yeah fair enough. I started reading the bit I highlighted about antisemitism and it’s pretty dense. you really have to give a shit to get into it

Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo

the rev left podcast did an episode about this book with the translator. it’s very specifically not a biography of stalin, it’s about stalin’s reputation & mythology and how that mythology has been shaped by the needs of bourgeoisie/capitalist ideology. it sounds like it would be good for the purpose you have in mind.

free pdf: https://www.iskrabooks.org/_files/ugd/ec1faf_2d8a8a045ef442a4bc367697d9231c01.pdf

this book also includes a chapter specifically about construction of stalin as an antisemite and how that ties into the double genocide theory, which starts about page 200 in the pdf linked above

Everyone makes that mistake the first time. My child did that at age 3

Improper paperwork could be “I did what one border guard said but then the next time I crossed a different border guard said the rules were different”. Maybe that woman fucked up but given that she was dealing with those fucking idiots at the border, I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt

Right on, crush it comrade

Thank you

I also found this song helpful as an explainer

https://x.com/eyuplovely/status/1917558749117518324

Z bends the knee

Isn’t this a show about mushrooms? What’s the Zionist connection?

“oh but i’m vegetarian and I only eat cheese from my uncle’s—”

agricultural products are dual use because they can be used to feed people that might fight against US imperialism

there isn’t a radical difference between worker protections in one province versus another. some for sure but it’s not wild.

Yeah on paper it works, but I can imagine floor crossing as a potential and/or weak leader not being able to whip NDP effectively. Despite not winning a resounding majority, the liberal machine is ascendant now on the canadian “left”. Hopefully the NDP or whoever can stick to their guns and accomplish something useful, I’m just saying it is a tougher row to hoe than 2021-2025.

I sincerely doubt carney will push for some kind of proportional representation. I mean maybe, but the two big parties really benefit from devolution to 2 parties under FPTP. it makes the ‘sword and shield of capital’ model of democracy that much easier.

lost anyone who cared about Palestine.

through this campaign jagmeet started saying correct things about gaza, explicitly using the word genocide. he hasn’t been correct on this for long but he’s literally the only canadian party leader who has been. elizabeth may of the GPC continued just blaming netanyahu. to be clear, I don’t give jagmeet a lot of credit here, but I note the change of rhetoric nevertheless.

as far as their power in a minority government, I think they’re really going to be pressed to maintain party discipline to force the libs to do anything specific. 7 seats, collapsed federal vote, no leader and no official party status will not make it easier for them to extract concessions from the LPC. it’ll be curious to see who the LPC turns to to get anything done - the BQ, NDP and elizabeth May are all options and they only need 4 or 5 votes to pass measures with a majority

Thank you!

please post a link to this story, preferably an archive link. posting a screenshot of an article doesn’t cut it.

It’s fine to disengage but pump the brakes, comrade

I think he probably knows “something” about the war that we “dont”.

Seems way more likely that this is driven by an unhealthy parent-child rebellion than him knowing some state secret rofl

Reading through this whole list, I think this war is going to continue a while yet

Russia must unconditionally return all deported and illegally displaced Ukrainian children.

Echoes of the POW MIA movement associated with postwar Vietnam