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Is China actually going to implement market based reforms like Yellen suggested? What’s the outcome of this visit?
what the fuck is this guy taking about?
I read a bit about this guy, seems like a run of the mill western china expert.
in this case, "the whole thing" is the USSR
i got that
then I'm confused about the question
written by IMF lmao
But doesn't represent the views of the IMF lol
This is actually so...I don't have the words for it. Feeling a pit in my stomach. The combination of the picture and the "temporarily closed" when they know full well what's going on just makes me want to cry.
My kiddo was singing along with this on the way home. I must be doing something right. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gaXHUI6Gl1Q
you know the drill. boycott google
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/
Asked this in my group chat, figured I ask it here as well. Why don't any of these parties apply anarchist tactics within the party frame work to build dual power and do praxis? My experience with organizing IRL is mostly stuff like Food Not Bombs Things like tactical urbanism
I see this a lot in my neighborhood, most of the bus stops lack shade or a place to sit, so you'll have old and disabled ppl forced to stand. Saw a old lady with a walker having to wait like that. Tactical urbanism would be getting together and building benches for those bus stops no cross walks in my neighborhood, we could fix that
communists tend to be more educated than average, we could be helping people get their GEDs, holding classes funded and organized by the party, this appeals directly to the masses, you help someone get their GED? You'll have a loyal comrade.
I have a friend who is a school teacher, a science teacher. She has four classes of students, each with about 30 kids in it. She's given $300 at the start of the school year to buy all of her supplies. Not only would it be an incredible propaganda win to go, Hey, look, the Communist Party is supplying schoolteachers with the supplies to teach your kids. Because the current regime won't provide for your kids. You see what I'm saying? We have to build that dual power. We have to improve the material conditions of the working class.
I mean, this could range from anything from helping the homeless have food in their belly, setting up mobile libraries, setting up coat drives, cooling centers, building bus benches, running workshops, building impromptu third spaces, guerrilla gardening, lot cleanup, Alleyway restoration. Like, if a party has numbers and has people paying dues, those people should be being put to work, and those dues should be being spent building the dual power and improving the work that can be done.
To me, if I join a party, that's what I want to be doing. I want to be put to work. I want to be with a leadership that is trying to get work done. I'm trying to stack W's, and my concern is that I'll join one of these parties, and we'll just be selling newspapers, which is, I guess, important. I mean, I run a blog, but I want to do things that I couldn't do alone and have zero interest in reformist electoralism within this settler state. Maybe they do these things already and I'm just ignorant.
Totally agree, ChunkaLuta’s doing stuff like that, but not in cities yet afaik.
Not only would it be an incredible propaganda win to go, Hey, look, the Communist Party is supplying schoolteachers with the supplies to teach your kids.
Sadly that would probably be another justification for defunding schools and going on witch-hunts.
Tactical urbanism would be getting together and building benches for those bus stops no cross walks in my neighborhood, we could fix that
Problem is that a lot of the times this is illegal. Those benches could be removed or worse there could be consequences for those who install it. Not saying you shouldn't do this, but just saying that there is usually a lot of resistance even to simple projects like that.
communists tend to be more educated than average, we could be helping people get their GEDs, holding classes funded and organized by the party, this appeals directly to the masses, you help someone get their GED? You’ll have a loyal comrade.
Our party's student wing does that. It's a really good effort.
Also agreed with Grain Eater that I wouldn't call them anarchist tactics.
Your first part is kind of why they've become known as anarchist tactics though, because it seems to me, and this might come off some type of way, that anarchists are the ones who are willing to take that kind of risk. And sometimes you just gotta take that risk, I feel. I mean, it's putting benches up. You can make them with wood, and you could probably do a bunch in the afternoon. And maybe they get taken away, but you just build new ones. I mean, hell, in LA there was a group of people who were doing crosswalks, and the city started removing them, and it caused a bunch of problems in the media, because people were like, why are you removing these crosswalks? Why didn't you build them in the first place? And then it became a propaganda win, which is what we need.
