(2021-10-17). Revolutionary Consciousness and Education. anchor.fm In this episode I discuss and try to argue as to why Marxists believe that ideology and consciousness play an incredible role in forming a mass movement. Why do Marxist think that they are right? Are they just a bunch of authoritarian assholes? Or do they have some kind of key through study that has brought them towards correct analysis time and time again? Who is to say, not me that's for sure. If you think I'm wrong, I'd love to discuss with you, and if for any reason other than that you'd like to reach out please do! I hope you enjoy the episode, no shade to anyone. I got here from years and years of ignorance…
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(2021-10-16). A Critique of Western Marxism's Purity Fetish. orinocotribune.com 
By Carlos L. Garrido — Oct 13, 2021 | Western Marxism suffers largely from the same symptom as Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby — each's fixation on perfection and purity leaves perpetually unfulfilled all that it claims to desire. On one hand, Jay seeks a return to the purity of his first encounter with Daisy, and in the impossibility of this return to purity, the actual potential for a relationship is lost. On the other hand, western Marxists seek a pure form of socialism, but in the impossibility of such a purity arising, they lose the potential to actuate or defend any socialist revolution. The purity…
(2021-10-16). Mike Healy: 'Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism'. mronline.org 
Healy's exquisite book applies several recent frameworks of alienation to two groups of workers—IT workers and academics.
(2021-10-16). France Continues Project For European Army And "Strategic Sovereignty" southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageAchieving European sovereignty is a long but necessary process. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The conclusion of World War II saw new security structures emerge as the new struggle shifted to one between Capitalism and Communism in the context of the Cold War. Although France and the UK signed the Treaty of Dunkirk with a provision for Alliance and Mutual Assistance in 1947, which expanded in 1948 to include Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, it was quickly supplanted by NATO in 1949, an alliance that at the time also included the U.S., Canada, Portugal,…
(2021-10-16). *BONUS* Are Marxists just bossy? anchor.fm We're constantly told that Marxists are just trying to demand that people listen to them, or that we're just "classist" "elitist" because we say that there are correct or incorrect ways to struggle. But is that the case? You tell me!
(2021-10-16). Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of the pseudo-left. wsws.org No aspect of Freire's work has anything whatsoever to do with Marxism, the struggle to build a revolutionary party of the working class, or the development of a socialist pedagogy.