Actually, I can't write articles on current issues due to my own busyness. Between my book studies, editing, classes, housework, dishes, cooking, etc., I don't know how time flies.
On social media, I just follow the agenda and sometimes I write and draw something to distract myself. I also like jokes, humor, irony and crazy hangouts on social media.
In the past, the opposition used to set the agenda, good or bad, and pressurize the government on the country's problems, but now we have such an opposition, the main opposition, that it sets its own agenda, bribes, tenders, confessors, flirtations, whiskey parties, leaving no work for the government.
There is such an opposition that it is capable of keeping Erdoğan in power as long as he lives.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the nationalists who did not get him elected because he is Kurdish and Alevi, auctioneers, money lenders, loan sharks, pavilion owners, women traffickers, ultra-nationalists, so-called conservatives, thieves, swindlers, charlatans, and now “butlan” they're praying for him to get out.
Because the country is stuck in such a quagmire that while the country is experiencing crisis after crisis in every aspect, the Main Opposition CHP, which is the candidate to pull the country out of the quagmire, is stuck in a worse quagmire than the country.
He has no energy left to deal with himself, let alone save the country.
Because of the trump cards it has given to the government, it is undergoing operation after operation, waiting every morning to see which municipality or politician will be targeted today.
Last Assoc. Prof. Fikret Başkaya sent me a letter “Garbage.” I couldn't help but share it with you because I found it important.
While the government and the opposition distract the public with artificial issues, they obscure and postpone the crucial questions, throw sand in the eyes of the public, and dull their minds.
The real danger awaiting our country and the world is at the door.
“Garbage (Waste) and drowning in your own filth” Fikret Başkaya in his analysis of Antonio Gramsci's
“telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
with the words.
Fikret hoca says:
“What we have to face social evils (hunger, poverty, slavery, misery, humiliation), climate crisis and ecological destruction, It manifests itself as the result of two clear-cut tendencies and dynamics of capitalism:
Firstly, under capitalism, it is essential to attempt everything that is ‘potentially feasible’, which is alienation from ethical values and the second is that capitalism unlimited growth, expansion, expansion trend and dynamics... The dialectic of these two is now a unsustainability or a crisis of civilization has revealed...
To cut to the chase, when we think of garbage (waste), we think of household garbage, garbage collected by the municipality... Although every house has become a garbage factory, household garbage is only %3 of the total garbage... Not even a drop in the bucket... % is the result of industrial, construction, mining, energy, agricultural, etc. activities... There is a great effort to prevent this situation from being understood...
Household garbage is constantly brought to the forefront, making the whole picture invisible... Of course, when things are perceived in this way, it is implied that if the problem of household garbage is solved, the problem will disappear...
After 2018, when China and some other African-Asian and Latin American countries stopped importing waste, Europeans turned to Turkey...
Turkey has now become Europe's major importer and processor of plastic waste...
It imports of Europe's plastic garbage but can only recycle of it...
This ratio is in Belgium... Because there is insufficient infrastructure to solve the problem...
Moreover, of imported garbage not convertible The garbage [waste] imported from Europe is “toxic” and difficult to recycle... In fact, it is cheaper for Europeans to export garbage than to recycle it...
Of course, exporting garbage does not solve the problem...
But there is also something that should not be overlooked when talking about ‘transformation’: As a requirement of capitalist logic, in order to ‘transform' something It has to be profitable... The greed for profit always overrides the concern for environmental protection... Thus, exporting for European capitalist businesses, from transforming it's cheaper...
In fact, ‘recycling’ is not a solution... It is a new manifestation of colonialism... For one thing, only less than of the things we use can be recycled... Moreover, special conditions are required for recycling... As capitalist production continues to sail on, ’’rhetoric of recycling' and it's just a distraction for the audience...
The resources withdrawn from nature are constantly increasing, which cannot be otherwise under capitalism... Wastes pollute the seas-oceans, water, soil, air, deepening the destruction of nature, destroying many living things and biodiversity... Oceans, lakes, rivers have become plastic warehouses... In fact, the market and the logic of profit are completely alienated from the concern to protect the natural environment...
It is reported that about 2000 garbage trucks full of plastic enter the seas, lakes and rivers every day... Here are single-use packaging, food and beverage lids, bags, plastic bottles... If this continues at this rate - which is impossible under capitalism - by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish... While 2 million tons of plastic garbage was produced in the 1950s, today 460 million tons are produced... And of this cannot be ’recycled’... And what is recycled can only become poor quality goods.
More than 1 million plastic bottles are sold every second in the world
Have you ever thought about how many plastic bags enter your home every day?
The reason the world has become a garbage dump, the alienation of production from needs The result... What production means for whom and what kind of problems it creates is never discussed... Production the belief in its absolute necessity, what is produced at what cost, what it means for whom not a matter of interest and concern...
There are about 1.5 billion motorized vehicles in the world today. 1.3 billion of these are passenger vehicles (cars)... The number of vehicles produced last year (2025) was 96 million, 79 million of which were cars... Do we ever worry about how many resources are used to produce a car... Do we ever worry about the damage to the environment from the time it is produced to the time it is scrapped? Isn't there a price for this spoilage?
What is important for the capitalist is to sell what is produced... To use a Marxist concept, It is realization... Therefore, advertisements, fashion, brands and ‘programmed obsolescence’ are put into play... Think of the advertisements that a person is exposed to in a day... When you open your eyes, you are confronted with advertisements... Advertisements make people dumb, pollute society, increase the destruction of nature, but they are exempt from discussion... Do you remember any demonstration, any effective objection against infamous advertisements?
Unfortunately the normal state of things It is also exempt from criticism...
The media: newspapers, televisions, news websites, the entire field of communication has now been taken hostage by advertisers... They put advertisements not only at the beginning and end of news programs, but even in the middle... Television series are made for advertisements and exist thanks to advertisements... Advertisements occupy nearly half of the one-time viewing... But why is there no objection to this disgrace? Unfortunately, capitalism has brought people into line along with everything else...
It has eroded their ability to ask questions.
However, what one says and does that does not problematize capitalism, that is not radically anti-capitalist, cannot be of any value... Unfortunately, people He doesn't think to question what kind of a world he lives in, what things mean for whom...
So, two things: either this miserable process will continue to sail on, with disastrous consequences, eroding the very foundation of life on this earth, or people will come to their senses in time to repel this miserable onslaught...
Between these two there is a middle way No... The way to do this is to get rid of ideological slavery, to give radical criticism its due... Let no one deceive themselves, there is no future within capitalism... It also refers to the possibilities of what is not and what can be...
Let us end with a quote from Marx: “To be radical is to grasp things at their origin. But for man, this origin is man himself”. (Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's ‘Philosophy of Law”, 1843)”