Nia Frome
@NiaFrome
Followers
5,496
Following
4,780
Media
596
Statuses
30,362
☭ (🇨🇳👍) || 🏳️⚧️⚢ || esoteric vulgarizer || mexicanist || co-founder of @RedSailsOrg || with dialectics the rabble gets on top
aquí, pero más adelante
Joined November 2011
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Petro
• 541691 Tweets
Dortmund
• 217468 Tweets
Sancho
• 173842 Tweets
Boulos
• 131320 Tweets
Nicolas
• 109345 Tweets
Rio Grande do Sul
• 70852 Tweets
Gabigol
• 60789 Tweets
#แฉข่าวเช้าxบางกอกคณิกา
• 43183 Tweets
Canelo
• 39350 Tweets
Mauro
• 38047 Tweets
COMPLOT CONTRA LOS BROS
• 37400 Tweets
Romeh
• 36939 Tweets
#AEWDynamite
• 34344 Tweets
フジコ・ヘミングさん
• 23904 Tweets
Cacá
• 23286 Tweets
#ノンストップ
• 22534 Tweets
Amazonas
• 18102 Tweets
Carlos Miguel
• 16939 Tweets
Fortaleza
• 16821 Tweets
Gregory
• 11637 Tweets
Allan
• 11455 Tweets
Aashiyana
• 11408 Tweets
can you guess which best-selling anticommunist "historian" also appears in jeffrey epstein's little black book...
25
430
8K
because the soviets knew what they'd done
Siri, why was everyone desperate to surrender to the British or Americans in 1945?
327
21
448
8
88
2K
fascists love to imagine that extermination solves every social problem and that pesky leftists (i.e. noticers of social contradictions) are the only thing standing between our fallen world and utopia. this is because fascists are extremely stupid.
Communists are anti-human scum.
Joseph McCarthy underestimated the extent to which our society had been infiltrated.
He didn't go far enough, and we're paying for it now.
751
422
3K
10
208
2K
so whenever a cop pulls someone over in atlanta, the likelihood is that they'll be able to find out immediately whether the person they've pulled over opposes cop city
7
253
1K
the correct communist line on guns is that we should have them and our enemies should not
11
120
1K
anarchism's idea of justice ("everything's voluntary") is extrapolated from commodity exchange, a contractualist norm where everyone is an island and heteronomy is seen as a potential threat to freedom rather than constitutive of it, + pure intentions matter more than results
59
80
951
"so far zero utopias" so your position is... that no revolution is good unless it inaugurates heaven on earth?
Here is Contrapoints smearing marxism as a hunger-creating utopian project driven by envy of the rich. All while failing to engage with the marxist critique of utopianism
She then mocks the Chinese revolution on the same year it raised 800 million ppl out of extreme poverty
🤪
313
259
2K
20
69
913
when the anti-parenti left makes fun of his position on the bombing of yugoslavia, what is their theory of why the US did it? humanitarian reasons?
27
49
551
a tankie is a marxist who has the temerity to pass from "capitalist ideology is really bad" to "i probably hold some false beliefs about the world that i should rid myself of"
4
85
535
when i was a kid i also believed 'communists should ditch that label, for PR reasons'. now i think you make more headway owning it than dishonestly disavowing it. not least because *someone will almost always bring up stalin no matter what you call yourself*
8
101
494
israel's entire case is just to say that it's synonymous with judaism
even though zionism is based on antisemitic contempt for landless jews
even though orthodox jews absolutely condemn zionism as blasphemous
even though jewish leftists like einstein and finkelstein abhor it
6
145
535
i get it. the US clamps down on anti-zionism and sinophilia and any expression of disloyalty because geopolitically it's anticipating/already in a fight for global supremacy and can't be having a fifth column. no mysteries there.
