Political struggle

¶  Full ("Revolution")
:
    ___________________ current (?)
    ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states )
    Marxist-Leninist:
        * China
        * Cuba
        * Laos
        * Vietnam
    Etc:
        * Mozambique
        * Nepal
        * [...]
    ___________________ past
    * Tito's partisans vs nazis (Yugoslavia WW2)
    * French revolution: joining with police, killing the king
    * Soviet revolution (Bolshevik against the monarchy)
    * Chinese communist revolution, mao, "the vanguard" and party line, ...
    ___________________ even
    * American Revolution
    * English revolution (?)
    * [...]

¶  Partial / Localised ("Insurgency")

as in https://communemag.com/how-to-seize-the-means/ :
    "During the Mexican Revolution, Emiliano Zapata’s guerrilla army, arrayed under the banner of “Land and Liberty,” proposed one such answer—seizing land, timber, and water, then distributing it to the pueblos and citizens of Mexico. In the 1960s, the Black Panther Party declared in their Ten-Point Program that “the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community” in order to achieve self-organized full employment for Black people, brought to fruition by armed self-defense and mass organization. Recent movements around the world are animated by the same spirit, from Cooperation Jackson in the US South to the communes of Venezuela and Rojava."

:
    * Zapatistas (Chiapas/Mexico):
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Zapatista_Autonomous_Municipalities (MAREZ)
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation (EZLN)
    * Rojava & Kurds !:
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava ("Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (November 2013 – present)")
    * Black Panthers (USA)
    * RAF ? (Germany)
    * Arab militants ?!
    * [...]

_____________
<L>: see also this "list of left-wing militant groups around the world. These groups seek change through armed conflict or violent protest in opposition to an established government."  → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_left-wing_militant_groups

¶    * unions & strike actions

historic worker rights:
    * 8-hour work week (ended 16 hour work days)
    * ended child labour
    * increasing pay & minimal wage
    * [...]

still scoring victories:
    * (keep securing eroding rights worldwide)
    * IG metall - metalworkers in Germany (2019)
    * 2021 Kellogs, ###
    * [...]

see:
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_bargaining
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picketing ( vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker )
    * [...]

¶    * mass civil disobedience
:
    * Gandhi & India vs English occupation
    * """Henry David Thoreau popularized the term in the US with his essay Civil Disobedience""":
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)
    * MLK and the Civil Rights Movement
    * mass boycott
    * consciouss objectors / draft dodgers
    * Enric Duran and "financial disobedience"
    * [...]

¶    * protest culture, direct action, mass/civil movements
:
    * Occupy (2011)
    * XR / Extinction Rebellion (2019)
    * Gotof je (Slovenia 2011)
    * BLM - Black Lives Matter (2013)
    * Arab spring ?!
    * Hong Kong ?! (2019)
    * Suffragetes / Feminist struggles
    * Antiwar (USA vs Vietnam War, etc.)
    * G-20 (Hamburg/DE, 2017)
    * G-8 (Genova/ITA, 2001)
    * UK Uncut
    * [...]

Aka: demonstrations, rallies, ...

¶    * electoral: small party politics & coalitions

Setting policies & trying to get wide approval for them.

Either:

    * passing them inside coalitions, or minority governments:
    :
        * Slovenian Left ~2019
        * [...]

    * even if failing - exposing the electorate to new perspectives & "expanding overton window", thus exerting pressure on others:
        * Bernie 2016 (USA) !!
        * Gravel 2020 (USA) ;)
        * [...]

    * [...]


Resources:
    * https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/

¶    * advocacy: NGOs, lobbying, causes, etc

"We won't vote for you, if you..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy

"""Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials and the public. Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research"""

Also:
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_entrepreneur
    * [...]

¶    * micro-Communisms & mutualism

historic:
    * Paris Commune
    * Diggers
    * [...]

current:
    * anarchist social housing & communes
    * Marinaleda
    * Totalist CoCo: 🔗postmarket
    * hackerspaces & 🔗hackbases
    * [...]

¶    * cooperatives

:
    * platform cooperatives
    * OP Finland
    * Mondragon
    * [...]

also see:
    * 🔗non-shitty
    * 🔗coop-alike
    * [...]

¶    * new theory, imaginaria, utopias, vanguard art

Considered struggling insofar as either directly actionable, or raising people to other modes.

:
    * Situationist International
    * Fully Automated Luxury Communism
    * Degrowth
    * Proletkult
    * [...]

¶    * Radical Degrowth

:
    * Uncivilisation Manifesto by Dark Mountain Project from 2009]
    * [...]

¶SYSTEMS OF MIND CONTROL

Follow:
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasion !!!!!! :
        * "Systematic persuasion is the process through which attitudes or beliefs are leveraged by appeals to logic and reason. Heuristic persuasion on the other hand is the process through which attitudes or beliefs are leveraged by appeals to habit or emotion"
        * [...]
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent !!! #toread (Chomsky)
    * [...]

¶RADICAL REFORMISM

Pacifying & active counter-activism;
status quo.
(... until the ultra-right gets emboldened by crisis and finds their moment)

What's up with... :
    * "green jobs" ?
    * "klimapaket" ?

... and other counter-activism?

[...] !!!

¶(——) Foreign manipulation

intelligence/counter-intelligence

* financiering media, art, "NGOs", etc

* "public opinon polls"

* often, election "validation"

* "nobel prizes"
"""
The Soviet authorities felt somewhat constrained in what they could do to Solzhenitsyn, who had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 and was an international celebrity
"""

* ###

¶(++) GENERAL STRIKE

###


<----------------- (new) RESOURCES ↑↑↑









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¶(——) Violent overtake : Hitler & fascism in general

had:
    * electoral success (32%)
    * violence on the streets ("grassroots support")
    * business support
    * [...]

also see:
    * eichmann and "banality of evil"
    * [...] ?

¶(-?) wtf is up with "Frankfurt School" ??? (critical but UNFINISHED DYNAMIC vs practical WORK)

"""
Like Karl Marx, the Frankfurt School concerned themselves with the conditions (political, economic, societal) that allow for social change realised by way of rational social institutions.
"""

Read:
    * https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2844-the-frankfurt-school-a-timeline
    * [...]

¶(+) Transvestment and Venture Communes

ask >telekommunisten !!!

read:
    * https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Venture_Commune
    * [...]

¶(?) (how did capitalism "start"? or "takevover"?)

:
    * emergent compounding change?
    * non-event, parasitic on failure of another dynamic ?
    * [...]

¶(—) "we live in/under capitalism"

(I think via David Graeber).
We don't "live under capitalism".
A part, a large part of our (economic???) interactions are capitalist.
But not all, not even a majority.
We wouldn't consider finding our partners and the exchanges there capitalist.
"When your plumber acoomplice asks you for a wrench, you don't say, OH YEAH WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?"

_________________

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
 ―  Ursula K. Le Guin  

Sounds kind of good, but sceptical in light of this frag.

___________________________

¶(—) countering "the left does not have a grasp on reality"

See 🔗graph-postcapitalism !!!
#polemics

¶[s!!**] ( comments <lies )
!!! integrate >d

_________________________

* 'Moduses' seem to tie  the debate on strategic diff between the historic 'revolution or reformation' debate:

    a) Reformation: 
        "The general idea of reform is of such moderate and peaceful changes as will sufficiently modify the existing order in conformity with changing circumstances as to increase its stability and ensure its continuance."

    b) Revolution:
        "Revolutionists, on the other hand, accept the theory of evolution in its entirety. For them there is no finality. The Social Revolution is merely the outcome of social and economic development, and sudden, violent, cataclysmic changes are but natural incidents in evolution. To them there is no contradiction or antithesis between evolution and revolution."
        from ???


______________________

* Marxist critique on 'degrowth' :
    "Marxists distinguish between two types of growth: that which is useful to mankind, and that which simply exists to increase profits for companies. Marxists consider that it is the nature and control of production that is the determinant, and not the quantity. They believe that control and a strategy for growth are the pillars that enable social and economic development. According to Jean Zin, while the justification for degrowth is valid, it is not a solution to the problem. However, other Marxist writers have adopted positions close to the de-growth perspective. (...)"
    from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth#Marxist_critique
    others are: 
        * John Bellamy Foster ('Marx's Ecology - materialism and nature', etc)
        * [...]

¶(RESTRUCTURING) primary & secondary struggles

Is this true ???

primary has DIRECT SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCE:
    * taking the state
    * [...]

secondary has INDIRECT CONSEQUENCE:
    * frankfurter "critical theory" (... to do WHAT?)
    * "educating" (...towards WHAT?)
    * [...]

¶(RESTRUCTURING) parallel work & different struggles

Some struggles mutual exclude, some naturally complement, most do not exclude others.

For example: "I do teaching" should not be an excuse to not unionize, not support progressive electoral work, to join protests, etc.
This holds especially for Secondary Struggles ( = that do not have direct systemic consequence ).

¶(+) municipalism

A) "as insurgency":
    could there be ever be a "non-insurgent" municipalism

B) localitarianism / conservative municipalism:
    like recent Tunisian example
    "suspending parliament and setting people's assemblies" ???

_________

C1) "Preston model"
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Preston_Model
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Muncipal_Socialism

C2) Spanish model: city municipalism + national/international platform:
    "confluence model"

https://roarmag.org/essays/fearless-cities-municipalism-spain

"""
Overall, a constant source of frustration for municipalist governments was the media blackout of their transformative agenda and the difficulty of communicating with the public over the noise of such manufactured controversies.
"""
... is why DOTP is needed

"""
For their critics, these attempts to replicate the municipalist project at higher levels absorbed a huge amount of political energy that would have been better directed at reinforcing the municipalist network. For their advocates, they were a necessary bulwark against political opponents operating at multiple levels and an opportunity to influence politics at regional level, where important decisions on housing, health, education and other strategic issues are taken.
"""
localism creates confusion at how to delineate political issue jurisdiction, and that in itself becomes contentious

¶(+) court / legal struggles

from anti-prorogation to impeachments ...

... but it goes both ways (political improsonments, dilma rousseff, etc)

¶(+) organizing inftastructure / logistics

a grassroots-enabling way of support ...
example +juli !

¶(——) fascist mob violence

* night of Long Knives
* burning of Slovene National Hall @Trieste
* [...]

¶(?) military coup / putsch

:
    * (—) many bad ones
    * (?) Egypt ~1952:
        Nasser
        anti-imperialism
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_revolution_of_1952
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Officers_Movement_(Egypt)
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_socialism
    * (+) Burkina Faso ~1983-1987:
        Thomas Sankara
        pan-africanism, anti-imperialism, education, healthcare, ...
    * [...]

¶(+) anti-imperialism , anti-colonialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War
via
https://social.coop/web/statuses/103953466658038925
"""
You'll never be as cool as Ethiopian resistance fighters liberating their country from fascist Italy
"""

¶* wa state - autonomous one-party socialist state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_State
"""
Wa State (Wa: Meung Vax; Chinese: 佤邦; pinyin: Wǎ Bāng; Burmese: ဝပြည်နယ်) is an autonomous region within Myanmar (Burma). It is de facto independent from the rest of the country,[5] and is governed by the United Wa State Party as a one-party socialist state.[1] However, Wa State recognises Myanmar's sovereignty over all of its territory,[6] and has, in return, been granted a high level of autonomy by the central government.[7] Under the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar the area is designated as the Wa Self-Administered Division of Shan State.[8] The administrative capital is Pangkham, formerly known as Panghsang. The name Wa is derived from the Wa ethnic group, who speak an Austroasiatic language. 
"""

¶(+) international politics (UN, UNESCO, ...)

:
    * https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
    * [...]

¶(+) christiania ???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania:
    mutualism ?
    """
    After bitter negotiations that temporarily resulted in the area being sealed off to the public, in June 2011, the residents of Christiania agreed to collectively set up a fund to formally purchase the land at below market prices.[14] The community made its first payment in July 2012, officially becoming legal landowners.[15]
    """

¶(?) unstable liberal + left minority governments

* slovenia 2019:
    →→ (ended in disaster, as "center" broke election promise, broke off to reform government with far-right)
* portugal: left gov? https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/portugal/
* [...]

¶(?) political assasination

+:
    Luis Carrero Blanco (Franco fascist dictator succesor - Spain)
    french revolution (killing kings)
    english revolution (same)
    richard spencer

?:
    anarchists killing franz ferdinand (→ ww1)
    etc

-:
    lincoln
    Jfk
    Allende

__________________________________

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power#Seizure_of_control_(1931%E2%80%931933)

¶(?) technology: "internet"

i think it's just a technology

h: "what is powerful is the social norms"

[...]

¶(——) Nazi Germany / Hitler's rise to power

HOW DID HITLER COME TO POWER

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrielleneingabe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power
aka "Machtergreifung"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power#Seizure_of_control_(1931%E2%80%931933)

_________________

SS vs SA

Although some of the conflicts between the SS and SA were based on personal rivalries of leaders, the mass of members had key socio-economic differences and related conflicts. SS members generally came from the middle class, while the SA had its base among the unemployed and working class. Politically speaking, the SA was more radical than the SS, with its leaders arguing the Nazi revolution had not ended when Hitler achieved power, but rather needed to implement socialism in Germany (see Strasserism).

Changing constitution

"""
Hitler then obtained the necessary supermajority by persuading the Catholic Centre Party to vote with him with regard to the Reichskonkordat. The bill was passed on 23 March with 444 votes for and 94 against. Only the Social Democrats led by Otto Wels opposed the measure, which came into effect on 27 March. As it turned out, the atmosphere of that session was so intimidating that the measure would have still passed even if all Communist and Social Democratic deputies had been present and voting. The provisions of the bill turned the Hitler government into a de facto legal dictatorship. 
"""

¶(—) destabilization

:
    * https://www.jstor.org/stable/421552?seq=1
    * [...]

¶"mechanisms to support their activities that are parasitic to capitalism"

* "escobar rerouted cocaine money to the normal people"

* the danish bank robbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekingegade_Gang
"""
was a group of about a dozen communist political activists who during the 1970s and 80s committed a number of highly professional robberies in Denmark and sent the money to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.  The gang's claims to fame were the professionalism of their heists, and the 1989 discovery of a large cache of weapons and explosives in a hideout flat on Blekingegade ("Blekinge Street") giving the gang its press name
[...]
His "leech state theory" theorized that the rich countries make so much money by exploiting 3rd world countries that even their "poorest" citizens are so rich they are effectively "bribed" into being part of the Capitalist bourgeoisie and unlikely to participate in any Communist revolution until this source of wealth dries out due to liberation of the 3rd world.  Accordingly, western communists who really want a communist ideal state must first help liberate the 3rd world countries from western exploitation.  This theory will be the basis of all future activities in both the party and the gang.  The theory is later published as a book.
"""

* robin hood (and redistribution)

* bogdanov and expropriating

* [...]

¶(new ideas <ts(?) tomerge)

anti-tech 350.org permaculture heidegger

thebrilliant.org -> ep 59, 60, 61, 62 on tech

hegel's dialect: why stop at the moralistic negation of tech

¶[?] "Just wars"

* bernie sanders supported war in Yugoslavia:
    the apparatus definitely made a thing out of it

* and UN ones?

* "just wars" must def not be "excluding by not including"

* [...]

¶"Electorate failed, what now?" Social democracy/revisionism post-Bernie

https://berniesanders.com/movement-continues/
###

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_of_the_21st_century
"""
Socialism of the 21st century (Spanish: socialismo del siglo XXI) is an interpretation of socialist principles first advocated by German sociologist and political analyst Heinz Dieterich and taken up by a number of Latin American leaders. Dieterich argued in 1996 that both free-market industrial capitalism and 20th-century socialism have failed to solve urgent problems of humanity like poverty, hunger, exploitation, economic oppression, sexism, racism, the destruction of natural resources and the absence of a truly participative democracy.[1] Socialism of the 21st century has democratic socialist elements, but it primarily resembles Marxist revisionism.[2]
Leaders who have advocated for this form of socialism include Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Néstor Kirchner of Argentina, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.[3] Because of the local unique historical conditions, socialism of the 21st century is often contrasted with previous applications of socialism in other countries, with a major difference being the effort towards a more decentralised and participatory planning process.[2]
"""

¶(—) 2020/06 | Boomers are condemning looting

white boomers are condemning the looting.
what to tell them?

-->:
    This "armchair general" is a bunch of HISTORICALLY UNINFORMED smartassing.
    See "HISTORIC" examples below !

_____________

Points:

    1) you don't have the right to smartass about tactics of opressed peoples' far away:
        ... ESPECIALLY if there is a racial component
        ... ESPECIALLY if you never did anything to correct it before yourself

    2) being an armchair general is retarded generally:
        ESPECIALLY because you get news through the media, which you will easily (right?) recognize in complicit with upkeeping the previous status quo for those peoples. Yes?

    3) All wars are dirty:
        so "sorry about your burnt car"

    4) ... additionally, this is asymmetric conflict:
        make your own calculation about ownership structure, and relative LOSS vs INFLICT damage

    5) Destroying shit makes the cost of uprisings high. It is like a union strike:
        counterproductive
        but that is the whole point

    6) violence also has a MEDIA CAPACITY:
        you didn't care before, you didn't see it
        now you see it - that's good right?
        it didn't work before, so you get it, yes?

¶HISTORIC: peasant uprisings (~13-early 18 century)

_____________ ( unsorted, review! )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt (1381)"""
The rebels sought a reduction in taxation, an end to the system of unfree labour known as serfdom, and the removal of the King's senior officials and law courts. [...] On 13 June, the rebels entered London and, joined by many local townsfolk, attacked the gaols, destroyed the Savoy Palace, set fire to law books and buildings in the Temple, and killed anyone associated with the royal government. The following day, Richard met the rebels at Mile End and acceded to most of their demands, including the abolition of serfdom. Meanwhile, rebels entered the Tower of London, killing the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, whom they found inside"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_revolts_in_late-medieval_Europe


https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolminski_kme%C4%8Dki_upor

https://prezi.com/xastj7biup8j/kmecki-upori/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4284892?seq=1
Peasant Revolts in the German Empire in the Late Middle Ages 

https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrva%C5%A1ko-slovenski_kme%C4%8Dki_upor

https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenski_kme%C4%8Dki_upor
https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kme%C4%8Dki_upori_na_Slovenskem



_____________ open q's
:
    * g: "peasant uprising tactics"
    * g: "kmečki upori požgali"
    * did they burn down farms, etc ("their own property") or not?
    * did they try to destroy down castles? anything else?
    * ... or did they rather try to "reform" them?
    * OK, that was also held in place by bishops etc
    * [...]

¶(+) HISTORIC: French revolution (~1789 ... 1792 storming pallace)

        """Pamphlets by liberal nobles and clergy became widespread after the lifting of press censorship.[47] The Abbé Sieyès, a theorist and Catholic clergyman, argued the paramount importance of the Third Estate in the pamphlet Qu'est-ce que le tiers état? (What is the Third Estate?) published in January 1789. He asserted: "What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it want to be? Something."[48]"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87a_Ira
It'll be fine

"""
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
aristocrats to the lamp-post
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
the aristocrats, we'll hang them!

