An international (English speaking) communist Lemmy community free of the "ML" influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic and constructive discussion from a Marxist perspective, regardless of specific current (as long as it is progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist).
A certain knowledge of theory is expected, if you are new to/interested in communist ideas, please visit c/Communism101 before participating here. Communism101 will gladly help you by answering questions, providing resources etc.
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Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, upvoting good contributions and downvoting those of low-quality!
Try to keep an open mind, other schools of thought may offer points of view and analyses you haven't considered yet. Critiques of other curre
Any good pod casts?
need something to listen to, i enjoy
Srsly Wrong
Alphabet Boys
Socialism by The Socialist Party Formally Militant of whom i am a member to be transparent.
Ripple a journalistic story form which delves into the shell oil cover up.
Blowback my absolute favorite.
This Machine Kills
Looking for mods, for both this community and all the sibling communities of the group it's a part of
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26257075
Hiii there~ fellow revolutionary socialists! Ik, I have been putting this off for faaaar too long, but have finally got myself to open up mod applications!
Since the inception of this batch of communities, I haven't rly had the capacity to proactively moderate them as I'd like to (and still don't). My instance administrators took care of most of the reports and banning a few .world libs here and there usually did the job 😛 (luckily, Dengists and other such revisionists have thus far not rly invaded these communities as they did with Hexbear).
Thus, I'd like to request your help in taking over moderation and have come up with a vetting process to hand off virtually all day-to-day operations.
The "batch of communities" I keep referring to:
Chinese Tech Companies Push Staff To the Limit - Slashdot
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13812624
JD.com founder Richard Liu warned employees against prioritizing work-life balance during a recent video conference, stating those who "put life first and work second" were not welcome at the company. This stance reflects a broader trend in China's tech sector as executives face slowing growth and increased competition.
Major tech firms, including Alibaba and Tencent, have cut tens of thousands of jobs since 2021. Companies are now seeking younger, cheaper workers and demanding longer hours from existing staff. Pinduoduo, an e-commerce group known for its high productivity and grueling work culture, is seen as a model by some in the industry. In 2021, two Pinduoduo employees died in incidents linked to overwork by colleagues.
Older tech professionals, typically over 35, face the greatest risk of redundancy and struggle to find new positions. Employers often view them as expensive and less flexible due to family responsibi
What books have you gotten recently and are reading recently? Post your recent book haul here!
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2492720
The five books from the image that I got are:
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States by Ana Raquel Minian
Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity by Daniel Widener, Vijay Prashad (Foreword)
The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization by Mohamed Amer Meziane, Jonathan Adjemian (Translator)
Ron Carey and the Teamsters: How a UPS Driver Became the Greatest Union Reformer of the 20th Century by Putting Members First by Ken Reiman
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman
These five books sit atop by vinyl record-player or gramophone or whatever you call it nowadays (I think people just say record-player). The very last one is the one I want to read the most, Empire of Normality. The third one, The States of the Earth, seems very interesting to
Why Is A24 Suppressing Its Own Jan. 6 Documentary?
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2491327
Anyone else keeping up with this?
Commonly known among Communist Party members, the phenomenon of PatSocs or patriotic socialists has arisen in recent years and has its roots that go back to before the 2020s and even all the way back Browderism, which was fought against by multiple CPUSA members, most notably figures such a...
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2483233
Check it out.
A friend of mine wrote this.
Around daybreak Tuesday, campus officers surrounded the university’s main quadrangle and kept students from entering, according to reports from the scene.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2482605
From the article:
Mayor Brandon Johnson‘s office said they were informed of the University of Chicago Police Department’s intention to dismantle the encampment early Tuesday morning and reached out to “reiterate serious safety and operational concerns about this plan.”
In an updated statement released Tuesday afternoon, the mayor’s office said University police requested Chicago police’s assistance but CPD “expressed an unwillingness to participate.”
