@markhburton@mstdn.social"A critique of French Theory thus needs to go hand in hand with a critique of Western Marxism and its fourfold retreat from materialism, the dialectics of nature, class, and anti-imperialism."
John Bellamy Foster on the reactionary role and purpose of French Theory.
French Theory in the Intellectual Cold War - Monthly Review
@cdarwin@c.imThe euphoria on the right after the unjustifiable kidnapping of Nicolšs Maduro has ended an era of illusion.
No more is Donald Trump’s movement interested in posturing for the credulous as restorers of peace.
No more is there outward deception or internal struggle over the meaning of Trumpist foreign policy.
There is only violent, extractive dominance politics abroad
to match violent, extractive dominance politics at home.
America First is moving closer to i…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaJust me and my trusty phone going up against Western imperialism and its trillion-dollar propaganda machine.
#Anarchism #Capitalism #Fediverse
@fgraver@hcommons.socialDonald Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is Growing More Dangerous https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-greenland-denmark-nato-imperialism/
@cdarwin@c.imBoth imploding nuclear superpowers from the Cold War
have become a threat to humanity’s attempts to establish global peace and security.
From Ukraine to Gaza, from Venezuela to Greenland, events are moving very quickly, and this will not likely let up in 2026.
We need difficult, pivotal changes if we are to meet the threats to our sovereignty.
Neo-liberal corporate globalization,
which spread more quickly after the demise of the Soviet Union,
did not bring …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US
“Almost every country in the region has experienced some form of US intervention, overt or covert, in the past decades.”
https://www.theguardian…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io…it’s a mistake to •stop• the analysis there. This is not the same old US imperialism as ever. The false wisdom of “They’re all the same” is as always a giant intellectual trap for the left. This is not Iraq again. This is not Chile again. This is not a rerun.
The salty anger of @… is appropriate here; see posts below.
US imperialism was and is a terrible thing with a long history. Also, we are now in uncharted waters. Both these things are true.
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832859270597712
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832871321693950
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832717964769375
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caNow #TheAmericanFascist has appointed an 'envoy' to help convince Greenlanders to ditch Denmark and join the USA. Denmark is shocked and angered, as they should be. Greenlanders are wholly opposed.
There is poetic irony of a Louisiana politician being tapped to lead a "Greenland Purchase" by America. I very much doubt the result will be the same. But there are some interesting parallels.
Lousisiana Purchase (1808)
a) Made possible by squabbles and warring in Europe.
b) involved purchase of 2.14 million km2 of North America for $380 Million in 2024 dollars. Greenland is 2.17 million km2.
It's difficult to fathom just how undervalued the Louisana Purchase was...nevermind the whole — selling Indigenous Lands without Treaty — issue. But hey... that would be another parallel with today's Inuit and Greenland Peoples.
Back in the modern context, America's Fascists just want to do Fascist things like take over sovereign countries and oppress nations, not unlike Hitler, the Kaiser's Germany, the Napoleans, Imperial Britain, Conquistador-ist Spain, and Tsarist-Stalinist-Putinist Russia.
This all needs to be kept -- forefully if need be -- in the past. We cannot allow these regressive dictators to come back.
He must be stopped.
United States of America!
Americans!
Stop prancing around with Christmas presents as if nothing is happening and DEPOSE YOUR PRESIDENT ffs! This is ON YOU first and foremost!!
#USAPoli #Denmark #Canada #Imperialism #TheWorld #UN #NATO #Russia #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Louisiana #LouisianaPurchase #Greenland
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgmd132ge4o
@ErikUden@mastodon.deRE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116182695277730020
Imperialism wasn't done due to the racist beliefs that those we were colonizing are barbaric, the lie that they were barbarians was invented as a tool to justify the capitalist necessity of colonization.
@MartinM@norden.socialThe USA is already in the process of seizing Greenland. #imperialism
@joxean@mastodon.socialThis is probably the last nail in the coffin for trust in international laws for years to come, I'm afraid.
#venezuela #usa #imperialism
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's claims to Venezuelan oil are part of broader 'resource imperialism', experts say (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/trump-venezuela-oil-resource-imperialism
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p33#a251224p33
@brian_gettler@mas.toToday's example of media and analysts actively disbelieving what's plain:
Why is the Trump regime so interested in Greenland? It doesn't make sense! There's no economic, military, or geopolitical explanation!
