He is a radlib . Very far left compared to his peers, but ultimately invested in reforming aka maintaining capitalism with a friendly face

Nah, Gloria LaRiva outmatches him by socialist/anti-imperialist metrics any day

I agree, except with using a real socialist party condiut to do it: the PSL

The way he talks about RAWM makes it sound like a damn cult. Pros and cons of it aside, Rainer is just obsessed with it to an unhealthy degree

Dude’s just being a contrarion at this point. Check out his shirt from PSL’s CA sister party

I’m not gonna move out of USA while I can still contribute to the revolutionary struggle here, but my plan for my old age is to retire in Cuba.

I feel you. I’m just saying I think the writers of FNV would agree with you

I see your point, but to FNV’s credit, it absolutely dunks on people who have a superficial understanding of philosophy/history/politics such as the person in question here

Oh you’re probably right, I didn’t see the “junior”

Thanks for these tips! I’m working with my party to build a branch in my area because there isn’t one here already. But it’s going at a snail’s pace for a number of logistical reasons. Any advice on building and maintaining popular interest for a party without yet having a branch that people can engage with? What are the best ways to keep applicants from backing out due to disinterest when we don’t actually have a branch to put them in yet?

Don’t take my question as a full endorsement of JFK (obviously I am a communist, not a lib) but what made him pseudoscientific or a grifter? I know he was a complex figure who had lots of pros and cons, I’m just not sure which cons would fit those definitions

Hot take (hot to them, probably not y’all): real traditional values already include intentional tolerance and conservatives’ view of “traditional values” are mostly just modern reactionary bs fueled by willful misinterpretation of history and religion.

I love your comment. I have learned myself that we can’t just lecture our worldview at others to convince them, we must gradually guide them in the right direction.

I like to politely ask questions that I already know the answer to, but the answers to them should hopefully help open the mind of the listener. Like, “what might have been the outcome of the russian civil war if lenin HAD immediately dropped all ‘authoritarian’ tactics immediately after the revolution? Same question for WW2 and the nazi invasion of the USSR? Or how might the Paris commune have turned out differently if they HADN’T immediately dropped their ‘authoritarian’ strategies?”

Some of the other claims they made are just simply verifiable claims which you can press for futher evidence or details. “Specifically who were the political opponents that Lenin killed and why did he do that?” “What particular right-wing goals do you think I have? What exactly have I said that is ‘just like Nazis’?”

Ask questions like an English test asks questions about a book you’ve just read. Questions that make the answerer think more deeply. Then if/when they cite false information from western liberal propaganda, be prepared to politely correct them with verifiable evidence and even have some further questions like “well if X was the case, then wouldn’t Y and Z follow? Why do you think these things don’t add up?”

Oh I honestly forgot that one existed lol. Idk if I’ve ever listened to it

Yeah I liked this video a lot too. My only real criticism was using the sort of negative connotation of the term “state capitalism” and implying that Xi’s claims of having socialism with Chinese characteristics are dubious. But those are relatively small critiques in light of the fact that the video has an overall very positive message about China and dispels a lot of harmful myths about them, while reminding viewers that the US is clearly the real problem

Easily GnR’s worst album

Half of these are literally just repeated further down the list.

Remember when Yeonmi Park told Joe Rogan that North Koreans have to push trains for miles by hand? Pepperidge Farm remembers…

Mao would likely call them running dogs.

If you wanna get more materialist, the “both sides” concept as most people know it is flawed from the beginning. A communist could choose to see two sides like proletariat and bourgeoisie (which itself is true in a way, but still oversimplified) or like the thesis and antithesis of any given contradiction. But that’s not what most people mean. The common left versus right paradigm is just idealist bunk and ignores a vast amount of intricate contradictions, chiefly class struggle. You were correct to choose Marxism instead.

If it’s not just some psyop type of shit, then I’m extremely confused how an ANARCHIST can support the STATE of Israel. ACAB in bio but presumably no problem with the IDF???

Thanks for the info, I’ll read up on it some more

Stalin let Trotsky leave and spread ultra nonsense all over the west

Elaborate please. Lysenko drew from Darwin’s evolutionary theory and imagined better ways of agriculture as a result.

I mean, I’m never a fan of hyper-individualism and obviously this lifestyle is not attainable to most people, so it’s pretty elitist to act like anyone could do this. But that being said, you seem like you are accusing him of something without directly saying it, thereby reliving yourself of the burden of evidence for a specific claim and making the implied claim pretty much unfalsifiable. I don’t know anything about this dude, so you tell me: specifically how do you figure he affords this lifestyle? What exact connections am I missing?

On the one hand, fuck Black Hammer and Gazi. But on the other hand, this seems like a ridiculous charge and clear suppression of free speech when it opposes U.S. state dept. narratives.

I am regrettably not extremely educated on the details of this myself, but since no one else has commented yet, I will link you to the articles I have seen on the issue from trustworthy sources. Apologies if you’ve already seen any of this already, but this is the best answer I have on this subject for now

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/04/18/more-than-180-killed-and-over-1800-injured-as-sudans-security-forces-continue-infighting-in-civilian-areas/

https://twitter.com/peoplesdispatch/status/1647674654134288386

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/sudanese-communists-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-bitter-power-struggle-leaves-least-50?fbclid=IwAR1GSQIfANxmULsBaP_wBklJQzNs_1B8tAZbtLKZ1xrPljI-F0h1sa5b5Cc

https://www.liberationnews.org/sudan-in-the-face-of-civil-war-the-people-demand-the-end-of-military-rule/?fbclid=IwAR15d6P8ZPBU-rlHxEJqsN0ILN0fGTJ2kQS_sPKg1cd4F1Fu_84nvFoTEBw

7.5k people supporting pedophile CIA slave owners to trigger the small handful of people still using /r/GenZedong lmao

Zelenskyy probably just hasn’t been caught yet

Yes PSL is based. Like every single org in existence ever, they have had problems. But these are extremely few and far between, and the good work they do for the communities where they have branches is really great. Several prominent members also do a lot of great journalism and education like Brian Becker, Eugene Puryear, Derek Ford, Walter Smolarek, etc.

I didn’t know Hunton was a self-professed or practicing communist, just knew he had been accused of being one. To be fair, I know far too little about him

I know much less about Losurdo than I do Gramsci, but I totally agree with your point about reactionaries both liberal and far right cherry picking his quotes on culture to misconstrue his point

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That is a tough one. I think I lean a little more toward Fidel, but not really for any quantifiable objective reason

You picked ones that are way to hard to elaborate on without writing a full thesis, but I lean just a little more towards Stalin

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I’m a millennial, and it appears based on the comments that I have something most Gen Z folks do not: alcoholism. Being that alcoholism is a self diagnosed and self treated disease, I have not found strict abstinence to be the best solution for me, I am in the process of weaning myself off gradually. But I’m very glad to see that the next generation of communists has not succumbed to blindly drinking as your only source of fun like the corporations would have you do. Casual drinking once in awhile is almost always harmless, but don’t let any substance become your whole personality.

I’ve been saying forever, real capitalists DO understand Marx and Lenin and know they are right. They’re just not on Marx and Lenin’s side. That’s how they form a resistance against people who hate capitalism but know little to nothing of communist theory.

https://m.soundcloud.com/thesocialistprogram/this-is-the-only-reason-the-super-bowl-happens