You can just learn the alphabet without learning any vocabulary.

Just one more humanitarian intervention…

Forgiveness can be great in certain circumstances, but it has to come from the victims, not from the perpetrators, enablers and benefactors of the violence (Democrats).

Maybe, but no reason to get lazy though. It’s citizens are way more powerful and better armed than it’s victims. They have way more moral responsibility to do something and who will build up socialism inside North America after the revolution, if there’s no strong, organized left? The reasons to get out and organized are no where as strong as inside the empire and the excuses not to do it nowhere as weak.

No one will bother to come and rescue US people from capitalism, if they don’t demonstrate the will to at least take responsibility and rule themselves after. There’s no way around preparing for revolution, even if you think it will rely on outside help.

Good sentiment, but bullshit quote. Fanon only indirectly criticized peaceful protests.

Here’s a real Fanon quote:

“Colonialism is not a machine capable of thinking, a body endowed with reason. It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence.”

Yes, they are compradors.

They have always represented imperialist interests. Their prosperity is tied to the imperial project. Specifically in Lebanon for example:

The 14th of March coalition was constituted of compradors. Most of them being part of the Lebanese bourgeoisie: owners of banks and gas stations and shareholders in many companies. Together with the 8th of March coalition parties, they ran the Lebanese government for 18 years.

It’s similar for the current government.

That’s the whole point. “Israeli” politicians outright say so.

Embarrassment is an evolutionary adaptation that functions to make social situations work. Individuals who never get embarrassed are less likely to manage social cues, have sex and get pregnant and pass their genes on. So feeling embarrassed is actually proof of all the sex your ancestors had and you could be having. /j

Source: none, it’s easy to make up arguments involving supposedly evolved behavior. Never take them too seriously, they are almost impossible to disproof. Countless other explanations are possible. Like it could be cultural or a byproduct of another adaptation or a mixture of different things.

I think you’re both right. They are right about religious institutions in class societies. You use the word “initially” and are right about religion in those very early, classless societies called “primitive communism”. When people started using agriculture, classes arose with material surplus, patriarchal structures formed to manage inheritance of that surplus and over some time, the violent suppression of oppressed classes by the ruling class was taken up by various institutions that coalesced into states. Religious institutions fit in here. They became tools of oppression or were oppressed and destroyed themselves. Those that survived fell in line. And their task in class societies is to produce hegemony. In a revolutionary moment, religion has sometimes been adapted to serve liberation and that could happen again.

It’s important to make these two distinctions when talking about religion. First, between individual believe and organized religious institutions. Even a deeply religious person can still condem all religious institutions. And second, based on the societal context: religious institutions at what time, in what society? Religious believes of members of which class? Do they help to liberate or oppress? Do they urge to accept circumstances or to fight for freedom? Both is possible.

There’s also a third distinction that comes up often: between orthodoxy (for example what’s written in holy scripture) and lived historical reality.

Personally, I’m an atheist, but I have religious friends who I respect deeply.

Why the down votes? It literally happened exactly this way. Who could possibly deny this?

Now what? Depends