But what if there were? And what if it was territorial expansion for its own sake? What if it was, in a word, imperialism? Those on the radio this morning entertained all sorts of increasingly odd theories but, somehow, empire-building was a bridge too far.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI never saw Godzilla (1998), but #monsterdon watched it tonight. I *still* haven't seen it (I was putting kids to bed at 9pm), but that movie soundtrack included an incredible song by Rage Against The Machine that called out movies like Godzilla for being part of American imperialism.
🎶 Coca-cola is back in the veins of Saigon. And Rambo, too, he [or we?] got a dope pair 'a …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyDutch front pages today:
@…: In the year 2026, imperialism seems to become the norm again.
@… : Human rights? Oil is Trump's driver.
@hex@kolektiva.socialIf you are an anti-fascist, you are against petroleum. Petroleum funds fascism globally. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex driving global imperialism, from both the US and Russia. Motonormitivity is fascist, both in it's elitist roots and in it's ties to historical fascism (Hitler hated bikes, just on principle). Oil is militarism.
Oil is the dominant resource which drives war, both in terms of it being the primary spoil wars are fought over and in terms of fueling the military vehicles and weapons that carry out those wars. Practically every war since (and including) WWII has been over oil. Genocides are carried out to secure oil. Gaza is over oil, in more ways than one.
Oil is the absolute enemy, and AI is simply an extension of that: an attempt to atomize us so we can't resist the oil-centric global order, one last grasp at the control over our lives oil has given to those whose power is now threatened by a solar punk future.
"I haven't written for a few weeks now. As I write the closing chapter and begin rewriting previous sections, everything feels both more distant and more immediate. The working title [Kairos] has only continued to feel more and more resonant, both during the writing and during my pause."
Now is the time to resist by making something different, by creating a world fundamentally opposed to these systems of oppression.
This is the last in my Kairos series. From here on out I'll be editing to try and make it more of a book than a series of posts. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. All editing is welcome (typos, spell checks, questions and challenges). Between ADHD and dyslexia, it's always hard for my brain to notice mistakes in my own text so I always appreciate the support of those who can.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/kairos
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caOne of the points Mr Masala made was that one of big requirements for democracies and free countries in Europe to be successful in resisting Russian and American imperialism is for societies to be resilient and cohesive. My comment there would be that we have seen a general reaction in Canada of common resolve against Trump’s comments and actions. I don’t have any doubt that if push came to shove, the Canadian population would be extremely united and resistant against any kind of attack by the USA. Likewise, I think Danish citizens are showing a similar reaction. But would Canada band together to send troops to protect and potentially die in Europe?
Maybe. But I am less sure.
@…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThe US Is a Weakened and Dangerous Empire https://jacobin.com/2026/01/us-trump-imperialism-decline-venezuela/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaYou do not vote syndicalist, you organize syndicalist, so treating it like an election choice in Kaiserreich is fundamentally silly.
Because of that, I’m buying myself Hearts of Iron IV just to install Kaiserreich and laugh at it.
Image is probably AI-generated; I grabbed it from DuckDuckGo and genuinely do not care.
#Humor
@benb@osintua.euBringing art to the cemetery — How 'The Invisible Gallery' reclaims legacy overshadowed by Russian imperialism: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/bringing-art-to-the-cemetery.html
@cdarwin@c.imIt was outside the United States that the dissonance struck most deeply.
I remember sitting on high-speed trains that glided so fast and silently they seemed to erase distance itself,
watching wind farms cross the horizon like silent fleets.
In country after country
— places far smaller and, on paper, far poorer than ours
— I kept asking the same question:
how could they manage to build what we could not?
Why did the richest nation on earth feel like…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialMarco Rubio afirma que Washington controla el dinero del petróleo de Venezuela: "Es una cuenta bloqueada por el Tesoro de EEUU"
USA conttrols Venezuela's oil revenue, via a US Treasury account.
#imperialism
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPutting this in the context of decades of US imperialism is both appropriate and necessary. Look at this map: even just in the Americas, this US-instigated coup of a foreign country has a long and miserable series of precedents.
