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Sort of related but I was going to post this on facebook this morning but for some reason I can't access it now.

I think it's important to note the language being used surrounding "environmental" movements. They don't really talk of "environmental justice" anymore. Only "climate" justice. This is a clear signal that most mainstream environmentalism has been drafted into the service of internationalist agendas. The open secret is that big corporations have 0 intention of halting their plundering, poisoning, and death-creating activities. Quite the contrary. Every indication is that have every their intention is to increasing them exponentially. So the "climate" movement is a thin pretext. They want to implement a system of top-down control on the rest of humanity under the guise of abating a climate crisis and this is a plan that has been in the works for a while. Figures/mascots such as Greta Thunberg are only there to help create the illusion of popular support.

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HI Tessa, I am moved and fascinated by your personal approach to history. It is such a contrast to my own growing up in capitalist America, an empire built on genocide and enslavement. Growing up I was told the USSR was evil, all bad. And I remember thinking that was impossible, everything contains both, and pure evil isn't possible. I was always intrigued on a superficial level, but I knew in my bones that this 'communism' of each according to their ability, each according to their needs' was not actually happening there. I met the Trotskyist Internationalist, the SWP through a mural project when they were touring artists who were working on a mural in NYC. I had just been blown away by the Mexican muralists and was quite disappointed by the artists I knew who said they didn't like paintings with human faces. The idea that a Mexican worker could learn the enitre history of colonization by looking at murals at the DMV seemed quite powerful and revolutionary, as opposed to seeing abstract expressionism. This party taught me about Trotsky and his fight against Stalin, it was the fight between workers of the world VS all for Soviet Russia, another form of nationalism. I spent 10 years in this party trying to fit in, changing the way I dressed to business casual to be taken seriously by my co-workers. I remember with great fondness the days of working in garment factories in Miami and NYC, and the absolute solidarity as the clarity of our Marxist economics of labor power being the one thing that can be purchased that makes more value, unlike anything else you can buy, except for seeds. I learned so much from my co-workers that were mostly Latin American women who were so incredibly grateful to live in USA, where they could get a restraining order against an abusive husband if they needed to. I worked in Miami during the Elian Gonzalez ordeal selling the Militant newspaper door to door in working class neighborhoods of Cubans. One of my favorite Cubans was a strike organizer from a factory in Ft Lauderdale, who cringed with knowing truth when I told her Fidel would be proud. She knew it was true, that she came here with certain expectations of what was acceptable treatment in a work place, and the skills to organize against anything less than those conditions. I met many Cubans who's minds were blown by the racism they experienced. It wasn't until the rectification period that abruptly ended after the fall of the USSR, that was allowing Cuba to forge a true revolutionary course fueled by love against USSR's Stalinist blueprint. The USA forced Cuba into this arrangement, and continues to punish Cuba for standing up to US imperialism, creating an example that it is possible. I met some American Black farmers before and after their trip to Cuba, where their minds were blown by the organization of farming, and one kept saying, "I saw a lotta love in Cuba." The idea that a funeral was like $5, was a huge deal because many Black farmers have lost their land if too many people in their family die in close time frames because of the cost of funerals, not something I had ever thought about. I say all this because I admired the Bolshevik revolution, that from APril to Oct. they were able to go from a socialist democracy that would be just more of the same to, workers and farmers taking power for the first time in human history. I do still ascribe to a class analysis, even though I have blossomed way beyond my marxist teachings, which completely deny the unseen world and the power of love. Though Che Guevara was always clear on this, that a true revolutionary is motivated by love, and his wish for his children is they would care equally about a stranger in a strange land as much as a known loved one. I totally appreciate your personal stories and it is the saddest thing ever to see how empathy was weaponized by the soviet bureaucracy. Industrialization and exploitation of the working class brought so much 'progress' that makes our lives easier, and the cost of which we are starting to come to terms with. The question is how do we come to terms? Here as an American with a lackluster education, and drive for greatness in my working class schools, I have to come to terms with the genocide and slavery which benefitted my ancestors and continues to afford me privileges despite amazing progress. I have been thinking a lot about grief and gratitude as two pieces that create the possibility of fully feeling each of them. Grief for the blood on which this nation was built, and perhaps gratitude for the structures that have continued to allow people to fight for their rights. I've lawyers had a thing against lawyers until an exhibit at the NY Historical Society around voting rights under Jim Crow elucidated to me the power of fighting in the courts. Legal battles have won us many rights, but were equally backed by bodies in the streets. Not sure what my point is in writing all this, other than to be the other side of the world coming to terms with the same things from the other side of the ocean. Sending you much love and gratitude for helping me see a more multi-faceted view. I have worked with Russians in factories too, and love my many Russian friends who see right through this latest attempt to tighten control on our lives because of their experiences. But at the end of it all, while love will save the day, it is equally important to know who the enemy is, and the Tzar was no friend of working people, and perhaps peasants lived a better life because they were more connected to nature, and the destruction f this by industrialization/communist state is a travesty. I am most interested in creating regenerative villages that produce nutrient rich food for the peoples of the world, while sequestering carbon, and composting our shit, and planting trees, and loving each other and the earth as we are all one. I hope to dance with you soon, in the streets, or in the woods. This analysis is one that makes most sense to me, bringing together our gut biomes, and the earth's biome, the connection that is lost through all the inauthenticity of materialism be it soviet style, or capitalist style, either way it's the disconnection that allows them to maintain their power. So the next revolutions will be grounded in our being biomes on a biome, and the love, adoration and wonder that fosters. Love & Light, Fairy Ann

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