8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

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Gaza Will Forever Haunt Joe Biden
Gaza Will Forever Haunt Joe Biden
Joe Biden’s enabling of a genocide in Palestine was in keeping with a career spent pushing bloody war in the Middle East. His action and inaction on Gaza was brutal, unjustifiable, and unforgivable.
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Gaza Will Forever Haunt Joe Biden
From heroes to hated: Health-care workers sign open letter slamming abuse - National | Globalnews.ca
From heroes to hated: Health-care workers sign open letter slamming abuse - National | Globalnews.ca

This piece especially hit hard for me, as it reflects trends that I’m seeing even in my immediate circles – a backlash against those of us who have worked tirelessly through the pandemic only to now be perceived as “Leftist morons”.

“But on Monday, when Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth walked into her office, she had a different kind message waiting on her answering machine. “You’re a lying a– c—,” said the voicemail, which was left on the phone at her family health practice in Ottawa over the weekend. “I bet you love doing abortions, that’s why you’ve got a hyphen in your name, couldn’t even take take your f— husband’s last name. I’m sure of it. Another f—— extreme leftist, freakin’ extreme feminist c– who is just trying to destroy the world. Those people are fighting for your freedoms too, you dumb c—.”

·globalnews.ca·
From heroes to hated: Health-care workers sign open letter slamming abuse - National | Globalnews.ca
Capitalism Really Sucks, But Why?
Capitalism Really Sucks, But Why?
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComradeHakim Twitter: @YaBoiHakim A very basic general overview of the contradictions of Capitalism, and the intrinsic faults that make the system untenable. Sources and books mentioned are in pinned comment. 00:00 Intro 00:22 Capitalism's Boom and Bust Cycles 02:10 The Falling Rate of Profit 03:54 Infinite Growth in a Finite World 05:04 Profit Over All Else 08:06 Capitalism and Meritocracy 09:32 The Reserve Army of Labour 10:32 The Centralization of Capital 11:57 Class Antagonism 13:26 The Lack of Real Solutions Within The System 15:20 Conclusion
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Capitalism Really Sucks, But Why?
Speaking the fascist’s language: Pierre Poilievre’s perfidious rhetorical appeal for working class votes : r/onguardforthee
Speaking the fascist’s language: Pierre Poilievre’s perfidious rhetorical appeal for working class votes : r/onguardforthee
839 votes, 198 comments. 290K subscribers in the onguardforthee community. A Canada-specific subreddit that allows all types of Canadian content. The…
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Speaking the fascist’s language: Pierre Poilievre’s perfidious rhetorical appeal for working class votes : r/onguardforthee
Have far-right radicals infiltrated Canada’s conservative parties? We’re about to find out | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
Have far-right radicals infiltrated Canada’s conservative parties? We’re about to find out | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
For years now, Canada’s Conservatives have played footsie with an increasingly radicalized right-wing populist movement. The sooner their relationship with them is brought into the light, the better it will be for everyone else.
·nationalobserver.com·
Have far-right radicals infiltrated Canada’s conservative parties? We’re about to find out | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
MAGA Republicans have been attacking Robert Reich as a “coastal elitist” in response to an August 23 tweet in which the liberal economist, UC Berkeley professor and former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration described far-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a “fascist.” Reich’s MAGA crit...
·rawstory.com·
'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
Fascist Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: Confronting the Domestication of the Unimaginable - CounterPunch.org
Fascist Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: Confronting the Domestication of the Unimaginable - CounterPunch.org
The long shadow of domestic fascism, defined as a project of racial and cultural cleansing, is with us once again. Americans have seen the ghosts of fascism before in acts of savage colonialism and dispossession, in an era of slavery marked by the brutality of whippings and neck irons, and in a Jim Crow age most obvious in the spectacularized horror of murderous lynchings. More recently we have viewed fascist acts of terror in a politics disappearances and genocidal erasures under the dictatorships of Adolf Hitler, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and others. And in each case, history has given us a glimpse of what the end of humanity would look like.
·counterpunch.org·
Fascist Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: Confronting the Domestication of the Unimaginable - CounterPunch.org