Revelation 18;23: "(...)

For your merchants were the great ones of the earth,

because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”

24 And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth

I did an effort post about Syria's ba3th until 1970 in the replies to my other comment about Libya, if you are interested, check it out if you want: https://hexbear.net/comment/3914654

I am pretty aware that I would be dead three times over in third world country by now, the point is though that the west tries to pass that off as its achievement, and not it causing the conditions that make ND trans people die in the third world. Maybe I'd be fine in Cuba, idk, I just hate queers who defend capitalism a bit more bc they are happy servants of an evil that kills their siblings and keeps them down extra hard

This is probably a bit too nice to him, I should talk about his mistakes in a second part. You can read the wikipedia meanwhile thing to get a rough idea, they don't outright lie there, just omit a bunch of stuff. Part 3 of the green book is pretty misogynist, his military adventures cost unnecessary money, stability and lives without even achieving their stated goals etc etc.

Libya: Gaddafi's Green Book was more coherent than most people like to give it credit for. Was it very well written and a revolutionary theory that added to communism? No. Was it the insane ramblings of a mad dictator? Also no. There is a bunch of orientalism which made all the scholars switch off their brains, but Gaddafi bases his Third Universal Theory on the assumption that there has been too much abstraction and mediation from a natural state of things, which he refers to consistently throughout his books. this is the ideational foundation for his approach to direct democracy, for example. He was still a believer in development etc, so it is pretty wrong to say he espouses a "primitivist" worldview or something orientalist like that.

There might be some arguments about a "naturalist" point of view he takes, but being an oil exporting and consuming country, it is obviously silly to think he was an environmentalist.

Mu3ammar al-Gaddafi, actually al-Qadhdhâfî ("softer" th, Q comes from the back of your throat, î is a long vowel) was very flexible, which he had to be. He took power 1969 by taking leadership of a group of officers that styled themselves in the image of Naser, calling themselves the Free Officer (ad-dubbat al-ahrar) and establishing similar bodies after throwing out the western proxy Idris as-Sanousi who was a far cry from his grandfather, the founder of the Sanousiyya, a sufi order that lead the fight.

Originally, he had no desire to rule Libya as its own state, which was divided between Tripoli in the West and Cyrenaica in the East as well as independ tribes in the South. Being a good Nasserite, he wanted it annexed to Egypt under Naser, whom he saw as his personal hero. Tragically, Naser died and al-Gaddafi did not like Sadat at all, so he decided to do his own thing. His position was very precarious. Libya was underdeveloped, had little national identity, neither pan-arab nor Libyan, both the USA and the USSR kind of liked and kind of didn't like him, there were internal power struggles in the ruling comitee as well, which Gaddafi won by virtue of his charisma and stubbornness. After a lot of experimentation and getting rid of rivals, he solidified his rule enough to be more or less the guy people turned to for questions. His politics put him closer to the USSR than to the US, even though he never cut ties with anybody or joined a camp during the cold war.

He was kind of a guy out of his time, having come to power after the Naksa (set-back) 1968 whose effects on the pan-arab movement are hard to convey in a few words, but basically, the hopes that the ba3th and Nasser would manage to turn the "backwards" arab states into socialist bastions of modernity were dashed, the PLO began to emerge as the hope for a lot of leftists for Arab independence and revolution in the Levante. al-Qaddafi was not impressed, holding on to the ideology for quite some time. Economic development was rocky at start, but his famously robust welfare program was probably not a bad call to hold onto power and achieve some form of national identity, considering the situation he was in. He also financed a lot of Palestinian groups. I am not knowledgeable enough to trace his involvement into the Lebanese Civil War starting 1975, but he did host the Abu Nidal group, which was just one of the worse palestinian groups, objectively speaking more busy killing Palestinians and random jews around the world than killing Israeli leadership, trying claim Arafat was a homosexual with AIDS and other gameresque shit.

He was pretty good at playing both the USSR and the USA for support for his country.

The Green Book is a reference to Mao's "Red Book". He published three parts, 1975, 1977, 1981, the first on Politics, the second on economics, the third on society at large. It's not long, go read it when bored. Most points you'll disagree with, but his point about sports was pretty agreeable to me. He famously received a visit from the German Greens 1982. https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/gaddafi/index.htm

I can continue rambling on if you find this interessting, but I need to do irl stuff rn.

Are you feeling the freedom yet?

I got put in the worst role in theatre plays all the time for being ND and mocked the NT kids for forgetting their lines and generally fumbling up while I said the single line I had perfectly, it didn't help with being a people's person

oops, I really do know jack shit about that musical

I have to admit that I only knew that Hamilton was a slave owner and that he is played by a black guy. I didn't even know he raps.

Since everything worthwhile has been said

the struggle session safe word?