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I’m not american and neither do I know much about these parties at all, but my guess would have been, that while they may not be perfect, they’re still the best options for communist parties? I may be mistaken, since I know so little. Like, would the PSL be a better alternative? If they are, maybe they’re not active in his part of the US? Maybe CPUSA is the most accessible?
These are all speculations tho. I’m looking forward to other more educated insights xD.
Yeaa figures. Parenti talked abt how Bernie’s “bombing Yugoslavia is lit” stance back then marked the end of their friendship.
Events like these, where everyone with a clear mind can clearly observe the absolute abomination that is the liberal worldview, seem to be occuring regurarly enough to radicalize entire generations of ppl. Bastards like Bernie will die out one way or another.
Fuck… idk if i wanna watch this. I’ve seen so much traumatizing videos lately, idk if my brain can stand any more. Mind explaining what’s happening or like what I need to prepare for when clicking on the video? QwQ
…my condolences. I didn’t know shit was hitting the fan like this in Belgium. This sounds so fckn illegal fr. Was that in response to the actions of the harbor unions?
In Austria the terrorism threat has been hightened; that’s all I know abt. Like there’s gonna be more soldiers stationed at the parliament and whatnot. Oh and it’s illegal to cover your face significantly for a few years now. So at unauthorized demonstrations what might happen is police reminding ppl it’s illegal to cover ones face and once the demonstrators are kettled, they might get an additional fine to the normal one. Tho if every protestor would object, any lawsuit would prolly be retracted; that is if enough ppl r affected.
They’re trying to scare off ppl from protesting… These are our so-called democracies every lib loves so much. In school I once learned protesting was one of our most important rights under democracies. Whatever happened to that o.O
Meanwhile incredible activists around me are losing their jobs for standing up to genocide. Hearing abt these cases just makes me wanna raise my voice even further. Tho I wouldn’t know what I’d do if I literally lost all my job opportunities. Literally only cuz I stood up against the cowardly slaughter of babies. At least I did the right thing then.
I finished “How to Be a Good Communist” by Liu Shaoqi recently. Rly rly great book, can’t recommend it enough. I’m digging the message of always thinking about what is best for the party and the revolution first and foremost. He also explained that waging discussions with comrades from a place of compassion, by correcting false notions and helping eachother in furthering your understanding of Marxism, is really important for keeping out revisionists, etc. Lots more was discussed.
And now I’m reading “Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and Overthrow of Communism” and I have to say, it’s so refreshing to finally read literature again you can comprehend without rereading sentences every few seconds, ngl.
Yeahh, tru. And I wholeheartedly agree with u there. It would be very welcoming to see less US dick sucking. Especially when looking at the old Slovak- or as u said, europe’s governments.
As maybe a tiny shimmer of hope though: In Austria, Graz, the Communist party “KJÖ” actually won the election last year. They’re doing pretty well there apparently. In Vienna not so much, tho I’m nevertheless hopeful. Still, them winning the election for government fr won’t ever happen.
I rly wouldn’t be too optimistic… His views got nothing to do with communism and he already was in cabinet like 3 times. I wouldn’t be surprised if he never followed through with these promises. Maybe he’ll go the Orbán route? Fico prolly won’t be worse than Matovič tho. But who knows… This is liberal politics at its finest after all.
I personally believe it was and still is a totally valid strategy of China to use Capitalism as a means to bring about prosperity to its people, for it is impossible and irresponsible to build Socialism on poverty.
The strategy Mao implemented was formulated with the, at the time, current material conditions kept in mind. Deng did exactly the same for his time. “A very poor population, the lack of an industrial base and the lack of a large urban population” were the driving forces behind the “Reform and Opening Up” policy. These conditions were brought about by the policies made by Mao. That doesn’t mean Mao’s policies were ‘bad’: the average life expectency went up from 35 in the 1950s to 70 in the late 70s. But the average citizen still lived on less than 1$ a day.
