The thread through all this? A feeling of aggrieved entitlement.

When we don’t have the critical thinking skills needed to listen to claims, identify who is making them, assess the evidence they’re based on & notice whose interests are served by the arguments presented, we are Very Vulnerable to manipulation through this feeling.

No wonder political parties of the white patriarchal supremacist right have been systematically defunding the institutions & disciplines that teach these skills.

People are not our enemy. Ignorance is.

#education #history #sociology #philosopy #ethics #CriticalThinking #schools #universities #NeoLiberalism #strategy #manipulation #polarisation #plunder #profit

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/18/the-families-torn-apart-by-older-relatives-going-far-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

1 Is power and wealth part of the same object in measureing class?

2 Is industrial development environmentally sustainable?

3 Is the complex of the national/ethnic/local capital and state permanently dead or is it expected to resurrect itself?

4 Is worker oppression and exploitation visible when class is defined as it was in 19th century, or has management become capitalists by proxy?

5 Is the urban half of humanity conscious of the necessary exploitation and oppression of the other half? And how different have the mechanisms of control of both become?

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Pro-Capitalists (including their serving tail of social reformers and disillusioned liberals ) believe that #NeoLiberalism is some form of ideology, people adopt those ideals and conduct politics accordingly.

Mainstream Marxists, clinging to their form of orthodoxy as it is the last raft they can float on, dismiss that there is such thing as NeoLiberalism

The few of those that try to pseudo-theorize about neoliberalism as an econ/polit. ideology and influence in politics, fail both in truly explaining historical events and convince the remaining Marxist community of the validity of their theorizing (branded charlatans and excommunicated)

Still there is a pattern described by events, the rhetoric of those who advocate of neoliberalism, some pseudo-theorists/philosophers who are portrayed my dominant culture as "fathers" of the doctrine, that as a sum is branded neoliberalism.

Just like capitalism, what is referred to as neoliberalism, comes to describe action, political, economic, social, organizational, after it materializes. Not the other way around. Fools think the idea was there, someone got convinced and practiced what the idea was about.

Since apart of Marxism we have no other theoretical/scientific tool to explain capitalism, either we have to lie about reality and deny it to defend theory, or we are failing to apply the correct theory appropriately to explain reality. The quick fact is the two don't exactly blend together and it has become more and more evident they don't.

The third possibility is there are certain faults, or extensions needed in current theory to explain the transition of the classical modern state (pre 1930s) and the later modern capitalist state (post 1940s) .. as the late rebound lead by the US as attempting to revert the transition referred to as neoliberalism.

Skipping back to the last known water-tight floating compartment we have, dialectical-materialism/science, we must re-examine where theory fails, what revision and extension it needs. But who are we to do it?

We can't be Marxists because they are too afraid to criticize and re-examine what they are floating on, they will faithfully and "religiously" defend every word and psalm they got. I wish they could consider.

We can't be idealists, because they are full of shit and in their cloudy mind if they think anything it is possible. Waste of breath speaking to the intoxicated.

What we have left is #anarchism but only within those who accept #Bakunin's materialist commitment (NoGodNoMaster) .. those who understand that #communism is not only possible, it is scientifically the only sustainable form of survival for humanity. (Communism NOT State Capitalism)

Those who understand that true equality is the foundation of freedom. #Libertarian #Communist / #Communalist

Theory and ideology, just as it happened with #Marxism, has the risk of forming organizational instruments that inevitably become hierarchical/authoritarian, due to an elite of experts forming around theoretical development. Unfortunately, with society drifting further and further away from struggle for equality, we may need to develop new theory to convince everyone (in our class at least) how futile capitalism is.

And as usual ... we have much work and cooperation that is needed while we are floating in this trend of dismissing any attempt for exploration ..

#OMN #IndyMedia #zapatistas #ezln #rojava #china #dprk #cuba #venezuela

“#Fear is being deliberately amplified within our political spectrum, and enemies are being constantly invented, all of whom we are meant to be frightened of. #Division is now a clear political tool”
#politics #neoliberalism #FarRightExtremism

We need freedom from fear.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/17/we-need-freedom-from-fear-2/

Open for Debate: Situating Open Research for the Humanities in a Neoliberal Setting

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/04/17/open-for-debate-situating-open-research-for-the-humanities-in-a-neoliberal-setting/

#BeatrizBarrocasFerreira #Humanities #neoliberalism #OpenResearch #openness

How to choose between the brutal unlilateral stupidity of the US/IS and the passive aggressive hypocritical toxicity of European war mongers? Because whether you like it or not this is what you get. WAR to save the western economic system from imploding as it should.

#WW3 #antiFA #marxism #anarchism #socialism #neoliberalism
#hungary #slovakia #gaza #donbas

Analyst Laura Arroyo: ‘There Is No Longer Democracy in Peru, Only Power Structures Ruling the Elections’ – Orinoco Tribune
https://orinocotribune.com/analyst-laura-arroyo-there-is-no-longer-democracy-in-peru-only-power-structures-ruling-the-elections/

"Although the number of votes involved is limited, the episode cannot be interpreted in isolation. Arroyo emphasizes that the narrative of fraud had been circulating for days before the election as part of a recurring political strategy to delegitimize results when they do not favor certain interests."

#Peru #PeruElections #RightWing #Neoliberalism

"#Labour have lost half of their voters since the 2024 general election, and the #Tories and #LibDems have lost over a third each."

"Starmer clearly bears responsibility for this, because he’s the man at the top. At the same time, Starmer didn’t introduce dishwater #neoliberalism to the Labour Party; he simply ran with it."

"We now have five parties within 10 percentage points of one another:"

#UKPol #GreenParty #ReformUK

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/04/15/starmer-breaks/