If we don't hang them
We'll break them
If we don't break them
We'll burn them
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
aristocrats to the lamp-post
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
the aristocrats, we'll hang them!
"""

¶(+) HISTORIC— Anti-apartheid: communism, organised violence, sabotage

"""
By 1985, it had become the ANC's aim to make Black townships "ungovernable" (a term later replaced by "people's power") by means of rent boycotts and other militant action. Numerous township councils were overthrown or collapsed, to be replaced by unofficial popular organisations, often led by militant youth. People's courts were set up, and residents accused of being government agents were dealt extreme and occasionally lethal punishments. Black town councillors and policemen, and sometimes their families, were attacked with petrol bombs, beaten, and murdered by necklacing, where a burning tyre was placed around the victim's neck, after they were restrained by wrapping their wrists with barbed wire. This signature act of torture and murder was embraced by the ANC and its leaders. 
"""

MANDELA WAS, BASICALLY, A COMMUNIST TERRORIST !

"""
Inspired by the actions of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement in the Cuban Revolution, in 1961 Mandela, Sisulu, and Slovo co-founded Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation", abbreviated MK). Becoming chairman of the militant group, Mandela gained ideas from literature on guerrilla warfare by Marxist militants Mao and Che Guevara as well as from the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz.[116] Although initially declared officially separate from the ANC so as not to taint the latter's reputation, MK was later widely recognised as the party's armed wing.[117] Most early MK members were white communists who were able to conceal Mandela in their homes; after hiding in communist Wolfie Kodesh's flat in Berea, Mandela moved to the communist-owned Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, there joined by Raymond Mhlaba, Slovo, and Bernstein, who put together the MK constitution.[118] Although in later life Mandela denied, for political reasons, ever being a member of the Communist Party, historical research published in 2011 strongly suggested that he had joined in the late 1950s or early 1960s.[119] This was confirmed by both the SACP and the ANC after Mandela's death. According to the SACP, he was not only a member of the party, but also served on its Central Committee.[120][121]

We of Umkhonto have always sought to achieve liberation without bloodshed and civil clash. We hope, even at this late hour, that our first actions will awaken everyone to a realization of the dangerous situation to which Nationalist policy is leading. We hope that we will bring the Government and its supporters to their senses before it is too late, so that both government and its policies can be changed before matters reach the desperate stage of civil war.
—Statement released by MK to announce the start of their sabotage campaign[122]

Operating through a cell structure, MK planned to carry out acts of sabotage that would exert maximum pressure on the government with minimum casualties; they sought to bomb military installations, power plants, telephone lines, and transport links at night, when civilians were not present. Mandela stated that they chose sabotage because it was the least harmful action, did not involve killing, and offered the best hope for racial reconciliation afterwards; he nevertheless acknowledged that should this have failed then guerrilla warfare might have been necessary.[123] Soon after ANC leader Luthuli was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, MK publicly announced its existence with 57 bombings on Dingane's Day (16 December) 1961, followed by further attacks on New Year's Eve.[124]
"""

_______________

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/render-south-africa-ungovernable-message-national-executive-committee-anc-73rd-anniversary

#todll
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00064246.1984.11760833
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41067113?seq=1
Making South Africa Ungovernable ANC Strategy for the '80s
--------
* does it include  iolence?
* is it "universalist" 
+mbauwens
"""
the anti-apartheid movement was very largely socialist-universalist (with strong links to the CP-SA) and they used violence against a extremely un-democratic and violent racialist regime; however, during the transition, and probably motivated by the desire to avoid a racial civil war,they made compromises with neoliberalism
"""
(etc)

¶(+) CONTEMPORARY: BLM , ally.wiki, etc

https://ally.wiki ???
#e2h #case

points to https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSrT26HMWX-_hlLfiyy9s95erjkOZVJdroXYkU-miaHRk58duAnJIUWKxImRkTITsYhwaFkghS8sfIF/pub
"GENERAL COLLABORATIVE RESOURCE" as a "FOCAL POINT AROUND A PURPOSE"

¶(+) COLLECTIVIZATION, REQUISITION & (RE-)EXPROPRIATION

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union#Resistance_to_collectivization_and_consequences
class redistribution is very hard, because the better-off will resist, they will misleed and those will resist as well, and thus the situation will be made horrible, and that will feed resistance as well

privileged class resistance >< extrodinary measures:
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_communism
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural-Siberian_method
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
    * [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization
"""
Nationalization, or nationalisation, is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state
* "Nikolai Bukharin had criticised the term 'nationalisation', preferring the term 'statisation' instead.[14]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequestration_(law)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain !!!
"""
is the power of a state, provincial, or national government to take private property for public use. It does not include the power to take and transfer ownership of private property from one property owner to another private property owner without a valid public purpose.[3] However, this power can be legislatively delegated by the state to municipalities, government subdivisions, or even to private persons or corporations, when they are authorized by the legislature to exercise the functions of public character.[4]
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ownership#Socialization_as_a_process
"""
Socialization is conceived as a process that transforms the economic processes and, by extension, the social relations within an economy. As such, it is distinct from the process of "nationalization" which does not necessarily imply a transformation of the organizational structure of organizations or the transformation of the economic framework under which economic organizations operate. 
"""

¶(+) In-industry  callouts to pariah / outcast tactics

"""
The point of blocking spy pixels isn't just about Hey. It's Basecamp's opportunity to change the industry by making spy pixels unacceptable in polite company. "If you successfully brand shit like spy pixels as a pariah tactic, you can get it dropped across the board," Heinemeier Hansson said. (The tactic works: Selling facial-recognition tech to law enforcement is currently becoming a pariah tactic, forcing big companies that want to be seen as upstanding to stop or pause doing so.)
"""
https://www.protocol.com/ibm-facial-recognition-police-contracts
https://www.protocol.com/amazon-facial-recognition-police

¶(+) VIOLENT PROTESTS & "Full-spectrum resistance" (Mandela)

https://medium.com/@andrehenry/the-truth-youve-probably-never-heard-about-riots-956e8fd90a49

"""
In his book, Full Spectrum Resistance activist Aric McBay reveals the lesser-known figures who were willing to utilize more radical acts of resistance to contribute to movements that are often thought of as exclusively nonviolent
"""
again, nelson mandela: """Mandela was imprisoned for his leadership in the radical flank of the anti-apartheid struggle known as uMkhonto we Sizwe (meaning “tip of the spear”) which engaged in acts of sabotage and property destruction; and his autobiography recounts a lengthy process of authorities trying to pressure him into categorically denouncing violence in exchange for his freedom, which he refused to do."""

!!! imply this in the antiboomer polemics questionnaire !!!

"""
The evidence reviewed here provides consistent support for the view that the urban riots of the mid to late 1960s did help to stimulate a reactive pattern of favorable federal action across a wide range of policy areas of interest to blacks (2). [...] while “violence is the most powerful force for social change” may be an overstatement from this data, it certainly shows that violent protest is at least sometimes effective.
"""

"""Perhaps riots are more than just “the language of the unheard,” as Dr. King once asserted. Perhaps they are the stotting of an infuriated, oppressed people signaling back to powers that terrorize them that they too are powerful."""

"""
The force of resistance is determined by the severity of the oppression. It’s as John F. Kennedy once said: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
"""

¶(—) surfers & meditators

fuck your hakuna matata

¶(—) spiritualism, theosophy, and "anti-materialism"

"""
Jiddu Krishnamurti (/ˈdʒɪduːkrɪʃnəˈmuːrti/; 11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was an Indian philosopher, speaker and writer. In his early life he was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the Theosophy organization behind it.[1] His interests included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. He stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasised that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social. 
"""

¶(+) Yank Levy & guerilla warfare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yank_Levy

"""
Anyone who thinks his country will be invaded – which includes anyone now alive – would do well to read "Yank" Levi's Guerrilla Warfare for instruction on to harass invaders.[9][24]
[...]
They believed that well-trained irregulars could undermine tanks and the Blitzkrieg.
[...]
"""

#postrelease
"""
And guerrilla warfare is a method of fighting – a useful method, that will, I believe, in future campaigns become absolutely essential to success—that can be achieved and developed by democracies and by socialist societies, but cannot be developed by Fascism, particularly in the areas where Fascism rules by force against the will of the population. Successful guerrilla fighting needs the self-confidence and initiative of millions of free men, the support at risk and at heavy sacrifice of almost all the population, and a feeling of close comradeship and solidarity between the guerrilla troops and any regular army and air force supporting them. The Nazis cannot get these qualities at their service, in any of the occupied countries of Europe, even in Italy. We can. And therefore we should not think of guerrilla warfare only in terms of the present heroism of the Soviet Union, or a possible future resistance to invasion in this country. We should think of it also in terms of our own invasion of the Continent
"""

¶asymmetric warfare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency
"""
The United States Department of Defense (DOD) defines it as this: "An organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through use of subversion and armed conflict."[14]
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregular_warfare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_War
"""
During the Cold War, conducting free war was to some degree a part of the military training curriculum in Sweden, where the purpose was to enable every conscript soldier to conduct free war in the case of enemy occupation of Sweden.[1]
[...]
In free war, battles should primarily be conducted through ambushes and raids on enemy logistics and commands in order to disrupt enemy operations, which ties down more enemy combatants behind the front line, thus making frontline operations easier. 
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Resistance_(book)

¶(+) MLK (and how he was smeared)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign

Media portrayal of MLK, 1968
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EggsOW5U8AE1dLd?format=jpg&name=large
ironic

¶(?) "GO AND VOTE"

elector-political participation, its reach, and its limits
ties to:
    * ^XXX🔗neli and #extremeleft
    * ^XXX🔗policies

¶(+) "FUCK PEOPLE" (Tar & Feathers)

radical no-association policy:
    * "free association" is a hyper-liberal motive !
    * ... in line with "don't punch a nazi"
    * though it sounds a bit cultish
___________
ties to #postfamily and #postfriends
aka also #12monkeys
#TNF

¶(+) The experience of YU partisans

#oldie
it wasn't "fun"
it wasn't "comfortable"
it wasn't "do what feels right"
it was something completely different
it was beyond choice
(closer to "duty" if anything)
__________
and:
    as it was,
    you might as well build a whole new idea of humanity around
    it to kind of encompass all of the above
comrades > friends
_______
#postchoice #meaningful?

¶(+) pies and so on

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/3/20677645/antifa-portland-andy-ngo-proud-boys
Milkshake vs Ngo

Egging the australian senator

Shoeing Bush

Pies for all ...

¶(?!) getting absentee votes recognized

hmm

"One of my "agenda" is to have the blank vote recognize as legitimate, to show how our government is not representative at all"
"like, if you want to write "fuck you all" on your paper ? it does not count"
"Well IMO a president should not be legitimate when blank votes + abstentions is so big"

Does this tie-in, in any way, to ML rejection of elections as petty bourgeois?

¶more: document goals

* to try documenting & deciphering various "objections" to methods:
    (attempts to support formation of consequential political argumentation)

* to support combinations of political struggles - a "full spectrum" activism

* [...]

¶(?) "support your local scene" & "partying for a cause"

no matter how well you choose your parties, only drinking & dancing at benefits is insufficient support for causes

¶[!!*](?) Sandinistas @ Nicaragua

from the right, shitting on nicaragua/sandinistas
https://twitter.com/YAAS_America/status/1322192882112122882

"""
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas [sandiˈnistas] in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto César Sandino, who led the Nicaraguan resistance against the United States occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s.[6]
"""

what happened?
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandinista_National_Liberation_Front
* [...]

"""
They instituted a policy of mass literacy, devoted significant resources to health care, and promoted gender equality[9]
but came under international criticism for human rights abuses, mass execution and oppression of indigenous peoples
""""
that's a totally inconclusive statement "REPORTING ON REPORTING" - what of this really happened?

-----------------------------------------------

2020: daniel ortega
"""
In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was reelected President of Nicaragua with 38.7% of the vote to 29% for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 17 years of other parties winning elections. Ortega and the FSLN were reelected in the presidential elections of 2011 and of 2016. 
"""

¶(+) breaking up monopoly companies

(!!! sift through some basic popular reading!)
https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/27/breaking-up-facebook-antittrust-1446087
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/8/10/would-breaking-up-big-tech-work
https://theconversation.com/lawmakers-keen-to-break-up-big-tech-like-amazon-and-google-need-to-realize-the-world-has-changed-a-lot-since-microsoft-and-standard-oil-143517 (?)

¶(+) leaks & whistleblowers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower
"""
U.S. civic activist Ralph Nader is said to have coined the phrase, but he in fact put a positive spin on the term[6] in the early 1970s to avoid the negative connotations found in other words such as "informer" and "snitch".[7] However, the origins of the word date back to the 19th century. 
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers

like:
    * Snowden (USA global surveillance)
    * Assange / Wikileaks (USA war machine, etc)
    * Chelsea Manning

* offering bounties for leaks! :
    "lifetime rent of 10.000€" offered by (loony) "Ops" org in Slovenia

¶(~) better capitalism >< greenwashing

This "we got it" idea, very 90s, strong typographies and sharp design. Very #cat1
Corporate saviorusim
"We need a better capitalism"

Mariana Mazzucato
https://eeb.org/circular-future#


________

https://twitter.com/SmallBrigitte (followed)

→ https://twitter.com/INSEAD
"We bring together people, cultures and ideas to develop responsible leaders who transform business and society. #INSEADforGood"

→ https://twitter.com/theRSAorg
"We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. We unite people and ideas to resolve the challenges of our time."

→ https://medium.com/ampersand-lab/saving-the-planet-is-in-the-hands-of-company-boards-and-the-time-to-act-is-right-now-75bfe730272e
"Saving the planet is in the hands of company boards and the time to act is right now."

¶(?) constitutional / court takeovers

###

¶(+) explain struggling (and revolutions) as essential and neccessary

... component of any state, including the current one

for better ... or for worse (which ones would you revert?)

to conservatives:
    to hate any of these forms of political participation per se
    is denying the validity of what you are claiming to defend

###

¶(+) non-aligned movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
"""
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide.[2][5]
Drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference in 1955, the Non-Aligned Movement was established in 1961 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia through an initiative of the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, Indonesian President Sukarno, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito.[6][7] This led to the first Conference of Heads of State or Governments of Non-Aligned Countries.[8] The term non-aligned movement first appears in the fifth conference in 1976, where participating countries are denoted as "members of the movement". 
The purpose of the organization was enumerated by Fidel Castro in his Havana Declaration of 1979 as to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries" in their "struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics."[9][10] The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations' members and contain 55% of the world population. Membership is particularly concentrated in countries considered to be developing or part of the Third World, though the Non-Aligned Movement also has a number of developed nations. 
"""

¶(+) dual power (Lenin)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_power
"""
As the ideological monopoly of dominant institutions is broken and people increasingly rely on Alternative Institutions (AIs), those who benefited from existing arrangements may seek to dismantle their upstart competitors. At the same time, those who seek fundamental changes in society or who find the alternative ways of organizing it valuable may seek to enlarge and strengthen the alternative infrastructure. Counter institutions (XIs) are created both to defend the AIs and to promote their growth. These work to challenge and attack the status quo while creating, defending, and securing space for opposition and alternative institutions. They do this with everything from political protests, to direct appropriation (of plantations, government buildings, factories, etc.) for the use of alternative institutions, to civil disobedience or armed resistance. The line between AIs and XIs is seldom entirely clear as many alternative institutions are also self-promoting or defending. Together the AIs and XIs form an alternative source of power in society which is "necessarily autonomous from, and competitive with, the dominant system, seeking to encroach upon the latter's domain, and, eventually, to replace it."[26]
During the process of building the alternative institutions and the ideology that supports them, the advantage of dual power is the creation of real, and not merely political, momentum towards the revolutionary transformation of society.
Actual changes are ongoing, rather than postponed to a revolutionary moment, so needs unmet by the pre-existing order are being met during the struggle and no sector of society is told that its concerns can only be dealt with after victory is achieved
"""

¶(~) effective altruism

meh
seem there's different understandings of it
go "in there" and ...
A) earn money, then spend it on "good causes"
B) spread "ideas"
C) perform sabotage (?)
D) take positions, so "worse people" don't
they will get conflated, of course, defensively/ironically

¶(~+) debating/arguing on the internet

might:
    * inform fellow travellers, spread arguments
(tho in primitive form compared to 🔗polemics)
    * delineate, see who is who
    * waste your time
    * radicalize people further away, according to some?
    * ###

¶(X) weather underground / domestic terrorism cells

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1980s-far-left-female-led-domestic-terrorism-group-bombed-us-capitol-180973904/
"""
People talk about polarization now, but just look at the early 1970s where literally thousands of bombs were set off per year. The important thing is just to realize that there are some similarities, but these are very different periods in time and each period of time is unique.
"""

¶* san marino 1945-1956 drama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatti_di_Rovereta
weird turn of events
constitutional crisis etc

¶* CHAZ @Seattle (2020)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CHAZRevolution/comments/h17d0h/original_list_of_chaz_demands/
A lot of it is pretty dumb anarchism

¶(+) Graz Communist party (Austria)

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/graz-austria-communist-party-red-fortress-class-politics
"""
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 triggered an existential crisis for the KPÖ. In response, the party’s Vienna-based leadership spent the next decade following a modernization strategy that involved officially repudiating Marxism-Leninism. This also eventually meant dropping its opposition to the European Union, previously grounded in a view of this institution as a tool for promoting economic deregulation and the privatization of public sector goods and services. But for the KPÖ’s state-level organization in Styria, this attempt to “keep up with the times” represented a betrayal of principles. While the party managed to avoid a split, the Styrian branch ended up pursuing a course autonomous from the national party.
The Communist Party of Austria. (KPÖ Weinviertel / Facebook)Doctrinal differences aside, the success of the Styrian KPÖ’s course speaks for itself. Not only has it built a stronghold in Graz, but it has also won around five percent of the vote in every state election since 2005, making the Styrian Landtag the only Austrian state parliament in which the KPÖ is represented.
"""

https://radiostudent.si/politika/steker/stekas-vzpon-avstrijskih-komunistov# <SLO>
"""
Skrivnost uspeha avstrijskih komunistov je torej v tem, da vsaj za zdaj ostajajo zavezani delovanju na lokalnem nivoju, kar je v očitnem kontrastu z nemško Die Linke in slovensko Levico, ki politike onkraj parlamentarnega kupčkanja ne poznata več.
"""
== The point is working on the local political level, not national

¶(+) international / transnational connecting on party level

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Alliance :
    strong overview! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Alliance#Participants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International :
    strong overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International#Full_members

20210905 via case of coup vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_of_the_Guinean_People , member of both above

of course also NAM:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement

[!!*] check validity, protocols, etc of all ......... and connection to (reporting from) left-media !!!

¶(+) POLICIES— banning investors from hoods

https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/02/dutch-cities-want-ban-property-investors-neighborhoods

... could also be a way for localitarianism

¶(——) HEGEMONY/SOFTPOWER— Color revolutions and "nonviolent struggle" (AT HOME, and ABROAD)

Sponsored by USAID/NED/CIA/###, and now (2025→) also the increasingly integrated corporate-governmental apparatus.

Also see 🔗struggling-usaid !


