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The former, I guess, if this clip rubs you the right way.

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The “bi” is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.

Imperialism always comes home to roost.

The technologies and techniques used to oppress the other get justified and moralised, and then get deployed in the metropole against the working classes.

Yes!

Can but imagine joining Food not Bombs in Israel, Russia, Ethiopia, is a lot more intense than in the UK.

And all of those probably much safer than in Myanmar.

Major respect to all of the people in the chapters in places actively and directly with military conflicts/genocides.

Fun fact: rabbits eat their own poo.

Zionism, especially it’s modern incarnation: sure.

But there was a struggle for Israel’s soul that fascism won, due to that Zionist influence. But it needn’t have necessarily won.

It was fascist in its paramilitary early days, too. But that also predated the state.

Do I need to point at the so “North Korea is a democracy because it has democracy in the name” sign again?

Yes, the Nazis had some socialist leanings in the early days - but they were all eliminated once the Nazis came to power cementing them with Hitlers more pro-capital and anti-socialist side of the party rather than the more economically socialist Strasserites. So weren’t the government of the Nazi Reich, and out of the way long before the Second World War.

Mussolini’s PNF are a more interesting and murky choice, as Mussolini came from and had some more left wing views, and even though they crimibalised strikes they did at least give more heed to resolving class conflict - albeit as fascists do by conquest.

Israel is a good shout, and it was much more socialist back in its early days. Sadly, since the economic reforms of 85 with its privatisation of state services, cuts, and general adoption of neoliberal economic policy I don’t think counts as Socialist… And it only really got full fascy after then, the assassination of the leader in the 90s for the Oslo Accords and following elections makes a good mark for Israel turning unapologetically fascist I think

Really? I’ll bite. Name 3, and please note that:

1. Fascism and authoritarian are different
2. I’ll need your definition of socialism, and “because the PRC said so” doesn’t change the material conditions of the nation. Just as the DPRK being called that doesn’t make it democratic.

I usually download Eurovision, as the politics isn’t new… Just more apparent.

Maybe find a Eurovision community and ask about alternate viewing methods? I’m sure there are other ways to watch live, which if you’ve got a gathering is the way to do it.

If you’re using “Tragedy of the Commons” as a synonym of Holocene Extinction, and are not talking about the way common land (i.e. The Commons) in Medieval and Early Modern Europe was managed, then sure I’ll concede the point.

But that was pre-Captialist, and similar things can be seen when we look and the surviving indigenous societies in the world. It would, indeed, be harder in areas that have been living under capitalism for the last five to six hundred years.

You seem to be analysing from a fairly traditional Marxist-Leninist lens, albiet with a novel definition of state. No bad thing, but there are other Left wing frameworks that bring interesting, alternate understandings.

I think the first runs afoul of the Tragedy of the Commons.

The real “Tragedy of the Commons” is that it’s a myth made up by Capitalists to justify their enclosure of common land and divesting those without land from their rights to self-sufficientcy and access to resources.

The Commons were generally well managed for hundreds of years by convention and local communities.

If you don’t have a state, or local proto-capitalists, with the violence to take possession of the commons, they remain well shared and not over-exploitated.

Better than the US is not a high bar to clear.

The PRC has gotten better in the last 15 years, but was also pretty poor before that, and still enacts environmentally catastrophic colonial extractavist projects in South East Asia, similar to Europe and North America in Africa and South America. (Though none as catastrophic as my homeland has been in West Africa.)

I hope that the PRC can keep to it’s trajectory, while reducing the harm done in South East Asia, and then in a few years can be better environmentally than all 1st World Nations.

A strong belief in separation of government from society, and traditionally opposed to unity of state and religion too.

Islam as a whole, prior to Peak Colonialism (which obviously led to some serious cultural and social restructuring) Islam was big on society-religion being apart from government and power. Leave government alone and ignore it as much as you can to live well within society - Sharia as a social code for getting along, with more wiggle-room and freedom compared to medieval laws from governments or local elite.

Debt , pp. 220-225 has a lot more of Graeber on the matter and we can both check the bibliography for more in depth reading.

If any European thinks we don’t have to get much better with how we treat Romani, Sinti, and other traveller groups they’re objectively wrong.

Simply not being as terrible and as murderiffic as the US isn’t the goal, and really should be taken as a given for any society even attempting to be suitable for humanity.

Shia has far fewer states and been less interested in temporal power, even Iran is quite an odd case.

Graeber also liked to point out that Shia Islam is quite anarchistic and anti-state authority.

And also that markets divorced from state power lacked a lot of the coercive power they have in the modern Anglo-European unity of state and capital.