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Richard

Lao Socialism with Buddhist Characteristics

monthlyreview.org/2025/04/01/l

Through the doctrine of karma, it encourages a prudent approach to natural resource use and discourages greed and overexploitation. This ecological ethic has shaped Lao environmental policies and practices, fostering the integration of 'green growth' principles into national development strategies.

View of the Nam Ou from the Pha Daeng Peak Viewpoint
Monthly Review · Monthly Review | Lao Socialism with Buddhist CharacteristicsThis article will be released in full online April 14, 2025. Yumeng Liu takes a deep dive into the history of Laos, the only socialist nation among the Theravāda Buddhist countries of Southeast Asia…
#Ideology#Marxism#Movements
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Today, it’s increasingly clear that it’s the tech oligarchs — not their algorithmically-steered platforms—who present the greater danger. Their arsenal combines three deadly implements: plutocratic gravity (fortunes so vast they distort reality’s basic physics), oracular authority (their technological visions treated as inevitable prophecy), and platform sovereignty (ownership of the digital intersections where society’s conversation unfolds). Musk’s takeover of Twitter (now X), Andreessen’s strategic investments into Substack, Peter Thiel’s courting of Rumble, the conservative YouTube: they’ve colonized both the medium and the message, the system and the lifeworld.

We must update our taxonomies to account for this new species of oligarch-intellectuals. If yesterday’s public intellectual resembled a careful archaeologist methodically excavating cultural artifacts for display in rarefied literary journals, today’s model is the demolition expert, wiring entire societal structures with ideological explosives and detonating them from the safe distance of offshore accounts. They don’t write about the future; they install it, beta-testing theories on unwitting populations in history’s largest unreviewed experiment.

What distinguishes them from previous wealth-encrusted elites isn’t avarice but verbosity—a torrential output that would exhaust even Balzac. Where industrial barons funded think tanks to launder interests into policy papers, our oligarch-intellectuals cut out the middleman. Forget steering the algorithms: oligarch-intellectuals steer the conversation itself – and they do it with philosophical meme-grenades. Dropped at 3 AM on X, they invariably become international headlines by breakfast."

theideasletter.org/essay/silic

www.theideasletter.orgThe New Legislators of Silicon Valley - The Ideas LetterMorozov describes a newly emerged Silicon Valley class of “oligarch-intellectuals,” billionaire tech elites who combine vast wealth, ideological ambition, and the philosophical pretense to reshape public policy, culture, and even…
#SiliconValley#Oligarchs#OIigarchy
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology.

History will be used to justify the power of the ruling elites in the present by deifying the ruling elites of the past. It will disappear the suffering of the victims of genocide, enslavement, discrimination and institutional racism. The repression and violence during our labor wars — hundreds of workers were killed by gun thugs, company goons, police and soldiers from National Guard units in the struggle to unionize — will be untold. Historical figures, such as Woodrow Wilson, will be social archetypes whose darker actions, including the decision to re-segregate the federal government and oversee one of the most aggressive campaigns of political repression in U.S. history, will be ignored.

In the America of our Trump-approved history books — I have read the textbooks used in “Christian” schools so this is not conjecture — equal opportunity for all exists and has always existed. America exemplifies human progress. It has constantly improved and perfected itself under the tutelage of its enlightened and almost exclusively white male rulers. It is the vanguard of “Western civilization.”

x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1

X (formerly Twitter)Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) on XRestoring Lies and Insanity to American History
#USA#Trump#History
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Still Mad About CD Prices

Punch #Nazis? Sure. Talk about all the Nazis dying? OK, whatever. Angry at racists? Me, too. Angry at bigots of all kinds? Hell, yes.

But don't get it twisted. The people must be resisted, sometimes even fought, but they are not the root enemy, and if you find yourself just wanting to hurt bad people, you might become a worse person.

The enemies are the ideas. The #ideology. The cultural patterns. Nazism is worse than #Nazis. Bigotry is worse than bigots. #Racism is worse than racists. #Autoritarianism is worse than authoritarians.