--------- on imperial side
    * PMC (private military contractors), like Blackwater (now Academii)
    * NGOs like Open Society Foundation (George Soros), Freedom House, etc.
    * Western media outlets — public and private owned (BBC, CNN, etc)
    * Tech giants (Meta, X, etc)
    * IMF & World bank
    * Think tanks, policy analysis giants ... often tied to military or financial/mega-corporations (RAND corporation, Deloitte, etc)
    * Financial warfare & sanctions 


-------------------------------- [s!!**→] #TOREAD

📚 Recommended Study (<gpt)

• "Killing Hope" by William Blum (CIA coups documented).
• "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins (U.S. Cold War anti-communist terror).
• "Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism" by Kwame Nkrumah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint_for_Revolution
"""
Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World is a book written by Srdja Popovic, the founder of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS). The book is described on its back cover as "a handbook for anyone who wants to effectively (and peacefully) improve your neighborhood, make a difference in your community, or change the world."[1]
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp
"""
Funding for Sharp's research at this time came from the DARPA project of the US Department of Defense.[17]
Sharp was appointed a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1972. He held research appointments at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs from 1965.[2]  In 1983 he founded Harvard's Program on Nonviolent Sanctions in Conflict and Defense (PNS), which "continued in the spirit of its founder"[18] and in 1995 was merged with another Harvard organization. In 1983 Sharp also founded the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization devoted to studies and promotion of the use of nonviolent action in conflicts worldwide.[19] The Albert Einstein Institution has received funding from the Ford Foundation, the International Republican Institute and the National Endowment for Democracy, while some former directors have come from the RAND Corporation and the Ford Foundation.[20] In 2004, the Albert Einstein Institution lost much of its funding (with income dropping from more than $1m a year to as little as $160,000), and from then on was run out of Sharp's home in East Boston, near Logan Airport.[21]
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution#Belarus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Colour_revolutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Control (OFAC)
"""
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States Treasury Department. It administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions in support of U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives.[2] Under presidential national emergency powers, OFAC carries out its activities against foreign governments, organizations (including terrorist groups and drug cartels), and individuals deemed a threat to U.S. national security
"""
via https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2025-01-31/only-with-unity-will-imperialism-be-defeated
"""
At the meeting, David Adler, general coordinator of the Progressive International, pondered that unity is the only way to win. However, it is necessary to look for those mechanisms that will allow to advance with a very concrete policy, "because no country alone will be able to defeat imperialism, the International Monetary Fund or the criminal Office of Foreign Assets Control, which is the body with the capacity to sanction and exclude any international financing system."
"""
↓
sanctions search:
    https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
    try with "cuba"


————————————— on local side
:
    * Local NGOs (either super-liberal, or super-conservative)
    * Local political parties (--||--)
    * Religious organizations
    * ###


<gpt "top 10 us global adversaries, and soft power beneficiary organisations there" cca 2025/1
"""
1. China 🇨🇳

• Uyghur Separatist Groups
  • World Uyghur Congress (WUC) – Based in Germany but linked to local activism. Receives U.S. NED (National Endowment for Democracy) funding.
  • East Turkestan Independence Movement (ETIM/TIP) – Previously designated as a terrorist group, later removed by the U.S. in 2020.
• Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Groups
  • Hong Kong National Party – Banned in 2018 for separatist leanings. Members had ties to U.S. officials.
  • Apple Daily (media) – Owned by Jimmy Lai, openly backed by the U.S. and shut down by Beijing in 2021.
• Taiwan Independence Networks
  • Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) – U.S.-friendly ruling party, openly opposes Beijing’s “One China” policy.

2. Russia 🇷🇺

• Liberal Opposition Parties
  • Alexei Navalny’s Movement (FBK, Anti-Corruption Foundation) – Received indirect support via NGOs & training, accused of Western ties by the Kremlin.
  • Yabloko Party – A long-standing pro-Western, liberal party.
• Exiled Media & NGOs
  • Meduza & Dozhd TV – Both received Western grants and were labeled “foreign agents” by Moscow.
  • Memorial (Human Rights Group) – Shut down by Russian authorities for receiving foreign funding.

3. Iran 🇮🇷

• Dissident Political Groups
  • Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) – Formerly a terrorist-listed group, now a U.S.-backed exiled opposition group.
  • Green Movement (Post-2009 Election Protests) – Received U.S. cyber-support to bypass state internet blocks.
• Ethnic Separatist Movements
  • Kurdish PJAK (linked to PKK) – Has been suspected of U.S. intelligence links.
  • Balochistan-based Jundallah – Previously aided by CIA, later abandoned.

4. Venezuela 🇻🇪

• Political Opposition
  • Juan Guaidó’s Interim Government – Directly backed by the U.S., received funding and diplomatic recognition.
  • Voluntad Popular (Popular Will Party) – Guaidó’s party, received U.S. aid via the NED.
• Media & Civil Society
  • El Nacional (Newspaper) – Received U.S. funding and was targeted by the Maduro government.
  • NGOs like Foro Penal & Súmate – Received U.S. grants for election monitoring & activism.

5. North Korea 🇰🇵

• Defector Organizations
  • Free Joseon (formerly Cheollima Civil Defense) – Anti-Kim regime group, suspected of CIA links.
  • Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) – Helps defectors escape, receives U.S. NGO funding.
• Dissident Media & Activists
  • NK News & Daily NK – Western-funded outlets reporting on North Korea from defectors.

6. Cuba 🇨🇺

• Pro-Democracy Movements
  • San Isidro Movement (Artists & Activists) – Accused by Havana of receiving U.S. funding.
  • Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco) – A prominent U.S.-supported dissident group.
• Political & Media Opposition
  • CubaNet (Online Media) – U.S.-funded opposition news outlet.
  • Independent Journalists & Bloggers – Many receive grants via USAID/NED.

7. Syria 🇸🇾

• Armed Groups (Previously Backed by the U.S.)
  • Free Syrian Army (FSA) – Received U.S. military aid before shifting alliances.
  • Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – Still receives U.S. backing as an anti-ISIS force, but opposes Assad.
• Political Opposition
  • Syrian National Coalition (SNC) – U.S.-backed opposition government in exile.

8. Belarus 🇧🇾

• Opposition Political Movements
  • Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Movement – U.S. and EU-backed exiled opposition leader.
  • Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) – Longstanding anti-Lukashenko political group.
• Dissident Media
  • Nexta (Telegram Channel) – Played a key role in 2020 protests, received foreign support.
  • Belsat TV – Poland-based anti-government broadcaster with U.S. funding.

9. Nicaragua 🇳🇮

• Opposition Political Parties
  • Citizens for Liberty (CxL) – U.S.-aligned liberal party, banned in 2021.
  • Chamorro Family & Violeta Barrios Foundation – Former ruling family with U.S. ties.
• Independent Media
  • Confidencial & La Prensa – Received U.S. State Department funds, targeted by Ortega.

10. Eritrea 🇪🇷

• Exiled Opposition Groups
  • Eritrean People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) – Based abroad, seen as Western-aligned.
  • Tigray-linked Movements – Received indirect support due to Ethiopia’s past U.S. ties.
• Media & Activists
  • Assenna & Radio Erena – Opposition media outlets based in Europe but U.S.-funded.

Common Patterns of U.S. Support

• National Endowment for Democracy (NED) & USAID – Fund many pro-opposition NGOs.
• Covert CIA & State Department Aid – Particularly for armed groups & cyber activism.
• Exiled Governments & Opposition Leaders – Often given diplomatic status & funding.
• Media & Information Warfare – Independent journalists in exile get direct & indirect support.

These groups vary in legitimacy—some are peaceful activists, others are outright paramilitary factions. The U.S. supports them differently depending on political strategy.
"""

¶(—) libertarianist  "I do not trust any electoral politician, because they fucked up the system (and keep lying)"

... How to deal with this?:

    1) Politicians in western democracies, when concrete, actually mostly do what they say (??):
        On example of Obama:
            * He just said shit in the first place.
            * He tried, but is not a sole actor - modern democracies are multi-component systems (lower/higher parilaiments, constitutional courts, lobbyist networks etc)

    2) Even if Bernie (et al) won't be able to pull it off -- and he says he needs popular support! -- these steps lead in the right direction:
        * you get exposure and open the debate
        * they have to make compromises. this "iterative change" has been the staple of left all 20th century.
        * example: everything. NHS. etc.

    3) Worryingly, ofc, this kind of shite politics is impossible without Community Fetishism[↓].


also:
    You should fight whoever gets elected.
    You should fight the candidate you voted for.
    But *you get to choose* that candidate !
    Do you want to fight right-wing neo-nazis with the power of police, military, and all state resources?
    Or would you rather fight "moderate neoliberals" or "center-left"?
    That is what this avenue gives you !!

¶(—) libertarianist Community Fetishism

This is a death sentance for all standout people in "communities" which simply don't & realistically won't organize for their interests.

It always seems to come from places like Oakland, who should know better. They are both:
    * the most active in "community organization", to a totally disproportional level
    * STILL broken and powerless, with "victories" few and inbetween

What do they expect?:
    * That all would become like Oakland in community orga level?
    * That it would suddenly start working, and "we" will just depose the government and organize between eachother?
    * ???

It's a kind of "lifestyle (libertarian) anarchism", harbouring in personal clique privilege. It tragically seems most spread around groups of highly capable people, who for this reason themselves are "doing fine".

... Making it narcissist?

¶(——) "beyond left and right", or, "i am against labels"

###
millenial and zoomer know-it-alls seem to love this
[!!]

¶(-) "doing nothing" and white privilege active nihilism

### find Nietzsche passage?

¶(+) advanced memetic coordination

http://www.industriall-union.org/korean-unions-use-squid-game-to-mobilize-for-general-strike
unions + squid game = ?

¶(—) CIA art & colour revolutions (regime change)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
Afghanistan, arming the Talibans against sociaalists & Soviets

https://workers.today/united-states-and-the-cultural-counter-revolution-in-cuba
"""
“My people need Europe, my people need Europe to point out the abuser,” Yotuel, a Spain-based Cuban rapper, proclaimed in an EU parliament event convened by right-wing legislators before handing the mic over to Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó. Days later, Yotuel held a Zoom call with State Department officials to discuss “Patria y Vida,” the anti-communist rap anthem he helped author.
As the dust clears from a day of protests across Cuban cities, the Wall Street Journal has dubbed “Patria y Vida” the “common rallying cry” of opponents of Cuba’s government, while Rolling Stone touted it as “the anthem of Cuba’s protests.”
[...]
Over the past decade, the US government has spent millions of dollars to cultivate anti-government Cuban rappers, rock musicians, artists, and journalists in an explicit bid to weaponize “desocialized and marginalized youth.” The strategy implemented by the US in Cuba is a real life version of the fantasies anti-Trump Democrats entertained when they fretted that Russia was covertly sponsoring Black Lives Matter and Antifa to spread chaos through North American society.
[...]
As this investigation will reveal, leading members of the San Isidro Movement have raked in funding from regime change outfits like the National Endowment for Democracy and US Agency for International Development while meeting with State Department officials, US embassy staff in Havana, right-wing European parliamentarians and Latin American coup leaders from Venezuela’s Guaidó to OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro.
[...]
Put forward in direct response to the recruitment of rap artists and other cultural figures by US intelligence, Decree 349 explicitly forbade the dissemination of audiovisual materials containing “sexist, vulgar or obscene language.” Though the law would never be enforced on a formal basis, the provision was viewed by Cuba’s opposition as a direct attack on the subculture of reggaeton seeping into the country’s urban landscape.
Almost overnight, a collective of artists and musicians mobilized to protest the decree. Named for the hardscrabble San Isidro neighborhood in Old Havana where several of its members lived, the new movement appealed directly to cultural influencers in the Global North, marketing itself as a diverse collection of visual creators and independent rappers struggling for nothing more than artistic freedom.
For perhaps the first time, Cuba’s right-wing opposition had a vehicle for making inroads into progressive circles abroad.
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras

¶(——) USA anticommunism & "Jakarta method"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method
"""
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World is a 2020 nonfiction book by American journalist and author Vincent Bevins. It concerns U.S. government support for, and complicity in, the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, during which an estimated one million people were killed in an effort to destroy the political left and movements for government reform in the country. The book goes on to describe subsequent replications of the strategy of mass murder, against government reform and economic reform movements in Latin America and elsewhere.[1][2] The killings in Indonesia by the American-backed Indonesian forces were so successful in culling communism that the term "Jakarta" was later used to refer to the genocidal aspects of similar, later plans implemented by other authoritarian capitalist regimes with the assistance of the United States.[3][4]
"""

¶(+) Quit your rent, quit your job

https://www.socialistalternative.org/2021/10/21/why-is-everyone-quitting-their-job

also see 🔗prescriptions

¶(+) yippie / situationist (and "street-style" autonomism, etc)

see "Steal this book", via 🔗commonground

¶(+) Freeway Revolts
"meant to go ahead regarding of the opinions of the communities they were meant to destroyed"

effective freeway revolts rely on techniques like:
* blocking bulldozers
* occupying ocndemned housee
* protesting / blocking council meetings regarding the proposed freeway
* mass demonstrations
* "starting a fist fight in a city council chamber is a more effective protest than saying no to a plan":
    ~13:30
↓
* mass arests
* press: "they're irresponsible"

¶* Wochenklausuhr ("artistic social interventions")
<danielle, 20211004
[!→] @@khg-cast

https://urban-matters.org/projects/wochenklausur/
"""
Since 1993 the artist group WochenKlausur develops concrete proposals aimed at effective improvements to socio-political deficiencies. Proceeding even further and translating these proposals into action artistic creativity is no longer seen as a formal act but as an intervention into society.
The association was founded 1993 by Wolfgang Zinggl
Its all about a teamwork. The core team of WochenKlausur consists of 8 artists who have all participated in multiple projects. According to the intervention the team is going to be extended by other artists. There are approximately two projects realised on average per year. The prerequisite for every intervention is the invitation of an art institution, which provides WochenKlausur with an infrastructural framework and cultural capital. The exhibition space itself serves as a studio from which the intervention is conducted.
The name WochenKlausur could be translated as “weeks of closure”. The German word “Klausur” is related to the English words enclosure, seclusion and cloister. The group’s projects are collective efforts that take place in the concentrated atmosphere of a closed-session working situation. A strictly limited timeframe gives rise to an unusual concentration of the participants’ allowing the planned interventions to be realized very quickly. The issue to be addressed is usually established before the project begins. It is up to the group to inform themselves about local political circumstances and corresponding interventions before the project’s start. After extensive research, the group makes a final decision concerning what is in fact to be accomplished.
"""

¶"culture jamming"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
"""
Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication)[1][2] is a protest used by many anti-consumerist social movements[3] to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It attempts to "expose the methods of domination" of a mass society.[4]
Culture jamming employs a technique originally associated with Letterist International, and later Situationist International, known as détournement. It uses the language and rhetoric of the mainstream paradigm or culture to subversively critique that paradigm or culture. Tactics include editing logos to critique the company, product or concept they represent, or wearing fashion statements that criticize the current fashion trends by deliberately clashing with them.[5]  Culture jamming often entails using mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, commonly using the original medium's communication method. Culture jamming is also a form of subvertising.[6] Culture jamming is intended to expose questionable political assumptions behind commercial culture. 
Culture jamming is a reaction against social conformity. Prominent examples of culture jamming include the adulteration of billboard advertising by the Billboard Liberation Front and contemporary artists such as Ron English. Culture jamming may involve street parties and protests. While culture jamming usually focuses on subverting or critiquing political and advertising messages, some proponents focus on a different form which brings together artists, designers, scholars, and activists[7] to create works that transcend the status quo rather than merely criticize it.[8][9]
"""

https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/comments/r91whk/the_hero_we_need/

¶the rent is too damn high

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUx_32ABtw4
hell yeah

¶(+) salting (infiltration)

"""
Salting is a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union.[1] A person so employed is called a "salt".
"""

¶(+) Uncloaking
#twotiming #antigrifters

the taboo of:
    * "what do you earn?"
    * "who do you vote for?"
    * "who do your friends vote for?"

any hesitation is an immediate liberal identification, 
there is absolutely no reason to cloak and the outcomes are only empowering the status quo.

¶"factionalism"

https://c4ss.org/content/51729
huh, what is this
"""
Many would-be radicals mistake throwing the baby out with the bath water for radical inquiry. “Abolish X thing” has been a useful frame for the moral immediatism we espouse. If it is cruel and unjust, our goal must be its abolition. However, after identifying X thing as Bad, we may, in our haste, obscure the complexities behind, within, or surrounding the thing.
"""
ties to #consequential but meh

¶(+) identifying, naming, pre-empting progressive legislation from comparable domains

As of 2021:
    * at least France and Portugal ban work outside work hours
    * Portugal decriminalized hard drugs
    * Spain decrim mushrooms
    * [...]

[!!] portal listing these 

¶Stop erosion of worker right via SP (sole propreitorships) self-precarization

(rampant in Slovenia):
    what started as a "legal hack"
    became more and more accessible, normalized and at some point in demand by both sides

self precarization (per class analysis) is inherent to neoliberalism
worker protections are eroded with "creative accounting"

______

1) design common sense legal challenges to protect workers from draw into "SP":
    investigate, what they were initially established for
    if you're serving a single client, you're not a SP, it's just tax evasion

2) spread awareness of reality of their status:
    some were sold the idea of identifying (serving right-wing rhetoric "pro-businesses" rhetoric) as "having a company"
    in must cases, it is just an erosion of worker rights

¶List of acts of international resistance to US imperialism/hegemony

* https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/gljz4k/list_of_acts_of_international_resistance_to_us/

"""

• 1944: Guatemalans overthrow US-backed Ubico dictatorship
• 1955: Japanese farmers protest land seizure for US air force base construction
• 1959: Cuban revolution ousts US-backed military dictatorship and creates a socialist government
• 1963: Vietnam begins kicking the USAs ass
• 1966: Brazilian socialists begin armed resistance to US-backed military dictatorship
• 1973: Chilean socialists begin armed resistance to Pinochet
• 1974: Portuguese soldiers overthrow US-backed fascist dictatorship
• 1979: Iranians overthrow US-backed Shah dictatorship
• 1979: Nicaraguans overthrow US-backed Somoza dictatorship
• 1984: Uruguayan workers overthrow US-backed dictatorship
• 1985: Brazilians overthrow US-backed dictatorship
• 1987: South Koreans overthrow the US-backed military dictatorship
• 1992: Malawians overthrow the US-backed military dictatorships
• 2005: South Koreans protest land seizures for US military base expansion
• 2014: Burkinabé overthrow US and French-backed dictator

"""

¶Cooperative economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujamaa
"""
More broadly, ujamaa may mean "cooperative economics", in the sense of "local people cooperating with each other to provide for the essentials of living", or "to build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together".[2]
"""

¶Ritual / constructed religions / spiritual cultures: Kwanzaa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa
"""
For Karenga, a major figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the creation of such holidays also underscored the essential premise that "you must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution. The cultural revolution gives identity, purpose, and direction."[6]
"""

¶(—) Imperialist list-making

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROFUNC
"""
PROFUNC, an acronym for "PROminent FUNCtionaries of the communist party", was a top secret Government of Canada project to identify and observe suspected Canadian communists and crypto-communists during the height of the Cold War.[1] In operation from 1950 to 1983, the goal of the program was to allow for quick internment of known and suspected communist sympathizers in the event of war with the Soviet Union or its allies.[2][3]
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
"""
COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations.[3][4] FBI records show COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals the FBI deemed subversive,[5] including feminist organizations,[6] the Communist Party USA,[7] anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights movement and Black Power movement (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement (AIM), independence movements (including Puerto Rican independence groups such as the Young Lords and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party), a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left, and right-wing groups such as the Ku Klux Klan[8] and the National States' Rights Party.[9]
"""

¶(——) EU & CIA: may 1947, operation gladio, etc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1947_crises
###

"""
Communist ministers were dismissed from several other European governments in 1947[17] and in all cases the move was dictated by a desire to comply with the wishes of the United States.[18] These maneuvers led the Soviets to harden their approach to foreign policy, establishing the Cominform.[19]
"""

¶Trying to assasinate Hitler

The obvious "good" assasination ...
... however since it / they didn't work
... they were a bad idea?

