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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.

On Sunday last week, Damascus fell to Salafi terrorists and other imperialist-aligned forces. Regardless of the flaws of the ousted government, this is a horrible situation for the Syrian proletariat as well as for the people of Palestine, Lebanon and others. We can only hope for the perseverance of the Syrian workers and the remaining anti-colonial resistance.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

(rabm) is red anarchist black metal. shitheads don’t know what red means there lmfao.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Authoritarianism", god I hate that word. Gotta be one of the top most reductionist, misused words there is. I'm not gonna say everybody who uses it as a negative also supports some kind of imperialist/fascist/colonizer project, but it sure is common. And among those who view it as a purity thing, that opposing it is some kind of freedom from the confines of overreach in authority, they miss that there's no human society without forms of authority and that the countries they usually think "were supposed to be liberating communist projects and aren't" actually are democratic. One of those symptoms of when somebody realizes the imperialist country they live in is shit, but they still believe its propaganda about other countries.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

"Anarchists" who never read a book on anarchism. "They don't want to control power, they want to critique power"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what is palestinian authority function in this crisis?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Imagine Vichy France but they are also running death squads that kill partisans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What does Juche 113 mean and why is it used here? Thanks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

It is referencing the Juche calendar which beings with Juche 1 in 1912, Juche being essentially Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics, an application of Marxism specific to the Korean condition from my understanding but maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in I'm not well versed there.

It's a tradition to refer to the date in the Juche calendar from the old reddit r/GenZedong weekly discussion sticky that carried over to here as far as I am aware

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

📢 Today is the 35th birthday of the Hungarian Workers' Party. Happy birthday and keep going! 🇭🇺

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

protest in ROK today

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Love this tiny bit of theory from an old Soviet film about the revolution, between Tanya the nurse and the political comissar Ignatyich:

Tanya: Listen, Ignatyich... Why isn’t there Soviet power abroad? Are they stupid?

Ignatyich: Go to sleep.

Tanya: But how come, Ignatyich?

Ignatyich: Seems they don’t have the strength for it. And they live better than we do. They're not desperate enough, haven’t ripened for it yet.

It's a great film, shame there doesn't seem to be a version with English subtitles on YT.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

muric*nts do anything to spread propaganda

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I have a very, very, very strong feeling that the complaints about how Gen Alpha is "ruined by screens, entitlement, permissive parenting" is nothing but nonsense that is not very different at all from how previous generations were complained about. They even complained about "today's youth" in ancient Greece, Egypt, and Sumer!

It's an outdated mindset that I sadly see all around me, even among many progressives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Remember when when everyone said T.V. would rot kids brains? All the people who grew up watching T.V. are now saying Phones will rot kids brains. Either they have brain rot or they are making shit up just like their parents and grandparents did.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Idk I guess you could make a point about screens. I read the other day about how there is an increase of children with eyesight problems probably caused by sitting too close to a screen from a young age. Also, some of the content for kids is literal brainrot lol.

But I guess that then just boils down to what content they consume and not just screens in general.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hate how many Arabs are celebrating what's happening in Syria, and I'm not even talking about just Moroccans. This makes it hard to not want to just give up on them. It's like they haven't got a single clue, they just gobble up everything they're being told by media just like before. The Arabs are so weak that a completely different culture in Iran are spearheading their own resistance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the end of the day they are not that different from westerners. People everywhere regardless of their religion, nationality or ethnicity are susceptible to being propagandized by their media and their ruling class establishment institutions. All that differs is the material circumstances, and these compel more people in the global south than in the imperial core to wake up and actually realize what is happening.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

a ton of people just live in autopilot and parrot whatever they hear on media, i kid you not ive had mexicans tell me about "china does child labour" while there are kids working in the background.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Many Arabs are not celebrating, I can attest to this.

Well, I'm Turk, so maybe it's just only what I see.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, as a Syrian vehemently against what is happening, most Syrians are celebrating.

Some of them are Syrians I spoke to a week before the regime fell and they held a position similar to mine.

I suppose for some it is fear of persecution from new regime, or a cope given that we've reached a point of no return. But it still terrifies me. Have we accepted Al-Qaeda rule of our country?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is it true that people are forced to wear hijab again?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Not exactly forced, but there are people (often in camouflage uniform) in the streets calling (sometimes on megaphone) for women to cover their heads, and calling for men and women to stand separately in separate spaces rather than mix. Sometimes they give out scarves while asking them to cover their hair. However I haven't seen or heard of any violence or forcing on this matter (though Idk if anyone tried to disobey either).

This is likely individuals doing it and not a state policy thing yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a cool experience to see so many union members dressed in red going to Brussels today. A big wave of red just cramming into a train, proper working class people✊🏼

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

never underestimate labor unions

Too much of the left does.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In What is to be Done Lenin warned about overestimating the revolutionary potential of labor unions.

Labor unions are a great staging ground for agitation and radicalization but they are not revolutionary by nature.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I'm already aware.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anyone know how I can find my own DMs on here?

Edit: Found them— bell icon, messages, all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Tomorrow I will join a general strike in Brussels against the government. Excited to see what will happen. Might be a good networking opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have a socialist classmate who believes that money doesn't give you power, but ideology does. When I talked about capital he said that capital doesn't equal power either, and that capitalists power can't be just because of capital. He also said another time that HTS didn't win because of capitalist reasons but because of their islamic ideology. I disagree with him, and you?

He's kinda a debate bro type of socialist btw, who doesn't go to demonstrations or is part of a party.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That person doesn't sound like a socialist at all. Marx rejected ideology as false consciousness. Ideology is the polar opposite of materialism.

HTS won because they had the money to bribe generals and Assad didn't have the money to pay them to keep them loyal. If Ideology is more powerful that material concerns why didn't ISIS win the last war? Sunni supremacy was far more acceptable in Syria back then. Anti imperialist ideology is at an all time high in the region.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not sure what his point is really. Like money, or capital, or possession of something in general, gives you power. Especially in a system that is designed around money, or capital, or possessions.

Also not sure what he means with the HTS thing. Like, they won because they are a US proxy and managed to get aid through one of the most powerful military forces in the world. Not sure what them being Muslims has to do with that. Allah didn't guide them to victory.

Does he ever elaborate on his claims? Or is he just trying to sound interesting?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Could have meant that the struggle was ideological rather than (just) over capital simpliciter. There's a point to be made there. Marx and Engels argued that people do things other than for economic reasons. I'm unsure if that's quite what's happening here, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because you can be a capitalist at heart but if you don't own any capital what power do you have?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think he's an idealist and thinks ideas matter the most

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

You can be the biggest bootlicker at work, the bosses can even like you, but you can still get fired. The "ideas" at play here don't matter, since the capital owners will do what they need to expand their capital - and their ability to do so is because of their ownership/control of capital.

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