StashAugustine posted:

what actually defines 'hoxhaism' as opposed to like any other school of thought other than bunker memes

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

actually all getfiscal quotes i post from now on will be filtered through iggy azalea memes

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

it's basically shorthand for "anti-revisionist marxism-leninism" which was critical of -- one could say vehemently opposed to -- reformist trends in the soviet union after stalin and later china after mao (although hoxha was also critical of mao, but less so than he was of khrushchev). basically hoxha saw khrushchev as reintroducing the commodity form of production, which is revisionism and would eventually lead to full capitalist restoration. hoxha also accused the "khruschevites" of treating albania as a market commodity "which can be gained by one or lost by another." it's hard to read hoxha though because he was a crazy fanatic but he seemed right about that.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

there is also a small hoxhaist "party" in the U.S., the APL, which seems a bit too tankie for me because ahh...

https://twitter.com/APLRedPhoenix/status/1057476428114153472
^ that's their party newspaper

ShriekingMarxist posted:

Communism-in-one-country should be relegated to the dustbin of history. Brace Belden livetweeting being a troop in Syria is 21st century radical praxis. We need a new synthesis of thought that reconciles the failures of ML and MLM and describes the challenges of organizing against capital in the digital age. The internet and mass communications are an insanely powerful weapon and so far it's being wielded expertly by the ruling class and we're all entangled in an anxious web of faux social communities that only have the thinnest veneer of solidarity while maladaptive behaviors run rampant.

Dreddout posted:

Got a cool flag though!

ShriekingMarxist posted:

Communism-in-one-country should be relegated to the dustbin of history. Brace Belden livetweeting being a troop in Syria is 21st century radical praxis. We need a new synthesis of thought that reconciles the failures of ML and MLM and describes the challenges of organizing against capital in the digital age. The internet and mass communications are an insanely powerful weapon and so far it's being wielded expertly by the ruling class and we're all entangled in an anxious web of faux social communities that only have the thinnest veneer of solidarity while maladaptive behaviors run rampant.

ShriekingMarxist posted:

There's no taking it over obviously, but there needs to be a lot of education about the ways in which mass social media is being used to demoralize, program, filter, skew the truth, and give an amplified voice to people with questionable beliefs and politics. It's poo poo we ingest constantly on a daily basis and 90+% of people think they have a good handle on seeing objectively true things or genuine people or that they're having real social experiences when the truth is a lot of it is like commodified junk food human interaction that's subtly poisoning your brain.

Prav posted:

physician, heal thyself

quote:

The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between the two protagonists. That affirmed intention to place the last at the head of things, and to make them climb at a pace (too quickly, some say) the well-known steps which characterize an organized society, can only triumph if we use all means to turn the scale, including, of course, that of violence.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

ShriekingMarxist posted:

It's more than just social/mass media, it's the growing dominance of an anti-materialist culture that ingests so much surface content that's there's literally no time to examine the circumstances behind a lot of important events. People are just constantly looking for something that lights up the neurons, whether good or bad, a dunk or a hot take, or a call out of someone who is bad, or w/e, this spills over into the way people organize politically, and the way they approach changing the political landscape. Look at the rallying cry for M4A. Even under the best circumstances, M4A is a decade+ away after a lot of political rehabilitation of voting rights, congressional districts, and an incredibly challenging fight against a 100 billion dollar industry. You can't meme magic it into reality. I dunno, I'm crabby tonight, and a comrade organizing with a chapter I know a lot of people in is having a breakdown over petty backbiting bullshit that's proliferating through everyone's private slacks and discords and poo poo. I wanna print out 50 copies of combat liberalism and wheat glue them to a bunch of people's doors.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

ShriekingMarxist posted:

It's more than just social/mass media, it's the growing dominance of an anti-materialist culture that ingests so much surface content that's there's literally no time to examine the circumstances behind a lot of important events. People are just constantly looking for something that lights up the neurons, whether good or bad, a dunk or a hot take, or a call out of someone who is bad, or w/e, this spills over into the way people organize politically, and the way they approach changing the political landscape. Look at the rallying cry for M4A. Even under the best circumstances, M4A is a decade+ away after a lot of political rehabilitation of voting rights, congressional districts, and an incredibly challenging fight against a 100 billion dollar industry. You can't meme magic it into reality. I dunno, I'm crabby tonight, and a comrade organizing with a chapter I know a lot of people in is having a breakdown over petty backbiting bullshit that's proliferating through everyone's private slacks and discords and poo poo. I wanna print out 50 copies of combat liberalism and wheat glue them to a bunch of people's doors.

MizPiz posted:

Are there any good terms for "bootlickers who are rejected by the power(s) they're sucking up to"?

MizPiz posted:

Are there any good terms for "bootlickers who are rejected by the power(s) they're sucking up to"?

MizPiz posted:

Are there any good terms for "bootlickers who are rejected by the power(s) they're sucking up to"?

quote:

I used to work with a older guy from East Germany in the middle east (I am an egineer). He always complained on how bad it was in East germany and how better was in capitalism, and how lucky I was that I was born in capitalism, that I could have ice cream every day , blue jeans i donno what... One day he got fired because we did not win a big project. He was very sorry and angry. I told him "enjoy capitalism".... and told him hat it is better they fire him than me because I still need to pay back my student loan.