Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) September 9, 2009

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) reviewed
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The new film directed by Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds (2009) is set during World War II. It does not in any way claim to be historically accurate. It is, rather, a historical romp, a fantastic take on WWII as imagined by an Amerikan director with no love for fascism (at [...]

On Exploitation and other stuff.. for the nth time August 29, 2009

On Exploitation and other stuff.. for the nth time
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“Dear Maoist-Third Worldist,
Here is a question that may have been asked before but perhaps needs further elaboration. I will divide this question into three parts.
1. The United $nakes has a parasitic economy, nearly everyone recognizes this except First World ‘leftists’, even Republicans and Democrats to some degree [...]

Gandhi, Non-Violence and the Liberation of the Proletariat from Imperialism August 9, 2009

Gandhi, Non-Violence and the Liberation of the Proletariat from Imperialism
 
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Norman Finkelstein is a person whom Monkey Smashes Heaven has a lot of respect for. Finkelstein has courageously and consistently combined impeccable scholarship with committed pro-Palestine activism. We have previously been pleased to see him support the right of armed [...]

Movie Review: ‘Overturning the Culture of Violence’ July 15, 2009

Review of ‘Overturning the Culture of Violence’ (1)
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Overall, this video in two parts from the African People’s Socialist Party based in the U$ is excellent.  We have several major points of unity with APSP.  In particular, we strongly defend APSP’s insistence that the white working class is historically and up [...]

Movie review: Valkyrie: the politics of the “apolitical” February 19, 2009

Valkyrie: the politics of the “apolitical”
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Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008) is the new Hollywood film about the belated (July 1944) attempt to assassinate Hitler by a group of elite Nazi officers under the leadership of Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise).
Tom Cruise plays a Nazi officer plotting to kill Hitler. Having never [...]

Dear Maoist-Third Worldist… Why should Marxists support either side in a bourgeois national conflict? January 17, 2009

Dear Maoist-Third Worldist… Why should Marxists support either side in a bourgeois national conflict?
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Recently, a comment was left regarding Monkey Smashes Heaven’s defense of Islamic resistance to imperialism. Matthijs Krul asks Maoists-Third Worldists:

“Obviously we should oppose the American imperialist wars against Iraq and Afghanistan as well as their war-mongering against Pakistan and Iran. 
That said, does MSH [...]

21st, December: On the Occasion of Comrade Stalin’s Birthday December 21, 2008

On the Occasion of Comrade Stalin’s Birthday
 
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The 21st of December is Comrade J. V. Stalin’s birthday. Monkey Smashes Heaven joins communists all over the world in celebrating the life and achievements of this great revolutionary leader of the world’s first lasting workers’ state, the glorious Soviet Union (1917-c1956).
From early on, Stalin was a [...]

Maoist-Third Worldist Stand-In Line on Ireland November 7, 2008

Maoist-Third Worldist Stand-In Line on Ireland
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In the temporary absence of a detailed class analysis of contemporary Irish society, Monkey Smashes Heaven issues the following stand-in line for the Maoist-Third Worldist movement on the state of the class struggle in Ireland today.

The National Question 
Ireland is an ancient nation consisting of the entire territory of the island [...]

Notes on Nazi Anti-Semitism October 28, 2008

Notes on Nazi Anti-Semitism
By Serve the People and End Imperialism
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“National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows [...]

Dear Maoist Third Worldist.. Are First World “workers” more productive? September 18, 2008

Dear Maoist-Third Worldist.. are First World “workers” more productive?
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Recently, a comment was left regarding Comrade Serve The People’s rough estimate for the value of labor. Read the original comment here. 
Matthijs Krul asks Maoists-Third Worldists:
“I find this calculation very interesting, thanks. However, it seems to me the question of differing productivity is too easily dismissed. Indeed [...]

Imperialism’s Barbaric Hypocrisy September 11, 2008

Imperialism’s Barbaric Hypocrisy
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There are a lot of complaints raised about the behaviour of Iraqi National Liberation fighters today by the murderers of two million Iraqi citizens in less than two decades and their media organs. In particular, every time a video of dubious origin appears showing one or other imperialist functionary beheaded or [...]

A Maoist-Third Worldist Statement on War in the Caucasus August 20, 2008

A Maoist-Third Worldist Statement on War in the Caucasus
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The authoritarian lackey of NATO imperialism, president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili of the National Movement – Democrats, attacked Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia on the night of August 7, 2008. The Georgian air force bombed mostly civilian targets, including hospitals, [...]

A Maoist-Third Worldist Position on Unequal Exchange August 16, 2008

A Maoist-Third Worldist Position on Unequal Exchange
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Unequal exchange refers to the terms of trade between the oppressed nations and the imperialist nations in the world economy. Unequal exchange is not the only means by which the transfer of value from the former to the latter is achieved (others are western control of [...]

Dear Maoist-Third Worldist… LRNA July 18, 2008

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Dear MTWist,
I had a peculiar thought randomly. You must be familiar with the LRNA, a post-Maoist grouping. They have this conception of the “New Class”, basically, a class which is permanently unemployed due to the introduction of automation within the U$A. I don’t see any actual statistical evidence that this new class exists and certainly [...]

Maoist-Third Worldists denounce imperialist meddling in Zimbabwe June 26, 2008

 
Maoist-Third Worldists denounce imperialist meddling in Zimbabwe
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There is growing sentiment in some quarters for an imperialist intervention as an answer to Zimbabwe’s troubles. Recently, Lord Ashdown advocated imperialist military intervention to prevent an impending “genocide.” Gordon Brown has called on the International Community to reject the result of the election poll. In a [...]