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Merz announces €1 bln package for Ukraine, including long range missiles.
Putin: Only one step ahead from nuclear war.
I think he would be appalled. 2026, and the proletariat having next to no social awareness. Nationalism rampant. Fundamentalist religion rampant. Thousands of flat earthers (while socialists number only a few hundred). The vast majority worldwide rejecting evolution. Mass ignorance of history.
Apparently, many of Europe’s capitalists want to do business with Russia, yet the governments continue to intensify war hysteria.
Aren’t heads of state and their minions supposed to enforce the will of the capitalist class they represent? Are the capitalists in munitions the most powerful? Surely they too want Russia as a market?Tass:
Western statements on Kaliningrad
– Russia has taken note of statements from European capitals about plans to blockade the Kaliningrad Region and considers them reckless: “We have repeatedly heard statements from Poland and other European countries – quite reckless statements – that also touched on Kaliningrad.”– Russian diplomats are reminding “hotheads” in Europe that Russia’s policy documents provide for a nuclear response to any attempt to blockade the Kaliningrad Region: “It is only natural that our diplomats are trying to remind the hotheads in Europe of our fundamental documents on the matter.
I see nothing wrong with the word human. It is the name of our species of ape.
I don’t know why we add the word being to it. We don’t say feline being, canine being, simian being or gorilla being, do we?What I do object to are words such as humane, humanitarianism, etc , because they single out compassion and caring as specifically human traits, which is not the case.
Marx and Engels were Victorians and used Victorian progressivist terminology, including describing pre-capitalist, pre-colonial societies as “barbarous.” That doesn’t mean we should do the same. Their writings are not “holy scriptures” and we are not learn-by-rote followers.
