apparently circulating the PRC interwebs
twitter.com/DevanaUkraine/status/1706748191301845392#m or https://nitter.net/DevanaUkraine/status/1706748191301845392#m
i'm pretty sure this is a real person
edit: not that i'm saying that all people of the UA are nazis.
tbh this meme refers to the recent hunka debacle with how suddenly there was a massive influx of liberals in my country trying to blur the line, stating that the 14 waffen SS were simply fighting the USSR and how hitler was a "lesser evil".
i don't get why you feel this would be immediately modern Russian propaganda, this is literally a ww2 unit lmao.
not mine i just found it amusing that eventually we'll probably see some unironic post stating that "Hitler just wanted to solve the housing crisis, it was a difficult time, it was complicated, he was in a rock and a hard place, tough decisions were made"
excerpt context: after the UA government had decided to add to the list the 110th birthday of nazi collaborator bandera to the list of days worthy of commemoration.
“Glorifying the person whose men committed countless heinous crimes is an insult to the victims and an unthinkable distortion of the history of the world’s most horrific genocide," said Dr. Zuroff.
“Unfortunately in recent years, Ukraine has been one of the major propagators of a distorted version of Holocaust history which seeks to hide or minimize crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists,” he added.
Weitzman added, "It is clear that Ukraine is choosing to rehabilitate antisemitism and to censor history.” He noted that, along with the Bandera national holiday, the Ukrainian region of Lviv announced that 2019 would be “Stepan Bandera Year” and that a book exploring the antisemitic actions of politician Simon Petlura, who led 1919 pogroms against Jews, was banned.
“By joining with other countries that are rewriting history Ukraine is showing how little it has learned from the tragedies of the past. These actions are a disgraceful affirmation of Ukraine’s darkest past and an absolute rejection of democratic values,” Weitzman concluded.
mind you there are streets named him. You aren't even slightly suspicious that maybe the narrative we're being told on MSM is fabricated?
edit: i should make explicit. this meme is prodding at liberals humanizing the soldier of the 14th Waffen SS (1st Galicia) recently honoured in the canadian house of commons. this meme is showing off a ww2 ukrainian nazi unit in a fashion similarly done with the "brave soldiers of afghanistan" who would later become the taliban.
the joke is, we would eventually glorify and humanize them as well with enough time
We all knew in truth that as never an option, as the age old saying goes "do not trust the liberals, they will betray you".
We (leftists, socialist, communists) are out organized.
Pierre just wants the reigns he doesn't actually give a shit, nobody has said anything about the ss monuments or Jack, they're all equally spineless, the way I see it is PP tjust wants the position and is smearing him trying to pin it to JT.
Really, you can’t think of any examples of fascism growing in Canada? The giant trucker anti-vax movement?
I refuse to dismiss the entirety of the trucker protests off as an "anti-vax movement" as i have shamefully in the past, while i agree their leaders were fucked, pat king w/ his superior race comments, and the MOU stating they only recognize the federal government as as the governor general and senate. not to mention that an stupid amount of money in the gofundme leaks came from foreign shores.
They were the only option (from a lack of proper leftist organization) available for Canadians who have been suffering from rising costs of food, gas, rent, utilities, who are angry, confused and, probably misinformed especially as the government was doing a rather insufficient pandemic (an ongoing one mind you) response for the people as small shops closed down, and seemingly more focused on the corporations. it was a good mix of reactionaries and legitimate people with legitimate concerns, we should learn from our mistakes and do a better job of explaining to the people on a more intimate person to person level and at doing government policies.
if you are willing to entertain a socialist view on this (they are god damn trots though), but yeah you're right in being aware it was a fair split of reactionaries, crypto-fascists, and people with genuine concerns (kind of like right now)
Poilievre’s fringe party and conservative attacks on trans rights, women’s rights, and people’s access to healthcare?
you are absolutely right that the assaults on trans rights, women rights and, the privatization of public health care is concerning, this again i imagine has most likely been a mix of reactionaries and crypto-fascists who again have sus backgrounds leading people who most likely have valid concerns that were never addressed and mislead immensely (but when you live next to the massive American media machine and their capital is magnitudes more than that of any leftist creator, it's an uphill battle all the way).
