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Robert R. Raymond
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founding co-producer: @upstreampodcast currently reading "Fossil Capital" by Andreas Malm + "The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World" by Walter Rodney
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“The bifurcation between Eastern Marxism and Western Marxism comes down to a contrast between Marxists who exercise power and Marxists who were in opposition and concentrated increasingly on "critical theory," "deconstruction," and denouncing power and power relations as such."

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“Environmentally deleterious and inhumane practices...are hidden away in forests and deserts, where protests will be fought by the imperialists and their sub-contractors in the name of the War On Terror or the War on Drugs or some Kind of war that allows the extraction to take place without threat.”

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“Revolution is the opposite of the existing, it is not only turning the page but changing the dictionary."

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"Oil's centrality stems from what it does for the imperatives of accumulation: its ability to accelerate and expand capital's turnover, cheapen the costs of production (including labour), and knit together an international market. No other commodity plays this role."

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U.S. imperialism is not a "single issue," it's directly connected to hundreds of millions of people's lives, capital accumulation and global inequality, climate change, fascism in the US, crumbling infrastructure, high taxes, monopolies, and much, much more

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OUT TODAY! 🎧 we spoke w/ D. Musa Springer & Charisse Burden-Stelly about the life and work of Walter Rodney: pan-africanism, marxism, underdevelopment, guerrilla intellectualism, and much more

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“Undoubtedly, European capitalism achieved more and more a social character in its production. It integrated the whole world, and with colonial experience as an important stimulus, it integrated very closely every aspect of its own economy-from agriculture to banking...

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harm reduction is a set of practical strategies aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. harm reduction is not the process of voting for a candidate that oversaw a genocide. hope this helps!

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"Fascism was a monster born of capitalist parents. Fascism came as the end-product of centuries of capitalist bestiality, exploitation, domination, and racism—mainly exercised outside Europe." Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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“Capitalism, which began its development with petty usury capital, ends its development with gigantic usury capital.”

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Robert R. Raymond
@robpertray.bsky.social
founding co-producer: @upstreampodcast currently reading "Fossil Capital" by Andreas Malm + "The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World" by Walter Rodney
1k followers167 following1.1k posts