‘F-ck Germany … and f-ck Israel!’ giggled climate mascot Greta Thunberg from behind a lectern draped in a keffiyeh while wearing another one around her neck.
In a November tweet, Ms Thunberg said she had been travelling through northern Kurdistan, listening to ‘countless stories of the current systematic oppression and repression’ and the ‘destruction and exploitation of the nature’.
She added, ‘The government continues to use terrorism as a pretext to silence its political opponents.’
The merging of the Climate Change ‘let’s fix carbon with communism’ movement with Free Palestine is idiotic but predictable. Both ideas are fronts for socialism. Both tug on humanitarian heartstrings to justify the destruction of society to make way for a dictatorship of bastards.
When environmental activists express a desire to ‘f-ck the West’ we should listen to them and consider if their politics on climate might have an ulterior purpose.
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The Marxist Left Review carried an article in June stating, ‘The new Nakba taking place in Gaza has made it clearer than ever that the struggle for Palestine is a struggle against the entire system of capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East.’
It goes on to add, ‘…the first task of socialists across the world is to offer our solidarity to the Palestinians and their liberation struggle … to do this socialists in Australia and across the world have thrown ourselves into organising protests, sit-ins, pickets, blockades, camps, strikes, and forums to grow and deepen the movement … there’s an urgent need to convince activists of the fundamental connection between capitalism and Palestinian oppression.’
Convincing the most privileged children in human history that the solution to their present state of comfort is a Palestinian-esque liberation featuring socialism might seem like an impossible task but universities act like crucibles, distorting reality while insulating young adults from the truth. Their experience is learned in the lecture hall rather than lived. What does their world look like post-liberation? Seriously. What magic realm do they envision for their fellow man?
The Middle East is, as many have pointed out, dominated by Stalinism and awash with tribal socialist dictatorships that promise freedom while establishing extreme Islamic religious theocracies that employ powerful arms of military violence, foreign assistance, and enjoy international bureaucratic protection from disastrous organisations such as the United Nations. These regimes sustain themselves almost solely on international aid, war mongering, and the sale of fossil fuels.
They abhor every value treasured by Western university socialists and yet the young cheer beside those who would kill and enslave them if given half a chance.
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