• rainpizza
    27·
    2 个月前

    There was a big event organized by a left wing party in Mexico and they invited plenty of parties in the world(primarily from Latin America).

    It was so big that a lot of Europeans joined it including Serbian, French, Spain, Belarus and Moldovan. There were 3 parties from Russia: komros, KPRF and United Russia.

    From Asia, we had Laotian, CPC and Vietnamese. (Edit 1 AND the DPRK’s PTC)

    In the event, the Venezuelans even explained there socialist communal system and the transition that they are currently planning to make to phase out the outdated representative bourgeois democracy at the base of society. Pretty interesting.

    You can check out some of the participants in the following list.

    Also, Palestinian comrades joined the event!

  • Cowbee [he/they]
    20·
    2 个月前

    Hope everyone has a pleasant week, sticks with their goals and plans, and takes care of themselves.

    Communism will win.

  • SlayGuevaraA
    19·
    2 个月前

    I have the opportunity to get therapy and it has now led to some heavy introspection to think about how I got to this point. I had to take the day off today because of this. On the one hand it is good to finally get therapy, on the other hand it is tiring.

    I’m also feeling let down with party work as basically nothing of value is coming forward. Just a meeting now and then, no real activist or other organising stuff. I’d love for us to start leading by example and set up some direct action stuff in the city but I’ve already said this a few times without getting a real response.

    I spend the weekend in my hometown and that means, for me, spending time in the middle of a blue collar, working class community. I have trouble linking the people that join our party with the typical working class people I grew up with. Or at least the side of the party I am active in. Mostly educated, straight out of college leftist type of people. Which is not wrong per se, but I feel like we are starting to get that type of person tunnel vision, you know? I personally never gratuated college and through blue collar work managed to get where I am now and sometimes our party group feels like losing track with what keeps the working class busy. My dad, working a blue collar job for 30+ years now, does not see the need to sign the umpteenth petition for example. And neither do I feel the need to ask people to sign the umpteenth petition if I had to be honest. We need to do more.

    Just a rant and I’ll probably figure things out but if you can’t reach the working class en masse after more than two decades of right wing policies I feel like you are doing things wrong.

    • SlayGuevaraA
      15·
      2 个月前

      And also, with trust in political parties at an all time low it seems, how much credibility do you think to build up when to them, you seem like just another party asking for votes?

      Get out there and show how organising can bring change. Turn that ugly run down piece of land in your neighborhood into a park. Hell, maybe squat an empty building but without the anarchist pissing against the wall tactic. Do something.

      • RedCatEnglish
        11·
        2 个月前

        I don’t know where you live, but where I do, many usually uneducated workers, peasants, and petty bourgeois think it’s normal to throw rubbish everywhere. Even educated peoples, which are usually well-off seem to have the same problem, so while building and planning such projects, which in my case is a communal garden, take it as an opportunity to make such basic concepts normalized and encourage more community building along side political agitation. In my experience, the youth are usually the most prone to radicalization, so focus on planting seeds there.

        Hope the best

    • SlayGuevaraA
      12·
      2 个月前

      Yeah he shit the bed massively it seems. Which sucks because he came to our party events a lot but this just looks shit. Fucker.

      • MakanEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        Yeah, I don’t get it, but I have to agree that Corbyn is just as conniving.

    • redchert
      9·
      2 个月前

      Kids never do Trotskyism, because that’s the end-result.

      • MakanEnglish
        41·
        2 个月前

        TERF Island?

        More like:

        TERF Trots

        • MakanEnglish
          22·
          2 个月前

          Or Trot Island.

          Or TERF Trot Island.

          Or TERF Trot Terrible Island.

    • MakanEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      Tbh, he may feel that he has to do this stuff after what happened to him with the anti-Semitism charges, but he’s dead-wrong for doing all this now.

        • MakanEnglish
          4·
          2 个月前

          No, I agree, yeah.

          Easy target.

          Using the socialists and communists as a stepping stone, I see…

          • Commiejones
            42·
            2 个月前

            he may feel that he has to do this stuff after what happened to him with the anti-Semitism charges

            what is this if not an excuse?

            Stop making excuses for a man who has never stood up for anything other than his own political career.

            Corbin is not a comrade. He is not “hiding his power level.” He is not trying to “traverse a corrupt system.” He is building a transphobic crypto-zionist party for the bourgeois electoral system because that is who he is or at least who he thinks he needs to be to keep getting an MP’s salary.

            • MakanEnglish
              2·
              2 个月前

              It’s not an excuse.

              I’m just trying to get into Corbyn’s head and his own internal reasoning.

  • La Dame d'AzurEnglish
    15·
    2 个月前

    Just heard about a local hospital suing 3,000 of its own patients for medical debt and I’ve never wanted to do something I can’t legally describe more than right now.

    Fuck this country, man. This place is evil.

    • RedCatEnglish
      21·
      2 个月前

      The progress in AES while the west debates how “tylenol causes autism”
      fucking liberals

    • blobii
      13·
      2 个月前

      The thought that socialism might actually be achieved in my country in my lifetime…

    • Commiejones
      8·
      2 个月前

      I’ve got a lot of my sanity riding on the Flotilla. Like I’m half expecting they get murdered but I also expect that to be the last mistake that the zionists make.

    • SlayGuevaraA
      8·
      2 个月前

      The gym, some of the people around me. That was it basically.

      • prof_tincoaEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        Not going to the gym is so detrimental to my mental health =( I need it to help regulate my sleep, and also anxiety and depression symptoms. But I got some teeth pulled and I can’t go >_>

    • redchert
      8·
      2 个月前

      The veil of „normalcy“ in the west being ripped to shreds and all „tankies“ vindicated by history.

