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You probably won’t die IN a revolution. BEFORE, well that’s the kicker. Reactionaries will do anything they can to prevent organization. Now naturally, how radical their actions are depends on the escalation of class warfare. Right now if you are in the core, they depend on misinformation to prevent class consciousness so you aren’t personally threatened. Maybe if you are real important you’ll get jailed or black balled. But as conditions worsen, reactionaries will lash out more. I recommend learning self defense and OPSEC practices, especially with your cyber footprint. Also trust your gut, evasion is the best way to protect yourself.


I see, just some countries more than others then. Also, why would it be counter productive? Economically or geopolitically? (well those are connected in some regard)

Is this also why some European leaders are flirting with China a little? So they can play both sides?


Do people really blindly cite the Black Book of Communism and not once think the flat 100 million is a little too fucking convenient?


You know I thought that too. I think it stems from mainly from the context of the online format. To be able to have found a website as small as Lemmygrad means you had to have lots of hours active online. Now people being raised female have a standard pushed on them from day one, cleanliness, beauty, and well, socializing. People who are raised male don’t have that immediate standard pushed on, so those who fell into these online spaces are disproportionately raised male. Now that compounded with that socially distant and toxic men have fostered treacherous online spaces for two decades , vast majority of cis women wouldn’t go near it. Now the chances these cis women would be able to stomach reddit enough to find r/GenZedong and then be there to sign up on Lemmygrad pre quarantine is incredibly slim.

Now interestingly enough most communists sympathizers in real life tend to be female–at least from my observations–so its really the form of media that filters into this demographic. Also take note, many Lemmygraduates (thats what we should call those who unlearned their liberalism lol) also have interests or careers in STEM, another heavily raised as male demographic.


That’s also a possibility. Either way this could trigger a bloody back and forth of shootings between fascists and trans youth, where the trans youth clearly are not in a position win out. It would alienate many would be allies by attacking school children with acts of terrorism and not an organized struggle against fascism and the state.

On top of that with the new surveillance state law getting pushed, we are living in scary times.


Don’t wanna come off as too much of a tin foil hat, but it’s a little strange that this just happened after Tucker Carlson was “warning” of arming trans people and while Anti Trans legislature is in the mix.

Is it a possible false flag? Am I being insensitive as a person or is that just cause the amount of shootings?


Oh thanks I did not know that.

So while we are on the topic, what European countries aren’t American vassals?

Is there a rundown of European geopolitics? Am I misunderstanding which are vassals?

Isn’t Europe realizing it can’t abandon China? Do they have that independence?


What I’m curious about is why if both Sweden and Finland are defacto NATO states, why only Finland?

Is so they can still “dangle” Swedish membership? As if that would threaten the Russians or something? Giving them room to “escalate”?


Excellent points, though take note, the goal of guerrilla warfare isn’t to defeat the enemy, but to drain his resources. Another aspect of this is the designed escalation of guerrilla warfare: No government would use a drone to take out five guys in the forest. Those guys are still at the local level, even if they plan to later on build up against the government. Quite simply the higher government wouldn’t know too much about it at first, and those 5 guys would just be dealing cops.

Now you do make note of only soldiers being prepped enough to fight a guerrilla war, true. But oppressed minorities are disproportionate servicemen. Now where are these minorities mainly located. The Southern and Southwestern US. Where are areas best suited for guerrilla campaigns? The Southern and Southwestern US. Where are the largest indigenous reservations? The Southwestern US. What does the Southwestern US have? A large mountainous border with Mexico. What areas will be affected more and more by Climate Change? The Southern and Southwestern US. If a protracted struggle were to happen, it would have to happen there.

Now I agree that for current goals, organized demonstrations and blockades will do. For now. Besides without that radical minority, what teeth do the masses have? Which is why I imagine that would be guerrillas start off as industrial saboteurs. Those types who care deeply about the environment to a radical extent most likely have the knowledge of the land. And, at least to the liberal view, these carbon partisans are attacking specific organs of land exploitation and not the state itself. WE know that the state will protect private property and is the whole point of the state, but if the goal isn’t necessarily an overthrow of the state and “just” dismantling regressive ecological exploitation systems perhaps the guerrillas wouldn’t be wiped off the Earth and instead the state bends its knees instead of provoking a revolution.

Instead of waiting for American class consciousness to rise from a change material conditions, the best way to get them off their asses is Climate Action because they can see it affecting them already and it’s detrimental and existential. Clearly the system needs to change, many Zoomers know that even tho they have no idea how they want change. Why worry of some gommunist famines if doing nothing to the systems leaves you with a pain 10x worse than any fascist propaganda could cook up. That is why we need Melons and no more electoralism from the libs.


Oh boy am I glad we are all getting a resurgence of interest on military theory recently.

I am with the assumption we are speaking economically and geopolitically too, duh.

Now other than nukes, which is a loss for everyone, I don’t see a scenario where China loses either. I don’t think the question is if China can win, it is can it win before climate change destroys humanity.

We can see already China emerging as the leading power. Peace deals in the middle east which feel like they came from nowhere from the major regional powers. Now European leaders are making visits to Beijing to discuss solutions for the Ukraine conflict. Even the Ukrainian government is shy to criticize China’s close relationship with Russia, due to their hopes of economic rebuilding. THE FUCKING FACIST PUPPET STATE WITH THE US COMMANDING IT!

