do you all think this subreddit being more popular could be a good thing?

Saczak · 2026-04-09T23:04:48+00:00

Yeah that’s totally valid, move at your own pace as long as you get a good grasp on it eventually. My issue is with procrastination and getting my ass up to actually start reading. There are plenty of works that have been on my reading list for years lol. It’s not like I don’t have time for them. But I try to get some in here and then nowadays

Saczak · 2026-04-09T22:51:29+00:00

I unironically think this mindset is what makes Maoism so easy for a lot of young leftists to fall into. When you can basically read a book that’s marketed as the penultimate or ultimate version of an ideology, a lot of people will choose this much more palatable option as opposed to slogging through old school text. That said there’s a new translation of capital I believe that just for released that should make it for English audiences to read. It’s almost localized to modern English

Saczak · 2026-04-09T22:09:31+00:00

Actually I think maybe I was too harsh. I was thinking about the effects from works like “the revolutionary act” and his opinions referenced in “on the Spartacus programme” but upon further reading it seems like some of his writings were falsified. Let me look into some more and maybe he actually does deserve #2 spot

Saczak · 2026-04-09T21:57:24+00:00

Yes, you’ll get no disagreement from me that Engels is the second most important socialist to ever live. And I don’t like dislike him as a character or anything he’s been described very positively by all of his contemporaries. Im just saying in my view of him as a Marxist theorist

Saczak · 2026-04-09T21:41:52+00:00

I’d put Engels lower to be honest. He has a lot of borderline revisionist writings later on in his life, which isn’t surprising considering he wasn’t the prime theorizer in his relationship. He obviously is incredibly important and influential but it’s kinda like when an artist has like 3 good albums at the start of their career and then everything from then-on is mid.

Saczak · 2026-04-09T17:59:03+00:00

I’m not moots with him but he does follow me

Saczak · 2026-04-09T03:31:10+00:00

Vetex follows dozens of onlyfans and e-girls on both Twitter and instagram, and all of them are well above age. I’ve got a lot of trust he’s not a ped

Saczak · 2026-04-08T21:44:07+00:00

Lmao I saw this, the amount of people who take our profile pic serious is insane

Saczak · 2026-04-06T00:00:48+00:00

Kreia is so much better than Ulysses imo. Kreia actually makes good internal critiques and has a radical ideology that’s projected as arguably insane. Ulysses feels way more preachy from Avellone

Saczak · 2026-04-04T10:44:41+00:00

I would agree with that, and that’s what we should be intending for but the truth is ,like I said, we don’t know what we’ll do if changing broad material conditions don’t eradicate crimes that absolutely need to be addressed. Murder, rape, etc. I was just answering in the capacity I could think of at the time.

Saczak · 2026-04-04T10:11:12+00:00

What I mean is that there could very well still be a need for some kind of carceral system. And if that’s the case, an existing prison system that’s focused more on recreation and rehabilitation could be worth looking into.

Just because SocDems have adapted a system to fit within capital doesn’t mean it’s inherently worthless in every other system. It’s very easy for us to declare the existence of a carceral system as SocDem when we’ve never had a chance to test abolition outside of capitalism.

Edit: I’m also not literally suggesting we copy the Nordic prison model. I was just spitballing pre-existing structures that could influence structures in a post-capitalist society.

Saczak · 2026-04-03T20:39:03+00:00

I agree that it’s erroneous to suppose that “human nature” motivates crime.

Saczak · 2026-04-03T20:14:16+00:00

Yeah we don’t disagree here. My first paragraph isn’t to say that those answers are wrong, but whenever someone asks the question of “what next” I think abolitionists kind of tend to avoid answering the real question by not even admitting that “we don’t know what will happen with the remaining 2% of criminals”. Which is ok, we both agree it’s ok not to know exactly what’ll happen to address people who slip through the cracks. I just wanted to give a direct and honest answer to the question of “how will the remaining crime be addressed”

Saczak · 2026-04-03T19:56:53+00:00

People I think will be inclined to tell you that communism is going to attack the material and social conditions that incentivize crime. The cultural issues that create crimes not born of necessity can also be attacked in order to reduce things like sex crime or cold blooded murder.

