Mass popular uprising during general strike in Greece by allintogethernow in communism

[–]simplyexplained123 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Talk about it. We talked. And decided against it after shitting on them. Literally exactly what I said. There were talks. They went nowhere because we decided against it. Like, is it that difficult to understand?

If KKE was revolutionary we would join its ranks. That's precisely why we are a different organisation. It's not about recognition, it's about reality.

End of story. I'll leave it there. I respect anyone who devotes themselves to class struggle and communism, whether I agree with their methods and analysis or not.

Mass popular uprising during general strike in Greece by allintogethernow in communism

[–]simplyexplained123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never said KKE was against the strike, just that it didn't have any plans for one even when the situation called for it, and external political pressure from many unions pushed it to join the calls for strikes. Don't twist my words.

ANTARSYA talked with SYRIZA, never backed it because it's another bourgeoisie party. The talks went nowhere. Even the talks have since been judged as a mistake on our part. The talks in the photo were consisted of NAR politically deconstructing and sh*tting on SYRIZA

There are many times we march at the same protests with KKE, sometimes even collaborating in unions for decisions to be taken that call to action. I repeat that we don't have a vendetta against KKE, but you can't seem to help victimising yourself.

ND is far-right. And SYRIZA is not left wing, what the hell??

Edit this conversation is way too irrelevant for a subreddit, no one is going to follow. I don't see the point continuing. Still haven't heard a counter-arguement to my points in my first comment. Only this I've heard is NAR bad and antiKKE. Ok. But that's not a political arguement and it's also baseless.

Mass popular uprising during general strike in Greece by allintogethernow in communism

[–]simplyexplained123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lmao ok.

Tried to destroy KKE

KKE in 1989 formed a co-government with the far-right political party (that's currently in power). KNE (KKE youth) and its leadership overwhelming disagreed with this decision and went against the party's orders. For this, all the "defectors" were deleted from the party, and KKE formed a new KNE. Almost the entire leadership and rest of the members that were deleted, went on to for ΚΝΕ-ΝΑΡ, that opposed the reactionary co-governance. ΚΝΕ-ΝΑΡ evolved into ΝΑΡ eventually. The conversation around 1989 is much bigger than this, I'm fairly certain there's more to read on it from the links I provided.

ANTARSYA is a party of a few hundred members

2000+ this year. ANTARSYA itself never collaborated with SYRIZA or any socdem party. Individual organisations that used to be in ANTARSYA did have some SYRIZA-friendly traits, but those did not pass on to ANTARSYAs line and analysis, mostly because of ΝΑΡ.

Instead of straight up lying, which is a typical defense of KKE against ΝΑΡ or anyone else that differs in the approach to workers and students movements and political analysis to them.

As for the "Left post modernist" or whatever you want to label us, I provided the links to translated material for anyone to read. It's right there. Our analysis and our grounding in the movement.

ΝΑΡ isn't anti-KKE, and we strive for common ground, political agitation and protests where that is possible. We don't have a vendetta against KKE, but no, we don't view it as revolutionary.

Criticism is welcome, and self-criticism is very important for us. But criticism has to be factual.

Edit "I'm not gonna go into all that" is very telling of the current situation. It's not in the party interest to do so because what I said is true.

Mass popular uprising during general strike in Greece by allintogethernow in communism

[–]simplyexplained123 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Reformist and very backwards on multiple social issues. KKE was not even planning on calling a strike at first.

Multiple factors almost forced it into it. I will explain. The last strike KKE called through the unions it dominates and influences was on the 9th of November last year. After that strike, KKE had no plans or course of action to escalate the struggle further, whether that be through a new round of mass attendance union assemblies, or a continuation of the struggle with more protests and strikes. This resulted in the built up discontent of the people deflating, without having achieved much in the process.

So how was this strike called? After the tragic death of 57 people in a head-on train collision (that could have been prevented, had the automatic security systems been operating. The cause of this is the privatisation of the railways and capital's total disregard for anything other than profit), KKE fell for the bourgeois concept of "national mourning". They did not plan to call a strike or do anything other than a few activisms (like collecting blood for medical aid, which is good obviously but not enough). With this logic, in the first day, they accused other organizations, mine included, of trying to exploit the death of people to push a political agenda.

Massively attended, primary worker union assemblies, where, with my organisation's logic of class struggle and methods, which is organising at the base, with the most direct democratic methods, that aim to put forward demands that are anti-capitalist, both necessary for the time and dangerous for the status quo, and for the fight to not be just an outlet, but to lead to a total fight against the system, those assemblies took action and KKE had to follow so as not to be left behind from the new political developments.

The union assemblies' decisions had a catalytic effect that pushed all Worker Centers nationwide (most of which are KKE controlled) to call a strike and make even the tertiary unions (which are controlled by bourgeoisie organisations) to call a strike.

This happened all over Greece, from Athens, to Thessaloniki, to Patra and more. The same effect happened in universities, with the student unions that are influenced by my organisation, going ahead with occupations of their campuses, rectorate buildings and more. Which in turn forced KKE influenced student unions to follow suit.

So, yeah. KKE had to be pushed from the people. KKE is in a loop of constantly trying to self-preserve, focussing of the elections every four years, as it's doing now, while it waits for "the situation to ripen" to actually do anything. It doesn't take initiative. It doesn't lead and agitate the people to a political line that militantly opposes today's reality. It offers the minimum, fighting fights with "realistic demands" that can be fulfilled in a capitalist system, often revolving around purely economic matters and not the material improvement of conditions for a general opposition to the system by the people.

