Mark A. Foster, Ph.D.
@markalanfoster.bsky.social
I am a retired sociology professor 🙵 continue my work through The Institute for Dialectical metaRealism: https://dmr.institute. With a Ph.D．in sociology 🙵 history, I focus on religious studies (sociology of religion 🙵 history of religions) 🙵 social theory.
Cultural Studies vis–à–vis Anthropology
Here is an interesting book (open access but not Creative Commons) on how cultural studies may be replacing anthropology:
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Here is an interesting book (open access but not Creative Commons) on how cultural studies may be replacing anthropology:
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
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February 16, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Cultural Studies vis–à–vis Anthropology
Here is an interesting book (open access but not Creative Commons) on how cultural studies may be replacing anthropology:
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
Here is an interesting book (open access but not Creative Commons) on how cultural studies may be replacing anthropology:
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
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And again Maoism-Third Worldism
Hausa in Ajami script, بَايَان وَايِوَا ـ يَانْكِن غِيدَا ـ تَيمَاكُون جُونَا ـ مَوِسْم ـ دُونِيَ تَا ُوكُو, bāyān wāyiwā – yān°kin ġīdā – Taymākūn Ǧūnā – Mawis°m – Dūniya tā ūkū
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Hausa in Ajami script, بَايَان وَايِوَا ـ يَانْكِن غِيدَا ـ تَيمَاكُون جُونَا ـ مَوِسْم ـ دُونِيَ تَا ُوكُو, bāyān wāyiwā – yān°kin ġīdā – Taymākūn Ǧūnā – Mawis°m – Dūniya tā ūkū
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 7, 2026 at 8:30 AM
And again Maoism-Third Worldism
Hausa in Ajami script, بَايَان وَايِوَا ـ يَانْكِن غِيدَا ـ تَيمَاكُون جُونَا ـ مَوِسْم ـ دُونِيَ تَا ُوكُو, bāyān wāyiwā – yān°kin ġīdā – Taymākūn Ǧūnā – Mawis°m – Dūniya tā ūkū
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Hausa in Ajami script, بَايَان وَايِوَا ـ يَانْكِن غِيدَا ـ تَيمَاكُون جُونَا ـ مَوِسْم ـ دُونِيَ تَا ُوكُو, bāyān wāyiwā – yān°kin ġīdā – Taymākūn Ǧūnā – Mawis°m – Dūniya tā ūkū
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Islamicate (“Islam in a cultural context”) in Balochi/Baluchi
Balochi/Baluchi, اِسْلَامِی تَنَاظَر فَرْهَنْگِی, ʾIs°lāmí tanāẓar far°han°gí
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Balochi/Baluchi, اِسْلَامِی تَنَاظَر فَرْهَنْگِی, ʾIs°lāmí tanāẓar far°han°gí
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
tendency.dmr.institute
February 7, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Islamicate (“Islam in a cultural context”) in Balochi/Baluchi
Balochi/Baluchi, اِسْلَامِی تَنَاظَر فَرْهَنْگِی, ʾIs°lāmí tanāẓar far°han°gí
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Balochi/Baluchi, اِسْلَامِی تَنَاظَر فَرْهَنْگِی, ʾIs°lāmí tanāẓar far°han°gí
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Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) in Hindustani
• Urdu, ثَقَافَتِی تَنَاظُرَ میں اسْلامی, ṯaqāfatí tanāẓura mēṉ ʾIslāmí
• Hindi, सक़ाफ़ती तनाज़ुर मैं इस्लामी, saqāfatī tanāzura maiṃ Islāmī
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• Urdu, ثَقَافَتِی تَنَاظُرَ میں اسْلامی, ṯaqāfatí tanāẓura mēṉ ʾIslāmí
• Hindi, सक़ाफ़ती तनाज़ुर मैं इस्लामी, saqāfatī tanāzura maiṃ Islāmī
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 7, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) in Hindustani
• Urdu, ثَقَافَتِی تَنَاظُرَ میں اسْلامی, ṯaqāfatí tanāẓura mēṉ ʾIslāmí
• Hindi, सक़ाफ़ती तनाज़ुर मैं इस्लामी, saqāfatī tanāzura maiṃ Islāmī
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• Urdu, ثَقَافَتِی تَنَاظُرَ میں اسْلامی, ṯaqāfatí tanāẓura mēṉ ʾIslāmí