I'm also really glad that you guys are doing that GED stuff. I think that that is a winning strategy, a winning move. You know, I think about my own father, who had to get his GED when he was like 23. And, you know, he's kind of like an apathetic Gen X conservative, and I wonder if that could have been, way back then, a kind of starting point to make him not that.
Lets not get hung up on semantics though!
these are good ideas, although I wouldn't call them anarchist tactics
Why not?
There's nothing specific to anarchism about them. The Black Panthers weren't anarchists
Fair, fair. I only went with that because the orgs I've worked with in the past, IRL, whether it's, FoodNotBombs, or putting out fridges and food and stuff, they've all been very explicitly, yeah, we're anarchists. Which, which is cool, but limiting, to say the least. Fractured and limited. (We need a Vanguard)
What's a good follow up to Settlers? Incredibly blackpilling book, surely, but surely there's a follow up discussing things that can be done.
Red Deal (read my Marx madness if you like audio)
Read Hinterland
Wasn’t Rainer Shea recommending that?
I hope not, but it's definitely not something that he should like, and he's probably just cherry-picking whatever agrees with him while negating others.
I think I downloaded that book when I liked Shea on his recommendation. I can’t find the post, but I did find a recent pro-Hinkle one💀.
Yeah, it's not something that PatSocs should like and they're just cherry-picking.
The book Hinterland by Phil A. Neel is a good book though.
Maybe some texts on Black Liberation in US? From the BPP or Angela Davis for instance.
Not a bad idea, I still need to finish Women Race and Class by Angela Davis.
Dating apps make me feel so unlovable. I never get matches and when I do they unmatch me when I send a message. I'm on lesbian Tinder and it feels like they consider me undateable for being a pre-transition trans woman
I feel like dating apps have set this weird precedent where you meet someone and you immediately have to decide whether they're someone you want to date/ ave a relationship with or if they're someone that you want to be friends with but in my experience the people that I've dated have typically been people I was friends with and then it kind of naturally just becomes a little more romantic and a little less platonic.
I can't help but feel like that was how it was before online dating became the norm.. You know, you become friends with a woman/man, and then maybe it becomes a little more than that, and if it doesn't, I don't see why you still can't be friends. Just make it very clear that if one party isn't interested in the same way as the other party, it's up to that other party to come to terms with that, and as long as that other party can come to terms with that and move on and not be like, "well, you know, you're the only one for me", then I don't see what's wrong with this logic.
I heard it's the same for transwomen in hetro tinder and even for Grindr
For what its worth im a cis white dude and have largely the same experience, I think those apps just absolutely suck. I find Tinder is especially bad for that, fairly certain a significant portion of accounts are bots. Maybe try Hinge ? I have had more luck at least having decent conversations on there, though honestly I think it is just incredibly hard to actually form a connection with someone on a dating app. I find myself unable to maintain interest in talking to someone over text but also not overly interested in going on a date with anyone I talk to. Might just be a me thing but I feel like maybe it is true for a lot of people.
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I want to make a Wikipedia for MLs.
As an alternative to Wikipedia.
Yes, but it's biased against CPUSA (among other issues I have about it) and I'm afraid to edit it, even though I have a ProleWiki account, because my edits might not be approved or taken down.
Which is why I'm gathering some friends to help me make a Wikipedia alternative.
what do you mean by "biased"? Is what they are saying true or not? And if it isn't true what exactly isn't true about it. Have you ever written out anything to tell them what is incorrect about their position and correct about yours?
There is the Cuban https://www.ecured.cu/EcuRed:Enciclopedia_cubana There is also ProlWiki
EcuRed, right?
I know about this website.
Does it have an English version?
Also, I want to create an alternative to ProleWiki as well since it's biased against CPUSA.
I'm asking some friends if they want to get involved.
no its only in spanish,
It's a good thing that, as a Latino, I'm re-learning Spanish.
Regardless, I will make my own Wikipedia alternative with some friends as ProleWiki seems hostile to people like me.