tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1960411827517631451..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Cheering State Thuggery in BelarusPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-33800329724877435242020-08-21T23:50:53.033+01:002020-08-21T23:50:53.033+01:00Are you an expert on matters Belarusian? For that ...Are you an expert on matters Belarusian? For that matter, do we need expertise on everything to have an opinion? Jog on. <br /><br />Meanwhile, <a href="https://t.co/W903eRvfv9?amp=1" rel="nofollow">try this</a>. You might learn something.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-73058186520614371532020-08-21T20:06:55.670+01:002020-08-21T20:06:55.670+01:00Speaking of incoherence PhilBC, can you precisely ...Speaking of incoherence PhilBC, can you precisely tell us where your expertise on all things Belarusian springs from, given yo think you are able to post things like this as if you are some sort of authority on the subject?<br /><br />A guest post from a leftist Belarussian would have been nice, but from you, do me a favour.CCAACnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-14808666023035654432020-08-21T18:54:48.544+01:002020-08-21T18:54:48.544+01:00The Stop-the-War types operate from the one essent...The Stop-the-War types operate from the one essential principle that the West (especially the US) is always wrong, regardless, and whoever opposes them must therefore be in the right. The idea that the opposite of a wrong idea might also be a wrong idea doesn't occur to them, because this would require genuine thought about the world and the context events operate in, rather than mindless adherence to an axiom.Lidl_Janusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-3042527702796807942020-08-21T18:33:36.577+01:002020-08-21T18:33:36.577+01:00This is an interesting interview in Jacobin with t...This is an interesting interview in Jacobin with two Belarus leftists. Not hopeful, because the left is weak, but the only rational action for the left here is to try to inject explicit class politics into the movement. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/belarus-protests-lukashenko-minskDarrell Kavanaghhttps://twitter.com/DarrellChalonernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-34355914768617751062020-08-21T18:10:21.885+01:002020-08-21T18:10:21.885+01:00You see, we even let incoherent and anonymous swea...You see, we even let incoherent and anonymous swearbabies comment on here.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-40752969414980639262020-08-21T17:51:47.422+01:002020-08-21T17:51:47.422+01:00How many times will an election result be question...How many times will an election result be questioned before we come to the conclusion, let us suspend all elections now and forever and just let the global elite decide who rules?<br /><br />What is the point of elections in this day and age? No one seems to respect the result of an election, unless of course it goes the way the global elite want it to.<br /><br />The good thing about this would be that if every nation was ruled by a US puppet regime the old ruling class tactic of playing nations off against each other in a race to the bottom won't wash as nations will wonder why capital isn't being invested in their country given their puppet president is so friendly to the US! Then of course we would see new protests but only this time PhilBC would say fuck all about it!<br /><br />In this puppet regime world we would clearly see that all foreign policy is supremacist and all the bile being meted out against the migrants in the channel is simply this supremacy being reflected in the opulent masses. We would also then see that the neo liberal fantasy would come into direct conflict with the actual physical realities. Not everyone can live of 11kw of energy and to even imagine a sustainable future the people of the West will have to reduce their energy usage by more than a half, at least.<br /><br />The sight of Westerners, like PhilBC, pontificating about this brutal regime or that leaves me sick, given he is blogging from the most dangerous fucking place on Earth with the most dangerous values (passive consumption rules ok), the place where the Planet destroyers live, who will let nothing, not even a deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome get in the way of their consumption!<br /><br />Of course the global elite will pour capital into where it is strategically advantageous, and this only where it will make the best return. If the West can undermine Russia or China they will send capital in that direction, this is a point missed by religious Marxists, i.e. those who quote from Marx...badly, like a fundamentalist quoting from the Bible.<br /><br />Incidentally the regime in Belarus doesn't seem anywhere near as Thuggish as the chief gangster regime of the USA or Britain for that matter. I might have missed a wikileaks expose but I can't remember Belarusian troops shooing innocent civilians from Helicopters and high fiving each other at the carnage. Did I miss that?<br /><br />Fuck the West and their bleating.CCAACnoreply@blogger.com