You wanna show me video evidence of this happening in China? Because we can’t just go around saying shit, babes

You assume the bubble won’t pop in 3 years

Or you could be normal about women, instead of posting shit like this

Etsy Witches are on a roll lately

No.

40 hours a week isn’t some magic number that we have to adhere to. We should be working less.

The compassion thing isn’t even why nonviolence can be effective as a strategy.

It’s to find contradictions and accelerate crises. The state is denying African Americans access to public institutions? Put yourself in the middle of those spaces and deny access to white people.

These cascading contradictions, coupled with the demonstrable threat more violent methods, are what have made nonviolent movements successful.

I stg, American public education has a lot of issues, but the way we teach the Civil Rights era is a fucking disaster

The world would be better off without you

Nerd

You can accept or reject the claim that South Korea is an imperialist outpost of the US. I don’t care about that right now.

But you do know that nothing in OPs comment implies that the two korea’s share passports or anything like that, right? Like, come on, these are basic reading comprehension skills.

Isn’t WSWS run by Trotskyists?

Do peertube and Mastodon have annoying federation wars like Lemmy does? One of the reasons I switched to primarily using my .ml account is so I keep up with both Hexbear, and the rest of the more mainstream of Lemmy.

Can I easily do that on our respective PeerTube and Mastadon instances? Or are they aggressively defeded like Hexbear is?

Buddy, Like it or not, religious people are a Part of the working and oppressed classes that we as leftists, want to liberate.

If we look at an ongoing revolutionary movement right now, one of the legal organs of the Philippine Communist movement, in the NDF, explicitly organizes Philippine Catholics.

Pontificating with edgy r/atheism memes, rather than organizing the masses isn’t helping anyone. Log off and give food to the homeless with a local church, ffs

MAGA types

I think Germany might have its own thing to compare the AfD to…

As a humble gringo, I aspire to be the biggest fucking race traitor on God’s green earth

He isn’t conscious of that because that guy is a fucking dipshit who should think before he opens his mouth.

If we care about opposing fascism, the we ought to use words responsibly.

Great, we can keep being perpetually blood feuding with eachother for all eternity, great solution, once we’ve exiled and eradicated all hateful people the remainder will live in peace and prosperity forever.

This is not Fanon’s point, nor is it mine. The Wretched of The Earth Is a seminal text on colonialism for good reason. In it, Fanon is grappling with what it means for the colonized to violently resist.

The settler state is already violent. We just don’t usually conceive of state violence as such. Fanon is correct in the same way that the way to deal with a schoolyard bully is to stand up and confront him. Not appeal to his better angels.

(It’s not like that thinking isn’t basically how we got here or anything)

This misunderstands the situation. This isn’t some ancient conflict where both sides are equivalent. The Israeli state is the aggressor here, and that aggression has a clear beginning, with at least the Nakbah.

The land itself is the thing being fought over. Not some nebulous blood feud. The land, the capacity to live on it, work on it, cultivate it, to have history on that land. These are things being denied to the native Palestinians by the Israeli state.

The solution here is the right of return for all displaced Palestinians, restoration of their civil liberties, language rights, etc. So they might be able govern themselves, as they see fit.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because it is the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity -The Wretched of The Earth

Aight, so Imma put on my grad school hat for a minute. ‘Maoism’ as a term, isn’t stuff Mao did, or things that happened in China in that period. Heck, it doesn’t really even come from Asia.

Maoism, or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, is an ideology which proclaims itself to be the next stage in the development of Marxism, and was codified, largely, by the Communist Party of Peru (Sendero Luminoso), and the network of parties that it a part of, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.

It’s called Maoism because the PCP and the RIM were grappling with the legacy of the Chinese revolution, the Sino-Soviet Split, the Reform and Opening Up under Deng Xiaoping, etc.

Think of it like this, Jesus Christ was not a Christian. Jesus was a Jew, responding to the context of first century Roman Judea. Other people came along later, had a bunch of ideas about what the legacy of Jesus was, and what came out of that was Christianity. But if you hopped in your time machine and asked Jesus if he was a Christian, he would not have known what that meant.

Similarly, Marx was not a Marxist, Lenin was not a Leninist, etc. Other people had a lot of ideas about the legacies of these people, their ideas, and the revolutionary movements that they were apart of, and what develops are these ideological lineages.

So Maoism asserts that, for example, the experiences of the Mass Line, and Cultural Revolution (or at least the idea that class struggle persists under Socialism) from the Chinese experience, are universal lessons, applicable anywhere. Rather than being specific to China.

There’s more to it than that. But I really want to make it clear that Maoism is more than just “and then we kill all the sparrows and our grain harvest will collapse!”

So no, not close enough. We don’t get to throw around words, if we claim to care about opposing fascism. Don’t make me pull out the Sartre Quote.

We can, and should criticize the Trump admin, but we can do it in a way that doesn’t boil down to “what are we, a bunch of Asians?!”

Yeah, I’m writing a thesis right now about actual Maoism, and like… Really? That’s the phrase they chose?

Words used to fucking mean something!

The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.

• Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

For the starving people of Gaza, who have lived their entire lives in what amounts to the world’s largest concentration camp, the time for “changed behaviour” from Israel is long passed, if it was ever there to begin with.

It started a couple years ago when she went on a bizarre transphobic tirade, against the use of trans inclusive language. From there, it’s just been a long downward spiral.

The whole reason she’s on this conservative talk show is because she’s been making this rightward pivot