University police “ultimately decided to move forward with the removal independently,” according to the mayor’s office.
Damn, even Mayor Brandon Johnson can't get them to stop and I like that guy.
Links between Yellowhammer’s ownership and Alabama’s anti-union forces shed light on what autoworkers are up against.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2463555
Read the entire thing here:
Last week, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey lambasted the United Auto Workers (UAW) in a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) ahead of a union vote at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, set for mid-May. Ivey has been campaigning for months against autoworker unionization in the state.
Ivey’s post referenced an anti-union op-ed by Nathaniel Ledbetter, speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, to which Ivey added: “The UAW is NOT the good guy here. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for calling out the UAW for what it is — corrupt, shifty and a dangerous leech.” Her post went semi-viral, garnering over 400,000 views, and it was reposted by her close political ally in resistance to autoworker unionization, the Business Council of Alabama (BCA).
While Ivey’s fierce opposition to the UAW is no s
My therapist sent me this on May Day!
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2436414
Fae's also Autistic, like me.
Fae didn't know it was technically an American holiday till I told faer today for our therapy session.
Fun fact: the wife of the person that was executed became a CPUSA member (the wife of one of the leaders of the group)!
Her house was burned down and the FBI took all her papers from the wreckage, her burnt memoirs and all that, and whatever else she was writing.
All that history... lost.
Queens Club CPUSA visits NYU and The New School Gaza Solidarity Encampments
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2435724
Check it out.
Only nine minutes long.
Good Morning, Revolution! Students rise up for Palestine
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2435607
Check it out.
About 40 minutes long.
You can just listen to it while you're doing other things.
As populations worldwide grow older, politicians are clamoring to raise the retirement age, thus extending people’s working lives at their own expense. Using the lens of political economy…
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2426220
Your thoughts on the article?
In a world of convergent crises, leading voices have called for radical changes to food, financial, and energy systems. However, these fail to account for a deeper systemic crisis: unfettered and…
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2426198
Read this article.
It's great.
And not too long.
It may come as a surprise, but the Right has been studying the work of Antonio Gramsci for years—and his ideas on the importance of culture and ideology have made a big impact on them. They concluded the Left has been following Gramsci’s lead ever since the cultural revolution of the 1960s, and capt...
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2425113
We have to stop Project 2025...
But I feel powerless at times.
This view of Mount Sterling, Ohio, and surrounding farmland provide the stereotypical view of rural America. (Getty Images) American Party of Labor, Colorado Division– In the United States th…
Cars have become weapons of war against each other.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2263203
The article:
I love driving. I know driving is kind of evil. But I love it. I love my stupid little car—a 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI. It’s diesel. It gets 45 miles per gallon. It’s a 6-speed stick shift. It was cheap (due to Volkswagen recalling every diesel they sold after being caught doing really evil stuff to cheat the emissions standards of the U.S., and then needing to offload all those cars) and it goes fast and is tiny and I love zipping around country corners and pretending I’m a racecar driver (while remaining at a reasonable speed, of course; I would never break the law). Vroom vroom.
But over the last few years, driving has become a much more miserable experience for me. I hope not to negate my own responsibility here, but, I think, it’s not that I’ve changed, it’s that everything else has: every car around me is suddenly humongous, all of their headlights seem designed to blind me and cause me to
Good Morning, Revolution! Is Biden trying to lose?
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2227549
I'm glad that we're talking about the attack on libraries.
I'm trying to work on one to help defend them.
On Twitter: "🚨 Voters in Enid, by a nearly 20-point margin, voted to remove City Council member and city commissioner, Judd Blevins over his ties to white nationalist groups."
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2210352
White supremacy lost in Oklahoma tonight.
Honestly, this was a good thing and shows that people are waking up to the creeping fascist threat.
As communists, we must try to be a guiding force and helping hand in the fightback against fascism.
Communist Book Review: "Mythologies" by Joel Wendland-Liu
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2181655
Helping someone I know.