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yeah, i hadn’t ever heard of that one either. a brief look at wikipedia puts it in 1929-31, so before china was actually communist and immediately preceding the imperial occupation of china by japan, who was also at least partially responsible for it’s short existence. that’s a period i need to study up on as well, but it’ll be a while before i can prioritize reading a book about it.
the Korean one is really funny. assassinating an anarchist leader to make their movement fall apart would be considered too on the nose in a work of fiction. i know the russian and spanish civil war ones are conveniently leaving out a lot of details that make the soviet actions a lot more reasonable.
this was a very logical move by her. the sanctions were still very new (started by Obama in 2015-16), and Trump seemed very bribe-able right then. it would have been a dereliction of her duty to the people of Venezuela to not give it a shot. if it had worked, it would have prevented a lot of pain for Venezuelans, and likely much less of the social instability that Maduro is getting blamed for.
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fascist regime (oligarchy)
this one phrase so clearly defines a political view that is incredibly common among liberals who have never read a work of political theory in their life.
I also really understand why communists (and even a lot of non-ML leftists) say things like that. We are up against an empire that regularly imprisons and tortures whoever stands up against it, even (and sometimes especially) people who are US citizens. The desire to have an outside force save you from the hard fight ahead is very human and none of us should feel bad for having it sometimes.
But the reality of the situation we are in is that no one is coming to help us anytime soon. Whether or not it would be prudent or justified for China to directly intervene in the domestic US struggle, they have clearly chosen not to, and there isn’t another power that realistically could intervene. We have to plan to do this ourselves. The good thing is that we, as the proletariat, have the power to win if we can organize effectively.
That said, I very much understand people who feel they need to leave. At the end of everything, we each have only one life, and you need to live it the best way that you can. Many of my friends are trans (as am I), and many of them have talked about moving out of the US. If that’s what it takes to have a life worth living, I wish them the very best. And I know they will be doing the work where ever they end up. Just because it isn’t here, doesn’t mean they are giving up on their politics.
it’s fucking wild to see people in the imperial core (as The Lorax here has in their bio) criticize China for not standing up enough against the empire. that’s literally our job in the imperial core!
i really need everyone to internalize that “free speech zones”, like most of the oppressive shit that Trump has been doing, is not a brand new thing. i remember these were very strictly implemented against the anti-war demonstrations during the W years (which i think is where the meme started).
you need to remember that the Kennedys are catholic. this explains a great deal about the entire family, the least of which is how many of them there are.
in case anyone is confused by this, actual employee owned businesses make their employees into petite bourgeoisie, which fundamentally does not threaten capitalist power, and can instead be used as a pull yourself up by the bootstraps feel-good story to further fragment worker power.
yes, phones have ip addresses, but the cell phone network is not going to open their firewall for your phone to receive incoming connections, in much the same way as the cgnat in the blurb you quoted there works. if your internet plan does that, hosting a server is pretty much impossible.
you are going to have issues getting 2 phones to directly establish a connection between them due to the way that cell networks set up their firewalls. even on private wifi that would require some network config effort that a lot of people will not be able to do.
framing this as a new thing is incredibly dishonest. these kinds of schedules have been a fact of life in large portions of the tech industry for my entire career, especially in startups.
there have been many variations, including styles very reminicent of the confederate battle flag
you have hit upon one of the theoretically most challenging parts of marxism. the relationship between use values (what you are just calling value here, meaning the practical use that people get out of a commodity) and exchange value (usually represented as the usual monetary price you purchase it for in the market) has been a common criticism of marxism since Capital was published. my advice is to ignore it at least until you are thoroughly grounded in the basics and possibly far longer than that unless you feel particularly drawn to the issue. for day to day organizing it is not something that will come up.
many papers and dissertations have been written by people far smarter than me (and probably you, too) on this, so once you have read Capital and the other marxist basics there will be plenty of material for you to engage with on all sides of the debate. for example, i have had this piece on redsails in my bookmarks for few years.
they are being organized largely by the 50501 movement, which is heavily connected with the democrats. they are trying to rally the progressive base that was turned off by Biden and then Harris by pointing at the bad things that Trump is doing. socialist groups attend to try to radicalize people who are starting to be disenchanted by the dems.
i mean, it probably varies substantially by branch, but i know my local branch does a lot of community organizing and outreach type events and is very active in protests and such. if there is one near you, i really recommend reaching out and seeing what they have going on.
Haz Al-Din cooked up this theory that the real proletariat is farm owners.
amazing, they’re literally reconstructing the jeffersonian mythology of the yeoman farmer, updated to the modern day and cloaked in misused marxist terminology
can’t really comment on his personality, but he was far from a consistent ally of the bolsheviks. given the precarity of the soviet state in the early days, their decision to deal harshly with rebellions from former allies is very understandable.