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I have not read any of his works, I have read reviews about his works, and interviews given to him, and I do not think he is a new kid in the block, he is repeating what other nationalists and left wingers have already said but I have read Frantz Fanon works who is one of the founder of the so called decolonization movement, ethnic, and black nationalism similar to Malcom X, and other bourgeois nationalists and separatists, and ethnicity movements in the third world or global south
The Marxist Humanists also support the works and conception of Franz Fanon, and the ethnicity movement, his ideas are not new either in the frame of ethnic struggle ,
Classic colonialism was replaced by capitalism ( and capitalism produces more surplus value than classic colonialism ) and some colonial empires gave independence to several countries and some became independent but the exploitation of the native population was not eliminated, and some military dictators became presidents which they call progressive and anti imperialist leaders, and some dictators called themselves socialist too, but they only established state capitalist production.
Grosfoquel does not mention that, or he has not knowledge about the history of state capitalism and the fallacy of socialism in one country and in backward economic, as other leftwing he confuses state capitalism with socialism, he supports the Palestinian movement but as other left-wingers he does not mention that the Israeli are also part of the working class and they are exploited by a ruling class like the Palestinian and other workers in the Arab world
Dr Gerald Horne has similar racial point of view , he is the one who has considered that the US revolution was a counter revolution and that black slaves were exploited due to their colour of their skin , some trotskyist groups rejected that point of view because they have considered that the American revolutuon was a people’s revolution and a progressive constitution was established , the SLP of America supported the american constitution, and they supported the independence of Puerto Rico
The reality is that the declaration of independence of the USA was the birth of US capitalism and blacks, indians and poor white were left out of the constitution, in some way Gerald Horne is correct, but his racial point of view is not correct, we are going to liberate ourselves as humans but no based on races, religion, or ethnic origin
I have read Carlos Mariategui from Peru who advocated for a Latin American marxism ( another form of local socialism ) based on the Indigenous peoples, and the indigenous movement that existed in Bolivia during the government of Evo Morales was based on the works of Mariatequi, but in the last election that movement was rejected by the voters and the elected government is already in crisis after two months of its election, the indigenous peoples continued living in poverty, attacked by the police and the military, and the commune and cooperatives did not provide a better standard of living
Hugo Chavez advocated similar point of view and he made a call for the formation of a Latin American front and the creation of the new Great Colombian, and he called himself a nationalist socialist, and call for the reading of Marx, Lenin, Gramsci, Trotsky and Mao, ( A Gumbo soup ) but later on they rejected Marx when a letter written by Marx against Simon Bolivar was published saying that he was the Latin American Napoleon, and the honeymoon was over, they even said that Marx did not know anything about colonialism, but Marx wrote several articles about colonialism. Marx and Engels did write about colonialism and the soviets compiled into one pamphlet
The followers of socialism of the XXI century created their own banks, their own commercial and financial cartel but the exploitation of the indigenous peoples continued like in the old days of the colonial period, and the coops and communes were run like capitalist enterprise to produce profits but they wanted to ‘decolonize” Latin America from the influence of the Yankees, but in reality one sector of the Latin American capitalist class wanted to create its own market system to liberate itself from American capitalism, but they made alliance with the reactionary government of Iran
https://archive.org/details/marxengelsoncolonialism.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/england/colonialism.htm. Marx and Engels works on Colonialism
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Marx-Engels-colonialism-Karl-Friedrich-1818-1883/31217388879/bd
The indigenous peoples from /North/South America separated themselves from Spain, France and Portugal, but they are still exploited and discriminated, but now they blame everything in the so-called Empire which is a term used by the Cuban state capitalists despite the fact that they were a colony of the Soviet empire , or what the Chinese called the soviet social imperialism, but they have subscribed themselves to the tactic of the anti imperialism a call for the working class to make alliance with their own rulers . That movement will not bring liberation to anybody, just to the national bourgeoisie
There has never existed a monopolar world as they claim, there are have always existed a multipolar world, and in Latin American the Russian and Chinese are in alliance with the local capitalists of the region and they are part of the multipolar world, and they are extracting minerals and others resources like the yankees were doing, there is not difference and they do not even mention that china and russia are capitalist exploiters
