I think you’re the deluded one honestly, spending time bootlicking the state instead of expressing solidarity with people trying to stop violence our government is engaged in.

They could improve their conditions by eating something. This is purely performative.

Lifes a stage, this board would improve if you stopped eating entirely but we cant all get what we want.

The Palestinians and Jews have been throwing rocks at each other for thousands of years, we just sell rocks

Is that what you call bombs and targeting criteria to people engaging in wholesale slaughter of children?

Thinking that your opinion matters so much you are willing to die for it suggests mental illness, not political protest

‘People who care about things are mentally ill, not like me im so desensitizatized our government engaging in genocide doesn’t even make me blink’

Not the flex you think it is

Is the genocide in Gaza a pointless thing to protest to you?

Why would the single largest anti communist force on the planet back communists?

To address this comment in the linked thread - The US backs literally everyone all the time.

That might seem contradictory, it isnt, the US backed Castro during the Cuban revolution by sending them material aid and money. Does that make Castro compromised by the US? Of course not, like Marx said when talking about trading stocks; it is good to deprive the enemy of its money.

Thats just how rich the US is, it can afford to hedge its bets by funding literally every side of a conflict so if one wins it can leverage this support, of course it will make its primary motives clear in who it most funds but it will usually use indirect vectors to also hedge on the unfavorable odds, usually through proxies; this is most apparent in how they initially supported the Khemer Rouge by creating the conditions that allowed Pol Pot to take power and using them as a Balwark against China/Vietnam/Laos.

I was reading Thomas Sankara’s perspective on this recently actually - he made a passing reference to how after the boers where kicked out of Angola lots of opportunistic factions scrambled to seize power, and he gave examples of groups in Angola who claimed to be socialist/marxist but were actually just people looking to enrich themselves at other peoples expense and who had ties to colonial powers.

He was talking about it in a way that he wanted to avoid that happening in his own country, which ended up happening and lead to his death in a coup so man was probably onto something.

I think its just power vaccum and extreme poverty that does this,

Gramsci talked a lot about how communists should try to emulate the Catholic churches structural reach - we should be doing what the church does for the working class - provide community, provide a 3rd space, charity and outreach work, mass events, teaching and reading and such.

I think we can learn a lot from how religion organizes.

Im personally agnostic and respect most moderates religious beliefs, although I remain spectical I wouldn’t shut someone out or refuse to work with anyone who was religious.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Deng Xiaoping

Andrew downvoting this in between bouts of noncing in the backup castle.

Having been around the types children, yes without a doubt. The abuse goes everywhere in there families and is usually plastered over poorly with money.

just from being a dumbass and not knowing what AI shit is I thought it was a representation of the double-slit experiment

Needs to be understood in a wider sociological lenses that considers shit like ideology and its transmission thru structures (in this case, mental health treatment)

No end in sight, Russia has been making steady gains the entire year and it looks like the front will collapse any day, but it doesnt and the meat grinder continues unabated.

It will likely end with the entire collapse of Ukraine and only the western regions kept as a proxy state, short of America invading Ukraine to fight Russia nothing is going to turn the tide of it.

lets find out

Honestly I just read an English translation that I found in a charity store, its got a rad red leather bound on it, that was good enough although reading it in Russian will deffo be better, I just cant read it. I’ve heard quite a bit is lost in translation with Gogol, but I also think its just a lot to do with sort of ‘in jokes’ for the historical time period.

Even just getting through the general setting of the book will be enough, its about a lord going around buying up dead slaves titles so they can then use the uncollected tax and insurance to profit, quite literally a debt collector scheme in a feudal serf society - they do this during a famine and right after a land invasion.

Its the conditions that caused the revolution - widespread famines, pointless wars to stroke the monarchies egos and boost their tax revenues by expanding borders and a tiny middle class of lords that basically get to act as the taxman for the above, completely above the law.

It is a character, but it is also real.

‘Dead Souls’ by Nikolai Gogol.

Austria is not western Europe

Its literally directly south of Germany, its culturally western.

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Trots get bullied out of every single leftist org for not reading books and accepting all of the lies told to them by the upper class about socialists.

They then pull a Mussolini and swap teams out of spite.