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V. I. Lenin@livinglenin.bsky.social · last wk.

The British bourgeoisie, for example, derives more profit from the many millions of the population of India and other colonies than from the British workers. In certain countries this provides the material and economic basis for infecting the proletariat with colonial chauvinism.

typwritre Monky@tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Socialist economic policy without the social justice stuff" is never going to work because it's inconsistent on a principle level. You can't have an economic policy built around equality except without addressing long-standing demographic power dynamics.

Molly White@molly.wiki · 4w ago

Click any node or connection in the Trump crypto empire map to open its panel and view explanatory annotations and citations. Toggle the income overlay to see financial-disclosure figures from the most recent filings. Search for entities, or filter by category. map.citationneeded.news

A screenshot of the map, with a side panel open showing Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Side panel contents: Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Intermediary Entity When Walter Shaub, then Director of the Office of Government Ethics, called on President Trump to divest from the Trump Organization during his first term, Trump instead transferred his operating businesses to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Many had urged him to use a blind trust. Critics argued the DJT Revocable Trust fell far short of that standard: Trump remained the sole beneficiary, his son controlled the assets, and Trump could revoke the arrangement at any time. Shaub later commented that the arrangement was “meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective” and that “setting up a trust to hold his operating businesses adds nothing to the equation. This is not a blind trust—it’s not even close.” Established 2014 Sources ↗ Stenglein, Christine, "OGE Director warns Trump’s business plan insufficient", The Brookings Institution, January 11, 2017 ↗ Craig, Susanne, and Eric Lipton, "Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire", The New York Times, February 3, 2017 ↗ Kravitz, Derek, and Al Shaw, "Trump Lawyer Confirms President Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants", ProPublica, April 4, 2017 ←controlled by Donald Trump Jr. According to a 2024 regulatory filing, Donald Trump Jr. "is the sole trustee and has sole voting and
Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · last mo.

3. It's strange that discussions of Winston Churchill's flaws don't include the fact that he, who once crossed the floor in anger over antisemitic immigration laws, became a raging antisemite after the Bolshevik Revolution, hiding Denikin's pogroms and spreading "Judeobolshevism" before Hitler did.

Voidish Jazz@jasminevoid.bsky.social · last mo.

to add to that, most of the conclusions these people end up making: ie, making businesses more profitable, more healthy, less labour costs/input costs etc directly benefit the capitalist shareholder class at the expense of the workers

Gary Alexander@garyalexander.bsky.social · last mo.

The left isn't anti-expertise, quite the opposite, we just (correctly) observe that if your education is in economics or public policy in "the West," you aren't an expert and your brains have been crammed with extremely-ideological bullshit.