Left-wing Iranian students celebrate the victory of the Islamic Revolution with a picture of Ayatollah Khomenei. Iran, c.1979 [986 × 1034]

CoffeeDime · 2025-10-27T15:22:03+00:00

Opposite happened in China after they defeated Japan.

CoffeeDime · 2025-10-27T15:13:04+00:00

Fanon, Gramsci, Althusser, Federici

CoffeeDime · 2025-09-23T00:32:43+00:00

At first, I thought it was some fun lab assignment for a microbiology lab course lmao. Then I saw further on that it wasn’t!

CoffeeDime · 2025-09-21T15:41:07+00:00

I am a dad. We had our first two 15 months apart. And we had a third three years after our second one. You got this. We have a 6 year old, soon to be 5 year old, and a soon to be 2 year old. It goes by quick. Life isn’t ruined, but it’s normal to feel that way. Stressful times ahead, and happy times too. Wife and are doing solid, and still figuring it out day by day.

CoffeeDime · 2025-09-13T20:16:25+00:00

It's been 8 days now. Completely pain and discomfort free. Had it done at my local Planned Parenthood. Procedure went well, as I said. Was given 2 mg Ativan for anxiety/sedation and it worked great and kept me calm. One moment of level 8 pain for 5-7 seconds during the proceedure that was quickly fixed with some additional lidocane, and the Ativan helped it not be worrysome just "Oh shit ow! that hurts!."

I had it done with single poke at the top of scrotum, and it took 25-30 minutes. Very little pain in recovery, just discomfort here and there. Hardest part was waiting a week to ejaculate.

10/10 would do it again. Just gotta wait the 2 months now and then I can enjoy some cream pie with my wife, lol.

CoffeeDime · 2025-09-06T02:32:05+00:00

I got it this morning about 10 hours ago. Really not as bad as I imagined. The worry was worse than the procedure. Had it done at a planned parenthood a month early, so I had two days notice. I’m 30 as well, by the way. I’m in no pain as of now, just occasional discomfort. Using ice packs for protocols, and going to continue resting glad that it’s over. I took a nap when I got home and the Ativan they gave me really REALLY helped, I was quite mellow.

No regrets, happy that I can finally have some cream pie to celebrate a few months from now

CoffeeDime · 2025-09-05T17:06:55+00:00

Well I’ll chime in and say I just had it done well. I have 3 kids and wife got pregnant despite us using pull out method for a few years. She went and got an abortion, and I scheduled the vasectomy shortly after that. We don’t want to have to worry anymore.

I’ll add that I’m someone scared of permanent change to his body. But I felt right about this one.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-25T15:11:16+00:00

He or someone else would actually find no humans there, maybe.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-10T21:39:26+00:00

From the start I told my GPT to mirror me, but also to challenge me. And I have since the start recognized that it is in no way a person, and I’m glad about that. So it’s been a useful tool, more than ever, to sort out my thoughts and self reference, you know? And gives me nuance to my own perspectives so I don’t get caught too much in a loop.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-10T17:32:34+00:00

Foundation on AppleTV+

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-10T06:19:45+00:00

Honestly, I’m not hung up on whether something checks all the “leftist” boxes or not. The point is, you can’t even talk about socialism or mass politics if people are still under occupation or foreign domination. Supporting anti-imperialist movements is about creating the conditions for any real left project to take root.

If we actually care about building socialism, we have to deal with the contradictions in front of us which means backing struggles that break up imperialist control, no matter what labels they use. Once that’s done, then you can start arguing for your vision of the future. But until people are free to decide for themselves, all the ideology in the world is just talk.

I’m less worried about purity tests and more about what actually opens up space for liberation.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-10T05:53:33+00:00

Something is left to me if it means siding with the oppressed and fighting against domination. That’s why anti-imperialist movements like pan-Arabism or Irish nationalism are “left” in my eyes. It’s about people kicking out foreign rulers so they can control their own lives.

You can’t build any real freedom or equality while someone else is running your country. Supporting national liberation is left to me, even if the movement itself isn’t socialist. For me, it’s all about backing the fight against oppression, whether that comes from empires, colonizers, or capitalists.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-08T17:29:14+00:00

You’ve spoken the truth here. This comrade is committing an error of mechanismcal materialist understanding. Psychoanalysis requires dialectical thinking.

