A common refrain in Iran is “Not capitalism, but Islam”

“Too many of the ultra religious folks turn to fascism in the same horrible ways that the capitalists do” what, then, of Stalin’s reconstitution of the church and promotion of socialist morality on the basis of orthodox teachings? Or do you agree with the CIA’s Hannah Arendt’s claim that communism is just “successful fascism”?

Religion can take many forms. It can be a tool of the oppressor (Christianity’s use in colonialism) or it can be a tool of the oppressed (Christianity’s use in Liberation Theology to fight against colonialism) … so too is Islam being used progressively to fight against imperialism and to fight on behalf of the oppressed (Iran has throughout its history lent support to oppressed peoples and their leaders such as the Black Panther Party)

I support women’s rights. I also expect more details surrounding these current events to continue to come out in due time. but first and foremost I will not criticize that which is in the crosshairs of US imperialism. I lend my full support to the Iranian government in its struggle against imperialism, and as a matter of secondary importance I lend support to those within Iran seeking to reform it in a non-western, non-capitalist way.

perhaps so, but playing devil’s advocate, there was lots of left wing aesthetics being toted around in support of US proxies in Syria (Rojava, Democratic Confederalism bullshit, feminism, so much so that they even attracted left-wing political podcaster Brace Belden of TrueAnon which is the most lucrative Patreon podcast to this day. … the CIA’s Special Activities Division is pretty smart these days I will say)

hell yeah

Beijing needs to finally finish the decolonization of HK … these pro-British freaks need to be in jail

the claim isn’t that the progressive bourgeoise is funding socialists, the claim is that they’re funding liberalism

optimism is your revolutionary duty. pessimism stands in opposition to victory.

this demonstrates how seldom you speak with construction workers, I’ve found that my construction buddies are far more receptive towards marxism than my well-educated liberal peers who I fucking hate

they’re both forms of liberalism

that the bourgeoisie has constructed artificial controlled opposition within the progressive movement, similar to the Congress for Cultural Freedom

hang out by the pool, contribute to ProleWiki, wear my Starbucks Workers United ballcap in coffeeshops, participate in my local community book swap to promote communism

which books you planning on reading?

the term nazbol is so useless, some random political party in Russia that disbanded after like a year. Call them transphobes and move on

just added the video as a source to the page, thanks for the recommendation!

consumer credit, unfortunately

productive forces go brrrrr

when the Juche hits just right

thankfully their BRI will bring these brrrrring productive forces to many other parts of the world

how in the world did u do this comrade

would be nice to have a status page with alerts that shows how much hard work the devs put into maintaining the site, it could be used to encourage people to donate to y’all’s efforts. Solidarity

historical fact will eventually prevail. and we tankies will be proven correct yet again.

no to the US-EU-NATO-Nazi axis! Long live anti-fascism! Long live the working peoples of all races and ethnicities!

they censored Midwestern Marx so that sucks … although Pamphlets hasn’t yet been censored

EDIT: also @workingclasshistory and @theamericannightmare and @amazonlaborunion

search “Operation Aerodynamic” too … wild shit

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re: your edit comment: looks like we found a Lemmy bug that we should probably mention to the mods

Marxism describes how advancements in the means of production will create new contradictions in the social relations of production (Stalin’s Dialectical and Historical Materialism describes this quite well) and thus all technological advancement will both destroy the current social order and sew the seeds for the new social order.

can’t wait for the New Thing they choose to obsess about

the fascist tactic of sending children into an active war zone is designed specifically to result in anti-Russian atrocity propaganda (as if sending children into a war zone will have any other outcome!)

even tho I’m a tankie, I can’t help but recommend the surprisingly not-terrible verso book, Fully Automated Luxury Communism. It’s a good read. I have ADHD too and books like that actually help me to slow down and think (still need to fold my laundry)

the only crypto that the DPRK could drop an address and everyone could donate to … without getting in thrown in prison lol

arguably the stupidity in their press is a form of psychological warfare to worsen the thinking capacity of the reader, can’t have the rabble thinking dangerously good thoughts (like those contained in Marxist texts).

must pump idiocy and confusion into the brains of the commoner

we’re trying to transcribe it to ProleWiki! https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_governance_of_China

not only does the Economist remain the mouthpiece of British millionaires (the Lenin quote needs to be updated to “billionaires”), but it also is just abhorrently stupid

if a country wants to circumvent sanctions, it would be wise to use a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets can be blacklisted due to their lack of privacy. Transactions can be monitored by anyone. Monero is a good Bitcoin alternative, and I think folks are working on various privacy-oriented Ethereum alternatives like SCRT and TARI (iirc)

as a human myself, misanthropes are my enemy. We mustn’t hesitate to defend our species from that which seeks to exterminate us.

Long live the working people of the world!

added this article as a source to the “Literacy campaign” ProleWiki page

would be cool to get a running list of banned books on ProleWiki, similar to how we have a “targets of censorship” category https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Targets_of_censorship

hell yeah, we’d go to work so we could benefit our communities and our country, rather than some exploitative capitalist!

also repaving roads and building new infrastructure, since capitalism has neglected that for so long

playing economic simulator videogames to help train the AI’s that power the economic planning models

this is true. although in the transitionary period we will have to fight against laziness and anti-work sentiments. work can be fulfilling until we finally automate everything