#antirelease also — "delaying until perfected, otherwise inverse effects possible"...

¶"Trucker protests"

Trucks et al, the "distributed" heavy machinery (and sound weapons)...

Track record...
* 197x, Chile (reactionary, imperialist-supported)
* 1991, Slovenia territorial defense convoys (liberal/consensus)
* RIP "profoundly frustrated muffler repair man"
* 201x, EU terrorist strikes on civilians
* 2022, Canada (antivax, reactionary):
    https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TruckersForFreedom2022
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/28/canada-truckers-covid-vaccine-mandate-protest-government
    * blocked border with USA
* [...]

_______
<kcarson
https://www.facebook.com/kevin.carson.52687506/posts/698843128150082
"""
The good news is, these right-wing anti-vaxx idiots are inadvertently giving us a demonstration of how powerful general (or "partial general") strikes by logistic workers can be in the event of something like a right-wing coup on the pattern Trump attempted January 6, a US war of aggression, in tandem with a rent/debt strike against predatory capitalism, etc. 
[...]
1) This disruption was all caused by an action backed by a small minority of truckers, in an industry where 90% of drivers are vaccinated and 25% are South Asian. The JIT capitalist logistical system has a lot of extremely weak links.
"""

¶(+) Ground-up sanctions (like BDS- boycott, divest, sanctions)
###

¶Inter-national sanctions & blockades

* USA vs "axis of evil":
    (Iran, North Korea, Syria, etc)
* USA, UK, EU etc vs Venezuela (2020 and Guaido bullshit)
* USA peacocking vs Russia & China (Jan 2022)
* China vs Lithuania (Nov 2021)
* China vs Slovenia (Jan 2022):
    or "auto-sanction", it's like a self-suicide

Effective countermeasures:
    * alternative economic integration
    * getting off the dollar standard
    * ###

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Yemen

¶Simple analysis of topologies of interaction within UN councils

"""
Distribution of votes in favor of holding a UN meeting on Ukraine: 
    For - Albania, Brazil, Ghana, France, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, USA, UK, UAE
    Votes against: China and Russia
    Abstaining: India, Kenya, Gabon
"""
so:
    * imperialists, cat1, lackeys & colonies
    * anti-imperialists powers
    * stuck in the middle

¶(—pattern) BOURGEOIS DEMOCRACY— Diversion

20220202
"""
Boris Johnson said that the British Parliament should focus on countering Russia, not trying to force him to resign.
"""

¶(—pattern) IMPERIALISM— Replacing "free trade" with "protectionism" when feeling like it

20220202
"""
Assets of Russian companies in Britain may be frozen in accordance with the new bill on sanctions - Foreign Minister
"""

¶Case of SCCA Ljubljana, and culture-funds mediated regime change

A vector for radical centrism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCCA-Ljubljana
"""
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana was established in 1993 as a Soros Center for Contemporary Arts and is now an independent non-governmental and non-profit organization based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
The center aims at providing the public, researchers and students of contemporary art with knowledge, tools and skills necessary for reflected work within the art system, establishing a support system in the cooperation with numerous organisations: SKUC Gallery, Kapelica Gallery, Alkatraz Gallery, The Peace Institute, GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art), AICA Armenia to mention just a few. The center forms a support system for contemporary arts, culture and civil society and divides its activities into three separate fields: artistic and archival projects, educational work and support services for artists and cultural workers. 
"""

¶(——) Gwangju (South Korea)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising
"""
The Gwangju Uprising was a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju, South Korea, from May 18 to May 27, 1980, which pitted local, armed citizens against soldiers and police of the Korean Government. The event is sometimes called 5·18 (May 18; Korean: 오일팔; Hanja: 五一八; RR: Oilpal), in reference to the date the movement began. The uprising is also known as the Gwangju Democratization Struggle (Korean: 광주 민주화 항쟁; Hanja: 光州民主化抗爭), the May 18 Democratic Uprising,[2] or the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement[3] (Korean: 5·18 광주 민주화 운동; Hanja: 五一八光州民主化運動). 
"""

¶(+) Antiwar activism within empire: Code Pink (USA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Pink
<andrea.liu

¶Illegal funding streams (rare-earth mining, narcotics)

"""
Also in 2009, the Colombian government announced coltan reserves had been found in Colombia's eastern provinces.[24]  Director of the Colombian Police Oscar Naranjo Trujillo stated in October 2011 that the FARC and the Sinaloa Cartel are working together in the unlicensed coltan mining in Colombia. Colombia announced a joint operation with the United States to arrest three suspects who, according to Semana, inherited the illegal business run from their brother, Francisco Cifuentes Villa, alias ‘Pancho Cifuentes,’ who once worked for Pablo Escobar.[25] In 2012 Colombian police seized 17 tons of coltan in Guainía Department. The police said it had been mined on an indigenous reserve and bought for $10 a kilo and sold it for $80 to 100 dollars a kilo, after smuggling it across the border into Brazil, where there are smelters, and sold on through the black market to buyers in Germany, Belgium, Kazakhstan and the United States. Colombia has 5% of global coltan reserves.[26] One of the regions suffering from illegal gold and coltan mining in Colombia is the wetland known as Estrella Fluvial del Inírida (Inírida Fluvial Star), a Ramsar protected wetland.[27][28][29]
"""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia (FARC)

¶Hostage-taking

FARC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia (FARC)

Chavez:
"""
On 11 January 2008 during the annual State of the Nation in the Venezuelan National Assembly, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez referred to the FARC as "a real army that occupies territory in Colombia, they're not terrorists ... They have a political goal and we have to recognise that".[133] However, on 13 January 2008, Chávez retracted his previous statement and stated his disapproval of the FARC–EP strategy of armed struggle and kidnapping, saying "I don't agree with kidnapping and I don't agree with armed struggle".[134] President Hugo Chávez repeatedly expressed his disapproval of the practice of kidnapping stating on 14 April: "If I were a guerrilla, I wouldn't have the need to hold a woman, a man who aren't soldiers ... Free the civilians who don't have anything to do with the war. I don't agree with that."[135] On 7 March at the Cumbre de Rio, Chávez stated again that the FARC–EP should lay down their arms "Look at what has happened and is happening in Latin America, reflect on this (FARC-EP), we are done with war ... enough with all this death".[136] On 8 June Chavez repeated his call for a political solution and an end to the war, "The guerrilla war is history ... At this moment in Latin America, an armed guerrilla movement is out of place".[137]
"""

¶(——) Street-strong far-right, transforming Blue→Teal
Teal = Blue+Brown

"""
After President Volodymyr Zelensky’s election in 2019, the extreme right allegedly threatened him with removal from office, or even death, if he negotiated with separatist leaders from Donbas and followed through on the Minsk Protocol. Zelensky ran for election as a peace candidate, but under threat from the right, he refused to even talk to Donbas representatives, whom he dismissed as terrorists.
"""

Also:
    1932/1933 ! (Hitler—Hindenburg)
    ↓ "hitler rise to power"

¶[!!*↓] Rich allies

###

¶Synthetic left / Embedded left / Pseudo-left

https://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/pseudoleft.html

###

¶World systems theory: core/semi-periphery/periphery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_theory
(Wallerstein)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism
(Lenin)

https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/1097
(anarchism & world-systems, interesting (quantitative) study)

¶ANTIUSA— Salvadoran civil war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapultepec_Peace_Accords
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farabundo_Mart%C3%AD_National_Liberation_Front (FMNL)

¶Foco/Foquismo (and Che Guevara)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escopeteros
###

¶ANARCHY— Nestro Makhno and anarchists (1917-1923)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina
bad look for Bolsheviks

¶Double movement
<karl.polanyi
<chatgpt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Movement
"""
In his writings, Polanyi advances the concept of the Double Movement, which refers to the dialectical process of marketization and push for social protection against that marketization.
"""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Polanyi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Transformation_(book)

I guess super important to #subwarfare and #antirelease ... if i understand it correctly as a kind of weird, symbiotic dialectic process

¶MARXISM— "Real utopian sociology" (Erik Olin Wright)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_utopian_sociology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_revolution ("interstitialism")
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Typology_of_Transitional_Strategies
###

¶MARXISM— "Sharpening the contradictions": accelerationism?

Marx, Lenin, Rosa Luxembourg
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/albcris.htm

https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/hlvugf/what_did_marx_mean_by_sharpening_the_contradiction/

¶2023/03— Defending Sandinistas and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/11/16/nicaragua-has-a-public-relations-problem-not-a-democracy-problem/
"""
The seven “presidential hopefuls” plus 30 others were arrested for another reason. Following the 2018 coup attempt, Nicaragua passed two laws that criminalized promoting foreign interference in Nicaragua’s internal affairs, seeking foreign military intervention, organizing acts of terrorism, and promoting coercive economic measures against their country. They were arrested for these illegal activities; activities, it should be noted, that are similarly prohibited by the US’s own FARA Act, after which the Nicaraguan laws were modeled.
[...]
“Since 2007 [when the Sandinistas returned to power] poverty has been cut in half, maternal mortality has dropped by 70%, infant mortality by 61% with a 66% reduction in chronic malnutrition in children 6 to 12 years old. With a high percentage of small and medium-scale farmers and much government investment in training and loans, they have achieved 90% food sufficiency.”
"""

¶[s!!] CUBA— Legal @ Cuba
### (unclear what is the point here)

https://www.finanzasaldia.interaudit.cu/manual/3/section/27/chapter/190?page=2
seems a lot of laws are here!

¶Antipop: Mumford & Sons

https://www.facebook.com/john.r.verchot/posts/pfbid02eDe9xAkK26Y56vaAffDzdjEwz3MoLpeZT4vMRWkA17o5DHnHJFyLrWqkSciUnds1l
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158228355767026&set=pcb.10158228356247026
↑
https://knowyourmeme.com/news/twitter-takes-a-moment-to-remember-the-scourge-of-stomp-clap-hey
↑
https://twitter.com/lemonade_grrrl/status/1430306592457596929

¶Gonzaloism / The Shining Path (Peru)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abimael_Guzm%C3%A1n

"""
Maoist guerrilla organization that was founded in the early 1980s with the goal of establishing a communist state in Peru. The group is known for its violent and brutal tactics, including assassinations, bombings, and massacres. It waged a long and bloody insurgency against the Peruvian government.
Guzmán's ideology, often referred to as "Gonzalo Thought," was a variant of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism tailored to the Peruvian context. He believed in the need for a protracted people's war to overthrow the existing government and establish a communist state
[...]
In 1989, Guzmán declared that the Shining Path (which he referred to as the "Communist Party of Peru") had progressed from waging a people's war to waging a "war of movements." He further argued that this was a step towards achieving "strategic equilibrium" in the near future, based on Maoist theories of waging people's war. Guzmán claimed that such an equilibrium would manifest itself by ungovernability under the "old order." When that moment arrived, Guzmán believed that Shining Path would be ready to move on to its "strategic offensive".
"""
Tactically, looks a lot like the proto-fascist #patterns of the right, currently

also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Amaru_Revolutionary_Movement ("The MRTA also aimed to provide an alternative to another militant group, the Shining Path, which placed them in direct competition.")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Left_Movement_(Peru)

¶(+) american civil war

interesting rift, formally, between:
    * north, benefitting from slavery abroad:
        (more developed  | ~superprofits + spoils to workers)
    * south, benefitting from slavery at home:
        (less developed    | ~profits)
↓
* the more developed imposes law
* north turned south into more typical capitalist periphery:
    (as they couldn't compete with slave-powered industry)
    aka:
        capitalist mode replaces slave-based/feudal economy
* slaves didn't participate as combatants:
    north ~ 1.5m
    south ~ 0.7-1m, but 4m slaves (non-combatants!)
* ###
-----------------
[!!!→]
How could this translate to "communism from outside" strategies:
    * non-imperialist proletariat might mostly abstain (except as nationalists)
    * ... LA might partly abstain (morality)
    * ###

¶(—?) Cambodian revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_People%27s_Party
What happened here?
"""
Ideology

• Cambodian nationalism[4]
• Social conservatism[5]
• Monarchism[6][7]

Before 1991:

• Communism[8]
• Marxism–Leninism[8]

Political position
Big tent
"""

¶(—) bizarre colonial backdoors: case of Gough Whitlam (Australian PM 1972-1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHMa-Ba-2Mo
~5min
Wanted to close Pine Gap
was sacked via "governer general", who was a CIA asset

¶(+) human shields

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shield
"""
A human shield is a non-combatant (or a group of non-combatants) who either volunteers or is forced to shield a legitimate military target in order to deter the enemy from attacking it.[1]
The concept of human shields as a resistance measure was created by Mahatma Gandhi as a weapon of resistance.[2] Human shields have also been used in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by the Israeli forces and Palestinian groups.[3][4][5] 
"""

¶(——) USA— Kent state shootings (1970), example of extreme state violence within "democratic west"

1970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
"""
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre[3][4][5]) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft. Twenty-eight National Guard soldiers fired about 67 rounds over 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. Students
"""

¶(+?) EU— Red Bologna (Italy), ~1970s

https://jacobin.com/2015/12/italian-communist-party-red-bologna-march-1977/
"""
On March 11, 1977, the Communist-led government of Bologna sent the police into the city’s university to quell student protests, breaking a centuries-old protocol that granted autonomy to the ancient institution. Francesco Lorusso, a student and member of the far-left extra-parliamentary group Lotta Continua, was murdered in the ensuing violence, shot in the back by police.
[...]
A PCI stronghold since the war, Bologna became the central testing ground of the party’s new approach to socialist political organization. The PCI’s goal was to introduce elements of socialism at the local level, within a country still fundamentally under capitalist rule at the national level. Eschewing top-down rule from party to citizen, the party attempted to directly engage the city’s residents at all levels of decision-making.
[...]
Fare-free buses were introduced, traffic was diverted away from public squares, the historic center was protected with strict planning regulations, and an already progressive national law demanding at least eighteen square meters of public space per person was increased to sixty-four.
"""

"""
Attitudes to public health were also completely transformed. Writing at the time, Sil Schmit described a shift from the “hierarchical clinic” to a “therapeutic community.” The Bolognese authorities empowered workers to strike in protest against poor working conditions, paid health care professionals to conduct occupational health analyses in the workplace, and fostered a massive public discussion about health, featuring thousands of pamphlets written by workers themselves. All this was wrapped up in the city health department’s guiding slogan: “prevention is revolutionary.”
"""
#medical #prevention

"""
As Franco “Bifo” Berardi details, “the agenda of the PCI aimed at pitting the workers who have a regular job against the irregular, unemployed, precarious, underpaid young proletarians.”
"""

Mentions Red Brigades:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20170721110601/https://www.thenation.com/article/bloody-cul-de-sac/
    (1994 Nation article)
    #toread [!!**]

¶LATAM— Tupamaros (Uruguay, 1967-1972)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupamaros
"""
The National Liberation Movement – Tupamaros (Spanish: Movimiento de Liberación Nacional – Tupamaros, MLN-T) was a Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1989 it joined the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP), which was admitted to the Broad Front.[1]
The MLN-T is inextricably linked to its most important leader, Raúl Sendic, and his brand of social politics. José Mujica, who later became President of Uruguay, was also a member. 300 Tupamaros died either in action or in prisons (mostly in 1972), according to officials of the group. About 3,000 Tupamaros were also imprisoned.[2]
"""
###

¶(+) USA— Montgomery Bus Boycott

Often mentioned and mythologized is refusal to give space for white passenger, but rarely the actual mechanics of it.

via https://www.instagram.com/p/C9Ec8CRoc60

"""
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully challenge racial segregation and served as an example for other southern campaigns that followed. In Stride Toward Freedom, King’s 1958 memoir of the boycott, he declared the real meaning of the Montgomery bus boycott to be the power of a growing self-respect to animate the struggle for civil rights.
[...]
A year after the WPC’s meeting with Mayor Gayle, a 15-year-old named Claudette Colvin was arrested for challenging segregation on a Montgomery bus. Seven months later, 18-year-old Mary Louise Smith was arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white passenger. Neither arrest, however, mobilized Montgomery’s black community like that of Rosa Parks later that year.
"""

¶(—) USA/IMPERIALIST— 1980 Moscow olympic games boycott

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/qfp/104481.htm
"""
In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete. 
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, the international community broadly condemned the action. Advisors to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev claimed that the intervention would be quick and uncontested and suggested that U.S. President Jimmy Carter was too engrossed in the ongoing hostage crisis in Iran to respond to the situation in Kabul. In reality, the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan led to an extended conflict in Central Asia, and Carter reacted with a series of measures designed to place pressure on the Soviets to withdraw. These measures included the threat of a grain embargo, the withdrawal of the SALT II agreement from Senate consideration, and a possible boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, scheduled to be hosted by Moscow. 
"""

¶[!!*] WOKE/CLASSES/USA— 1985 Philadelphia police airstrake on MOVE black liberation organization

"""
in 1985, Philadelphia police carried out an airstrike against black liberation organization MOVE, destroying an entire residential neighborhood block and killing 11 people.
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
"""
From a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, Philadelphia Police Department Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two 1.5-pound (0.75 kg) bombs (which the police referred to as "entry devices"[9]) made of  Tovex, a dynamite substitute, combined with two pounds of FBI-supplied C-4,[14] targeting a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof of the house.[6] The bombs exploded after 45 seconds, igniting the fuel of a gasoline-powered generator and setting the house on fire, which was left to burn.
"""

wtf
"""
The city stated the remains had gone unclaimed by the families after the bombing,[34] but in May 2021, the city of Philadelphia's Health Commissioner, Thomas Farley, resigned under pressure after it was revealed that in 2017 he ordered the cremation and disposal of victims' remains without either identifying them or contacting members of the family.[35] A day after Farley's resignation, staff at the Medical Examiner's Office found the box labeled "MOVE" in a refrigerated area of their office containing the un-cremated remains.
"""

¶[!!**] WOKE/CLASSES— Rainbow coalition → Fred Hampton murder by USA government (1969)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Coalition_(Fred_Hampton)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

↓

show how process of revolutionary configuration formation goes from IDENTITY, to RADICALIZED IDENTITY, to CONSOLIDATED.

