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Anti-Capitalist Meetup 12/25/2016 counter-revolutionary Twitter socialism

 

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Wall of zombies in World War Z (2013) ... The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic. ... Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times remarked, "World War Z plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed." ... A video game tie-in survival horror game, World War Z, was developed by Phosphor Games Studio and released for the iOS mobile platforms in May 2013. The game is a spin-off of the film, being set in Denver, Kyoto, and Paris, and featuring an entirely different set of characters. ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film)

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Trump, Brexit and the Crisis of Liberalism

We need to understand what the liberals already know but are unwilling to admit publicly; liberalism is in a deep crisis. The liberal wing of the ruling class has caught itself on the horns of a dilemma.

On the one hand, the Liberals serve the interests of capitalism, in that sense the shift from Keynesian Liberalism to Neoliberalism comes about due to the economic crisis following the demise of Keynesianism due to stagflation in the 1970s.

AntiCapitalist Meetup -Bannon/Trump's crony capitalism: a kleptocracy of Ur-Fascists


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This week we review some directions for the disinformation campaigns of the now post-truth Trump regime that will repress populations by means of contradictory rationalizations or outright lies.

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Hasta La Victoria, Adios Fidel!

NY brit expat wrote this

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When I woke yesterday morning, I was told that Fidel Castro had died. For an American born in 1960 in a US fixated upon the Cold War and the “Communist threat,” Fidel Castro and Cuba were a fixture in my life. That little island had thrown off the chains of the imperialist neighbour to the north to choose their own way. The fact that the empire to the north could never forgive that choice and strove constantly to force both the population and its leader into submission seems rather amazing when you think of it. What threat could this tiny island be to its neighbour; so much overreaction to people choosing their own way of life. Fidel himself survived 600+ assassination attempts and still managed to outlive 11 American presidents hectoring him on democracy as they overthrew elected Latin American governments and whose democracy has always been rife with voter suppression; if you think the struggle against Jim Crow ended voter suppression you have not been looking close enough.

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Why "r > g" means we should smash inequality


It’s a comforting thought—that your elevated class rank is the result of your inherent qualities as an individual, and that society is structured to rightly privilege those qualities. It’s comforting not just because it’s nice to be recognized for what you perceive as your best qualities, but also because it’s predictive; it suggests future stability and success.
 

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: On the Corbyn Phenomenon

A couple of days ago, I was discussing with some friends how would we describe the situation in the Labour Party; was it a movement, a revolution, how could we describe it? I am not comfortable with the term “revolution” as I think it plays into false usage of the term; it is a much misused term being used to describe almost any change that occurs.

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: so many Conspiracy-Theory Machine (CTM) factories for disinformation

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this image was created before Comcast acquired NBC/Universal

 

Disinformation operates everywhere with the continuing tendency to alienate the electorate as well as its historical consciousness of race and class. It seeps into discourse in a variety of venues and are a function of how social networks are integral to contemporary political discourse. It represents the inequality of power and wealth to proliferate mistruths and misdeeds in the public sphere. It represents the ability of capitalism to shape a message that allows the self-dealing and self-serving to maintain normalized, legitimated dominance over the dispossessed.

One’s impulse is to question the hegemonic power of those who own the networks that enable disinformation, but for many that is a step too far. “Rather, the question instead becomes that of how links between nodes are formed, what those links are, where the hubs are, and how it might become possible to form new networks.” That may be the best first step, to see how disinformation disrupts the mass media landscape and its communication networks and corrupts democratic processes.

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disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.
"the recycling bins in the cafeteria are just feeble examples of their corporate greenwash"

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