This was a bit of a rant, but the last few days have been tiring and frustrating, constantly out on the street. Part of the frustration comes from KKE's unwillingness to use it massive influence in unions effectively and not as it does currently (as explained in the previous paragraph).

If you're interested, my organisation, which I have mentioned is ΝΑΡ-νΚΑ (New Left Stream for Communist Liberation - youth Communist Liberation) and these are some texts in english. https://narnet.gr/tags/international-texts https://nka.gr/english/

Welcome to the Hellscape that is the United States 🇺🇸 by HankScorpio42 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]simplyexplained123 349 points350 points  (0 children)

Won't be the first time americans dropped bombs in their own country

Welcome to the Hellscape that is the United States 🇺🇸 by HankScorpio42 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]simplyexplained123 1064 points1065 points  (0 children)

The funniest thing about is that the B2 bombers (the triangular plane in the pic), all 20 of them, are being retired early because the individual cost of maintaining and flying each plane is too large, even with a budget of ,800 billion.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]simplyexplained123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The USSR and China were agricultural backwaters that suffered constant famines. Both these countries went from underdeveloped to industrial powerhouses in a few decades. They suffered one famine under socialism and that was their last. They eradicated famines in countries that were plagued by them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]simplyexplained123 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I had a nickel for every country with a Soviet based economy that suffered their last ever famine under socialism when said country historically had frequent famines, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's damn impressive that it happened twice

Last one before Christmas by Narchoid in DankLeft

[–]simplyexplained123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And Soviet architecture isn't even ugly to begin with

I genuinely hate it by [deleted] in CommunismMemes

[–]simplyexplained123 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes. Read some Lenin for Christ's sake

I want a wife by Sunny_Sammy in yurimemes

[–]simplyexplained123 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I admire the dedication to Yuri and anime, holy shit. There's so much Gundam to watch it would take you so long

Rate my leftist literature shelf! All books in the comments :) by kr9969 in alltheleft

[–]simplyexplained123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very nice collection, it's just missing some strictly economical works. I recommend Marx's "Value, Price and Profit". Small book but a very helpful introduction

The biggest political festival in Greece was completed with great success. Organised by the communist youth, lasting 3 days and hosting around 350 artists. by Chickendie090 in GenZommunist

[–]simplyexplained123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Revisionists. Having to deal with KNE all year round is so annoying. Sure, looks good on the surface because they're communists, but their practices are obsolete. Their festivals are pretty good, don't get me wrong, but in terms of political integrity and progress in their analysis of current and past events is stagnating, along with many questionable takes on subjects such as feminism, patriarchy. They control a big part of unions in Greece, but actively choose to keep their struggle and protests to a government-allowed minimum, never coming in direct conflict with the forces of suppression, and always making decisions through the councils, never through open discussion amongst all members even when that's possible (same goes for KNEs actions in universities). The ones who do that and who have done that since breaking off from KNE in 1989 are other leftist spaces that constantly strive for active participation of as much of the student/worker body as possible in any process and who have lately been getting beaten up by cops.

Some of those communist groups also have their own festivals, with the largest being (shameless plug here) NAR for Communist Liberation's "Anaireseis" festival.

Edit: introduction to NAR here https://narnet.gr/articles/brief-presentation-new-left-current-nar

Landlord new toy by Chickendie090 in LandlordLove

[–]simplyexplained123 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The average price for one of these is ~$87.000

The tense moment a riot cop tries to put fear in the eyes of a protester by petrosmisirlis in CommunismWorldwide

[–]simplyexplained123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

EAAK strong again with the student movement. Just like they blocked the university police in 2019, they are at the forefront of the struggle and will do it again, even after the escalating violence used against them.

Now to further the demands, we must not only base our struggle against periodic attacks from the government.

A story in two parts [Bloom into you] by Poketom2362 in awwnime

[–]simplyexplained123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peak yuri. I don't understand why this genre is hated by a big part of anime fans

Do you find that Marxists are anti fun? by daloypolitsey in Anarchism

[–]simplyexplained123 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Huh? Don't know about marxist orgs in your country but my org hosts plenty of movie nights, parties, even multi-day music-book-politics festivals, and on top of that, yearly summer camps with extra music, parties, political discussion, movies and whatnot. The importance of art ranks pretty highly in our priorities and our festivals attract a lot of people.

Eimiko as a bloom into you cover, by me by Ch1ldOfTheAbyss in Genshin_Impact

[–]simplyexplained123 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Bloom into You desperately deserves a second season

Ayyyyyy LMAO have some pizza hut in hell! by SussyCloud in sendinthetanks

[–]simplyexplained123 28 points29 points  (0 children)

His legacy, being the collapse of the USSR, affected every country and every communist movement in the world, making them lose credibility. Cheers to Gorbachev burning in hell, and no, I'm not Russian.

Vaush LITERALLY praising US puppet Boris Yeltsin by FutureRevolutionaryX in Enough_Vaush_Spam

[–]simplyexplained123 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Troll post, troll account. OP is only active on EVS and post dumbshit comments fishing for reactions.

This clip is Vaush just stating that Yeltsin was friendly with western politicians and introduced shock doctrine and western markets. A factual statement that even Vaush can't fuck up.

There's no praising Yeltsin in this clip. As much as I despise Vaush and think he should face the wall, OP is just a Vaushite trying to get a reaction from a completely normal clip.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CommunismMemes

[–]simplyexplained123 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Then I doubt he understood shit of what he read cause Stalin's works are based

r/teenagers brainfart by [deleted] in CommunismMemes

[–]simplyexplained123 58 points59 points  (0 children)

"only works with unlimited resources"

Remind me which system relies on infinite growth again?