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Stephen Hayes

I see people on social media still referring to Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their supporters as "conservatives", but their "bull in a china shop" behaviour over the last couple of months shows that they are anything but conservatives. Right-wing radicals, yes. Conservatives, no.

In the link G.K. Chesterton explains why.

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#tradition #conservatism #radicalism #extremism

The Knowledge · Chesterton's Fence: ExplainedTL;DR / Summary G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer known for his clever paradoxes. He once wrote: “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more
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Nicolas Mouart

If religion as a "opiate of the masses", as per Marx and Engel, radicalism is very much the leash on the freaks, as per Korn.
Hatred and bullying do not call for more hatred. It eventually leads to apathy, prostration, frustration, basically passive subjugation and depression or burnout.

I doubt very much there is any light at the end of the coal mines. Likewise NaN is not a number.

Korn - Freak on a Leash
#metal#album#zeitgeist
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Ms. Que Banh

Recommended #FreeEBook 👇

Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution - Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik’s offering is a #revisionist perspective on #Chinese #radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of #anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the #SocialistMovement in #China.

Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasizes the #anarchist contribution to #revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice. The changing circumstances of the #ChineseRevolution provide the immediate context, but throughout his writing the author views Chinese anarchism in relation to anarchism worldwide.

Arif Dirlik is #Professor of #History at #DukeUniversity. He is the author of Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919–1937 (California, 1978) and The Origins of Chinese Communism (1989).

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The Anarchist LibraryAnarchism in the Chinese RevolutionArif Dirlik Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution 1991 Published by the University of California Press at Berkeley Los Angeles
#AsianMastodon#AnarchistLibrary
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Proletarian Rage

The absence of any voice from "#radical" #feminist groups in the West about the #zionist regime's rapes of #Palestinian prisoners, both men and women, says a lot about their "#radicalism". todon.nl/@prolrage/11288679645
On the contrary, the Zionist feminist narrative ran from the very beginning to reproduce an emotional lie (which turned out to be a lie) about mass rapes in the settlements attacked by the Resistance forces. This proved to be a clever move to maintain racism against "Arabs" and also worked as a preventive measure to stop active solidarity with the massacred Palestinians and their Resistance.
This shows that "feminist" groups in the West are not equipped with the political tools to manage the basic propaganda tactics of the bourgeois, patriarchal system and remain in a sentimental analysis of reality - which ultimately makes them harmless and idle.
And of course we can see the deep #racism against Arabs...
#Palestine #Solidarity #FromTheRiverToTheSea #feminism #critics #capitalism #ClassWar

Todon.nlProletarian Rage (@prolrage@todon.nl)This report triggered an investigation against Israeli prison guards for alleged rapes against Palestinian prisoners. https://todon.nl/@prolrage/112824706577332428 Did you see how many (officials and bottom people) defended the "right to rape"? A small scale civil war broke out... #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #sexualabuse #sexualassault
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Nonilex

These are not justices; these are #Trump cronies. This is not #legal reasoning; this is vandalism.

…this [opinion] covers its #radicalism w/a pretense of moderation…that would nonetheless allow a president to escape prosecution for the most heinous abuses of power imaginable. #SCOTUS rejects…that a fmr president must be impeached & convicted before being prosecuted, while laying down a standard that makes it impossible for a president who attempts to seize #power to be prosecuted for doing so.

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Robert Tannahill: Wi’ love that ne’er shall tine
An evening of poems & music celebrating Tannahill's 250th anniversary

6 June, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh
Tickets £5/£7

Fred Freeman & John Morran will explore the #radical people’s tradition in relation to #multiculturalism in #Scotland, & Tannahill’s unique body of anti-sectarian, abolitionist & anti-war #songs & #poems

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #radicalism #poetry #song

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EventbriteRobert Tannahill: Wi' love that ne'er shall tineAn evening of poems and music celebrating Tannahill's 250th anniversary.
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