This video came at a very good time. Anti Chinese sentiment is heating up and it is spilling over into leftist circles in my country. Thank you for the lesson on China’s principled trade partnership with Morales.

Its legit why reading the bread book is so widely embraced by the shitposting terminally online imperial core left, its a short snappy book of awesome sounding ideas that sweep you off your feet so much you forget to even ask how the hell you’re going to achieve any of this long term, and its not icky capital or bad bolshevik man

Smh cheap ass game design they re-used the same fkn level for the ‘distribute drugs to black communities’ level and the ‘execute local crack dealers’ level

There was a mass purge of actual marxist thinkers from education & news institutions in the cold war era and I have not seen any evidence of the dominant outlets of news & education have changed their approaches towards marxism. Anyone making direct, unconditional assertion that labor creates all value is discouraged heavily from doing so no matter how much the org would stand to benefit from their work.

I have no doubt that the smart, effective capitalists study Marx tho

(If its true, BIG IF) Its a shame someone identifying as a Marxist-Leninist would call someone a ‘conservatroll’ for being skeptical of China’s economic aid policy. When I asked something similar a comrade explained the way it works to me and its positive results for both China and developing nations. Ended up helping me understand the way China operates and how even if it isn’t my idea of how a DoTP should work it is undeniable that the CPC is doing lots of work on international poverty eradication without the horrible western imperial strings attached to it.

Free to starve and die in the gutter so John Lawnsdick and Barbert Mayonette’s stock portfolio can get a nice lil bump (before it craters in 3 years cos a few NY cokeheads went a bit wild on the old Bloomberg terminals)

I think talking communism on reddit is a hard fight to keep coming back to. The reaction is too severe to sustain for a long time.

In the open, there are always ‘curious’ people wanting you to drop a library of curated sources to prove a basic scientific fact, then read precisely none of them. Then there’s the slurs, the name calling, the thought-cancelling slogans people hide behind on the left etc.

Behind the scenes, unless you’re high profile or have a following, the total sum of all of your writing can be totally obliterated without any fanfare. Then there’s the reactionaries setting up fake accounts posting material against TOS in your community, knowing full well the hammer will come down if they keep the campaigning up.

All this shit inspires pessimism and defeatism in reddit leftists who either back away from the meaty parts of revolutionary discourse entirely, or take a ‘fuck it’ approach and start breaking TOS too.

The carefree shitposting ML on their 20th alt is more determined than I’ll ever be.

Reading US domestic propaganda written in a smarmy reddit Christopher Hitchen-ass style is so fucking cursed and I want to forget how to speak English so I don’t have to look at it anymore

Both, in quick succession lol

https://snew.notabug.io/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/i6f0sv/what_is_up_with_the_concentration_camps_in_china/

No but commandante Joe Rogan and subcommandante Andrew Yang made the kill list. Thank fuck they didn’t put Karl Marx on the list or communism destroyed.

What if frothing rabid jingoistic cash-bloated imperial garbage man but drives prius and listen to jazz

That being said, a party cadre is a good base for internal motivation and organisation of principled marxists to start serving the masses. Lots of communist parties start front organisations to keep the dialectic between party and mass priorities in motion.

35 down voters represent 12.5% of reddit’s disagreement with you so therefore 1,000,000 sources exist to prove you wrong

So many people rushing to spam thought-cancelling tropes about the poor working people who don’t have the time, energy or skill to read old books. So few people asking how to make theory available to the masses.

I used to get bummed about left twitter/reddit/fb/etc and breadtube having a weak influence or basis in reality but now I see some merits to corralling white saviors and left-libs into an alternate dimension.

Love catching up with geeky ppl for board games and hear them rip on survivorship bias then go into a diatribe about how bitcoin is gonna go to the moon lol

So many left subreddits are just seasonal catalogues for Ideology™

In that popular video of him bashing Lenin & Stalin he also proudly states that he is not afraid to side with the mainstream just like Trotsky wasn’t afraid to side with the fascists to denounce the Bolsheviks. Telling on himself big time

what if commodity fetishism and imperialism kissed 😳 haha just kidding… unless?

Race baiting settler nonsense aside, fuck man, using a chicken carcass as an icon of emancipation is layers of fucked all the way down. As a species, we have a food system that has made so much dead chicken biomass in the last 150 years that it has left a permanent mineral deposit in the earth’s crust. All that fuckin corn and waste grain from mono-cropped abominations for this.

If anyone wants to do a presentation linking commodity fetishism back to its ill effects on nature this hell-picture is your title page.

This particular org (SAlt Australia) is the dominant university student socialist org. Their paper, red flag, has some good articles on current events sometimes. Where they fall apart is in their organising structure and praxis. The party funnels large sums of money from its members into preserving the positions of a select few central members who operate as an isolated self governing clique internally and externally in student politics. They do not seek to make strategic alliances with other left wing groups and do not adapt their org’s objectives to the attitude of the masses.

This leads to SAlt doing self destructive things like turning up uninvited to indigenous-led rallies to sell newspapers despite organisers asking them not to. It leads them to get their white members to organise black lives matter protests, then put the onus on indigenous & black people to go through them to have a say on the day. And of course, it causes them to waste time on unproductive endeavours like organising mass events basically to troll Marxist Leninists.

They’re definitely active and politically engaged, but they are a shining example of the dangers of ignoring democratic centralism and the mass line