I believe with China now truly established as a DOTP and soon to be leading power, it will guide the intertwined multipolar world against the new threat of natural disaster. In a way mirroring the struggle of primitive communism, it will once again be humans vs nature, except it will be trying to.

Though most of the periphery is becoming more stable with industrialization and nationalization, the core is becoming increasingly unstable while deindustrialized and privatized. They have switched places in a way. And that is right as we are tipping over the edge of Western economic collapse.

With the rolling back of child labor laws, women and queer rights disappearing, continued ecological destruction, decaying infrastructure and industry, economic collapse, and Florida to vanguard fascism in the states. Are we at a point to see the possibility of a Protracted Peoples War? With its balkanization seeming eminent, huge swaths of a mountainous terrain, and easy access to firearms, are the proletarian forces able to carry out an organized armed struggle?

I am under the impression, the left in the core will form as two intertwined groups, Indigenous Liberation and Ecological Warrior Melons (green on the outside, but red on the inside). I don’t feel I have to explain why Indigenous liberation and ecological protection go hand and hand. We are at a point where the majority of Americans realize we are running out of time with the system we have, and will begin to resort to desperate measures. With all the major chemical spills, nuclear leakage, and continued oil drilling, industrial sabotage seems like a reasonable means to an end for the public. There needs to form a radical guerrilla group with the goal of disrupting environmental devastation, a sort of carbon partisans. As these carbon partisans grow, they will open up with more and radical ideology and missions.-------

I realize I have completely skirted off the original topic, oh my lord. Hey at least its some discussion on this community haha. So what do you think, will Protracted Peoples Wars be possible?


He would say this unironically


As if your understanding of the English language has any merit of your nationality.

For example, in our English class we just covered the difference between “its” and “it’s”. We are also juniors and seniors. Half of us will become adults. We aren’t displaced in the slums. We live practically in the suburbs. In a college town. The largest college in our state. We are Americans. :)

Actually, I take it back. Your understanding of the English DOES have merit on your nationality. I’m convinced the MORE you understand it, the LESS you’re likely to be part of the Anglosphere.


Piglet is Winnie the Pooh’s best friend. In conjunction to depict Putin as an emasculated male, as anxious, timid, and runt of the litter Piglet.

Reading into a racist forum troll’s comment like I’m in English class.

Also the internet has decided Piglet is an armadillo and I can’t unsee it.


ADHD tangent:

My favorite thing is people in disbelief that you can speak another language without having an accent.


Sure it wasn’t an islamophobic redditor troll masking as a “religious extremist”?


Ice Bear will be the Inuit people leading a protracted Indigenous people’s war in the Arctic, marking a decay within the imperial core.


Whew, good to know my middle aged parents, pansexual partner, enby friends, and centrist peers are free from Russian Bot infiltration.

Also “Impersonate black and white… Americans”, is that the extent of their concept of race and ethnicity? I know this a good 99% to be AI generated, but come on…


New season of We Bare Bears dropped


I would be shit lib western “leftist” without y’all. o7 luv y’all


Hahaha I figured it out with all the Wisconcom alts. Take care comrade!


Happy cake day! Dude it took me so long to figure out that it’s based on when the account was made.


You know I thought about it, they don’t actually believe this, they are just pandering to the audience of libs. This is just speaking to your target demographic.


What happened with the Munich Security Conference, sorry i’ve been outta the loop lately.


Id say it’s easier to read, I have focus issues and the big chunky font lets me slow down and digest.

EDIT: Also the colors are nice. Maybe it could be the unconventional graphic design or the theory being pasted about, but it reminds me a lot of theespressostalinist which I find much joy reading the Real Stalin series through.



Oh I know, I’m so excited to federate with them, I just was curious with the much more unhinged nature of it, but that could also be size, if it was majority anarchist.

Don’t get me wrong I love Hexbear, just a little taken aback with the “Swerf” take.


Is the site majority anarchist? I know it’s riddled with them, but overall I haven’t seen disastrous foreign policy takes.


HAHAHAHAHAHA

Saw the coffee pot and knew immediately what it was.

I remember this gem being shown in my shitty US GOVT class of all places and BOY was that a surprise.

According to one of the comments, the girl was originally supposed to be around 5 which explains the baby talk… BUT SIBLINGS SHOULD NOT LOOK AT EACH OTHER THAT WAY!!!


My mind went to thinking “They weren’t his true homies” because they didn’t deflower him before he died 🤣


OMG I LOVE THE EMBEDDED VIDEO FEATURE!!!


I could give some highly thought out analysis of minor contradictions in the imperial world view, but to be honest the threat of Climate Change and Nuclear War are so existential that they affect the proletarianized middle classes (and even the labour aristocrtaic middle class) in horrendous ways that can only be solved with the dismantling of Imperialism.


Plot twist twist: Turns out there’s only 2 people, one genuine user and CriticalResist8 who controls every single account except for the readers!

Or…

Plot twist twist twist: We are all alt accounts in this giant 4D chess psyop just to fuck with the one true user Wisconcom!!!




