With France extending a hand, we now know that interesting developments could take place. Both govt figureheads, Rajoelina and Ntsay, have now fled… Please, let this be another AES-like wave.

The regional comprador agents have been shaking hands firmly with their friends in the Zionist entity and Washington today. This “prisoner exchange” and these colonial peace talks are a distraction that aim achieve nothing but to prolong a status quo until it’s no longer convenient. The real prisoners were always the Palestinians. To consider both sides “prisoners” on equal terms is a joke. We must never let this slide and always keep our eyes on occupied Palestine. Never stop talking about it, never stop protesting. Palestine forever.

My paternal family is from El Guettar, I’m in hahaha

Hence I implied that it’s presumably being set up or prepared as we speak, because it seems to have no actual site content pointing outward yet. GenZ212 is simply the name the “movement” adopted in Morocco, 212 being the calling code for that country.

Glad to see not everyone shares my skepticism that might (hopefully!) not be warranted in the end. Only time will tell. In the mean time, all we can do is follow the money and conduct research to pursue any leads where possible.

Important nuance to consider, thanks for pointing that out. Just trying to remain skeptical as to whether or not these are all coincidences, before further developments take place. Also, my comment may have been a little vague so please excuse that, because there currently exists no direct evidence of NED involvement in the Morocco protests from any sources I’ve been able to find. There’s a website clearly tied to the movement that’s presumably(?) being set up as we speak, which might be able to give us some leads eventually to hopefully help us piece another part of this puzzle together (edit: it was returned to me in a Yandex search result, just for context)

Another one of these strange color revolutions, or whatever they are, very akin to what we’ve been seeing in Nepal (where we know that Hami Nepal is funded by Students For a Free Tibet, and other orgs with ties to the NED), Indonesia, Morocco, etc. Does anyone have any insights as to what the motivation could be here, given that none of these are anti-imperialist states nor threats to US imperialism?

That’s essentially how class consciousness begins. Liberals claim to support every single liberation movement - except the current one. Claim to condemn every single imperialist war - except the current one. Claim to be against sanctions - except the current ones, and so on. They’ll support the official Western imperialist narrative until every last defense mechanism of the narrative crumbles, and that’s what happened with Palestine and the Zionist entity. We’re in an era where these official narratives are being exhausted more than ever.

Makes me wonder if liberals are still beating the dead horse that is “CHINA WILL COLLAPSE ANY MINUTE NOW”

Just more cope and projection from Trump in all of his statements. Imperialists know nothing more than to coerce through economic warfare when faced with a threat to their interests such as this one, with China’s restrictions on rare earth mineral exports leading to possible shortages in the US military industrial complex - unsurprisingly stocks of weapons companies like Palantir, General Dynamics, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have declined slightly following the news. Watch the US economy and industry crumble even further now and the standard of living become worse than ever with these increased tarrifs. Learn to cooperate and realize that you no longer control the affairs of the world with your pathetic bullying tactics, or be swept into the dust bin - your choice, Western ruling classes. They’re nothing without China, and deep down they know it.

Facts, comrade. If we divert off-topic a little further and focus on anthropology, honestly, this comparison can be drawn in general between “superior whites” (Celto-Germanics) and the “non-whites” (including European Mediterraneans, at least historically). The ethno-nationalists claim to be so “superior” yet prefer the food of the “inferiors”, appropriate the cultural traditions and teachings of the “inferiors”, and even try to steal the history of the “inferiors”, by claiming it as their own or by attempting to sever the continuity between ancient civilizations they find fascinating and the modern populations, which are their descendants, to paint those as “inferiors”. This is a veeeery common trick in the playbook of aforementioned Anglo intellectuals, and the Fr*nch too.

This is partially how the entire myth of “Western civilization” emerged, which is little more than a Eurocentric term for what became the political imperialist bloc we know today, rooted in the same narratives that gave us “civilizing mission”, “savages” and other nonsense - which are today recycled into the neocon language’s “spreading democracy”, “terrorists”, etc.

If we go further back in history, there’s also the “Doctrine of Discovery” - the Catholic church would respond and grant a Catholic colonizer “rights” to colonize an area and eradicate indigenous populations, by issuing the Inter Caetera decree.

Economic disparity in Italy following industrialization, between North and South, which continues to this day, undoubtedly could be a factor. Italy is also a very extroverted culture with a collectivist, outgoing tradition that even today opposes social atomization that capitalism creates (think of movements like Cittaslow and Slowfood), but this can be said about so many other cultures in just the Mediterranean basin alone - Italy has just been part of the imperial core, meaning higher literacy rates and thus “capacity” to produce such prominent Marxist thinkers. Italy also saw fascism, which perhaps could have made class consciousness amongst intellectuals skyrocket?

And confirmation bias? Maybe, but it’s a fun thought experiment regardless because we as Marxists are materialists in the first place, so we know that this isn’t just an “inherent genetic trait”, or “random”, as liberal idealism would propose.

Britain [although in the latter’s case, their intellectuals are so endlessly insufferable im genuinely considering calling for a ban on all publications from the god forsaken island]

not just their intellectuals are insufferable lmao, that’s too generous when speaking of that “civilization”

They’re going to give Benjamin Netanyahu one of these stupid prizes if he actually abides by the latest ceasefire I bet, oh and Zelensky of course - and why not Trump? This should be renamed the War Criminal & U.S. Lackey Prize. We need a prize that’s actually given to people who are on the right side of history, of which there are plenty. From doctors in Gaza, to brave activists, and so, so many revolutionaries and heroes of the past who have been swept under by the same Western narrative which props up this disease of a “prize” in the first place. It’s nothing but a symbol of how the imperialists control the narrative, even if that narrative is fading now. I hate it, i fucking hate it so much. We need to ignore it completely.