^This is taken from Prolewiki’s Deng Xiaoping article
So reforms are undertaken by attempting to improve certain aspects, but will inevitably have contradictions accompanying them, which the next reform will address in turn. And such is China’s approach. Capitalism brought about fast industrialization which lead to wealth, but has also brought about pollution issues amongst others, which China is addressing now (reduction of reliance on coal, banning it in Beijing altogether, tho not completely eliminated, massive reforestation projects and becoming the global leader in green-technology)
^This is taken from leohezhao.medium.com “The Long Game and Its Contradictions” a generally great article imo.
What I don’t know at all is if there was anything like a rivalry between Deng and Mao? I ran out of time so if anyone can shed light on that i’d be happy. Nevertheless I’m certain Mao would have been happy with the results of Deng’s reforms.
Oh yeah. They worked out some weird pyramid-theory right? I have heard about it in conversation a week ago, but haven’t had time to look into it. I agree with a comrade of mine tho; simply making everyone the imperialists doesn’t help u at all in analyzing the world.
Totally! A few years ago I ate all this garbage up like it was nothing. I loved watching his videos and often found myself being hyped over some new product just after watching his videos, it was fckn crazy. It’s disgusting and soulless and everything’s just so flashy, exciting and funny in his vids. Look, I bought even more metric tons of stuff I won’t ever need, do the same! 16.1 million ppl seem to like that… Of course there’s even more content creators like him, which makes this even more sad, but I also feel like he’s the flashiest and most significant one, for me it felt so at least.
Def this T-34. I’m just drawn to it.
Fear? My dear comrade, just imagine how much quicker we could bring about communism if we were all just a bunch of literal tanks. The liberals are unknowingly digging their own graves.
Now, which tank to do u think u’ll be?
I don’t know u, but i wish nothing but the best to you! It’s totally cool to not be political or to try to structure your life around something not political, totally ur choice. Who am I to judge that? I don’t think personally anyone has the right to do so. I found for instance that, committing to communism at heart and starting to organize, really gave me some porpuse as I suddenly started learning a lot and found some really cool and likeminded ppl. Well but that doesn’t rly solve a lot of the mental issues i’m facing, therefore I also need to go see a psychologist. But ultimately I can also understand why one would choose to limit the political aspect of ones life, especially since it does take a lot of ones time and energy. Still, hope to see u 'round.
Edit: Also, that is a pretty sick pfp o.O
Hm, i’m no expert on AI either, but I also don’t think it could save the west. Nothing can save the west, it’s either socialism or barbarism. Either we start controlling ourselves and stop exploiting literall everything, or we keep digging our own graves.
<33 I love this attitude, wanna see more of it. I too tend to be a bit on the pessimistic side, just cuz the voices against us commies are so loud and widespread. Most of my comrades don’t think we’ll reach communism in our life time, though I am absoluetely willing to fight for being able to see even one country in europe establishing socialism, at which point hopefully more will follow…
Are there any recent books talking about what could be realistically achieved this century?
I was thinking about this video for some time now. Wonderful, old, quaint custom my ass. I’m sure all those collected pennies add up to a decent sum of money, couldn’t that be used for idk at least feeding the homeless or smth? Also what’s that mayor even wearing? The brits really went ahead and saved every deeply shameful tradition they ever had.
Yeaah learned that the hard way. I made an utter cringe post once with way too many stupid assumptions even though I understood like the principles of Marxism and that’s it. Past me shouldn’t have presented himself as totally sure of these statements, and instead been like ‘what should I make of that?’. Just by a simple change of attitude - way less trauma xD. I wonder if the guy in the screenshot learned from his mistake?
Bruh the right will never cease to disappoint… Now imagine what all these right wing militants will do once asked to hand back their weapons to the Ukranian government after the war. They’ll definitely just comply and be good citizens. For sure.
This may not completely address the argument that the unemployed are lazy, but I think one has to keep in mind what unemployment benefits are for us workers. It’s an extremely good weapon against our employers. A high unemployment benefit means that we have less to fear when it comes to class struggle. So if anyone argues against unemployed people getting paid, they’re talking about stripping the workers of an important weapon they can use to improve working conditions for themselves in the future.