However…
https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115830727173641772
@joxean@mastodon.socialUS imperialism at its best. Fuck USA.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115878047662521734
This is where my anti-imperialist views have to apparently fucking show themselves, fuck American imperialism, fuck north korea, but making false accusations is a fucking moral abomination.<…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIt is time that Canada and Finland cancel this ice breaker contract. (Seaspan is partnering with the Finnish company on the design and build)
If all Trump understands are "deals" then he needs to understand that threatening allies is a "deal breaker”
#canPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #USA #Greenland #Imperialism #Arctic
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q48d71ke8o
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMAGA is a fragile, already-teetering coalition that — even more than usual in US politics! — is run by, paid for by, and kept alive by a very, very few ultra-wealthy people. Yes, racism and fascistic thinking are rampant, but the forces that organize them into a coherent movement are forces of concentrated wealth.
I don’t think we even have to completely unravel the entirety of US political-economic imperialism to unravel this authoritarian slide. We just have to make authoritarianism in the US look unprofitable.
There’s plenty of good work for all of us there, inside and outside the US.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialWatched the showing of 'Culloden' on BBC4. Saw it at 13 when it came out, on recommendation of our history teacher as we happened to be doing that period. He was shocked at how "gory" it was but there'd been nothing like it in the TV before.
Part off my education about imperialism and suppression of traditional people's, but also an knnoculation against the romantic myth of the Jacobites.
I've always been much more Jacobin than Jacobite.
@cdarwin@c.im“Belligerent” was how one Democratic lawmaker described a diatribe given by top White House adviser #Stephen #Miller on CNN Monday evening regarding the Trump administration’s right to take over Venezuela — or any other country — if doing so is in the supposed interest of the US.
To Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), howev…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialScores of people gathered outside Manchester Central library in very cold conditions this evening, in solidarity with the Venezuelan, Cuban, and all people and against this nearly new adventure of US imperialism.
#Manchester #Venezuela
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioA taste of "empires and vassal states" for boomers and later generations:
#imperialism #experience #education #history #USA #Venezuela
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s recent claims that the US should keep Venezuelan oil from seized tankers
are part of a broader belief in rightwing “resource imperialism”, experts say.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has escalated pressure on Venezuela, invoking drug-trafficking claims.
This month, the US intercepted two tankers carrying Venezuelan oil and began pursuing a third,
while intensifying its campaign against the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro.
Critics have comp…
@buercher@tooting.chCritics have compared the offensive to the Iraq war, citing a familiar mix of regime-change rhetoric, security pretexts and oil interests. This month, the Trump administration labeled fentanyl – which it says flows from Venezuela – a “weapon of mass destruction”.
On Monday, Trump suggested oil seized from Venezuela could be treated as a US asset. “Maybe we will sell it, maybe we will keep it... Maybe we’ll use it in the strategic reserves. We’re keeping the ships also.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/trump-venezuela-oil-resource-imperialism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaU.S. imperialism: different branding, same payload.
#Imperialism #USPol #US #Humor
@cdarwin@c.imUnlike his predecessors,
Trump does not even pretend that his imperialism serves any purpose nobler than American domination
For Trump, “America first” didn’t imply any legal or moral opposition to foreign invasions.
To the contrary, he criticized Bush for not seizing Iraq’s oil.
He denounced regime change and nation building because they allegedly expended American blood and treasure on behalf of non-Americans.
Instead, Trump promised short wars in which onl…
@cdarwin@c.imFrom 1977 to 1979,
June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of "The Sisterhood",
a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.
Whether addressing genocide, imperialism or the American literary establishment,
the writers in the group,
which included Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange,
saw their work as a means to make interventions against dominant narratives of colon…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIf the USA tries to move on Greenland, there ain’t no one in Canada who thinks we should just sit idly by…. At least according to this extremely scientific polling.
cc: @…
#TheAmericanFascist #uspoli #imperialism #eu
#russiaUkraineWar #ukraine #russia #canada #nato #usa https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/115840960973402257
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioMy #speculation: #Venezuela for oil, #Greenland for oil and rare earths, #Brazil for land and human resource, #Gaza for land. All to benefit crypto and big tech, and of course personal enrichment. 🤑
BTW African countries beware. ⚠️
#imperialism #aggression #lawlessness