Their ideas are mostly based on the concept that European colonialism and oppression of the slaves is based on the color of their skins or the so called black race, indians, instead of the natural consequences of the emergence of capitalism and the accumulation of capital which created the condition for the development of capitalism, that process also took take in Europe and the peasants were expropriated from their properties and possessions
Marx and Engels never described colonialism as a racial problem, but as a consequences of the development of capitalism and class society
Human beings have been economically exploited due to their social class conditions as members of the working class, white peoples have also been exploited by their own ruling class and the same case is in Asia and Australia, in south africa black and white have been exploited too
In the case of Puerto Rico he has a different view in regard to the Independentista movement, he does not support the separation of Puerto Rico and the USA and the formation of a capitalist republic, he advocates for the statehood of Puerto Rico which is different to the point of view of Ruben Berrios, and Mari Grass who called himself a socialist but he was a nationalist,( by decree he became a Puerto Rican ) and founder of the Socialist Party of Puerto Rico
Grosfoquel has indicated that during the cold war period Puerto Rico was able to have a industrialized status and was able to obtain certain social benefits, civil rights and equal protection under the law, and after the post war that status has declined drastically because industries were exported toward China and Vietnam and the US government removed many social benefits
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/24/deco-f24.html. Main conception of that movement
https://imhojournal.org/articles/frantz-fanon-in-the-present-movement/. Franz Fanon
Grosfoquel has several academic degrees but it is not a guarantee that he is on the correct path, he has not said anything new that other nationalist have not said already, The decolonization of education is not a new movement either. as the historian Frank Jennings said, that there are not several civilizations, there is only one . The type of education that they propose has also been influenced by the ruling class, in the case of Latin America, the Aztecs and the Inka were exploited too, and one of the reason why some colonialist won the battle was because the indigenous peoples took side with them due to their own exploitation, like in the USA the blacks slave supported the British and the French colonialists against the American colonists
PS In this forum we have the freedom to express our own ideas and publish different types of communication, even Nazis have the freedom to publish their own ideas . He has also spoken about a Neo-Malthusian movement conducted by the ruling class around the whole world, but I do not think he has a clear view of how capitalism operates, he calls it eco-fascsim, that tendency of capitalism has nothing to do with fascism
https://mailchi.mp/nader/open-letter-to-zohran-mamdani-political-moderate-9bg5mbyom3?e=efdb358bd9
The ideological backwardness of the USA. Mandani program in nyc exists in other states and Europe in a broader sense and was also established by a right winger like Domingo Peron and price control by some right wing dictators like Joaquin balaguer
Composed by Alvaro Carrillo from Mexico. The Cuban pianist Roberto Vazquez
Alvaro Carrillo, who was a Mexican African/Mixtec descendant, composed many songs. He came from a very poor working-class class
https://kurzweil.com/2019/11/20/roberto-vazquez/. Roberto Vazquez is a professional Cuban musician from Santa Clara. Music and culture have not died in Cuba, as the right-wingers have propagated. As Mario Bauza said, Latin Jazz is American Jazz on top and Afro-Cuban music at the bottom
According to this news center, Russia has some new military weapons that the European power and the USA do not have at the present time
https://www.voltairenet.org/article223118.html
Russia possessed the capability to disconnect NATO orders from its own weapons. This wasn’t a form of jamming; the weapons simply stopped responding to commands. Since some observers doubted its effectiveness, Russia extended this system to all of Syria. And because it operated within a circular area, it partially extended it, for two days, to Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey. No civilian aircraft were able to fly. Subsequently, they deployed this weapon in Kaliningrad and the Black Sea.
The Cuban government wrote on the Granma newspaper that Marco Rubio was a midget trying to obtain the job of a giant, and they said that before he was nominated Secretary of State
He has been pushed to the side by Trump and he is sending to Moscow one of his business partner and his son in law acting as ambassadors but they have not been official nominated by the Congress,
It looks like little Marco can not handle his diplomatic job and the Russians are tough negotiators, and they are holding the fry pan by the handle, and that proxy war is already lost
Nat King Cole was one of the best Jazz piano player and the best jazz singer, as well, Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Davis jr
More weapons for Ukraine.
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If they do that, they are going to have a lot of protests on the street because they must replace bread and butter for weapons. The Europeans workers are different to the American ( USA ) workers
Who is Jeannette Jara the ‘communist” leading Chile presidential election ?