You might just want to look a little harder, because this just looks weak
i hope we both understand that poilievre is an "economic liberal/ neo liberal" and that most parties in canada a "liberal democracy" can be said to be "liberal".
i should make no illusion to the idea that poilievre is using the hunka debacle to garner more votes, my disdain extends to him as well, mind you he has been careful with his words and not use the word "nazi" because he too wants the Ukrainian diaspora votes, and the fact is, a non negligible amount of ukrainians consider the 14 waffen ss and their ilk to be heros abroad (not an annual national holiday, nation wide commemoration of the 110th birthday of the collaborator, which is jan 1) and at home
edit: when i said clear cut i hope to express that i doubt most people will know of hitlers policies towards transpeople, but the gradual progression of:
letting nazis in country < nazis accidentally honoured by country's gov < nazis honoured by msm country's news paper
is a progression most unread people will understand, a progression most people will find concerning because... i do nazi them nazi-ng it lol
i really didn't want to have clear cut examples of fascism grow in my country to this meme, but i guess here we are.
embarrassing? tbh i'm suprised nobody is worried about an actual fifth column
letters can be found here: https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/9371/soviet-time-capsules-comrades-1967-2017-russian-revolution-centenery
alt text: woman says "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me!" a person off screen says "letters from soviet time capsules." the woman in the panel retches over, darkness and despair engulfs the backdrop as she comes to be reminded of the letters from past times imagining utopian socialist republics from the now dissolved Union of Socialist Council Republics [USSR].
credit to sarah andersen
"debt is a form of social control."
alt text: bunny says "question: what motivates people? is it a sense of purpose? a desire to improve yourself? a desire to improve the word? a woman smiles plainly, the next panel shows her to continue to smile under duress as she answers "fear. it's definitely fear." A knife is held at her throat by an individual who captioned as hunger, debt, evicition.
credit to sarah andersen for comic.
image description: soldier seen protecting sleeping child from falling knives and missiles.
alt text: missiles and knifes are described as "nazis" soldier is described as "Soviet actions through the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact" 1,750,000 polish jews described as sleeping child
source: https://www.jta.org/1943/07/02/archive/russia-helped-1750000-jews-to-escape-nazis-says-james-n-rosenberg
and if you lose, you just didn't pay off the right people
every day we stray further from god's light, and closer to America.
alt text: clam and fish in ocean. fish: I'M UGLY.
clam: IT'S WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE THAT COUNTS LIKE PRECIOUS GEMS.
fish: IS PLASTIC A PRECIOUS GEM? I'M FULL OF THAT
fish:dude from: https://mrlovenstein.com/comic/1133
alt text: girlfriend sitting on couch asks boyfriend: honey, can you go see if the baby is sleeping?
*boyfriend opens door to the baby's bedroom.
baby is standing in cradle, donning a diaper and bowtie, holding the railing of the cradle in one hand and a clench fist in the air with the other. the baby says "there will be a revolution in america within my lifetime.
the boyfriend looks back from the baby's bedroom to the girlfriend and says "naw babe she's woke af."
https://youtu.be/unKNNiYQFp4
everybody has bias, even historians. its in the words they use, how often they mention something (or how little), the pictures/video (lighting, filters, etc).
marxism is a form of critical thinking.
from: https://mooretoons.com/comic/fetch-2017/hypothermia/
from: https://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=1
alt text two soldiers in gas masks (full face respirators) rest in a bombed out city, with poisonous air from a nuclear war surrounding them they wear gas masks.
soldier 1: do you know the meaning of this war?
soldier 2: hmm?
