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🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo @garb0.bsky.social · Sep 22
Honestly the best way is to just have a short conversation if you feel like it - and if you don't, you absolutely don't have to interact 🙂‍↕️💜

The vast majority are very real, very desperate people

It's getting cold and people don't have ways to keep the rain out, they don't have winter clothing
garb0.bsky.social
Dec 8 2025
jewishcurrents.org/an-education...
Archived:
archive.ph/8Ss2W

This is also happening. There's a lot of awful shit going on beyond just the mandatory death bill and the associated noose pins. Apartheid and genocide haven't stopped.

Useful write-up, free all of Palestine
An Educational Crusade in East Jerusalem
Under the pretext of “national security,” Israel is ramping up its longstanding attacks on Palestinian education in the city.
jewishcurrents.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Is anybody trying to downplay the noose pins? Are the pro-genocide politicians and influencers ignoring this one?

The prisoners solidarity movement has largely been left out of our news, major advocacy groups have been designated as terrorist organizations.

Why is that?
garb0.bsky.social 🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo @garb0.bsky.social · 8h
Free Ahmad Sa'adat:
www.palestinechronicle.com/free-saadat-...

Every Palestinian hostage, taken by Israel, IS a political prisoner.

Israel, during a genocide, is saying it will kill EVEN MORE prisoners.

This is not normal, this is not acceptable.

The nooses are literal.
They mean it.
www.palestinechronicle.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
garb0.bsky.social
The noose pins are real

Dec 9 2025
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Archived:
archive.ph/9wiwZ

Haaretz cannot adequately cover the significance of the death bill.

Those pins are signs of support for MANDATORY EXECUTION OF PALESTINIANS.

Marwan Barghouti has been mutilated by his captors
No justice
The perverse twisting of a symbol of hope and freedom into one of darkness and death
In Sporting a Noose Pin, Closely Resembling That of the Hostages' Ribbon, Ben-Gvir Is as Blatant in His Disregard for Jewish Lives as He Is for Palestinian Lives
www.haaretz.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
garb0.bsky.social
There is always more to learn about US bastardry:
youtu.be/vd8InvEyQ8s

Help out:
www.weareafghans.org/join-us
Afghans in the US are being targeted by ICE. Support community groups!

If you are serious about anti-imperialism, consider studying Marxism-Leninism as a practical matter.
It's yours too.
Afghan Blowback: CIA Death Squads Come Home to Target Refugees | State of Play | Greg Stoker
YouTube video by MintPress News
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
garb0.bsky.social
This is how we got here.
We are living inside decaying capitalism, we must work to free ourselves.

It's important for people in the US to have the concepts of revolutionary optimism and! revolutionary defeatism.

I want the brutality to end.
I want the future to be kind.
But the human consciousness of the participants in this inevitable process is not the consciousness of automatic cogs in a predetermined mechanism. It is the consciousness of living active human beings, revolting against intolerable evils, deliberately with thought and passion choosing an alternative, doing and daring all to achieve a new world, and ready to give their lives in the fight because of their intense desire by such action to help to make the achievement of the goal possible. This fighting revolutionary consciousness is by no means bowing to an inevitable outcome, but is most actively seeking to tip the balance and make certain by action the victory of one alternative and the defeat of another alternative. Every revolutionary worth his salt acts in every stage of the fight as if the whole future of the revolution depended on his action. And in presenting the issues of the present stage to the masses today we present them not at all as placid inevitabilities to contemplate like the movement of the stars, but as gigantic issues of fight with the whole future of humanity at stake, calling for the utmost determination, courage, sacrifice and invincible will to conquer. This is the essence of the revolutionary Marxist understanding of inevitability, and is one of the central issues of division between Bolshevism and Menshevism. It is precisely the passive Menshevik Social-Democratic view which seen the historical process as an automatic mechanical inevitability, independent of human will and action, i.e., of human conscious choice between alternatives, as itself a historical factor, which is incapable of seeing the enormous creative power of the masses in action to change the course of history, which sneers at the urgency and insistence typified in Lenin’s declaration that “delay means death”, and thus inevitably leads to passivity and impotence in the name of a philistine distortion of Marxism. This outlook is dangerous and needs to be actively fought. The alternative error, of too sharply presenting the alternatives in order to awaken revolutionary consciousness and will and determination to fight and conquer and prevent the victory of the class enemy, is by comparison less dangerous, so long as the theoretical foundations of the inevitable ultimate victory of Communism are correctly understood.
December 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism:
www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
It's not long.