↑
#cooption by +jesse.jackson

first
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Breadbasket
"""
Operation Breadbasket was an organization dedicated to improving the economic conditions of black communities across the United States.  Operation Breadbasket was launched on February 11, 1966, under the leadership of Jesse Jackson. Its primary objective was to promote the employment of African Americans by companies operating in black communities and support the growth of black-owned businesses. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described the core principle of Breadbasket as the belief that African Americans should not support businesses that denied them job opportunities, career advancement, or basic courtesy. To achieve their goals, the activists of Operation Breadbasket adopted a strategy called "selective patronage."
"""
ties to #BDS [ms!!]

then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow/PUSH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rainbow_Agenda
"""
Operation PUSH raised public awareness to initiate corporate action and government sponsorship. The National Rainbow Coalition became a prominent political organization that raised public awareness of numerous political issues and consolidated a large voting bloc. The merged entity has undertaken numerous social initiatives. 
"""

__________ and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
"""
COINTELPRO (a syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations that the FBI perceived as subversive. Groups and individuals targeted by the FBI included feminist organizations,[7][8] the Communist Party USA,[9] anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists in the civil rights and Black power movements (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement (AIM), Chicano and Mexican-American groups like the Brown Berets and the United Farm Workers, and independence movements (including Puerto Rican independence groups such as the Young Lords and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party).
"""
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[s!!o*] just what they targeted and in what extent, can be shown obviously as to what they analyzed and considered as potent

¶(——) USA Red scare (First, second), "McCarthyism" or better "Hooverism"

see [↓] US socialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Red_Scare
After October revolution, ~1920

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
"""
McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.[1] After the mid-1950s, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity and credibility after several of his accusations were found to be false.[2][3] The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren made a series of rulings on civil and political rights that overturned several key laws and legislative directives, and helped bring an end to the Second Red Scare.[4][5][6] Historians have suggested since the 1980s that as McCarthy's involvement was less central than that of others, a different and more accurate term should be used instead that more accurately conveys the breadth of the phenomenon, and that the term McCarthyism is, in the modern day, outdated. Ellen Schrecker has suggested that Hooverism, after FBI Head J. Edgar Hoover, is more appropriate.[7]
"""
After WW2, mostly ~1950s

¶(——) IMPERIALIST— NATO formation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Kennan
↓
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sources_of_Soviet_Conduct
###

Jailed Nazi generals that formed and chaired it
###

¶(—) CIA/USA— Assasination of Patrice Lumumba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba
"""
Shortly after Congolese independence in June 1960, a mutiny broke out in the army, marking the beginning of the Congo Crisis. After a coup, Lumumba attempted to escape to Stanleyville to join his supporters who had established a new anti-Mobutu state called the Free Republic of the Congo. Lumumba was captured en route by state authorities under Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, sent to the State of Katanga and, with the help of Belgian partisans, tortured and executed by the separatist Katangan authorities of Moïse Tshombe. He was  seen as a martyr for the pan-African movement. In 2002, Belgium formally apologised for its role in the execution. 
[...]
The ongoing Cold War affected both Belgium and the United States' perception of Lumumba, as they feared he was increasingly subject to communist influence due to his appeals for Soviet aid. However, according to journalist Sean Kelly, who covered the events as a correspondent for the Voice of America, Lumumba did this not because he was a communist, but because he felt that the Soviet Union was the only power which would support his government's effort to defeat Belgian-supported separatists and rid itself of colonial influence.[148] The US was the first country from which Lumumba requested help.[149] Lumumba, for his part, denied being a communist, stating that he found colonialism and communism to be equally deplorable, and publicly professed his personal preference for neutrality between the East and West.[150]
"""

https://www.blackagendareport.com/fight-power-work-it-chuck-d-public-enemy-and-how-cia-neutralized-rap

¶(—) US "anti-propaganda law", that was repealed in 2012

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/
"""
For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened? 
"""

¶(+) "Dimensions of the Great Turning"

https://workthatreconnects.org/dimensions-of-the-great-turning/
juju but nice

"""
In the Work That Reconnects we uplift and celebrate the story of the Great Turning, the essential shift to a way of living and political economy that serves and sustains life.
[...]
(1) Holding Actions in Defense of Life

• Documenting and teaching about the ecological and health effects of the Industrial Growth Society
• Blowing the whistle on illegal and unethical corporate practices
• Direct action or civil disobedience; for example actions at sites of ecological and community harm, such as to railway routes transporting crude oil next to school playgrounds

(2) Transforming the Foundations of our Common Life (Gaian Structures)

• Permaculture and other ecologically sound farming practices
• Communities grounded in interconnections across culture, race, and abilities
• Models of community living such as multi-generational households, eco-villages, and collective home shares

(3) Shift in Perception and Values

• Ecofeminism and ecopsychology
• Somatic therapies
• Liberation Theory and Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• General living systems theory

(4) Nurturing Life

• Raising children with life-affirming consciousness
• Growing food and saving seeds
• Caring for the elderly and those in need
• Restoring ecosystems

"""

¶(——) CHINA/SOFTPOWER— Falun Gong, World Uyghur Congress, Radio Free Asia, etc

all <gpt ~20250202


—————— falun gong 101

Read this!
* https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
* ###


"""
Falun Gong is the biggest anti-CCP group in terms of media reach and financial independence
-------------
Falun Gong has extensive ties to U.S. and EU funding networks, primarily through media, lobbying, and advocacy organizations. While there is no direct official U.S. government funding for Falun Gong itself, The Epoch Times—its primary media outlet—has received millions in advertising revenue, donations, and possible grants from entities linked to U.S. government interests. In 2019 alone, Epoch Times had a $122 million revenue, largely from ad money and private donors, many of whom are aligned with right-wing and anti-CCP interests in the U.S. Additionally, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. government-funded NGO often linked to regime-change efforts, has provided millions in grants to organizations that align with Falun Gong’s anti-CCP stance, though not directly to Falun Gong itself. Diplomatically, Falun Gong’s network has strong backing from U.S. Republican politicians, particularly those advocating for anti-China policies, and has gained support in European Parliament resolutions condemning Beijing's repression. The group's lobbying has influenced U.S. sanctions on China, including laws targeting human rights abuses. While it lacks direct political power like exile governments, Falun Gong’s media influence and lobbying network make it one of the most well-funded anti-CCP organizations operating from the West.
-----------

• Falun Gong is by far the biggest in terms of media influence and money.
  • Epoch Times and NTD TV give them a global audience of millions.
  • Their funding network is harder to track, but advertising, donations, and potential U.S. support make it likely the richest anti-CCP group.
• Uyghur and Tibetan movements have more diplomatic traction (UN, human rights circles).
• Hong Kong movements had mass mobilization power but are weaker after the National Security Law.
• Falun Gong lacks direct political power (no government-in-exile like Tibetans), but they influence public opinion more than any other group.

-------------
How Big is the Falun Gong Network?
Falun Gong operates as a spiritual movement, media empire, and political opposition force. Its core organizational reach includes:
* Millions of practitioners worldwide – Estimates range from 2 to 10 million globally (China banned it in 1999; exact numbers there are unclear).
* Media operations in 36+ countries – Largest being Epoch Times, New Tang Dynasty TV (NTD), and Sound of Hope Radio.
* Political influence through lobbying and anti-CCP activism – Strong ties to U.S. right-wing politicians.
* Funding from private donors, U.S. grants, and advertising revenue – Hard to track, but Epoch Times alone had $120+ million revenue in 2019.
"""



—————————— more softpower / local "dissidents"

"""
China has a broad range of U.S.-supported opposition groups, including separatist movements, political dissidents, media outlets, and underground religious organizations. These receive funding or indirect support through NGOs, intelligence operations, and diplomatic backing.

1. Separatist & Ethnic Independence Movements
These groups oppose Beijing’s central authority and seek independence or greater autonomy. The U.S. has supported some via funding, media exposure, or diplomatic recognition.
Uyghur Movements (Xinjiang)

• World Uyghur Congress (WUC) – Based in Germany but coordinates Xinjiang activism worldwide. Receives funding from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
• East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM/TIP) – Once labeled a terrorist group by the U.S., delisted in 2020, seen as a potential proxy force against Beijing.
• Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) – U.S.-based NGO that amplifies Uyghur issues, receives NED and USAID funding.
• Campaign for Uyghurs – Led by Rushan Abbas, an exile activist in Washington, with U.S. institutional backing.Tibetan Independence Movement
• Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) – The Tibetan government-in-exile, headquartered in India, openly funded by U.S. agencies.
• International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) – U.S.-based NGO, receives funding from NED and the U.S. State Department.
• Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) – More militant faction advocating full independence, has had U.S. connections.
• Radio Free Asia (Tibetan Service) – U.S. Congress-funded media outlet broadcasting anti-CCP messages.Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Groups
• Hong Kong National Party (HKNP) – Banned in 2018 for advocating independence, had members meeting U.S. officials.
• Demosistō (Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, Agnes Chow) – Disbanded in 2020 after national security law, received U.S. support via NED.
• Apple Daily & Jimmy Lai – The most vocal anti-CCP newspaper, Lai met with U.S. officials before his arrest in 2021.
• Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) – Western-backed alternative media, partially crowdfunded but linked to foreign grants.
• Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC) – U.S.-based NGO lobbying for sanctions against China.

2. Political Dissidents & Underground Movements
These are mostly pro-democracy activists, rights lawyers, and underground networks that Beijing sees as foreign-influenced subversion.
Democracy & Human Rights Activists

• ChinaAid – U.S.-based Christian human rights group, supports underground churches and dissidents.
• China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group – Supports jailed Chinese lawyers; some backing from U.S. legal institutions.
• Citizen Power for China (CPFC) – Led by Yang Jianli, exiled dissident in the U.S., advocates for regime change.
• Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) – Receives direct funding from NED and USAID.
• Lausan Collective – An overseas leftist group critical of Beijing, linked to U.S. activist networks.Exiled Political Figures
• Wei Jingsheng – One of the most famous dissidents, based in the U.S., backed by Washington-funded NGOs.
• Chen Guangcheng – Blind lawyer who fled China and was granted asylum in the U.S.; later worked with right-wing think tanks.

3. U.S.-Funded Media & Cyber Activism
The U.S. supports media outlets that circumvent China’s Great Firewall and spread anti-CCP narratives.

• Radio Free Asia (RFA, Chinese Service) – Directly funded by the U.S. government, broadcasts anti-CCP content in Mandarin, Cantonese, Uyghur, and Tibetan.
• Voice of America (VOA, Chinese Service) – Another U.S. government-funded broadcaster.
• Epoch Times & New Tang Dynasty TV (NTD) – Falun Gong-affiliated media outlets with strong anti-CCP stances, partially funded by private U.S. donors.
• GreatFire.org – Helps Chinese users bypass internet censorship, received funding from Open Technology Fund (OTF), a U.S. government agency.
• China Digital Times – Run by U.S.-based dissidents, publishes leaked CCP documents and censored topics.

4. Underground Religious Organizations
China bans or restricts certain religious groups, labeling them "cult-like" or "subversive." The U.S. supports some as persecuted minorities.
Falun Gong

• Falun Dafa Association – The global group advocating for Falun Gong’s legality in China, receives U.S. congressional support.
• Epoch Times & NTD TV – Falun Gong-linked media, major anti-CCP voices in the U.S.Christian Underground Churches
• Early Rain Covenant Church – One of China’s largest underground Protestant churches, receives support from U.S. religious groups.
• ChinaAid (Bob Fu’s Network) – Based in Texas, supports underground churches and lobbies for U.S. intervention.House Church Movement
• Thousands of small Christian congregations that refuse to register with the government. The U.S. often highlights their persecution in human rights reports.

5. Taiwan-Linked Networks
While Taiwan is already U.S.-aligned, certain groups are especially active in pushing for anti-CCP policies.

• Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) – Taiwan’s ruling party, strongly pro-U.S.
• Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) – Funded by Taipei but works closely with U.S. NED to support Chinese dissidents.

"""

¶Cuban DGI (security services)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Pi%C3%B1eiro
"""
Manuel Piñeiro Losada (14 March 1933 - 11 March 1998), also known as Commander Barbarroja (es: "red beard")[3] was a Cuban political and military figure, a leader of the Cuban Revolution, and, between 1961 and 1964, the first head of the Dirección General de Inteligencia of Cuba. Under Piñeiro, the DGI supported armed struggles in Latin America, helping radical leftist guerrilla groups in the region. Between 1964 and 1968, Piñeiro acted as the Deputy Minister of the Interior of Cuba, during this time he was in charge of the state security apparatus. A Soviet reorganization of the DGI forced Piñeiro out of his position, and he was placed in charge of the DGI's Latin American affairs division.
[...]
In 1997, he resigned all his active government positions and started to write and edit books dedicated to a retrospective analysis of the Cuban Revolution. 
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direcci%C3%B3n_de_Inteligencia
"""
the main state intelligence agency of the government of Cuba. The DI was founded in late 1961 by Cuba's Ministry of the Interior shortly after the Cuban Revolution. The DI is responsible for all foreign intelligence collection and comprises six divisions divided into two categories, which are the Operational Divisions and the Support Divisions.
[...]
Camp Matanzas is a training facility operated by the DI and is located outside Havana since early 1962. It has hosted the likes of Carlos the Jackal.[15]
"""
###

¶Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka "Carlos the Jackal"

see the fantastic Olivier Assasyas film (2010)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321865/
"""
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
[...]
Affiliated with the Palestinian / anti-Zionism cause and justice and equality for the people; he publicly proclaim some of Ernesto "CHE" Guevara's socialist concepts; however comparing these two different characters will be a huge mistake. While the later was driven by ideals and passion; Carlos was mostly moved by his egomaniacal needs of power, notoriety and money.
Olivier Assasyas did a deep historical analysis of Carlos' trajectory during a period of about 20 years. In order to produce a continuity he tied real events from the seventies mid nineties (sme using reel footage others dramatized) with fictional "what if" situations (showing interactions and negotiations with different people and powers). Whatever really happened in those meetings can only be guessed based in subsequent events. The final product is almost perfect. Carlos emerges as a very complex character. He was mercenary, ambitious and power hungry person; very cold but a very smart. He is never shown as a coward but he was not always on the front line either. When he is asked to be killed for "the cause", he states "I am a soldier not a martyr" he states when he is asked to be killed by "the cause". He used people (particularly women) that were easily seduced by his discourse (it seems his sexual life was really over the top) for minor actions but he was there in the most important ones like the OPEC kidnapping. Edgar Ramirez is outstanding as the main character; speaking several languages with ease and convincing in all of them. His charisma stays even when he is doing hideous statements or acts or beating a woman. This movie could not exist without him.
"""

¶(++) CUBA/AFRICA— Cuban support (and sacrifice) for decolonial revolutions in Africa and beyond

<deepseek

"""
Here are some key decolonial revolutions and movements that Cuba supported:

• 1. Angolan War of Independence (1961–1974) and Angolan Civil War (1975–2002) ... Cuba played a significant role in supporting the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) in its fight against Portuguese colonial rule and later in the Angolan Civil War against UNITA and South African forces. Cuban troops, military advisors, and medical personnel were deployed to Angola, and their involvement was decisive in key battles like the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987–1988)
• 2. Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Independence Movement ......... Cuba supported the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), led by Amílcar Cabral, in its struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Cuba provided military training, weapons, and medical assistance to the movement, which eventually led to the independence of Guinea-Bissau (1974) and Cape Verde (1975).
• 3. Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) ....... Cuba supported FRELIMO in its fight for independence from Portuguese colonial rule. Mozambique gained independence in 1975, and Cuba continued to provide assistance during the subsequent civil war.4. Namibian Independence Struggle
• Cuba supported SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization) in its fight for Namibian independence from South African rule. Cuban involvement in Angola indirectly aided SWAPO by weakening South African forces in the region. Namibia gained independence in 1990.
• 5. Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) ........ Although Cuba's direct involvement was limited due to its own revolutionary struggle at the time, the Cuban Revolution (1959) later inspired and supported Algeria's post-independence government under Ahmed Ben Bella. Cuba provided medical and educational assistance to Algeria after its independence.
• 6. South African Anti-Apartheid Movement ....... Cuba supported the African National Congress (ANC) and other anti-apartheid movements in South Africa. Cuba's military involvement in Angola, particularly at the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, weakened the South African military and contributed to the eventual end of apartheid.
• 7. Nicaraguan Revolution (1978–1979) ....... Cuba supported the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in its struggle to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship. Cuba provided military training, weapons, and logistical support, which contributed to the Sandinistas' victory in 1979.
• 8. Bolivian Revolution and Che Guevara's Guerrilla Movement ........ Cuba supported Che Guevara's efforts to spark a revolutionary movement in Bolivia in the 1960s. Although the campaign ultimately failed and Che was captured and killed in 1967, Cuba's support for revolutionary movements in Latin America continued.
• 9. Grenadian Revolution (1979–1983) ....... Cuba supported the New Jewel Movement in Grenada, led by Maurice Bishop, which overthrew the government of Eric Gairy in 1979. Cuba provided economic and military assistance to the revolutionary government until its collapse in 1983.
• 10. Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara) ........ Cuba supported the Polisario Front in its struggle for independence from Moroccan rule. Cuba provided military training and educational opportunities for Sahrawi refugees.
• Vietnam and Indochina ...... While not a decolonial revolution in the traditional sense, Cuba supported North Vietnam and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, opposing U.S. imperialism and colonialism in Southeast Asia.
• 12. Latin American Revolutionary Movements ......... Cuba supported various leftist and revolutionary movements in Latin America, including:
  • El Salvador's FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front)
  • Guatemala's URNG (Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity)
  • Colombia's FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) (though this support remains controversial).

