Well, while we can dream, I’m not for unity for unity’s sake. Unity comes from shared principles and strategy, which are built through discussion and dispute.

Can’t see the post. Are there screenshots?

Thanks, comrade!

Btw I did not see one single comment defending joining this war

Well, you’re looking at content curated to your taste. Sadly, this isn’t the mainstream sentiment about the war in our country. Though, to be fair, I don’t think most people here give a shit about it in the first place.

In March 2000, an interview came out with the president of the Associação dos Agentes da Polícia Federal (Federal Police Agents Association), where he mentioned something called “Comando Delta” (Delta Command). This group was an informal association of rich and powerful men acting in a coordinated manner to defend their private interests, putting money in the campaigns of certain politicians they liked or sabotaging those they didn’t.

Ironically, it was growing up in a petite-bourgeois family in a country with massive inequality and receiving a Catholic education. I was very religious as a child, but became an atheist in my early teenage years. Still, lots of what I came in contact during my Religion classes stuck with me: the talk of how rich people won’t get to heaven, Jesus beating the shit out of merchants who were defiling the temple and hanging out with the marginalised, it struck a chord with me. Even as I distanced myself from the church, than the Bible, then religion altogether, I think those ideas influenced where I ended up.

No. Of course, Brazil is a huge country, there’s a variety of headdresses in different indigenous tribes, but they tend to look more like these:

The history of the Roman Empire. It’s a terrible hobby to have: anyone else interested in this is either an academic, with a level of knowledge leagues above my own, or a fascist.

No, they’re saying he hated Trotsky because Trotsky was jewish.

China’s reforestation project gives me a lot of hope. The devastation of the Amazon rainforest is reaching a tipping point, where savannization will kick in. It’s good to know we can still prevent this if we get our shit together.

Because it’s the name they’ve chosun.

Charging for plastic bags is the most ineffective policy ever. All it does is increasy the profit of supermarkets.

I’d say no. Trotskyism is incompatible with Marxism-Leninism and, to be honest, extremely ineffective as a means of political action. You’d be better off trying to create an ML organisation.

Read a book The only book The book of God Universe in Disenchantment

I was learning Chinese, but I had to stop taking lessons because I had no money. Should start again next year!

I’m still waiting for my Switch to be jailbrekable. :(

Lenin’s The State and Revolution. Right into chapter one he brings up Engels’ analysis of the formation of the state:

“The state is, therefore, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it ’the reality of the ethical idea’, ’the image and reality of reason’, as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ’order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state.”

This was extremely useful in my radicalization process, as it explained states have class characters and thus why we need a dictatorship of the proletariat.

As for The Republic, Plato just took all of that from Egypt. It’s one of the best examples of Western plagiarism.

I didn’t know that! Where can I read more on it?

Well, yes, but also, no. Personalities do indeed exist. They are shaped by the material environment around us, especially during our infancy. But the fact that they are shaped by material conditions doesn’t mean they no longer exist. You won’t magically change your behaviours just by changing environments. That’s a mechanist view of the relationship between person and environment. You can see, for example, how siblings, despite being raised in much the same environment, are different in personalities.

That depends on where you are. I, for example, live in Brazil. Right now, going around with a hammer and sickle isn’t a great idea.