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Cowbee [he/they]

@ Cowbee @lemmygrad.ml

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Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us

He/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much

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    The least racist liberal.

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  • I'd say "mask-off," but the mask has been on the floor for years now.

  • Joining Lemmygrad

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  • On Hexbear, a few users like this regularly make long, “expert”-sounding posts with insidiously embedded half-truths that go largely unchallenged and are even regularly praised by the user base due to an appearance of expertise when someone uses technical jargon and writes overly long posts that are too much effort to go through and critically analyze point by point. As a result the accepted consensus on that site has been shifting to implicitly accepting the framing and general impression of world events that has been created by these “experts”.

    I feel called out, lmao, though I know you likely aren't including me in that. I never claim to be an expert anyways.

  • Those who came from the Anarchist to ML pipeline, what were some of your cringiest takes from back in the day that you can remember?

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  • Those who came from the Anarchist to ML pipeline, what were some of your cringiest takes from back in the day that you can remember?

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  • Agreed, and it isn't particularly useful for education as I elaborated on earlier.

  • Those who came from the Anarchist to ML pipeline, what were some of your cringiest takes from back in the day that you can remember?

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  • Not yet! Part of my planned studies for the year include Marxist texts on education.

  • Hello everyone

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  • Welcome, comrade! Always happy to see new faces here!

  • Those who came from the Anarchist to ML pipeline, what were some of your cringiest takes from back in the day that you can remember?

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  • Just generally being anti-AES. What caused me to really take Marxism-Leninism seriously was actually working in an industrial environment, and reading works like Socialism: Utopian and Scientific that ended up making far more sense. It was a combination of proletarianization developing proletarian consciousness, with exposure to dialectical materialism and scientific socialism.

    I suggest reading Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of "Brainwashing" as well as Debate Culture is Bourgeois and Should be Abolished. People do not learn through debate unless they are already willing to change, so if you are not succeeding in convincing someone then you should do your best to convince onlookers. You do this by coming across as rational and level-headed, with good sources. Don't jump to insults, and take no easy and cheap rhetorical wins. Focus on the arguments at hand and get your point across in an easily digestible and concise manner.

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    what the actual fuck's wrong with S4A fans?

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  • This is why studying dialectical materialism should be the first thing for any Marxist.

  • How could I have defended the "human nature" argument better?

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  • No problem, comrade!

  • I have trouble seeing Trotskyism as a real ideology

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  • The majority of Trots I've interacted with seem to have fallen into Trotskyism out of a combined belief that socialism in real life is as bad or nearly as bad as painted by the west, while also being driven towards more radical politics by the sheer decay in capitalism. Humorously enough, the orgs with Trotskyist roots that end up taking the question of support for AES seriously and end up affirming AES, like the Marcyites in the US Empire, actually begin to morph towards a Marxist-Leninist line in general (see PSL, which still has vestiges of the Marcyite roots but is dominated by MLs in modern practice).

    In short, people wanting a form of socialism that conforms to their existing prejudice against real socialism while simultaneously backing their belief in a pure, untainted by real life socialism have a void that Trotskyism tends to fill, even if as an ideology it is often contradictory and ill-defined. This isn't even getting into Trotsky's distrust of the peasantry and fatalist beliefs about socialism without an immediate western revolt.

  • Does anyone else feel the same way?

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  • Ah, makes sense. In that case, that's fortunate!

  • Does anyone else feel the same way?

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  • At home I'm a general cook, my spouse bakes and cooks specific dishes and cuisines. We mesh well, but I agree, I tend to not like baking at all!

  • How could I have defended the "human nature" argument better?

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  • China’s private-sector rebound continued in 2025, fueled by “new economy”

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  • How could I have defended the "human nature" argument better?

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  • Retrospect is always clearer!

  • China to unveil policy to address AI's impact on jobs: ministry

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  • Good and sensible, and a further distinction between socialism and capitalism when it comes to handling technological progression and automation.

  • China’s private-sector rebound continued in 2025, fueled by “new economy”

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  • As answered elsewhere, this isn't a case of either/or, but both/and.

  • China’s private-sector rebound continued in 2025, fueled by “new economy”

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  • No problem! This is why I always try to stress the importance of the essence, or principle aspects, of an ecomomy. Simple ratio comparisons don't actually determine what controls the economy. If private sector growth comes from privatization of SOEs, for example, that's quite dire, but cooperative growth and development provides the basis of socialized production. This is one of Marx's key observations about markets, this trend towards socialization of production from decentralized "anarchy of production."

  • China’s private-sector rebound continued in 2025, fueled by “new economy”

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  • No problem! This is why I always try to stress the importance of the essence, or principle aspects, of an ecomomy. Simple ratio comparisons don't actually determine what controls the economy. If private sector growth comes from privatization of SOEs, for example, that's quite dire, but cooperative growth and development provides the basis of socialized production. This is one of Marx's key observations about markets, this trend towards socialization of production from decentralized "anarchy of production."