See I’m lucky cause the girl I’m talking to supports all anti-imperialists and understands the importance of the state, She is just “personally an anarchist at heart” hahaha


I’ve actually been reading it as Mo-ist 😂


Plot twist CriticalResist8 is the alt account and we are dealing with a deeper and more meta, primary account pulling the strings >:)


Hmm very interesting times indeed, but I am left wondering, what is Turkey’s position in this? I would assume when the war escalates more Turkey would put itself before American interests. How would that affect NATO, with one of it’s strongest armies going its own way?

Has anyone got a detailed analysis of Turkey’s Geopolitical position?

What about the blowback of Nazi terrorism in Europe. Any potential revolutions (not necessarily ML, just an ousting of US puppets) in the EU? Greece?

Would the anti-imperialist push in the periphery force the US to move outta Ukraine?

If Russia wins, will some parts of Europe accept to realign with Russian interests instead of American?


What do you mean by way of life of the settler? Living standards or some bullshit idea of “American Values”?

I mean, yeah they are still proletarian, that would be like saying the global south isn’t proletariat because they produce many good exploited by the core. I certainly don’t see too many bourgeois indigenous peoples. I guess it’s more there’s “national class” that holds class character, like core and periphery, where in a settler colonial context the oppressed nations are an internalized periphery.

I think it’s important to point out that while Indigenous peoples having children is an act of resistance against the settler state, settlers having children isn’t inherently an act of repression against Indigenous populations. As at the very basis the settlers are still exploited, even though under imperialism they gain a privileged position of labour aristocracy. Once imperialism is defeated, then the majority of settlers will have their interests align more and more with Indigenous peoples, as the contradictions boil inwards.

Maybe I’m missing something, could you extrapolate more by what you mean interests?


(History class in the 3rd millennium)

TEACHER: So class, can anyone tell me why world war 3 was started?

ALL STUDENTS: The Ukrainian conflict!

TEACHER: Thats correct! Does anyone know why?

STUDENT: Because the proxy evolved into a full on escalation between NATO against the Russia Federation?

TEACHER: Well that would have been a logical possibility, but what caused WW3 via the Ukraine conflict was this: At the beginning of the conflict US media outlets censored all platforms going against the narrative. This led to an online Marxist Leninist forum community called GenZeDong to transform into its own site called Lemmygrad. On this niche forum site, one user, self proclaimed as Wisconcom, would occasionally edit and argue with everyone around him spouting his ideology as Hoxhaism. Lemmygrad exiled him away but he would consistently make alternate accounts and continue harassing the community. Lemmygraders in return made fun of his pathetic attempts to “radicalize” the users. Little did they know that this user had the ability and the guts to go… THERMONUCLEAR!!!


This was recommended to me via the same channel where I am watching a doc about Mountain Dialect. Nothing explicitly special, but it's nice to put faces and real human connection to the struggle. Also these videos have been making me realize just how much of classism against rednecks and hillbillies is left over from anti Celtic sentiment. (but that's more of a sidenote) EDIT: Spelling

When does a country officially become an AES state?
Another question is what socialist countries could become AES?

How radical is Quebec? A History?
Okay so I have been doing some thinking about the Americas and remember something about a Quebec independence movement? How can we utilize this?

Is it worth it to take political science or history in a western college? Among other ponderings I have lol…
Well, first of all this is an assumption I can afford college, which before then is an assumption I can pass high school. Actually I have lots of questions around this idea of even having a career. I feel lost right now, and really only feel working for the revolution is my calling in life. Is there ways to get there? Is it possible to be a professional revolutionary in the States? How can I build around this purpose?

Fidel Castro: My Life
I am having issues finding a pdf that doesn't have me sign up for a pdf library membership, do y'all have one? Are these memberships safe?

Class Nature of the Imperial Countryside? (And I guess core in general, lol)
Im sure theres a whole rabbit hole with the imperial countryside, especially with the anglo sphere. Okay so a lot of things here: Due to the revolutionary potential of the periphery, most of the theory written about the rural areas revolves around the feudal or semi-feudal relations with the peasants. In the core we know feudalism has been abolished, so what is the class nature of the people there, I assume they aren't peasantry, right? Are tactics changed with the Imperial countryside as compared to the periphery? What are features of the rural folk that go past classist caricatures? Im spitballing here, this is just an area i haven't seen addressed, and honestly most class relations in the core. Didn't Huey say something about the lumpen being the revolutionary force in the core, and particularly the black lumpen? Again I am mainly asking about the rural relations.

Can you guys give me a real ML run down of the Fall of Rome?
Yes, I know there's the Parenti book, I'll read it, but I may or may have not procrastinated all of my essays for school and time is of the essence. Love y'all

Whats the deal with certain games attracting a lot of far right fans but also a weird amount of comrades?
I don't really have a name or genre but it's certain games like 40K, Fallout, Civ/HoI/all the other ones. Am I the only one to notice these weird trends of political distribution? Is it just me?

Chrome lists prolewiki as a dangerous website... Lmao No but is this anything to worry about that isn't google trying to avert us from radicalization?

Anti-Nuclear Trend in the Western Left?
Okay so I was scrolling through the PSL's info page, and it is stated that they are to denuclearize the power grid. Why is this? I was under the impression that Nuclear Energy is the much more sustainable and frankly realistic source of power--even without Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium based ones. Im finding it most orgs tend to stay away from Nuclear energy due to fear mongering from fossil fuel industries; Thus its stain in the imperial core, reaching from liberals to western "leftists". But I am surprised the PSL, a radical organization, is anti-nuclear. FYI this isn't a deal breaker or anything--they seem to be taking the lead for vanguard party--just was curious of the stance on nuclear energy.


