An Imperfect Stranger

@Imperf_stranger
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“بسیارانی مدعی‌اند که به نام #آزادی صحبت می‌کنند، اما معدودی به واقع درکش می‌کنند.”
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Policy⭐️ & 🔁 ≠ endorsement

4-hour day!

4 hours for work

8 for sleep

12 for whatever we damned well please!

From the habitat defenders of the western Germany Hambach Forest (Hambi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_Forest), here's a long eulogy in German on their comrade Eva Maria Steiger/Elefteria Hambi bombed to death by the Erdoğan war of aggression regime while defending the people in southern Kurdistan/northern Iraq:
https://hambacherforst.org/blog/2023/08/02/elefteria/

The only thing any human can achieve with their entire life, is the legacy they leave behind,
through which the effects of a person's acts while alive can keep having major impacts long after death,
even such that the legacy of a few will become intertwined with all of humankind's overarching common legacy and thus through it will live as long as humanity lives.
Or, shorter: Şehîd namirin. Martyrs are immortal. Die Gefallenen sind unsterblich.

Hambach Forest - Wikipedia

میان ماندن و نماندن
فاصله
تنها یك حرف ساده بود

از قول من
به باران بی امان بگو :

دل اگر دل باشد ،
آب از آسیاب علاقه اش نمی افتد

سید علی صالحی

یادآوری‌ای از تاریخ در مورد ماحصل شعار ناسیونالیستی «حق تعیین سرنوشت ملت‌ها» و فروکاست همه‌ی ستم‌ها به مساله ستم ملی/اتنیکی:

“در واقع این «مردم» نبودند که درگیر این سیاست‌های ارتجاعی باشند، بلکه طبقات بورژوا و خرده بورژوا بودند که در مخالفت شدید با توده‌های پرولتر، «حق تعیین سرنوشت ملی» را به ابزاری برای سیاست‌های طبقاتی ضدانقلابی تبدیل کردند… این خوانش [ناسیونالیستی] به سادگی به وسیله‌ای برای حکومت طبقاتی بورژوایی تبدیل می‌شود.../۱

Capitalism must always grow. It can never stop.

Capitalists must always seek to maximize differential profits—they have to collect *more* profits than their competitors.

Because you can reinvest those profits in buying up more revenue generating assets, you can expand your business and grab more market share. Or, like when Microsoft bought Nokia to grab the patents Nokia held, you can invest in blocking your competitors from expanding.

If your share of the market falls so far that you can’t make payroll or pay your creditors, you go out of business. Your capital is seized and sold off, and you become just another worker, subject to the whims and commands of capital owners.

So capital owners in competitive markets must always try to grow at a rate faster than their competitors. If they stop, if they take a break, if the global ecosystem collapses, then so does capitalism.

#IslamicState confirms the killing of its leader Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi

➡️ #ISIS says al-Qurashi was "killed in direct fighting" in #Idlib by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

➡️ He was the 4th leader killed after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared their so-called 'caliphate' in 2014

Planning for the upcoming COP28 #climate conference…