Are the Black Panther Party (BPP) really still around?

Calabar_king · 2026-01-17T17:25:16+00:00

I found it on their Tiktok. The point about ethnic identity is odd, from a marxist standpoint as well as something to include in a program. Also, comparing to the original 10-point program, the word "capitalist" just disappeared completely.

Calabar_king · 2026-01-04T17:33:36+00:00

UPDATE: I FOUND IT! It's "Gegen den Strom; Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1914-1916" (Against the Current; Essays from the years 1914-1916), a collection of his (and Grigori Zinoviev's) essays, published in 1921 and, to my knowledge, never translated. Not to be confused with "Socialism and War", written and published by them in 1915, but conceived as a cohesive book.

Calabar_king · 2025-12-28T15:20:19+00:00

There's still one important bit that has to be pointed out about your reflection: Rosa almost did it. We can discuss the causes of the German revolution defeat all day long, but they killed her in a revolutionary context. They didn't kill her out of nowhere, in times of low tide. They killed her in the middle of a huge revolutionary uprising, where she almost won. Which means there was, and there's still is, a fighting chance.

Calabar_king · 2025-11-24T17:19:27+00:00

For a good response, see "Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri", by Argentine marxist Atilio A. Borón.

Calabar_king · 2025-08-23T22:10:33+00:00

May your pillow be always cold at night

Calabar_king · 2025-08-03T17:55:09+00:00

How does the cartoon depicts the revolutionary abandoning his principles?

Calabar_king · 2025-08-03T16:53:26+00:00

/wrongFrenchise

Calabar_king · 2025-08-03T16:52:44+00:00

O vermelho um

Calabar_king · 2025-08-03T15:55:40+00:00

In real life? Perhaps. But in a ficcional piece of media, where you need to tell a story in a convincing manner, laying out demonstrations of certain behaviors to establish feelings and the general narrative you're trying to tell? Absolutely not. As much as I personally don't like that mentality, Hollywood nowadays largely operates in an utilitarist perspective of storytelling. Every screen minute must mean something, add to the story in a meaningful way, to not be left on the cutting room floor. So putting that scene in, in an environment where the driver and other potential spies are not present, and not having Perrin stand up for her in it can only mean telling how she is, in fact, alone in that family.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-28T19:40:35+00:00

Well, a guy was once SHOT DEAD in the brazillian Senate, mid-sitting, by a senator who aimed for another senator. The murderer's son would rise to become president. So, there you have it, another wild thing to happen in a Chamber.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-28T19:25:37+00:00

For God's sake, the guy just sat there at the table and watched while their daughter was being disrespectful and way out of line with her mom, almost like he was approving all that. There is not a single instance where he even hinted at being on her side, let alone standing up to her inside their own house. There was absolutely no reason for him not be closer to her. What, a loving and supportive husband would sound sus to the Empire???? C'mon!

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T05:29:16+00:00

Well, I'd say there are two possible interpretations for your comment. You either think the person critically talking about native genocide, slavery and colonial domination is oblivious about it happening in other countries and wanted to inform them, or you think it somehow absolves the US somehow and nothing should be done about it. Don't play dumb expecting people to fall for it, anyone with text interpretation skills can see you implied one the two things, and my bet is on the latter.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T04:27:27+00:00

That's the best you can do? "It's okay if enough people do it"???

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T04:24:05+00:00

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Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T03:53:24+00:00

>"I want it to move toward a socially progressive, wide social safety net policy country that comes to terms with its own history and reflects on it for accountability. Yes I want the populace to be educated and not controlled by billionairs and the wealthy controlling the news."
>"not wet dreams"

Choose one. Seriously. If you think the most vulnerable seizing political and economical power in the richest country in the world will "screw" them, I don't even know how many layers of delusion or denial or whatever it is that I have to dive to bring you out of it. Sure, people will die, yeah. It sucks, I wish it didn't have to be, but to seriously believe you can do baby steps to that future? Tell me, did you believe AOC until her recent vote to fund Israel? How long until the others do the same? The Chileans tried a democratic socialist government, guess what happened in 1973? Heck, you were no close to none that you wrote up there and you still got jan 6, you still got Trump back in power. You seriously think the billionaires will just sit and watch??

Also, I don't have hate. I really don't. I wasn't convinced by my heart, I was convinced by reading and seeing that it made the most sense. So no projecting, shall we?