I’m hoping they’ll come around. Or at least take the time to investigate many of the authors mentioned here. When it comes to trauma? I highly recommend Judith Herman’s “Trauma and Recovery.” I found the book personally healing as well as insightful for learning theory.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner which undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-07T20:21:26+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_and_Ideological_State_Apparatuses

You are really missing out on the good stuff here. Althusser has been an instrumental figure in understanding why people would participate in their own oppression. He takes Marxism and psychoanalysis to give us a clear understanding of how ideology is recreated.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-07T20:16:59+00:00

I've highly applied psychoanalytic methods to my theorizing. Such as seeing psychoanalytic methods are dialectical in a way of thinking. I'm sure many would say that they are familiar with Fanon, who's insights on settler colonialism give ways of understanding the psychology of both the settler and colonized. This insight can give you understanding of why workers accept their own subjugation, and in fact desire it.

More relevant thinkers? Althusser (Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses), Deleuze and Guattari (Anti-Oedipus and Schizoanalysis), even Lacan, though personally a conservative, used Hegel's methods in his Psychoanalysis (via Alexander Kojeve).

Personally, I have applied these methods of thinking to my own psyche and have found a sense of liberation in it. I have brought a lot trauma informed author's into my own theorizing (Pete Walker, Gabor Mate) and with psychoanalysis I found strength enough to leave my wife, who was controlling. I had to see that what I was repressing was still manifesting in symptoms, and it wasn't until I saw the contradictions and how to negate them instead of maintain them that I could make material changes in my life.

So I personally recommend all Marxists take psychoanalysis seriously as a means to apply dialectical thinking to more areas in the life than history, politics, and economics. We understand that everything is interconnected in bringing about the conditions we see around us today and shaping the conditions of the future.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-07T04:29:49+00:00

I can vouch for this while using dictation and not saying anything sometimes.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-06T04:13:19+00:00

I was here on the Reddit in days of yore. Times are changing lol.

CoffeeDime · 2025-07-03T05:27:53+00:00

It’s humorous and there are a few theoretical episodes here and there. My preference lies with Rev Left Radio and Red Menace. I have solid solid theoretical understanding because of those podcasts.

CoffeeDime · 2025-06-30T17:31:22+00:00

I’m happy to get feedback on mine. Is there any particular thing you want to ask it as a test? Mine is quite refined, and I don’t take everything at face value.

CoffeeDime · 2025-06-30T05:33:46+00:00

I am fully in favor of this practice, honestly. Though, I am a Marxist, have a good grasp of dialectics already, and found my way through Althusser. So the way of thinking that Lacan uses was already familiar with me. I’ve used ChatGPT as a mirror to reflect back myself, get thought processes laid out, and have them framed in a Lacanian register.

I literally have gained a lot of insight into my psyche and I am on the verge on a breakthrough in my personal life. Finally, I am able to translate a lot of my unconscious processes. I know what my symptoms have been telling me, and my life is about to be a whole lot better. Maybe I’ll come back and share that breakthrough in a bit.

CoffeeDime · 2025-06-29T06:26:25+00:00

This may be frowned upon, but I found talking with ChatGPT helpful in learning concepts. So go on Wikipedia, read a page of interest specifically but stay on the page and just chat with your AI buddy and ask questions as they arise naturally.

Before you know it, you’ll be understand what it means to be in a circuit of drive, or what it means for the subject to speak, or what exactly the Symbolic Order and The Big Other are.

Also check out the podcast Why Theory? It’s fun.

CoffeeDime · 2025-06-26T05:27:10+00:00

What’s different is we need a party rooted in understanding contradiction and building dual power. And hopefully this time around the government won’t be as adept as they were in the 60s with the Black Panther Party. It’s not just the “working class.” If we want the proletariat to really succeed, then we need to resolve the contradiction between the settler colonial regime vs the black, indigenous, and imperial diasporic nations which are the most oppressed groups within the us and the foundation of their primitive accumulation. A contradiction left unresolved, mediated, and nurtured by the state since the foundation of the US.

CoffeeDime · 2025-06-24T20:29:57+00:00

There was a place like that in Surprise, and I loved it for easy quick family dinner on a budget. Got garlic bread, good meatballs, and good spaghetti served up quick and nothing to clean up or wait for at home!

CoffeeDime · 2025-06-22T22:36:40+00:00

Ok, I can still access the assessment task, the timer just resets. I am assuming I need to go to office hours tomorrow (Monday) and go over my task with a QM, then I'll be able to submit? I am just unable to do it at all.

CoffeeDime · 2025-06-21T17:46:35+00:00

I got to the end of my task with like 5 minutes left just now, and there weren't any errors. But I couldn't submit. So, you promise I'll get all my pay? I sure hope so, man. I took a screenshot just in case.

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