6
82
524
marx: ...so, revolution
batman: sounds criminal
foucault: sounds normie
marx: no it's not normie, it's the way one class overthrows another, and thus its regime of exploitation
gandalf: is this not to become just as bad as the enemy?
marx: god dammit gandalf
17
122
514
oh i missed the part where he dated one of prince andrew's exes:
1
6
463
"gentrification" is actually a pretty softball term for forced internal displacement
2
103
502
there's definitely an asymmetry between MLs and anticommunist leftists: MLs can explain anticommunism as stemming from propaganda, ignorance, and social pressures, whereas anticommunists can only explain marxism-leninism by saying that a lot of people just choose evil
12
60
467
liberalism is the idea that society doesn't have to choose between socialism and fascism, it can just postpone that decision indefinitely. when liberals start deciding against either one, they stop being liberals.
4
125
522
man, people really don't like it when you tell them they've been the victims of propaganda, huh
8
47
463
hypocrisy gotchas like "if you support ukraine, why don't you support palestine?" are annoying because they pretend not to know the obvious answer: white supremacy and US imperialism
4
57
493
the AI gets it, welcome to the revolution comrade
I asked the Bing AI image generator to make 'democracy vs authoritarianism' and I think it got confused...
970
981
8K
8
51
456
disavowing stalin is the western academic marxist loyalty oath, that’s why you hardly ever find a book on marxism coming out of a university press without one
7
48
375
a dengist is a marxist with the temerity to believe that the world's largest communist party running the world's largest economy might be a good thing
11
44
399
david graeber had this point about how communism reigns in casual interactions, like if i ask you to pass me a pen you don't ask "how much?". call the people you deal with communistically your circle of trust. then capitalism is a symptom of (an often justified!) lack of trust.
18
16
374
an effective marxist has to be *enough* of an accelerationist/pervert to treat the obviously bad things that are going to happen as the political opportunities they are
6
33
360
this thing where the failures of capitalism are compared to (a dystopian, depoliticized, smeared, cartoon version of) socialism is what effectively stops people from envisioning an alternative to capitalism. it becomes impossible to name, let alone describe in any detail
1
94
330
the reason i'm so confident that anti-stalinist leftists are wrong is because i remember being one and i remember how *easy* it was to agree with liberal common sense in nearly everything but then add "capitalism bad tho"
4
31
311
the quote about the moscow trials being legit is spicier
2
17
327
the whole vibe of capitalism is "keep your head down, work hard, pursue your private advantage, the social question and other people's problems are none of your business" and then people are surprised when this indifference and numbness reach monstrous proportions
i can't wrap my mind around the fact that 200,000 americans have died from covid and we are not a nation in deep mourning. people just going about their lives, not wearing masks, going to bars, not giving a shit about the amount of death around them
5
62
196
4
104
301
i love the idea that pandering to tankies is the fastest way to get popular
@ppPepoComfy
i don’t think he wants that. i think he wants to be popular so he appeals to the tankies in his audience
13
0
7
8
10
316
there's something about the white house accusing students protesting against a genocide it's backing of antisemitism that's just so... brazen. stupid. vile. like even if i imagine my villainous sellout arc i can't imagine being that cynical. it's like a hate crime against truth
4
54
320
denying your enemies power is like the first and only rule of politics
4
27
285
1. communists are an organic ingrowth of capitalist society. obviously reactionaries prefer to paint communist influence as foreign, contingent, artificial, etc. but there is nowhere for communists to come from BESIDES present society
4
27
267
oppenheimer first does this big bang theory bullshit (nerd minstrelsy) to establish that our guy is Smart and then does communist minstrelsy to establish that he's got countercultural edge without really knowing or teaching us anything or giving a shit about physics or communism
9
19
282
at some point there have to be costs for doing harm (lookin' at you, genocide joe). the claim that "somebody else would do worse" is both an unverifiable counterfactual and, if we accept it, pretty much a blank check for more and more egregious harms
3
55
275
ah yes, frank miller's batman, a famously left-wing figure
5
7
253
communism, the outlandish proposition that human beings, with their tremendous powers of thought and coordination, might be able to rig up a better economic system than "everybody constantly tries to screw everybody else"
3
39
255
underlying every double standard is a consistent position, you just have to know how to suss it out
2
56
283
"let it rip" vs. zero COVID = a prisoner's dilemma. since only massive cooperation would've stopped the virus, and most countries defected instead of holding the line, china was eventually forced to follow suit.
