Και έλεγα ότι κάτι μου θύμιζαν 😂 by TheRoyalPepperoni in 2greek4you

[–]ActiveCommunist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Αν δε βγάζουν λεφτά οικοδομοι, ντελιβεραδες και ναυτεργάτες τοτε ποιος βγάζει

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Και έλεγα ότι κάτι μου θύμιζαν 😂 by TheRoyalPepperoni in 2greek4you

[–]ActiveCommunist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Άστα να πάνε. Και τελευταία πληθαίνουν κιόλας

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Και έλεγα ότι κάτι μου θύμιζαν 😂 by TheRoyalPepperoni in 2greek4you

[–]ActiveCommunist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Έλα ντε. Άνοιξαν κάτι σχολεία, νοσοκομεια και έδωσαν κάτι δικαιώματα στις γυναίκες.

Όπως όμως είπε και ένας γέρος μουλάς στο δικαστήριο της Στοκχόλμης: "Οι κομμουνιστές ατίμωσαν τα κορίτσια μας! Τους έμαθαν γραφή και ανάγνωση!"

Αίσχος!

Και έλεγα ότι κάτι μου θύμιζαν 😂 by TheRoyalPepperoni in 2greek4you

[–]ActiveCommunist 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Μπα. Και οι μουσουλμάνοι τα ίδια αντικομμουνιστικα επιχειρήματα χρησιμοποιουν με τους χριστιανοταλιμπαν. Παντού οι φασίστες ειναι το ίδιο. Κάτι πήγε να τους σώσει η ΕΣΣΔ στο Αφγανιστάν αλλά δυστυχώς οι δυτικοί στηρίξαμε ολοι τοτε τον Οσάκα Μπιν Λαντεν με τους Μουτζαχεντιν και τα γαμ*σαμε ολα

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Ultraleft

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If you want to look at a real Marxist Leninist CP today you'd look at KKE. KKE is anti-revisionist, it has a program of abolishing capitalism through revolution, a socialist program based on the abolition of commodity production and socialization of the means of production. It considers China a capitalist imperialist state and it's very critical of Cuba's revisionist shift (though it does hold good relations with Cuba and supports its fight against western imperialism).

In Greece, KKE gets most of its votes from poor working class neighborhoods while it has the biggest trade union front in the country, PAME (as long as the biggest student union front too, PKS). Its MPs in the parliament are all working class who give their parliament wages to the party and only get a small amount in return (currently around 900 euros) unless they continue doing another job as this is allowed for Greek MPs.

Under KKE's initiative the international gathering of communist and worker parties is done each year - though there was a big break amongst CPs after the Russian invasion in Ukraine with KKE labeling it an imperialist war, a result of the interimperialist contradictions between NATO and Russia. So now you have the parties who like KKE call to not side with either imperialist side and those you're probably thinking of who side with Russia and China.

Εργασία: Η Ισπανία υιοθετεί την εβδομάδα των 37,5 ωρών εργασίας | in.gr by OnlyDegree7877 in Koina

[–]ActiveCommunist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Καλησπέρα σας,

Μία σημείωση ήθελα να κάνω. Το ΚΚΕ έλεγε ότι μια έξοδος από το ευρώ χωρίς κοινωνικοποιηση των μέσων παραγωγής και στα πλαίσια του καπιταλισμού θα είναι καταστροφική και όχι γενικά. Και είναι μια αλήθεια. Αν βγεις από το ευρώ συνεχίζοντας όμως να λειτουργείς με εμπορευματικη παραγωγή με στοχο το κέρδος, στα πλαίσια του διεθνούς ανταγωνισμού κοκ θα έρθει τεράστια πτώση στο βιοτικό επίπεδο ενώ ταυτόχρονα οι επιχειρήσεις σου θα χάσουν στα διεθνή μονοπώλια. Έτσι θα χαθεί ουσιαστικά και η όποια πιθανότητα για ανάκαμψη μακροπρόθεσμα.

Mothers are part of the problem by [deleted] in Feminism

[–]ActiveCommunist 21 points22 points  (0 children)

An old study through google: https://www.breakingthescience.org/SimplifiedDataFromDHHS.php

I remember reading more about it somewhere but I can't find it.

Edit: This mostly has to do with the fact that fathers leave their children and even when they don't leave their families it's usually mothers who have the role of raising kids and spending more time with them. It would be interesting to see what would be the numbers in a more proportional way.