This stuff here is why it's dangerous to think Democrats (or Republicans, but let's be serious) actually represent the "working class"

Labor aristocracy, Fettermans and techbros are all covered in this. Oof
Why is this argument false? Because, firstly, it overlooks England’s colonial monopoly. Yet Engels, as we have seen, pointed to this very clearly as early as 1882, thirty-four years ago! Although England’s industrial monopoly may have been destroyed, her colonial monopoly not only remains, but has become extremely accentuated, for the whole world is already divided up! By means of this suave lie Kautsky smuggles in the bourgeois-pacifist and opportunist-philistine idea that “there is nothing to fight about”. On the contrary, not only have the capitalists something to fight about now, but they cannot help fighting if they want to preserve capitalism, for without a forcible redivision of colonies the new imperialist countries cannot obtain the privileges enjoyed by the older (and weaker) imperialist powers. Secondly, why does England’s monopoly explain the (temporary) victory of opportunism in England? Because monopoly yields superprofits, i.e., a surplus of profits over and above the capitalist profits that are normal and customary all over the world. The capitalists can devote a part (and not a small one, at that!) of these superprofits to bribe their own workers, to create something like an alliance (recall the celebrated “alliances” described by the Webbs of English trade unions and employers) between the workers of the given nation and their capitalists against the other countries. England’s industrial monopoly was already destroyed by the end of the nineteenth century. That is beyond dispute. But how did this destruction take place? Did all monopoly disappear? If that were so, Kautsky’s “theory” of conciliation (with the opportunists) would to a certain extent be justified. But it is not so, and that is just the point. Imperialism is monopoly capitalism. Every cartel, trust, syndicate, every giant bank is a monopoly Superprofits have not disappeared; they still remain. The exploitation of all other countries by one privileged, financially wealthy country remains and has become more intense. A handful of wealthy countries—there are only four of them, if we mean independent, really gigantic, “modern” wealth: England, France, the United States and Germany—have developed monopoly to vast proportions, they obtain superprofits running into hundreds, if not thousands, of millions, they “ride on the backs” of hundreds and hundreds of millions of people in other countries and fight among themselves for the division of the particularly rich, particularly fat and particularly easy spoils. This, in fact, is the economic and political essence of imperialism, the profound contradictions of which Kautsky glosses over instead of exposing. The bourgeoisie of an imperialist “Great” Power can economically bribe the upper strata of “its” workers by spending on this a hundred million or so francs a year, for its superprofits most likely amount to about a thousand million. And how this little sop is divided among the labour ministers, “labour representatives” (remember Engels’s splendid analysis of the term), labour members of War Industries Committees,[5] labour officials, workers belonging to the narrow craft unions, office employees, etc., etc., is a secondary question.
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
garb0.bsky.social
We need much shorter supply chains
People need meaningful work that helps others in their area

The military currently enables greedy bastards, the bastards no longer share.

Capitalists are not afraid of DSA-style capitalist "socialism".
Learn who Earl Browder was and HOW he fucked up so bad.
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Please help if you can, be a good friend to Palestine
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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katelynburns.com
This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
jacob-redman.bsky.social Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 5d
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
garb0.bsky.social
If you want socialism, you need to read or listen to this book.

Audio:
youtu.be/MVZgtmGmyl4

Text:
www.marxists.org/archive/luxe...

Don't give up before chapter 4, ok?

It is important for people in the US to be humble. More countries would (still) be socialist if it was as easy as voting right.
Reform or Revolution? (1900, rev. 1908) by Rosa Luxemburg. Marxist/Socialist Audiobook & Discussion.
YouTube video by Socialism For All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
garb0.bsky.social
"No war on Venezuela" demonstrations happening across the US on Dec 6:
www.answercoalition.org/venezuela

Click that link and scroll down to find one near you. There are tons.

Go if you can! I wanna see these protests get covered on teleSUR.
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION NO WAR ON VENEZUELA SAT DEC 6 STOP THE WAR BEFORE IT STARTS ANSWERCOALITION.ORG/VENEZUELA
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Extremely useful!!:
youtu.be/OveQOYmQFyU

The housing co-op I lived in as a youngin was a great practical example of democratic centralism. It SLAPS.

