cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1971306

Damn, this was a record for me.

It was a rally and march for Palestine at the city nearby.

@Othello@hexbear.net might know about it, but I don't think they're here now (I'm just tagging in case they are).

Ask me about it if you want, but right now I'm "venting" about something positive; I'm really proud of myself for keeping up the pressure regarding Gaza and helping to do that.

Definitely join an org or activist group if you can.

That's all. Cheers!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1968230

Pretty expected, to be honest.

Especially now that Joe Sims is in and not John Bachtell.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1967643

20 minutes or so.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1967517

It's just 10 minutes, but very enlightening.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1962122

Subscribe, comment, like, etc.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1958803

The article argues that some federal government intervention earlier during WWII jump-started the tech innovations we saw from the 1950s to 1970s.

It also talks about how the Internet seems to be the only really new game-changing innovation since the 80s and seeks to explain why this is the case.

Among other things, of course, such as the nature of "tech clusters" such as Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1941627

Just found out about this an hour ago.

Holy shit, this is good, and it's Marxist writers' group too.

We need more stuff like this.

@muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml Thought you might be interested in this, old friend (since you're the only other person I know right now besides myself that knew BayArea415, at least online).

But anyway, on another note, I'm glad that the PatSoc infiltration attempts were sorted out, otherwise the content would just be a repeat of Haz's trash ideas lol

Glad they're experimenting with a writing and literature group; very early in its initial phase, from what I know.

It's a pity that one of the people didn't get a chance to finish his own fictional work and had to stop at the beginning before it got to the crux or point of it all.

Anyway, enjoy, y'all.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1934744

Check it out.

It's like China is just that one country (aside from the Khmer Rouge) that every ML (aside from Dengists like us) agrees to hate on.

Fellow Traveler and leftypol uploaded videos criticizing them, the Shining Path hung up literal dogs to protest them, Maoists go all insane saying that it's some red fash social-imperialist nation because (insert nato propaganda here). And Hoxhaists claim that China was never socialist and that the only socialist nation ever was USSR before Khrushchev and almighty holy Albania.

What is it that makes China so controversial even among MLs? I get that it's not perfect and every AES state has their Ls, but jesus.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1904493

Good discussion and a long one too. Nearly an hour. I felt Ben was a good guest too. And of course, there's Justine Medina as well.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1863958

The book is this one:

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1856459

How to Be a Good Communist

Written/Published: July 1939

Source: Selected Works of Liu Shaoqi, Volume I

First Published: Foreign Languages Press

---

I'm reading this for the first time, btw, based on something I heard online. Someone also recommended it to me and said Liu Shaoqi was underrated.

Definitely giving this a go.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1852949

I talked about this video in this post here.

It really helped me. I mean, this was a godsend (except for the jump-scare near the beginning). I would heartily recommend it to people who struggle with productivity either way.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1849807

Love these!

I hope everyone else enjoys this episode.

I didn't know about the recent call for more colonialism in Africa by Erik Prince till now.

If anyone has any more info on that, let me know.

Thanks!

are you ready to program for the revolution, camarada?

We already know that socialism is going strong in China, Korea, and Cuba. But we (or at least I) don't hear that much about Vietnam and Laos.

How is it going over there? What is their trajectory towards becoming developed? How much progress have they made so far? Is the socialist ideology going strong there? Where can I keep up to date on these countries?

Title says it all. I'm in a country that has public health care, and in many aspects it is very good. Only downside is wait time. There's also less and less funding every year, less and less quality, the whole process to destroy and later privatize what is a natural monopoly (such as water, electricity, etc) and a basic necessity for human life and dignity, and so on.

With that said, is it wrong for me to benefit from what is essentially a better service (because of factors mentioned above, not because private = "better") because it is a capitalist enterprise? Same debate could arise from private energy companies, private transport providers, etc.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1833747

Good stuff.

Love Henry Winston.

You can read the book for yourself here.

Check it out. I highly recommend this book.

Oh yeah, and there's a sequel to it as well. Maybe I'll do a book club on both later on.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1795146

Video is about 50 minutes long.

You can listen to it while you're doing other things.

Glad they touched on the AFL-CIO and the recent developments in the labor movement, especially vis a vis the South.

Wikipedia says they are both libertarian and communist so obviously theres a lot of disinformation about them.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1782164

You can purchase the book (from the original publisher rather than Amazon, hopefully, if you want) over here:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-5414-6

Full title is:

Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance by Roland Boer

Please:

Subscribe

comment

like

share

etc.

the video (to help out with this Marxist-Leninist YouTube channel, which is very underrated).

Thank you!

On another level, the South of the planet and the global East can no longer stand the racist and neo-colonial supremacism of this “global North-West,” of which the European Union is the European pillar, and is confronting the EU-NATO bloc which, allied with open [neofascists] swarming in Kiev and the Baltic states, is the main enemy of all peoples, including the peoples of Europe and North America.

This is not to idealize Vladimir Putin’s counter-revolutionary régime, nor to deny the class contradictions that exist in People’s China, but simply to remember the “revolutionary defeatism” advocated by Lenin in 1914 and summed up by his German comrade Karl Liebknecht in the brilliant phrase: “The main enemy is in your own country.”

For it is our conviction that capitalism has become so reactionary that, in our time, what we call “exterminism” has become the supreme stage of capitalism-imperialism-hegemonism, with its globalized procession of destruction of social gains, political reaction and fascistization, obscurantism and the return of the worst religious fundamentalisms, as well as the destruction of national sovereignties.

But this is only one side of the question, and dialectically we must see that this situation enables and also demands more than ever the unity of proletarians of all countries; it demands the unity of the fight for democracy, for the sovereignty of peoples, for their free cooperation freed from blind and destructive competition.

We must fight for the proletariat, worldwide and country by country, to become the heart and ardent focus of a revolution uniting all those who want humanity to go on and life to triumph over death and the absurdity brought about by capitalist exploitation and [neo]imperial oppression.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1766587

I'm quite excited for where the CPUSA is going.

Enjoy!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1735872

That's just the title; the video has more to do with other stuff than just Taylor Swift LMAO

But yeah, enjoy, comrades.