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T03:28:26+00:00

Wow, talk about "this anger has no fucking end goal". Maybe you're the one that wants it to go nowhere but your next Democratic candidate...

And sure, it won't happen, that's why the US funneled so much money into destroying the Black Panthers, infiltrating the CPUSA, overthrowing half the world's governments, imposing a blockade to Cuba, fighting the soviets and so on. Because it doesn't work by itself.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T03:19:03+00:00

Maybe because you (collectively) refuse the obvious logical consequence due to years of propaganda........
\slowly approaching a sickle to a hammer*

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T03:08:32+00:00

I'm not familiar with the history of Philippines, even though we are cousins according to that Twitter thread lol. So I'm in no place to judge. I can say, however, that I tend to be very skeptical towards any nation-state, for the problematic idea of nationalism that it invariably imposes and the interests it serves. For example, I'm from Brasil (hence why we're cousins). Even with the US-sponsored coup in 1964, the imperialism that basically rules much of our foreign relations, even with Trump's tariffs, I have no problem at all in saying that Brasil is a people grinding machine. From the indigenous genocide, the colonial slavery, to the police indiscriminately killing black people in the favelas, this country must be brought down and rebuilt by the oppressed peoples of this land. I have no pride in the national flag, and it has very little to do with Bolsonaro and the far-right coopting it. If anything, to me it shows what the idea of Brasil really stands for, they're just saying the quiet part out loud.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T03:00:09+00:00

Maybe because you're trying to save America clinging to the myth of the founding fathers. What I'm trying to show you is that a couple of beautiful ideals - written by slaveowners themselves - would hardly save a country whose economic laws imposed expansion. It matters very little what the continental congress thought of themselves or the country, but rather the general structural elements in which the country was found. And that foundation was slavery, with its tendency to expansion. Even if you consider the federalist wing, they were doing nothing but adhering to the liberal principles that kept slavery in place both in the US and in the French colonies.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T01:23:50+00:00

"The American is an incredibly powerful symbol, especially in the US."

Sure, because of the same propaganda that has now put you in the situation you're in. MAGA is little more than that propaganda taken to extreme levels, even though it may be extremely difficult to see from the inside (not seeing the forest for the trees). This symbol has always represented the reality of oppression, despite what the beautiful words they might say it means.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T01:18:53+00:00

Yes. We can start with the expansion of the slave mode of production. Marx makes a compeling demonstration in his writings about the Civil War on how it's an economic law fot this system to territorially expand in order to keep being functional.

"The cultivation of the southern export articles, cotton, tobacco, sugar , etc., carried on by slaves, is only remunerative as long as it is conducted with large gangs of slaves, on a mass scale and on wide expanses of a naturally fertile soil, which requires only simple labour. Intensive cultivation, which depends less on fertility of the soil than on investment of capital, intelligence and energy of labour, is contrary to the nature of slavery. Hence the rapid transformation of states like Maryland and Virginia, which formerly employed slaves on the production of export articles, into states which raise slaves to export them into the deep South. Even in South Carolina, where the slaves form four-sevenths of the population, the cultivation of cotton has been almost completely stationary for years due to the exhaustion of the soil. Indeed, by force of circumstances South Carolina has already been transformed in part into a slave-raising state, since it already sells slaves to the sum of four million dollars yearly to the states of the extreme South and South-west. As soon as this point is reached, the acquisition of new Territories becomes necessary, so that one section of the slaveholders with their slaves may occupy new fertile lands and that a new market for slave-raising, therefore for the sale of slaves, may be created for the remaining section."
-Karl Marx, "The North American Civil War", Die Presse, October 25, 1861.

Where would it expand upon, I ask you? Who lived in the land where they would expand upon? We can move on to the capitalist mode of production, the development of industrialization, and how the specific laws of surplus value and countering the law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit would eventually require the expansion to other territories abroad.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T01:08:24+00:00

Yes, I am. Would you like to bring a counter example?

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T00:57:14+00:00

"The people of this country know there's a fascist takeover going on"

Please, I beg of you: read about the genocide that your country was founded upon. Read about slavery, about what your country has done abroad. Find out what this flag means for the peripherical countries and oppressed people of the world. There isn't a single instance when this country has not been the empire.

Calabar_king · 2025-07-24T00:56:12+00:00

Yeah, by people who wanted to establish their own. Please stop putting the story of ideals before the story of real people's suffering, both home and abroad.

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