This is doable even if there's no longer an international body. It has been done before. History is a resource.

www.marxists.org/history/inte...
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
garb0.bsky.social
This was great:
youtu.be/5d5IAJE5Zls

I am very fond of modern-day "anarchists" because they tend to be the ones who go out and get shit done - they're some of the best, most reliable activists I have known.
Way closer in thought and practice to the Bolsheviks etc than to Kropotkin.

Just sayin.
: )
"Anarchism or Socialism?" (1907) by Josef Stalin. #Audiobook + Discussion of Marxist Theory/History.
YouTube video by Socialism For All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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garb0.bsky.social
Do not forget about the disabled.

Anybody can become disabled.

We have all tried our best already.

Do not be a jackass to the disabled.
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
garb0.bsky.social
It is extremely real to be unable to afford medical treatment

What the fuck does anybody expect to happen when this continues on for years, then decades

You get starvation because people cannot work. I am at this point.

People are not exaggerating
We are being killed by capitalism
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
garb0.bsky.social
There is very useful commentary before and after the reading here:
youtu.be/Y5HVFOqDLaA

Lenin was an actual guy. If we understand what he was writing about, we can use the work others have already done in the past. Please do not let anyone waste your time.

All of this matters.
Don't give up hope.
"Deception of the People by the Liberals" (1908) by Lenin. Marxist/Communist Audiobook + Discussion.
YouTube video by Socialism For All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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sjoneswastaken.bsky.social
"Where a person starts exposing their self and their true ideologies is when they express how they truly feel about non-western and non-white leaders and countries who’ve been deemed ‘enemy’ states by the US ruling class, as a means of warmongering."
www.hamptonthink.org/read/the-mis...
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Good stuff here:
www.marxists.org/subject/impe...

🗣️ Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism:
www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
^ everyone can already kinda feel it, here are words to explain what it is

🗣️ Neo-Colonialism,
the Last Stage of Imperialism:
www.marxists.org/subject/afri...
^ ditto
Imperialism - Marxists Internet Archive
marxist texts on Imperialism
www.marxists.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
garb0.bsky.social
July 7 2025
www.energy.gov/articles/dep...

It's hard to take things seriously when DOE is using trump-speak.

I feel bad for the govt workers who just want us to have stable infrastructure.

There really are big problems:
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Every winter is scary now, fuck ERCOT forever
Department of Energy Releases Report on Evaluating U.S. Grid Reliability and Security
The Department of Energy warns that blackouts could increase by 100 times in 2030 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm capacity.
www.energy.gov
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
garb0.bsky.social
It's great to have free access to information about practical things.

If you spin, weave, knit, crochet, or sew, you may also find this stuff interesting:
www.ers.usda.gov/publications...

Cotton is a resource hog.
I wanted to try growing cotton to spin, but it's illegal here (boll weevil control)
Cotton and Wool Outlook: September 2025 | Economic Research Service
The September 2025 Cotton and Wool Outlook presents and discusses USDA’s most recent 2025/26 U.S. and world cotton projections as well as updates to 2024/25. The report’s associated tables provide the...
www.ers.usda.gov
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
garb0.bsky.social
"a national logic in the tradition of product reviews"
November 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Everyone with over 1000 hours in cities: skylines must immediately be drafted into Red "Marx and Lenin Style" Communism,
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Still struggling to understand what the US actually needs vs makes. We export petroleum and aircraft parts, okay. We import seemingly everything. Okay

This isn't sustainable or stable and it freaks me the fuck out
The entire system assumes imperialism and eternal victory

oec.world/en/profile/c...
United States (USA) Exports, Imports, and Trade Partners | The Observatory of Economic Complexity
Find the latest trade statistics and economic complexity data for United States.
oec.world
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Thinkin about the Smackover and US lithium again, which really means I am thinking about labor and land

Arkansas has had unions before:
cudenverhistoryjournal.org/2024-volume-...

The lithium source is fixed in place, extracted lithium has to be moved overland. Companies could be forced to pay up.
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
garb0.bsky.social
This is worth your time:
youtu.be/gCB4dUwj2Mg

I want a Marxist left for ordinary people.

It definitely feels like the next economic collapse has already started, and I think it's going to become unbearable before anyone's really "ready"

People's education & people's services must be built up now
Western Marxism and the War of Ideas | Gabriel Rockhill
YouTube video by Red Star
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM