Who are the enemies?
#meme #politics #nationalism #capitalism #racism #fail #future #society #problem #question #change #system #resistance
♲ Anarchist Art Ⓐ - 2024-12-11 05:46:04 GMT
#nationalism
Discussion of politically sensitive matters in wordpress and in diaspora
https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/390
The end of linux-kernel as free software we trust – war on FOSS revisited
https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/389
#linux #FOSS #kernel #nationalism #communism #anarchism #libertarian #socialism #free_software #diaspora #wordpress #social_media
Freedom by North-West - by Branko Milanovic
#geopolitics #nationalism #imperialism #war
East European nationalisms always define themselves as “emancipatory” and “liberal” when dealing with stronger powers, while, once themselves in power, in regard to those who are weaker or less numerous, they behave imperially, reproducing the very same traits of which they are critical in others.
Trump tells supporters they won’t have to vote in the future: ‘It’ll be fixed!’
Former president implores Christian supporters to vote ‘just this time’, then ‘in four years, you don’t have to vote again’
#christofascism - wikipedia
#trump #christian-nationalism #nationalism #christianity #politics #2024election #vote #guardian #project2025 #authoritarianism
If nations vanished, would we miss them? #nationalism #history
Ben Jonson, the 16th century English playwright, imagined Julius Caesar telling the Roman politician and conspirator Catiline: “Come, there was never any great thing yet aspired but by violence or fraud: and he that sticks for folly of a conscience to reach it … a superstitious slave and will die beast.”
I find truth in lots of different places.
Google - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blph_2RSBno
Invidious - https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=Blph_2RSBno
#JamesTalarico Delivers Sermon Against #Christian #Nationalism (less than 19 minutes)
For a thoroughly anti-nationalist critique of Zionism
critiquing Israeli nationalism and colonialism is no more inherently antisemitic than critiquing the Chinese Communist Party is inherently anti-Chinese. Believing that to be the case is in itself racist because that belief is rooted in the idea that people and states are the same thing
A “people” is quite simply a group of individuals that have associated together and have over time formed cultural similarities. It is an organic network of affinity groups with a culture that developed freely and naturally, and that will change and evolve over time. A people have no innate “essence” that exists out in the ether, and there is no force involved to maintain a people. A nation state on the other hand is a group of elites that has forced many people under one despotic military regime with the goal of creating and maintaining an artificial and unified identity
Russia’s descent into #totalitarianism: How it happened
It is difficult to pin down the exact moment that Russia began morphing into a totalitarian state, but the transformation didn’t take long.
For over a decade, the #Kremlin was taking away civil liberties and feeding the population a revamped and increasingly more aggressive version of #nationalism. For nearly a decade, most Russians didn't seem to care.
In 2012, the Kremlin ruthlessly ended the wave of #demonstrations known as the #Bolotnaya protests. Named for the square in Moscow where demonstrators gathered, the rallies began in December 2011, when thousands of Russians flooded the streets to protest against election fraud.
https://kyivindependent.com/russias-decade-long-fall-into-totalitarianism-explained/
(2) Lénine, Staline, Poutine et l'Histoire - Lenin, Stalin, Putin and history
I have been seeing more and more articles and thoughts like this about needing to increase #birthrates. This is from RT.com but its certainly not unique to #Russian nationalism. Are all of these "fears" related to a general increase in #nationalism world-wide? I don't recall the last time I saw anyone upset about #OverPopulation but the global population is still increasing at rates that are higher than I was taught in #publicSchool where #sustainable.@realcaseyrollins ✝️
Men must work, women must give birth - Russian mayor
ISW: Russia exploiting far-right #nationalism in Europe against Ukraine
Russia is taking advantage of European far-right nationalist movements' increasingly vocal claims to Ukrainian #territory, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported in its daily assessment on Jan. 29.
