I know lots of DPRK-posting in the last hour (more than usual, sorry not sorry), but in a more public answer to a question: Yes, I'm in favour of marginalized countries arming themselves with nukes. Since being the only country to actually nuke living people, the USA has since been all about making sure no other country can get them — and you actually think it's because they feel bad for the denizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and now just want global peace? It's bloody amazing that #NorthKorea not only isn't hoarding nuclear technology and knowledge, but they're willing to share it with other nations looking for independence from the Empire. As Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and others have shown, disarmament leads directly to subjugation. A world of free and independent nations capable of engaging with one another in peace and mutuality can only be achieved today with nukes. If the Empire were to entirely disarm as they keep pressuring everyone else to do, it would be a different story, but that isn't going to happen.

tl;dr: Yes, when Kim Jong-un puts out one of those silly over-the-top videos of a big ol' missile being launched, I do think it's pretty cool.

#Traoré is making waves lately, and Youtube fed me this one for obvious reasons. This is what real international cooperation looks like. If you've been led to believe that #NorthKorea just doesn't interact with the world beyond its borders, let alone send people abroad, this will be an interesting video.

tl;dw: It sends troops to uphold revolutionary efforts against western domination, and agricultural, nuclear, architectural, etc. specialists and labourers to help other countries build up infrastructure and self-reliance.

Of course, these leaders often don't last long; the west is very good at couping or assassinating or otherwise deposing them and undoing what they (and their allies) have done. On this side of the pond, all we can do is cheer on #BurkinaFaso and hope for a united and independent Africa.

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Traore to be defended by North Korea.

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is in grave danger! The events unfolding in Africa today are unprecedented, shaking the foundations of Western dominance. For decades,...

^YouTube

Not to be alarmist...well, maybe, but a #famine will be incoming for the United States. Famines under capitalism tend to take the form of "there's food, we promise, it just happens to be too expensive for you to afford", so...you've technically been under famine conditions for a little while, but it's about to get a whole lot worse. Your latest administration has completely slashed agricultural subsidies, deported thousands of migrant agricultural workers, drained a reservoir in California, and levied tariffs on the three countries it imports the most food from. This is a good time to remember that many revolutions are preceded by famines, and it's time for you to start preparing and start organizing with anyone you can, before you're starving — which, again, I'm sorry to say, it's going to happen.

Talk openly about it; this is the time you can do it safely, and that window is going to be short. Find anyone, literally anyone, who is willing to talk back about the possibility of organizing together. It can be as simple as a mutual aid group, to try to afford bulk food more cheaply together when this happens, but we here, the people of the imperialized world, your fellow workers, are hoping that you will do more, and fight to end both famine and fascism in your country once and for all, no matter what it takes.

Red Paw Collective was a failure as a space because of the apathy that gradually settled into the community. Apathy breeds apathy, and, as one friend and ex-member put it to me, it self-selects: People who care in an otherwise apathetic space end up leaving for the sake of their own sanity.

I'm hoping to form another community on Matrix, with these lessons kept in mind. If you're viewing this post, you're invited.

This will be a community of anticapitalist solidarity, open and inclusive to all revolutionary anticapitalists in solidarity with the entirety of the working class without discrimination. This has been the three-point membership requirement for years, and it has been extremely effective, allowing Leninists, Maoists, anarchists, classical Marxists, and plenty of others to engage progressively with one another.

We will also retain our democracy. RPC's democracy was very successful and effective in empowering its members and creating a community that felt safe and appealed to people.

RPC was, as the community-chosen name implies, a fairly furry-heavy community, as that was also a focus of its founding members. This new community will eschew that focus. I would like to be more inclusive and less intimidating to people outside this subculture. I believe this secondary focus is also partly the cause of the apathy that would eventually lead to the community's downfall.

Finally, in correcting for those past mistakes, this new community would have the additional requirement that active members are also active in some form of organization within the space. This may be as simple as starting out with a reading club or mock debate, building our theoretical foundations, but as time goes on and hopefully we grow, we will branch into more depending on the interests and talents of our membership. For this reason, we will be on Matrix and only on Matrix, on a privately hosted server outside of the United States. Although we encourage relationship-building between comrades and may have rooms pertaining to shared interests, they will not be a focus, and if a member is engaging in only these secondary rooms without engaging in foundation-building or organization, they will be invited to self-criticize.

If you are interested in being a founding member of this space, leave a reply or send me a DM. There are a few of us already, and once we have a good small group going, I'll pull the trigger, and Workers of the World will have a new live space, ready to be built from the ground up.

#anticapitalism #communism #anarchism