I donโt know what to think of them they are Pro-China and weโre against aggression in Syria but they also endorsed Erdogan in the latest election. Just wanna know your thoughts?
Hey, just made an account after lurking here for like a year or so. Anyway, I just got out of a rather exhausting conversation with some friends where the topic of Ukraine came up and I tried my best to give a reasonable overview of why people in Crimea/DPR/LPR would support joining Russia, complete with several sources on the brutality of the Ukrainian government in the years since Maidan. Almost immidiately I got hit with "Well I have Ukrainian friends who say that Russia is the problem." I've noticed very often that people will trust what they've heard personally from people they know over any evidence you give them. My question is, has anyone found an effective way to get through to people who entirely base their stance on an issue on what the people they know personally have to say? How do you show someone that they need to look beyond what their token friend has to say and actually study the topic themselves?
Hey there, sometimes I see people say that AI art is stealing real artists' work, but I also saw someone say that AI doesn't steal anything, does anyone know for sure?
Also here's a twitter thread by Marxist twitter user 'Professional hog groomer' talking about AI art:
https://x.com/bidetmarxman/status/1905354832774324356
Hey comrades, Iโve been dropping little nuggets for a few months now to my dear friends about Marxism and communism, and theyโve grown to really fond of me digesting the current nightmarish situation in the west with dialectic materialism and would like to learn more for themselves.
The thing is, my good friends are all rather dyslexic, and I worry that the older works might be a bit too much for them, I was wondering if anybody had good recommendations I could point them to. My friends are not stupid, and I am sure they will want to read Marx, Lenin, Mao and beyond eventually, they are quite enthusiastic people, but I want to give them the best chance and start them off light. Hope you all are having a lovely day <3
I have been looking at British leftist content donโt @ me my fellow Americans. I noticed that most of them are trots itโs like a parody of what the us left was in the 2000s full of trots opportunists and your occasional based person who is either old enough to have been around before Soviet Union fell and has reactionary social views or is a borderline hoxhaist. Not saying the American left is better. But we donโt have this level of revisionism. I know thereโs some political differences like how the American left became very much taken over by Maoists from the 60s to late 70s. Then went super revisionist as a result of the fall of the USSR then went trot for about 5 years due to anti sovietism. Then we arrive where we are today where the main parties are all strands of ML at this point. Yet the British left has an over abundance of Trots and Anarchists.
Prime example is Ash Sakar and the Novarra Media people.
Edit: change the title from "Why can Socialist Market Economy be categorized as socialism, and why is NEP categorized as state capitalism?" to "Why can Socialist Market Economy be categorized as socialism meanwhile NEP is categorized as state capitalism?"
Comrades, I'm helping out on a research regarding the judicial law making power of the ICC judges. However, the ICC is obviously a political tool of the west. Now I need to inform myself as best as I can in order to spot the mistakes/propaganda. As you can imagine most things written about the ICC is western propaganda, so i'm going to need some facts...
Any sources(books, articles, journal, interviews and documentary, or even things like wikileaks, CIA docs etc...) on:
history of the ICC/Yugoslavia tribunal/Rwanda tribunal
Policy documents that reveal the true nature of those institutions
Scandals regarding the making, or status quo of the court
basically any materials that will help not get fooled by western propaganda!
When Russia invaded Ukraine a few years ago, I was very lib and mostly history-illiterate. I try to be more ML now, but I still don't know a lot about world history. I've heard people saying that, at the dissolution of the Soviet Union, NATO promised they would not move toward Russia, but have since continued to expand eastward. I understand this is threatening to Russia, and I understand why they would want to respond, I'm just not sure why Ukraine specifically was the response? I know we give critical support to Russia in its opposition to the imperial core, so is that the reason? I also know Ukraine is brimming with Nazis in their ranks, but is that alone a reason to invade them? Is my saying Russia invaded Ukraine a misunderstanding in itself? I'm not trying to challenge you guys, I sincerely don't know and want to understand.