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Mix Mistress Alice💄

"In early 1964, Jean Ziegler, a young Swiss politician, received a phone call from a man claiming to represent Ernesto Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary and minister of industry. Che would be in Geneva in March for a UN conference on trade policy, and some comrades had suggested Jean might be his chauffeur during his stay. Was Ziegler available for the gig?

Today, in his tenth decade of life, Ziegler is Switzerland's most notorious public intellectual. That's because over the course of writing about 30 books, serving for close to three decades in the Swiss parliament, and relentlessly crusading for left-wing causes in his free time, Ziegler has made a career of unsparing criticism of his home country, and its outsize influence on the rest of the world.”—Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

‘Here lives the Monster’s Brain’: the Man who Exposed Switzerland’s Dirty Secrets >

theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/

The Guardian · ‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secretsBy Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️‍🌈

I don’t support Kim Jong Un, Putin, Trump, or any modern authoritarian leaders, whether they call themselves fascist, communist, or anything else.

History keeps showing us how authoritarianism destroys lives. Vanguardism is a scam. Russian anarchists were betrayed during the revolution. The Bolsheviks promised freedom but created a one-party dictatorship instead. They took control of the media, the economy, even people’s basic needs, and crushed dissent.

Anarchism proves we don’t need rulers. We can organize ourselves through grassroots, democratic unions where power flows from the bottom up. No bosses. No politicians. Just people working together as equals.

Solidarity forever.
#DownWithDictators #Anarchism #NoMasters #Syndicalism #Authoritarianism #Communism #Marxism #Leninism #MarxismLeninism

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Yogthos

Capitalist media praises anarchist lone rebels while branding Marxism as authoritarian. Yet, splintered Anarchist factions end up being easily scattered by the centralized capitalist state power.

Meanwhile, Marxists unite under vanguard parties to build a unified vision to effectively challenge the system. Capital fears unity, and thus blesses anarchist disarray while crushing Marxism.

marxists.org/archive/marx/work

Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the state? All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society. But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?
#socialism#marxism
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☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

There is no hope for America. There is no saving America, only destroying it. We in America aren't suffering. We don't know what suffering is. The worst, most painful suffering you'd see in America is superceded by the average daily suffering of the working classes of colonized and semi-colonial countries. The labor aristocracies of imperial core countries have nothing to be liberated from other than their own existences.
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #colonialism #imperialism

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