Cuba's support for decolonial revolutions was often framed as part of its commitment to anti-imperialism and international solidarity. While this support was celebrated by many in the Global South, it also drew criticism and opposition from Western powers, particularly the United States, which viewed Cuba's actions as destabilizing. Nonetheless, Cuba's role in these struggles remains a significant part of its historical legacy.
"""

¶(—) USA— Little Steel strike & Women's day massacre (1937)

Part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Memorial_Day_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Steel_strike
"""
The Little Steel strike was a 1937 labor strike by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its branch the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), against a number of smaller steel producing companies, principally Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. The strike affected a total of thirty different mills belonging to the three companies, which employed 80,000 workers. [...] The officers panicked and opened fire on the crowd. Soon ten protesters lay dead and 100 more with gunshot wounds. One steelworker later recounted, "I was in the war and I fought in France, but I never heard so many bullets as those coppers fired. Women and children were screaming all over the place. They were like a herd of cattle panic stricken. I ran till they got me. I saw one woman shot down and a policeman dragged her away."[8] Scores of club-wielding police were beating people, men and women, black as well as white, and firing gas weapons and firearms, striking down dozens
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_day_massacre
"""
The women's day massacre was an event that took place on June 19, 1937, in Youngstown, Ohio, that caused the deaths of two people and injuries to 23 others.[1][2] Members of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) were protesting Little Steel Management to receive recognition for their union organization. In March 1937, U.S. Steel had agreed to recognize the union, but the smaller Republic Steel refused to follow suit.[3] Republic's anti-union chairman, Thomas Girdler, defied labor laws and used force to intimidate workers, firing over a thousand union supporters.[4] These actions led to workers striking at steel mills across several states in the Little Steel strike and to an intense class battle. The strike went beyond picketing when steelworkers' wives joined the demonstration alongside their husbands in an event deemed "Women's Day".[5]
Charley Richmond, a Youngstown police captain placed in charge of watching the picket line, was unhappy to see women protesting and decided to find a union leader to immediately put an end to their demonstration. When he could not find a leader to halt the protest, he gathered a small contingent of police to demand the women leave, as he believed they had no business being there. His less-than progressive views angered the women, who responded to his attitude by spitting and cursing towards the officers.[5] When they refused to leave, the police captain ordered tear gas fired on the women and their children, who were also present at the demonstration.[3] An infant being carried by one of the women was injured during the assault. Outraged, union workers began to rush on the scene. They attacked a policeman who had been isolated from the other officers, which resulted in gunfire from the police. The battle that took place directly in front of Republic Steel's front gate did not deter the union workers – they regrouped, and the confrontation with the police morphed into an all-out battle.[3] The encounter continued through the night, with local SWOC leaders doing everything they could to protect union workers and restore order. They realized their attempt at separating the warring groups was in vain when they witnessed one of the union supporters, John Bogovich, die after being shot in the neck.[5] When news of Bogovich's death spread to the people of Youngstown, melee ensued. Union supporters returned fire on the police, a scene described by witnesses as "The Great War [starting] over again".[3] By dawn, Ohio's governor had called in over 5,000 National Guard members to protect Youngstown. SWOC organizer John Steuben was forced to negotiate a peaceful withdrawal of police forces while the remaining union supporters gathered for a debriefing of the night's events.[5]
In the end, Republic fired many of the union leaders, and steel workers were forced to continue their fight for dignity in the labor force. The U.S. Senate's La Follette Civil Liberties Commission investigated the overall "Little Steel" strike in Chicago (where 10 people had died) and six in various locations in Ohio. The Committee found that over the course of the strike, 16 people had died and 283 people were injured between May 30 and July 11. The number included the two persons killed and 23 injured in Youngstown on June 19 and 20.[1], and that some of those were shot in the back while running away from the police.[4] It was determined that the police forces were internally hired by Republic Steel and were supplied with over 160,000 rounds of ammunition for the Youngstown district.[4] One union organizer looked back on the scene, describing it as "Gas...flying all over the place and shots flying and flares going up and it was the first time I had ever seen anything like it in my life".[4] It wasn't until 1941 that the Little Steel companies finally recognized unions. 
"""

¶(—) CUBA/SOFTPOWER— USAID → Cuban "rap" scene → regime change attempt

https://nationalpost.com/news/rajko-bozic-rap-spy-how-one-promoter-was-tasked-by-the-u-s-to-sneak-inside-cubas-hip-hop-scene

good feature

¶(—) HEGEMONY/ACADEMIA— Closing philosophy / humanities departments
aka closures of academic departments

2025/3
"""
🚨 URGENT: The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University is under existential threat from yet another neoliberal attack on our social reproduction.
For over twenty years, CRMEP has cultivated a tradition of critical theory as a philosophically informed, transdisciplinary critique of our globalized historical present—establishing “philosophizing beyond philosophy” through the work of its brilliant professors and students. Doing my Master’s and PhD there transformed my life forever.
Now, CRMEP, along with all other humanities departments at Kingston University, is set to be shut down. This is the result of a commodified UK higher education system, fully subjected to financialized logic. The crisis has only deepened in the wake of Russia’s imperial war and the disastrous Brexit referendum—where a wrong question was answered with a stupid yes/no response.
Let’s be clear: Kingston University has the money and resources to sustain CRMEP and the humanities. Vice-Chancellor John Latham received an £80,768 bonus on top of his £312,617 salary in the financial year ending March 2023. Yet, under the logic of endless accumulation, management chooses to dismantle the very spaces and infrastructures that sustain critical thought.
We must resist this attack.
#CRMEP #defendthehumanities
"""

2025/4
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/state/university-of-toledo-suspending-nine-undergrad-programs-in-compliance-with-ohio-higher-ed-law
"""
Senate Bill 1bans diversity efforts, regulates classroom discussion, prohibits faculty strikes, creates post-tenure reviews, puts diversity scholarships at risk, and creates a retrenchment provision that blocks unions from negotiating on tenure, and eliminates undergraduate degree programs that produce on average less than five degrees annually over a three-year period, among other things.
[...]

• Bachelor of Business Administration in Organizational Leadership and Management
• Bachelor of Science in Health Information Administration
• Master of Arts in Philosophy
• Master of Arts in Sociology
• Master of Education in Educational Research and Measurement
• Master of Education in Educational Technology
• Master of Education in Educational Psychology
• Master of Music in Music Performance
• Master of Science in Geology
• Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction: Early Childhood
• Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction: Educational Technology
• Ph.D. in Foundations of Education: Research and Measurement

"""

another one 2025/4 <florian.kramer
"""
Breaking news: Leiden University / Universiteit Leiden plans to end ("phase out") PhDArts and the entire Academy of Creative and Performing Arts - Leiden University [i.e. its collaboration with KABK - Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag providing a PhD program for practicing artists, designers and musicians] due to the governmental budget cuts. This has been officially announced on Leiden University's website, see the link below.
[Disclaimer: I'm involved in this program as an external supervisor of one PhD candidate.]
"""

¶(++) Cuban internationlist struggle wars

### [m!!] 

https://iono.fm/e/1322311
Cuban Mig-21s bombing South African forces (Angola war)

¶(——) Anti-Cuban "activism" and terrorism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_shootdown_of_Brothers_to_the_Rescue_aircraft
(Gusanos distributed leaflets)
###

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_dissident_movement



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Cuba_hotel_bombings
"""
Cuban-exile and former CIA asset, Luis Posada Carriles, admitted organizing the bombings. In a taped interview with The New York Times, Posada said: "It is sad that someone is dead, but we can't stop ... Posada was reportedly disappointed with the reluctance of American news organisations to report the bombing attacks, saying "If there is no publicity, the job is useless".[4]
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_No_Coopero_Con_La_Dictadura
rightwing shitlibs
"""
The campaign, utilizes the slogan "I do want change", and is articulated in six fundamental points: "I do not repudiate, I do not assist, I do not snitch, I do not follow, I do not cooperate, and I do not repress."[2] Furthermore, as a symbolic gesture of non-cooperation with the Cuban regime, members of the organization cross their arms over their chests.[3]
Multiple Cuban-American artists, such as Lissette Álvarez, Willy Chirino, Jon Secada, Paquito D'Rivera, Boncó Quiñongo,[4] and Amaury Gutiérrez[5] have declared their support for the campaign. 
"""

¶(+) ASYMMETRIC— Houthis block Suez channel

To protest the Palestinian genocide

https://x.com/typesfast/status/1910174081150025875
↓
https://www.vesselfinder.com/
(!) BUT ... "Those aren’t container ships. Need to pay for the pro version to filter out everything but the container ships."

¶"Unarmed leftist struggle"

https://www.facebook.com/pcockshott/posts/pfbid0E1RZzr1gCPqMksmPCz4hyvi8q3s8UYs82B3VyJUfetKn8rJqW5KjxAkFiEucAwBfl
"""
The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren’t paying close attention to what happened in Guatemala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world’s largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious consequences.
This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: 
“Who was right?” 
In Guatemala, was it Árbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party? 
Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington. 
Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.
-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
"""

¶Irish slavery (17th century)

"""
They came as slaves: human cargo transported on British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by thehundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. Some were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don't really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But are we talking about African slavery? King James VI and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain's Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one's next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when James VI sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies.
By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland's population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.
Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain's solution was to auction them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia.
Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.
Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They'll come up with terms like "Indentured Servants" to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.
As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.
African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (£50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than £5 Sterling). If a planter whipped, branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African.
The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master's free workforce.
Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish mothers, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their children and would remain in servitude.
In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls (many as young as 12) with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new "mulatto" slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves.
This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed "forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale." In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.
England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.
There is little question the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more, in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is also little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry.
In 1839, Britain finally decided on it's own to end its participation in Satan's highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded this chapter of Irish misery.
But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they've got it completely wrong. Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories.
But, why is it so seldom discussed? Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims not merit more than a mention from an unknown writer?
Or is their story to be the one that their English masters intended: To completely disappear as if it never happened.
None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.
Interesting historical note: the last person killed at the Salem Witch Trials was Ann Glover. She and her husband had been shipped to Barbados as a slave in the 1650's. Her husband was killed there for refusing to renounce Catholicism.
In the 1680's she was working as a housekeeper in Salem. After some of the children she was caring for got sick she was accused of being a witch.
At the trial they demanded she say the Lord's Prayer. She did so, but in Gaelic, because she didn't know English. She was then hung.
To learn more you can go to the following sources:
Political Education Committee (PEC)
American Ireland Education Foundation
54 South Liberty Drive, Suite 401
Stony Point NY 10980
"""

¶(——) POP/LIBERALS— JK Rowling, Harry Potter

Fantastic commentary from 4chan
"""
    Text: It very neatly describes the way liberals see the world and political struggle.  
    Lots of people complain about the anti-climatic ending, but really I don't think it could any other way. I'd like to imagine that there's some alternate universe where Rowling actually believed in something and Harry was actually built up as the anti-Voldemort he was only hinted as being in the beginning of the books. Where he's [sic] opposes all the many injustices of the wizarding world and determines to change their frequently backwards, insular, contradictory society for the better, and forms his own faction antithetical to the Death Eaters and when he finally has his showdown with Voldy, Harry surpasses by adopting new methods, breaking the rules and embracing change and the progression of history. While Voldemort clings to an idyllic imaging of the past and the greatest extent of his dreams is to become the self-appointed god of a eternally stagnant Neverland. Harry has embraced the possiblity of a shining future and so can overcome the self-imposed limits Voldemort could never cross, and Voldemort is ultimately defeated by this.  
    But that would require a Harry that believed in something. and since Rowling is a liberal centrist Blairite that doesn't really believe in anything, Harry can't believe in anything. Harry lives in a world drought with conflict and injustice, a stratified class society, slavery of the sentient magical creatures, the absurd charade the wizarding world puts up to enforce their own self-segregation, a corrupted and bureaucracy-chocked government, rampant racism, so on and so forth. But Harry is little more than a passive observer for most of it, only the racism really bothers him (and then only racism towards half-bloods). In fact, when Hermione stands up against the slavery of elves, she's treated as some kind of ridiculous Soapbox Sadie. For opposing chattel slavery. In the end, the biggest force for change is Voldemort and Harry and friends only ever fight for the preservation and reproduction of the status quo. The very height of Harry's dreams is to join the aurors, a sort of wizard FBI and the ultimate defenders of the wizarding status quo. Voldemort and the Death Eaters are the big instigators of change and Harry never quite gets to Voldy's level. Harry doesn't even beat Voldemort, Voldemort accidentally kills himself because he violated some obscure technicality that causes one of his spells to bounce back at him.  
    And this is really the struggle of liberals, they live in a world fraught with conflict, but aren't particularly bothered by any of it except those that threaten the multicultural pluralism. They see change, and the force behind that change, as a wholly negative phenomenon. Even then, they can only act within the legal and ideological framework of their society. So for instance, instead of organizing insurrectionary and disruptive activity against Trump and the far-right, all they can do is bang their drum about what a racist bigot he is and hope they can catch him violating some technicality that will allow them to have him impeached or at least destroy his political clout. It won't work, it will never work, but that is the limit of liberalism just as it was the limit of Harry Potter.  
"""
transcript via https://www.reddit.com/r/COMPLETEANARCHY/comments/g0qtew/harry_potter_and_the_limits_of_liberalism/

¶(—) TECH— Israeli AI targeting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_Gaza_Strip
"""
Israel uses an AI system dubbed "Habsora", "the Gospel", to determine which targets the Israeli Air Force would bomb.[1] It automatically provides a targeting recommendation to a human analyst,[2][3] who decides whether to pass it along to soldiers in the field.[3] The recommendations can be anything from individual fighters, rocket launchers, Hamas command posts,[2] to private homes of suspected Hamas or Islamic Jihad members.[4]
[...]
One change that The Guardian noted is that since senior Hamas leaders disappear into tunnels at the start of an offensive, systems such as the Gospel have allowed the IDF to locate and attack a much larger pool of more junior Hamas operatives. It cited an official who worked on targeting decisions in previous Gaza operations as saying that while the homes of junior Hamas members had previously not been targeted for bombing, the official believes the houses of suspected Hamas operatives were now targeted regardless of rank.[17] In the France 24 interview Abraham, of +972 Magazine, characterized this as enabling the systematization of dropping a 2000 lb bomb into a home to kill one person and everybody around them, something that had previously been done to a very small group of senior Hamas leaders
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus
"""
The Israeli Finance Ministry announced in April 2021 that the contract is to provide "the government, the defense establishment, and others with an all-encompassing cloud solution."[1] Through a $1.2 billion contract, technology companies Google (Google Cloud Platform) and Amazon (Amazon Web Services) were selected to provide Israeli government agencies with cloud computing services, including artificial intelligence and machine learning.[
[...]
In April, former Google employees fired for protesting with #NoTechForApartheid, citing an article in +972 Magazine,[21] expressed concerns over Israel's current use of AI-assisted targeting in the Gaza Strip: a program named “The Gospel” categorizes buildings as military bases, while programs called  “Lavender” and “Where’s Daddy” identify and falsely classify Palestinian civilians as 'terrorists' and track the their movements for target selection.[22]
"""

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
"""
During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all.###
[...]
“We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
[...]
“At 5 a.m., [the air force] would come and bomb all the houses that we had marked,” B. said. “We took out thousands of people. We didn’t go through them one by one — we put everything into automated systems, and as soon as one of [the marked individuals] was at home, he immediately became a target. We bombed him and his house.”
[...]
“Every person who wore a Hamas uniform in the past year or two could be bombed with 20 [civilians killed as] collateral damage, even without special permission,” A. continued. “In practice, the principle of proportionality did not exist.”
According to A., this was the policy for most of the time that he served. Only later did the military lower the collateral damage degree. “In this calculation, it could also be 20 children for a junior operative … It really wasn’t like that in the past,” A. explained. Asked about the security rationale behind this policy, A. replied: “Lethality.”
"""

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/04/gaza-un-experts-deplore-use-purported-ai-commit-domicide-gaza-call
###

¶(—) PROPAGANDA/LIBS— Invention of the "middle class"

via Dmytri Kleiner via Ash Carr https://www.facebook.com/ash.carr.100/posts/pfbid02RLev2s9Kvv62UZHHMNetfXjyuWPegcJYCLmf7QrxxbRG13covwtctjXvCX2vzKSal
"""
The Middle Class as a Myth: A Historical Role in Shielding the Elite
The concept of the "middle class" has long been a cornerstone of liberal democratic ideology, often portrayed as the stabilising force in modern society, the bearer of civic virtue, economic productivity, and political moderation. It is hailed as the class that ensures freedom, democracy, and prosperity. Yet beneath this ideological veneer lies a much more complex and politically charged truth. The middle class is not a natural or independent social stratum. It is a constructed, contingent, and politically mobilised buffer class whose primary function has historically been to protect the ruling elite from the pressures of popular unrest, revolution, and accountability. It is a faux class in the sense that it obscures the fundamental binary of class conflict between capital and labour, and serves as a legitimising stratum in capitalist society.
The Middle Class as Historical Buffer:
The origins of the modern middle class can be traced to the post-feudal transformations in Europe, particularly during the transition from aristocratic rule to bourgeois capitalism. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the term "middle class" was often synonymous with the bourgeoisie itself, the rising commercial and professional classes that challenged aristocratic dominance, but swiftly became the new elite. However, as industrial capitalism matured and the working class began to organise, a more specific concept of the middle class emerged, one distinct from both capital and labour.
This middle class was largely composed of small proprietors, professionals, civil servants, and managers, individuals who neither owned capital in significant quantities nor worked directly in manual labour. But crucially, they often aligned their interests with capital, seeking to differentiate themselves from the working poor. In Marxist terms, they represent a petite bourgeoisie, whose role is inherently contradictory but structurally conservative. Their social position is precarious and aspirational, and thus they become deeply invested in maintaining the existing order, hoping to ascend within it rather than overturn it.
Protecting the Elite Through Ideological Reproduction: 
Throughout modern history, the middle class has functioned ideologically to depoliticise class struggle. For instance, in post-revolutionary France, the Thermidorian Reaction saw the emergent bourgeoisie roll back the radical egalitarianism of the Jacobins, stabilising the Republic while preventing a return to aristocracy. The middle strata became central to the maintenance of this new capitalist order, legitimised through republican ideals, but fundamentally conservative in outcome.
In Victorian Britain, the rise of the "respectable" middle class was celebrated as a moral triumph over the unruly poor. The middle class embraced individualism, thrift, and self-discipline, values that conveniently mapped onto the requirements of capital accumulation. Rather than challenge the exploitation of labour, they moralised it, acting as both the administrators and enforcers of industrial discipline, in schools, offices, prisons, and colonies.
By the 20th century, especially in the United States, the middle class had become the cornerstone of the liberal democratic imaginary. The New Deal and post-war prosperity expanded middle-class lifestyles through access to mortgages, consumer goods, and higher education, but this expansion was not class-neutral. It was racialised, gendered, and exclusionary. The white suburban middle class was constructed through redlining, segregation, and patriarchal family structures, all while insulating the capitalist elite from the demands of the working class, especially Black and immigrant labour.
Neoliberalism and the Managerial Class:
In the neoliberal era, the middle class has become increasingly professionalised and managerial. This managerial class, consultants, HR departments, tech middle managers, administrators, now plays a direct role in maintaining corporate and state structures. They do not own the means of production but act as loyal stewards of those who do. Their function is to absorb dissent, regulate public discourse, and administer austerity while maintaining an illusion of democratic participation.
Indeed, it is this very class that often fills the ranks of liberal politicians, media commentators, academics, and NGO bureaucracies who claim to speak for the "public good" while never fundamentally challenging the narratives of capital. The language of diversity, sustainability, and innovation is marshalled to obscure the reality of rent extraction, ecological collapse, and systemic inequality. The middle class, once again, becomes the shield behind which the wealthy elite retreat from scrutiny.
Crisis and the Reactionary Turn:
When economic crises do hit, as in 2008 or during the COVID-19 pandemic, the middle class often radicalises, not toward socialism, but toward reaction. Afraid of losing their precarious privileges, segments of the middle class have historically aligned with fascist movements. In interwar Europe, the petty bourgeoisie provided a fertile ground for fascist mobilisation, fuelled by resentment of both capital and labour, but ultimately marshalled to defend the capitalist order.
This dynamic is visible today in the resurgence of far-right populism, libertarian conspiracy movements, and anti-working class resentment disguised as "anti-woke" politics. The middle class, rather than constituting a bulwark against tyranny, becomes a gateway to authoritarianism, so long as its privileges are preserved.
Conclusion: A Construct of Political Convenience:
The middle class is not a stable or autonomous class, but a politically useful category. Its material interests are too fragmented to form an independent political force, yet it has repeatedly served the function of disciplining the working class and legitimising elite rule. Its culture of respectability, aspiration, and moderation is less a sign of independence and more a sign of strategic co-optation.
It is time to discard the illusion of the middle class as a democratic force for progress. Instead, we must return to a clearer analysis of class as a relation to production, and build solidarity across those whose labour is exploited, dispossessed, and managed by both the capital-owning class and their professional stewards. Only then can we begin to challenge the structures that have insulated the ruling elite from the consequences of their power.
"""

<<<It's a matter of time that they enforce the Communist Control Act of 1954 and the various anti-syndicalist and Anarchist Acts

