This is the reason I commented on the other thread about “On Protracted People’s War” and how it talks seemingly similar conditions but take very different stances. One is written from the perspective of revolutionaries on a reactionary country waging a war that is principally imperialist in character, the other from the perspective of a reactionary country defending from such a war.

The war in Ukraine is somewhere in-between, as there will be sectors of the Russia bourgeoisie that benefit from this war, but it also weakens the global hegemon (I disagree that we already have a multipolar world). On the other hand, it assures some measure of self determination for the peoples of Donbas and Ukraine.

From a very distant and somewhat ignorant perspective, (actual) revolutionary communists in Russia should not defend the overthrow of the Russian bourgeois state as an immediate objective (but a long term one). But they should have advocate for the immediate overthrow of the Ukrainian regime and, controversially, non-antagonistic autonomy from the Russian state and socialist restoration for the Donbas and Luhansk.

No way. Can’t even handle myself 24/7, let alone a child with me. Having a child under the nuclear family model is more responsibility than most humans can handle. But I like dealing with children for limited amounts of time, so I could always help out family or close friends with theirs, besides all the students I’ll have in the near future.

However my utopia world would be one where children are raised by the community rather than the birther and maybe the birther’s partner. That’s one thing I miss from rural life.

Lizzy’s still in a box.

The Fifth Republic predates the 1968 strikes by 10 years. Maybe you’re mistaking that for May 1958 in which De Gaulle led a coup that actually toppled the Fourth Republic to “prevent communists” after crises caused by the Algerian War of Independence led by the FLN. That one was a successful counter revolution, though I’m open to the idea that it was a close one if evidence of that is presented. Besides all that, there’s nothing to celebrate about the Fifth Republic still existing as a “victory”.

But on the 1968 strikes and election, Pompidou went from Prime Minister to president, and was from the same party as Dr Gaulle, as was the new Prime Minister de Murville. The conservative UDR also gained seats. I may not be very knowledgeable about cold war French history, but you’re really not helping your arguments with such easily debunked claims.

Hunter getting unpardoned was definitely not in my bingo card.

The government wasn’t toppled, they just did a snap election. That’s like saying the UK government was toppled when Theresa May called one back when she couldn’t Brexit.

Also, on that same election the communists lost chairs. This is nowhere close to a successful revolution.

I may have been too harsh and knee-jerky on you on my first reply, but it’s seriously very important to acknowledge our past failures and self-crit in order to find the correct path to revolution. In Brazil the Communist Party split specifically because the party was ossified and the faction that left/was expelled wanted to seek better paths. There’s no shame in admitting that what has been tried did not work.

My reading of it is that Trump will indeed bluster and say random shit whenever given a microphone, which will be milked by all corporate newsmedia but does not necessarily translate into policy, but at least during his first presidency the stuff that actually got enacted had some kind of class interest behind it.

So building an actual brick wall was pointless, but ICE arresting immigrants at random was very useful for silencing the hyperexploited migrant workers. Same thing with withholding arms to Ukraine back then for domestic political goals, it also aligned with Trump openly trying to reduce tensions with Russia. There were many other such cases of random bullshit being used to push policy that upheld some class interests. I don’t think he is smart and is playing 4D chess, but back then he must have had actual imperialist strategists trying to make do with whatever strange thing he said this week. Which, when it worked, Qanon folks would retroactively use to believe Trump was a genius.

This time though, I’m starting to believe the actual strategists are long gone and all they have is sycophants and other rich fucks disconnected from reality. Trump is loose to do whatever he wants, and so we get flip flopping tariffs, Greenland annexation and other such Yankee nonsense. He is the personification of USAmerican imperialist cultural superstructure.

Pretty cool, thanks comrade!

Name one successful socialist revolution in the West.

I would add “On Protracted War”, even though it was already chosen a while back, as they work together very well. Haven’t read the earlier “On Guerrilla Warfare” but sounds cool too.

I mean, if you’re going to include made up ideologies like Pantherism and Castroism, you might as well include “Stalinism” as a subcurrent of Marxism-Leninism. I think the infographic is a bit confused between historical factions and ideologies.

One of my favourite things about lemmygrad is seeing informed comrades accurately predicting the near future through careful study. None of this “constant bewildered redditor” nonsense. I don’t remember all the users predicting this, but well done y’all.

Often my issues with therapy is how much there’s little to be done, specially when they decide that “actually you should consult a psychiatrist”. There are sorts of problems that are too common, specially for disabled people, that could easily be solved by some intervention. But oftentimes the only solutions are individual, not because of therapy itself but rather because the social services for those are rather scarce or nonexistent.

Took a massive break from work and organising due to burnout. Couldn’t sleep at all at night. Now I’m back to work and as soon as I get home all I think of is getting going straight to bed.

Polygon’s “How Call of Duty turned war into a circus” is also pretty good.

Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak?

The interface is reddit-like, you must click the small image to view it properly. Not being logged in has nothing to do with it.

If you want something visual, this short video (15:12) gives a more practical explanation for labour theory of value.

This relatively short section of “Wage Labour and Capital” addresses the specific issue of how labour value translates into prices in a straightforward way.

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That is pretty much it, and it’s ironic that the Democrats antagonising Putin at every turn (see Bernie Sanders calling him a “murderer” in every speech) might benefit the world by preventing that alliance. I think at this point we shouldn’t stake all our hopes on China for international revolution.

This is however absurd. China is not imperialist, they will not willingly be imperialist. They are trying their hardest to free the world of imperialism and they will not be invited to any speculative US-Russia imperialism club or offered a seat there as there are no extra profits to be shared by the western capitalists who are desperate at this point because of the falling rates of profit and collapsing neo-colonialism.

I wouldn’t argue that China is imperialist in character right now, though its economy certainly benefits to a certain extent from the North-South divide and the dependent capitalist economies of peripheral countries. Its bourgeoisie also engages in capital exportation and financialization for hyper-exploited sectors, for example in ride-sharing apps or soybean farming. But it’s not imperialist in character simply because its state apparatus does not enforce this dependency by any means and it respects foreign nations when they intervene in their own economies.

But in case these shifting alliances ever create the occasional alignments where Russia and the US enforce conditions for Chinese bourgeois profipts with no intervention from the Party, I believe it would be fair to see China as complicit in imperialism. Though I already don’t think the Russia alignment is likely, this one is more a worry than anything.