Marxists are pro-centralization, not decentralization. We’re not anarchists/libertarians.

I think we should strive to develop new marxist models of decentralized systems; because a lot of this centralized theory predates widespread use of electricity let alone modern technology and vast advances that have been made in science.

This is how marxism survives and strives; not by being book/model dogma worshippers.

Iosevka, IBM Plex, Fira Code, Space Mono, JetBrains Mono

If we apply the same measure to capitalism then we can get hundreds of millions of deaths

Churchill himself is responsible for various deliberately engineered famines and genocides.

And you're really here crying over some assholes who got executed? Do capitalist countries not execute people? Wanna also talk about all the innocent people CIA killed to defend capitalism?

You're just arguing in bad faith, regurgitating the same garbage we've heard a million times before

The Iranian government has a million times stronger internet filter and news somehow propagates in the middle of a blackout, you somehow think a nation of 1.4 billion people can keep shit under wrap?

Spend some time thinking it's free

Why? DisplayPort is an open VESA standard

Wtf is China doing

Marxism isn't about poverty worship, it's about ending exploitation. Being a rich fuck doesn't automatically make you evil or something. But you should try to minimize or end exploitation (if any, and as much as possible under a capitalist system). However, for some middle class nobody who doesn't have the MoP this basically doesn't mean anything.

Sadly mainstream lemmy has fallen to fucking crackkkers and fucking libs, but it warms my heart that they're getting fucked w/ 0 lube by MAGA while China is more relevant than ever

Hey, sorry I had to deal with some bullshit

Of course we have plenty of art institutions, mate Iran is more developed than 90% of the united SStateSS of ameriKKKa for crying out loud

Are there painters and sculptors who make a living from their work?

Of course there are plenty!

How much shit has been stolen by North America and Europe vs. stuff that gets loaned out on tour?

You wouldn't fucking believe. The cracKKKers came and stole as much as they possibly could, and the locals usually digging for gold destroyed the rest... I would say maybe the majority of our history has been stolen and put in private collections and western cracKKKer museums or destroyed...

Iran has lots of nature to offer, but I highly recommend finding a tour as a foreigner. For visiting history, visit the cities of Tabriz, Tehran, Mashhad, Shiraz (inc Persepolis!), Yazd (definitely do go to Yazd), Isfahan and Kashan. If you want to visit ancient history sites, places like Izeh have a few historically significant sites. All of Iran is built on the grave of history, you'll find no shortage of old ruin to keep you busy...

What’s the political situation like in Iran?

theocratic shitshow

leftist

Got mass executed in the 1980s and there are no real vanguards in Iran to my knowledge. Only anarchist student groups here and there.

What do you think could be done to improve Iran’s current situation?

Socialism is the only path forward!

It can range from bad to actual living hell. The first 3 months of bootcamp is really bad, and if you luck out and get a cushy assignment the rest of it will be easier. But if you don't you will get deployed to border areas and have to actually fight smugglers and shit (causality rates exist) that's if you don't die to some bullshit accident (Buses carrying conscripts have crashed more than a few times)

Public transport is rather decent! Most cities have metro, BRT, and Taxi lines to use. Tehran's walk ability kind of sucks badly tho; in the enclaves it is good but going from one area or district to the other on foot may need some pathfinding abilites. Depends on the area tbh

Ah, I have to deal with this shit everyday!

Living here you will quickly learn how to use VPNs for accessing foreign services. Sanctions and domestic firewall definitely have a large impact. Internet speeds have improved BY LOTS in the recent years to the point of being quite modern. ADSL is mostly for shitty old homes who don't have anything better than decades old copper lines, in which case I recommend getting a rooftop antenna for so-called "air fiber" service.

Brain drain is certainly a huge issue, but Iranian public institutions are quite good. We still have the old, experienced generation of professors who teach in public universities. Private ones are a fucking disaster tho (education quality is garbage)

They are Iranian people who got separate due to imperialism; they are literally Iranian and the efforts to rename their language like Dari are basically historical revisionism projects. I remember an anecdote from an old Afghan lady who said "They came to our schools and changed Farsi to Dari on the book covers one day". Sadly I cannot source this because I was it on Discord and it's almost impossible to find now...

Pretty much not at all, unless they're like born-again or conservative or like that

I answered this before, look into the thread (it was the first question I think). Iranian k-12 uses a 6-3-3 system, 6 years primary, 3 years Highschool (stage 1) and 3 years Highschool (stage 2)

دادا ارشد دارن منو میگان الان دارم گزارش سمینار مینو‌یسم سره همینه به خدا واسه ما بین ترم معنی نداره من الان ۶ ساله یه نفس راحت نداشتم

Look the short answer is that the Iranian diasporoids are notoriously quirked up and they're usually part of some monarchist/MEK cult/zio cult nonsense, so it's better not to try rationalizing their positions because they come straight out of a crack pipe

There are people who say Khomeini was a plot against the gLoRiOuS mOnArChY and shit, there are people who fled Iran with lots of stolen money in 1979 and live in LA, there are doomer new gen immigrants who are the most anti-immigration hitlerites you can find

just don't bother with them they're mentally fucked

Moonshine lmao, people who are called "Saghi" brew and sell it + you always have to watch out for menthol poisoned supply

ای بابا تپه ای نمونده که ما سرش نرینیم

The northern coast is filled with rich people's bullshit and over tourism. Try to check out Lorestan/Chaharmahal Bakhtiyari/East and West Azarbaijan^1 provinces. They have much nature to show you...

WARNING! IRANIAN HISTORY RANT AFTER THIS POINT!

1- Iranian Azarbaijan is the real "Azarbaijan", the country "Republic of Azarbaijan" is actually historically called Shirvan. That country was separated from us in Russian imperialism before the bolsheviks took over (due to a lengthy war with Ottomans and Iran being weakened) and then later on they changed the name to Azarbaijan in order to eventually conquer all of Iranian azarbaijan. USSR then managed to add fuel to the fire with their short sighted cultural revisionism projects which tried to establish a fake "Azarbaijan" identity out of thin air and distance them from Iran, which 80 years later has resulted in rise of pan-turk ethno-fascism. Those sons of removed ain't got Iranian Azarbaijan yet and they never fucking will!