• Hindi, सक़ाफ़ती तनाज़ुर मैं इस्लामी, saqāfatī tanāzura maiṃ Islāmī
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Islamicate (“Islam in a cultural context”)
• Soranî Kurdish, ئیسْلَامِی لە چْوَارچێوْهِٓیهٓکِی کُولْتوورِیدَا, ⫯Ɪ̃s°lāmí le č°wār°čêýwihiỳeḱí ḱūlurídā
• Kurmanjî Kurdish, Îslamî di çarçoveyeke çandî de
• Uyghur, مەدەنِىْيەت مۇِھىتِىدِىِكى ئىسْلَام, medenỳ°yet muhiỳtiỳdiỳkiỳ ⫯Ɪ̃s°lām
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• Soranî Kurdish, ئیسْلَامِی لە چْوَارچێوْهِٓیهٓکِی کُولْتوورِیدَا, ⫯Ɪ̃s°lāmí le č°wār°čêýwihiỳeḱí ḱūlurídā
• Kurmanjî Kurdish, Îslamî di çarçoveyeke çandî de
• Uyghur, مەدەنِىْيەت مۇِھىتِىدِىِكى ئىسْلَام, medenỳ°yet muhiỳtiỳdiỳkiỳ ⫯Ɪ̃s°lām
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
tendency.dmr.institute
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Islamicate (“Islam in a cultural context”)
• Soranî Kurdish, ئیسْلَامِی لە چْوَارچێوْهِٓیهٓکِی کُولْتوورِیدَا, ⫯Ɪ̃s°lāmí le č°wār°čêýwihiỳeḱí ḱūlurídā
• Kurmanjî Kurdish, Îslamî di çarçoveyeke çandî de
• Uyghur, مەدەنِىْيەت مۇِھىتِىدِىِكى ئىسْلَام, medenỳ°yet muhiỳtiỳdiỳkiỳ ⫯Ɪ̃s°lām
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• Soranî Kurdish, ئیسْلَامِی لە چْوَارچێوْهِٓیهٓکِی کُولْتوورِیدَا, ⫯Ɪ̃s°lāmí le č°wār°čêýwihiỳeḱí ḱūlurídā
• Kurmanjî Kurdish, Îslamî di çarçoveyeke çandî de
• Uyghur, مەدەنِىْيەت مۇِھىتِىدِىِكى ئىسْلَام, medenỳ°yet muhiỳtiỳdiỳkiỳ ⫯Ɪ̃s°lām
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Post–Civilization–Localism–Mutual Aid–Maoism–Third Worldism
taḥ°ḏíb ʾi pad ʾa damagí líḱah ýaḱē dūmí ʾi ḱamaḱ Mā⫯wiz°m Símí Dun°ýā ʾi līḱah: Balochi/Baluchi, تَہْذِیب ءِ پَد ءَ دَمَگِی لِیکَہ یَکَے دُومِی ءِ کَمَک ماؤِزْم سِیمِی دُنْیَا ءِ لِیکَہ
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taḥ°ḏíb ʾi pad ʾa damagí líḱah ýaḱē dūmí ʾi ḱamaḱ Mā⫯wiz°m Símí Dun°ýā ʾi līḱah: Balochi/Baluchi, تَہْذِیب ءِ پَد ءَ دَمَگِی لِیکَہ یَکَے دُومِی ءِ کَمَک ماؤِزْم سِیمِی دُنْیَا ءِ لِیکَہ
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 6, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Post–Civilization–Localism–Mutual Aid–Maoism–Third Worldism
taḥ°ḏíb ʾi pad ʾa damagí líḱah ýaḱē dūmí ʾi ḱamaḱ Mā⫯wiz°m Símí Dun°ýā ʾi līḱah: Balochi/Baluchi, تَہْذِیب ءِ پَد ءَ دَمَگِی لِیکَہ یَکَے دُومِی ءِ کَمَک ماؤِزْم سِیمِی دُنْیَا ءِ لِیکَہ
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taḥ°ḏíb ʾi pad ʾa damagí líḱah ýaḱē dūmí ʾi ḱamaḱ Mā⫯wiz°m Símí Dun°ýā ʾi līḱah: Balochi/Baluchi, تَہْذِیب ءِ پَد ءَ دَمَگِی لِیکَہ یَکَے دُومِی ءِ کَمَک ماؤِزْم سِیمِی دُنْیَا ءِ لِیکَہ
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An alternate Yiddish translation of Marshall Hodgson’s Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) compared with German
Yiddish, יִסְלאַמִישׁ אִין אַ קוּלְטוּרעַלְע קאָנְטעֶקְסְט, Yisəlʾạmiyš ʾiyn ʾạ qūləṭūrʿạləʿ qʿonəṭʿẹqəsəṭ
Islamisch im ein kulturellen Kontext
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Yiddish, יִסְלאַמִישׁ אִין אַ קוּלְטוּרעַלְע קאָנְטעֶקְסְט, Yisəlʾạmiyš ʾiyn ʾạ qūləṭūrʿạləʿ qʿonəṭʿẹqəsəṭ
Islamisch im ein kulturellen Kontext
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 5, 2026 at 9:11 PM
An alternate Yiddish translation of Marshall Hodgson’s Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) compared with German
Yiddish, יִסְלאַמִישׁ אִין אַ קוּלְטוּרעַלְע קאָנְטעֶקְסְט, Yisəlʾạmiyš ʾiyn ʾạ qūləṭūrʿạləʿ qʿonəṭʿẹqəsəṭ
Islamisch im ein kulturellen Kontext
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Yiddish, יִסְלאַמִישׁ אִין אַ קוּלְטוּרעַלְע קאָנְטעֶקְסְט, Yisəlʾạmiyš ʾiyn ʾạ qūləṭūrʿạləʿ qʿonəṭʿẹqəsəṭ
Islamisch im ein kulturellen Kontext
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Marshall Hodgson’s Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) in Yiddish
יִסְלאַמִיק אִין אַ קוּלְטוּרעַלְע קאָנְטעֶקְסְט, Yisəʾlạmiyq ʾiyn ʾạ qūləṭūrʿạləʿ qʿonəṭʿẹqəsəṭ
