Ciudadano Del Mundo
Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
It is only a suggestion; nobody is placing a gun to your head. It is a cheap way to do bookbinding. Some companies make spiral bookbinding. We have to survive in the capitalist jungle. I have done several spiral bookbindings for several textbooks, and I keep the original book on my bookshelf to preserve it
Another format to preserve old books is spiral book binding. It is a good format for big textbooks; they can be opened completely on a school desk and placed on top of a book holder.
A softcover book can be converted into a hardcover book by getting hard cardboard that can be placed on top and on the back of the book and glueing the old artistic cover on top of the cardboard
Digital books can be printed, and they can be turned into spiral books
This is for September 11. Terrorism versus terrorism: there are no better explanations, much better than all the conspiracy theories
September 2026 Socialist Standard for your contacts :
We are working in other languages too
POR QUÉ LA CRÍTICA DE MARX AL CAPITALISMO SIGUE SIENDO IMPORTANTE
EDITORIAL – ¿PARA QUÉ SIRVE LA GUERRA? ABSOLUTAMENTE PARA NADA
As well, we can not call fascist or fascism to all right wing political party or right wing political movement, leader, or to any workers that support right wings movement or populist leaders.
In the USA, the democrats and leftists call Trump a fascist and his followers as fascists, but they are members of the working class like any other workers, and they also live in poverty.
They always associate fascism with wars, but they never remember that the soviet union conducted several wars around the world and they supported those wars, and all of them support the concept of the vanguard party to lead .
Probably the concept of “Facho Pobre” applies to both sides or both tendencies
With the expansion of big capital, there are no countries around the world able to stay by themselves; they are going to be smashed by the big capitalist economy.
As President Petro of Colombia said, we are witnessing the elimination of the nation-state; they do not care to violate the so-called sovereignty of the nations, constitutions and independence
Presidents and leaders can be assassinated or kidnapped; they are not wearing the masks of democracy and freedom; they are openly carrying out their barbaric plans, and openly saying: We want your natural resources.
A small island like Puerto Rico, with a heavy dependence on the USA capitalist class, can be completely economically destroyed if it becomes independent, as Cuba experienced a trade embargo for more than 60 years.
At present, the Puerto Rican workers are experiencing all kinds of economic, social and financial difficulties: a severe water crisis due to climate disaster, corruption and unmaintained infrastructure, budget crisis, debts and unemployment.
The anti-imperialist case of Venezuela, it is also the same case as Iran; most left-wingers of all kinds are supporting the war of Iran against the USA, and they are labeling its as a revolutionary war, which is going to defeat Yankee imperialism, and whoever does not support it is also called a Facho pobre ( poor fascists). What revolution is taking place in Iran? It is a reactionary government, probably more reactionary than all the right-wing governments of Latin America; they have killed as many human beings as the government of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Some groups who do not support Iran are calling it a paper tiger, or junk capital, against real expansive capital, as this article says:
Just look at the case of Venezuela: after so many years of left-wing propaganda, the so-called socialism of the XXI was knocked down with one palace coup and the removal of the president of Venezuela; it has shown that it was not deeply rooted in Venezuelan society.
Chavistas are in a stampede, and chavismo is no longer a predominant ‘ideology ‘, and it has shown its cracks, and some workers are supporting the removal of Maduro; they are not ‘facho pobre’ ( poor people’s fascists), as they are called by the left-wingers.
The leftists did not fulfil their promises, and they became poorer, and it became an authoritarian and repressive system like the right-wingers, and the leaders and the ruling class accumulated capital from their labour; it was an economy based on mono-production, and now some foreign investors do not want to invest money because they might lose money, and the Chinese and Russians want their contracts to be fulfilled,
The USA is not going to take over Cuba; it is only a dog barking to get votes. They owe money to everybody, including the Sicilian mafia, and they are in default; the industry is destroyed; the only investment would be tourism to create Trump Island using Arab investors. The Cuban workers want to get rid of that government; if they have a democratic election, the winner would be the right-wingers; they do not know anything about state capitalism; if you say that Cuba is a state capitalist country, they will take you to jail.
That is not irrational; it is rational. They do not know what they want; they do not have class consciousness and political education. It was the same situation in Chile: the so-called socialist government of Boric and the communist alliance passed laws against the working class, sent troops to the Mapuche territories, and now they are collaborating with the right-wing. Both so-called communist leaders run a nationalist and xenophobic campaign like the right-wingers, like the old McDonald ads: Where is the beef? The same dogs wearing different collars
In Chile, some high-ranking members of the Communist Party became ministers of defence, the army, and the police (Carabineros). During the campaign, they were the champions of feminism, and there was a women’s protest, and they sent the troops and the police to the protests, and the Mapuches voted against them and rejected their new constitution. The Boric government acted like President Piñera, and he was part of the old right-wing coalition; they oscillate like a clock pendulum
The vice president of Venezuela is now supporting the right-wingers, and she has changed his past stance; she might be getting her benefits or part of the fruitcake like Chavez and his closer allies.
