Edited my comment again.

Books:

• Manifesto of the Communist Party (Audio, Audio)
• The State and Revolution (Audio)
• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Audio)
• Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution (1900) (Audio)
• The Foundations of Leninism (Audio)
• Dialectical and Historical Materialism (Audio)
• ON PRACTICE (Audio)
• ON CONTRADICTION (Audio)
• Blackshirts And Reds (Audio)

Texts:

• Why Socialism? (Audio)
• The Principles of Communism (Audio)
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Audio)
• Economic Manuscripts: Value, Price and Profit, Karl Marx 1865 (Audio)
• Wage Labour and Capital (Audio)
• On Authority (Audio)

Videos:

• The Difference Between Socialism, Communism, and Marxism Explained by a Marxist - YouTube
• Your Democracy is a Sham and Here's Why: - YouTube
• Socialism for Absolute Beginners - YouTube
• A Future Beyond Capitalism? Socialism Explained. - YouTube
• Michael Parenti lecture (1986) - YouTube (Yellow Parenti)

Unfortunately, rejecting WhatsApp is probably one of the most socially isolating decisions I've ever made.

Matrix is bloatware.

The resource consumption for chat rooms is absolutely ridiculous compared to XMPP and IRC. It's so bad that I now believe the protocol is inherently flawed or absolutely unsuitable for realtime messaging.

• XMPP: Good mature protocol but poor client ecosystem.
• Matrix: Unsuitable protocol for realtime messaging with relatively good client ecosystem.

You are aware that besides Gandhi there was a lot of violent protest?

Only violent protest makes the demands of the nonviolent acceptable to the ruling class. Without a violent part of a movement, the demands of the nonviolent are always ignored. Which is perfectly logical, because why accept the demands of someone you can ignore without consequences.

Now is absolutely not the time to give up on democracy.

No one wants to give up democracy, we just recognize that liberal bourgeois democracy only serves to create an illusion of democratic voice. The only interests taken into account in the so-called modern "democracies" are those of capital, and that is no democracy at all.> Now is absolutely not the time to give up on democracy.

Lemmy Explorer

a little to the right

Not just a little.