It was a lesson Lenin himself ended up learning. I heard he never expected revolution to come in his lifetime but he had to stop writing State and Revolution because it ended up happening. Like a spark lighting a wildfire.
Transphobes are trying to dox me
Yes.
How so? Can you give more details about what you mean here?
In my case, I can feel that way by realizing that there's not much praxis in real life I can do where I am as I am.
I'd think there’s an upside. The longer it takes for revolution to occur here, the better prepared the rest of the world may be for it. Socialist forces will be much better developed abroad. Actually, those phenomena are inseparable, it’s also as the US loses its ability to interfere with socialist development abroad that it will be more vulnerable to revolution. Such conditions, being more isolated from the rest of the world, would better foster revolutionary spirit, especially in people more confident in the examples abroad to follow, and their desire to link with the rest of the socialist world.
I understand not wanting to get carried away. We make fun of people for saying China will collapse any day. We, of course, have much more grounds to say that with regards to the US but it may take a while yet.
I reset the chapter when one of them does.
I'm happy to have received such reception to this post from all of you, comrades. I'm doing better now and have reaffirmed myself of the importance of not trusting how I feel about my life past 2100. The excellent news in my case is this psychological struggle has led to me discovering the existence of the PRC show "In The Name of The People" that I hear from fellow comrades is very, very good (and extremely popular with the people in the PRC) so I may check it out. It's free with subs on YouTube.
Say that because of my profile picture? Yeah, I like the Tellius games.
Counter-insurgency of enjoying fictional/entertainment media?
There's a comrade on Twitter, a youngster, who is an extremely, extremely dedicated reader of theory, who is repulsed by fictional and entertainment media on account of it almost universally being created by and harboring bourgeois-ridden thoughts, while also fearing it on account of it being counter-insurgency much like TVs were used to pacify and distract black prisoners in San Quentin from revolutionary action.
This caused me to have self-reflection. Should she be an example to follow? Should we forsake or move towards forsaking all media consumption aside from theory as she does lest we waste our time on commodities that many of the people we fight for have don't have the privilege of enjoying? For we still have much work ahead of us. Indeed, I have seen for myself people mellowing out after fighting politically online and then focusing more on their hobbies (for better or worse, of course, many of them held poor political positions and were better off silent). But to her, her hob
Helps that they simplified their language. We need to do that for English, there's so many inconsistencies.
Good that this is happening, but I feel discouraged that conversion therapy was happening at all and that it took this long for something like this case to happen.
Actually, this might be a good thing. If people with even this mindset are being forced to act, change might come sooner than I thought.
Will the US government last that long?
My Progress
For some time now I've been working on myself, and for almost a year I've recorded my weight every morning, circumstances permitting. I am about 190cm and have a male body. These are the results so far (units are pounds).
My current exercise routine is to run for 90 minutes every morning Monday through Friday on a trail near my house with no breaks. This was how I did last week. In those afternoons, I lift weights. My weigh-lifting routine is inspired by the advice of Soviet Powerlifter Alexander Faleev. Quality over variety. I follow the five-day schedule, though I'm absolutely not as much of a lifter as I am a runner.
I'm able to accomplish this out of privilege. I'm on disability income on account of my autism and thus have the fr
That's the thing, I'm not even sure if it will be faster than if the Dems got in because they're historically more prone to warmongering, thus getting the Empire into unwinnable military wars rather than economic ones.
Now I wonder if Trump will actually implement those 100% tariffs he threatened against dedollarizing countries.
What's disgusting, cringe, or weird is irrelevant to me. Acting horny in a public forum not dedicated to that kind of stuff runs the risk of causing discomfort and harm to those sensitive to it, particularly victims of sexual abuse.
I remember a trans comrade speaking on this phenomenon in 2018.
Communist parties do not have a perfect or perhaps even the best track record with regards to progressive issues. I don't blame communism for this, just saying that it's dangerous to assume we're immune to adopting dangerous and foolish social beliefs.
I imagine it may depend on the area. China's a big, varied, ever-changing place.
Would other higher-ups actually let him do something this foolish?
Standpoints, East Anarchists, and "American Exceptionalism"
I'm trying to figure out what to think or do here. This may be just a vent.
I have three friends, each opposed to Marxism-Leninism. Two of them live in Russia and one of them is from a family that immigrated to America from China, and has been to China. They each hold negative views of China, Russia, and the USSR. My Chinese friend and one of my Russian friends are anarchists. My other Russian friend is an authcom, but not a "tankie" or "Stalinist". They're each queer and disabled as I am, and I would sell my life for any and all of them (which means less than it sounds, I'm not confident that I may live much longer). I, however, am a white American who has never left my continent. To them, I'd be a westen tankie, and I've heard a couple of other Russians complain about "western tankies" before.
It got me thinking if they think that we, in the US, practice our own form of "American Exceptionalism" by talking about our country as though it's worse than all others, including the ones w
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Please don't wish that on a poor gorilla.
Even if we use the worst interpretation, companies were still making and distributing beastly and reliable chips 10 years ago. I should know, I'm using a 10 year old chip.
EDIT: Specifically, it's the i7 4790k. 4.4 GHz, 4 cores, 8 threads, it may not be as good as chips nowadays but it's never disappointed me in the long time I've had it.
The people I was arguing against were under no impression the democrats weren't fucking awful and that the system wasn't garbage. They just didn't realize or believe just how awful the democrats are and presented them as a slightly better alternative to the Republicans when I couldn't even agree to that. You're right, I should've kept my mouth shut. I was just trying to do as Mao instructed. And I treasure my remaining friends more for it.
Venting, lesser evilism
"To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism." -Mao Zedong.
I'm tired. I'm tired and I'm sad. I lost a friend because I was advocating against telling people to vote for those who have slaughtered and terrorized their friends and families.
I used to vote blue. I could see where they were coming from, the feeling as though you're contributing to saving lives. The desire for reprieve from the Republicans. If the democrats were truly the lesser evil then I'd vote for them. I'd encourage activism, yes, but I'd vote. It's not as hard for me as it is for less privileged pe