¶(——) CUBA— Operation Peter Pan

wtf, mass abduction / janissaryism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polita_Grau
↓
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Peter_Pan
"""
Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a clandestine exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962. They were sent by parents who feared, on the basis of unsubstantiated rumors propagated by the US,[1] that Fidel Castro and the Communist party were planning to terminate parental rights and place minors in alleged "communist indoctrination centers", commonly referred to as the Patria Potestad.[2] No such actions by the Castro regime ever took place. 
The program consisted of two main components: the mass evacuation of Cuban children via airplane to the United States – Miami as a particularly common hub – and the programs set up to care for them once they arrived. Both were led by Father Bryan O. Walsh of the Catholic Welfare Bureau. The operation was the largest exodus of minor refugees in the Western Hemisphere at the time. It operated covertly out of fear that it would be viewed as an anti-Castro political enterprise. 
[...]
Father Bryan O. Walsh of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, with the help of the U.S. government, developed the Cuban Children's Program in late 1960. Key players included Tracy Voorhees, Eisenhower Administration, James Baker, Father Walsh, and in Cuba Polita Grau and her brother Ramón Grau Alsina.
"""

Mental
"""
By late 1960, Castro had expropriated several companies that made up the American Chamber of Commerce in Havana, including Esso Standard Oil Company and Freeport Sulfur Company. The leaders of these companies moved to Miami while they analyzed the actions of Cuba's new government. Under the impression that Castro's rule would be brief, they agreed to aid the Cuban children by providing funding for Operation Peter Pan. Through collaborations with Baker, these business leaders agreed to help secure donations from multiple US businesses and send them to Cuba. 
[...]
Many children were placed in foster care, some were placed in positive living environments and others endured emotional and physical neglect. Laws prevented any relocated children from being housed in reform schools or centers for juvenile delinquents. Further, the minors were not made available for adoption. 
[...]
In 1978, El Grupo Areito and Casa de las Américas collaborated to publish "Contra viento y marea", a book of anonymous testimonies detailing alienation from both the Cuban community from which they fled and the American community to which they came. A direct contrast to the previous happy-go-lucky stories of Operation Pedro Pan, these accounts told stories of loneliness, poor conditions and mental, physical and sexual abuse.[7]
"""

OK
"""
In December of 1965, the United States established a program of Freedom Flights (los vuelos de la libertad) to unite Cuban parents with their children. The Catholic Welfare Bureau reported that, once the Freedom Flights began, nearly 90% of the minors still in its care were reunited with their parents.[9]
"""
But what the fuck

#towatch #propaganda
"""
Nearing the end of this mass-exodus of children to the United States, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy approved funding for a propaganda film designed to assist migrant children's understanding of why their parents had made this choice on their behalf.[10] This film elaborates on the many things for children to do within their current situation, including but not limited to learning, playing, and attending religious ceremonies. However, this film is careful not mention the current events in Cuba.[11] The film was directed by Cliff Solway, a Canadian director for CBC. 
"""

¶(+) CUBA— Solidarity brigades: Bridaga Antonio Maceo & Venceremos brigade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Maceo_Brigade
"""
The Antonio Maceo Brigade was a political organization in the mid-1970s composed of Cuban Americans that demanded the right of Cuban exiles to travel to Cuba and to establish good relations with the Cuban government. The group was mainly composed of young Cuban Americans that had developed leftist sympathies from experiences in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement, and were generally critical of anti-Castro rhetoric. The group was invited to Cuba personally by Fidel Castro. The visit brought a brief period of warmer Cuba-United States relations and brought attention to the Cuban-American left.[1]
[...]
Those who joined the brigade often hoped to prove that they were not counterrevolutionary "gusanos". This desire sprouted from the dual rejection they faced from both right-wing Cuban exiles and left-wing North Americans. At the time the American left-wing Cuban solidarity group the Venceremos Brigade specifically rejected Cuban American members often on belief that all Cuban Americans are middle class and counterrevolutionary "gusanos".[5]
"""

Contemporary: VENCEREMOS BRIGADE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venceremos_Brigade
https://vb4cuba.com/
"""
Over the past 50 years, the Venceremos Brigade has given nearly 10,000 people from the U.S. the opportunity for a life-changing experience in Cuba.
"""

¶CUBA/DOTP— "Social cleansing of so-called undesirables"t

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift

"""
the Cuban government announced that anyone who wanted to leave could do so. The ensuing mass migration was organized by Cuban Americans, with the agreement of Cuban President Fidel Castro. The Cuban government considered the exodus a sort of social cleansing of the nations' so-called undesirables
"""

¶[s!!*] SOURCE— (some handbook)

careful.
anarcho-liberal "activist" oriented, but it's a valuable listing of strategies there

https://citizenshandbook.org/

it does point to "Otpor" and these kind of CIA astroturfed situations
https://citizenshandbook.org/blueprint-for-revolution.html

¶(—) USA/CONSPIRACY— weaponizing a vaccine campaign for espionage

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60900-4/fulltext
"""
On May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had located and killed Osama Bin Laden. The agency organised a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in Abottabad, Pakistan, in a bid to obtain DNA from the children of Bin Laden, to confirm the presence of the family in a compound and sanction the rollout of a risky and extensive operation. Release of this information has had a disastrous effect on worldwide eradication of infectious diseases, especially polio.
"""

¶[!*] CONSPIRACY/ANTIUSA/CUBA— Operation Mongoose vs Cuba: "urging caution against external activities such as release of chemicals… unless they could be completely covered up.”

Corroborated:
    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/27/560352638/jfk-documents-highlight-talks-on-clandestine-anti-cuba-ops
    ↓
    """
    The administration of President John F. Kennedy had turned instead to a Plan B to destabilize Cuba and hopefully take down Castro: Operation Mongoose.
    """

"""
In a section of the document, General Marshall Carter of the Army discussed the “extreme sensitivity” of such operations but proposed methods to make crop failures “appear (to be) of natural origin.”
McGeorge Bundy, then President John F Kennedy’s National Security Advisor, reportedly said such sabotage would be acceptable if it could be plausibly denied and blamed on local disaffection or natural causes—urging caution against “external activities such as release of chemicals… unless they could be completely covered up.”
[...]
McGeorge Bundy, then President John F Kennedy’s National Security Advisor, reportedly said such sabotage would be acceptable if it could be plausibly denied and blamed on local disaffection or natural causes—urging caution against “external activities such as release of chemicals… unless they could be completely covered up.”
"""

Planting Lyme disease?!
"""
These disclosures align with firsthand accounts like that of Kris Newby, author and science journalist, who told Corporate Crime Reporter in 2024 about a conversation with a former CIA operative who claimed he had “dropped infected ticks on Cuban sugar cane workers in 1962.” Newby, who has extensively researched the origins of Lyme disease, said the man admitted the goal was to cripple Cuba’s economy by targeting its most lucrative crop—sugar.
"""

¶[!] ASYMMETRIC— Serbians down F-117

###

¶NONVIOLENT— Voluntary arrests as protest tactic

<deepseek
"""
1. What Is Voluntary Protest Arrest?
Voluntary arrest occurs when protesters intentionally violate laws or orders (e.g., blocking traffic, occupying spaces) to highlight injustice, knowing they may face arrest. It is a form of nonviolent direct action aimed at:

• Symbolic resistance: Demonstrating commitment to a cause 15.
• Media attention: Arrests often amplify coverage of the issue 9.
• Legal pressure: Overloading systems to challenge unjust laws 6.

Example: In the 2024 Mozambique protests, peaceful demonstrators were arrested en masse after opposing contested election results, despite their actions being constitutionally protected in other contexts 2.
"""

Used by likes of:
    * civil rights in 60s
    * XR
    * ###

Effect:
    ### should compile general overview
    It's reformist, so all problems associated with that
    Mostly local scale, can effect "optics"
    Does not solve the root of general problems

¶US socialism / communism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
###

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois
###

¶STRATEGY— Interdiction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_interdiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdictor
"""
An interdictor is a type of attack aircraft or tactical bomber that operates far behind enemy lines, with the express intent of air interdiction  of the enemy's military targets, most notably those involved in logistics.[1] 
"""

¶Civilian air attacks, terrorism, and conspiracies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114
1973: Israel shoots down Libyan flight, mistake entry into Israeli-controlled territory... 108 pax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
July 1988: US shoots down Iranian flight, after provoking and within Iranian territory ... 290 pax
"""
In 1996, both governments reached a settlement in the International Court of Justice in which the US agreed to pay US$61.8 million (equivalent to $124 million in 2024) on an ex gratia basis to the families of the victims. As part of the settlement, the US did not admit liability for the shootdown
"""
----------------------------
6 victims were Yugoslavian !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
December 1988: Pan Am 103 ("Lockerbie bombing") ... 270pax
Motives and related:
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra_incident_(1981)
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_73
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_United_States_bombing_of_Libya ("El Dorado Canyon")
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadian%E2%80%93Libyan_War
    * ###

¶[!!**] YUGOSLAVIA— "Specialists" 

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/14/archives/yugoslavs-global-engineers.html
###

###

¶(——) UK/USA/COLONIALISM/COMPARDOR— Case of Brunei

https://progressive.international/wire/2025-06-30-brunei-britains-neo-colonial-oil-hub-near-china/en
"""
In December 1962, British forces intervened in Brunei to suppress a rebellion led by the elected Brunei People’s Party, which sought independence from colonial rule and opposed the Sultan’s autocracy. Six decades later, a British Gurkha garrison remains, paid for by the Sultan—whose wealth derives from Brunei Shell Petroleum, a joint venture with the UK oil giant. This arrangement sustains an absolute monarchy with no elections, draconian laws, and vast personal riches spent in Britain, while Shell extracts Brunei’s oil tax-free.
[...]
He didn’t mention that the North Kalimantan Army was closely connected to the Brunei People’s Party, which had won all but one of the seats in the country’s election earlier that year – its first, and, to date, last, vote. 
The party was opposed to Britain’s colonial oversight, broadly opposed to the Sultan, and opposed plans for Brunei and its neighbouring territories on the still-British controlled north coast of Borneo to join the newly assembling Malaysia – instead wanting a united, independent North Borneo. 
[...]
This testing landscape provides part of the excuse for the UK’s presence in Brunei, where the British army has its jungle warfare training school. 
“The garrison is really bizarre. You’ve got a manicured lawn in a tropical country, next to a huge beach,” they continued. “There’s jungle behind you, and Gurkhas playing bagpipes.”
The roughly 2,000 British soldiers there include one of two battalions of the Royal Gurkha Rifles – with the other being based in Kent. They are mostly Nepali citizens who were recruited into the British Army under a colonial arrangement that began in 1815 and was modified in 1947 after Indian independence. 
[...]
All this is not enough for the Tony Blair Institute, who warned in a recent report that “the UK’s position in Brunei seems vulnerable” to being surpassed by Chinese influence, with a “substantial risk that the UK’s standing in Brunei is compromised”.
[...]
The Sultan is, in a sense, an extremely wealthy middle man, providing dynastic legitimacy for British troops to secure a small corner of north Borneo for a British oil company.
[...]
Brunei is a tiny dictatorship on the other side of the world, slightly smaller than Devon. But, at any one time, around one in forty British soldiers is based there, propping up a despotic ruler so that Shell can keep pumping oil and gas out of its rocks, to be burned, and, in turn, help burn the planet. 
[...]
"""

¶(———) ANTICOLONIALISM— France in Algeria

<leo.he.zhao
via https://x.com/SlavFreeSpirit/
"""
From SlavicFreeSpirit:
About democracy and Western values 
France gathered 400 Muslim scholars and decapitated them with machetes; during the occupation of Chad in 1917. 
When France entered the Algerian city of Laghouat in 1852, it killed two-thirds of its population and burned them alive in a single night. 
Between 1960 and 1966, France conducted 17 nuclear tests in Algeria, resulting in an unspecified number of casualties, between 27,000 and 100,000. The effects persist to this day. 
When France left Algeria in 1962, they had left more mines than the entire Algerian population of that time: 11 million mines. 
France occupied Algeria for 132 years. The French exterminated one million Muslims in the first 7 years after their arrival and 1.5 million in the last 7 years before their departure. 
French historian Jacques Gorky estimated that the total number of people killed by France in Algeria, from its arrival in 1830 to its departure in 1962, was 10 million Muslims. That is French historian not Arab. 
France occupied Tunisia for 75 years, Algeria 132 years, Morocco 44 years and Mauritania 60 years. 
When France entered Egypt during its famous campaign, French soldiers entered mosques on horseback and raped women in front of their families. They drank alcohol in the mosques and turned part into stables for their horses. 
Finally, today claim Islam is a religion of terrorism. So it's western colonial imperialism who in 450 years killed befwen 500 millions and 1 billion of people. 
Strange to see some people boasting about Western civilization and even defending it, forgetting all of its dark history. 
This is France, remind them of their history.
"""

¶(+?) "Dodgy Dossier" (journalistic expose on fakeness of Blair's/UK government Iraq war justification)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Dossier
"""
much of the work in the Iraq Dossier had been plagiarised from various unattributed sources including a thesis produced by a student at California State University. The most notable source was an article by then graduate student Ibrahim al-Marashi, entitled Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis.[7]
Whole sections of Marashi's writings on "Saddam's Special Security Organisation" were repeated verbatim including typographical errors, while certain amendments were made to strengthen the tone of the alleged findings (e.g., "monitoring foreign embassies in Iraq" became "spying on foreign embassies in Iraq", and "aiding opposition groups in hostile regimes" became "supporting terrorist organisations in hostile regimes"). 
"""

¶ANTIWORK/TACTICS— "Revenge quitters"

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/03/meet-the-revenge-quitters-why-people-are-ditching-their-jobs-and-refusing-to-go-quietly
###

¶Resisting tech embargoes

The 2022 Huawei ban (→ Huawei P30 loses updates after 2022/5)
↓
###
(these aren't really it)
↓
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-google-ban-uk-android/
https://www.industrialdefender.com/blog/biden-extends-huawei-ban-issues-new-guidance-on-cybersecurity
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63764450

¶(—) Iran betrayed by UN/IAEA

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3v6w2qr12o
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164291
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/iran
###

¶Spanish Maquis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Maquis
"""
During the German occupation of France, the Spanish Maquis engineered more than four hundred railway sabotages, destroyed fifty-eight locomotives, dynamited thirty-five railway bridges, cut one hundred and fifty telephone lines, attacked twenty factories, destroying some factories totally, and sabotaged fifteen coal mines. They took several thousand German prisoners and - most miraculous considering their arms - they captured three tanks. In the south-west part of France where no Allied armies have ever fought, they liberated more than seventeen towns.
[...]
Armed resistance groups were also active in cities, although only prominently in Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga and Granada.[21] In Madrid, the maquis' character was predominantly communist, supported by the PCE. Their activities did not, however, last long. On the other hand, the maquis acting in Barcelona, were mainly anarchists. This city was the last urban place to see activity of maquis. Attempts to extend the fight to other capitals like Valencia and Bilbao were unsuccessful. 
"""

¶Kafka (Netherlands) antifascist research group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascist_research_group_Kafka
###

"""
In the 2008 annual threat report of the General Intelligence and Security Service (Dutch: Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, AIVD), under the heading 'left-wing extremism', Kafka was mentioned as the information supplier of the left-wing activist group Anti-Fascistische Aktie (AFA).[13] In 2010, the AIVD wrote in its report Afkalvend front, blijvend beladen (English: Calving Front, Permanently Fraught) that Kafka and AFA strove to "keep everything that is considered right-wing out of the public space." Kafka and AFA would allegedly pursue this anti-democratic goal through undemocratic means, such as (inciting) violence and intimidation.[14]
On 18 September 2025, the House of Representatives adopted a motion by the PVV and Forum for Democracy to designate "Antifa" as a terrorist organization.[15]
"""

¶Radical center and "human rights"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Watch

https://www.jamiiforums.com/threads/top-secret-cia-files-expose-us-covert-operations-in-tanzania-data-part-1.2132262/

(in relation to figure out what is going on in Tanzania 2025/10)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/31/protests-over-disputed-tanzania-election-enter-3rd-day-military-deployed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tanzanian_election_protests

¶[!!*i] "Taxpayer revolt"

* setup a taxpayer revolt

* make a pledge-based website, either for:
    A) causes
    B) ###

--------------------------------------

"why is this not a thing?"
↓
↓ well
↓
* https://taxstrike.info/
* ###

-----------------------------------------------------------

PROBLEMS:
    * it's a conspiracy ... so:
        * how fast it would be detected
        * what are the contingencies
        * ###
    * SECRECY vs IDENTITY:
        too little identity == poisoning OR making appearance of poisoning
        too much == (obviously...)
    * MULTITUDE:
        "how to get enough people behind a single issue"
    * all problems of democracy:
        organizing groups 
    * needed scale to make it effective:
        [!!] what would it be?
    * automatic thwarting of the conspiracy:
        [!!] automatic bank accounts
    * ###

-----------------------------------------------------

[!!**] how do taxes work in the states?
* how are they collected (by source)?
* (... so am I missing some key aspect that's different from Slovenia/EU?)

¶[!!*i] EMPIRE— Canada convoy protest

Yes a conspiracy theory but still an insurrection?
----------

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest
"""
As part of these measures, the government froze bank accounts linked to protest organizers. Following the seizure, some supporters turned to Bitcoin to make donations to the convoy, citing its resistance to government control
"""

↓
[!!] analyze:
    * economic impact
    * how it happened
    * replicability
    * responses
    * tec

¶[!!*] LATAM/MEXICO— Cheran (Michoacan) revolt (2011) and self-governance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher%C3%A1n#2011_uprising_and_the_transition_away_from_government_control
"""
Cherán is noted for its unique style of government that followed a 2011 civil uprising over local concerns about corruption and crime. The area is now treated as a self-ruling indigenous community, largely free of federal intervention
[...]
The Constitution of Mexico permits self government and self-policing by indigenous communities.[10] Following lengthy legal battles, the Mexican government is treating autonomous Cherán as a legal self-governing indigenous community
"""

"""
Indigenous Purépecha town expelled:

• Drug cartels
• Political parties
• Corrupt police
• Now governed by community assemblies, rotating councils, and self-defense militias. One of the clearest successful self-governance cases in Mexico today.

"""

"""
Forestry-based economy
Timber (regulated, communal)  
Resin (pine tapping)  
Some agriculture, but secondary  
Natural resource rents matter here
↓
There is an economic surplus large enough to govern with, not just survive.
"""

¶[!!**] MEXICO/LATAM— Zapatista/EZLN

"""
1. Territory & population (baseline reality)

• EZLN autonomy covers hundreds of villages in eastern Chiapas
• Population: ~300,000 people (not all armed, not all militants)
• Mostly Maya (Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolabal, Chol)
• Villages are poor, rural, agricultural, low monetization

"""

------------------------------

#READING

* The declarations (1-6):
    https://radiozapatista.org/?page_id=20278&lang=en

* https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/gonzalez/2000/xx/zapatistas.htm
###

* https://libcom.org/article/commune-chiapas-mexico-and-zapatista-rebellion-1994-2000
###

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacandon_Jungle#The_Reserve_and_the_Zapatistas
"""
The Zapatistas claim that as indigenous farmers, they are the best protectors of the rainforest, and that they want to turn Montes Azules into an “Indian Farmers’ Reserve”, a patchwork of farms and jungle.[8]
This pits them against the Lacandon Maya and environmentalist groups who state that the jungle cannot take any more farming. They also state that the agricultural methods do not help alleviate the migrants’ economic system as they can only farm a plot for a couple of harvests before the soil is depleted.[8]
(...)
The Zapatistas claim that the government is hiding the presence of oil in the area as they try to force them and the indigenous people who support them off the lands, after which they can extract without compensation.
"""

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_of_Ayala (of Emiliano Zapata, 1911).