Cool book I got “the Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th century”
My mom bought this random from a sale at the library for a buck. As it turns out, it's a Marxist work, at least it seems like it. Started off in the Foreword quoting Marx, and talks of the bourgeoisie pushing for railway due to the Corn Tax and efficiency. And now there's a Railroad community. all in like 3 days what's the odds? Just wanted to share, the book's pretty good so far.

I believe there needs to be multiple “debates” on PatSocs
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/297928 > As you have all noticed, this seems to be a point of contention here. This is a good thing, since it means someone will learn something. > > Now we seem to be all over the place, with this general area of thought, provoking many questions. Whether or not PatSocs are socially conservative, what is position on social conservatism? Many of us are very young, both in age and ML experience, so an online discussion would be a great learning tool. > > 1. Are socially conservative individuals allowed to be apart of the leftist movement? > - A. Are socially conservative individuals victims of bourgeois propaganda? > -B. If socially conservative people are turned away by the left, where do they go? > -C. How high of a position would a social conservative be allowed in a ML party? > -D. How has or will MLs educate socially conservative folk? > -E. &tc, &tc. > > 2. What exactly is Patriotism? > -A. Does patriotism depend on culture? > -B Is possible for a distinction between patriotism for a country and wanting to abolish the state? > -C. Is patriotism corrupted in the Core? > -D How have post imperialist countries with Communist experiments built patriotism? > -E. &Tc &TC > > 3. Who even are the PatSocs? > -A. If the label is too convuluted, should we make a distinction between Maupin and American exceptionalists? > -B. Who of the leaders do we consider MLs? > -C. Should patriotic socialist be distinct from socialism or is inherent in socialism? > -D. How much do WE even know if PatSocs? > -E. &Tc, &tc > > We can look at the USSR and GDR for these questions. Remember the Hammer and Sickel came from somewhere. > > Things to look out for about the US: > -It is the imperialist power, AND a settler state. > -Low levels of cultural development > -The culture that is there is taken from marginalized groups. > -Americas are the most propagandized people in the World. > -It is huge and incredibly diverse > > More questions about the US could follow: > -Should the US be balkanized? If so how does patriotism be built in balkanized regions? > -How does land back go about? Will indigenous countries emerge, and if so should we reconsider American MLs as different MLs for the Regions in North America. > -If see different nations and regions in North America how does that affect culture? Is the question of how we view the land a prerequisite to discussing patriotism, is it contradictory to call yourself an American Patriot if you decide to divide up the land until regions? > > There is so much potential for deep political for North American based Comrades, this is a rabbit hole I do want to delve into. I'll cross post this to GZD but I want it mainly on Leftist Infighting.

I believe there needs to be multiple “debates” on PatSocs
As you have all noticed, this seems to be a point of contention here. This is a good thing, since it means someone will learn something. Now we seem to be all over the place, with this general area of thought, provoking many questions. Whether or not PatSocs are socially conservative, what is position on social conservatism? Many of us are very young, both in age and ML experience, so an online discussion would be a great learning tool. 1. Are socially conservative individuals allowed to be apart of the leftist movement? - A. Are socially conservative individuals victims of bourgeois propaganda? -B. If socially conservative people are turned away by the left, where do they go? -C. How high of a position would a social conservative be allowed in a ML party? -D. How has or will MLs educate socially conservative folk? -E. &tc, &tc. 2. What exactly is Patriotism? -A. Does patriotism depend on culture? -B Is possible for a distinction between patriotism for a country and wanting to abolish the state? -C. Is patriotism corrupted in the Core? -D How have post imperialist countries with Communist experiments built patriotism? -E. &Tc &TC 3. Who even are the PatSocs? -A. If the label is too convuluted, should we make a distinction between Maupin and American exceptionalists? -B. Who of the leaders do we consider MLs? -C. Should patriotic socialist be distinct from socialism or is inherent in socialism? -D. How much do WE even know if PatSocs? -E. &Tc, &tc We can look at the USSR and GDR for these questions. Remember the Hammer and Sickel came from somewhere. Things to look out for about the US: -It is the imperialist power, AND a settler state. -Low levels of cultural development -The culture that is there is taken from marginalized groups. -Americas are the most propagandized people in the World. -It is huge and incredibly diverse More questions about the US could follow: -Should the US be balkanized? If so how does patriotism be built in balkanized regions? -How does land back go about? Will indigenous countries emerge, and if so should we reconsider American MLs as different MLs for the Regions in North America. -If we see different nations and regions in North America how does that affect culture? Is the question of how we view the land a prerequisite to discussing patriotism, is it contradictory to call yourself an American Patriot if you decide to divide up the land until regions? There is so much potential for deep political for North American based Comrades, this is a rabbit hole I do want to delve into. I'll cross post this to GZD but I want it mainly on Leftist Infighting. Edit: spacing issues



Can someone give a run up of how Greece has been doing, and what’s up with the KKE.
Sorry Im a little baby ML from the US, who has a LOT of geopolitics to catch up on. EDIT: The reason I'm asking this is because, at least what I am getting is, that the general consensus is Greece will most likely go socialist next, but also that KKE has some issues.