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יִסְלאַמִיק אִין אַ קוּלְטוּרעַלְע קאָנְטעֶקְסְט, Yisəʾlạmiyq ʾiyn ʾạ qūləṭūrʿạləʿ qʿonəṭʿẹqəsəṭ
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 5, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Marshall Hodgson’s Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) in Yiddish
יִסְלאַמִיק אִין אַ קוּלְטוּרעַלְע קאָנְטעֶקְסְט, Yisəʾlạmiyq ʾiyn ʾạ qūləṭūrʿạləʿ qʿonəṭʿẹqəsəṭ
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יִסְלאַמִיק אִין אַ קוּלְטוּרעַלְע קאָנְטעֶקְסְט, Yisəʾlạmiyq ʾiyn ʾạ qūləṭūrʿạləʿ qʿonəṭʿẹqəsəṭ
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Marshall Hodgson’s Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) in Hebrew
אִסְלָאמִי בְּהֶקְשֵׁר תַּרְבּוּתִי, ʾIsəlāmiy bə•hẹqəšēr tạrəbūṯiy
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אִסְלָאמִי בְּהֶקְשֵׁר תַּרְבּוּתִי, ʾIsəlāmiy bə•hẹqəšēr tạrəbūṯiy
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 5, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Marshall Hodgson’s Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) in Hebrew
אִסְלָאמִי בְּהֶקְשֵׁר תַּרְבּוּתִי, ʾIsəlāmiy bə•hẹqəšēr tạrəbūṯiy
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אִסְלָאמִי בְּהֶקְשֵׁר תַּרְבּוּתִי, ʾIsəlāmiy bə•hẹqəšēr tạrəbūṯiy
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Marshall Hodgson’s Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) in Pashto
اِاِسْلَامِي پَه کَلْتُورِي چُوکَات̱ کې ، ʾIs°lāmī pah ḱal°tūrī čūḱāt ḱe
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اِاِسْلَامِي پَه کَلْتُورِي چُوکَات̱ کې ، ʾIs°lāmī pah ḱal°tūrī čūḱāt ḱe
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 5, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Marshall Hodgson’s Islamicate (“Islamic in a cultural context”) in Pashto
اِاِسْلَامِي پَه کَلْتُورِي چُوکَات̱ کې ، ʾIs°lāmī pah ḱal°tūrī čūḱāt ḱe
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اِاِسْلَامِي پَه کَلْتُورِي چُوکَات̱ کې ، ʾIs°lāmī pah ḱal°tūrī čūḱāt ḱe
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Translations of Hodgson’s Islamicate—“Islamic in a cultural context”
• Persian, اِسْلَامِی دَر زَمِینَهِ فَرْهَنْگِی, ʾIs°lāmí dar zamínah•i far°han°gí
• Tajik, Исломӣ дар заминаи фарҳангӣ, Islomī dar zamina•i farhangī
• Sindhi, اِسْلَامِي ثَقَافْتِي تَنَاظَر ۾, ʾIs°lāmī tẖaqāf°tī tanāẓar meṃ➦⁺ⁱᵃˢᵗ
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• Persian, اِسْلَامِی دَر زَمِینَهِ فَرْهَنْگِی, ʾIs°lāmí dar zamínah•i far°han°gí
• Tajik, Исломӣ дар заминаи фарҳангӣ, Islomī dar zamina•i farhangī
• Sindhi, اِسْلَامِي ثَقَافْتِي تَنَاظَر ۾, ʾIs°lāmī tẖaqāf°tī tanāẓar meṃ➦⁺ⁱᵃˢᵗ
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 5, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Translations of Hodgson’s Islamicate—“Islamic in a cultural context”
• Persian, اِسْلَامِی دَر زَمِینَهِ فَرْهَنْگِی, ʾIs°lāmí dar zamínah•i far°han°gí
• Tajik, Исломӣ дар заминаи фарҳангӣ, Islomī dar zamina•i farhangī
• Sindhi, اِسْلَامِي ثَقَافْتِي تَنَاظَر ۾, ʾIs°lāmī tẖaqāf°tī tanāẓar meṃ➦⁺ⁱᵃˢᵗ
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• Persian, اِسْلَامِی دَر زَمِینَهِ فَرْهَنْگِی, ʾIs°lāmí dar zamínah•i far°han°gí
• Tajik, Исломӣ дар заминаи фарҳангӣ, Islomī dar zamina•i farhangī
• Sindhi, اِسْلَامِي ثَقَافْتِي تَنَاظَر ۾, ʾIs°lāmī tẖaqāf°tī tanāẓar meṃ➦⁺ⁱᵃˢᵗ
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Islamicate: My translation of Marshall Hodgson’s term
Arabic, إِسْلَامِيّ فِي الثَّقَافَة, ⫰Ɪs°lāmiyy fī ʾal•ṯṯaqāfaẗ, “Islamic in culture”
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Arabic, إِسْلَامِيّ فِي الثَّقَافَة, ⫰Ɪs°lāmiyy fī ʾal•ṯṯaqāfaẗ, “Islamic in culture”
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 5, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Islamicate: My translation of Marshall Hodgson’s term
