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trostkyist drama is about as interesting as listening to other people explain their dreams so i didnt pay a huge amount of attention to it tho
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Wouldn't be trostkyism if they weren't trying to trick college students away from joining real socialist organizations to do their stupid mock-UN bullshit
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MizPiz posted:It's a french movie, you can't have anyone ugly in one (or have no nude scenes) unless you get a special permit. Well,
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Lol The Economist has an article up about Xi Jinping Thought - China is struggling to explain Xi Jinping Thought. Shoot the black tar orientalism directly into my diqq vein
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GalacticAcid posted:Lol The Economist has an article up about Xi Jinping Thought - China is struggling to explain Xi Jinping Thought. he wrote a whole dang book about it
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THS posted:trostkyist drama is about as interesting as listening to other people explain their dreams so i didnt pay a huge amount of attention to it tho thanks for the insight. that's a criticism I've heard of the ISO from members and former members before about the emphasis on college recruitment. obviously recruiting on campus is important but it does seem like done incorrectly it can become a revolving door where people join for 4 years in college then leave the town and the party. campus organizing can run the risk of almost segregating a party or group from the working class in the community around colleges if done incorrectly.
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xi jinping thought just doesn't have a good ring to it, they should hire a PR firm to workshop it
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this is a twitter thread https://twitter.com/d_j_frost/status/1068126965490745345
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apropos to nothing posted:thanks for the insight. that's a criticism I've heard of the ISO from members and former members before about the emphasis on college recruitment. obviously recruiting on campus is important but it does seem like done incorrectly it can become a revolving door where people join for 4 years in college then leave the town and the party. campus organizing can run the risk of almost segregating a party or group from the working class in the community around colleges if done incorrectly. it's almost as if the armchair intellectuals can clap themselves on the back and call it a day without having worked towards any salient form of revolutionary practice
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Frog Act posted:I like to think I have a decent grasp of communist theory and practice but I don’t think I’ll ever understand Trotskyism it's the USSR but authentically democratic local soviets made up of workers making decisions for themselves instead of a state made up of a class of party bureaucrats. sacrifices had to be made because of the Russian Civil War but Trotsky was already warning of the dangers of growing bureaucracy immediately after it and way before he was exiled, so it's not some retconned poo poo to cover that he was actually identical to Stalin like some liberals and right wing socialists say. that's the end goal, in practice Trotskyism is using the transitional program to try and get there. forming united fronts with other socialist orgs to push for pro-worker reforms, which the bourgeois state is necessarily hostile too, to raise the class consciousness of workers to hopefully one day create the conditions ripe for socialist revolution, turning the US into the Soviet Union with soviet (small S) democracy. and then we invade canada and mexico to start spreading the revolution until we have global communism. now, whether Trot groups actually do anything effective to that aim is another story. Trotskyism is great but it's been ruined by Trots being mostly useless, inward looking bores.
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GalacticAcid posted:Lol The Economist has an article up about Xi Jinping Thought - China is struggling to explain Xi Jinping Thought. quote:In April Qian Xian, a party journal, said there had been continual debate over the meaning of “socialism with Chinese characteristics”, the concept at the heart of Deng Theory. In an apparent dig at a weakness of the Theory, the article said “some people” thought the phrase was another way of saying “capitalism with Chinese characteristics”. This, it said, had created “theoretical chaos”. Mr Xi stresses that socialism with Chinese characteristics is in fact about “socialism and not any other kind of –ism” (point two, subsection three on the mind-map). this seems pretty straightforward to me.
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/11/responding-to-the-left-case-against-open-borders was waiting for a thorough making GBS threads-on of that ridiculous article.
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I’m sure I agree with the sentiment but I’ll pass
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The case for attacking Nathan J Robinson's hand's with a claw hammer
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haha what’s up dude, great costume. are you Sex Tourist Willy Wonka? Hilarious. *with fake English accent affected to sound smart* this is a perfectly regular sartorial arrangement, my dear boy
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Graphic posted:https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/11/responding-to-the-left-case-against-open-borders I thought this was pretty good: http://organizing.work/2018/11/attacking-migrants-does-not-help-labor/
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Well, it finally happened. Someone finally made a Stalinist martial industrial album. https://vilmarh.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-victors I just think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0WnZyxp_Wo
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Googling the name brings me to a smuggler character from the Star Wars comics of course I wonder if there's an alt-right to ML pipeline...
