Forward, comrade!
“The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.”
I agree with you, pedophiles need treatment. It's obvious their sexual attraction is not under their conscious control, since the condemnation and judgement of pedophiles is so big, no one would consciously choose to be a pedophile. There are studies which links sexual attraction to children to sexual abuse in childhood too.
I disagree however with watering down, or diluting that with a lighter term, MAP, because it's inadvertently promoting pedophilia through euphemism. Whether they are a rapist or not, a person can be a pedophile, and that's it, we need to accept that situation. But the act itself, to have sexual attraction to children, is a dangerous thing, because we know children cannot truly consent.
So the negative charge that comes with the term pedophilia did not come out of the blue, it's a historical development. Pederasts in Greece certainly did not have this taboo over the word describing them. Creating a "neutral" word only removes this historical meaning describing the act. So the question is, should we use euphemisms for pedophilia?
This policy has earned them the trust of many political actors world wide, so I doubt they would change, as it could result in diplomatic disruptions in many countries. This could be used by the US in attempts to isolate the country. But only time will tell.
That title is Meta 😂
Thank you for your response, comrade. And thank you further for your honest criticism. I'm being honest too, so if I'm sound judgemental it's my difficulty to empathize and arrogance speaking. I'm grateful for you pointing it out to me.
Do you have any loved ones that will miss you? If so, have you talked to them about your decision?
EDIT: My previous comments were removed per request of the administrators.
Any good Mastodon instances?
Not just allowing our political ideas, but also being robust and stable for a relatively long time
reducing his cult of personality is a good thing as long as it’s executed right
It's not like this "cult" is imposed from above and could be gone with a decree. The people has admiration and respect for their leader, who comes from a family of historical revolutionaries.
I play Catan sometimes, I have family members and my partner to play with c:
sounds exactly like them
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as an Australian, our culture tends to be almost hyper-sexual at times, and it is really frustrating to deal with that all the time.
As a Brazilian........ 😳
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You're not a failure, you just have different preferences than your friends. And that's okay, everyone is different. You may even enjoy sex, but you could play a higher importance on other things, such as your life, your career, your studies, intellectual exchange
Now, yes, a lot of people are overtly and constantly sexual depending on the culture and social group. If you care a lot about those friends, and you care a lot about the environment you're in, like, if that's really your thing, then I'd say just play with it. Make jokes about it to relax the tension you feel in these moments, idk, experiment with it. In the environment and friends you're coexisting with, this is a part of their social bonding, so you should definitely be a part of it if you care about them... But you don't have to be gross like they are
asexual means u don't like people????
even if u don't like the sexing u can have the company 👨🦲 😠 ❤ 🇬🇸
I know this classic text, Jones Manoel is a Brazilian Marxist-Leninist, we're from the same country 😁
I even met Jones personally. He's really, really tall, like 190cm+, very muscular and loves to smoke tobacco. Carries with him a tobacco pouch everywhere lol. Great guy, very fun to talk with.
Yes, always. Not just leftist spaces. Every political, social, w/e space has conflict.
vagueposting
Hahaha never heard that before. I loved it
not allowing obvious liberals to run rampant in lemmygrad is easily recognized as a political outcome focus
I don't know what you mean by this paragraph comrade, and I have trouble following your reasoning. But I'll comment about this. The liberal propagandists should definitely be extracted from our community, but the honest liberals should definitely be heard and honestly debated. On our part, trying as much as possible to ignore provocations and try our best to dismantle their arguments in few words. I see a few reasons why:
- liberals have common misunderstandings which are useful to debunk. Some of us are well read (most of us aren't), so the thinking you had when you were a conservative, liberal or "apolitical" has been lost. You cannot empathize to how liberals think now. Alas, comes a liberal, with doubts, silly mistakes, but they are prevalent in political discourse and thinking. A lurker on the website may be presented with arguments dismantling the same silly mistakes they may have. So in terms of political education this is useful;
- we learn to deal with those who think differently. We need to learn to treat a right-winger well and learn how to defuse a tense situation IRL. Not always we manage to do this, often we manage to hurt others from our own camp, but we aspire to do it. We need to learn how to deal with Nazi provocations both online and personally, physically. We need to learn how to deal emotionally with the situation, train ourselves to not be affected by this interaction. You do this by understanding how your opponents think, and respecting as much as possible their identity. So you do not focus on their religion, their political affiliations, their moral stances on subjects, etc. These are divisive points which separates us from these politically alienated people. We cannot change a person's identity through force or imposition, it only changes socially and historically.
We need to learn to treat a right-winger well and learn how to defuse a tense situation IRL.
