NEXT WEEK'S PATREON china pt. 7: a socialist response to the COVID pandemic w/ creighton ward, alessandro zancan, and Kevin Li
Robert R. Raymond
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co-founding producer: @upstreampodcast.bsky.social currently reading "Migration as Economic Imperialism" by Emmanuel Ness
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because zionism is the ideological belief that jewish people deserve a state that is allowed to prioritize the rights and material needs of the jewish population over any other population. this is inherently the ideology and political policy of an ethnostate that believes in ethno-supremacy
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if you support zionism ideologically, then you also must support apartheid south africa, you must support jim crow, you must support any ethnically and religiously imposed societal and legal division. otherwise you are being ideologically inconsistent
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just so we're clear: anti-zionism is a political position that refutes Israel's right to impose an apartheid ethnostate upon a religious & ethnic population that is indigenous to the land Israel wants. anti-semitism is an ideological prejudice against jewish people. two entirely separate things
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it's become abundantly clear that MAGA is itself the child murder and sex trafficking cult that it pretended to be fighting against this entire time
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hi! popping in to let you know that we'll be back to our regular schedule next week.
we have many exciting episodes planned including an ep on Thomas Sankara, an ep on the AES & hyperimperialism, an ep in our Post Capitalist Parenting series, and an ep w/ Chris Smalls & the gaza freedom flotilla!
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americans paid $70 billion in 2024 to just cover profits for the health insurance industry
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it's not just that capitalists rely on free reproductive labor in order to accumulate capital—the entire process of creating the next generation of workers is itself a form of profit for the capitalist. giving birth? that'll be $20k. childcare? another $20k/year. why? because you're just a machine
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These assaults would destroy the host." – Chris Hedges
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Democracy, social welfare, electoral participation, the common good and investment in public transportation, roads, bridges, utilities, industry, education, ecosystem protection and health care would be sacrificed to feed the mania for short-term profit...