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左派と資本主義の間のデジタル格差を埋める、左派の緊急の使命

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左派は現在、技術を階級闘争の主要な戦線ではなく二次的な関心事として扱っているため、戦いの一部で敗れています。しかし、この戦いはまだ終わっていません。勝利はスローガンからではなく、技術の意識的かつ効果的な活用に基づくビジョンを実践的なプログラムに変え、資本主義のデジタル支配に対抗する実行可能な代替案を提供することから生まれます。左派は防御的な立場にとどまってはならない。技術闘争に積極的に参加し、技術の受動的な利用者ではなく、未来を再形成する力となる明確な戦略を掲げなければなりません。

Bridging the digital divide between the left and capitalism, an Urgent Mission for the Left

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The left is currently losing part of the battle because it still treats technology as a secondary concern, rather than as a primary front in the class struggle. But this battle is not over. Victory will not come from slogans but from turning vision into practical programs, based on the conscious and effective use of technology and on offering viable alternatives to capitalist digital dominance. The left must not remain in a defensive position. It must actively engage in the technological struggle with a clear strategy—one where it is not a passive user of technology but a force reshaping its future.

デジタル社会主義か絶滅か:資本主義の最も激しい段階におけるベネズエラの教訓

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ベネズエラで起きたことは、現代史の中で孤立した例外的な出来事ではありません。これは、世界のさまざまな場所で進化し繰り返されている包括的かつ統合的なデジタル資本主義戦略の不可欠な一部であり、街頭や広場での闘争と並行してデジタル闘争で用いられています。マドゥロ逮捕事件から得られる最も厳しく明確な教訓は、現在の資本主義がもはや伝統的な強硬な軍事力だけに頼っているわけではなく、必要に応じてそれを保持し使用しているということです。

Digital Socialism or Extinction: Venezuela’s Lesson amid Capitalism’s Most Ferocious Phase

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The harshest and clearest lesson from the incident of Maduro’s arrest is that capitalism in its current stage no longer relies only on traditional hard military force, although it still retains and uses it when necessary. It has developed a complex and intertwined digital system capable of penetrating geographical and political borders, monitoring individuals and groups with amazing accuracy, manipulating information and shaping public awareness in ways that were not possible in any previous era, and restricting and paralyzing leftist and progressive movements before they reach the stage of real danger to its interests.

資本に奉仕する人工知能か、それとも解放のためのツールか?

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人工知能に対する資本主義の支配は、もはや生産関係の再現にとどまらず、支配と政治的抑圧の直接的なツールにもなっている。今日、人工知能は、大量監視システム、顔認識、個人やグループの政治的行動の分析などに使用されています。これにより、抑圧的な政権は、いわゆる民主主義国であっても、事前に確立された「レッドライン」を越える、つまり資本主義システムの構造に深刻な脅威をもたらす潜在的な急進的な左翼の抵抗を弱体化または阻止するために先制的に介入することができます。

Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Capital or a Tool for Liberation?

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… Just as machines were used during the industrial revolution to intensify exploitation instead of reducing working hours, artificial intelligence today is employed in automation to lower production costs and reduce the need for human labor in most cases, imposing more precarious and less secure working conditions.

This also deepens alienation, as manual and intellectual workers are turned into human tools in their workplaces and replaced by algorithms, which leads to increased unemployment or forces them to seek alternative work.…

DT’s first moves deepen world instability

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The following article has encountered difficulty when linked from social media. For example, FB says it (but not other articles from the same site) is spam and removes the link from posts and comments as of Feb 19, 2025.  If you are having trouble. feel free to link to this. Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ offensive […]

「選択する必要がある」 ：イスラエルが病院を標 的にする中、マッズ・ギ ルバート医師がガザとの 医療連帯を語る

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DR.マッツ・ギルバート：昨日、シファの同僚から報告を受けました。医療スタッフが熱を出している。疲労困憊しているからかもしれないが、合理的に考えれば、感染しているからだろう。1万人、2万人、3万人の人々が非常に密集した空間に詰め込まれ、十分なトイレもなく、手を洗うための十分な水（水道水）もなく、赤ちゃんを清潔にすることもできず、傷口を清潔にすることもできなければ、さまざまな症状を引き起こす病原体が蔓延することになる。胃や腸から下痢や嘔吐が起こり、赤痢菌やサルモネラ菌、その他の消化器系感染症の原因菌によって引き起こされる。これは大きな問題だ。そして、すでに私たちはそれを目の当たりにしている。

「これは止めなければならない」：イスラエルによるガザ病院襲撃を糾弾する医師たち

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イスラエルの空爆がガザの病院をさらに襲うとの警戒が高まるなか、ガザの医療システムとイスラエルによる主要病院の避難命令について、2人の医師に話を聞いた。ガザのアル・アハリ・アル・アラビ病院の整形外科部長であるファデル・ナイム医師は、イスラエルは「病院周辺を爆撃した」と言う。40年以上にわたってガザで救急外傷治療に携わってきたマッズ・ギルバート医師は、イスラエルが証拠もなしに軍事活動の疑惑を利用して市民病院を攻撃したことを非難する。”これはすべて、ガザのパレスチナ人に対する甚大な威嚇の一環なのです “とギルバート医師は言う。”パレスチナ人への具体的な連帯を示すために “エジプトから包囲された領土に入ろうとしているのだ。

