The book I'm working on is unrelated, and yes, there has been a stark change in rhetoric from this paper. The reason I am intrigued is because it seems recent, and the behind the scenes story seems elusive. I have found some pages on the people behind this, but no, being curious as to how this change happened is not any more conspiratorial than trying to find out why a writer left a show or sold it out to another company.
This point here, that from what I understand of Trotskyist theory, one of the longest standing trotskyist-communist newspapers in the U.S, with a history of being mostly based, becoming targeted by COINTELPRO itself, that this swing to a pro zionist stance is especially contrarian to their interpretation of theory. As a matter of fact, from what I've seen, it seems counter to the very most central parts of their theory. This is what strikes me as especially strange.
is that better, comrade? i can break it up more if need be.
From what I understand of Trotskyist theory, Palestinian resistance seems like something their doctrine would HIGHLY support, even more so than 'Stalinists' or other Marxists, because of their 'endless revolution' line. That's kind of their whole thing, pretty central to trotskyists, their interpretation of endless revolution. Also to clarify, I am not trotskyist, but I did do some digging into it and into their own talking points, interpretations, and conclusions. I feel understanding most doctrines fairly in depth is important.
Communist newspapers and a concerning development
Hello comrades. To preface my question, first let me give some brief context as to what led me here. I have been doing lots of reading of newer and older texts ranging from classic theory, history, civil rights, etc etc, in preparation for a book I intend to write in the future. However, as I have grown a bit tired of blowing through dense economic texts and academic material, I decided to try and find some communist newspapers to subscribe to and receive and read in the mail as a more of a literary appetizer and to see what said organizations have to say about modern happenings. I have become aware of Peace Land and Bread by Iskra(https://www.peacelandbread.org/journal), but the only other ones I see that aren't digital only are two sources. That being Socialist Revolution (https://socialistrevolution.org/) and The Militant (https://themilitant.com/) However I have noticed something worrying about The Militant. I did some light googling, found they have been around a long time, and
Communist newspapers and a concerning development
Hello comrades. To preface my question, first let me give some brief context as to what led me here. I have been doing lots of reading of newer and older texts ranging from classic theory, history, civil rights, etc etc, in preparation for a book I intend to write in the future. However, as I have grown a bit tired of blowing through dense economic texts and academic material, I decided to try and find some communist newspapers to subscribe to and receive and read in the mail as a more of a literary appetizer and to see what said organizations have to say about modern happenings. I have become aware of Peace Land and Bread by Iskra(https://www.peacelandbread.org/journal), but the only other ones I see that aren't digital only are two sources. That being Socialist Revolution (https://socialistrevolution.org/) and The Militant (https://themilitant.com/) However I have noticed something worrying about The Militant. I did some light googling, found they have been around a long time, and
Communist newspapers and a concerning development
Hello comrades. To preface my question, first let me give some brief context as to what led me here. I have been doing lots of reading of newer and older texts ranging from classic theory, history, civil rights, etc etc, in preparation for a book I intend to write in the future. However, as I have grown a bit tired of blowing through dense economic texts and academic material, I decided to try and find some communist newspapers to subscribe to and receive and read in the mail as a more of a literary appetizer and to see what said organizations have to say about modern happenings. I have become aware of Peace Land and Bread by Iskra(https://www.peacelandbread.org/journal), but the only other ones I see that aren't digital only are two sources. That being Socialist Revolution (https://socialistrevolution.org/) and The Militant (https://themilitant.com/) However I have noticed something worrying about The Militant. I did some light googling, found they have been around a long time, and
Communist newspapers and concerning trend
Hello comrades. To preface my question, first let me give some brief context as to what led me here. I have been doing lots of reading of newer and older texts ranging from classic theory, history, civil rights, etc etc, in preparation for a book I intend to write in the future. However, as I have grown a bit tired of blowing through dense economic texts and academic material, I decided to try and find some communist newspapers to subscribe to and receive and read in the mail as a more of a literary appetizer and to see what said organizations have to say about modern happenings. I have become aware of Peace Land and Bread by Iskra(https://www.peacelandbread.org/journal), but the only other ones I see that aren't digital only are two sources. That being Socialist Revolution (https://socialistrevolution.org/) and The Militant (https://themilitant.com/) However I have noticed something worrying about The Militant. I did some light googling, found they have been around a long time, and
Communist newspapers and a concerning development
Hello comrades. To preface my question, first let me give some brief context as to what led me here. I have been doing lots of reading of newer and older texts ranging from classic theory, history, civil rights, etc etc, in preparation for a book I intend to write in the future. However, as I have grown a bit tired of blowing through dense economic texts and academic material, I decided to try and find some communist newspapers to subscribe to and receive and read in the mail as a more of a literary appetizer and to see what said organizations have to say about modern happenings. I have become aware of Peace Land and Bread by Iskra(https://www.peacelandbread.org/journal), but the only other ones I see that aren't digital only are two sources. That being Socialist Revolution (https://socialistrevolution.org/) and The Militant (https://themilitant.com/) However I have noticed something worrying about The Militant. I did some light googling, found they have been around a long time, and
so do 'men' that may have femboy themed aspirations
I just got on when i saw this, i signed up, and then the whole pages server crashed. they have a whole error page for it. JT crashed the website with the pure might of his followers hopping on to sign up and ask questions of him. I don't think this site was physically built with enough capacity to handle that massive of an influx of comrades lmaoo. Fucking hilarious, i love all of ya'll. Jt you da man
yeah I was unaware of this. Rough, I hope the people are able to persevere from it.
