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Ever since I started commenting on Instagram posts made by a far right wannabe militia they started to seem less confident of their case. Sometimes my comments get deleted, sometimes people I reply to even delete their comment altogether. I think it goes to show that they are just cowards who can bend easily when shown a bit of competition.
Check your stories, and see who's viewing them. I've done this type of thing before, and you'll notice that you'll have a lot of people who you don't follow start watching your stories.
I do this with my personal account which is set to private, so nobody except my followers can see my stories. I do get lots of follow requests, though.
let me just say the taglines are a great addition
"We cannot wait for favours from nature; we must wrestle them from her!" - Ivan Michurin
I am feeling very bummed-out. I am more and more acutely aware of my alienation from those who are ostensibly my comrades because the intersection of disability seems completely absent from every corner of life. Covid has only furthered this contradiction that I unwisely tried to ignore and push through in my younger years. The assured influx of avian flu outbreaks will strain it even more. I need to know organizers and my able-bodied peers will not continue to completely ignore us in favor of an unsustainable status quo even they can’t seem to acknowledge, but I know they will. If you have gotten this far in my ramble, thank you- please don’t forget about your medically vulnerable comrades in your learning and practice.
I'm sorry to hear that. Our disabled (that's not the right word, right?) comrades do often get overlooked I think. We have lots of comrades with various disabilities in our party and imo they need to be involved as much as possible to share their point of view, because indeed the able bodied members often don't realize what needs to be done for them.
I think disabled is fine to refer to someone, at least that’s how folks in my circles think. Everyone is different of course. I am happy to hear it from your party; it has been nearly impossible for me to find any safe or accessible events, political or otherwise- mask blocs are pretty much the only thing I can safely attend anymore- and my wife and I advocating for me usually falls on deaf ears at best. What tends to happen is people we knew just stop hearing from us, but it’s never really our choice. No one seems to interrogate this which feels very bad. It’s one thing to stop showing up to various events due to lack of accommodations, it’s a whole other thing to realize your friends and loved ones just wouldn’t care if you disappeared.
I did a test by a newspaper to see if you are left or right wing and lo and behold I am a left wing progressive
This is a complete blindside. Your politics have always been an enigma and you’ve left many baffled with where you lie on the spectrum. Especially with the suspicion right wing post yesterday…. Hmm
Well the weird thing is: afterwards the quiz showed how other voters of specific parties ended up on the political compass. Most of the voters from our party were economically and social-culturally left of course, but there were also quite a few who were economically and social-culturally right wing. Which doesn't make sense at all. Why vote for a marxist party? Lol.
In the three years of the revolution our ideas on this subject have changed greatly. A new philosophy, which has little m common with the old ideas, is in the making. Three years ago we regarded a merchant as a completely respectable person. Provided his accounts were in order and he did not cheat or dupe his customer too obviously, he was rewarded with the title of “merchant of the first guild”, “respected citizen”, etc. Since the revolution attitudes, to trade and merchants have changed radically. We now call the “honest merchant” a speculator, and instead of awarding him honorary tides we drag him before a special committee and put him in a forced labour camp. Why do we do this?’ Because we know that we can only build a new communist economy if all adult citizens are involved in productive labour. The person who does not work and who lives off someone else or on an unearned wage harms the collective and the republic. We, therefore, hunt down the speculators, the traders and the hoarders who all live off unearned income. - Alexandra Kollontai
Can we add this unfathomably based quote?
Can anyone link me to the list of quotes used at the top of the page when you load into Lemmygrad?
I'm going to meet Vijay Prashad next week so like
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do y'all have any questions I should ask him? I can try to get some in if he's available toward it.
ask him about his honest opinion on cpi (m)'s blatant revisionism
what kind of revision, in case asked for clarification
right deviationism, they have been exceedingly liberal, socdem at best in the states they have attained power in, and have engaged in counter revolutionary events like that in nandigram. moreover the party's violent policy against the cpiml in the 70s is partly the reason the naxalbari movement turned out the way it is rn.
In what context will you meet him? Are you going to interview him or just casual?
he's doing a speech on campus, although I wish I was cool enough to be the one interviewing him
No questions but that’s really neat, and I hope it’s a great, informative time!
thank you!
Did he have any disagreements with Noam Chomsky when coauthoring a book with him?
there are 2 books now
Oh god.
he recently visited south korean parliament for some sessions. can you ask more details about that? i can’t find any online.
that sounds like a good one
hi 