Frank should have a look at church history sometime.
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BTW, y’know that US habit of declaring war in situations that aren’t actually war? Drug War, War on Terror, etc.
They use the terminology of war in order to justify the abuse of power as a wartime necessity. This is an actively manufactured thing; the people shaping the language know what they’re doing.
The Cold War was another one. The US security state had grown fond of their wartime powers, and weren’t keen on giving them up. A pseudo-war was required.
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The CorpDems are rattled; they’re making another push at trying to paint Bernie as a misogynist and/or predator.
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To be fair to him, he isn’t denying the historical violence in the name of God by the Catholic church. He’s been very critical of all fundamentalism, and equates violent Christians with Muslims
http://launch.newsinc.com/?type=VideoPlayer/Single&widgetId=1&trackingGroup=69016&playlistId=19132&siteSection=catholiconline&videoId=31213155
I don’t like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy. this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law. and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics! If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence . . . and no, not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there’s everything. There are violent persons of this religion. this is true: I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists. Fundamentalists. We have them. When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language – the Apostle James says this, not me – and even with a knife, no? I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.
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Interesting graph:
The GFC annihilated the Black middle class, and the Obama years cemented extreme intra-Black inequality.
What happened to the Latinx community in 1995?
On Gothic Marxism:
It’s a work in progress.
Lotsa fun to be found on Google on that theme…
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/05/communist-gothic.html
(melodramatic text, cool architectural sketches)
Side-scrolling animation.
History question: where did the West = peasant / Russia = serf distinction come from? Why was late Tsarist Russia more autocratic than the West?
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Quite well done; no animation, but lots of fast cuts.
I once spent a night and day wandering around with a head full of acid, convinced tht the entire world could be explained through the metaphor of cricket.
I wonder if I could come up with a Marxist/Maoist analysis of The Ashes? 
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