Oh no I appreciate the details, and yeah that is kinda dumb. Isn't one of the tentants of communism that (I just woke up and smoked a bowl so sorry if I'm mis remembering WHO said it exactly) I'm pretty sure Lenin himself talked on was that the communist movement, revolution, and following state will look different in every region as geography, culture, and the current and future evolving political climate all create different conditions that we would have to find new and working solutions too. I'm an advocate of "Yeah shit's gunna get messy sometimes, so it's best to accept that, but to try and experiment with different policies in different parts of the region to see what works best both for the people, and for staying stable and sustainable, and we should strive to TRY different things as communists so we can find the things, whether structure of labor or production to ecological protections, what WORKS best for everyone." It seems wild to me that some people think we can just rely completely on theory. Yes its VERY important, but so is real world and practical experience, shit happens that no one expects and you gotta find solutions. That's just life.
Ohhh okay. When he said north I thought they were referring to the Native population concentrated in the north part America. I guess for those that don't know here in America for a long time (generally white people) referred to Natives as Indians as well, and I was raised by uh... well let's say a family with some opinions on 'em, so it kinda didn't register for me they were asking about the country. (Yes, I know native american is the proper term, it's what I use but my southern american ears have kinda just gotten used to hearing it being talked about both ways growing up) But to answer the question on if southern americans being more conservative than the northern Indians in India, again, I'm not too familiar with the current demographic. I did some reading of WWII and Ghandi era resistance and what not but I'm not sure how the repressive right wing elements have evolved into the modern day as I just haven't kept up. I didn't know india even had a large conservative demographic, as I've last heard a few years ago I think now that India had one of the largest socialist / communist protest in history, thought i read that damn near a million or more people covered the streets in an ocean of red and black flags. But that's about my most recent knowledge of their internal political situation, if I'm being honest. I wouldn't mind being enlightened to whatever's going on there though, that's for sure!
The only one that ever listens to me is ironically, my boss. I'm slowly going to radicalize him lmaoooo
yeah for real man, the rest of my neighbors except one are all basically trap houses. One of them is a straight up massive drug dealer (like the baaad stuff) and literally everyone knows it, I'm sure people have alerted the authorities on them multipule times, but nah they still there just.... moving shit. And man, as an ex addict, i get a lot of the struggles, but the tweakers in this town, most the damn population, are fucking bananas.
I guess I'm not aware of the conservative Indian demographic, you mean like natives? Good god seems a lot like shooting themselves in the foot. But I dunno, I've heard some pretty racey and extremely homophobic/transphobic shit out here. I went to school with a kid that openly believed inter-racial marriage should be punished, if that says anything.
ah so like the bible thumpers of marxism?
man you got no idea. neioghbor tried to break into my house and beat me becuase he thought i was recording / spying on his wife n kids based on HOW I PARK MY CAR IN MY OWN LAWN. these people are fucking insane
glad to know theres more out there in the south with me, sometimes it feels so damn isolating. the alienation is real.
Lmao i love the lil cartoon marx
they took me they took me in the ship they probed me i think they left it in there i hear it whispering to me sometimes the great Zulu demands pie apple pie
I've seen the term ultras on here, but I am rather new to this community. Would someone mind giving me a definition of what an ultra is in this context? Thanks!
New to this community, just an wanted to introduce myself
Hello! I am a comrade born and there by stuck in the rural south of America. As a marxist, I am very isolated since I live in a very conservative part of the country. I happened upon this community yesterday, spent some time looking around, and joined today. I had no idea marxist social forums like this even existed, so I am just very excited to see a collection of fellow comrades online that isn't stuck and struggling with the censorship of facebook or other mainstream social sites. So this is just my hello, and a bit of where I come from (don't want to get too specific due to the history of organization like COINTELPRO) and just to say, I'm really glad to see a community like this exists! I had really thought under our current stage of capitalism something like this would be weeded out of existence. LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!