A Newsletter
I believe for my own sanity and worth while that I'll restrict myself to occasional Club Hub posts. I really have not had a break in a while, but I still do believe there to be an importance of this Community. I will probably do a Newsletter sort of thing that will consolidate my thoughts about communities. Have a good one!

Why is Belarus just so quirky and different?
Can you comrades explain why Belarus is not like the other Post-Soviet States?

Potato Buckets!
I have been really into the aspect of growing potatoes in buckets for multiple reasons: For one it seems cheap enough; Secondly the nature of being able to have buckets as a mobilized garden could be great in so many areas. Don’t have the time or energy to cultivate your soil? Bucket. Live in the city surrounded by pavement? Bucket. Are you a renter who can’t grow plants or you don’t even know if you can live there next month, so investing in gardening would be pointless? Bucket. Ever accidentally killed a prominent figure, so you spend your life on the run, moving from country to country never knowing the simple life you once lived but still want to follow your childhood dream of gardening? Bucket. It seems to be that for one pound of potatoes, you’ll get 7 lbs back. It being a root plant, watch its moisture. Cut a chived(?) potato in half and put charcoal on the wound so it doesn’t rot. What’s y’alls take on this.

Pumping TRG
I was supposed to get the ball rolling yesterday for this to happen today but my life just took a slam to the face, so from comrade to comrade understand me here. From today to tomorrow, I would like to see what each of us making a post on TRG would do for its content flow, for the next week or so. It has been stagnant for the past week so I'm hoping if we can get it leaking out just a little bit, consistently, that it would help. Oh yeah, here's the[link](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/eco_socialism)
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A Rethinking of Club Hub’s Strategy
I am realizing the marketing for Club Hub itself won't bring the traction, it's both redundant and unsuccessful. It is unsuccessful since people will get annoyed by the constant bombardment of begging to join, as I have so experienced (whoops). It is redundant because it has enough "monthly viewers" that it should pop up on local view when we post on here. On that last note what we really need to do is to get people who wanna make a community, like for example the based Poland-ball to make that announcement directly as a post on ClubHub. I think I will make a new thread each week for suggestions, to feed the a l g o r i t h i m.

What is the difference between Electoralism and a Political Party in Power?
I reframed the question, was using the wrong term, oops

Hey, go check out the new How Its Made community!
I'm so happy somebody read my mind about making a [community for analyzing production](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/production), it's good to see all of us comrades on the same page of bettering Lemmy!


This Week’s Communities to Promote:
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Yes I did just copy and paste the answers: -theory discussion -study groups -community about nature/birding, -one about learning Russian. -Gardening: The Revolutionary Garden -Tea community -Irish community -Beer Brewing -A community for sharing material (memes videos posters ideas whatever) for radicalizing libs: -Programming -Based Polandball. -Math, science, philosophy

What is the best things for American MLs to do?
I know we could educate our local community and all, but isn't there more? Could we consolidate our MLs into one place?

Why is Stalin the most demonized?
Okay so I was wondering why Stalin got the most flack of the Cold War propaganda, at least in my experience growing up in the U.S., He's the only Soviet Leader we were "taught" about. Sorry if this is dumb.

Hey Kid…
Got any communities you'd like to see? Oh, you do? Then join [Club Hub](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/club_hub)

A trial run of the Rallying Brigade, and The Revolutionary Garden
Okay, I am planning on maybe next Sunday we could try out the "brigade" of TRG. Why TRG to test my plan for brigading? Well for starters, wanting a garden club is what got me on this path but also it happens to have the right amount of activity and inactivity to see how much this "brigade" will help, and a garden club seemed to garner the most traction from the first post. I almost forgot, I probably wont do much for club hub tomorrow since my internet access is limited and everything is closed for Easter. Farewell and Oh Comrade, My Comrades

The Overall Genres
Overall all the genres I have noticed going through the backlogs of Lemmygrad. -Archives: Gone too soon. -Shitposting: Does it even need an introduction? -Dunking on Libs: (sigh) -Dunking on non ML leftists: Usually Anarchists or MLMs. -Sexuality: One of the largest genres, with the nature of it, its communities probably just need time and Lemmygrad’s own population to grow. -Neurodiversity: There’s an actual community for NDs and the rest are for autism, weirdly no adhd, (I got that one if you couldn’t tell, lol) -Training Grounds: A genre that is based around improvement of the mind and body, basically like working out, working on organizing skills, a REAL self help if you will. -Alternative Browser and Medias: Like Linux and Fediverse, basically fuck the tech giants. -Programming: I’m in. -Technology: Sort of like programming but more broad, IDK computer stuff, sorry guys. -Communist Parties in Your Area: Different Parties -Anti-American Empire: Boo! -ML Education: Lenin would be so proud. -National Culture: Like different countries and regions. -Languages: For learning or speaking different languages. -Anime Stuff: Communities around anime or just japanese-esc fanbases. -The Internet Classics: Your good ole reddit classics, brought back to you in Lemmyvision. -Religion: Self explanatory -Biology: Cool animal and ecosystem stuff. -Gardening: Grow your own grain in Stalin’s Sizeable Spoon Simulator! -Australia: A user named Nique, has made lots of communities around Australia. So if you are interested in Australia, they’re your go to. -AESthetics: Different types of art and style communities, I just realized there was AES in aesthetics so that’s fun. -Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Sort of miscellaneous communities with either, huge subscribers bases w/ no posts, or just too old to tell the tale, will still probably look at them to -Old Non ML Groups: Can some of you elders here explain why there are communities for Anprims on a ML site? -Miscellaneous: I think I’ll just keep a hold of the old misc. communities and wait to see if someone asks about a community they would like that could be in there. This is sort of rushed since I gotta go soon, and there may be more but maybe this will give you guys ideas. I’ll probably make more direct posts about each genre later. Farewell, and Oh Comrade, My Comrades! EDIT: Here are some genres I have skipped over in the rush, or may have missed in general, (woah, do the words general and genre have the same roots, weird). -Wargaming/Real Time Strategy: mainly HOI4 -Gaming: And I was just about to get my 30 day chip for Mtn Dew -Commie Music: Liberators of pop-centric cultures
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Why do we need to subscribe to a community to post?
While I was looking through Lemmygrad's communities for Club Hub, psst join [Club Hub](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/club_hub), I noticed there is like a mini Firewall for posting. You can only post with a subscription, not that it is much of hassle (at least for now), I was just curious for the reason of this?

