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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/ArborErich/status/1411688736602169347
https://twitter.com/ArborErich/status/1411688738292387855

Happy 4th of July but leftishly :jerkbag:

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exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

i feel like that even though he wasnt explicitly marxist this news would mean most to the people itt. extremely sad

https://twitter.com/PetrovADmitri/status/1411822640856137732

:(

rip to an anti-racist king

e: https://www.nature.com/articles/266283a0

exmarx has issued a correction as of 08:17 on Jul 5, 2021

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

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

Lenin…was not perfect

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
the American revolution was barely even a bourgeois revolution, it was more like establishing Britian no longer controlled the colonies de Jure rather than merely de facto

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
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i was curious about context and it's from an open letter to american workers so he's being more rhetorical than analytical there (with some bonus irony about dividing up stolen lands that he was probably aware of though):

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/laboraction-ny/1945/v09n05/lenin.htm posted:

The history of modern civilized America opens with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few among the large number of wars of conquest that were caused, like the present imperialist war, by squabbles among kings, landowners and capitalists over the division of seized lands and stolen profits. It was a war of the American people against English robbers who subjected America and held it in colonial slavery as these “civilized” blood-sucker,s are now subjecting and holding colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt and in all corners of the world.

Since that time about 150 years have passed. Bourgeois civilization has borne all its luxuriant fruits. By the high level of development of the productive forces of organized human labor, by utilizing machines and all the wonders of modern technic; America has taken the first place among free and cultured nations. But at the same time America has become one of the foremost countries as regards the depth of the abyss which divides a handful of

brazen billionaires who are wallowing in dirt and in luxury on the one hand, and millions of toilers who are always on the verge of starvation. The American people, who gave the world an example of a revolutionary war against feudal subjection, now appears as a new capitalist wage slave of a handful of billionaires; finds itself playing the role of a hired assassin for the wealthy gang, having strangled the Philippines in 1898 under the pretext of “liberating” them, and strangling the Russian Socialist Republic in 1918 under the pretext of “protecting” it from the Germans.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Hodgepodge posted:

i was curious about context and it's from an open letter to american workers so he's being more rhetorical than analytical there (with some bonus irony about dividing up stolen lands that he was probably aware of though):

hmm right yet again

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
To be honest, it does really sound like he is bullshitting but in a way that honestly most Americans would lap up.

Eh...I don't know what that says about Americans.

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
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america, a great grift built atop a great theft

cenotaph
Mar 2, 2013



https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1409322918677389314

The guy he's quoting was a huge rear end in a top hat on boardgamegeek which I find hilarious for some reason.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

cenotaph posted:

https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1409322918677389314

The guy he's quoting was a huge rear end in a top hat on boardgamegeek which I find hilarious for some reason.

lol punching down on community colleges while upholding the perfect smoothness of academia

stupid loving liberals, the guillotine is too good for them

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

Raskolnikov38 posted:

the American revolution was barely even a bourgeois revolution, it was more like establishing Britian no longer controlled the colonies de Jure rather than merely de facto

America wasn't even the first constitutional state to defeat an empire, seeing as how the Dutch beat the Spanish Hapsburgs.

elaboration
Feb 21, 2020

that whole article is so loving good lol.

have you ever listened to that one lecture series he did, "biology as ideology"? its a banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni8kL5TTRtA

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

my bony fealty posted:

lol punching down on community colleges while upholding the perfect smoothness of academia

stupid loving liberals, the guillotine is too good for them

My humanities teacher in community college was Harvard educated.

Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

cenotaph posted:

https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1409322918677389314

The guy he's quoting was a huge rear end in a top hat on boardgamegeek which I find hilarious for some reason.

i'm permabanned from there lol

cenotaph
Mar 2, 2013



Trash Ops posted:

i'm permabanned from there lol

lmao how? Their moderation is so soft.

Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

cenotaph posted:

lmao how? Their moderation is so soft.

when i wasn't being a commie in rsp i trolled their byob whatever it was called, until someone doxxed me. i told her that her cat committed suicide rather than live with her crazy rear end, then octavian pulled the trigger

Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

anyways ddj was one of the main freaks i enjoyed making fun of, lol

elaboration
Feb 21, 2020
lol

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

that whole article is so loving good lol.

have you ever listened to that one lecture series he did, "biology as ideology"? its a banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni8kL5TTRtA

yeah, it's great. as is this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvG1ylKhzoo&t=187s

his and levins' articulation of biology really helped me get dialectics as a whole

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
The American revolution did one unironically good thing - bankrupt the French crown and allow for the chad bourgeois revolution to foment

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Raskolnikov38 posted:

the American revolution was barely even a bourgeois revolution, it was more like establishing Britian no longer controlled the colonies de Jure rather than merely de facto

it was an aristocratic revolt basically. not sure why they didn't just end up calling themselves a kingdom tbh. it literally might have just been that washington and the like literally 2 other proto-jacobins were just that persuasive. there's at least a couple founding fathers (and a lot of financial backers) whos primary reason for revolt was 'jackass king wouldn't promote me to aristocrat :('

elaboration
Feb 21, 2020

exmarx posted:

yeah, it's great. as is this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvG1ylKhzoo&t=187s

his and levins' articulation of biology really helped me get dialectics as a whole

this was fantastic by the way, thank you very much for sharing. we are for real worse off as a whole without him :(

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

Larry Parrish posted:

it was an aristocratic revolt basically. not sure why they didn't just end up calling themselves a kingdom tbh. it literally might have just been that washington and the like literally 2 other proto-jacobins were just that persuasive. there's at least a couple founding fathers (and a lot of financial backers) whos primary reason for revolt was 'jackass king wouldn't promote me to aristocrat :('

it's because the founders were Romeaboos who jacked off to the Enlightenment, so the cool thing to do was be a republic. It also would've been a lot easier at the time to manage 13 sovereign governments with a weak central authority instead of having a monarch whose power is vested by God. Yes, they could have had a weak constitutional monarchy but then the colonial governments couldn't be republics either. As edgy and revisionist as we like to be, there really was a radical democratic undercurrent to the American Revolution ideologically - so the founders could have only carried their aristocratic interests so far. It was better to keep things de facto than de jure or else they could have a second revolution on their hands.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

A lot of that gets hashed out in the evolution from the articles of confederation to the constitution in tue 1790s.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
it seems to me the difference is whether they wanted to fight the civil war right away, basically. cuz there's no point in doing a monarchy at that time and place if you're not going to heavily centralize the government. but heavier centralization than what we got would have meant triggering the civil war way earlier. who knows.


the founding fathers suck rear end either way imo.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Tom Paine was all right

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/1411675804174589955

Lol

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Was listening to this:
https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1411472957185069059

and they were roasting a guy who had a Bakunin poster, and they mention that Bakunin was a raging anti-Semitite, which I knew, but also that he had warm words for the US Confederates. Lol.

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth

gradenko_2000 posted:

Tom Paine was all right

Unironically yes. Only founding father worth reading more than once

OK baizuo
Mar 19, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Liberalishly: if you nasty leftists don't stop saying harsh truths about America then all the indoctrinated people won't listen to you :qq:

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

OK baizuo posted:

Liberalishly: if you nasty leftists don't stop saying harsh truths about America then all the indoctrinated people won't listen to you :qq:

as much as I hate this poo poo I think there’s a bit of truth to the idea that socialist/communist rhetoric would be more effective with an appeal to (ugh) American values or identity

if Lenin could lower himself to it maybe it’s worth considering

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
real Americans kill nobles. and what's more like a noble than a rich person?

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
God drat it I didn't save my old cool avatar link. Thanks whichever lurker dipshit bought me this.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

Cool text, Larry.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

indigi posted:

as much as I hate this poo poo I think there’s a bit of truth to the idea that socialist/communist rhetoric would be more effective with an appeal to (ugh) American values or identity

if Lenin could lower himself to it maybe it’s worth considering

"American values & identity" are explicitly anti-communist and anti-socialist. There's just no getting around it. They're explicitly defined that way. American values are bourgeois values.

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
larry if you weren't such tankie/stalinist/assadist/xi lover/genocide denier/dicktator lover/brownmoses denier maybe you wouldn't have so much trouble :colbert:

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"American values & identity" are explicitly anti-communist and anti-socialist. There's just no getting around it. They're explicitly defined that way. American values are bourgeois values.

yeah but luckily this is America so you can just gerrymander “American values” to mean only what you want them to mean. Nat Turner and John Brown exemplified American values

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I’ve been reading about “socialism with Chinese characteristics”

is the CCP ideology considered to be legit Marxism or is it a fig leaf for other interests ?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

euphronius posted:

I’ve been reading about “socialism with Chinese characteristics”

is the CCP ideology considered to be legit Marxism or is it a fig leaf for other interests ?

what other interests would it be a fig leaf for? big mobile games?

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ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
underestimate the mobile market at your own peril

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