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I heard that Yugoslavia had markets and stuff, is that true?

The admins of lemmy.ml seem communist and one of the admins nutomic have a picture of Fidel Castro as their pfp and one of the popular people Yogthos has a Soviet Cosmonaut as their profile.

I hear sometime people call a certain movie 'the greatest movie ever made' but what's the criteria?

I want to read philosophy which books should I read first

Hi, I am a young student and am going on to university soon. I am interested in helping causes and organisations like unions and such for a profession. I thought of doing political science, but that's not very agreeable to my parents. So I thought of doing economics however I'm not sure how employable a pure economics degree is and whether or not I can stomache the neoliberal economics. If anyone could provide some of your own experiences and help me I would appreciate it.

Hello,

Why is every "anti-revisionist" marxist an ultra? "Anti-revisionism" is so amogus because they claim to be the opposite of who they are

Sorry the title's bit wordy but basically I'm looking for stuff like debates that were had within the party and what ultiamtely led to the party signing off on the limited reintroduction of markets.

Hello,

You can say the 1961 was when communism was at its peak. But SU was always far weaker than the West. China today alone is as strong as America, and the West is fighting expensive imperialist wars they can't win (Afghanistan, Al-Ghazzah, Russia trade war). We don't have a new Warsaw Pact or COMECON, but China is a huge country of 1.5 bln people, more than Warsaw Pact

I'm just wondering what their views are on other AES countries since they welcome private investment, except for DPRK of course

I know this question will sound silly to some, but suppose a group of people in a low key third world country decide to make their own commune. They work together to build up farming and industry purely based on their own need, and slowly expand to accomodate their needs.

I see a couple of issues with this:

• not all countries can do this. For example, Palestinians living in Palestine will suffer trying to do this. But most countries can, right?
• it will only benefit the tiny group of people within proximity to the commune. But the commune can 1) expand and 2) inspire communes in other locations
• some needs are hard for a small commune to make, such as computer chip manufacturing, and other things they will need to get from the non commune world

But still, I can't see this as less than a good step forward?

I can't pay 10 $ monthly for someone's patreon, but those juicy premium episodes are so enticing, I need them. Help me with this, please 🥺

I couldn't even hack stalin's explanation rip 😢

If Starbucks is only able to be successful by exploiting the global south, then I must ask, why is a wage increase for their western workers viewed as good progress? Wouldn't that intensify the exploitation of those who are the actual producers of this company, such as the farmers?

I have to write a summary paper for a class I'm doing for my masters degree, and since the professor running the seminar this semester specializes in data visualization, the paper has to be related to that. Being the aspiring Marxist that I am, I figured international trade between countries (what commodities are being exported/imported, which countries are exporting to/importing from whom, what fraction of a country's imports/exports are of a specific commodity, etc.) would be a good choice. While I'm going to look for papers myself, I figured I would have a higher likelyhood finding someone into that stuff on Lemmygrad compared to other online spaces.

I mean think about it.

You just need a library card (usually free if not always) and you can get anything a library offers for free with no fees. This use to be just movies, books, music CDs (think early 2000's and 1990's but now you can even get new video games for free. (physical copies)

it's a collective resource for a lot of media based products. Most countries, (if not all) have and tend to support public libraries.

but is this a good communism service. when looking at communist principles? What does the community think?

The English speaking internet is loaded with capitalist view of this war. Prolewiki has no article about it.

Only Marxist stuff I read about it was that the revisionist Soviet Union was aggressive to Marxist China. It claimed that the gov of China feared that Soviet forces tried to encircle China

Title. Is it because looser adventurism gets more headlines? is it an image thing? Dunno how to articulate reliably what I'm thinking, just seems like all I hear about are "anarchists squat building", or about food not bombs (admirable work so I hear), or is it just down to difficulty in organising in other groups?