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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Anyone got a really succinct article or copy pasta on why trotskyists are off base?

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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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is the wikipedia article on juche bad? I read that today and it sounds pretty wild, revisionist and idealist. Not at all like ML simply adapted for North Korean conditions.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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indigi posted:

read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific for a breezy, easily-understandable, and profound examination of the similarities differences between socialism and communism. it's better than the Manifesto by a lot.

a shorter summation will leave a lot out and a longer one is only necessary if you want to get into the very intricate theoretical and economic underpinnings of Marxism

Yeah this. Then read Stalin on Dialectical and Historical Materialism.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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the bitcoin of weed posted:

something like 90% of the communists i know irl are autistic or have adhd or some other brain problem so i assume that must help

We haven't officially determined this but I'd estimate at least 75% of my comrades are neurodivergent.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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I think my autism or whatever the gently caress I have made it incredibly logical and obvious, once I was actually exposed to and bothered paying attention to Marxism, that Marxism Leninism is the correct path. Like it's so logical to.me that I genuinely don't understand how so few other people don't get it. Just watch a few YouTube videos and my mind exploded with 3 dozen lightbulbs simultaneously going off, for days on end as I wrapped my head around what Class is. Being told and realizing I was neurodivergent came after my 'class consciousness' though. Maybe Marxism made me autistic I dunno.

Bald Stalin
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Centrist Committee posted:

lol he’ll yeah buddy. I recommend checking out some of the classics from the “softer side,” like on practice, constructive criticism, freeman’s trashing, secrets of a successful organizer, etc. to learn how to translate your inner light into something hopeful that inspires other people to action

Oh I'm already involved in the work now. That's where I noticed so many of us have ASD or ADHD. There's something in the water creating commies. You may be thinking of the other thread where the libs assumed I'm not doing anything. Literally the opposite, but it makes them feel better about their own lack of action to pretend I'm just posting on the internet.

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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Brain Candy posted:

right what are you though if you currently must work but will be able to retire and live off of financial instruments that are designed to self-destruct? it's like if people have bourgeois eggs inside of them that hatch and make them move to florida

Is a modest 401k 'owned' by a former-now-retired 64 year old factory worker, which they must draw from slowly to not die and may still end up losing if they get really sick, actually Capital?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Haven't read parenti but his videos are fuckin fire when he gets worked up

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Just gonna put you on ignore, feel free to keep posting it won't bother me none.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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HiroProtagonist posted:

kwame ture is the goat

i rewatch his 1972 lecture at howard pretty much yearly

drat this is good

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Jon posted:

I am not, no

Why is it good?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Jon posted:

Why do you jump to the defense of a person who led the way in making abortions illegal again, recriminalizing homosexuality, purging 90% of the Old Bolsheviks (the actual revolutionaries), et al?

Is this dialectics?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Cuttlefush posted:

freebase cocaine hadn't been invented yet. you have a child's understanding of history

It was meth, you stupid kid

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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my bony fealty posted:

ussr's victory in ww2 proving that alcohol is the superior drug of the frontlines

Please give me meth, sincerely, an alcoholic

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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Sorry cuttle it's nothing personal I just wanna not be an alcoholic and do more praxis but ya

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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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why is the bourgeoisie required to develop productive forces? Why would democratically run factories running within a DotP necessarily become bourgeois?? Idgi.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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stumblebum posted:

sorry i dont read anarchist literature

lol

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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No aliens

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Weird how the cia sounds like some of the leftist here where I live

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Cuttlefush posted:

cia also said stalin was ftw so

Broken clock

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Why won't Hasan denounce China, Vaush asks

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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fart simpson posted:

chess, unlike reading capital, is for nerds

What's the (x) for Hard Agree

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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The latter definitely has thought things through more, but when I've asked how things stay on track they will outright refuse to acknowledge the vanguard/central organization and give it different names. It's like they're almost there but not getting over the line.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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When it's down, is it down on both your Internet providers? Your cable/dsl/fiber and your mobile?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to just post

- KarlMarx420

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Real commies organizing and building the party irl, not just selling newspapers while criticizing sex workers, are among the best people I've met. Young but ambitious and disciplined, educated, hard working and super empathetic. They give me so much hope and teach me so much, not just diamat and Marxism. Def reach out to some if they're in your area.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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What's different about, or what's happening to, the folks that 'research' conspiracy and end up on the other side? Q, (((Jews))), etc.

Ideology *sniff* ?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Is there a good updated article read on Venezuela rn please? And 'africa' though I'm guessing there's a shitload since it's a huge place?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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'All cops are bad under capitalism' is just too wordy

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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crepeface posted:

stalin ftw

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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rodbeard posted:

Eagerly awaiting Frosted Flakes coming back with an excuse to hate these women leftishly.

Hate?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Why do organisations in Europe and the colonies spend time debating whether or not to support or criticize China? How does it help organise and struggle in their own countries?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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What lessons specifically about China now apply to say, organizers in the UK right now? Why is it helpful to spend any time educating people on China beyond "there's a lot of bourgeois propaganda about them" which applies universally to pretty much everything? Not talking about their revolution or Mao's contributions to scientific socialism, I'm asking in this context where OP is trying to defend China rn from criticism of it rn. Gimme your top 3 from these many valuable lessons.

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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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In a settler colonial state such as Australia, is the primary contradiction Capitalism or the Colony?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Orange Devil posted:

What's the driving force behind colonialism?

I thought it was profits/capitalism but

Ferrinus posted:

if historical example is anything to go by, the colony

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Ferrinus posted:

mao used "primary contradiction" not to mean what's at the ultimate root of everything (which is of course capital's need to expand itself) but what's currently load-bearing, or what, in the course of being resolved, will make it possible to resolve all the others. so it's not like colonialism is somehow separate from and worse than capitalism, but that colonialism is the main pillar propping capital up or the first layer of ablative armor capitalism's built around itself

Thank you this makes it much clearer

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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It's not a bit. This time will be different. This time OP will understand when I reply to them.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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BillsPhoenix posted:

I don't believe in objective economic data. It does not exist. With immense effort, on extremely narrow topics, decent confidence interval can be derived. Sometimes.

I'm not ever going to be able to prove something to someone that believes only capitalism suffers from incentived behaviors that drive inaccurate economic data.

It's kinda like how the MAGA argument 'prove me wrong goes'. The insults reinforce the comparison.
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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Bald Stalin posted:

It's not a bit. This time will be different. This time OP will understand when I reply to them.

drat I was wrong, it was drugs all along

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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Was at the pub last night and a schizophrenic was wandering around getting into arguments with everyone about MKUltra and when I said I was very familiar with it he wanted to argue about that too. Reminded me to swing back to this thread and check out the latest.

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