It’s not clear to me from the clip that he was asked any question at all. The question he states at the beginning could plausibly be purely rhetorical.

That said, it would not be surprising if he were to stress the struggle against counterrevolution but had little to say about the development of productive forces. Sison is a Maoist, and Mao and his intellectual descendants are much more voluntarists than they are stagists.

Feels like a bit of a bad faith critique, given that this is an extremely short clip with no context.

at this particular time

That’s the thing about tailism, though. It’s always bound to a struggle that is of particular urgency or salience at a given time. You can use the same exact words to repudiate any charge of tailism that isn’t being made retrospectively, in a history book.

an organization whose primary driving force is Islam

What Islam? A collection of beliefs? A set of believers?

The defining contention of materialism is that ideas are not the primary driver of history. Hakim’s post says, without qualification, that Islam is the driving force of the resistance.

The backflips folks are doing in this thread (including obliterating the very distinction between the ideal and the material, which is revisionism) to reconcile these two blindingly obvious, incompatible things are incredible.

That is a materialist analysis of the situation lol because that is what the Palestinians themselves are saying

Self-report (unadorned by any commentary or context, even) is ‘material analysis’ now? What?

That might be a credible take if, for instance, Hakim’s post so much as mentioned material conditions, or Roderic’s post was about the engine of history rather than Hakim’s post.

Your assessment is totally disconnected both from the content of Hakim’s post and from the content of Day’s tweet.

This, exactly. Do I endorse Hamas’ entire political program and orientation? I don’t know Hamas intimately, or their current internal debates, or whatever, but it’s still safe to say no. I’m a secularist, an egalitarian, a socialist, etc., etc. But I recognize— as do the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine, for example— that Hamas currently plays a leading role in the armed resistance to the Israeli settler-colonial project in general and the occupation of Gaza in particular, as well as running all of the basic civil services (such as they exist) in Gaza.

This has to be satire, right?

deleted by creator

no matter how different a homophone’s intensions, they all sound the same to me

I work for a large, global staffing agency and let me assure you, you are already a faceless spreadsheet cell among many, and AI is already a factor in your ability to advance or get noticed at multiple stages in the pipeline

Based on these victims’ ages and the fact that they weren’t in prison, can’t we infer that they were in the IDF?

They probably couldn’t have been Greta’s friends then

Sorry, haven’t really followed this. Is the idea of ‘the long Corbyn’ that somehow he’s responsible for alleged anti-Semitism outside his tenure or time in leadership?

He’s on a half-informed anti-idpol/politically incorrect kick for the past few years, and combined with his tendency to really stick it to people and actions that he feels lack integrity, it sometimes leads him to engage in insults and boomerisms that ultimately undermine his valid points. It’s a real shame because he still has a lot of value to say and he’s getting in his own way when he does that.

I love how the questioner in that clip just smiles, nods and walks away instead of further replying, like ‘damn, you got me’. He doesn’t seem mad about it either— he looks like maybe it’s really given him something to think about.

You can find the original and others in the audiobooks section of foreignlanguages.press, and the full document in textual formats elsewhere on the website.

If you want to play this YouTube video in a podcast-like manner (in the background on mobile), you can do this for free via NewPipe for Android. To install a genuine copy of NewPipe, which is free and open-source, (there are many malware-infested copies on the Google Play Store), download it directly from the project website or via F-Droid.

thank you for your work!!

I have some visual difficulties and the subtitles on the ‘human animals’ statement were tough for me without bolder black lines or a dark translucent background for the subtitles.

Nonetheless I think your clip was quite effective!

A little bit to my surprise, ol’ Norman Finkelstein, in his media appearances since this latest development in the occupation, has refused to condemn Hamas. In his interview with Chris Hedges yesterday, he explained this decision with reference to slave revolts in the US, John Brown, and the Haitian revolution. I think it’s a sound comparison.