Tag: communism
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Dialectics are dead: Long live Europe and death to the Communist Party of China
Slavoj Zizek remained a consistent left-wing Hegelian with his position on Ukraine and the Russian invasion, but turned to partisan politics and economic history when writing about Trump’s intervention on Venezuela. In his very long years of deep philosophical research and writing, Zizek was the only Marxist philosopher to preach that dialectics weren’t loyal to…
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I am corrupt because I am not a communist – Minister Roderick Galdes
It’s always communism to blame when a corrupt politician is accused of enriching themselves exponentially during the time they held public office. Social Housing Minister Roderick Galdes accumulated a significant property portfolio as a government Minister because he is a free-market aficionado and not a communist. However, he reiterated that the Labouer government is socialist…
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Western tourism in high-tech dystopia with communist aesthetics
The Communist Party of China is reviving the old communist propaganda custom of providing curated tourism to eager Western admirers of its political system. Hasan Piker, a self-declared socialist and streamer in the US with tens of thousands young followers, is one of the latest influencers who visited China, and poured praised over its totalitarian…
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Zarah Sultana gets lectured about class-politics by the Eastern Europeans after making egregious comments about Ukraine and President Zelensky
Zarah Sultana has received a barrage of critical comments, mainly from Ukrainians and Eastern Europeans, after the new left-wing party leader sharted her communist perspective about President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In a remark worthy of a champagne socialist, Zarah Sultana said she’d concluded President Zelensky isn’t a friend of the…
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An era that is no more
Somehow, Cuba remains standing as one of the last relics of totalitarian communism, yet it still appears as if it is fading away into its history as it slowly comes out of its shell. Communism in Cuba felt like a permanent state of affairs where time stood still: a state of totalitarianism glamourised by junk-old…
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Alice Weidel to contest for the German Chancellery with AFD: uses rhetoric and gestures similar to Adolf Hitler
Alice Weidel will be contesting the German general elections as a candidate for the German Chancellery as leader of the far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AFD). She was formally approved as a candidate by her party yesterday, where she gave a very fiery speech with strong gestures and hand movements that reminds one of Adolf…
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The rise of China’s social revenge attacks
Yesterday, a man driving a car rammed and killed several children at the Yong’an Primary School in Dingcheng District, Changde City, Hunan Province, China. Also, yesterday, a man bombed a residential home in Binzhou, Shandong, China. These are not unusual incidents. Independent Chinese journalists like Jennifer Zang have been documenting cases like these on a…
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Russia is able to act as it pleases because the West is allowing it to
In an era when information was more tightly controlled, it took a long time for Western European communists to realise the extent of the Soviet Union’s misrepresentation by the official propaganda of the USSR’s Communist Party. For many it took an invasion of a European capital, more specifically, the Soviet Union’s invasion of Hungary in…
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Cubans are out in the streets protesting against the government
Cuba is experiencing its second wave of anti-government protests in its communist history since 2021. Before 2021, there are no recorded anti-government protests. Protests have been held in, Bayamo, Ciego de Avila, Holguin, Santiago and Granma. In response, trucks loaded with food have been sent by the government to East Cuba where most of the…