Arabic, إِسْلَامِيّ فِي الثَّقَافَة, ⫰Ɪs°lāmiyy fī ʾal•ṯṯaqāfaẗ, “Islamic in culture”
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Arabic, إِسْلَامِيّ فِي الثَّقَافَة, ⫰Ɪs°lāmiyy fī ʾal•ṯṯaqāfaẗ, “Islamic in culture”
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My pronunciation of Transcendental Meditation in Esperanto
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February 3, 2026 at 3:29 AM
My pronunciation of Transcendental Meditation in Esperanto
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Transcendental Meditation in Sindhi
One of my favorite languages:
Sindhi, جَي مَاوَرَائِي مُرَاقِبو, ǧay Māwarā⫯yī Murāqibō
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One of my favorite languages:
Sindhi, جَي مَاوَرَائِي مُرَاقِبو, ǧay Māwarā⫯yī Murāqibō
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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February 2, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Transcendental Meditation in Sindhi
One of my favorite languages:
Sindhi, جَي مَاوَرَائِي مُرَاقِبو, ǧay Māwarā⫯yī Murāqibō
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One of my favorite languages:
Sindhi, جَي مَاوَرَائِي مُرَاقِبو, ǧay Māwarā⫯yī Murāqibō
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Reposted by Mark A. Foster, Ph.D.
The United States is committing a genocide.
“.. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) informed Senate Judiciary staff of the outbreak over the weekend. At least two cases have been confirmed at the facility as of press time, the attorney said.”
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February 2, 2026 at 3:55 AM
The United States is committing a genocide.
Antifa, as a social movement in the West, died a few years ago. However, you can visit my Antifa.red website, one of the few remaining Anglophone Antifa sites.
To entertain myself, I use an elaborated version of my Jewish name in the header. But I clarify my real name at the bottom of the page.
To entertain myself, I use an elaborated version of my Jewish name in the header. But I clarify my real name at the bottom of the page.
The Antifa Dialectical metaRealist™ Collective ::: Mōšẹh ʾẠhărōn hạ•Lēwiy bẹn Hẹʿrəšẹʿl, founder ::: www.Antifa.red
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February 1, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Antifa, as a social movement in the West, died a few years ago. However, you can visit my Antifa.red website, one of the few remaining Anglophone Antifa sites.
To entertain myself, I use an elaborated version of my Jewish name in the header. But I clarify my real name at the bottom of the page.
To entertain myself, I use an elaborated version of my Jewish name in the header. But I clarify my real name at the bottom of the page.
Communist Bundism in two Kurdish scripts
• Būn°díz°mí Ḱumunís°t (Soranî Kurdish, بُونْدِیزْمِی کۆمۆنِیسْت)
• Bundîzmî Komunîst (Kurmanjî Kurdish)
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• Būn°díz°mí Ḱumunís°t (Soranî Kurdish, بُونْدِیزْمِی کۆمۆنِیسْت)
• Bundîzmî Komunîst (Kurmanjî Kurdish)
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Eudaimonic Eutopia: The Tendency of Dialectical metaRealismᵀᴹ
A Project in Bhaskarian Critical Realism
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January 28, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Communist Bundism in two Kurdish scripts
• Būn°díz°mí Ḱumunís°t (Soranî Kurdish, بُونْدِیزْمِی کۆمۆنِیسْت)
• Bundîzmî Komunîst (Kurmanjî Kurdish)
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• Būn°díz°mí Ḱumunís°t (Soranî Kurdish, بُونْدِیزْمِی کۆمۆنِیسْت)
• Bundîzmî Komunîst (Kurmanjî Kurdish)
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