“Decontaminated” soil from Fukushima to be spread far and wide

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This is how the Japanese government almost literally sweeps the problem of nuclear contamination under the rug. Note how the standard for safety has been relaxed to allow this to take place. Original article appears below the translation. While the Kishida administration is pushing for a “return to nuclear power,” the current situation in Fukushima […]

Left Sectarianism and Ukraine

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Vets for Peace members have visited Okinawa in solidarity with the resistance movement against American bases. Will other VFP members uncritically supporting Putin or Nato spell an end to the anti-war movement itself and mean that Okinawans and Palestinians must henceforth go it alone? Pro Putin and pro American military positions on the part of some members of peace organizations might just bring that day closer.

An Epitaph for Kishida’s New Capitalism

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The Kishida government has declared that all Japan taxpayers have a “responsibility” to support its policy of dramatically increasing military expenditures, accepting the premise that Japan’s neighbors are likely to launch an armed attack unless deterred from doing so. This marks the effective end of “New Capitalism.”

Ending Poverty in the United States Would Actually Be Pretty Easy

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  From Jacobin FQ Almost immediately in this book, you confront the maxim, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime”: “Antipoverty efforts should stop making assumptions about people’s fishing abilities,” you write. “It’s past time to stop judging […]

A Deportation Moratorium, What Comes Next for Biden?

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  From CommonDreams Published on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 by Speak Freely / ACLU A Deportation Moratorium, What Comes Next for Biden? A deportation moratorium is a critical step to repairing the harm that has been waged against our immigrant communities and reimagining our existing system. by Madhuri Grewal 0 Comments The Biden-Harris administration committed to an […]

2020 Has Shown Us the Way Forward

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  From CommonDreams You must find a way to get in the way. You must find a way to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble.”— Rep. John Lewis Three people in my family passed away this year within four months of each other: my brother-in-love, from an 18-month battle with cancer; my closest maternal […]

How Amy Coney Barrett and Barack Obama Transcended Petty Partisanship to Crush Community Activists in Chicago

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  From Jacobin Proving that architectural narcissism isn’t a quality limited to the outgoing forty-fifth president, Barack Obama is currently attempting to erect a hideous 235-foot tower, a monument to himself and his presidency, in a park in Chicago, over the objections of community groups. Local organizations fighting the project recently suffered a defeat at […]

Austerity Is Looming in New York. Is Ray McGuire the Mayor to Carry It Out?

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  From Jacobin “Only bankers and businessmen could cure the situation,” observed John Kenneth Galbraith in 1977, for “[t]heirs indeed was a special, even magical, talent where money was concerned.” Galbraith was sarcastically describing the popular mythology surrounding New York’s City fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s, which saw Wall Street impose a neoliberal austerity agenda […]

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U.S. veterans to request GAO investigation of Henoko base construction/辺野古新基地建設地、米側が調査を　元軍人の会　来月の総会で決議提起

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Veterans for Peace—Ryukyu Okinawa Chapter Kokusai (VFP-ROCK) President Douglas Lummis and members held a press conference at Okinawa’s prefectural press club on July 25. The group announced VFP-ROCK’s intentions to submit a new resolution for approval at the 34th National Convention of Veterans For Peace, which will be held in Spokane, WA next month. They seek to halt the construction of the new base in Henoko, Nago City with the new resolution.

九州２０ヵ所猛毒除草剤埋設　ベトナム戦争の枯れ葉剤成分 (Dioxin buried around Japan)

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Japanese government buried  2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid produced at Omuta factory all around Japan. Kitakyushu City University researcher speculates it was Japanese government policy to sell this chemical to the US military for use in the production of Agent Orange by mixing with 2,4-D-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Official use, according to the government, was to control weeds in the […]

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“Decontaminated” soil from Fukushima to be spread far and wide

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This is how the Japanese government almost literally sweeps the problem of nuclear contamination under the rug. Note how the standard for safety has been relaxed to allow this to take place.Original article appears below the translation. While the Kishida administration is pushing for a "return to nuclear power," the current situation in Fukushima is still a mountain of … [Read more...] about “Decontaminated” soil from Fukushima to be spread far and wide

An Epitaph for Kishida’s New Capitalism

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Michael Penn, president of the Shingetsu News Agency, on Japanese Prime Minister Kishida’s assertion that all Japan taxpayers have a “responsibility” to support its policy of dramatically increasing military expenditures, accepting the premise that Japan’s neighbors are likely to launch an armed attack unless deterred from doing so [and that] this marks the effective end of … [Read more...] about An Epitaph for Kishida’s New Capitalism

Debating Maoism in Contemporary China: Reflections on Benjamin I. Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao

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 From Japan Focus  Abstract: Xi Jinping’s frequent references to Mao Zedong, along with Xi’s own claims to ideological originality, have fueled debate over the significance of Maoism in the PRC today. The discussion recalls an earlier debate, at the height of the Cold War, over the meaning of Maoism itself. This paper revisits that earlier controversy, reflected in … [Read more...] about Debating Maoism in Contemporary China: Reflections on Benjamin I. Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao