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It’s been awhile since I read on this but to your question about Venezuela, I do believe the territory was Venezuela’s and arbitrarily taken from them via some colonial border fuckery. Being that they are the much more revolutionary of the parties involved, and have a legitimate claim, I do think Venezuela’s claim is still relevant

Yes I feel like movies representing those eras really need to dial up the fact that people were wasted drunk

Definitely no whiskey in North America pre European contact, not sure about other fermented beverages in the cold regions. I know central america has a long history of drinking alcohol

1. People were migratory and relocated to areas that were known to be not as harsh
2. Their shelters were designed in ways to keep out the cold and keep in the warmth created by fires
3. Animal furs

Dialectical materialism is not a list of rules governing the world; it is a tool that we can use to understand the forces behind the progress of history as it relates to production

To comment on this further, it is not a list of rules governing the world but it is describing something universal which exists everywhere and in all things.

All things at all times have internal and external contradictions which are at play. All living things are caught between life and death, all non living things are subject to entropy and are being built up and broken down over time. So while diamat itself isn’t a law of the universe, you can look at the laws of the universe and understand them dialectically.

The laws of the universe are the primary material conditions that all other material conditions are based off of, but studying them and applying diamat to that study isn’t going to change society in the way that changing the economic base is so it isn’t really useful for Marxists or for liberation of oppressed people

The main driver of the work is a criticism of the trend towards reform as the strategy for social change, reaffirming the notion that revolution is indeed the strategy, even if fights for reforms can be viable political maneuvers in certain scenarios.

In a time when the overwhelming trend is still that reform is the only option, western leftists deciding “reform is good” is the point of Reform or Revolution is incredibly on the nose.

No

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1756464610000241

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2132000/

Only if you eat them raw. Agaritine breaks down with cooking, drying, etc

I just found this and didn’t read it all but it looks like it covers what I’ve seen a gay imam discuss on another video that I can’t find right now because the search engines are only showing me AI slop videos

https://reformationproject.org/was-homosexuality-the-sin-of-sodom-and-gomorrah/

Edit: here’s a different gay imam than the one I was trying to find talking about it: https://www.gaytimes.com/life/as-a-gay-imam-i-know-that-islam-is-not-anti-lgbtq/

Plenty of religious people contradict the blatant teachings of their religions, Abrahamic religions most of all. Love, compassionate, selfless service to those in need, destruction of oppressors to liberate the oppressed, these are all themes in Abrahamic religious texts that are often ignored today.

The story of Lod is the reference that Abrahamic religions use to bash queer people but queer scholars would point out that the story of Lod is not at all about queer people and is about people doing sex crimes and assault. Religious people misinterpreting and misusing religious texts to justify their personal positions is pretty common, and it is no different here. We live in an age of war and hyper capitalism, and have suffered centuries of colonialism which has enforced very specific ways of thinking on the whole world. People being ignorant and wrong about things is to be expected

Not really, the only writing about that is by him and the clique he split with doing a lot of PR control in anticipation of a write up from the party that was announced and never materialized. He wrote dozens of pages blaming everyone else for how things went and erasing the fact that the party’s structure and constitution were designed almost unilaterally by him, with a small amount of input from the other CC members who were all his friends and D&D party members for the game he DMs which is how the whole thing was started, by and for role players who spend more time in a fantasy world than they do organizing in the real world. For all of them, this party was the only organizing they had ever done and decided to start with “let’s make an underground vanguard party that will manufacture a revolution,” because they were so full of themselves that they thought they could be the peak of political consciousness without even a few days of attempting to organize with people on the ground. This arrogance is the dominant flavor of their newest project where they are cold emailing every small ML group they can find to coerce them into joining their “national labor federation” which is just a new micro party cult built around someone who lives on twitter. It’s a great grift because these young organizers are too inexperienced to know they are being preyed on, it’s a pyramid scheme for communists.

Edit: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoUKAJhaUAIDusX.jpg?name=orig

This is the announcement of the party ending and a document being written which was never released

To my knowledge, over here, many people generally agree with Red Clarion’s analysis, and see it as a worthwhile org to read.

Yeah this is why I make it a point to comment about how they are run by an abusive, wealthy Twitter power user who started a cult around himself in the guise of a party and then rage quit after the women and particularly trans women complained about him being a misogynist too many times. Red clarion is his attempt at starting a new cult around himself

I don’t think their article is the main point of contention, Syke’s article is. here’s a comment I made about his article 8 months ago: https://hexbear.net/post/4043628

I think anyone here can read Syke’s article and come to the same conclusions without some grifter larper’s newspaper being circulated.

I know you are just seeing an opportunity to be helpful, I’m not criticising you for it and give you much props for always being helpful

They are just doing the classic class reductionism analysis, I don’t think they are pat docs. They just want to think of themselves as equally exploited as everyone else instead of as the labor aristocracy that they are inherently as settlerz

Worth noting that Red Clarion generally considers FRSO to be one of the better US orgs, but is generally negative on the present state of orgs in the US, both theoretically and strategically.

And since they don’t organize and have no organizing experience their heavy handed criticisms of people who do organize are virtually worthless

The anti settler colonial issue is their national position written by their thought leader, the liberal local politician could certainly just be a local chapter issue but also a good national org would know about it and push back on why the local chapter is using resources that way instead of in another manner. It’s a ML org not DSA, there should be more oversight over these things.

Yes I am familiar with the PSL issues you are describing and they were also a primary reason why I never joined. I was lucky enough to have a local org option that worked for me. I will say that I haven’t heard of new cases of this happening in years and hopefully it was resolved quietly by the organization with the individual problematic members. For an org as big as PSL, there hasn’t been enough cases to suggest it’s really a widespread issue, although I think the way the specific cases were handled should have been better. It’s a valid criticism and reason to be wary but it would also be chapter dependent. I know a lot of non-men organize in PSL although I’d love some hard data on these things

FRSO are settlers who reject the theory that the US is settler colonial. A comrade joined and their chapter recently organized for a local liberal political candidate, this plus their org’s line on decolonialism was enough for the comrade to leave.

If they are the only ML group in your area, might be fine to try, but I would choose PSL over them if they were both options.

Putin has been known to exert psychological tactics to expose adversaries’ points of weakness. The award was likely given as a means to provoke questions as to why relative of a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official was fighting for the Russian military.

Gloss, who reportedly suffered from mental health challenged, was killed fighting for Russia at aged 21 after moving to Moscow and voicing his support for Russia’s military.

they decided that the answer to their own question was ableism

Is it the Europeans who colonized and ransacked the developing world which caused the migrant crisis or the nations that had little to nothing to do with the downfall of every nation that the migrants flee from?