There’s this Dutch YouTube guy who has filmed his bicycle journey from Vancouver to Patagonia. It’s called Two Years On A Bike and consists of 4 (I think) vids of his journey. It has great cinematography of the Americas and is a great watch. The guy is called Martijn Doolaard.

A strongly worded letter perhaps. I don’t think they really would attack the US in this scenario.

Liberals aren’t left. Anarchists mostly are fringe movements in the west and as much as I am critical about them they are the ones present at almost all anti racism and anti nazism protests I have seen, often wanting to punch the Nazis in the face directly. So they can’t be blamed I guess.

The socdems, or what’s left of them, have spent the last decades moving to the right and losing their ideals (however thin they were). If we look at The Netherlands, for example, back in the 60s the parties against the first migration waves from Northern Africa were actually left wing parties as they saw it as importing cheap labor and hurting their own working class.

Neoliberalism and austerity has been the main ideology of the West for decades now and their predisposition to make everything shit for the people has divided the working class to the point where ‘anti ruling class’ far right parties were able to swoop up large voter bases. If anything I would blame the lack of a Western left for all this as the established socdem and even progressive liberal parties could not be arsed to make an effort to appeal to the people.

One thing that always stays in my mind is how we can build like a real life network of commie orgs around the world to help eachother out. Specifically when it comes to ML tendencies. But privacy concerns and real life safety are some issues that come up when I think about it.

This does not mean you have to tolerate homophobic viewpoints as a party btw. Because we do not and if it happens we make sure to have a conversation with the person uttering them.

Our party is popular among Muslims and it is popular within the LGBTQ+ community. The uniting force between them is combatting the primary contradictions within our society. We both face the problems of housing, healthcare, education, poverty, racism, etc. We recognize that ik eachother. And that makes it easy to put aside some of the different viewpoint in order to organise.

We also have a lot of LGBTQ+ people from the Muslim community themselves. And ultimately I think that is the ‘easiest’ way to change: from within. The Muslim community also has to face their own contradiction s and they need to find their own way forward. External pressure like we see so often is only, in my opinion, going to strengthen reactionary views.

Just evidence. If China were to really genocide the Uyghur population I’d be the first to condemn that. Hell, when news broke about it years ago, before I was a commie, I actually did that + I made lengthy efforts to boycott Chinese products because of it. But then I read all this new info on the topic and it changed my mind.

It’s just as bad and violence will happen rather soon imo. It’s a combination of declining living standards blamed on migrants, white supremacy and colonial mentality legacy and, to be honest, the many terrorist attacks during the 2015-2017 period didn’t help either.

You’d be surprised about what kind of answers we get on that lol

Our party is having this period in which it is more of a MLM scheme than a party because all they keep asking for is new members or signing petitions and it is wearing me out really. What if we, you know, actually did something? Set up a local inititative or whatever? But nobody seems to really listen.

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I have seen it as some sort of fringe and mostly online behavior within the communist movement.

I’m active for what I think can be considered one of the more serious and successful communist parties within the west, without wanting to sound like I’m bragging. And I don’t see how we would be off any better by being maoist third worldist compared to how we are operating now. We are organised trying to better our own country while at the same time recognizing the unequal exchange between north and south, trying to improve it from our own position by, for example, lifting sanctions, handing out sanctions to Israel, seeking cooperation with other movements around the world.

Another thing to keep in mind regarding ethics is that even in a more socialist way of working you can have a lack of ethics as well.

The Basque country comes to mind. It’s a country in which the vast majority of companies are organised in a co-op way and their results are impressive to say the least. However, companies like Mondragon, their largest company, still operate in ethically grey or outright wrong ways despite being worker owned.

I think ultimately it boils down to the system they too are forced to operate in: a capitalist one that seeks profit before people, and that will eventually lead to tough decision being made. We as marxists strive to create a world in which profits become obsolete and we instead produce with the purpose of fulfilling the needs of the people.

I do. Ultimately you are a worker like everyone else. There seems to be this (deliberate) split between blue collar workers and office workers but ultimately we are on the same side of the struggle.

‘No ethical consumption under capitalism’ and all but as a worker you simply cannot have an overview of what is happening throughout the supply chain all the time. That’s the issue with non worker owned businesses: as a worker you have no control over the way of working. You could try to organise yourself together with your coworkers so that you can leverage more control of the workplace, of course. But that is a hard thing to do for many people in our current system. I think trying to organise your workplace is a good start though.

I personally don’t have anything against drugs themselves. Coffee is a drug. Tylenol is a drug. My season allergie medicine is a drug. Heroin is a drug. The drugs itself are not a problem. How they and their users are treated in society is problematic.

From the poor neighborhoods they run rampant in to the criminal side of it to the use of governments to suppress movements to whatever it is they are used in a harmful way. I think being aware of that is necessary as a communist but that doesn’t mean you have to be strictly against drugs.

It is good to have a party line on no drug use probably to keep discipline within the party.

I think he is very much a marxist minded economist first and that’s his main interest

I think he is one of the few people we can universally agree upon was a complete nutjob. His coming up is somewhat contested but it seems generally accepted that he was an Israeli pawn used to keep Uganda as a weapons smuggling hub into Sudan where at the time Israel was funding rebel groups.

There are billions of people, a few are bound to be dickhead regardless of what ideology is the main

Out party consists of many religions and (so far) no problem has occurred. Not between the Muslims and the Christians, or even Muslims and LGBTQ+ community like so many libs like to go on about. Nothing. It can absolutely work when working towards socialism.

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