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


-------------------------------
"""
The Zapatista movement remains active as a social and political force in southern Chiapas. While the old Municipios Autónomos Rebeldes Zapatistas and Juntas de Buen Gobierno were officially dissolved in recent organizational reforms, the EZLN now operates Local Autonomous Governments (Gobiernos Autónomos Locales or GAL) and Collectives of Autonomous Governments under new internal structures. These continue self-government efforts including education, health, land management, and community decision-making based on indigenous practices and assemblies. 
"""

Each village is autonomous
"No assembly = no legitimacy. Period."

"""
They abolished the old Juntas de Buen Gobierno and reorganized because:

• Bureaucracy crept in
• Power concentrated
• Cadres burned out

"""

"""
People still need money for:

• Salt, oil, clothes
• Tools
• Transport
• Medicines they can’t produce

"""
↓
[!!] Q: Could this benefit from #hyperecon , from advanced&assumptive cooperative buying?


===========================================

* """
From a Leninist angle:
EZLN froze class development to avoid capitalist domination — and in doing so froze the material basis for socialism.
"""

* Q: Do Zapatistas reject development & modernity?:
    What are the contradictions here?

* Q: To what extent are they dependent (in a self-reflected tactical way) to outside sympathizers:
    * CIDECI (truck, theory, ...) workshops
    * global "solidarity" coffee trade
    * ###

* Q: What would be the import & export economic composition of the territories?:
    What is needed?
    How to measure?

* Q: Why the snails? The "low intensity" development?:
    A) waiting (for the rest to go along, etc)
    B) want to crystallize this

* Q: ... Non-proletarian psyche:
    LLM noted this as "High tolerance for non-performance"
    (snail)

* Very probably, strongest lesson can be from "ya basta":
    "When is it enough? When do we go to war? What can we expect to lose and gain?"

* How are community stores organized and operated?:
    Do they have common buying?
    How do they decide & plan inventory?
    Is this work paid (and why? and who gets it?)
    "Sometimes subsidized" ——— by whom, what criteria, etc?

!!!* Find/write the book of Zapatista governance protocols?

================
(closing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Forces_(Mexico)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcomandante_Marcos
↓
1995 betrayal
"""
Third, Marcos himself capitalized on this sudden, hostile action, issuing some eloquent communiqués in which he lambasted the government's treachery, or at least duplicity, and portrayed himself as self-effacing mock heroic guerrilla.[36] Marcos would later tell an interviewer: "It's after the betrayal of '95 that people remember us: Then the [Zapatista] movement took off".[37]
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acteal_massacre
"""
In December, 1997, this culminated in the largest incident of violence of the Chiapas Conflict since the initial rebellion took place in the village of Acteal, in which 45 indigenous people, 15 of whom were children, were murdered by people with machetes and AK-47 assault rifles inside a church.[31]
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andr%C3%A9s_Accords
"""
Despite the initial efforts to reconcile relations between the EZLN and the Mexican Federal Government, the Mexican Federal Government did not fulfill the promises that they had made by agreeing with the accords. None of the issues discussed in the San Andres Accords were addressed as the Chiapas indigenous citizens had expected and hoped for. Instead, the communities of Chiapas were infiltrated by Mexican military and paramilitary groups more often than before. According to CONAI, which acted as a mediation group between the EZLN and the Federal Government, Mexican Government officials refused to talk or bring participants for the second round of discussions concerning the indigenous population.[1]
"""


---------------

Anti-NGO, big government conservation programs, etc.
(not directly Zapatista, but in area)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Moxviquil
(contra PRODESIS)
"""
Another reason was that they did not see any serious effort in real social development, only some subsidies for cement, tin roofs, chickens, and crops. They suspected that the state of Chiapas and the European Union had hidden interests in the region, and a certain kind of relationship with its inhabitants. Like previous projects in the region, Prodesis was seen as a counter-insurgency project, designed to divide and rule. 
"""


* https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/declaration-of-patihuitz-in-chiapas-mexico-divided-we-become-allies-of-the-government/
(contra REDD+)

¶[!!**] (other revolts in Mexico, Latam, etc)

* Evo Morales / Bolivia
"""
Under MAS:

• The primary political subject became Indigenous nations (plurinationality)
• Class was re-coded as culture
• Redistribution was justified as historical repair, not class power

Concrete indicators:

• Mining + gas remained extractive capitalism
• Indigenous symbolism replaced proletarian organization
• Unions became adjuncts to the state, not drivers of production
• Political legitimacy flowed from identity recognition, not surplus control

"""


* Oaxaca Popular Assembly of the Peoples (APPO) – 2006
(crushed)


"""
* Guerrilla Municipalities – Guerrero & Chihuahua (1960s–70s)
Linked to Lucio Cabañas and Genaro Vázquez.

• Rural base areas
• Community support networks
• Armed self-defense against landlords and state
• Destroyed in the “Dirty War,” but deeply rooted locally.

"""
↓
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Dirty_War !!!!!!!
"""
The Mexican Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-ruled government under the presidencies of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría, and José López Portillo, which were backed by the U.S. government, and left-wing student and guerrilla groups.[7][8] During the war, government forces carried out disappearances (estimated at 1,200),[9] systematic torture, and "probable extrajudicial executions".[10]
"""
↓
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Movement_of_1968
* ###
-----------------------------------
"""

• Mexico’s strongest tradition is communal autonomy, not seizure of the central state.
• Successful projects tend to be indigenous, territorial, defensive, and long-term.
• State-capture attempts either failed or were absorbed into PRI corporatism.

"""


* (MORE MEXICO)

Several indigenous municipalities across Mexico use self-government based on “usos y costumbres” (customary law), where decisions and leadership are chosen by traditional community assemblies rather than party politics. They aren’t formal rebellions, but they exercise autonomous governance today:

• Ayutla de los Libres (Guerrero)
• Oxchuc (Chiapas) (ongoing but faced political tensions)
• Chilón and Sitalá (Chiapas)
• San Andrés Totoltepec (CDMX area)

These examples show diverse local forms of self-rule rooted in indigenous norms. 
"""

¶[!!**] LATAM— "Indigenismo"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenismo
###

<LLM , on "indigenismo but smartphones & antibiotics"
"""
The following versions of indigenismo are logically dead:

1. “Defend traditional ways of life”

• • Which ones? Pre-electricity? Pre-antibiotics?
  • You can’t selectively freeze history.

2. Spiritualized autonomy

• • You can’t run a health system, telecoms, or energy on cosmology.
  • Autonomy without control of production = dependency.

3. Anti-development indigenismo

• • Saying “development is Western” while using Western medicine and tech
  • This is incoherent and politically disabling.

This is why so much NGO indigenismo sounds evasive and moralistic:
it’s trying to deny a reality that already exists.
(...)
Once Mayas:

• use WhatsApp
• rely on insulin, vaccines, surgery
• sell labor or crops into markets

They are no longer “pre-capitalist peoples.”
They are modern people with a specific history of exclusion.
Indigenismo that refuses to admit this becomes:

• nostalgia
• moral blackmail
• or a mechanism to keep people poor “authentically”

"""

TLDR: NGO/academia-industrial complex mythology, unchallenged primitivism for-others by postgrads?

↓↓↓
"""
Mexico / Chiapas

• EZLN (post-2003 discourse)
• Subcomandante Marcos / Galeano (later writings)
• CIDECI–Unitierra (Illich-inspired autonomy pedagogy)
• Oventik / Caracoles intellectual milieu
• Gustavo Esteva

Academia / theory

• Arturo Escobar
• Walter Mignolo
• Aníbal Quijano (late “coloniality” turn)
• Boaventura de Sousa Santos
• James C. Scott (anarchist agrarian romanticism)

NGO / development world

• Oxfam indigenist programs
• Cultural Survival
• Ford Foundation–funded “autonomy” projects
• UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (dominant framing)

Ideological currents (not individuals)

• Post-development theory
• Decoloniality (anti-universalist wing)
• Buen Vivir as anti-industrial doctrine
• Autonomism without state power

——————————— COUNTER

"""
Latin American Marxism (serious wing)
* José Carlos Mariátegui
Indigenous communal forms are starting points for socialism, not ends.
No return to the ayllu — forward through socialism, not backward.
* Bolivian MNR left wing (early)
Treated indigenous peasants as national class force, not cultural exception.
Land reform + state power > autonomy fetish.

Bolivia (best modern attempt)
* Álvaro García Linera (early–mid work)
“Communitarian forms + state-led industrialization.”
Indigenous = plebeian modernity, not anti-modernity.
* Evo Morales (practice, not rhetoric)
Indigenous legitimacy used to capture the state, build infrastructure, expand welfare.
Contradictory, but not primitivist.

Yugoslav parallel (relevant to Chiapas)
* Tito / Yugoslav Partisans
Multi-ethnic, peasant-based revolution without cultural romanticism.
Folk forms subordinated to industrial, military, and state construction.
* Edvard Kardelj
Self-management ≠ anti-industry.
Decentralization inside a modern planned economy.

Anti-romantic anthropologists / historians
* Eric Wolf
Indigenous peoples always part of world history and capitalism.
Destroyed the “isolated tribe” myth academically.
* Ellen Meiksins Wood
Class and property relations > identity or culture.
Useful antidote to decolonial drift.
"""

--------------------------------

"""
Mariátegui vs EZLN
Mariátegui treats indigenous communal forms as raw material for socialism: historically produced, class-bound, and transformable through revolution and development. He rejects nostalgia and insists that liberation means industrial modernity under socialist control, not a return to the ayllu.
EZLN, especially post-2003, inverts this: autonomy becomes the goal, ethics replaces power, and indigenous difference is treated as a civilizational alternative. Where Mariátegui asks how communal labor can scale into socialism, EZLN asks how to defend difference from modernity. One is forward-oriented and material; the other drifts into moralized stasis.
"""

¶Case of South Africa & ANC in power

"""
South Africa defenders argue:

• The ANC-state regulates:
  • Labor relations
  • Land reform (slow, but political)
  • Strategic SOEs (Eskom, Transnet, arms industry)
• Capital cannot openly challenge the liberation settlement without political crisis
• The national question still structures accumulation

Thus:
Capital exists, but does not rule uncontested.
This mirrors early PRC logic: politics in command, even if markets operate.
"""

TLDR:
    * I think they're betting on local/non-settler population to be inherently socialistic.
    * They just need to rebuild the state around that, using three main vectors:
        * capitalist "meritocracy"
        * "cadillo", friendly favor ("corruption" logics) for people somewhat close to party
        * ###
    * ... so, "capital is politically subordinated":
        “State power exercised by a class-conscious vanguard acting for the working class”
↑↓
"""
The ANC–SACP consciously chose a non-insurrectionary seizure of hegemony, expecting class power to shift after political power.
That is a Marxist strategy — just a risky one.
"""

A favorable take:
"""
South Africa is a communist-led national-democratic state, operating under extreme imperial constraint, pursuing a prolonged, non-insurrectionary transition to socialism, where political power precedes economic transformation.
"""

¶[!!*](++) "Ungovernability"

appears in:
    * South Africa / ANC logic
    * Guzman:
        ###
    * ###

¶CLASSES— Yugoslav/"Titoist" logic and revolutionary configuration

* mostly poor/middle peasantry, fighting for national liberation
* collapse of old state (==power vacuum)
    "War created the revolution, not the other way around."
* tactical alliances, but clear rejection of evils (Chetniks, compradors/collaborationists)
* strong federalism, anti-chauvinism, "EQUALITY!"
* ###

<LLM
"""
Party-led proletarian revolution, carried by peasant guerrilla war, enabled by imperialist collapse, structured through the national question rather than a bourgeois alliance.
"""

¶DPRK and Songun policy

"""
Songun (선군, "Military-First") is North Korea's state policy prioritizing the Korean People's Army (KPA) in all state affairs, resource allocation, and national development, established as official ideology by Kim Jong Il after Kim Il Sung's death in 1994. This policy dictates that the military leads the party, government, and people, acting as the core force for defending the nation, driving economic construction, and implementing overall socialist goals, emphasizing self-defense and military strength above all else. 
"""

Comment (20250604, after US attack on Venezuela):
    """The US attack on Venezuela proves how correct the DPRK was to develop a nuclear deterrent and to implement the Songun policy. Also proves the correctness of Juche and self-reliance"""

¶LATAM— "Digna rabia"

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digna_rabia_(concepto)

<LLM
"""
Here are the key points from the Wikipedia article on Digna rabia explained clearly in English:
1. What Digna rabia means

• It refers to feelings of anger, ire, and fury that motivate people to stop or change situations where individual or collective rights are violated by oppressive systems like capitalism. Wikipedia

2. How the term is used socially

• While it has broad use in anti-capitalist ideology, it has become especially common in feminist movements across Latin America. Wikipedia
• It’s used to validate actions in civil protests, even those that intervene in cultural heritage or material property, as expressions of protest against systemic inequalities. Wikipedia

3. Connection to social movements

• The emotion is very visible in contemporary social movements, particularly feminist uprisings where anger and outrage are central to resistance. Wikipedia
• Activists claim a right to acts such as breaking or toppling objects to draw attention to violence and oppression rooted in patriarchal structures. Wikipedia

4. Not just irrational anger

• Digna rabia is not irrational or uncontrolled anger; it’s considered a validated emotional response tied to human rights and dissatisfaction with the status quo. Wikipedia

5. Origins and history

• The exact origin of the phrase isn’t clear, but it gained importance in movements in Mexico and Latin America from the 1980s to the early 1990s, especially around the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (EZLN). Wikipedia

6. Broader social adoption

• Over time, digna rabia has been adopted by various vulnerable groups, including Indigenous communities, LGBTIQ+ groups, feminist activists, and “madres buscadoras” (mothers searching for disappeared relatives) to express legitimate anger at injustice. Wikipedia

In short, digna rabia describes a legitimate, justice-oriented anger rooted in dignity, used especially in social justice and feminist contexts to frame emotional resistance as meaningful and justified rather than purely destructive. Wikipedia
"""

¶[!!] Sara Ahmed’s "complaint collectives"

<LLM
"""
In short:

• They are informal groups formed by people who complain about the same institution (universities, workplaces, etc.).
• Complaints are rarely treated as isolated events; instead, institutions protect themselves, and complainers get framed as the problem.
• When individuals realize “this happened to you too”, their complaints link up — that linkage is the collective.
• These collectives don’t start as activism; they emerge from shared harm and being dismissed.
• Their power isn’t legal authority but pattern recognition: showing the issue is systemic, not personal.
• Institutions fear them because they convert silence into memory and evidence.

Core idea:
Complaints accumulate. When they do, they expose structures rather than individuals.
"""

¶[!!**] Spanish Revolution of 1934

Presented to me as "one not from neccesity" !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1934
"""
"The argument that [Gil Robles] tried to destroy the Constitution to establish fascism was, at once, hypocritical and false".[6][note 1] The issue was that the left identified the Republic not with democracy or constitutional law, but with a specific set of left-wing policies and politicians. Any deviation, even if democratic, was seen as treasonous.[7] The "founding fathers" of the Republican system had conceived the new democracy as belonging to them, and were more concerned with the radical reforms which in their view were necessary than with pluralism and freedom.[8] The Socialists triggered an insurrection that they had been preparing for nine months.[9] A general strike was called by the General Union of Workers (UGT) and the PSOE in the name of the Alianza Obrera, 'Workers' Alliance'. 

Spain had been subject to constant clashes in the form of small incidents and short general strikes, which allowed the revolutionary movement to arrive on the eve of October in the fullness of its strength, with great confidence and extraordinarily united.[10] Many left-wing and far-left organizations, either endorsed or tolerated by the Republican government, were well-organized and prepared for such an action. They had a considerable stock of rifles and pistols on them. Most of the rifles came from a shipment of arms supplied by Indalecio Prieto, a socialist party moderate, on the yacht Turquesa at Pravia, north-east of Oviedo. Prieto swiftly fled to France to avoid arrest.[11][12] Other weapons came from captured arms factories in the region and the miners also had their dynamite blasting charges, which were known as "the artillery of the revolution."[13]
"""

¶Guatemala: 48 Cantons

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/48_cantones_de_Totonicap%C3%A1n

<LLM:
"""
A parallel, indigenous state apparatus at the municipal level
with legitimacy, enforcement, and mobilization capacity.
(...)
The whole department of Totonicapán has about ~514 000 people (2024 estimate), almost all Indigenous (≈97 % Maya K’iche’) and living in rural or semi-rural communities. 
"""

↓
↓ lessons for M/L
↓

"""
* Class ≠ only relation to means of production
Neither case maps cleanly onto proletariat / peasantry / petty bourgeois.
Power is organized via:

• territory
• customary obligation
• collective labor duties
• moral authority
• ethnic-communal legitimacy

This suggests a pre- or extra-capitalist class logic still capable of resisting capitalist penetration.

* The 48 Cantones and EZLN prove you can build real, durable power outside the bourgeois state:
    ... and also why that power hits a hard ceiling without centralization and surplus control.
"""

¶USA— Battle of Blair Mountain (largest armed uprising)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

also see:
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Labor

¶(Unverified) US advanced tactical special ops capabilities in Venezuela

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2026/01/13/epic-win-us-secret-weapon-may-have-incapacitated-maduros-guards/
↓
https://x.com/nettermike/status/2009843044028428714

Describes sound weapons, advanced targeting, jamming, drone overloading.

¶[!!*i] TACTICS— Associationalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associationalism
"""
Theodore Roosevelt (President 1901-1909) was the first true champion of American associationalism as evidenced by his intervention into the United Mine Workers strike of 1902.  For the first time representatives from government, labor, and management met collectively and were able to resolve the conflict.
When management was uncooperative, Roosevelt threatened to employ the military on behalf of labor to arrive at a resolution. 
"""

¶[!!**] TACTICS/HACKERS— Veblen's "engineer revolution"

<LLM
"""
In The Theory of the Business Enterprise and The Engineers and the Price System, Veblen drew a famous distinction between "industry" (the productive, technical, matter-of-fact work governed by the "instinct of workmanship") and "business" (the pecuniary, profit-driven, often predatory sphere).
He saw engineers and technicians as the true bearers of social progress, held back by the irrational, wasteful "absentee ownership" of the capitalist class.
He famously speculated about a "Soviet of Technicians."
(...)
He was famously (and somewhat satirically) hopeful that engineers, driven by their "instinct of workmanship" and their understanding of the technical inefficiencies of capitalism, could lead a revolt to rationalize the economic system for the common good, overthrowing the "price system."
"""
Wow, very #hyperecon !

↓
↓ some sort of technocracy
↓
"""
The Revolutionary Plan (Such As It Was)
Veblen’s proposal was startlingly specific for its time:
* A General Strike of Technicians:
    Engineers, industrial scientists, and production managers would collectively withhold their indispensable technical knowledge from the absentee owners.
* Formation of a Central Directorate:
    This "Soviet" would be a planning body of perhaps a few hundred top technical minds. They would not be politicians; they would be a board of directors for the national industrial plant.
* Rationalization of Production:
    They would run the economy to maximize the production of goods and services, eliminating the waste of salesmanship, advertising, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity. Prices and money would become mere accounting tools, not drivers of the system.
* A Technocratic Utopia:
    The result would be a society of material abundance, free from the cycles of boom-and-bust (which Veblen saw as caused by financial predation, not market flaws). It would be governed by objective, technical standards.
"""

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