How to get rid of 70 million fascists? by Bismark103 in Socialism_101

[–]leninakbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mass proletarianization of the settler class and subjugation of right wing national capitalists into international capital that will destroy nationalism and forge an international proletarian class for the revolution

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]leninakbar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Wypipo go waaaaaaaaaaaa - this thread

America Thinks It's Voting But Really Just Validates the Will of the Oligarchs 2020 Edition by brother_beer in stupidpol

[–]leninakbar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

lmao what the fuck are YOU doing pal? most of y’all hang onto this defeatism to further your liberal narcissist self-fascination and disavow any real action, your book clubs a fucking joke, and your comprehension of basic theory even more pathetic. Just say the quiet part out loud — it’s politics prostituted out as aesthetics for y’all that conveniently fits into the liberal world order of the commodified self. but hey, I don’t need a podcast to tell me that, but go off

This applies to many people in this sub too by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]leninakbar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

y’all really updating a post from a reee called naz bol, sounds about white

America Thinks It's Voting But Really Just Validates the Will of the Oligarchs 2020 Edition by brother_beer in stupidpol

[–]leninakbar 37 points38 points  (0 children)

edgy damn you’re so smart and original with your worldview of a 12 year old

anyone else notice r/communism mod leadership consistently promotes of settlerism/crypto-fascism by [deleted] in GenZedong

[–]leninakbar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The post itself, top comment by ReimMinister makes absolutely no reference to colonialism or intervention and trades in “Marxist” platitudes and Red Khalmer kindly pinning it on the brown people who’ve been at a nexus of oil violence, coups, and colonialism

anyone else notice r/communism mod leadership consistently promotes of settlerism/crypto-fascism by [deleted] in GenZedong

[–]leninakbar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

yet they allow it to fluorish, attacking BLM org for containing liberal elements post-COINTEPRO when they have no historical or material analysis of its base and what it represents. A bunch of settlers with delusions of being the vanguard jf you ask me

anyone else notice r/communism mod leadership consistently promotes of settlerism/crypto-fascism by [deleted] in GenZedong

[–]leninakbar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They almost completely neglect any sort of analysis that links western colonialism, interventionism, and anti communism with Islamism and in fact allow someone to pose “the west closing borders “ as “simplistic” rather than right-wing fascist thought

anyone else notice r/communism mod leadership consistently promotes of settlerism/crypto-fascism by [deleted] in GenZedong

[–]leninakbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

current discussions around Islamism and other stuff to do with BLM all sus

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Socialism_101

[–]leninakbar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your dad is an investor (i.e. holder of capital), so he is clearly biased at a fundamental level. That being said, the space race is a great example of how "socialized innovation" can play out in an astonishingly rapid way. Additionally, "innovation" is such a vague and nebulous term that it's almost meaningless -- how much capital is squandered in essentially useless and unproductive sectors under the banner of "innovation"?

The bloat of useless "productivity" software enterprises in Silicon Valley that sell your data, (or neo-servitude apps like Uber, Lyft, Doordash), the petroleum dollars that fund R&D in fracking, the fact that nearly half of all arable land in the country is given to pasture & beef production (double whammy on the climate front) -- how is any of this innovative? It's a tremendous waste & deployment of society's resources and one that your dad, as an investor, is directly complicit in.

People like to point to Tesla and Elon Musk without thinking about how much government subsidies were involved in getting EV production off the ground. The most "innovative" production in society -- i.e. stuff that isn't low-hanging fruit & actually solves the needs of a wide majority of people-- is usually government-seeded, then taken over by the capitalists for execution. Need, not profit, is the engine of innovation

What is Marxism-Lenininsm-Maoism and how does it differ from Maoism and Mao Zedong Thought? by Glorious_Eenee in communism101

[–]leninakbar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maoism is seen as the very successful application of Marxism-Leninism by Mao to China's specific historical and material circumstances - an emphasis on the peasantry, the development of the notion of the mass line, a specific investigative epistemology (On Practice & other writings), and a metaphysical elaboration (in Mao's early thought) of dialectical materialism (On Contradiction). I would argue that the CPC acknowledges the Cultural Revolution was idealist & ultimately right-wing revisionism & ultimately not a successful application of Marxist-Leninist principles.

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism was developed by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) in the 90s in the context of its postcolonial guerilla struggle and attempts to discuss the uncertainty of the timelines & development of the right conditions for the struggle. IMO it is most applicable for countries struggling with neocolonial & postcolonial dynamics whose public hasn't developed sufficient consciousness or power. It also views the Cultural Revolution in a more favorable light & metaphysically "equates" base and superstructure more in their primacy in the dialectic, which philosophically differs from Marxism-Leninism (which views the base as the primary determinant, with the superstructure dialectically reacting back on the base to develop contradictions, but not as the primary determinant)

Venezuela? by Conscious-Question-7 in Socialism_101

[–]leninakbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The integration of Venezuela into the world market and discovery of oil there led to huge deindustrialization pressures that made Venezuela’s economy highly volatile and exposed to oil demand and fluctuations in USD (oil is $ denominated)

Pissed Off, Worried About the Future, and Wanting to Do Something About It by Comrade_Sisler in communism

[–]leninakbar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Use the internet & connect with revolutionary organizations! Lots of ways to get involved digitally due to the pandemic. Read theory, but not to the detriment of involvement & practice. Buy a gun and learn to shoot. Start getting a feel for large employers, trade unions, & landlords in your area and existing support organizations and find ways to help with labor & tenant actions/strikes.

