yes, that answers my question! thanks for your explanation, that was helpful :)

thanks!

to ask my question more precisely: basically i want to know which part is dialectical and which part is materialist. Sorry, should have specified that more clearly.

So maybe: could you give a short example where something is dialectical but not materialist? and the other way around, something being materialist but not dialectical?

who are those people on the left?

i know Marx, Engels and Rosa Luxemburg, but not the others.

thanks for the recommendation

and yes, i fully understand that both of your experiences is vastly different.

i think this has a lot todo with how such groups work: many times, the email account is operated by 1 person and from experience i can tell that sometimes it is difficult to shift responsibility if your own live has some trouble. which means that emails are forgotten and such.

especially: i think systematic approach to answering/working on emails makes a huge difference to not forget things. But you have to learn that somewhere first, and i think many people don’t know that.

(with systematic i mean: how to not loose the overview when you receive 20 mails per week or something. like: what still needs some work, what is done, what is important what can be done later, etc.)

i guess it is just comparison, see how the organization of the “enemy” works. i think, right wing movements are kind of famous of their meme culture and mobilization potential over things like 4chan.

when you study the tactics of the enemy it is easier to defeat them

PDP

what is that? EDIT: found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan

ah, true, i always forget the name. :D

not sure if this is the correct place to post, but this sublemmy is the most active, soo… (most upvotes, evenn higher compared to the communism sublemmy)

yes of course, america is also very bad. But my perspective is from europe, where i think the working conditions are _sometimes better.

But when i think about it: it might just be that my perspective here is biased because of privilege: i don’t see/“Experience” the miserale working conditions that much poorer people experience. So it might just be that china is more equal from worker to worker.

so yes, i probably would pull 9 hour shifts for 60 days with 60 days free times, but i think i like it better to have my free time more equally distributed, so for instance only 6 hours per day of work and less free days.

to make my perspective more clear: i am part of one such anticapitalist/leftist/socialist movement, which is under state surveillance, so good encryption i can trust is important for my movement. especially because all anticapitalist/leftist/communist movements are under heavy state surveillance in my country.

-> and i think more people should use strong encryption to organize protests, so i think this is a thread to a very big movement

thanks for the explanation!

but let me ask it this way: in my understanding, one reason why we organize a anticapitalist, communist/socialist movement in capitailist countries is for instance that the working conditions are bad, right? for instance the USA. or in general that the quality of life is bad in the USA.

so when comrade @nervvves@lemmygrad.ml said:

They have poor working conditions but 90% of chinese people own a house; thats what communism looks like.

i kind of agree, but what if i would like to have good working conditions instead of owning a house? and in general quality of live to be able to think about politics?

thinking about politics, reading books, etc. is much easier with good working conditions i think.

so this is what i don’t understand

and this is also why i don’t trust people who say that china is communist. in my view, communism would imply good working conditions, which i think is not the case here.