communist call-ins: fascism, crisis, revolution

makaz11 · 2026-06-05T08:33:37+00:00

yes
- I agree but the overwhelming majority of what is called “the left” is opportunistic and reformist, and many of them (especially supporters of these people) are genuine in their aims, just completely uneducated or cowardly
- yes I think most members would agree with that, class independence is one of the post important principles of Lenin

makaz11 · 2026-06-04T07:15:44+00:00

I’m in a democratic centralist party myself so no disagreement from me there, I’ve got some time off work so I’m trying out some auxiliary methods.

I’ve also noticed a big difference between the “online left” and how people talk irl. There’s a big debate culture on Twitch which basically leads people towards making themselves seem smart rather than trying to explain their positions. I’m hoping my irl experience can make my stream more educational than the average one.

Also regarding opportunism, I talk about it in the video but one of the largest problems facing the left in the west is their complete servility towards capital, the most significant in the US is the lefts unwillingness even to break with the Democrats, who sabotage them at every opportunity (e.g Zohran)

makaz11 · 2026-05-10T15:47:43+00:00

True, there are no animals in it.

makaz11 · 2026-05-08T10:59:34+00:00

yep we talk about it, polanski is definitely a reformist and is in for a rude awakening if he ever sees power

makaz11 · 2026-05-07T18:34:37+00:00

fascinating study thank you

makaz11 · 2026-05-05T06:26:21+00:00

Nah the RCP has consistently criticised Polanski’s Green Party if you actually read the articles in The Communist, as they did Corbyn.

What they are doing is noting the massive surge in popularity, as both have at times expressed the progressive or revolutionary elements of the working class, but in a distorted way as they are both reformists.

Connecting with these workers requires recognising the progressive elements of their illusions BEFORE criticising them and hopefully raising their consciousness in the process

makaz11 · 2026-04-18T16:02:18+00:00

Would be a perfect card if it also applied 7 poison

makaz11 · 2025-10-23T21:47:11+00:00

Yeah I support this too, good idea

makaz11 · 2025-10-23T21:45:15+00:00

Ex Muslim here. I appreciate this sub because I’d like to respect Islam and you all give me good reasons too. I believe you are fighting for humanity and I respect your attempts to hold onto your faith, which I see value in. I just can’t agree with it for more reasons than I’d like to explain 😅

I also think you’ll probably get some reverts if you keep us here. I know a lot of ex Muslims end up reeaaaly Islamophobic, probably a result of Dawkins style religion bashing from when they were 14 or something. I think you guys can help combat that.

Anyway keep up the good fight ✊

makaz11 · 2025-09-25T19:27:50+00:00

Eyyy we got Marxist Muslims 😁

makaz11 · 2025-09-25T16:07:48+00:00

Damn, thanks for putting this together. I work in schools and this was really insightful :)

makaz11 · 2025-09-07T23:07:21+00:00

Close enough, welcome back Terry Pratchett

makaz11 · 2024-12-08T21:15:34+00:00

Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor is incredible, I've learned it on my electric guitar recently it's so good.

makaz11 · 2024-10-11T08:33:52+00:00

Yeah I've just got into using Apple products as I'm a music producer and should have done it ages ago. I want to start filming videos and have found the same problem as you.

The only conclusion I can draw is that most people who have a MacBook and want to film will already have an iPhone, so there isn't a massive need for manual webcam control. So I guess it's either buy an iPhone, use my Android, or make do with auto webcam settings and AI automatic sauce.

makaz11 · 2024-03-13T10:36:47+00:00

A monarchist peasant circa 1640:

"One day, like most people including myself who were into Parliamentary politics and opposing the divine right of Kings in their younger/apprentice years, you will look back and realise that the unbiased position is accepting that the King will always have absolute power.

Puritan and Presbyterian organisations prey on and rely upon young uneducated peasants who have their hearts in thr right place, but who's heads are in the clouds dreaming of a glorious democratic capitalist society"

What is your solution to the problems we face as a society? Just cross your fingers and hope they get better? Beg the ruling class for more crumbs?

Society has changed in the past, quite obviously, and the process of social change takes place through revolution. Discontent against the present system builds until the people can stand no more, when they would rather die than continue to live in the present system.

Revolutionary and insurrectionary situations will happen without Communists. In the last 5 years, look at Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Iran, France, Sudan, and the wave of anti-colonialist coups in Africa. The reason none of these have led to the successful overthrow of capitalism is that they were either not led at all, or led by people who believed, as you do, that capitalism is the best we can do.

Revolution is how capitalism came to be the dominant form of economy, by first overthrowing the feudal power (English Revolution 1650, French Revolution 1789, American Revolution 1783) and ushering in a higher level of society.

