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Mixing up C and S, leaving out articles, confusion of simple present and present progressive tenses. Hmm these are common English errors Russian speakers make.

The author portrays an evolution of social and economic theory that passes from Marx to Weber to Foucault. In other words, Marx without Lenin. The tactic is diversionary rather than disinformative. Insofar as you will discuss Marxism, it will be in the context of critiques of Marx made by academics operating in capitalist countries. I don’t mean to say that Weber’s or Foucault’s theories are entirely wrong headed, just that as long as you are occupied with them you will be ignoring the strains of Marxist theory that have underpinned any actually successful Marxist political project.

If you want to pick nits though, this passage made me squint:

Democratic government was the result of a political revolution of a new class-the commercial and industrial capitalists or, as Marx called them, the bourgeoisie.

Here the author is stating without citation that Marx believed democracy was achieved by bourgeois revolution. Big if true. Perhaps a certain kind of democracy within a certain class? Where did Marx make this claim?

What do you think of weeb’s take that this is a spoiling attack?

If the source is ‘Iran Observer’ or some crap then people will make fun of you.

Moscow Times was posted a few months ago, and there was surprisingly little ridicule. But that was off the mega.

I missed this one. It appears the RF is trying to set up reciprocal foreign asset seizures ahead of expected formal seizure of RF assets in the US. Here’s a very short article in Xinhua.

This actually looks like an attempt at de-escalation to me. The seizure of foreign property is an act of war, and the Putin administration seems to be looking for a way to appease RF entities holding those frozen assets in the US without a war declaration, should those assets be subject to formal seizure by the US. Am I reading this correctly?

This is amazing. Thank you for posting! The Lysenko story is wild, and one of my favorites. There is almost nothing available in the English language that portrays “Lysenkoism” as a reaction to Fascist Eugenics. The compelling part of the story is how extreme the influence of political ideology was on the science of genetics at the time, and this guy gets it.

Listen sweaty, we have to protect the only democracy in the middle ease. By the way, have I told you about the terrible man-made famine of 1931?

Trots being trots

Million dollar take: Mueller good actually even though he’s FBI because dialectics.

We actually sang the anthems of each of the branches of the armed services too. Kinda creepy, but being able to play Anchors Away My Boys from memory has come in handy later in life.

I have no idea what level of coverage the crocus shooting has been getting in the media. The timing of the escalated missile strikes in Ukraine by the RUAF could be correlated, but there are confounding factors there as well. Such as the also recent incursions into Kursk and Belgorod, and the overall momentum of the SMO generally.

Last time they killed a pope nobody said shit

I like this, but I’d like it even more if it used the word “blockade” or “seige” instead.

Lebed, Yavlinsky, and Zyuganov

Probably in that order, right? Surely that last one in the alphabetically ordered list was the least affected by the alleged vote tampering. You can barely even see him behind that big ol Oxford comma.

But who will free Northumbria from the Irish yoke?

Embarrassing admission: I listened to the Mike Duncan series on the Mexican revolution, and heard Diaz’s name as “Perfidio” the whole time. I knew that “perfidy” was an adjective used to describe a person’s character in English, so assumed it was one of those names like “Constance” or “Grace”. A year later I heard the word “perfidy” again in a context that indicated that it was actually a negative thing, so I looked up both that word and Diaz’s name. I then felt very silly. All learning is language learning, and there is no such thing as fluency.

Something about the invasion and gutting of the GDR serving as a historical justification for the Stasi project. Something about Parenti.

Well, is it???