Villa Alemana, Chile – Cumbia music blasts from the speakers of a makeshift stage at a small, unassuming park in Villa Alemana, part of Chile’s central region.
Hundreds of locals crowd onto the paved park grounds. Pockets of friends dance together, and children race around their parents’ legs.
They have come to hear one of the frontrunners in Chile’s presidential race: Jeannette Jara.
A former labour minister, Jara is the nominee representing the leftist coalition in Sunday’s election.
But it is her membership in the Communist Party that makes her presidential bid historic. Not since Chile’s return to democracy in 1990 has a Communist candidate enjoyed such broad, mainstream support.
For some, Jara’s success is a barometer for the economic malaise fuelling this year’s election cycle. For others, her candidacy is a symptom of the growing polarisation within Chilean politics.
Jara has campaigned on the former, playing up her working-class roots. She has pledged to support Chile’s public healthcare system, build affordable housing and raise wages.
“Considering that politics generates so much mistrust, being able to gather like this, with hard-working people, really fills my heart,” Jara, 51, told the crowd in Villa Alemana, dressed in blue jeans and a loose-fitting blazer rolled up at the sleeves.
“It will be my priority to improve people’s quality of life.”
Who is Jeannette Jara the ‘communist” leading Chile presidential election ?
President Donald Trump to pause all migration from third-world countries
I think you are getting confused because he is using “ideology” in the descriptive sense, rather than in the prejoritive sense, as in “false consciousness”.
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That term was privately used by Engels when he sent a letter to Franz Mehring, but he never mentioned it in any of his works, and it was never used by Marx either. And several Marxists have rejected that concept.Marx defined it as the prevailing ideas of the ruling class in any class society, or the distortion of.
realityDonald Trump is not a fascist, and he is not a dictator; he is a reactionary authoritarian right-winger like the Democratic leaders. Only the Trotskyists and Stalinists are the ones who see Fascists all over the earth
Some Democratic leaders have called Trump a fascist and a dictator, but the Democrats have also supported many dictators, military juntas and criminals around the world, and they are warmongers too
The idea that Donald Trump is a Russian agent came from the Democratic leaders when they lost the election, and fascism is a form that capitalism adopted in Italy and Germany. Putin and Trump are pro-capitalist leaders, defenders of the capitalist society, and both promoted the capitalist ideology.
The USA ruling class has a contradiction with the Russian and Chinese capitalists and the European ruling class, but it is not an asset of the Russian capitalist class. Trump is a representative of one sector of the US capitalist class.
Many things that Trump is doing now, he said that he was going to do them on his political campaign and despite that, more than 77 million workers supported and voted for him
Rockhill’s book is a Stalinoid-campist take-down of the Frankfurt School that no one can take seriously. We do not have to agree with any writers or organisations to do a book review; on the contrary, it is much better to do a book review of opposite conceptions because we can explain our own.
His conceptions are not new; most of them have been previously covered by Raya Dunayevskaya, Kevin Anderson, Peter Hudis and Andrew Kliman from the Marxist Humanist point of view, by News and Letters, the Marxist Humanist Tendency and the International Marxist Humanist organisation, and they have written several books, articles, conferences, and book reviews. They have done a much better analysis, and they have written extensively in a critical way about the Frankfurt School
Kevin Anderson has debunked the concept of Western Marxism because they have done a profound investigation into Marx’s ethnological notebooks, which is more wider anthropological study than Engels book on the Family, pre-capitalist societies and the state, and the Asiatic despotic mode of production, which is different to European feudalism, and they have considered that Marxian theory is not a Western or Eurocentric conception, it does cover and it applies to the whole world
The idea that Marx’s conceptions are not anti-colonial or lack the knowledge of colonialism has been debunked too, after the apologists of socialism of the XXI century made allegations that Marx and Engels were not aware of “third-world” ( in the traditional sense, instead of the real definition ) colonialism when they wrote hundreds of articles about that, the problem emerged when Marx letter on Simom Bolivar calling him the Latin American Napoleon, which is not an incorrect analysis of simon bolivar, and he knew what he was saying
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-peace-deal-trump-driscoll-abu-dhabi-talks-latest/
Ukraine agrees to peace proposal, with only “minor details” to settle, official says, but no word from Russia
By Camilla Schick, Margaret Brennan, James LaPorta, Nancy Cordes
Updated on: November 25, 2025 / 3:14 PM EST / CBS News