5
27
254
tankie whataboutism is always responding to an earlier deflection: "don't look at *me*, your local ruling class that's ruining your life, look over *there*, those foreigners are up to no good!"
3
30
240
this is true, but so is its negation, in two different senses. dominant classes who lose their position start having to do more work (bad), but become more fully human as a result (good). your life will get harder but it'll rot your soul less
Controversial take I guess but:
- men would be worse off as a class if you abolished patriarchy
- white people would be worse off as a class if you abolished white supremacy
You should advocate to abolish those because they’re Wrong, not because you’ll also benefit!!
53
239
2K
10
37
263
whatever replaces capitalism has to be better than capitalism *at* doing stuff, not just better in an abstract/moral sense
8
23
242
liberals don't update their priors based on new information, they maintain an absolute separation between their recent discoveries about injustice and their core beliefs about how the world works so that they can pay lip service to the former without impinging on the latter
3
45
241
if you can force someone who's currently in a position of power to do something, you're the one in power. installing such a new power that stands above existing powers = the task of revolution.
3
42
243
it's funny how flagrantly "we all have the same 24 hours" is contradicted by the labor theory of value
2
21
239
@GBBranstetter
@sudowood0
which isn't something that could have escaped them, right? like the "natural" argument has to be a cover for their real beliefs, which must be that it's best to have strict gender roles and terrorism in defense of them because that way something else (not "nature") is optimized
5
9
233
so to recap:
-stalin good
-china good
-idpol good
-irony bad
-grimdark bad
-media matters
-hegel good
-nonviolence bad
-anti-americanism good
-real rational
-authority good
-"left unity" bad
-marxism science
-reality marxist
-socialism winning
-mediation key
-transition messy
11
30
229
@jacksonhinklle
@InfraHaz
@Ezra_EX
if you have to go to a nazi philosopher to make the case for "patriotic socialism", you're not making the point you think you're making
6
13
205
i'm sure everybody listening knows this, but even when the super-rich "give away" their money, what they're really doing is spending money to mold society into the shape they think it should be. it's class war just like everything else they do with their money.
1
69
224
capitalism creates problems that only socialism can solve. socialism is inevitable only in the sense that a logical conclusion is inescapable, not in the historic sense—it is of course possible that humans won't solve their problems
2
41
222
you move to the left as you gain an awareness of crimes that are much worse than theft and murder: big, abstract crimes of using many people wrongly, squeezing them dry, denying them access to the means by which they might flourish, frittering away their lives on stupid nonsense
2
39
219
israel propped up hamas back in the day because it let them turn cosmopolitan liberal types against palestine by calling the islamists in charge religious fanatics, bad on gender, etc. something to bear in mind when you hear these tropes deployed
3
40
223
they prioritize self-justification, which means they're only in the market for a story that gets them off the hook, and once they've found one they use it to dismiss any other arguments out of hand, because it continues to serve its primary role (preserving ataraxy)
How the fuck do intelligent people believe Israeli and American lies?
708
1K
6K
2
48
219
the argument for socialism is just that, going forward, more and more stuff is gonna be like covid: a deadly test of our ability to cooperate
4
46
209
we need a term for when self-described "marxists" express outrage, embarrassment, and disappointment in the actions of an entity whose bourgeois class character is clockable by any decent marxist from a mile away
13
17
212
imagine reading about this in a history book. "In order to maintain a steady flow of new soldiers, institutions of higher education would charge exorbitant rates, forcing the majority of students into extreme debt, from which military service was often the most viable escape."
How did the Army exceed its recruiting goals this year? It was the student loan crisis, not the wars, service leaders say.
