Marx in Moments 02 - Alienation.
3 minute read on Marx's concept of Alienation
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Marx in Moments 02 - Alienation.
3 minute read on Marx's concept of Alienation
open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
Today, all but 22 Canadian MPs declared they stand on the side of genocidal terrorism and bending the knee to the United States.
Elbows down!
Highly recommend this for anyone who has ever caught themselves repeating "facts" about Stalin without thinking critically about why they think what they do.
The PDF is available for free on the Iskra website.
And yet we just keep voting, writing polite emails to our MPs/MPPs that go unanswered, arguing online about which politicians have the best 'ideas', like it matters, and only protesting where and how they allow.
That'll show em!
The relational nature of humanity was and is experienced as an annoyance. This has intensified in atomised modernity.
This is unsustainable; we must lean into this relational fact - politically, socially, and ecologically - rather than run from it.
Scientists find significant increase in rate of global warming climateandcapitalism.com/2026/03/10/s...
Once again tapping the mastodon/fediverse sign
Trying! Struggling a bit to figure it all out.
"On the first day of the campaign, the U.S. hit an elementary school with a Tomahawk missile, killing at least 186 people, the vast majority of whom were children aged between seven and 12."
www.readthemaple.com/lockheed-mar...
Rachel Gilmore was intimidated by Nazis wearing open totempkofs at a private event for her reporting on their secret fight club. Jesse Brown ignored that and instead compared pro-Palestine activists to the KKK. Sounds like he's really concerned about antisemitism! Article by @nolore.bsky.social
Get ready for Warflation
Read more: graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-war-w...
article excerpt: "Using blockchain analysis software from Amsterdam-based firm Crystal Intelligence, the Star tracked crypto that moved, via two transactions in February 2025, into the Million Exchange-associated wallet from an account with alleged links to terrorist financing. Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing seized that account in September, saying the wallet was connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Before the seizure, the wallet had received the equivalent of nearly $8 million in October and November 2024 from another wallet address that the U.S. alleged was owned by Sa’id Ahmad Muhammad Al-Jamal, financier of the Houthis, an Iran-backed armed group operating in Yemen. In December 2024, the U.S. government sanctioned the wallet allegedly tied to Al-Jamal."
the three primary sources for the intelligence in the crypto investigation are two countries currently engaged in an all out assault on iran, plus a blockchain analytics firm that SELLS COMPLIANCE TOOLS to governments and exchanges.
But you cannot draw the masses into politics without drawing in the women as well. For under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed.
This is fucking fantastic work @ianagp.bsky.social @leslieavantipei.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/avantgar...
Great work from @nolore.bsky.social here:
Critics Slam Carney’s Plan to Jump-Start Canada’s Economy via Military Industry truthout.org/articles/cri...
New from me: on snow removal and the production of space.
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“Henri Lefebvre, who built on Marx’s work, put it this way: space under capitalism is not a neutral backdrop: it is produced, shaped by the needs of capital. He called this abstract space: the space of planners and engineers …” open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx
Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital v2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds)
Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital
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NEW: Media shrugs as Canada’s allies slaughter Iranian children, writes @davide.readthemaple.com.
www.readthemaple.com/media-shrugs...
hey i wrote a history of electronic music in canada from 1945-1985. it's called A Nation of Tinkerers and it's now available to pre-order through @invisibooks.bsky.social!
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It is horrific that Palestinian students from Gaza, admitted to Canadian universities, are not being granted student visas to Canada.
Amidst an ongoing genocide and occupation, denying Palestinian students is continuation of same violence and anti-Palestinian racism.
truthout.org/articles/can...
I have a guest piece up on @graceblakeley.substack.com
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
I've started a very introductory series on Marx. Quick, 3-minute reads on one specific concept.
01 - The Materialist Conception of History
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I've started a very introductory series on Marx. Quick, 3-minute reads on one specific concept.
01 - The Materialist Conception of History
open.substack.com/pub/beerandf...
Of course the IDU's best banker is a war criminal.
There's no world in which this piece of shit doesn't crawl up Trump and Netanyahu's arsehole.
Fuck Mark Carney.
Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East "The Canadian government is closely following Iran- related hostilities throughout the Middle East and urges all Canadians in Iran to shelter in place. Canadians in the wider region should follow local advice and take all necessary precautions. Canada's position remains clear: the lslamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records, and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons. Canada and our international partners have consistently called upon the Iranian regime to end its nuclear program, including at the 2025 G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis and with the United Nations' reimposition of sanctions in September. Despite diplomatic efforts, Iran has neither fully dismantled its nuclear program, halted all enrichment activities, nor ended its support for regional terrorist proxy groups. Canada stands with the Iranian people in their long and courageous struggle against Iran's oppressive regime. Canada has listed the lslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, and has sanctioned 256 Iranian entities and 222 individuals in response to the regime's repression and its violence both against its own people, and persistently, beyond its borders. Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and ensure the security of its people. Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. The Canadian government urges the protection of all civilians in this conflict. We will take all possible measures to protect our nationals and Canadian diplomatic missions throuahout the reaion.
Mark Carney is an imperialist.
I don’t even know what to say atp. Down with Israel and the United States. Down with imperialist capitalism.
“Gunboat diplomacy is a violent robbery at gunpoint. The first two months of 2026 have seen the Navy kill and kidnap Venezuelans, impose a cruel blockade on Cuba and surround Iran with weapons of war.”
Full post: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-does-gunboat-diplomacy-work
#PhilSky #thursday
The Crown Corporation Quietly Promoting Military Exports To The U.S.
www.readthemaple.com/the-crown-co...
People saying OpenAI reporting a user it banned for posts about gun violence would be mass surveillance are fucking idiots.
The tech industry *is* mass surveillance. There is no genAI or ChatGPT without mass data collection on everyone.
Don’t like mass surveillance? Stop using fucking chatbots.