A comment on this, about treating well right-wing colleagues, etc. (unless they are awful people of course, besides their shitty foolish worldview). Of course a Nazi provocateur should be harassed or physically assaulted until they stop their provocation, because it is ethical to do so. It is ethical to repress genocidal ideologies because you're saving lives by punishing some. But notice a liberal surely would equate us with genociders! They are indoctrinated by bourgeois ideology. Bourgeois ideology needs to accuse communists of what they do so that they feel at least "equal" in comparison, and thus, shielded from criticism. At least you're doing genocide for a just cause! Not the communists, they genocide for evil!
Bourgeois ideology is hegemonic. You should already expect people to be right-wing. You need to learn to accept this fact so that you're able to be friendly with right-wingers and not be affected by their provocations. Because you understand their worldview is not their fault, they are too distracted to realize the facts, and we need to reach them somehow. How would you achieve this person to eventually learn the facts if you're provoking the person, teasing them, insulting them, questioning their sanity, their ability to think, mocking them, etc. Practice shows us that these behaviors tend to alienate these people even further, and even worse, alienate yourself from others.
Left-wingers tend to be more critical of certain expressions of authority, whereas sometimes this in excess can be destructive.
Side note on this.
Many leaders and progressive thinkers were awful in their personal lives, especially with relatives or spouses, like comrade Stalin, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, etc. This is because humans make grave mistakes all the time, irrespective of how correct they are. Except Lenin, perhaps, he was both an impeccable human being and very often correct. Look at your own lives, have you not hurt someone? Were you never selfish, arrogant, insensible? People make those mistakes all the time, to a greater or lesser extent. Why should our leaderships be different? Should we disregard historical figures in the past because of their personal mistakes? Should we disregard current leaderships for that?
I think this is a case by case thing, but sometimes we simply cannot afford to be too much critical. Think of an actual communist, politically isolated, representing a small city in the bourgeois state, or something. If the opposition found out bad stuff about that guy's past, of course the bourgeois media would create a campaign to hunt them down. In such cases should we join the hunt? This is the challenge of having the correct historical understanding of your time and place, so these choices become clearer. Over the time you start acting based on the political outcome, instead of an abstract moral value which you do not adopt yourself in your life. Then you criticize any mistake in private if possible, outside the eyes of the opposition.
Why are leftist spaces always sabotaging themselves?
I wanted to share a few thoughts on a comment I saw earlier about drama occurring on a leftist site outside of Lemmygrad.
man why are leftist spaces online like this? feels like they’re too busy shooting themselves on the foot constantly to get their shit together while fascism and reich-wingers are taking over everything.
First, every human space is bound to conflict and contradictions, this is expected. But the characterization of that existing only on leftist spaces is misleading.
If you subject yourself to torture and visit extreme right-wing communities, you'll notice they are extremely toxic and very violent to each other, and usually there is a big turnover of users. The violent and abusive language is part of their socialization, and those who endure the longest become normalized to this type of language, so much so, it transpires outside the right-wing communities themselves.
The idea that right-wingers are in unity I think is also incorrect, what happens is that the ri
One could argue that being gay in the West specifically is curiously associated with a particular identity, which includes music tastes and style of clothing, manner of speaking... Gay people in Brazil has very similar tastes as gay people in US, like adoring "pop divas" like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, etc.
But I'm not arguing that, I just noticed that it resembles a gender identity on itself, even if in principle is just a sexual orientation.
I don't know PSL, I'm not United Statesian, but I found this trying to find pride parade and PSL, Lockheed Martin, etc.
Lockheed Martin was present in 2023 DC Pride Parade, and PSL was present in 2016 DC Pride Parade, but I couldn't confirm the presence of both simultaneously, nor do I know what was PSL's purpose in this corporate event.
Absolute shit take from Communist Party of Venezuela
El Buró Político del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) hace un llamado a las fuerzas genuinamente democráticas, populares y patrióticas a unir fuerzas para defender la voluntad del pueblo venezolano que se expresó este domingo 28 de julio con una clara intención de cambio político en el país.
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\ Alertamos a la opinión pública internacional que así como el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro ha despojado al pueblo venezolano de sus derechos sociales y económicos, hoy pretende privarlo de sus derechos democráticos.
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\ La denuncia de un supuesto intento de vulneración del sistema electoral, hecha por el presidente del Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, lejos de brindar las garantías necesarias al proceso, profundizan las dudas sobre los resultados presentados al país. En tal sentido, exigimos al CNE la publicación de la totalidad de las actas de votación ─tal y como lo establece el reglamento electoral─ así como la máxima transparencia en el escrutinio de los
Attention, Lemmygradians!
We've always noticed something odd with user @[email protected], but we haven't formalized any space for discussion about them.
