Pop wrote on October 8, 2018 at 9:13 AM

Reply to comment by Communism_not_Barbarism in The self defeating nihilist attitude on this site needs to stop by Communism_not_Barbarism

In the Pylos clay tablet collection we do find the word simply applied, apparently, to people from out of town

this was a time of city-states, and so out-of-towners were literally from other nations - so most of what you're saying re greek language etc corresponds well to the 'ethnonationalism' point made

and you're ignoring the uses of these terms to justify the 'civilising' processes of colonisation engaged over the last several hundred years and how they continue to be employed by racists the world over

Communism_not_Barbarism OP wrote on October 8, 2018 at 9:17 AM

The post-colonial process depends on the people seizing the means of production from the imperialist powers that enslaved them. There's nothing racist about communism, which has liberated billions of people from the jaws of colonization. Would you rather have a China where foreign imperialists are in control, or the Chinese people?

Pop wrote on October 8, 2018 at 9:24 AM

you're not addressing the points being made so you come off like you are arguing in bad faith

instead you're parroting communist truisms that are mediating your engagement with this context and prevent you from having to actually think

Would you rather have a China where foreign imperialists are in control, or the Chinese people?

to do some actually responding to what you're saying, I would rather have no china, because communism is a stateless, moneyless society where people govern themselves and have direct control over the means that intimately affect them

Communism_not_Barbarism OP wrote on October 8, 2018 at 11:21 AM

<<communism is a stateless, moneyless society>>

It doesn't get like that just by magically snapping your fingers, smh anarkids.

martasultan wrote on October 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM

When the hell does it get like that? I'm still waiting.

ziq wrote on October 8, 2018 at 9:24 AM

the fuck are you smoking, thinking china is an example of communism? And you're a euro-USAer so how is prattling on about china gonna demonstrate your weird 'barbarism' shtick isn't racist? get a clue already.

martasultan wrote on October 8, 2018 at 12:15 PM

Would you rather have an East Turkestan where foreign imperialists are in control, or the Uyghur people?

broseph wrote on February 10, 2021 at 10:07 AM

Exactly. This is what these anarkiddies don't get, China is literally surrounded by enemies and the only way it can stay independent is by making sure its land isn't colonized by imperialists. Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong all need to be protected against colonization from America even if the people living there have drunk America's kool aid. China is one land and letting it get sectioned up by the imperials like they did to the middle east will destroy the revolution.