Assad regime falls, Kurds under attack, Zelensky hated, and CEO assassination reveals class hatred

[@revcomintern]

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[@jonczko3568]

I will try, but I would like to discuss something. I am a socialist, and I acknowledge Marx, but I am not a communist because I am also a nationalist. I understand the argument, grounded in real politics, to which I ascribe: as long as there are at least two states, one state will try to dominate or exploit the other. However, I am a nationalist because I argue that a single world state poses an even greater threat. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even if we were able to create a perfect one-world communist government, what would happen if it became corrupt? There would be no other country to challenge or oppose it. With at least two states, if one becomes corrupt, people can flee it, and it may eventually collapse. This dynamic provides a form of defense against tyranny, whereas a single government risks becoming the ultimate form of oppression. While I understand the logic behind a single world government, I believe it is too dangerous. Additionally, people are diverse, and some may prefer to establish states based on their values, such as Christian Socialism or Muslim Socialism. For these reasons, I am a socialist and use Marxist analysis, but I am not a communist because I am also a nationalist.

[@ÉricW-w9f]

I’m a construction painter in Quebec, Canada. When Fred talked about his dad who was murdered by the capitalist class, it made me think about my coworkers, some of them I saw getting injured at work, and about myself. Everyday we go to work, we are forced to work in unsafe manners so the boss can make a few dollars more. We breath in unhealthy amount of dust and paint fume everyday. I just had my 23rd birthday, but everyday after work, I go home with pain all over my body, after working on condos I will never afford, and my left shoulder is already permanently damaged with reduced capacity, only to have my paycheck getting eaten away by inflation. If nothing changes, I’m pretty sure I will die a prematurely too, just like Fred’s dad. We also have around 60 accidental deaths every year in the construction sector in our province. That’s more than an average of more than one death per week, and it keeps going up every year! So the bourgeoisie is not just responsible of murder, they are responsible of mass murder! That’s why no petty bourgeois liberal can convince me to abandon my class hatred. That’s why I’m a member of the RCI, so that this horrible life can finally be a thing of the past. So we can finally live with dignity. Thank you for doing this podcast. Every week when I listen to it at work, it makes the literally back breaking labor a little bit more tolerable.

[@revcomintern]

Thank you for this comment comrade, the capitalist class kill millions of workers every year without batting an eyelid. The true nature of the liberals is even more exposed when they defend this silent, systematic daily slaughter on the one hand and then howl and scream about those individuals who every now and then are driven by desperation to retaliate in defence.

[@Miramadeulook]

Enjoy your analysis. Thank you.

[@revcomintern]

Thanks comrade!

[@hossamfouad8060]

Great analysis Comrades, Red revolutionary salute from Egypt.

[@revcomintern]

Thanks comrade Hossam! Keep the red flag flying in Cairo!

[@robinkiefer6854]

Amazing analysis Comerades

[@revcomintern]

Thanks Robin, glad you are enjoying it!

[@knossos574]

I'm kind of glad that you had a discussion about the Kurds and their struggle.

[@uraniumrock8381]

Our media is such high quality. The corporate slopfeed in the US could never provide analysis like this, even from a rightwing perspective.

[@northuniverse]

Thanks for the upload

[@Red-Revolution708]

I’m a proud ‘Communist’ .

[@revcomintern]

Hopefully, you are organised. If not, join the RCI!

[@aleottenby]

Could someone please share a link to the Engels quote about violence that Hamid read?

[@thehamidaify]

“When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.” Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845

[@comradebigio]

1:36:03 more than 70 countries? Last world congress it was around 40!

[@revcomintern]

We have sections and groups in more than 40 countries. But we have work in more than 70.

[@antid_oto]

I have just one query comrades: why are Sunni jihadis “jihadis” but Shia jihadis deployed by Iran “militias”?

[@fundidoarrojo269]

Google "loaded question", comrade.

[@antid_oto]

@ Yeah, famously only questions can be loaded, not signifiers used to describe different groups.

[@fundidoarrojo269]

The keyword there is "different", comrade.

[@antid_oto]

The idea that Shia mujahideen are not “jihadist” (with all that that entails) is ludicrous. The fact that you like them and dislike the other side doesn’t change anything.

[@revcomintern]

These groups are quite different in character. The Wahhabi groups are fundamentalist activist bigots, standing for sectarian cleansing, the destruction of culture and an extreme form of puritanism to be imposed on all peoples. The Shia militias, while some of them are indeed quite puritan, generally stand for a different and less sectarian approach. Although religion does play an important role in their self-understanding, they can be likened more to gangs than to religious movements and their leaders more to warlords than preachers. Both are of course bourgeois, and corrupt in nature, but that does not mean that they are the same.

[@pipster1891]

I thought it was against UK law to express support for a proscribed organisation. Shouldn't those MPs and journalists supporting HTS be raided and arrested, like others have been for supporting the Palestinians?

[@revcomintern]

Indeed! A lot of people would have a lot to answer for if the law were to be applied to the establishment in the same manner as it is applied to the rest.