To make things on Club Hub easier
First off, please forgive me for my absence yesterday, life happens, secondly I am conjuring ideas to make community populating more efficient. Okay I have an idea to consolidate things in our Rallying Brigade phase. To lighten the load, since there aren’t that many communities on Lemmygrad just yet, we should compile or just look over those established ones. This way, we could just group together older communities that fill a genre instead of a niche. I Think I will start off with a master post, then have a separate genre based post with links to each community. It might take me a bit to look over each community so don’t get too excited. Oh and with the Local view on, I realize I could minimize the cross posts to /c/communism, to reduce the spam just a little bit, ;) Farewell, and Oh Comrade, My Comrades!!

Join Club Hub!!
I have been noticing the trend of communities dying before they even began, which is not going to be good for the viability of Lemmygrad. I am trying to combat this by having our communities actively participate in "brigades" if you will. Lemmygrad was our back up to Reddit but since we don't have the luxury of the numbers or time, to ensure this platform's lifespan we have to make use of the "first" generation of Lemmygrad (it was pretty much dead before the wave of GZD refugees, I was fortunate enough to join about a week or two before the quarantine) If we don't make use of the infrastructure or populate more "niche" communities, Lemmygrad will die. Sorry if this is getting spammy, the word just needs to get out. Have a wonderful day comrades!! [Club Hub](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/club_hub)

To begin the surveying process
Here we can collect the data for desired communities, then later we will explore if those communities exist or not (I am thinking of making a checklist to explain my thinking)

The Need to Repurpose /c/Communism
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/201748 > My whistle blowing of Lemmygrad’s future has already garnered us valuable progress, one of our admins, Muad’Dibber, has changed the default view of communities to local, and another of our admins, Camrada Forte, suggested us to repurpose /c/communism ‘s large subscriber base, then we wouldn’t have to waste valuable time and energy rallying on a new community. Now for those of you who don’t know why we are choosing to repurpose /c/communism it’s for two reasons: First, it already has the numbers. Second but more importantly, it is supposed to be the main hub of Lemmygrad. But… with its banner under the vague and redundant communism (on a communist site) it is a lake with algae in it. If we can repurpose /c/communism into a pipeline for other communities, it will be more akin to a basin atop a mountain feeding rivers into the valleys. > > The Pipeline for Other Communities: > With its numbers, we can kick off the first week or so by surveying the types of communities people would want on Lemmygrad. Once we have an idea of the most wanted communities, we could dig up ones that match who just need a boost, or create brand new ones. For example I wanted a Gardening community (this is kinda what started this whole thing) and what would you know, we have one! The Revolutionary Garden! But like me, there were many others who wanted a garden community without even knowing we had one. > > So in this example what should we do? Well, we marked off the first and second boxes already: Is there a push for a specific community? (Yes!) If yes, does this community already exist or do we need a new one? (In a Gardening community, it's the former). Now since it is a community that already exists we need to ask ourselves, what is this issue here? Is it a lack of posting problem, a numbers problem, an access problem, or is it a multitude of those problems? (Seeing with Lemmygrad’s current situation, most communities made pre-GZD quarantine are having a multitude of those issues. With TRG, it seems to fill a niche enough to have a consistent community just needs the numbers and exposure) > > Some Other Things I Have Noticed While Working On This: > People who are new to Marxism-Leninism, such as myself, are finding themselves unwilling to comment on larger communities. This could be a natural timidness, a fear of ridicule for a bad take, or just plain old reluctance till they feel educated enough. This is why even though we see large amounts of upvotes on posts (Don’t worry, I’m taking in secondary accounts) the actual commenters or posters in general, are the same couple of comrades we see again and again. Now how could repurposing /c/communism solve this issue. The easiest way to get someone talking is to ask them what they hate. The second easiest way to get someone talking is to ask them what they are passionate about. We are shooting for the second. So we are killing two birds with one stone. Communities will be made significant to support passionate comrades, and passionate comrades will support their significant communities. > > The Actual Process: > Now how are we going to start populating these communities? I have a concept in mind. After we have gathered or birthed wanted communities, we will prepare sort of an assignment list. In practice it’ll go something like this, let’s use the TRG still: It is Monday, Joe Schmo sees the weekly list of wanted communities stickied to the top of the former /c/communism. Joe scans the list and sees The Revolutionary Garden on there. Now, Joe could also have some other communities he would like to “brigade” but TRG is his favorite, (since he has been wanting a gardening community for a long time just didn’t know it existed, I know lots of projection here). Then Joe, knowing the plan to “brigade” the communities on this list on Sunday, starts researching his potential post for TRG. It is almost Sunday, Joe has decided he will post about the potential of Aquaponics (using fish poop to feed unsoiled plants in a closed system). Sunday comes and people from all over Lemmygrad wanting to get into TRG start posting what they have learned or made, etc. TRG grows with a new burst of subscribers, and more momentum. Then on Monday, the cycle repeats itself. > > It doesn’t have to be Sunday of course, and there will be more communities to ”brigade” but this is what I have thought of. This will be the “Rallying Brigade” phase I was talking about. Your thoughts, guys?