People have noticed they are apparently collecting info about us and our community. Have you interacted with this user? What do you think about it?
Fischia Il Vento, Italin anti-fascist song (based on Katyusha)
Original (Italian)
Fischia il vento e infuria [urla] la bufera,
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scarpe rotte e pur bisogna andar
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a conquistare la rossa primavera
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dove sorge il sol dell'avvenir.
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A conquistare la rossa primavera
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dove sorge il sol dell'avvenir.
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Ogni contrada è patria del ribelle,
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ogni donna a lui dona un sospir,
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nella notte lo guidano le stelle
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forte il cuore e il braccio nel colpir.
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Se ci coglie la crudele morte,
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dura vendetta verrà dal partigian;
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ormai sicura è [già] la dura sorte
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del fascista vile traditor.
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Cessa il vento, calma è la bufera,
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torna a casa il fiero partigian,
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sventolando la rossa sua bandiera;
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vittoriosi e alfin liberi siam.
English
The wind whistles, the storm rages,
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our shoes are broken but we must march on,
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to conquer the red spring,
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where the sun of the future rises.
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to conquer the red spring,
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where the sun of the future rises.
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Every street is home to the rebel,
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every woman has a sigh for him,
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the stars guide him thro
A comment on the Russia/NATO war
There are many Marxists who look at the US/NATO war against Russia without historical materialism. They condemn Russia and the war in Ukraine as an "inter-imperialist war" between Russia and the US, but this is wrong mainly because they ignore the historical aggression movement of the "traditional" imperialist countries.
One such movement was the expansion of NATO, where the EU and the US were funding NATO and EU membership campaigns, especially in former socialist republics. They took advantage of nascent states and low institutional complexity to spread propaganda in these countries, initially through television and today through the Internet. They manipulate the public opinion of an entire nation, just to serve their interests.
And worse, NATO demands from these countries "political reforms" in order to enter NATO, which eventually resulted in extreme right-wing governments in these countries.
NATO has been expanding eastward into Russia, settling in the Czech Republic, Hungary,
On strange individuals, trolls, borderline spammers and such
If you see around any individual interacting with others through strange antics, displaying weird or troll-like behavior, bot behavior, or similar, either on Lemmygrad or Lemmy, feel free to publish a people's court case about them if you think they are negatively affecting the Lemmygrad community as a whole.
The usual best way to fight trolls is indifference. So if you think someone is constantly annoying, please block them, and if possible, publicly express your dissatisfaction, so that everyone is aware.
Some trolls like Wisconcom can cause a major disruption in our community, and that's when we usually step in debating about the issue publicly. You are free to do so in People's Court as well, it's the place to collectively solve perceived problems within our community. You are also free to criticize the actions of the administrators,[^1] under public scrutiny.
[^1]: criticize our actions, not our political positions. This would be perhaps more appropriate in [Leftist Infightin
What's your opinion on conspiracy theories regarding George Soros?
If you happen to come across right-wing media, propaganda and discourse, you'll notice here and then a mention of George Soros as an evil mastermind behind geopolitical events, "globalist agenda" and such.
Why do you think there's a focus on George Soros? We are aware of Soros' interference in global affairs through his funding of color revolutions worldwide, but why would the extreme right-wing have an aversion to Soros?
This discourse regarding Soros can be found in the Brazilian extreme-right as well.
State and revolution
State and revolution was written by Lenin in 1918 in the midst of the turbulent period of the October socialist revolution. It discusses Marx and Engels works to synthesize a Marxist theory of the state.
Read the ProleWiki article on the state, based on the Marxist understanding of it
Criticism of Viki1999's video on the "labour theory of value"
Recently, the YouTube creator Viki1999 published a video called "Why (I think) the labour theory of value is dead!" and exposing her arguments, which you can check by watching the video. I have written a criticism in the comments of her video, and I will adapt them here to publish here.
Viki1999's main argument is that the so-called labor theory of value (LTV) may not be useful to agitate workers towards revolution. In the middle of her arguments, she distances herself from her point to bash the LTV altogether, in what sounds like a liberal deviation from Marxism. I argue that she is blinded by imperialism.
She claims:
"Most Western nations have service economies. Huge part of the economy are people who serve people in diners. Quantifying the value of a service job is close to impossible. The same is true for haircuts. The value of a haircut is very hard to quantify."
First of all, this argument ignores that capitalism is a world-m
Fisher Price Stalin
It comes with competent generals and fully planned socialist transition
Lenin destroys philosopher's career by literally citing him
Have you ever read Trotsky?
A certainly infamous figure which is dreaded by most Marxists-Leninists, with good reason at least. However, one thing that the dialectical principle teaches us is that to overcome something, its useful, positive, or correct aspects must be preserved.