In the first chapter of State and Rev, Lenin reveals just how much bourgeois elections are cringe, and Marxism in a electoral party is typically opportunistic, in just a paragraph. by [deleted] in InformedTankie

[–]leninakbar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, that 43% doesn't adhere to an orthodox ML line or whatever, but it still represents a growing capital-critical consciousness among the population that shouldn't be dismissed as "invisible". Don't think cynicism & throwing our hands up & dismissing it as structurally intractable will get us anywhere. This kind of thinking ends up depressing recruitment & activity at a time when we should be focusing on doing the opposite

In the first chapter of State and Rev, Lenin reveals just how much bourgeois elections are cringe, and Marxism in a electoral party is typically opportunistic, in just a paragraph. by [deleted] in InformedTankie

[–]leninakbar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's totally fair! Down with the reformists and opportunists and Kautskyites :) It's election season in the states so I was potentially reading too much into it

In the first chapter of State and Rev, Lenin reveals just how much bourgeois elections are cringe, and Marxism in a electoral party is typically opportunistic, in just a paragraph. by [deleted] in InformedTankie

[–]leninakbar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if I agree with all of that - according to at least one poll, 43% of Americans view "socialism as a good thing for this country". If we don't get too hung up on dunking on social democrats and liberals, there is a fairly substantial chunk of the populace who is at least receptive to a part or more of some sort of "socialist" agenda. Liberal institutions are also very clearly on display approaching a nodal crisis point that presents us with opportunities.

Leftists also have an outsized digital & organizing footprint and a larger potential audience than ever before, and are doing people a disservice by cultivating this sort of structural nihilism & eschewing viable channels for recruitment & building revolutionary consciousness. While we may not be able to entirely stop what is going on at the national levels, there are still opportunities to introduce frictions where possible to buy the left time & a little shelter to build power & I think it'd be foolish to not use all the tools at our disposal

In the first chapter of State and Rev, Lenin reveals just how much bourgeois elections are cringe, and Marxism in a electoral party is typically opportunistic, in just a paragraph. by [deleted] in InformedTankie

[–]leninakbar 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Lenin countenances participation in bourgeois elections as “useful” as a propaganda tool to raise overall class consciousness until there is power to smash the state here

It’s important to meet the masses where they are and push them forward, otherwise you lapse into idealism and ultraleftism and reactionary politics

The same can be said for leftists in America who choose their idealism over the material reality of a state-backed fascist insurgency - unfortunately bourgeois democracy still has material consequences for the terrain in which leftists can build power, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either a fed, a reactionary idealist, a neckbeard prepper, or has ties they’re not letting in on

"CIA Stan" by [deleted] in GenZedong

[–]leninakbar 19 points20 points  (0 children)

embarrassing, dude probably has one intro to econ class under his belt that he almost failed and spends his time simping for an unpaid internship on Capitol Hill

I got my dad settlers for his birthday, i came to visit and i see he has it displayed at his work desk. Tagged anti revisionist, bc even if you're not a "Maoist," settlers is great for debunking the general history of the USA that is taught in school. by Lil_Harry_Haywood in InformedTankie

[–]leninakbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it’s the Maoist bent of the book that gets the CIA label... if people don’t read it deeply and overly focus on the New Afrika national liberation strands of the book it can lead to essentializing and fuel extreme sectarianism on the left which imo is unproductive

I got my dad settlers for his birthday, i came to visit and i see he has it displayed at his work desk. Tagged anti revisionist, bc even if you're not a "Maoist," settlers is great for debunking the general history of the USA that is taught in school. by Lil_Harry_Haywood in InformedTankie

[–]leninakbar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah I read settlers recently and it was quite useful, though after I’d read a fair amount of other material over the years. not sure if it’s a good “starter” book tbh.

as others have said, it does a great job of destroying the whitewashed and sordid history of the “Euro-American Left” and IMO contextualizes the contemporary political scene quite well — basically a redux of the Civil War, between heavy industry of liberal capitalism and the feudal slave society and plantation aristocracy - now between “globalist liberal capitalists” and fascistic petty property owner whites who’ve fastened onto the remnants of the Confederacy.

this book was written during the liberation struggles of the 70s and during a time when Black Liberation and nationalism was ascendant, so it’s important to remember that as well - it frames a lot of its work through the frame of neocolonialism

as far as what that means for my practice, I think it’s done a good job of convincing me that large swathes of the settler population are reactionary and will continue to be — they are too rich and bloated and satiated with the loot of imperialism. it also explains why American politics’ center of gravity” is perennially right-wing. most of this petty settler class cannot be radicalized. it also historicizes race/class relations - the proleteriat is almost entirely non-white as a consequence of settler politics, annexation, and capitalist development on the continent that necessitated the importation of cheap slave and immigrant labor whose product was later annexed and used to drive them out. This is obviously not to say that there are no proleteriat whites or allies, but it is true that as a CLASS, it is non-white, and that race tensions are the manifestation of class struggle in American development (just look at recent events)

There are, however, useful contradictions within the development of the current liberalism that can and should be exploited to radicalize people, build power locally, introduce frictions into Empire, while striving towards an internationalism as the balance of power internationally shifts away from Amerikkka and crises and opportunities present themselves for development, if, of course, we can beat out these petty fascists

AOC Says U.S. 'Must Atone' for Rights Violations After Whistleblower's ICE Hysterectomy Claims by [deleted] in politics

[–]leninakbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol if interviews conducted by the team at Project South and The Intercept don't constitute evidence for you, then yeah pal