The Venezuela communist party was hijacked by the Chavistas, and they are silent, and people do not trust them anymore. Who are the workers going to elect? They might do as in Colombia and Chile, where people voted null and blank, and there was a high abstention, and right-wing candidates were elected by a small margin or with election fraud, and in the past Chile was one of the more politically educated countries in Latin America
During the last Brazilian election, Lula had to make alliances with some right-wing groups, and lately he had to give some concessions to Donald Trump, too. This is an article from a Trotskyist newspaper. Mario Pedrosa helped with the formation of Lula’s left-wing party, and some underground groups helped him too, and then some groups broke away from him; left-wingers always have internal problems with their alliances. It is their natural Leninist foundations
The growing popularity of Trotskyists in Argentina.
Workers in Latin America are like a clock pendulum; they can oscillate from right to left and from left to right. Lula in Brazil is losing popularity, and Bolsonaro’s son is gaining it; in Peru, the daughter of Fujimori was elected president. Sometimes workers suffer from historical amnesia; Bolsonaro and Fujimori supported the criminal military generals, and Bolsonaro promoted a state coup d’etat
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2018/no-1372-december-2018/material-world-brazil-people-
elect-a-populist/. Brazilian people elect a populistWho was Camilo Torres? He was a priest who called himself a Marxist, but his ideas influenced the Peronists guerrillas groups and the priests who worked in Villas Miserias (a working-class neighbourhood), and they influenced Pope Francis. The real founder of liberation theology was Gustavo Gutiérrez. All those movements were in some way supported by the Trotskyists
641684053_1445449170307096_7749400671806950604_n.jpg Bishop Belgoglio riding in a bus in Argentina,
In Argentina, the Trotskyists ( who have worn several masks ) are becoming Peronists ( they are dancing to the tune of the same tango ) who are right-wingers too, pretending to be socialists; the Trotskyist Morenaist supported the dictator Fulgencio Batista; other Trotskyist sects supported Saddam Hussein and the stalinist supported Trujillo, who was willing to negotiate with the soviets to avoid assassination and a coup from the USA.
Argentina is the country that has the biggest population of Trotskyists in Latin America; but they can not compete with the Stalinists, Maoists, Hoxhaists and the Castroists. You can place all of them in a blender, and you will get the same juice; there is no ideological difference.
If the right-wing president Milei dares to challenge England, they will support him too, based on so-called Leninist anti-imperialism, national liberation and nationalisation; some Trotskyists in the USA ask for the nationalisation of the Budweiser company: beer for everybody.
They are already saying that the Falkland Islands belong to the Argentinian workers, as they said it during the first war against England,( ALB published their leaflet ) and this time might be defeated again, but the problem is that the USA also want the oil and gas reserves of the Malvinas; with their new puppet and clown elected in Colombia, they might also take control of the Colombian oil, they have not invaded cuba because they do not have oil but they can make business arrangements to control the tourism industry and the cuban government will share the profits with them.
Many Trotskyists have supported the Cuban government after they were kicked out by the Stalinists in Cuba along with the anarchists, but they are like the chameleon; they adapt themselves to the colour of the tree.
The Trotskyist theorist known as Celia Hart was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. As the old saying goes: If you want to get with dogs, you will get fleas; she applied the permanent revolution theory to the Cuban bourgeoisie revolution, which was also supported by a large sector of the Cuban oligarchy and the catholic church, who wanted to flip the wings to Fulgencio Batista, and the USA imposed an arms embargo on his government and he had to buy weapons from the Armeria San Cristobal owned by Trujillo and many of the weapons ended in the hands of the guerrillas fighters.
Probably I would not call it irrational for the workers who support right-wingers; they do not have class consciousness, as millions of workers in the whole world do not have either, support left wingers might be irrational too. If workers had class consciousness, this capitalist system would last less than a roach inside a chicken coop.
I am dealing with some right-wing workers at present, and their political ignorance is very profound, but some of them are doing their own research and reasoning on my world analysis, and some have accepted that they are mistaken. In the USA, some right-wing supporters are voting for the so-called democratic socialists; they do not trust either political tendency. As we said in one article, the left-wingers pave the way for the right-wingers; the right-wingers also pave the way for the left-wingers
https://elsobrante.substack.com/p/la-sombra-roja-del-peronismo-el-ascenso?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7588705&post_id=197961355&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6n5kdd&triedRedirect=true. The red shadow ( Trotskyism ) of Peronism, a three-part article. The Montoneros were Peronist guerrilla fighters rooted in Guevarism and the liberation theology of Camilo Torres ( Camilistas )
This move by President Milei has been called the Peronization of Milei. In Argentia are saying that everybody comes back to the Tango, or any politician always becomes a Peronist
https://elsobrante.substack.com/p/editorial-16-entre-dos-tierras-milei?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7588705&post_id=214595422&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6n5kdd&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=emailProfit is more important than history. Jeff Bezos started selling books in a garage, and now his company is destroying books, the same commodities that turned him into a billionaire
From Selling to Erasing Books: Why Amazon Is Destroying Original Literature
From Selling to Erasing Books: Why Amazon Is Destroying Original Literature
Emerald Book Publication
August 19, 2026
8 min read
The company built on selling books is now destroying them. A new investigation reveals Amazon’s industrial-scale operation to slice, scan, and shred rare literature for AI training data—exposing the tech industry’s desperate, multi-front panic over running out of human-written text.————————————————
Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos, started as a bookstore
