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I gather you are referring to the article at counterpunch by a prof. I admire greatly. I wont mention the name because you didnt. I had the same reaction you had to the phrases he used and the both sides do-it-ism. I got the impression he has had a high regard for Israel in the past and cannot completely come to terms with the reality that Israel is and always was a fascist colony.

I am no better, I have been rocked to the very foundation of my beliefs by the horrors I have recently learned about. If not for the U.S. wanting this genocide to continue, it would end with one phone call from genocide joe.

Thank you for taking the time to keep screaming at people like me to wake up.

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a BRILLIANT author and friend who I magine wants to be heard and read in broader audiences that I don't try or pretend to be able reach. There are some Hamas fighters of course but I just can't call it the Israel-Hamas War and for me it very important to hit again and again on the central role of the USA, the top dog imperialist aggressor and the funder and protector and equipper of rabid dog Israel.

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The late Glen Brown is close to a textbook example of the older white male mansplaining Berniebro anti-communist I've been getting bitterly lectured by for about four years now. I don't mind principled ideological debate buth he crossed the line of personal attack as these sorts are wont to do, sadly. In cases like this, I hit the button for refund subscription. I need backers but I'm not in this for the money and I don't want backing from people who tell me I have no sense of humor! LOL!!!!

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I said in the audio I would put some past pieces up in the comments. I've got dozens on the topics in question. Here are two decent ones:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/20/on-true-democracy/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/11/the-envy-of-the-world-still-no-functioning-democracy-here/

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You have now engaged in personal attack, totally unfounded. Let's get your subscription cancelled at once!

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Glen Brown, I think you just got $70 back. Merry XMas. :)

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Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. At China’s current national poverty line, the number of poor fell by 770 million over the same period.

I guess the greatest movement of people out of poverty is no big deal to Glen Brown, probably cause they cant get 40 different flavors of ice cream.

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or is it 42, god I love america.

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You have completely deleted the significantly determinant role of imperial encirclement in the failures of past socialist states. You delete the very real and remarkable accomplishments of those states. You need to understand that the RCP and Avakian have studied the record of those states with a proper combination of critique and appreciation and advanced a readily Available new communism. The long slow trudge is over, cancelled by the speed of ecological and other crises and by its own complicity in capitalist imperialism. We do not agree.

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Okay so you have gone full pain in the ass. It happens. I've actually been quite polite and patient with you. And here you go low instead of actully addressing the issues I raised. Accusing me of being "angry" (LOL) --- do you have a problem with anger? --- and "dismissing anyone who sees things differently" instead of actually engaging with (for example) the issues of imperial encirclement (and attack), real socialist state accomplishments and the emergence of a new commnism. Look, here's an antidote to your reflexive anti-communism regarding the USSR and Red China and the NC. Instead of spending so much time in comments sections, read it: https://revcom.us/en/a/323/you-dont-know-what-you-think-you-know-en.html

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Those sorts of UN National Assembly votes are nothing remotely new. Of course I back them, as any decent human should.

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And one thing that is darkly hilarious, Glen Brown, is you upholding/liking (me too) that 153 nation UN GA vote but before that trumpeting the "long slow trudge" of the great Berndog when F'ng Sanders came out against a ceasfire like a Zionist pig ffs (oh, oh, I sound "angry" --- watch out....anger!). How absurd, Glen Brown! As for your long slow trudge, you might want to have a look at the latest climate reports and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientisss' latest Doomsday Clock settings. :)

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To be candid US "democracy" and Western democracy more broadly cloaks an underlying class dictatorship of capital. On minorities...the US is a Minority Rule order on different levels, including the many sided rule of capital, the rule of capitalist empire, and wildly disproportionate power granted the right wing under the US constitutional order. Revolutionary communism is by far the best we have come up with and is something very different than transparently inauthentic western bourgeois democracy, handmaid to fascism, endless war and now ecocide. We will not keep an actual revolution. If we cling to vapid formalistic Western democracy, trust me. Such childish clinging is just EZ PASS counterrevolution.

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