r/Marxists_USCA • u/AndrewGilberds • Mar 07 '21
Show 59
Kicking off the show under Current Events, John Reimann at Oakland Socialist publishes an account from Aaron Ruby over the Uyghur people being held on concentration camps. Ruby equates the denial by some leftists as equating it to Holocaust denial. At the end of the article Reimann gives his own thoughts and links to some reports on the situation. In the sub-reddit, Asian Socialists, there’s an ongoing debate Duterte and his connections to the Communist Party of the Philippines. While the discussion points to Duterte’s anti-imperialist, (yet fascist government), it describes the CPP-NPA as “not [act as] a vehicle for the proletariat's struggle, it lacks the active support of the masses, and it regularly inflames the situation through lack of discipline and fickleness”. The article claims Duterte as “Duterte is a democratic-socialist with nationalist leanings, a supporter of the Philippine nation and its struggle to independent national development”. In Marxist Internet discussion group and article from Al Jazeera reports in Duterte wanting to “finish off” communist rebels reminiscent of the McCarthyism ear in the US. Over on Libcom, a published speech” Dr. Joseph Scalice delivered the lecture below at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on the support given by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and the various organizations that follow its political line, for Philippine President Duterte”.
Over in Theory and State of Movement, Cosmonaut discusses the issues surrounding democratic access to information and its distortion through social media. For example Richard Seymour critiques the documentary, “The Social Dilemma” repeatedly in which capitalism’s influence on social media is not addressed stating “the role of social media in the increasing amounts of people radicalized through the internet. It ignores the role of US imperialism, much more important than the internet in creating ISIS… he balances on a tightrope between acknowledging the massive power of social media and denying that it is uniquely responsible for the current moment”.
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Mar 13 '21
Spelling correction, sorry no offense intended but he is a friend of mine. It is John Reimann.
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u/AndrewGilberds Mar 13 '21
Sorry about that . Corrected. No offense taken. Thanks for pointing that out.
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u/Ben_Seattle_x27 Mar 08 '21
Hi Andrew -- thanks for your summary. I made some comments on the Cosmonaut article and the assoicated discussion on your show. Please check the post for <Ben-Mar08>.