The Need to Repurpose /c/Communism
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/201748 > My whistle blowing of Lemmygrad’s future has already garnered us valuable progress, one of our admins, Muad’Dibber, has changed the default view of communities to local, and another of our admins, Camrada Forte, suggested us to repurpose /c/communism ‘s large subscriber base, then we wouldn’t have to waste valuable time and energy rallying on a new community. Now for those of you who don’t know why we are choosing to repurpose /c/communism it’s for two reasons: First, it already has the numbers. Second but more importantly, it is supposed to be the main hub of Lemmygrad. But… with its banner under the vague and redundant communism (on a communist site) it is a lake with algae in it. If we can repurpose /c/communism into a pipeline for other communities, it will be more akin to a basin atop a mountain feeding rivers into the valleys. > > The Pipeline for Other Communities: > With its numbers, we can kick off the first week or so by surveying the types of communities people would want on Lemmygrad. Once we have an idea of the most wanted communities, we could dig up ones that match who just need a boost, or create brand new ones. For example I wanted a Gardening community (this is kinda what started this whole thing) and what would you know, we have one! The Revolutionary Garden! But like me, there were many others who wanted a garden community without even knowing we had one. > > So in this example what should we do? Well, we marked off the first and second boxes already: Is there a push for a specific community? (Yes!) If yes, does this community already exist or do we need a new one? (In a Gardening community, it's the former). Now since it is a community that already exists we need to ask ourselves, what is this issue here? Is it a lack of posting problem, a numbers problem, an access problem, or is it a multitude of those problems? (Seeing with Lemmygrad’s current situation, most communities made pre-GZD quarantine are having a multitude of those issues. With TRG, it seems to fill a niche enough to have a consistent community just needs the numbers and exposure) > > Some Other Things I Have Noticed While Working On This: > People who are new to Marxism-Leninism, such as myself, are finding themselves unwilling to comment on larger communities. This could be a natural timidness, a fear of ridicule for a bad take, or just plain old reluctance till they feel educated enough. This is why even though we see large amounts of upvotes on posts (Don’t worry, I’m taking in secondary accounts) the actual commenters or posters in general, are the same couple of comrades we see again and again. Now how could repurposing /c/communism solve this issue. The easiest way to get someone talking is to ask them what they hate. The second easiest way to get someone talking is to ask them what they are passionate about. We are shooting for the second. So we are killing two birds with one stone. Communities will be made significant to support passionate comrades, and passionate comrades will support their significant communities. > > The Actual Process: > Now how are we going to start populating these communities? I have a concept in mind. After we have gathered or birthed wanted communities, we will prepare sort of an assignment list. In practice it’ll go something like this, let’s use the TRG still: It is Monday, Joe Schmo sees the weekly list of wanted communities stickied to the top of the former /c/communism. Joe scans the list and sees The Revolutionary Garden on there. Now, Joe could also have some other communities he would like to “brigade” but TRG is his favorite, (since he has been wanting a gardening community for a long time just didn’t know it existed, I know lots of projection here). Then Joe, knowing the plan to “brigade” the communities on this list on Sunday, starts researching his potential post for TRG. It is almost Sunday, Joe has decided he will post about the potential of Aquaponics (using fish poop to feed unsoiled plants in a closed system). Sunday comes and people from all over Lemmygrad wanting to get into TRG start posting what they have learned or made, etc. TRG grows with a new burst of subscribers, and more momentum. Then on Monday, the cycle repeats itself. > > It doesn’t have to be Sunday of course, and there will be more communities to ”brigade” but this is what I have thought of. This will be the “Rallying Brigade” phase I was talking about. Your thoughts, guys?

