It is now generally accepted that globalization has been a failure in terms of delivering on its triple promise of lifting countries from stagnation, eliminating poverty, and reducing inequality. (Norton has stated that anyone that believes 9/11 was an inside job is a right wing conspiracy nut.) The WTO protests marked the moment that the Much has changed in the two decades since. Just remember the extent of that previous war on Socialism in the USA; they murdered their own pop-stars, civil rights leaders, they declared wars in Asia, torturing and murdering millions in South America, they even planted bombs in allied countries in Europe and murdered their politicians. The wishywashy statements like “evil” take us nowhere when trying to find solutions.Denialist nonsence. And what’s more anyone who wants more than 250k/yr with free public everything is an assole. Wakey, wakey indeed!You didn’t tackle the reality: how do you stop people cheating the system? At the time, Seattle was a settlement in the Washington Territory that had recently named itself after Chief Seattle (Sealth), a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish peoples of central Puget Sound. From Washington’s perspective, CHOP/CHAZ should be considered blowback from this policy.The US creation of the SDF has not been without controversy, as the YPG is widely regarded as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey which Washington’s NATO ally regards When Trump tried to follow through on his anti-interventionist pledges as a candidate and pull US troops out of Syria, it sparked outrage from the pro-war “left” which glorifies Rojava as a ‘libertarian socialist’ and ‘direct democracy’ experiment, even though non-Kurds such as Arabs and Assyrian Christians face ethnic cleansing at hands of Kurdish nationalists in their efforts to create an ethno-state.The ideological inspiration for the Rojava federation is the Jewish-American Zionist anarchist philosopher Murray Bookchin who was especially influential to PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan. This is totally doable if we all collectively participate in agreeing to these limits. This isn’t about “utopia” or the search for it. There they joined the fifty or so Seattle settlers. What a stupid moron is your average whitey.I suspect that your juvenile comment at the end is rather demeaning to ALL the well-meaning Anglos who will generally go to the ends of the earth in their endeavours to try to undo past injustices. What does that even mean anyway? Is that a more acceptable question?Ah, so I see now… the communist vanguardists crawl out of their crypt again after sabotaging revolution worldwide since The Spanish Civil War and blame it on the “Left”? Business accounts will be separate, Hording money will just be stupid. Some may recall this was where the black bloc first became notorious for injecting vandalism and senseless violence into peaceful demonstrations and were widely thought to have beenIn 2016, the current embodiment of Antifa first came to attention during protests on college campuses against speaking appearances by far-right media personalities during the US presidential election, including at the University of California at Berkeley which had ironically been the site of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s.Following Trump’s election, the stage was set in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right rally and counter-protests over the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in August 2017 for “Antifa” to be crowned as heroes shadowboxing the historical ghost of fascism. Are all “whites” being so targeted? In our contemporary farce-version of the Spanish Civil War, both the ‘anarchists’ and the ‘communists’ (jointly known as Antifa) are now secretly controlled by the capitalists, so it is highly unlikely we’ll see any infighting between them this time around.This is an excellent article that begs a response from Louis/Crispy. I think their strategy and tactics have become pretty transparent to many of us these days, and the resulting contagion of 4th-Stage stupidity is now rampant.Has the CIA’s massive war on the socialist Left really ended,…… since now that war seems almost invisible or has it been that energy redirected, focused and been reborn in another form. Whether they call themselves ‘capitalists’ or ‘Marxists’ or ‘fascists’ or anything else is just a matter of branding. The Democratic Party, which spearheaded the Orwellian idea of “humanitarian interventionism” used to justify the wholesale destruction of uncooperative nations by the American war machine in recent decades, has since tricked the majority of the left into unwittingly backing US imperialism to unseat “dictators.” Even when the Left today ostensibly opposes war, it is often forced to qualify its objections by repeating the same talking points about countries attacked by Washington used to justify it.The US foray in the Syrian war is a perfect example. They are epistemological relativists, which ensures they are unable/unwilling to even accept objectivity and determinism, the central philosophical pillars of all genuine study and knowledge. companies looking for cheap easy to exploit labor.What we have in the US is Civic nationalism or ethnic nationalism. All excess as taxation goes back into the Public Commons for re-investment. San Francisco High School completely failed to educate its students when they decided upon the most backwards way of interpreting the mural, just as the protesters tearing down these statues did not use their faculties to understand them in a historical context. Millions have lost their jobs; others have had no choice but to continue working at great risk to their health. Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! The MSM often talks of institutional racism, but provides no evidence. While the calls for the removal of Confederate statues erected during the Reconstruction era is long overdue, more debatable is the removal of those honoring slave-owning Founding Fathers such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson which were toppled in Portland, Oregon. Here you have an authoritarian government tht has used Marxism to run a revolution that then dropped all Marxism and developed an authoritarian government that provides very little to the people, other than plenty of control and what they need to work as government owned slaves.You simply overestimate CCP wickedness, while you underestimate Western hypocrisy, which can match it in every way.I live in HK, my wife is Chinese, and until the virus struck was regularly working in mainland China for a few weeks at a time. They are blind to the central conflict of capitalist society: class, the fundamental basis of all structural exploitation and oppression. Very illuminating connection between the (mostly) racist Leftism of the Second Apart-Hate State’s kibbutzim, the racist Leftism of Rothschild’s oil fiefdom Eretz Kurdistan, and the mostly racist Leftism of the Liberal Democratic West which cheers the rape of small wog countries.