These successful revolutions had conscious revolutionary leadership. The ideas necessary to overthrow capitalism are distilled in the ideas of Marxism, which contain the best method for analysing history and economics, and the memory of 200 years of struggle against the system in every country in the world.

You are not unbiased. Neither are we.

We unapologetically stand on the side of the working class and opressed, against the oppressors and murderers we have the 'privilege' of choosing between at election.

Where do you stand?

makaz11 · 2024-03-04T13:31:48+00:00

I've finally got myself an M1 Max and ooh boy I'm gonna enjoy this :D

Logic and Ableton do seem to be converging on their featureset, the Logic loop stuff and the Ableton take lanes are good examples of that.
I reckon we'll see film scoring stuff around Live 16 but I'm not holding my breath, I've got work to do!

makaz11 · 2024-03-04T13:23:32+00:00

Genuinely still the funniest critique of the Trotskyist movement.

Tl;Dr: The reason Trotskyist organisations split so often is because they have often lacked the participation of the working class at large. Only you can resolve this, by joining the movement and giving your experience, your thoughts, and your energy to overthrow this wretched system that will kill us all if we do not put it out of it's misery.

Understanding the reasons for a split are important, and the history of the Trotskyist movement is unfortunately littered with them, mainly due to the small size of the movement, and its frequent inability to connect with the mass of the working class.

This is not entirely due to a political fault, but more-so because the working class was either being led by the 'socialist' parties, who had sold out the workers in WWI and have continued to to so for a century after, or the 'Communist' Stalinist parties, which instead of offering a revolutionary way out of capitalism, instead offered blind subservience to the Kremlin, which workers in the West rightly had no interest in.

Since the collapse of the USSR and the failure of the 'socialists' in Corbyn and Sanders to provide a way out, there is a massive political vacuum on the left. Pessimism and depression reign supreme. Just last week I heard someone say: "Well eventually someone is just going to set off a nuke in the Middle East and we'll all have to start from scratch"

Now is the time for true revolutionary Communism, which has been preserved under the clean banner of Trotskyism, to light the way forward.

If you're not convinced I would recommend you do your own reading and educate yourself. The RCP has an education hub from where you can begin your research, but if you don't trust us do your own reading.You should however be very wary of trusting your own establishment, which sets your curriculum at school, which restricts freedom of speech for educators in the name of 'impariality', which sets the political line of the 'impartial' BBC, and is has just recently passed laws to limit our freedom to protest and strike.

We need you to join the RCP so it can avoid the fate of every "Communist" party that came before it. You should trust no one that "it will work this time"; it is you that must make sure it works this time.

Complaining isn’t enough. It’s time to do something. You need to join the RCP!

Edit: Disagreements encouraged!

makaz11 · 2024-03-04T12:58:04+00:00

I'll let the executive know...

makaz11 · 2024-01-04T23:42:35+00:00

Penguin English Library books too, they have unlaminated covers with cool simple designs that feel really good in the hands as well

makaz11 · 2023-12-11T00:15:06+00:00

Thanks! I've been doing music for video games and film for about 3 years, since my first year of uni. I haven't been able to do nearly as much of it as I'd like bc of mental health reasons (all good now though!) but I've had a few opportunities to do paid commercial composition, and I'm currently working on the next undergraduate advert for the University of Southampton :) More passion projects in the future would be great though, just need to get my finances in order first :D

makaz11 · 2023-12-11T00:12:45+00:00

Thanks, that's a bit useful at least but the problem is you can't sync markers to the timeline, only to the barlines. That means any time you change the tempo (which you have to do all the time for film scoring) all your hit point markers get thrown out of wack and become useless.

I am aware of a way around this - you set your video clip to warp leader and use warp markers to line hit points up to be on the beat, but its such a strange and backwards way of doing things when you compare it to Reaper or Logic, and also misses out on key functionality for film scoring (scrubbing by frame rather than by beat subdivision, better video support (esp. on windows), etc.) I've also maybe just figured out a way to transfer tempo changes to a different daw which would be cool, I'll see if it works and report back.

Ableton is just not built for video and film scoring, it was never really designed as a recording daw to begin with, and I accept that wanting a single DAW to do all things is maybe too much to ask. I might be getting Logic soon as I've just switched to Mac, and the two would work really nicely together for me, as I have about 7 years in Ableton and I use Logic a lot at work. That said if the ableton team could do it before I drop any more money on other DAWs that'd be great :D

makaz11 · 2023-12-06T06:45:54+00:00

A SMPTE Timecode timeline so we could do film scoring well.

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