrong and you're a fucking dipshit, and I wish you luck in coming to terms with the fact that everything you think is wrong.

I literally cant fucking breathe 

IVE BEEN WAITING 2 YEARS FOR THIS VIDEOS RETURN

I don’t even press play I just press the reblog button

Hell is a place where companies make bank off the aggrieved father of a dead child for the removal of the child’s organs for donation.

Oh and then, the recipient is charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for a DONATED ORGAN.

Not as in that this is just the cost of the procedure; but the hospital charges YOU $150k-800k for an organ they were given FOR FREE from a dead child whose parents have to pay to store and/or transport said organ which costs THEM $2k-30k.

Source: I work in insurance.

I don’t know how you can look at this shit and not be radicalized

A fragment of a note on the conversation between J.V. Stalin and Emil Ludwig in 1931.

(The fragment of the original text of the transcript of this talk, unknown until today, was not only edited by Stalin but was moved from its original place in the transcript to the very end, and then deleted altogether from the copy sent to the printer.)

It should be reminded that the man who propogated and invented the "Ukrainian Genocide" myth of the Holodomor, William Randolph Hearst, said this around the same time he was publicizing this myth:

"if Hitler succeeds in pointing the way of peace and order... he will have accomplished a measure of good not only for his own people but for all of humanity."

He also paid Mussolini $1'500 weekly, three times his public salary, to write opinion articles in Hearst's newspapers throughout the early 1930's.

And yet, this man and his newspapers' articles from back then have been completely rehabilitated in mainstream academic circles and the Holodomor myth continues being propagated as history.

This is exceedingly common. Cops will shoot their own dogs, then use their deaths as copaganda.

The vast majority of police dogs “killed in the line of duty” are killed by the cops themselves.

Cops also kill an average of 25 pet dogs every single day, per Justice Department statistics. Frequently these dogs are shot and killed while children are present.

Dogs and cops do not mix.

How you can tell from the initial announcement: It said “killed in the line of duty,” not “shot by the suspect.”

If they had someone they wanted to blame for the dog’s death, they would’ve named them. They don’t want you to think about who killed the dog.

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

"But the Secretary [of War], upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent."

"During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost angrily refuting the reason I gave for my quick conclusion."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower: Mandate For Change, 1963.

Further Evidence:

United States Strategic Bombing Survey 1946:

The point was never the unconditional surrender of the Fascist Japanese Empire, the point was to sufficiently scare Stalin and the Soviets from using the end of the war to spread Communism.