I became less and less against the historical figure of Trotsky, but I remain anti-Trotskyist, because there are a big difference between Trotsky and Trotskyism. What made me change my mind over time was realizing that I have actually never read anything by Trotsky, I still don't know his biography, but it's a fact that he was very relevant in the October Revolution.
After reading the first two chapters of The revolution betrayed, I noticed how Trotsky's 1936 analysis on the relationship between the peasantry and the state industry under the NEP was correct up to the academic standards of E. H. Carr (1950–1978),[1] Charles Bettelheim (1978)[2] and R.W. Davies (1980)[^3], using statistical data available at their time. I don't know a
We have re(stored) the Dongistan community
Original message: GenZedong users and moderators warned the Lemmygrad administration of chauvinists and people who harassed other users creating a community called Dongistan. Admins from both Discord and Telegram warned us of these reactionary elements and they were preemptively removed from the community
EDIT: We were working on the assumption that they were PatSocs, because that was the information given to us, and we decided to act upon that without further evidence. It was a mistake on our part. The community was therefore restored, but we are investigating the case further.
We are banning trolls which were harassing admins and other members inside Lemmygrad, and we've found out that they are a part of a group called "Horde's People's Republic of Dongistan" on Telegram.
Anti-communist poster in Brazil
trans.
There are only two options:
\ Bolsonaro | Communism
\ Honesty | Stealing (corruption, perhaps?)
\ Progress | Backwardness
\ Freedom | Slavery
\ Wealth | Hunger
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\ God, Fatherland and Family.
\ It's your choice
Meanwhile, the people are poor and hungry. More than half of our population (~100 million) face food insecurity, and more than 19 million are in hunger. The people are in extreme debt, facing evictions, unemployment and poverty, which fuels crime.
There are criminal factions growing stronger, which are in practice capitalist enterprises employing terrorism with their own mercenaries, and they are supported by large international private banks. There are millions in sub-employment under large corporations which exploits their workers like slaves, kids as young as 14 years old are working traveling full kilometers in a bicycle carrying food for a middle class consumer who ordered something on an app, in return of 5 reais per kilometer, which can't
How about we brigade the EnoughCommieSpam subreddit and speak positively of communism in the comments?
They have no interest in dialogue, and they have been consistently attacking us, our communities, and harassing our members.
Let's use this post to share threads which we could intervene with comments, not attacking anyone but by unironically responding to their arguments, engage with each other's comments, upvoting, imperializing EnoughCommieSpam into becoming a new GenZedong.
This will piss off many anti-communists and we will have fun in the process. It's a win-win.
We welcome our new members from r/GenZedong
Over the past few days, with worries of r/genzedong being banned, we have seen a major uptick in new accounts created. The admin team at Lemmygrad and, I'm sure, the whole community as well would like to welcome you here! Lemmygrad is built by communists and for communists, there is no censorship here and no worries about being banned for being Marxist-Leninists.
Lemmygrad is not too different from what you're used to on Reddit. We have our own c/genzedong community, as well as unique communities such as c/palestine, c/prolewiki, c/feminism and even c/me_IRA, which is very much alive and well on Lemmygrad.
Some other advantages of Lemmygrad over Reddit is our federated aspect (anyone can make their instance and federate with us), our ML community, and of course our hands-off approach. There are no investors to please here, there are no CIA agents moderating content. You can talk about piracy, you can say what you want to do to fascists, without being reported by a lib and suspended f
Flag of the People's Republic of Brazil
Inspired by the resolutions of the 16th Congress of the Brazilian Communist Party, I created this flag with four stars representing urban, rural, indigenous and quilombola workers, each oriented towards a larger star, representing the direction of socialism surrounded by two circles symbolizing the unity and solidarity of the working class
The 16th Congress of the Brazilian Communist Party is available to be read here.
A Congolese man in Brazil was tortured to death after demanding his already delayed wages from a petty-bourgeois kiosk
Contrary to what some believe, primitive accumulation of capital is a process that still happens in modern times. The term "primitive accumulation" makes one think that it was a process of the past, and that it has completed its final stage. This is one of the reasons why Marx rightfully critiques this view in section 8 of Capital, "So-called primitive accumulation"
However, primitive accumulation is a process that happens constantly. Usually through coercion and violence, the bourgeoisie and its petty appendix expropriate the worker of their work, even if that means having them as slaves or torturing them.
For instance, not only the United States has 400,000+ slaves illegally, they also have legal slaves through their prison system, which uses institutionalized slave labor, amounting to 1.3 million (60% of prison population), in total 1.7 million slaves in the US.