Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist.
Communist Flag, Male Version (Straight):
Too many meetings with comrades
Yells at you for saying imperialism is “problematic” (it’s actually the primary contradiction, calling it just “problematic” makes you sound like a lib)
Knowledge seeker (no investigation, no right to speak)
Dialectics maniac
Stalin addict
Massive wife guy
“Dude, I’m so bored!”
“Yeah, me too, being a government official sucks. You know what, let’s go do something crazy.”
“Like skip and go build another megacity?”
“Nah, we did that yesterday. I’m thinking maybe a couple hundred more miles of high-speed rail – hey! I got it! Let’s go eliminate poverty! You on board?”
“We’re such slackers, lol”
Most up-to-date US weapons system
I feel like I’ve heard every one of these on reddit, and (unfortunately) in real life. Well done.
Lukashenko being evil, obviously, as his regressive Soviet-era policies are keeping the Angel of Death from competing in a fair playing field. Experts warn that only a rules-based and competitive free market system will keep the Maternal Death Economy from total stagnation and collapse (source: New York Times)
I wasn’t either, but unfortunately I’m not surprised.
“OMG, that’s literal NORTH KOREAN MUSIC, North KOREANS are LITERALLY helping PUTIN in his ILLEGAL INVASION OF UKRAINE (slava ukraini), I CAN’T EVEN ANYMORE”
It goes even deeper. Those DPRK-nationals-in-noseglasses are actually paid Chinese actors, like the ones the CPC sent to Xinjiang to roleplay as Uighurs (Adrian Zenz was not fooled).
I’d argue that as of 2024, a whole lot of Americans actually do realize it’s a con. Hence a big part of the support for Trump, since there’s this weird perception that he’s anti-war. That perception is based less on anything he’s actually said, and more on the fact that everybody associates foreign wars with Bush and the neocons and the whole class of professional politicians that has sprung up over the past few decades; that political establishment dislikes and tries to smear Trump, ergo Trump must be anti-war. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. But it’s an idea which has gotten itself into the heads of a lot of Americans, working-class Americans in particular.
I have actually seen liberal media speculating on if Russia’s “Soviet Era” nukes still work.
I’ve seen articles like that too, and they strike me as propaganda – in other words, they’re intended for citizen consumption, as a way to drum up support for a (largely) unpopular war. Western militaries likely have a much more accurate picture of Russia’s nuclear capabilities. Which is why Trump’s generals were so unhappy when, back in 2018, he went on twitter and personally threatened Assad with missile strikes; such things are hard to walk back, and US brass fully understood what war with Russia might entail. Even today, under an administration that is much more hardline neocon than Trump’s, you’ve gotten US generals – Mark Milley, for instance, a very sorry and two-faced character – talking out of both sides of their mouths on Ukraine: we’re committed to defending Ukraine, but, we want to stop Putin’s agression, but…
I think what we are seeing right now with Biden is not exactly an attempt to go to war with Russia. Rather, it’s dangerous, irresponsible, and utterly criminal brinkmanship: politicians playing Kissinger without having an ounce of Kissinger’s geopolitical saavy. It could also be an attempt to hurt Trump, whom Biden and so many democrats seem to have a personal animus against; for when bourgeois states reach this late stage of corruption, and when there’s a division in the ruling class like that we see in America today, vendettas can become a real factor in politics. In other words, what Biden wants to do is leave an enormous mess for Trump to sort out, and he’s hoping that that mess won’t go (quite literally) thermonuclear.
Or the US ruling could really be just that crazy. I hope not.
Honestly this reads like a bad edgy roleplay
Even more like some ultraleftist fantasy of Total Destruction and Birth of a New Order, actually. I can’t say I was never prey to that kind of thinking – especially when I just started getting into Marxism – but it really is juvenile and basically anti-materialist.
I’m sure those communists fighting in the DNR and LNR militias are ready to “forgive” the Nazis and move on. After all, it’s not like Nazis have spent the last ten years committing a genocide in the Donbass, is it?
