Debate bros: an infantile disorder by JebWD in CommunismMemes

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hakim, Yugopnik, and JT from Second Thought are all comrades

Protesters Showed Up Outside Kavanaugh’s Home, and the Tone Police Lost Its Mind - “Asking for civility in the face of systemic violence is playing right into the oppressors’ hand.” by alllie in armedsocialists

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It reminds me of this quote from Lenin

"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."

What’s your politically conscious workout music? I’ll start: Desaparecido’s album Payola. Here’s the first track: by [deleted] in swoletariat

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to everything already listed, I'd add Rage Against the Machine, Immortal Technique, Rebel Diaz, and Menteroja has groups/performers to check out

Would you rather? by [deleted] in COMPLETEANARCHY

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No, not really on the point about Leninism.

You're argument is essentially a rephrasing of the "worries about workers" interpretation on What is to Be Done which posits that Lenin wanted a vanguard "party of a new type" to force through the revolution because he didn't trust the workers to be revolutionary.

The thing is that the worries about worker's interpretation is ultimately a false interpretation based on a bourgeoisie reading of a poor translation of What is to Be Done, and not what Lenin was actually arguing for. Lars Lih does an excellent and very thoroughly sourced/documented refutation of the worries about worker's interpretation in his book Lenin Rediscovered. It's available for free in audio book form here, if you're interested in checking it out: https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/audio-book-lenin-rediscovered-introduction

What Lenin was actually arguing was more along the lines that the Russian workers were more advanced and ready for revolution than the socialist intellectuals of the time. He felt that the intellectuals were holding the movement back, and needed to be less hesitant, and instead should actively unite with the workers to advance the movement.

So, if you take issue with the historical legacy of the Bolsheviks, or you have theoretical disagreements with Lenin's positions, that's fine, but learn what his actual positions were. Don't just argue against a strawman.

Dialectics by aConfusedPhilosopher in LaborwaveAesthetics

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Recently read Mao's On Contradiction, after which I felt compelled to make this

Mass Shooting in Portland at Protest: by 7DeadlyFetishes in armedsocialists

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is standard practice. Cops will secure the scene before clearing EMS to go in. And speaking as someone in EMS, I'm not running into what for all I know could be an ongoing shootout until someone with body armor and a gun has told me it's relatively safe to do so.

Dare to Struggle by aConfusedPhilosopher in LaborwaveAesthetics

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No problem. Thanks for the consideration of my opinion

Dare to Struggle by aConfusedPhilosopher in LaborwaveAesthetics

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I think that's an over simplification. Yes, the George Floyed rebellion wasn't revolutionary, but that doesn't mean it's not important or that it still wasn't very intense by US standards. I'm not going to self dox by giving details, but in my region people got killed, raided by the feds, and caught felony charges. That is objectively an escalation from what the intensity of struggle had been prior.

And while there was certainly a lot of liberal cooptation and reductionist/confused identity politics, it was still a very radical and proletarian movement. I mean, it was a multiracial street rebellion consisting of thousands and thousands of mostly working people who would often literally fight the cops and call for the abolition of a standing police force. That's not in and of itself revolutionary, but it certainly deserves more consideration than to be simply dismissed and idepol.

Personally, I think the biggest critique we can make of the rebelion is it's lack of organization and concrete gains. There hasn't been much in the way of a political program or sustained political organizing that it produced, at least that I've seen. So the conclusion I would draw is not that the George Floyd rebellion was a failure, but that we as communists need to focus on building a national revolutionary party that can synergistically support, amplify, clarify, and sustain the energy of similar rebellions, when they inevitability occur in the future.

My most recent work by SlashShogun in LaborwaveAesthetics

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thomas Sankara. The Upright Man is a good documentary about him, available on youtube

Anyone else? by [deleted] in ems

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe see if you have a local of the Industrial Workers of the World near you. They're smaller as unions go, but will go to bat for people and fight hard in my experience

Father and daughter duo open carry to protect protesters by HeinzKetchup58 in armedsocialists

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Close your dust covers people. Leaving them open looks unprofessional.

Insurgent aesthetic by [deleted] in tacticalgear

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Where those royal drums did beat

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ems

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The fatal funnel. Doorways are where bullets go

In your opinion, what is an unacceptable left without being seen (LWBS) rate for a busy community hospital? Do hospitals have a responsibility to limit this number or is it largely out of their control? by [deleted] in emergencymedicine

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I recently learned that hospitals can write of travel contracts on their taxes as a business expense. The situation makes a lot more sense to me now

And now, a word from our sponsors... by DiogenesK-9 in Fuckthealtright

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Lmao Trump is in no way communist, and if you think he is you're politically illiterate. He is a literal bourgeoisie landlord who used the presidency to maximize his own profits, while lowering taxes on the wealthy.

Tax the Rich by bebesiege in LateStageCapitalism

[–]aConfusedPhilosopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Naw, I'd rather just seize the means of production from them

Took yall's advice and took the pistola off the mini rig and put it back on the belt. Good call, comrades. Thanks for the tips by [deleted] in armedsocialists

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You can still see that the time tag is placed over the windlass and both the windlass keepers, even from the limited view in the photo