Catgirls; My reply
You have spoken and I've heard your criticisms. I apologize for my reactionary comment and retract my position.
(I am unable to delete my comment as I am banned from that community due to this)
No one is perfect, we are all improving all the time, and I am no different.
Thank you for helping me identify an instance of liberalism which has remained with me since taught which I must correct.
Let there be catgirls
Simple Dialectics Overview
Porn is art too, photography is a form of art. It's the type of art and what purpose it serves. I'll kindly ask you check the community we are currently in and compare it to the list you've compiled. So long as leftists choose self indulgence over social activities based within the material reality we will not get very far.
Stop catastrophizing things. Infantile interests are not all interests, not even close to the majority. I am using the term scientifically as this is a serious space for serious conversations, or at the least I am a serious person. This does not mean I would refer to this in a recruiting environment as such. You misunderstand again thinking I am an all work and no play kind of comrade, or that I have no interests outside of politics or that this is my expectation for others. Some activities are not beneficial or outright harmful for socialist development of comrades, these are some of those imo. Porn is another, drugs are a third. I have said nothing of poetry, archery, singing, art, basketball, etc...
Is being a worker under capitalism fun for you?
I just don't see the value in catgirls. When it comes to brocialists (socially conservative leftists), which I believe you are conflating with nazbols (fascists who LARP as socialists to amplify their message by bringing to it a veil of legitimacy), the point of unity is class membership, it's the 1 thing which connects all workers no matter our differences. Posting more catgirls (not in catgirl communities) and other examples simply outlines our differences more. The distinction between brocialists and modern Marxism members must be based on class and not social stances. One does not attempt to recruit a pro-LGBT billionaire towards Marxism as we recognize it as a waste of time, their class interests contradict the goals of Marxism. The same follows all ideologies our class has stumbled into. (except nazism, this is the outlier)
As far as all infantilized content (anime, furries, etc...), I view it as utopian. Understand this cutesy fluffy content is being generated within the context of outright vicious class war. And as such, it can only serve to disarm or hinder the orientation of our class at addressing this. We are not on cloud 9, we are in war. Believing otherwise is the equivalent of religion under feudalism - a new mental and social opioid of the masses. The difference between cat videos and shooting heroin is heroin is a lifestyle, a habit-forming flow of the day altering metaphorical cage which prevent the worker from toiling, reflecting, radicalizing, socializing, and coagulating. All in all, we're just not having a fun time and pretending otherwise is simply lying to yourself.
As per the drugs conversation (which demonstrated the necessity of this disclaimer of sorts), I don't advocate for shunning those who partake, but not advocate for these things ourselves and work to help our comrades to realign themselves with material reality.
I must say reading history it is apparently clear, there has never been such a time of so many idealistic thoughts, concepts, and movements since the time of peak religion.
🎉Dead US Nazi
A day after New England-based white supremacist group NSC-131 tried to intimidate people at a drag queen event in Concord, the group’s Granite State leader is reportedly dead.
35yo, died around Juneteenth..unlikely an accident.
🥂
CPUSA is explicitly named. Any other org would indeed be covered under colour of law (this law specifically) however it would require a court case to resolve such an invocation of colour of law which is always a gamble.
Depending on how much constitution ours have in OK, challenging such a movement not explicitly named in the referenced law in a court of law could end very badly for the prosecution. However, considering if our efforts were so substantial in OK I would not have to question the constitution of it would I?
Aside from being a gamble, all one has to do is consult law-practicing comrades to create a play list of legal foot dragging to be utilized in each and every single case so as to cost the state as much time and effort as possible challenging every single group from the PSL to the ABCDEFG. Until neoliberalism falls, money is no object to the regime, however this would create publicity for all of the left movements involved, which gives birth to more continuity, as well it would take up space in the legal process which could be used to fuck over our class.
Oh they're here. They're to us in our spaces as MAGA is to mainstream neoliberal spaces - they invade to sabotage, they seek to destroy. We could move to Mars and they'd send space drones with propaganda blasting from speakers.
Comrade Johnstone: Right Wing ‘Populism’ Is Fake And Stupid
As per always, my personal notes on the piece in question:
""Republican" politicians"
No, it's every capitalist politician not affiliated with the US democratic party. Even in Russia we see clowns championing this culture war nonsense. When I am not on here or another leftist space, I am on Russian spaces monitoring the war in the Ukraine. I see Russian chauvinism on a constant basis and I believe it only hides the damage and the nature of the true actors if we constrain this issue to simply an American political issue. Many populist right factions in many countries in the west and in Russian space as well are also employing this strategy.
"Sure, Chip, that’s what’s been causing all that vital resource expenditure in the US military: the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion. Can’t possibly have anything to do with all that extremely expensive military equipment you’ve been moving into every corner of the earth now, can it?" Exactly.
"This idea that “wokeness” is hurting
The task of illustrating why Brian Becker and PSL’s practice isn’t right for the communist movement is different from the one of illustrating why Joe Sims and the CPUSA’s practice isn’t right for it. Unlike with the CPUSA, the ways that PSL reinforces the Democratic Party’s dominance aren’t obvious ...
PSA: Just want to give a heads up on what is about to come in the way of Lemmy users, a huge WARNING
Which community is this? Are communities allowed sovereign control over their content or does this fall onto the shoulders of the devs since it is in the primary Lemmy instance?
This is very true
PSA: Just want to give a heads up on what is about to come in the way of Lemmy users, a huge WARNING
Interesting..I wonder how the devs will respond to this situation when it unfolds
Right? They just pull reality itself out of their ass, dust it off, and present it with glee
"As Marxists we must oppose everything the west approves of and approve of everything the west opposes"?
TIL Marxism is when contrarianism
PSA: Just want to give a heads up on what is about to come in the way of Lemmy users, a huge WARNING
"There is no flagship instance. The developers actively push sopuli.xyz and beehaw.org instead of lemmy.ml for multiple reasons."
Lib is salty 😝
I think Engels was more referring to building up the rural as opposed to breaking down the urban. And I support him in this. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, and the contradictions between city and country have caused far too much damage as seen in today's neoliberalist America. Maintaining this moving forward would be asking for trouble later down the line. We must balance the development to remedy the contradictions
Really? The PRC should start a "Victims of US Imperialism Congress" and see how they respond
well..yes
On the face, but you have to look at the history between "Taiwan" and China to understand their true purpose and thus intentions.
