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Emmideer
Oct 20, 2011

Lovely night, no?
Grimey Drawer

MizPiz posted:

Also I'm terrible with Spanish (can barely do English)

you'd adapt

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
not that I've bothered to actually learn Spanish but its pretty easy. you just dont have any of the german or french loan words and then everything rhymes

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Larry Parrish posted:

Its chill that the dipshit in the picture doesnt realize that the same 2 or 3 companies make all the brands he sees as Free Market Competition. You ever think it's weird the labels, size, and prices are all identical except for the marketing? Nah it's just because of Efficiencies

actually capitalism is great because you have multiple different options available at the store even though you're going to buy the cheapest one most of the time

the grocery stores by me sometimes struggle to keep the cheapest option for goods on the shelf

when they have sales on necessities that stuff is gone

cenotaph
Mar 2, 2013



I like how in capitalism the shelf space is taken up by having the generic beano next to the beano and one his half the price.

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo


Karl Barks posted:

I'm anarcho-tankie, so it's whatever

Serf
May 5, 2011


the real reason to not move to cuba is that they won their struggle, and mine is still here

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Serf posted:

the real reason to not move to cuba is that they won their struggle, and mine is still here

this. a Marxist does not surrender imo

Kindest Forums User
Mar 25, 2008

Let me tell you about my opinion about Bernie Sanders and why Donald Trump is his true successor.

You cannot vote Hillary Clinton because she is worse than Trump.

Serf posted:

the real reason to not move to cuba is that they won their struggle, and mine is still here

word

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

That dude needs to :sever: from this harpy asap

big business man
Sep 30, 2012


drat came here to post this

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Lmfao

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

https://twitter.com/Amie_FR/status/1176104684337213440?s=20

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
I don’t remember Stalin being vain enough to give himself two orders of victory like Brezhnev did

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

going to start dressing up as zhukov from death of stalin

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
for 50 bucks you could do a lot better, loving liberals

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Raskolnikov38 posted:

I don’t remember Stalin being vain enough to give himself two orders of victory like Brezhnev did

haha what a power move

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

Raskolnikov38 posted:

I don’t remember Stalin being vain enough to give himself two orders of victory like Brezhnev did

Wikipedia is saying Stalin got it twice.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


lol they revoked brezhnevs

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

platzapS posted:

Wikipedia is saying Stalin got it twice.

lol welp swore it was Brezhnev but at least Stalin actually meets the requirements

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lol they revoked brezhnevs

did you hear? he’s having chest expansion surgery to fit more medals

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lol they revoked brezhnevs

Cancel culture has gone too far

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Raskolnikov38 posted:

did you hear? he’s having chest expansion surgery to fit more medals

He could have just hung them off his eyebrows

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

Local Reports Indicate Man Who Created Cult of Personality Not Vain

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Karl Barks posted:

Local Reports Indicate Man Who Created Cult of Personality Not Vain

tbh when i thought it was brezhenv with 2 undeserved medals it worked as a comparison

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Any recommendations for Mao biographies? I'm less interested in the man himself & more interested in his ideological development away from leninism & toward maoism

Finicums Wake
Mar 13, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

uncop
Oct 23, 2010

Dreddout posted:

Any recommendations for Mao biographies? I'm less interested in the man himself & more interested in his ideological development away from leninism & toward maoism

I have no idea what would be the "best", but I read Mao: The Real Story and it did what it claimed about explaining the basic historical progression with a special focus on the evolving relations between the CCP and CPSU. It might not work alone though since the author doesn't take the ideological stuff seriously. I feel that I needed to have a basic understanding of the ideology involved separately to interpret many actions as rooted in principles when the author interprets them through personality and some sort of cynicism.

In any case, I can tell you straight away though that there is no such thing as Mao's development away from leninism and toward maoism. Even just from that book you'll see that Mao simply considered himself a more consistent leninist than anyone in the CPSU and Stalin basically the champion of leninism within the CPSU, as in even with his shortcomings there was no one who compared to him, least of all someone like Khrushchev.

You should understand the concept of "Mao Zedong Thought" (this was the only "maoism" until 1988-1993 unless you count the pejorative that meant bandit cave marxism) as if there had been an unnamed "Joseph Stalin Thought" in the USSR: marxism and leninism being components of a philosophy&science that make universal statements that can only be given practical life through leading individuals creatively applying them to their specific historical context. And given successful long struggle between viewpoints that produces unity of thought between individuals, various individual leaders start agreeing on the correct principles of application of the general philosophy within their shared conditions. If there arises one particularly authoritative individual leader of leaders among them, that individual looks like someone who decides for everyone. That philosophical conception is why Mao blocked attempts within the CCP to declare a "maoism" analogous to leninism in official capacity. That kind of maoism only became conceivable within the same conceptual framework after MZT had become something that communists around the world started declaring themselves followers of in protest of where the CPSU's "leninism" was going, much like the establishment of the USSR suddenly made everyone followers of Lenin opposing the German social democrats' "marxism".

uncop fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Sep 24, 2019

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/xtophercook/status/1176629478065410048

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

pyf thread continues to deliver

Aramek posted:

All these people are doing is making colonization sound awesome. If anything it's like you being on top of the leaderboards because you won.

also someone posted this insane screed which is the political version of the notebook from seven

Nutso poo poo posted:

The PSL was recently involved in sponsoring an initiative called the People’s Congress of Resistance [archive], and the Workers World Party and one of its front groups have been involved in a No Platform for Fascism [archive] initiative together with local Anarchists and socialists from New York City, ostensibly to oppose the rise of fascism in the United States. However of what value is such an initiative to the anti-fascist struggle when the leaders of the PSL and the WWP have been working with open fascists for years and the online activity of their rank and file membership suggests these parties are acting as incubators for fascism and future Strasserists, LaRouchites and National Bolsheviks? What contribution can the participation of the genocide denying, crypto-fascist and confusionnist WWP and the PSL and their satellites in the anti-fascist struggle be when they work with “former” CIA members, collaborate with groups creating international fascist networks and their prominent members sit together with Infowars contributors, Third Positionists, National Bolsheviks, LaRouchites and associates of Holocaust deniers on the steering committees of solidarity movements which support primarily fascist causes?

Emmideer
Oct 20, 2011

Lovely night, no?
Grimey Drawer

R. Guyovich posted:

pyf thread continues to deliver

America has a great K/D/A ratio

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
tag yourself I'm a CIA National Bolshevik

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
thinkin bout thos; cia fronted third positionists

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
It all makes sense. PSL are commies, trots are also commies, trots are honorary cops when they're being weirdos, cops are fascists, therefore horseshoe theory is real and maybe my dad will come back

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
that metaphor was waterboarded to death

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

if godzilla was a communist that would own

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

jarofpiss posted:

if godzilla was a communist that would own

This

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
wasn't that the plot of pulgasari

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jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

Raskolnikov38 posted:

wasn't that the plot of pulgasari

"After the defeat of the King, Pulgasari becomes a new problem, since he starts eating the rebel's weapons and farmer's tools, which are given to the creature without objection, since the peasants still believe Pulgasari is a benign saviour. The blacksmith's daughter realizes that Pulgasari's hunger will never stop, and that he is inadvertently oppressing the people he fought for. She decides to sacrifice herself by hiding inside a big bell that Pulgasari finds and quickly eats. Pulgasari yells in anguish as the blacksmith's daughter presence in its system causes its stomach to explode, tragically killing both of them, but saving the people once and for all."

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