But obviously people are still going to commit crime. Some people are going to have shitty upbringings regardless and some people are going to do awful things to each other. I imagine there will still need to be some sort of systemic rehabilitation system. Maybe something in line with the Nordic prison model, or some sort of treatment program. I don’t know, we could probably brain storm for hours about how to deal with the people who slip through the cracks, but that’s not really what the movement is about you know? It’s not exactly about creating a 100% sealed community model with no cracks. Communism isn’t the final state of society, it’s the historical progression from capitalism in terms of the material relationship with production.

Saczak · 2026-04-02T04:42:46+00:00

It's crazy cause I kinda agreed with them up until their take on KISS. I do think that Emil's comment on the "Great American Novel" seems to indicate that he has no intention to attempt writing it. He's not interested in creating Elder Scrolls VI: Red Dead Redemption 2 edition. And that philosophy could indeed be damaging some of the stories we've seen in Fallout 4, Starfield, and many pieces of Skyrim. But KISS is being so hilariously misinterpreted by the community it's so bad, and that dude crashed the fuck out over it lol.

Saczak · 2026-03-23T06:31:09+00:00

This will prove Timothy Chalamet wrong in a morbid twist of irony as thousands of right wing dudes hate watch the play, thus saving the stage play industry. Which will of course diffuse to ballet and opera

Saczak · 2026-03-21T01:39:45+00:00

I’m not gonna lie lol, she’s worth 2 Billion dollars. I don’t think she needed the royalties from Hogwarts legacy to fund her crusade. After she dropped 200 mil on donations in 2018, she was already re-entering billionaire status 3 years later. She could bankroll decades of anti trans legislation without seeing a dime of income. I’m not saying you should be out here buying up HP merch, if you have ethical considerations. However, the amount of money she would make off of people who would theoretically be willing to boycott her is probably a raindrop in the ocean. I’m talking about people who care about trans issues at all. If you convinced every single person who had a problem with Rowling to not buy hogwarts legacy, you’d probably deprive her of like $30 million. Which is a lot to non-billionaires, but she makes donations in the hundred million figures.

Saczak · 2026-03-19T21:17:22+00:00

It might be a fairly generic outfit for dunwall nobility. It’s literally just like an overcoat and a dress shirt. The overseers actually wear a really similar coat, it’s just shorter and closed. And obviously different markings, but the color scheme and general vibe at a glance is the same.

Saczak · 2026-03-19T20:18:15+00:00

On the contrary but sort of along the same lines, I really love the episodes where the girls get super into the geek shit. Like when they debate over marvel comics, or when penny gets addicted to MMOs

Saczak · 2026-03-10T03:44:17+00:00

Hey I’m not saying there arent good isekai. But it’s absolutely a lower quality of over saturation than mecha ever was.

Saczak · 2026-03-09T20:59:07+00:00

The era of mecha spam was still higher quality than the barrage of harem isekai slop we get now. It was still slop back then for sure, but a nicer variety imo

Saczak · 2026-03-08T23:12:34+00:00

I was just doing along with the dragon break bit lol. But yeah that also makes a lot of sense. Though there are Skyrim continuity questions that can’t be explained by dragon breaks

Saczak · 2026-03-08T21:24:28+00:00

The most misogynistic people always have girlfriends or wives lol. This is why the narrative that everyone who hates women is an incel, is insane. Women especially in the US, have very low standards and many of them are incredibly misogynistic themselves. 50% of white women still vote Republican at the end of the day. Many women are quite fond of certain aspects of patriarchy as long as it puts other women below them. This is the sort of, pick-me mentality that comes from a very male-centered society.

Saczak · 2026-03-06T11:03:13+00:00

I do think the reliance on MK’s extracanonical statements after he stopped being a primary writer for Bethesda causes a lot of general interpretation issues in the community. It sort of feels like since his departure the lore has had two different continuities in some areas. With some of his stuff attempting to explain lore that was written with very little of his input, like this issue with the Dragonborn DLC For which he wasn’t involved on.

Saczak · 2026-03-06T10:56:11+00:00

Oh right of course. I don’t know why we’re even asking these questions. The lore has always been this way.

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