    • CaptButtons
      4·
      2 个月前

      Honestly idek, I’ve just been on autopilot with my schedule since my kid started the school year.

    • rainpizza
      2·
      2 个月前

      Reading Webtoons and seeing my baby smile calms me a lot.

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    2 个月前

    I have internalized learned helplessness the way only a materially comfortable petite bourgoisified first worlder can and I hate that about myself.

    • MakanEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      You are a good person.

      Just because you’re petit-bourgeois doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re a bad person or that you can’t overcome your learned helplessness.

  • rainpizza
    13·
    2 个月前

    Soon everything that was lost will soon come back. Not in the form it was before but in a stronger and brighter version.

    Socialism is inevitable if we all fight from our respective place. A better world is possible.

    • MakanEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Yeah, internationalism; gotta use that and subscribe to that.

      Proletarians all working in tandem with one another will win us the day. That means supporting each other on an international scale.

  • -6-6-6-English
    13·
    2 个月前

    holy shit people are fucking ridiculous, man.

    leftistgamermemes literally used the word “socialism” to mean the benefits that would be available to all of us under a socialist economy as the concessions given to soldiers in exchange for their service to capital. Is it scientifically correct? No, but it isn’t exactly wrong either. The things that your government employee; military or not; and much more, would be readily available to everyone under a socialist governance. Despite the meme doing very well on the page and actually doing okay on chapo, multiple people completely lost their fuckin’ shit over a fucking meme I didn’t even create.

    Is this meme saying that socialism is when politicans get stuff or obviously that a select few enjoy the benefits we all would enjoy under socialism? Like jesus, people are acting like it’s saying “socialism is when government does stuff” without looking deeper whatsoever into the context or the fact that it’s playing off nostalgia to begin with. I genuinely had someone sitting there and asking me “if I knew how much damage this slop is doing” while at the same time telling me I’m overrepresenting it/deflecting/shifting blame on something I didn’t even fucking create. Schrodinger’s Slop.

    Do veterans control the means of production? Are they democratically represented in government? Beyond some of them getting a pension or some equivalent, is there anything protecting them from the grinding gears of the class society that they are still in the underclass of?

    not the tiny small-bean uwu baby-killers that literally get a plethora of benefits for themselves, their spouse and their children for literally servicing a death-machine. The thing protecting them from the “gears of class society” is their service and even then they are given a lot more than your average person to prevent them from “falling down”. It as a system just has zero issue shrugging off the undesirables and “useless”. There’s plenty of soldiers out there who have recognized and realized otherwise, but I’m not going to pretend like most of them are good people. Sadly, a genuine chunk of the good ones killed themselves. I don’t mean that in a edgy “haha dead soldier is a good soldier” but the ones high in empathy don’t last too long.

    I dunno about you but a three month old account seemingly fully dedicated to creating as much argument and division out of a fucking gaming meme screams really weird to me, but then again we have eight people posting the same question repeatedly without any further thinking or consideration than the tik-tok clip of Richard Wolf looping in their brain. Yes, I do know some of them were joking.

  • SlayGuevaraA
    13·
    2 个月前

    One of the victims of the stabbing in Manchester today was hit by a police bullet and may have died as a result. Can’t make that shit up.

  • 小莱卡English
    13·
    2 个月前

    Did Hegseth just encourage the army to do even more war crimes? Also on a freudian slip he confirmed that the troops get paid to murder people and pillage stuff 😐

  • prof_tincoaEnglish
    13·
    2 个月前

    I got my reddit account temporarily banned for 3 days.

    For context, r/NBA was discussing gambling, and a user said there are wealthy people making a lot of money with gambling. So despite being detrimental to society, gambling isn’t going anywhere.

    I replied we can stop them by cutting their heads off. Got suspended for violating Rule #1, then deleted the app 😛

    • 小莱卡English
      2·
      2 个月前

      I am pretty sure the primary source of revenue for sports leagues right now is their partnership with gambling sites, so unfortunately online gambling is here to stay in sports in most of the world. It’s crazy how embedded it has become the last 5-6 years, they put betting lines in the damn broadcast overlay, sports influencers are all sponsored by one of the big online casinos, it has become so normalized that people simply do not watch games without betting.

  • rainpizza
    12·
    2 个月前
    • [Translation] The USSR is the strength of our country!

  • Oppo
    12·
    2 个月前

    I hope you all have a nice week :D

  • dg2jeng
    11·
    2 个月前

    i must organize in order to live. life without a political purpose or motivation is to accept the suffering of millions. i love organizing with all my heart!

    • MakanEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      I’m trying to find an org to join.

      Lemme know if you have any advice.

      • dg2jeng
        5·
        2 个月前

        i got introduced to my org through my friends. i think if you have any friends that are already organizing, go with them. i did this and found out that the deepest of all friendships is comradeship.

        if you don’t, however, i would make the decision based on three things:

        1. are they ML
        2. do they do/want to do mass work
        3. are they intense about political education

        if yes, join. all the smaller ideological squabbles you can ignore. if there’s no org like that around you, start one! black panthers started with six members.

        • MakanEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          Yeah, I might try to start a collective, but that’s beyond me right now, due to extenuating circumstances outside my control.

          • dg2jeng
            2·
            2 个月前

            if you want to talk more you can shoot me a dm! the most important thing is committing.

            • MakanEnglish
              1·
              2 个月前

              Yeah, I’m not sure what to commit to yet, but I will consider that, thank you!