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Okay this is wild if you follow the "communist" tag at the bottom of that. Here's a Taiwanese communist rapper named 鍾翔宇 Xiangyu https://comradexiangyu.bandcamp.com/album/bombard-the-headquarters  quote:"Bombard the Headquarters" is a collection of songs by Xiangyu after he graduated from university and started working. During this time, he was also active in his independent studies and participation in grassroots organizations. The album is titled "Bombard the Headquarters" because, based upon his observations, the two trends apparent in hip hop are commercialization and the tendency for discourse regarding hip hop to be dominated by elitists. Over the course of Xiangyu's studies, he was inspired by the fact that during the GPCR, the greatest number of schools was built in the shortest amount of time in Chinese history while various experiments were carried out in the fields of production, medicine, education, and etc. Most importantly, these experiments were carried out locally by the people themselves. Unlike idealists, he does not believe that music itself is capable of changing the world, but his music is nonetheless an attempt to create something that reflects ordinary people while drawing inspiration from the revolutionary masses.
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Graphic posted:it's the USSR but authentically democratic local soviets made up of workers making decisions for themselves instead of a state made up of a class of party bureaucrats. sacrifices had to be made because of the Russian Civil War but Trotsky was already warning of the dangers of growing bureaucracy immediately after it and way before he was exiled, so it's not some retconned poo poo to cover that he was actually identical to Stalin like some liberals and right wing socialists say. just finished Revolution Betrayed and this was essentially my take away I was a bit confused by all the Sic Trot Burns ITT at first, but I'm getting to understand now that it's more directed at contemporary Trot groups
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speaking of contemporary Trot groups, in case anyone is interested in a recent 7,000-word attack on the SEP and the Weird Sex Web Site from a former member who has a website dated to the early 2000s, you're in luck: http://forum.permanent-revolution.org/2018/06/the-gutter-politics-of-david-north.html
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:speaking of contemporary Trot groups, in case anyone is interested in a recent 7,000-word attack on the SEP and the Weird Sex Web Site from a former member who has a website dated to the early 2000s, you're in luck: why is the name "Alex Steiner" so familiar?
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The lesser known Steiner brother.
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The pages quoted in the OP are proof that "traditional family life" is dysgenic https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1069085428538458113 lmao
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comedyblissoption posted:richard wolff talked on his program about the #metoo movement in socialist terms and how hierarchy and inequality creates environments enabling sexual harassment and violence Exploitation isn't possible without a system which makes the targets of the powerful (in this case, women being targeted by men for sex) vulnerable to it in the first place. The frustrating response to this is to point out that women have been sexually exploited before capitalism so therefore the problem must be something inherent to male or human nature - but the point isn't that capitalism is uniquely problematic, it's that liberalism can only ever marginally improve conditions for women generally because true liberation is only reserved for the bourgeois.
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gradenko_2000 posted:did the Soviet Union ever get better at LGBT rights over time? I only ever hear of the recriminalization of homosexuality, but nothing after that until you get to Putin being really repressive CPRF, the successor party to the Communist Party in Russia is totally behind Putin's gay rights suppression, so... probably not
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:Turns out poor men rape too The issue isn't even really about "rape," but all the ways that conditions of inequality lead people into making bad choices in partners on the off chance that they might provide a measure of security against destitution. Two poor people pooling their resources have a better chance than a single poor person, even if the relationship between them is itself toxic. gradenko_2000 posted:did the Soviet Union ever get better at LGBT rights over time? I only ever hear of the recriminalization of homosexuality, but nothing after that until you get to Putin being really repressive The Soviet Union was improving on queer issues like any other advanced country by the 1980s, but then it all fell apart and reactionary forces became dominant. In terms of rights, being gay was never de jure legal even if they stopped persecuting it. Pener Kropoopkin fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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comedyblissoption posted:it sounds kind of overly reductive saying almost everything is the fault of capitalism and hierarchy but uh... any system that centralizes power into the hands of small numbers of private, unaccountable agents will inevitably lead to oppression and social disorder (crime, addictions, etc.) this isn't to say that socialism would magically obliterate all social ills, but that they wouldn't be exacerbated in the same way that they are under capitalism, feudalism, imperialism, slave states, or any other past systems
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