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introduction ^^

Category: Blogging

i'm not super web savvy so bear with me ^^;  glerm, hi i'm sam ! i'm 18 y.o. and i live on treaty 6 territory in so-called 'Canada' ( for Maoist Standard English, see 'KKKlanada' ). i'm of ukrainian, belarusian, romanian and french descent ; i am a francophone and hopefully one day i'll have enough time and energy to learn the other languages ㅠㅠ » Continue Reading

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A response to Ted Grant, part 2: Preliminary text — The Poverty of Ability to Correctly Cite Sources [11/05/2025]

Category: News and Politics

For the next two segments of the polemic, Mr Grant adjusts his sights onto Mr Cliff’s “incorrect usage of quotations,” himself pulling from Marx and Trotsky to both outline his “materialist” conception of history and show the intellectual dishonesty of Mr Cliff’s thesis by means of  » Continue Reading

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A response to Ted Grant, part 1: Preliminary text — Mr Grant's Misadventures in Materialism [30/04/2025]

Category: Religion and Philosophy

I would be remiss if I didn’t first address the fact that Mr Grant is responding to one particular conceptualisation of the USSR, specifically that of Tony Cliff and his claim that the USSR was a "state capitalist" economy. Mr Cliff’s assertion goes against Trotskyite orthodoxy, which holds that the USSR was not capitalist, but rather a "degenerated workers’ state." While these gentlemen are sorti... » Continue Reading

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A response to Ted Grant, part 0 : Establishing terms [16/01/25]

Category: News and Politics

[ Recently, I was talking with a member of the RCP on the topic of the Degenerated Workers State theory, and from this discussion they sent me an article written by Ted Grant titled « Against the Theory of State Capitalism. » They told me to read it, and I did, and it definitely left an impression. Inspiring me to pick up the pen again, I took it upon myself to both write out my thoughts and delve... » Continue Reading

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haitus [15/10/24]

Category: Blogging

hey so it's been a while since i've really opened this site properly, and a lot has happened in that time. i won't go into too much detail as to what happened, but suffice to say i have changed a fair bit as a person. my politics have also undergone some change, as they have been for the past year, and that's fairly normal as far as politics goes. this does not affect much aside from a quick bio e... » Continue Reading

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Midwestern Marx and patriotic "socialism" [07/04/24]

Category: News and Politics

i have a reoccurring joke among my friends and family where i'll respond to any ridiculous statement that someone has said with « i've been saying this for years now, » so it's feels a little silly using saying it seriously, but i dead-ass have been saying for 2+ years that this trend patriotic "socialism" is fascist at its very core - and very recently it has been rearing its ugly head. while it'... » Continue Reading

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oh, Lassalle.. [27/03/24]

Category: News and Politics

everywhere i look i see his face.  you know that quote in The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte where Marx writes that « the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the » Continue Reading

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NO MORE CREDIT !!! [24/03/24]

Category: School, College, University

(real ones get the Neue Rheinische Zeitung reference) i was checking my courrier today and i peep that i got a refund of 4 000$ from my university by merit of continuing my post-secondary studies in french as someone whose first language isn't french ( si j'étais au courent que ça payait des milles de parler deux langues j'aurais pu apprendre plus qu'un +_+ ) » Continue Reading

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