We fight the ideas. We fight them with better ideas.

Also sometimes with punching

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CBC Nova Scotia

Maxime Bernier decries 'woke ideology' at campaign stop in Dartmouth
People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier made a campaign stop Monday in Dartmouth, N.S., where he condemned “woke ideology” and said Canada is on the precipice of going “down the drain.”
#politics #campaign #ideology #Dartmouth #NS #Canada
cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

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doboprobodyne

@hanse_mina

Good article on how Russian subthreshold warfare activity works. Thank you for sharing it!

I think it's important to quote this bit of the article:

> The company’s founders allegedly knew the company was backed by Russian money, but Pool and the other influencers—who included Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin—were “unwitting” figures, according to officials. Tenet shut down soon after the indictment was released.

Sure, we have no idea if that's true, but I'd say it's an important feature.

#news#russia#propaganda
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Scott Pfitzinger

Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to spy on the social media activity of immigrant students.

It’s an ideological purge of foreign students that was revealed in a new directive.

skepticallibrarian.com/2025/03

The Skeptical Librarian · Rubio Orders State Department to Spy on Immigrant StudentsIt's the next step in this ridiculous and immoral attack on non-white people. Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to spy on the social media activity of immigrant students. It's an ideological purge of foreign students that was revealed in a new directive that was leaked. "The Trump administration is requiring that foreign students [...]
#bias#ideology#fascism
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A.Stringer

"Most people drop the #ideology pretty quickly once they get the #support they need. They belong to these groups because they’re getting something from them. You have to become the surrogate of that support so they don’t need the group any more."

As a hate-filled kid, I turned to #farrightideology. Now I help others avoid that path | Matthew Quinn | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#hatecrime
#farrightgroups
#farrightgrooming
#underlyingcausesofracism
#populism
#supportgroup
#grooming

The Guardian · As a hate-filled kid, I turned to far-right ideology. Now I help others avoid that pathBy Georgia Wilkins
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Donald Trump opened yet another squirmish yesterday in his fascist Culture Wars on American institutions, issuing an executive order that purports to '[Restore] Truth and Sanity to American History' by ordering the Smithsonian Institution to teach only the good stuff about America…."

~ Doktor Zoom

#Trump #Smithsonian #ideology
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wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-or

Wonkette · Donald Trump Orders Smithsonian To Re-Revise All The HistoryBy Doktor Zoom
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William Lindsey :toad:

As Adam Gabbatt and Marina Dunbar, Trump has a new institution in his sights: sounding for all the world like a recrudescent Stalin, he's produced an executive order claiming that the Smithsonian suffers from "improper ideology."

#Trump #Smithsonian #ideology
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A big goal of this and other similar executive orders is probably, of course, to distract us from the damage being done to the federal government to pave the way for lowering taxes on the super-rich.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for ‘improper ideology’By Adam Gabbatt
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Heretical_i

"Meet the new #authoritarianism boss. Same as the old #authoritarian boss."

"How DOGE isn't just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule."... a #Libertarians #techbros #Broligarchy

"The #DarkEnlightenment: The #TechOligarchy #Ideology Driving #DOGE’s Destruction"

nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/th #Libertarianism= #Fascism pretending to have democratic goals, and many of you were indoctrinated to accept it via #HarryPotter books/moovees

naked capitalism · The Dark Enlightenment: The Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction | naked capitalismHow DOGE isn't just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.
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The Open Buddhist University

📰 Self-Views Converge During Enjoyable Conversations (A ✨NEW✨, free, 12-page article)

Tags: #Ideology #Relationships
buddhistuniversity.net/content

The Open Buddhist University · Self-Views Converge During Enjoyable ConversationsWe found that participants tended to have more similar self-views post-conversation than pre-conversation, an effect we term “inter-self alignment.” Further, the more two partners’ self-views aligned, the more they enjoyed their conversation and were inclined to interact again. This effect depended on both conversation partners becoming aligned. These findings suggest that the way we see ourselves is coauthored in the act of dialogue
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