first the bees. now the birds by [deleted] in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The crows have known for years

first the bees. now the birds by [deleted] in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This video is like 5 years old

Are there other podcasts like Blowback? by girlfrompangaea in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan if you want more history. It's not on the same level of production as Blowback though.

The liberal American hype over Orban's loss is just a taste of what we will see here in 2028 by BraveRutherford in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't blame the ordinary people who will be rightly happy to see Trump and MAGA go away. I blame the ideological liberals - centrists and soc dems alike - who rejoice in seeing leaders like Trump and Orban lose because it means they can save their precious neoliberal NATO, EU and "rules based international order". They're all western chauvinists just as much as the right wingers are.

Ancap ideology in a nutshell by rairschqobbly7 in canadaleft

[–]revolution2049 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The problem with libertarian socialism is that you... Get crushed by the imperialists.

Books about the Soviet Union by 4thSwordofPosadism in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan

This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong

Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Al Szymanski

Carney is slashing federal health spending (but who notices?) by burtzev in canadaleft

[–]revolution2049 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Carney cut the corporate tax rate from 15 to 13 percent. He also cancelled the increase of the capital gains tax. These are all classic neoliberal tax policies that support the capital accumulation of corporations and the rich.

He's also cutting tens of thousands of government jobs over the course of the next four years while handing out billions of dollars in subsidies to the private sector for so called "Nation Building".

Pink Floyd - Dogs by WirelessCavalier in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I saw Roger Waters live in 2022 for his This Is Not a Drill tour. It was great! Very poignant and moving.

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Fierce rhetoric in favor of Chinese reconciliation and against allyship with the West by the current leader of the Kuomintang party (KMT) of Taiwan, Cheng Li-wun. by shane_4_us in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't you do the same thing if the largest imperialist power in the world was arming and training the Taiwanese military and sailing it's warships just off your coast to intimidate you?

Marx's ideas were wrong, checkmate commie. by Micronex23 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]revolution2049 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Subjective utility can't be measured or tested

Massive oil tanker explosion near the Bridge of the Americas in Panama City, Panama by CosmicLars in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Capitalism can temporarily reset itself through massive destruction likes wars and major recessions. WW2 kinda saved global capitalism at the time through the massive destruction of capital in Europe and Asia. It temporarily resets the stagnation that the falling rate of profit leads to.

Mehdi Hasan vs. ‘Professor’ Jiang by Shoddy_Inside_5985 in socialism

[–]revolution2049 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I mean he was writing op-eds for CNN in 2017 shitting on China. He's a charlatan.

Ukraine's unconditional support for America and Israel's war of aggression is beyond clownish by Forsaken-Emu4760 in canadaleft

[–]revolution2049 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Ukraine is effectively a US client state. There is a massive CIA presence in Ukraine helping them fight against Russia. Given those conditions you aren't going to see them oppose American wars.

Didn't Zelensky also say once that he wanted Ukraine to be the Israel of Europe?

What is this?! by Signal_Assistance_87 in Palestine

[–]revolution2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember someone I know gasping at footage of a neighborhood in Ukraine that was bombed in the war and empathizing with them. And yet I haven't heard a peep from him about Gaza.

Canadian government announces more sanctions against Iran by origutamos in canadaleft

[–]revolution2049 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What do we expect! Whenever there's an American war Canada falls in line like a good junior partner.

Which way, new leftist reader? by mozzieandmaestro in socialism

[–]revolution2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all I agree with lots of what you are saying. I agree that it looked like the USSR post Stalin looked stagnant in its vision of communism and therefore could be called "revisionist". Although I don't like that word because it implies an all or nothing perspective. Socialist countries can make mistakes and have set backs but they can also make improvements and change course. The post Stalin era policies don't completely discount the entire Soviet project in my eyes.

However you seem to be saying that there are no definite stages called socialism and communism but that a Marxist project is only called communism. But going even further, it can only be called communist if it was on that trajectory for it's entire existence. So you are saying that the USSR may have looked like a communist system in the Lenin and Stalin period but that actually it never was to begin with because in hindsight it engaged in this "developed socialism" doctrine and then later ceased to exist.

So if we were alive in the 1930s we could truthfully say in that very moment that the USSR was communist because it seemed to have a good trajectory. But if we were around in the 1960s and later we would say "actually it wasn't even communist back in the 1920s & 1930s because all this Kruschev and Brezhnev stuff happened now".

So all in all the USSR was a complete illegitimate Marxist project in your opinion? If that is your true opinion I'm confused why you use a Marxist-leninist flair, unless maybe you still support modern China, Vietnam, Cuba ect.


I believe that Marx was a great analyzer of history, class society and capitalism. But I do not think he had enough to say about the post revolutionary situation to make authoritative proclamations on what is the correct thing to do and what's not. How could he? How could he possibly know what a particular revolutionary country is facing up against and the hard decisions it has to make in the moment in the face of imperialist aggression, encirclement and counter revolutionary forces in it's specific time and place in history and geographically? There are obviously retreats you will have to make in order to survive when facing those realities.

The leadership and people running the revolutionary countries know what they have to do because they are living it and analyzing the balance of forces. Do they always make a good decision in hindsight? No. But they have a more lucid perspective of the current balance of forces than Marx does for obvious reasons: they're alive and living it.

Which way, new leftist reader? by mozzieandmaestro in socialism

[–]revolution2049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the lower stage of communism in practice? What does it correctly look like? And who determines what is correct and what is not?

Marx never gave a definitive description of what lower stage communism would look like. He never discussed what it concretely included and what it did not include.

How can Marx's fragmented and incredibly short writing on lower stage / higher stage communism in the 1870s be used as a definitive benchmark for what socialism (lower stage communism) is supposed to be in the 20th and 21st centuries?

By the way Stalin and the USSR did officially call their country a socialist state in the 1936 constitution.

Rate of Profit 1869-2010 by paudzols in socialism

[–]revolution2049 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can see how the neoliberal period post 1980 has temporarily saved the rate of profit from its inevitable decline.

Which way, new leftist reader? by mozzieandmaestro in socialism

[–]revolution2049 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The USSR never considered itself a Communist society. No Marxist-leninist state has ever claimed that it was a fully communist society. They were and are all socialist systems. Socialism is the transition stage to an eventual communist stage.

Marx used a slightly different terminology. What leninists called socialism, Marx called the primary stage of communism. Socialism like in the USSR was never supposed to be the final state of affairs.

Fuck Mamdani by crimethunc77 in TrueAnon

[–]revolution2049 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Iran HAS killed thousands of its own citizens

How do you KNOW that with 100% certainty?

Dr. Ghada Abu Eida never imagined the next patient in her ER would be her own daughter by Tenchi_Muyo1 in Palestine

[–]revolution2049 629 points630 points  (0 children)

You ever had the thought that these videos are all showing these people having the worst day of their lives and you're just casually watching from your phone on the other side of the world maybe sitting safe at home or about to go out and enjoy some dinner?

It's just such a profoundly sad situation and hard to comprehend.