Far-right movements in #Hungary and #Romania raised concern this past week after party leaders in their respective countries claimed parts of Ukrainian territory.
https://kyivindependent.com/isw-russia-exploiting-far-right-nationalism-in-europe-against-ukraine/
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #FarRight #disinformation #InformationWarfare #StandWithUkraine
A Clash of Two Systems
The war in Ukraine is a confrontation between two systems, one modern, legalistic, decentralized and multicephalous; the other archaic, nationalistic, centralized and monocephalous
Offensive vs. Defensive Nationalism
This conflict shows a harmful confusion, among the Russians and their supporters, between the state as a nation in the ethnic sense and the state as an administrative entity.
A state that wants to base its legitimacy on cultural unity must be small; it is otherwise doomed to meet the hostility of others. A Francophone Swiss citizen, although culturally linked to his or her language, does not aspire to belong to France, and France does not try to invade French-speaking Switzerland under this pretext. Further, national identities can change quickly: Francophone Belgians have a different identity from French people. France itself went through an operation of internal colonialism to destroy Provençal, Languedoc, Picard, Savoyard, Breton, and other cultures and eradicate their languages under a centralized identity. Nationality is never defined and never fixed; administration is.
Cultural unity can make sense, but only in the form of something reduced such as a city-state –I would even go so far as to say that a state only works well in this way. In this case, nationalism is defensive — Catalan, Basque or Christian Lebanese — but in the case of a large state like Russia, nationalism becomes offensive. Notice that under the Pax Romana or the Pax Ottomana, there were no large states, but city-states gathered in an empire whose role was distant. But there is loose empire and rigid nation-state like empire, the latter being represented by Russia .
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#Russia #Ukraine #NassimNicholasTaleb #culture #state #theWest #nationalism
Cowardice or Bravery is never racial. You find both in every Country. No country has a monopoly on Bravery; great deeds of heroism is liable to break out in the most unexpected places.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
“More Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat,” Saturday Evening Post (1932-03-12)
#quote #quotes #quotation #bravery #courage #cowardice #heroism #humannature #nation #nationalism #race
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/rogers-will/65271/
Mass deportation of Afghans from Iran is reaching new levels.
In the past 10 days over 23000 Afghans were deported and handed over to Taliban border control.
Ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Iranian government has pushed to help or forcefully deport afghan citizens living in Iran.
Many of them have lived all their lives in iran, even second generation afghan refugees who are now being forced to leave the country, have never been to Afghanistan and were living in a limbo for up to 3 decades.
Iran doesn't allow Afghans to become Iranian citizens, no matter how long they lived in the country or they were born there.
Racism towards afghans is widespread and in most cases iranian women who marry an afghan citizen, risking to have children who will never have a birth certificate and become stateless.
Very small group of people in Iran support the rights of Afghans in the country and calls for granting citizenship to all children born in the country have gained no support and instead they are being harassed, bullied and ridiculed by both regime supporters and the opposition groups, specially the nationalists and monarchists.
The sad part is that many of the most vocal opponent of this are people with dual nationality.
#Afghanistsn #Taliban #Iran #Racism #Politics #Nationalism #Hypocrisy #Inhumanity
In the midst of speculation #India is about to shift its name to Bharat in diplomatic usage, the leader of the RSS- the Hindu nationalist paramilitary wing of Modi's BJP- keeps talking about "Akhand #Bharat" or Greater India, a concept that includes the entire subcontinent and more
Absolutely not the first time that he's alluded to this- there was an article written on Indian expansionism last year which quotes him- but it does emphasize what kind of entity the BJP is and Hindu nationalism's radical drift
The RSS chief says it will happen naturally and before young people in the country get old
#Nationalism #Hindutva #Asia
How #paranoid #nationalism corrupts
source: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/31/how-paranoid-nationalism-corrupts
Our statistical analysis suggests that governments have grown more nationalistic since 2012, and that the more nationalistic they are, the more #corrupt they tend to be.
#government #corruption #problem #politics #criticism #statistics #news #crime
