The future might be uncertain comrade, but that means potential for change aswell. We’ll probably never see a Red Western Europe as long as our continent is built on the exploitation of other peoples. But through their emancipation we can eventually build a brighter future for proletarians in our part of the world too!

Tajín on oranges is goated

It’s of course morally fine to pursue medical treatment with the means available to you. It’s not like you’re taking a job for Lockheed Martin for health insurance or something, right :P

Started Capital Vol 2!

Well there are plenty of english podcasts already if you are looking for audio theory! :D

Hi, I’ve been trying to make a norwegian-speaking marxist theory podcast, because I felt it was lacking in our language. If you are a norwegian comerade you can check it out at: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2468064

You mean the checks contributing to the balance in the politicians bank accounts?

JPDON Grahom 🙏

Come on, do the Potemkin thing …

I’ve used inkscape for one page zines and Scribus for longer ones. Print in adobe reader with booklet mode, make samples untill you get the rotation of pages right when printing to your target printer.

In more facist periods the bourgeois ideology gets more and more irrational traits to try to convince segments of the petite bouegeois and the workers to support the bourgeois state despited the increased exploutation of the working class, this ultimately reflects in more irational leadership as well. In this case, I think it is entirely possible the US leadership too eagerly bought into their own propaganda about their military strength and the supposed weakness of their enemies. It is not because of Trump or anything like that, he is just part of a less rational bourgeois state apparatus due to material reasons.

That being said, I think they may have had some indications that could have implied that the war would go better for them, which they too eagerly accepted.

Hoping to finish up Lenins Imperialism this week! I sort of feel like I’m missing some stuff because I haven’t gotten to reading Caoital Vol 2 and 3 yet, but hopefully I’ll see some connections when I do read them

Right folks, one Icelander made a joke about Hákarl so we’re not allowed to ferment or salt stuff anymore. Only frozen meat and vegetables in plastic bags from now on.

The tech bourgeoisie dream of a world where running AI will require massive constant capital. Thankfully, it seems that there is great potential for more efficient models instead

In the Soviet Union, excessive wage leveling, corruption and corrosion caused by the second economy and the failure to crack down on it, and a failure to maintain a living and vivid dialectical materialist science and living practice of constructive critique, in particular in regards to the CPSU and the party line, contributed to the reactionary character of these classes. After the revolution, doing better on these points will help keep these classes more loyal.

As for the revolution, the key is to secure the class power of the proletariat as expressed through mass organizations and the communist party and the proletarian state apparatus. New intelligensia etc. can be grown by public education. Political Commissars can ensure officers and the like stay in line during the revolutionary period. The key is to make opportunists conform to the revolution because it is in their best interest, and to weed out committed reactionaries and remove them from positions of power, and help them all grow past their false conciousness.

Hello comerades

I wanted to try to translate the Norwegian poem “Revolusjonens Røst” by Rudolf Nielsen to english for you because I quite like it. I’ve taken some liberties to try to make it a bit less akward than a literal translation, and also skipped trying to force it into a rhyming scheme to focus on the message. Here you go:

The Revolutions Voice

Give me the true and rising, the solid people of strength. Those who are patient and willful, and never in life will go wrong, And sell out my great purpose, instead fighting to death for it.

Give me the cool and the wise, who how I am real. Much more than many who say they believe, I need those who know. Nothing is more like words in sand, than promises of love to come.

Give me the bitter and spiteful, without fear in their hearts. Give me the godless and proud, without a taste for the ideal, but who will make a heaven here by their own class.

Give me the burning hearts, which never give way to doubt, who never give in to sorrow and fear and settle for mere rest, but meet every victory and defeat with the same invincible grin.

So give me the best of you, and I will give you all! No one will know how much we fought for untill we have truly won. We might just need to save our earth, the best among you are called.

Idealist nonsense … “there are no alternatives to capitalism” first of there has been for about one hundred and fifthy years through the writings of Marx and Engels . Secondly the stuff he talks about in the article are just vague ideas without, per own admission, an economic basis. These ideas aren’t alternatives to capitalism, at best they are just an attempt at distracting workers from marxism.

Hello Comrades. I felt a bit down while reading Socialism Betrayed and got an idea for a painting. It’s called “Andropov’s Burial”. I thought maybe some of you would like it.

Remember, comrades, history is on our side!

Go to Spain comrades is not great up here in the north :/

France and Germany are probably better options for trans healthcare too

It’s not just employment either. Trans people often have to pay for medical treatment out of pocket fully or partially. Even if you do have a well-paying job, many working class trans people will have to spend a large part of their wage financing medical treatment, often in combination with unsecured loans.