obiesty is a health issue that is structural in causes and solutions; there is a reason AES countries have very very low rates of obiesty/morbid obiesty; they can control advertising so fast food isnt predatory, have collective work out sessions/yoga as social events people can participate in mass groups and an emphasis on high speed rail and subway systems so people walk more
So my main source on this was this book I read recently;
They talk about the origin of drill music in the UK as being linked to these tracks, so here you go;
They mention that think tank in the book, they also talk about how this attempt to associate black music with violent stereotypes is hardly anything new, its been going on to grime artists prior to this, I suppose the new thing about it is that drill artist get banned from even entering certain postcodes and given 4-5 year prison sentances for not comitting a crime, but refrencing a already convicted murder they where just aware of as it had been publicized in the news. Its clearly not about just censoring supposed violent music but about removing voices from the victims of austeirty.
Isn’t splitting into sub-ideologies hurting the potential for a larger movement?
If they are dogmatic about it enough to kick out other Marxists id say so yeah; unity between MLs/Marxists/Maoists should be a priority, not trots though.
So I was re-reading the German Ideology by Marx recently and I found his bit about ‘Mental Production’ really relevant in regards to Drill music in the UK.
So if you take what Marx is saying, that the mental production (art) of a society is controlled by the upper class, and those who lack the means to engage in mental production will be dominated by it. He gives the example that you just need to read history to realize this is true, as the only art that gets filtered through history and that gets to survive and be representative is what the upper class allowed to be uncensored, and what the upper class deemed valuable enough to fund with money both in purchasing, artists expenses and education.
In a modern context in the UK over 900 drill artists have been entirely banned from making music; 80% of them where never implicated in any crime what so ever, and 92% are black; the idea that drill music is an inherently violent genre of music that increases crime is a moral panic. Think about mods vs rockers, or satanic panic with metal etc; the only new element to the moral panic around drill is that it is now also racialized; it represents a sub-culture of defiance and is a truely bottom up from the underclass genre of music and as such it needs to be comidified, neuterued and the real pioneers of the genre stopped from making music so that the representation of what ‘drill’ even is can be whitewashed in history by the mainstream.
but also why we should ban all adverts like north korea and cuba
Anyone who props up guzman is an idiot, he killed more indigenous socialists than he did capitalists.
Yeah same here, Mao is great, ‘Maoists’ suck due to tribalism taken to a absurd degree.
Its why they call us ‘dengists’ lol.
Agreed on both points, it reminds me of a conversation I had with a trot org when I was trying to find a ML party to throw my political weight behind in the UK; I live in one of the most deprived areas, there idea of organizing was handing out there own newspaper in the deprived area, right outside a methadone clinic; the paper they wanted me to hand out was anti-china, anti-russia and anti-cuba confusingly.
I suggested they focus on rent instead and didnt contact them again lol.
I think part of fixing the left in the UK is removing trots infulence from it by creating parrell sources of information and news.
Trot outlets and the daily star often serve as curious leftists first entry into communist-adjacent politics, and they do a utter shit job of it everytime; from throwing trans people under the bus to spending there political energy and capital appealing to angry socialist boomers over the age of 60
China! Oh, wait, no, that’s not a good example either.
shut the fuck up cracker
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Electronic warfare is a massive part of the Ukraine war, been following the Russian sides devolopment of them and they have given like 3-4 jammers for every tank, they put them on each corner.
Ukrainian drones have started to report white static washes when flying near Russians, its interesting but I think most militaries arent fully playing there hand in terms of what level of jamming they are actually capable of yet.
Probably trying to prevent ID through shoe size analysis
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for further context they likely did not see the bigger picture because the closest comparision they likely had was the automonous zone they gave jewish people in Russia; there is a state closed off that was given to Jewish people as a safe haven and self governing state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast)
Its still a big L but like other people said they shifted course on this later on, I think they figured it would be like the above rather than what it turned out to be.
Honest question, is there a good alt to discord?
https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Power-A-Radical-View-Steven-Lukes.pdf
The basis in Marx and Engels for Gramsci’s idea is their claim that the ‘ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas: i.e., the class, which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental pro- duction, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it’ (Marx and Engels 1965[1845]: 60). For discussions of Gramsci on hegemony, see Williams 1965 and Bates 1975
everywhere in america looks like the back of somewhere
Imagine being able to buy a house within 2-3 years of working on a single wage and being able to afford to have a family comfortably.
Idk I didnt live through it either but the above social contract was at least present for white people between 1950-1990