The Need to Repurpose /c/Communism
My whistle blowing of Lemmygrad’s future has already garnered us valuable progress, one of our admins, Muad’Dibber, has changed the default view of communities to local, and another of our admins, Camrada Forte, suggested us to repurpose /c/communism ‘s large subscriber base, then we wouldn’t have to waste valuable time and energy rallying on a new community. Now for those of you who don’t know why we are choosing to repurpose /c/communism it’s for two reasons: First, it already has the numbers. Second but more importantly, it is supposed to be the main hub of Lemmygrad. But… with its banner under the vague and redundant communism (on a communist site) it is a lake with algae in it. If we can repurpose /c/communism into a pipeline for other communities, it will be more akin to a basin atop a mountain feeding rivers into the valleys. The Pipeline for Other Communities: With its numbers, we can kick off the first week or so by surveying the types of communities people would want on Lemmygrad. Once we have an idea of the most wanted communities, we could dig up ones that match who just need a boost, or create brand new ones. For example I wanted a Gardening community (this is kinda what started this whole thing) and what would you know, we have one! The Revolutionary Garden! But like me, there were many others who wanted a garden community without even knowing we had one. So in this example what should we do? Well, we marked off the first and second boxes already: Is there a push for a specific community? (Yes!) If yes, does this community already exist or do we need a new one? (In a Gardening community, it's the former). Now since it is a community that already exists we need to ask ourselves, what is this issue here? Is it a lack of posting problem, a numbers problem, an access problem, or is it a multitude of those problems? (Seeing with Lemmygrad’s current situation, most communities made pre-GZD quarantine are having a multitude of those issues. With TRG, it seems to fill a niche enough to have a consistent community just needs the numbers and exposure) Some Other Things I Have Noticed While Working On This: People who are new to Marxism-Leninism, such as myself, are finding themselves unwilling to comment on larger communities. This could be a natural timidness, a fear of ridicule for a bad take, or just plain old reluctance till they feel educated enough. This is why even though we see large amounts of upvotes on posts (Don’t worry, I’m taking in secondary accounts) the actual commenters or posters in general, are the same couple of comrades we see again and again. Now how could repurposing /c/communism solve this issue. The easiest way to get someone talking is to ask them what they hate. The second easiest way to get someone talking is to ask them what they are passionate about. We are shooting for the second. So we are killing two birds with one stone. Communities will be made significant to support passionate comrades, and passionate comrades will support their significant communities. The Actual Process: Now how are we going to start populating these communities? I have a concept in mind. After we have gathered or birthed wanted communities, we will prepare sort of an assignment list. In practice it’ll go something like this, let’s use the TRG still: It is Monday, Joe Schmo sees the weekly list of wanted communities stickied to the top of the former /c/communism. Joe scans the list and sees The Revolutionary Garden on there. Now, Joe could also have some other communities he would like to “brigade” but TRG is his favorite, (since he has been wanting a gardening community for a long time just didn’t know it existed, I know lots of projection here). Then Joe, knowing the plan to “brigade” the communities on this list on Sunday, starts researching his potential post for TRG. It is almost Sunday, Joe has decided he will post about the potential of Aquaponics (using fish poop to feed unsoiled plants in a closed system). Sunday comes and people from all over Lemmygrad wanting to get into TRG start posting what they have learned or made, etc. TRG grows with a new burst of subscribers, and more momentum. Then on Monday, the cycle repeats itself. It doesn’t have to be Sunday of course, and there will be more communities to ”brigade” but this is what I have thought of. This will be the “Rallying Brigade” phase I was talking about. Your thoughts, guys?

Where to go from here
Now that I actually got the ball rolling on this, time is of the essence. I plan on marketing this everyday for about 2 weeks, then for another 2 weeks every other day, and then once a week for a few months, then solidify into once a month. Once we start building up a population on Club Hub then we could plan to “brigade” our own communities to populate them. This way we could have a central area for organizing and marketing communities without relying on the “Trending Communities” area or clogging up GZD. The reason we will need this, is unlike reddit, we don’t have the numbers or the time to build up on its own. I hope this works!!!

TELLING MLS WHAT THEY NEEDED TO HEAR!!! (GONE WRONG!, GONE SEXUAL?!) NOT CLICKBAIT!!
Hey Comrades, Sorry for the clickbaity title but I was realizing something over the past couple days. I feel we are on the teeter totter of making or breaking for Lemmygrad. Due to the quarantine and silencing of anti-western perspectives, we have momentum going on in Lemmygrad! That’s great but, we should do better organizing to keep it running instead of just 1. Commenting with Leftist on Ukraine or 2. Politely circle jerking (I believe this is fine and builds solidarity but there’s much more we could do in and out of this bubble.) When this war passes and we have nothing to solidly comment on, Lemmygrad will slowly evaporate, hell look at the activity pre-GenZedong quarantine. To combat this we need one community here to act as our artery for other communities, I don’t know like with the name, Club Hub or something. The “Join Community” area in the top right is cool, but it does not hold up at all. There’s communities that you’ll see and think “sweet!” but you click on 'em and they’re dead, and anyone subscribed is just twiddling thumbs waiting for someone to say something, and since no one does, that community with potential dies. Now once we get this nucleus of communities set up, we could start populating more, well not necessarily niche, but not GZD level of areas. For example, I was thinking about something like a Gardening community: The most efficient and latest means of production for food; hydroponics, aquaponics, Microgreens, permaculture, cricket farming, mushroom farming, even traditional. Basically the things needed for a quality community farm, some overall knowledge for real world benefits and something maybe, let's say, our less forefront type comrades could manage. TLDR: Sorry if this is losing track but I guess what I’m saying is this: We wouldn’t be able to keep Lemmygrad alive or support needed but less “fun” communities, without a main community as infrastructure for organizing different areas to populate. Oh wait just to make sure this gets the scene, just comment something instead of just upvoting, hmm what seems fun, okay how about “Oh Captain, My Captain!!” or something else

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