soldier 1: i mean... what's the point it can't be for the land because everything is burned, bombed or polluted. it can't be for the money because there is anything left to spend it on. so what is it? religion? why do we fight?
soldier 2: to win the war.
soldier 1: meh... works for me.
edit - originally made a year ago during the beginning of the invasion for r/noncredibledefence i can see how this can be misinterpreted, as a result of pedantics, i have added an russian defence corp to clarify the meme
edit 2 - reuploaded the image since it's was deleted by recent instance woes, didn't save edit 1 so this is the original - i'm not remaking edit 1
Alt text
2 girls are fighting, flags are placed on them ukraine and russia respectively, while a group of bystanders in a backdrop watch and record
a bystander is explicitly amused, and enjoying himself; dabbing a pipe, defense corporation logos are posted him, Raytheon technologies and Lockheed martin
>Racism cannot be separated from capitalist & colonialist systems. The ruling class has wielded racism at every turn to enable hyper-exploitation & economic expansion while pitting the people against each other. There will be no end to racism until there is an end to capitalism. Racism was both the cause and the ideological justification for the enslaving and colonizing of free peoples. The enslaved and the colonized created the wealth hoarded by capitalists and Western powers. Racism justified the genocide of indigenous Americans for the sake of territorial and economic expansion. The wealth and will of the capitalist class are inseparable from these actions. In addition to justifying the oppression, exploitation, and mass-murder of racialized people, racism and state-sanctioned racist violence have been used consistently to prevent the masses from unifying. When black slaves and white indentured servants came together in 1675 for Bacon's Rebellion, the ruling class recognized this threat and used the law to further separate the two groups. When the Black Panthers called for proletarian unity against capitalism, the FBI killed Fred Hampton and destroyed the Panthers. Today, when workers in the first world are screwed over by neoliberal austerity and trade deals orchestrated exclusively for the benefit of the international corporations, they are told to hate workers in and from the global south. Racism and Capitalism have co-evolved to the point of inseparability. When the thirteenth amendment liberated slaves, the prison-industrial complex rose to the occasion. When free blacks wanted to partake in the "American dream" of home & business ownership, racist redlining held them back. None of this absolves individual acts of racism, but it explains that racism is not in any way an individual problem. We need anti-racism, and we need marginalized people in positions of power, but these alone will never fix a system that is rotten to its core. A system in which a tiny class owns the wealth, the state, and the means of production will NEVER create justice for the people of the world.
Expanding on this, I had recently read an article on wang yi's recent comments, seeing the reddit forums, these forums and it's interesting that most have not done much in way of more deeper analysis, while my theory is rather lacking, and obvious i am biased -
While I have no doubt that those that oppose that west can also have their own incarnations of prejudice/ social sectarianism on the basis of ethnic linage (cypto-racism or racism depending on your interpretation on racism). I try to think of what the modus operandi of these states are and how that would begin to influence their people, or if these nations even have the potential to begin to address these issues.
The west, being an inherent capitalist state at the foundation, i think (of course my bias as baby ml) will never have the potential to fully solve the ethnic social sectarianism, as the populace is not formed with ideas of solidarity of the people, but seems to be inherently opposed to such ideas - since such solidarity of the people would pose a direct threat to the capitalist class. (Brothers and sisters in hunger are calling, Shall we be silent to their sorrow and woe?)
because of this, the capitalist will cant or pay lip service to such ideas of solidarity of the people, but never meaningfully do anything substantial to develop this in the material world/ideology.
I think that the best that the west can do with the ethnic social sectarianism would be apathy/indifference with a strong spearhead of escapism (so much elephants and circuses that people just don’t bother to care) but i can’t imagine the bourgeoise would be willing to part with the capital to make such a form of escapism without a direct threat to them + would our humanity be willing accept that level of escapism without completely destroying itself?
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/326 Caption: "Yes, under communism, you won't have to degrade yourself to the rich to beg for a job. You will, however, have to still get along with the other workers, so it will be no paradise."