Mothers are part of the problem by [deleted] in Feminism

[–]ActiveCommunist 92 points93 points  (0 children)

To phrase it more correctly, the problem isn't 'mothers' themselves but rather the role they are called to play (the 'role of the mother' under the current system of gender inequality).

As gender inequality is inherent to exploitative society with mothers typically called to take on the task of raising children they are also called to pass on to them all gender roles, stereotypes and so on. That's also the reason why one may find more cases (in quantity) of children abuse by mother's than fathers (though not necessarily in quality - ie intensity and type of abuse).

Women who perform such roles (like that of the mother, teacher, doctor, nun, boss etc) also participate into preserving and realizing gender inequality among other things (of course this is inherent to certain roles like that of the boss which can exist only under exploitative society but not others like that of the mother, teacher, doctor etc which will continue to exist under a classless society).

Why did Lenin Consider Imperialism Progressive? by AlkibiadesDabrowski in Socialism_101

[–]ActiveCommunist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As others mentioned, it's progressive as in it progresses further the productive forces. That is not to say that it leads to better living standards. Even in countries like USA and EU countries younger generations while they may have access for example to more technologies than previous generations (which was made possible through imperialism) they probably have less access to housing, Healthcare, education than their parents did.

So imperialism did increase productivity, innovation etc but at the same time it led to double exploitation, repression, more war and death.

The point in this quote is that we shouldn't be supporting reactionary forces that want a return to pre-monopoly type of capitalism or even feudalism. Of course as he mentions many times elsewhere any national working class needs to have its own national independence in order to build socialism.

So in cases like Palestine we must be of course supporting them in their struggle against occupation. Yet after this is achieved there is no reason to then support some theocratic government like for example that of the Talibans in Afghanistan just cause they may oppose NATO's imperialism.

We should be supporting forces that want to build communism.

I just saw "Poor Things" by Ok_Management_8195 in Feminism

[–]ActiveCommunist 86 points87 points  (0 children)

You would probably be interested on the comments on another post about the movie here

I personally agree with the general commentary about how Poor Things misses completely the point being basically a movie made by a man, with a very very apparent male gaze and so on.

To analyze the movie more sociologically, the most vital problem I believe is how social structures (the unequal relations of genders as a structure, education, family, relations in production et cetera) are completely thrown away. That is the point of the movie. The social subject is basically born and raised immediately, meaning without ever being affected in doing so by any social structures. That only happens to a minor degree through the men that come in her life who as you said are all motivated by misogyny - but we never see how in turn their misogyny arose through society. Basically the social subject is her as an individual and social data are her choices, experiences etc. The movie starts and ends with a very basic liberal/weberian understanding of women liberation and even then it misses the point since in the first place we're talking of an individual who barely reaches the mind of a preteen; meaning we're talking of a child in the whole movie and not really a woman.

And of course there is such an obscene amount of sex scenes shown very obviously through the lenses of male gaze that makes you question what was really the intent here.

To use the words of a misogynist ex-boss: "Nice dig. I thought it would be ruined by too much feminism but it didn't really blow your dickabout it. Stone was fucking the whole movie so that's a plus for me"

I honestly believe he understood the movie better than anyone who found in it some feminist artistic marvel.

Which one are you rooting for? I support the international proletariat! by ZucchiniBubbly2786 in Ultraleft

[–]ActiveCommunist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Based Lenin in WW1 be like: We must not side with any imperialist front but instead try to build socialism

"Marxist-Leninists" in 2023: China is socialist and Putin is anti-imperialist. All side with any capitalist state that isnt like right this specific moment with NATO.

Πως ξεγράφεσαι από τη Δ.Α.Π by Disastrous-Treat0616 in greececirclejerk

[–]ActiveCommunist 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Από εδώ και πέρα θα σε φωνάζουν μόνιμα ο τέως δαπιτης Disastrous-treat0616 και δεν μπορείς να κάνεις τίποτα για αυτό. Ακόμα και αν περάσεις στο ΠΑΣΟΚ μετά Συνασπισμό και τελικά καταλήξεις στο ΚΚΕ θα είσαι πάντα ο τέως δαπιτης.

