At 11am this morning (26.1.2018) – a Holocaust Memorial wil be held in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum. There is a tree next
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
How Facebook Supports Fascism
I recently write a post exposing the brutal and predatory capitalism that underlies Facebook as a business and manipulator of politics and culture. I made
The Rightwing Bias of Facebook
An interesting experience. Whilst contributing to the deconstruction of a rightwing ideologue on another comrade’s page – FB started categorising my links to academic articles
President Xi: China Respects its Socialist Intellectuals (24.4.2017)
Leading cadres at all levels should be good at dealing with intellectuals and develop close friendships with intellectuals. Intellectuals should be trusted to make important and major decisions, and cadres should seek advice and suggestions from intellectuals. Opinions and criticisms from intellectuals, as long as the starting point is dialectically correct, must be warmly welcomed, and actively adopted.
Photographs of Everyday Life in the Soviet Union
In this regard, US Cold War rhetoric maybe convincingly conceived of as a continue of the anti-Communist and racist ideology of Nazi Germany. During the time before the instant communication afforded by the internet, Western people were ‘cut-off’ from the everyday reality of life in the Soviet Union, and had no means to counter the continuous stream of disinformation emanating from the bourgeois-democratic governments they ‘elected’. As a consequence, the capitalist West was kept in a perpetual state of fear, ensuring that the youth of each new generation joined the military to fight the Soviet threat, rather than spend their collective time fermenting a Socialist Revolution.
Americanism – In Ignorance We Trust!
This historical conditioning has bequeathed to each new generation in the US a mind-set premised upon arrested development, one which cannot see beyond its own selfish and ignorant point of view which is always justified by the worst excesses associated with an equally ignorant Judeo-Christian tradition.