I can also see us being the first ones in the gas chambers again because we dont fall for propaganda as easily due to lacking framing effect and lacking social cohesion.

This is hands down the best perspective I have ever read on the imperial core. THIS is how I understand marxism after like 10 Books or more and praxis. I aspire to become this good at analysis and concise at formulating the results.

damn. that one rips. thank you for the concise perspective, comrade. o7

i think the best question here would be “what is the communist way in general?” From the movie “the communist” which you can watch for free on youtube, a soviet production btw, I derive that as communists we must see ourselves (abilities dictate the extent) as a leatherman tool which has to do everything but not perfect.

This said and having extensive experience on mastodon, I suggest not hanging up on a single server but staying mobile. Reason being that being honest, we’re gonna get banned or expose our backs on mastodon (meaning by ownership of a server aka papertrail).

For that reason, you can of course join any mastodon instance such as matapacos, marxist-network, union.place, etc. Its not important as you might have to hop around anyway. The idea is to start engaging with other marxists and just BEING openly marxist and showing people that this exists. Hoping around will also make you harder to silence. Its one of my issues as owning a server. I can be defederated and cant hop around a lot.

Edit: In addition, bourgois instances might have defederated the instances mentioned above anyway and therefore it is better to join a little bit larger ones and going more crypto while smaller ones can be more open. We obviously must deploy the tactics of the enemy to get a foothold (brigading, etc.) but in a way that does not spoil the communist image as we want people to hear us, not hate us.

Someone I met warned me of reading it. “Be careful, it is very convincing, yet very unnuanced.” After reading it, I understood what western “leftists” mean with “nuance”. its code for “stabilizing for the status quo”.

Can we please talk about the fact that the us and german imperialist states have been running on absolute gross approval ratings for some time now and its either a new thing or the previous generations have done nothing about it. I think there are some juicy contradictions in there to work with. Is it propaganda thats not living up to the heightening deterioration or are there other things at play? I’m asking to do strategy.

I often want to tell them “the punishment of warcrimes you’re doing is hanging by the neck until dead.”

Thats uplifting. Thanks comrade o7

Now allow germans to read russian websites again. /j

Edit: do we have an uplifting news community for revolutionary optimism? If not maybe that should be a thing? Otherwise we could use comradeship.

For me it was watching bougois leftists be just as insane as the ruling class and then finding a streamer who was able to accurately dismantle the propaganda, then podcasts and then books.

The main part was being told to read state and revolution. I remember that while reading i thought “dude, you’ve been following a cult all your life.”

I think this is good analysis. Would this apply to germany leaving the eu, nato, etc as well? Imo the same logic could be used here to push for making the main vasall state as dysfunctional as possible.

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Oh, no. I didnt mean mixed skincolor but mixed as in two different so a hugely different culture on my end.

Therefore, racism was definitely a factor but not colorism. My parents also didnt teach me proper cultural awareness so the situation was the perfect clusterfuck.

I’m literally feeling sick of all the bourgois leftists i have talked to who are rocksolid in their conviction of being pro human rights and whatnot but who wont bat an eye on genocide denial or plain racism.

I want to convince these people but my energy literally isnt enough. The people around me (other communists) are trying but they dont even recognize this stuff unless i push their nose in it.

Its exhausting. I really need a communist self help group or something so i can infuse myself and others with revolutionary optimism and patience.

Oh my god. This does never end, does it? Can people please grow a fucking backbone and stand up to genocidal fucks?

Its gnawing at my mental health. The ccc has huge potential from a technologist perspective but german communists need to get in there and at least make themselves heard. I try but its hard af.

An amalgamation of incompatibilities which are my material circumstances:

• mixed migrant family
• strong abuse cycles in said family
• weak theory of mind and social empathy, strong mirror neurons
• exceptional reasoning and associative thinking skills but bad memory
• no real gender appropriate mentor (in my case, no father figure)
• extraversion

Can you imagine how that is a cruel cocktail?

Yikes. He could have excellently handled this.

He could have said: “Listen, I’m not in cuba, I’m not in venezuela, I’m in new york. This is my place of concern and my job is not to criticize foreign governments but make the situation better in this city. Also, labeling foreign statesmen as dictators does not help the situation one inch.”

That would have not given them an inch in either direction, would still have drawn criticism from us but at least be materially understandable given his constituency.

It was clear that he will disappoint. Its still not nice to see.

Uhm… I have been excluded from all kinds of activities since a very young age.

It has caused harsh loneliness and a lack of self esteem.

Then I gave up on people and decided to join the dark side. I used my considerable brain power to enrich myself and those who worked with and for me.

Two things I learned from that:

• no matter your abilities, one moment of inattentiveness and you are dead (at least financially)
• money does not make you happy

From that I searched for a new meaning in life and ultimately arrived at marxism which helped me understand why I was excluded in school and kindergarden, why i turned to the oppressor class and why that isnt even smart for the person oppressing others.

This helped me deal with being lonely. Dont get me wrong, i still face loneliness sometimes but i cope with it a lot better because i can always help people understand shit and learn from them too. Being in peer groups over extended periods is just not my destiny, materially speaking.

Use this instead! :)

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

this is the CCCs own platform. it is informative from a tech perspective and does not require any countermeasures such as yewtu.be

Yes, my thoughts exactly. I do come to a different conclusion as there is no other option than revolutionary optimism when facing this dire straight. We have the same issue in germany where people are somewhat comfortable, social pressure and “common sense” leads them to self repression. There arent any local groups, there are like two unions and everything else is gone. The reason why i say people need to do local work and use revolutionary optimism is because the situation has changed dramatically since covid and we can use this to gain a better foothold. Building grouls where there were none is a sign that the time wasnt right before and that the situation is giving us an in now. I will definitely keep organizing in a low visibility, highly beneficial to the local people manner as to stengthen the cogesion of the neighborhood and push our ideology.