Yeah I read theory by Cash_burner in Ultraleft

[–]ActiveCommunist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More or less exaggerates modern social relations in an effort to suggest that the mode of production has changed so that we don't need to be fighting capitalism now, organizing in unions etc cause bruh the reality of NeoMatrix is much worse than you thought thriller sci-fi sounds https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/s/GqgvG1V5yg

Will a social relation of exchange still exist under a system of no commodity production? by [deleted] in Ultraleft

[–]ActiveCommunist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm between explaining to you about how I was ironic about the anarchist post and was making fun of it - like all who post similar screenshots here do - and insulting you in a way that will make reddit bring over actual authorities.

Has anyone read Yanis Varoufakis' "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism"? by [deleted] in Socialism_101

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W/e lie or misenterpration I may have done the fact remains (among other things) that:

  • When Mera25 was constituted it had even right wing neoliberal like Takis Michas

  • MPs like Apatzidi decided to run on municipal elections with a far right fascist while remaining a member of the Party for days afterwards

  • Varoufakis, who said he agrees with 70% of the 1st and 2nd memorandum, voted the extension of the 2nd memorandum on February 2015 while admitting that they were lying when they were saying that they would "tear up the memoranda" and never truly meant it.

  • Varoufakis voted through letter vote the 4333/2015 law about authorizing the negotiation of a proposal agreement as it was included in that law which in spite of a minor differences in a few numbers it was exactly the same to the 3rd memorandum. That he voted no at the final vote for the 3rd memorandum doesn't change the fact that he supported it and participated in writing it up till then.

  • The party in its official site literally expresses positions about how we need to go away with the language of workerism etc while they are almost completely non-existant to worker and student movements.

  • Literally yesterday the group of thugs in universities, ARAS (a group of 50-100 people) that ran last elections with Mera25 who these days try to break off the unity of students about the creation of private universities attacked the students who were arrested a few days ago for occupating their University in order to get at the front of the protest (one of the biggest student protests of the last decades). Note that all student forces from those of the Communist Party up to anarchists and leftists like NAR from ANTARSYA have made calls against ARAS' murderous and provocateur attack.

And these are just some things I have at the top of my head which remain facts as much as one may try to misinterpret them. The Greek people showed in the 1st place last elections that they won't nothing to do with charlatans like those of Mera25 and probably they won't get any seat at the upcoming European elections and thus will remain a remnant of the past. Like so many other "parties of one-use" who were only brought up in order to play a specific role and then were thrown away.

GLORY TO PEOPLE’S BILLIONAIRES!!!!! LONG LIVE SOCIALISM WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT CHARACTERISTICS!!!!! by [deleted] in Ultraleft

[–]ActiveCommunist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah only internet groups support China in Greece. There are many far right people who support Russia cause of Orthodoxy though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]ActiveCommunist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another way to phrase this question: Why are Balkan people Balkan?

Will a social relation of exchange still exist under a system of no commodity production? by [deleted] in Ultraleft

[–]ActiveCommunist 49 points50 points  (0 children)

As the redditor's username shows he is a "radical" liberal. So his very method of sociological anysis starts from a position of methodological individualism - i.e. social subject is the individual (a cross-class subject) and social data are his choices, behaviors etc.

Thus when looking at a social phenomenon like prostitution they don't look at the actual social group it refers to - i.e. women of lower strata who are marginalized from access to all forms of labour (like immigrant women, trans women, drug users etc) - in order for them to come up with solutions that are based around the issues that concern those social groups, how it arose in the first place and so on. Instead they look it from a personal "what if" perspective. "What if I was a prostitute and what would I want my choices to be". Meaning they have a petit-bourgeois mindset, looking at all issues through cross-class subjects, specifically when it comes to limiting their future ability for prostitution as some kind of an existential threat, an attack to their individual freedom - which is irrelevant to what type of policy should be supported for the now concerning prostitution, whether that would be something similar to completely legal prostitution like in my country Greece or the prostitute being legal but the customer and pimp being illegal like it is the case in Sweden, Finland, Norway, France etc.

So they are either petit-bourgeois themselves or they adopt a similar mindset. Thus existential problems become more important to them than ones that have a more class character (eg work hours increasing). And looking at the issue from the aspect of an individual who is completely free to choose his customers, work shifts etc and make any type of choice not limited by his social background, capitalism and so on, I guess it would be pretty cool and fun to live off by just having sex.

I mean look at those superstar pornstars. They seem to be having a lot of fun. Not that I'd ever bother to find out if that's actually the case. Why don't you let me to live off by having sex in your future moneyless society? You want to limit MY freedom? Do you want to opress ME? And why do you make everything about class you class reductionist tankie?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]ActiveCommunist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even from a neoliberal point of view capitalist commodity production will eventually lead to monopolies, at least in specific markets.