241
1K
2K
1
79
211
the ritual denunciation of stalin on "the left" 1) presents a utopia of socialism without antagonism 2) flatters first-worlders and academics 3) spares people the unpleasantness of interrogating how their ideas about the past were formed 4) makes a virtue of losing and waiting
4
35
185
to everyone who's less informed than me it's "no investigation, no right to speak" and to everyone who's better informed it's "oppose book worship"
1
40
202
we'll stop defending stalin when a person's attitude towards him stops being the *single best predictor* of whether they have good or shit politics
4
15
194
there's this performative gesture where you refer to these leaders' fallibility in the abstract to establish that you are a critical and serious and non-dogmatic person, which is sort of a song and dance put on for the liberal gaze
5
29
201
idpol doesn't split the working class, chauvinism does. a male chauvinist is a liability to the working class because he might defect at any moment in exchange for some promises about how he gets to treat women
3
38
190
marxism differs from most sciences today in that you can get killed for doing it too well
1
21
181
what's your favorite anticommunist propaganda? this one makes us look pretty metal imo
23
8
186
the banality of evil
The last words of Adar Ben Simon, a solider who died fighting Hamas terrorists.
She wrote: "Live life to the fullest and enjoy every moment. Let’s make all our dreams come true and always see a glass as half full."
2K
685
4K
6
18
201
letting a tiny group of rich white men, about half of whom owned slaves, write the rules for a country and continuing to obey/enforce those rules 200+ years later
What’s something that’s clearly a scam but Americans have been conditioned to believe it’s “normal”?
7K
1K
14K
3
35
191
"socialism is inefficient" oh nooooo what are we gonna dooooo it's not efficient??? so like some food might go bad, or some factories might lay idle when they could be working, that kind of thing? oh nooooooooooo that's just teeeerrrrriiiibbbble
3
13
183
just as any living organism reduces entropy locally at the cost of increasing entropy globally, rich capitalist countries can suppress their contradictions domestically at the cost of aggravating them internationally
3
38
196
but statehood IS (a monopoly on legitimate) violence. the question of who's doing violence to whom, and to what end, is the fundamental problem of politics. it's capitalism's answer to this question that makes us hate it so much.
2
18
167
the amount of democracy doesn't grow proportionately with the number of parties you know
To all the communists out there, not, you can't have a democracy with just one party.
Thank you for your attention, read something else than theory.
459
96
1K
6
5
170
the anti-stalinist left is mostly about policing the category of 'socialism', specifically keeping poor countries out of it.
4
27
160
"envy may actually increase after the revolution" i didn't realize that minimizing envy was the supreme goal of humanity/politics
3
2
177
capitalism is going to kill us all because it has no way to brake its inherent tendency to multiply and deepen overwork, unemployment, pollution, crisis, and war (to restore a flagging rate of profit), all of which can be seen as variations on the prisoner's dilemma
2
32
183
i'm not so sure about even the logical possibility of a principled pacifist. they'd need a definition of violence (see gelderloos) and then they'd need to take steps to combat/reduce that violence without using violence, and also without showing favoritism between violent actors
the world would be better off if it had more actual, committed, principled pacifists. but I suspect that what we have instead are mostly people who believe that violence is only the legitimate province of some people, and what is morally required of everyone else is submission
8
1K
5K
6
21
182
basically the utopianism she's decrying is 100% internal to her conception of revolution. if you think revolution has to magically solve everything right away or else it's evil, then yeah, i'm not surprised you have a negative opinion of all the revolutions there've been
2
9
174
the cleverest trick the imperialists ever came up with was hiring people. like the very idea of a "proxy" is just baffling to anyone who's not an anti-imperialist. "what do you mean US imperialism?? ukraine/israel/taiwan isn't even *in* the united states"
2
18
179
@carolannjaneee
@femmefuriosx
they're not even doing anything new! it's just a reminder that their open access content is open access. the paywalled stuff is just as paywalled as ever.
1
10
170
marx's distinction between productive and unproductive labor is capitalocentric, defined from the perspective of capital and what serves *it*. it's pretty absurd that some self-avowed "socialists" take this distinction as equivalent to good people vs. bad people.
5
17
172
trotskyism and academic marxism: for when you hate capitalism, but hate having to revise any of your specific beliefs about good guys and bad guys in history more
2
23
158
re: the "you're a communist with an iphone" thing
communists are the ones who believe that the incredible wealth of our society, though the product of heinous exploitation, should be made to serve the great masses, that capitalism has made unprecedented things possible
2
18
170