Guaranteed, the person calling you “soy” online thinks this is Le Epic Awesomesauce.
If you’ve ever listened to any of Haz’s streams, this seems to have his fingerprints all over it, such that I wouldn’t be surprised if he wrote sections of it. I used to check him out back in the day, because despite all his faults, he had a real knowledge of Marx and Hegel, and he would often come up with interesting interpretations – and even, at times, some genuinely good material analysis. Then his worst tendencies caught up with him, and he started spouting nothing but rightist nonsense and pseudo-intellectual word salad.
My sense of that whole group is that Caleb Maupin acted on them as a kind of moderating and grounding force, and that when they broke from him, they lost all connection with reality. This is because whatever his faults (and they’re many), Maupin does have actual experience in non-online activism/organizing, and has actually travelled and seen the various countries he talks about. When Infrared/MWM/ACP/whatever its current incarnation is was just the media wing of CPI, they were somewhat of a serious political organization. Now they’re just LaRouchite breadtube.
there are not spaces for men in the left quite the same way as there is on the right.
I agree with this, actually, but I think the problem goes even deeper. For about fifty years, huge portions of the bourgeois western left have stigmatized concepts like struggle and comradeship and militancy as “toxically masculine.” In fact these are neither masculine nor feminine, but human; and becoming an adult means realizing these same deeply human qualities within oneself. This can only be done communally. Very many young people emerge from childhood, look at the bourgeois left (it is the most visible), and despair; and they turn thus to the right, which claims to offer a path to the human qualities mentioned. Of course, the right is lying, for they too want people to be good consumers and wage slaves who never question imperialism or the capitalist system. But there is on the right a show of comradeship and militancy – "the left calls you toxically masculine? Well, we’re toxically masculine and proud! – and young people turn to it like a thirsty man in the desert.
(This latter, by the way, you find among young women as well as men, though the male version of the phenomenon is much more noticed. The material conditions of capitalism deny both men and women humanity, but women rather more. The right’s “solution” to this is to complete the subordination of woman to man, in theory as a kind of “helpmate,” but actually more like a slave. Thus, the thought goes, women can “participate” in the human qualities which the male embodies; but she becomes human only by emptying and negating her humanity. We hear much today about the supposed “feminization” of men. This is not what is going on. Men are stripped by capitalism of their basic human qualities of struggle and militancy; hence, women cannot draw from men these qualities; and as a result many women become resentful of the “impassivity” of men. But the blame is put in the wrong place, on secondary social factors instead of the system).
One of the things that actually drew me to communism when I was younger was the fact that, compared to the idiot beer-swilling, Bush-loving, war-mongering-but-also-draft-dodging conservatives I was surrounded by, communists like Che and Stalin and Kim Jong-Il seemed to embody a true, authentic, and positive masculinity. They were as different from these would-be “manly” posers as night is from day. Stalin was the man who industrialized a continent. Lenin was a titan of moral and intellectual strength – almost a frightening demigod of the mind. Mao fought for years a brutal guerilla war. My understanding has gotten a lot more sophisticated since then, but I wish more young men could have that same experience.
Liberals seem to have this weird idea that they always need to do sex over economics in their analyses, because Marx didn’t understand the power of horniness or something. (You bet he did, he worked with fucking Engels).
I’ll do you one better, Ho Chi Minh was reportedly celibate his entire life and didn’t turn Nazi. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if liberals think he did.
You mean to say that –
switching candidates halfway through the election
having your replacement candidate be one of the few people somehow less popular than Biden
having said candidate go around openly endorsing genocide
telling leftists to ignore this, because genocide isn’t really a big deal
– isn’t some kind of winning strategy to Unite the Left?
Haven’t checked out Hasan, but I’ve been watching the online meltdown, and it’s pretty hilarious. E.g., from the Destiny sub (ngl, had me at the title):
There’s also some really striking footage of it flying through the air. Terrifying, like some Old Testament angel of death.