Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of (four) 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb.

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  • culprit@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Damn stalin at it again 😤🙄
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    3 days ago

    https://www.villagevoice.com/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/

    Originally published: January 12, 1988

    “But there is plenty of blame to go around,” as Sovietologist John Arch Getty recently noted in The London Re­view of Books. “It must be shared by the tens of thousands of activists and offi­cials who carried out the policy and by the peasants who chose to slaughter ani­mals, burn fields, and boycott cultivation in protest.”

    Such a balanced analysis, however, has never satisfied Ukrainian nationalists in the United States and Canada, for whom the “terror-famine” is an article of faith and communal rallying point. For decades after the fact, their obsession was con­fined to émigré journals.

    After 50 years on the fringes, the Ukraine famine debate is finally front and center. While one-note faminologists may teach us little real history, they re­veal how our sense of history is pulled by political fashion until it hardens into the taffy of conventional wisdom. And how you can fool most of the people most of the time — especially when you tell them what they want to hear.

  • culprit@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.ml•the ongoing merger of liberalism and fascism
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    1 month ago

    The phrase “money is speech” refers to the Supreme Court’s interpretation that spending money in political campaigns is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment. This concept was notably established in the 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on political advocacy.

    This is what liberalism does. Wealth inequality inevitably unbalances any sense of liberty in material reality over time. It is the ideology of capitalism that is destroying community, humanity and the biosphere and climate.

  • culprit@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.ml•relevant to recent events
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    1 month ago

    There is one hegemonic power that has been doing imperialism for decades. They have by far the largest military presence across the globe, and they maintain currency hegemony over this long period as well. It is one empire, not empires in your “both sides” or “many sides” rhetoric. The EU and Japan et all are willing servants of this hegemonic order for most of this period. Millions have been killed by wars, interventions and economic mechanisms that serve to maintain this empire.

    The capitalist empire has always been like this. You are comparing trade alliances to war mongering genocidal profiteering across the globe over decades. These are not even close to equivalent.