Fuck the Nobel Imperialist Prize. Henry KISSINGER received this shit. Shouldn’t that tell you everything?

Plus, their path towards total outsourcing of domestic industry and talent to the imperial periphery, as far as manual labour is concerned, all for the goal of profit maximization through cheap labour exploitation is backfiring massively - not just economically, but also on Western society. The Western labour aristocratic population is hopeless. Just look at how consumerism is eroding the “handyman” and driving its kind to extinction, with everyone instead buying new commodities at a higher rate than ever, creating unnecessary waste and dependence on monopolizing firms. “Unnecessary waste” being a highly ironic key phrase given all the stupid greenwashing propaganda we see nowadays - watch this get co-opted by ecofascists by mass exporting future e-waste to “green transition” the “untermenschen” of the Global South once it gets discarded.

In the West, people literally cry about e.g. a 20 year old car being “too expensive to maintain and not worth it!” (artificial scarcity is a thing, yes - but it can be overcome!), whereas in Cuba for example, they drive old Soviet cars and American classics from the Batista era maintained through sheer ingenuity and improvised, collective craftsmanship. It completely defies these consumerist myths of “obsolescence” realized under late stage capitalism. Classic example of Gramscian cultural hegemony. It has left them with a useless FIRE economy. Basically, even imperialism struggles to offset the contradictions of the plague that is capitalism at this point. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

Even a highly trained professional with an MIT education that really pays for itself would agree that this is a banger

Hope for Palestinians finally being able to go to sleep without having to worry about being massacred? Indispensable. But as many keep pointing out, neither rules nor international law mean anything to the Zionist entity, so there’s no knowing if this will just turn out to be all smoke and mirrors.

…and this is not on Palestinian terms, but entirely on imperialist terms aimed at their advantage. Surprise surprise. The US, its lapdogs, the UK and regional comprador states (Egypt, Jordan, Gulf states), and the Zionist entity aim for it to be managed like a colonial territory where Palestinians are being managed akin to past Western colonized territories, and they’d love to turn Gaza into a tax haven and money-laundering hub for billionaire war profiteering capitalists. An Eastern Mediterranean Monaco, if you will.

Ahh… good, old fashioned class collaborationism. Capitalism’s final defense mechanism before turning to fascism.

The US aside, this’ll certainly also deal a huge blow to Europe’s military industrial complex in the making.

Late stage capitalism. Also, “people” here applies mostly to the working classes in Western countries, and to an extent, some in the Global South with more significant levels of urbanization. Alienation under late stage capitalism and the US-led neoliberal world order leads to ever increasing precarity and desperation amongst the working class all over the world, as we face crisis after crisis, which is now worse than ever (and nothing new, obviously). In the imperial core, or the Global North (Anglosphere, Western Europe, North America), the dynamic is largely different than it is in the Global South, because every single aspect of life in these countries has become almost completely commodified and controlled by capitalist monopolies or duopolies alongside the death of “localism”, in simple terms, sucking the joy out of life through profit maximization more than ever before. As fewer and fewer people control more and more wealth, in addition to costs of living skyrocketing through inflation, austerity measures, economic warfare (only to be worsened as far as the US goes following the latest stupid tariffs), leading to even more price gouging, this means that people need to take up an increasing number of jobs, or simply begin working longer hours (in addition to pension and other social security vanishing), leading to prolonged burnout and severe mental health issues, which also negatively impacts social lives through atomizing social structures. There’s no doubt that this results in these “mental illnesses”, though I’ve kind of observed that this term is often used in a very bigoted and ableist fashion that lacks nuance.

In the Global South, on the other hand, these dynamics occur differently. Many of us here have only known colonialism, imperialist destabilization, and exploitation in our countries, meant to stifle our socioeconomic development for the benefit of the imperial core, the same countries now suffering this perceived “social decay” the question concerns. We aren’t living through “decaying” labor aristocratic capitalism, unlike the imperial core which attained its “high standards of living” through imperialist superprofits and exploitation, meaning slight breadcrumbs could be distributed to the working class in these countries to placate them and prevent them from gaining class consciousness by offering them a nice, mortgaged house, jobs in the service sector, consumerism derived from overproduction, etc. — instead, we’re living under neocolonialism. This has an adverse effect at the same time, with the primary dialectic here being that, despite us still living under capitalism and thus still being vulnerable to its internal contradictions, we still retain degrees of non-atomized social structures more “free” of alienation, as well of subsistence-based lifestyles based on cooperation — in my country, for example, the informal economy is pretty much omnipresent.

It’s not a binary. It’s proof that capitalism needs to go. Basically, to summarize the above: You either live in a “developed” society where you enjoy temporary privileges and economic prosperity attained through imperialist superprofits that ever so slightly trickle down to you — but capitalist decay and crisis is inevitable and will only worsen for the working class which has no material interest in this mode of production (Global North / imperial core)

…or you live in poverty, IMF-imposed SAP austerity measures meaning zero social services (privatised and sold to imperialist financial cartels), and the economic dependence of your country on imperial powers (France, US, broader West) caused by the same force that leads to the temporary material privileges of the working classes in the Global North, yet your social structures aren’t atomized (meaning no or less significant emergence of hyper-individualism in society, as seen in the West), because you’re literally forced to cooperate socially as opposed to engaging in competition or wage slavery in the typical sense (the norm under capitalism) not to build a better world but to merely subsist (Global South / imperial periphery).

In both scenarios, though, there are no people in power looking after you - and most importantly, your class is not in power of the state.

Also, a relevant video video came to mind about this