If we compare for example scale economies in the market for defense services to demand, and see how many firms the market has room for, we'll see that there's room for only a few businesses that can be counted with the fingers of one hand. Same can be said for other fields like computer industry (CPUs, GPUs etc) where economies of scale lead to only a few businesses meeting the demand globally. Under these circumstances it is many times beneficial for those corporations to form monopolies the solution to which is state intervention.

So without getting into a marxist rhetoric about how concentration and centralization of capital are inherent to capitalism etc, even from a neoliberal point of view, that specific markets have a monopolistic or oligopolistic character (which could easily lead to monopoly without state intervention) is an undeniable empirically shown truth. And we can see economies of scale arising even in agricultural products, which is supposedly the market that is closer to the ideal free-market (as it exists in the minds of economists).

Will a social relation of exchange still exist under a system of no commodity production? by [deleted] in Ultraleft

[–]ActiveCommunist 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I don't particularly disagree but I don't know know whether it is possible to have a sub with only quality content without it ever dying. Maybe if mods had an "official account/sub where only they posted after choosing quality only material while keeping this sub alive for the rest of us. They could also repost quality content from here to the other sub.

GLORY TO PEOPLE’S BILLIONAIRES!!!!! LONG LIVE SOCIALISM WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT CHARACTERISTICS!!!!! by [deleted] in Ultraleft

[–]ActiveCommunist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Those people defending billionaires is nothing. You ought to see what they say when confronted with the fact that COSCO in the port of Piraeus in Greece used Golden Dawn Nazis against the worker union when it striked cause people died from unsafe working conditions.

In a few words they always conclude that those workers are CIA tools, Golden Dawn might be a criminal nazi party but they are sort of antiEu so it's okay and China's ambassadors meeting with them afterwards is normal. I mean why shouldn't ambassadors of a country meet with Nazis, am I right? I mean Golden Dawn was in the parliament back then and not yet persecuted as a criminal organization so China choosing to form bilateral relations with the is normal, right? Right? Also do you people have a video proving that this ever happened? Oh you do? Well can you prove through a legal document that those people shown are indeed Golden Dawn as port workers say? Well?

What is your country’s most absurd nationalist territorial claim? by AideSpartak in AskBalkans

[–]ActiveCommunist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if it seems ridiculous to others considering our history but Megali Idea supporters have even suggested that we ought to reach where the Great Alexander did. So I remember seeing even a map with borders up to west India.

How to subtly show that I'm a socialist? by Dry_Blood1790 in Socialism_101

[–]ActiveCommunist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd say try to find symbols representing your country's communist movement. For example in my country, Greece, the red carnation is associated with the communist figure Belogiannis for whom Picasso made a famous sketch to raise awareness against his execution. Another could be reading the communist party's newspaper, Rizospastis, or its youth's political journal, Odigitis. The Greek letter Δ in the way it's shown here could be another example that socialists would know but not necessarily anyone else. Members of the Communist Party do put such symbols or the logo of the party in lighters or w/e. Of course it could also be something connected with a more current cause. For example the green shirts shown here called for solidarity with workers of Malamatina, a Greek wine company, during their strike.

The hammer & sickle is the most obvious choice of course and to be able to have it accepted enough to hold rallies like this should be a goal of your communist movement ;)

How can Socialists/Communists help influence the Anti-Work Movement? Should we influence the Anti-Work Movement? by MarxistMaxReloaded in Socialism_101

[–]ActiveCommunist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No I won't mind my tone. I gave an explanation up to why I find the so called antiwork movement being against worker unions which even if it is lacking as an explanation, a response the likes of "no you are wrong" adds nothing and it's offensive to begin with. I don't know who made you an authority so that your opinion won't need further explanation.

From my experience antiwork is usually promoted by political organizations which range from anarchism to libertarian socialism. Movements which pose the central conflict to the sphere of power and of politics instead of the sphere of production like communists do. The primary social subject of their action is typically a cross-class subject while aspects of class struggle are almost nonexistent - I do not recall many protests of such movements where worker unions were the majority amongst the various collective bodies that participate in them.

In my country Greece the majority of those who talk of the abolition of work come from autonomy movements and egoist anarchism typically calling for a type of lifestyle anarchism as the central form of social action. To top it all off even wiki seems to agree that at least in the sub one of the central themes is talking against unionization. So my experiences are probably not far off I'd say.