US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
You all are sleep walking into another forever war nobody wants. I implore everyone to read your own and Latin American history from the last 50 years. It’s not taught.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and (Ask Anna for a copy.)
https://soaw.org/notorious-soa-graduates
do you think i should study a bit more socialist theory, and is there any way i can study in layperson’s terms without losing focus quickly?
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No, I read that book (The School of the Americas by Leslie Gill) before I knew what socialism was in a Political Theory of Latin America class. It radicalized me and I have used it to radicalize ex military confused libertarians and liberals. It is good without theory, it is pure history. If you read enough history, you can passively get theory via trends and vice versa. That is ultimately what they discuss anyway if the author is decent, via materialist analysis (though that obviously brings its own problems). I am happy to send audio and pdfs as needed to whomever. I am not sure if there is an audiobook of this one, but I am due a refresher regardless.
like i wanna study for socialist theory, but there’s something about it makes my head spin. do you have any tips on “studying in layperson’s terms”?
Listen to that voice and read this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/russell-means-for-america-to-live-europe-must-die That voice is telling you something very real and important. Trust yourself.
i mean the text - i’ve heard of a study method which taking long paragraphs and boiling them down into very short ones. however, sometimes i CAN’T find the right words to a point where i prefer NOT to say anything. do you have any tips?
To summarise the text I attached… Trust the resistance. If it feels like you are forcing something that doesn’t fit, that is probably what you are doing. What are you actually trying to learn? Not “study theory” but what do you want to understand?
learning about socialism and studying it without losing focus quickly or having my head spin. seriously!
You keep asking “how do I get better at the thing that doesn’t work for me” and I am saying “stop doing the thing because it isn’t the only or ‘correct’ way of doing things," not that there is a correct way. You aren’t asking the right questions or starting with questions if you are stuck here. Start figuring you what you want to know.