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Another day, another wondering "why are we federated with lemm.ee again?"
What goes on in lemm.ee?
While the entire fediverse is basically the same thing as an RSS feed to me it is more biological and squirming 😱😰
My experience with lemm.ee posters is that they always seem to have the worst takes possible, tbh. And I don't use lemmygrad to see lib/chud shit- so honestly the whole fediverse business is 🤷♀️ on my end to begin with, though most seem rather decent (other than lemm.ee)
just saw a video some senator frying zuck in public about their disaster platform, 2 days later the stock price increased and this guy made 60-80 billion.
wtf is this system? everyone happy that meta stock price increased btw.
Got to keep the scam going if you want your own money back. That was the lesson from Enron.
Require a fun, engaging, funny left podcasts/episodes that can I listen to with my gf.
TrueAnon is nice, require some episode recommendation for a beginner
proles of the roundtable is very informative and funny
Pewdiepie just started drawing. Guess I have to support AI art now.
This is a bit of a rant sparked by someone showing me a gore video, unprompted. I have some mental issues and I always feel totally foreign to the rest of humanity. I feel like a weirdo, an outcast. I have weird hobbies and don't talk to people much, I'm always very nervous and jittery around others. This makes me come off as very strange and on bad days I can really get lost in my own head and start mentally beating myself up for not fitting in. But then something like this happens and I realize that while I may have an unusual personality, I'm not weird in the negative sense. Not like these fucking sick people who seek out, enjoy, laugh at, share, etc. videos and pictures of people and animals suffering. Why do they do this? Why did this person think it was okay to show that to me? Why did he have a big fucking grin on his face? Why did he cackle like a hyena when the thing happened in the video? Why did snicker and smirk when I showed distress and disgust? Why did he smugly say "are you triggered?" Yes I am in fact triggered. I literally have PTSD, though he doesn't know that. Yes I am a weirdo, because I keep a messy home, do hobbies most people have never even heard of, smoke a lot of weed and have an odd way of speaking, I don't go out much and don't know how to navigate social situations. I keep to myself and while others may find me disconcerting because I'm not like them, I'm harmless and just trying to get through life. This person who decided to show that video to me is a fucking weirdo of the highest degree, but his shit is somehow more normalized, especially on the internet. Is this behavior the product of a violent and inhumane culture? Is it human nature and I truly am the odd one out? Why is this a thing, why do some people enjoy seeing the suffering of others?
Speaking from only people I know, but, uh, that is definitely very weird and I'm pretty sure most people think torturing people/animals is a really weird thing. You're the normal one here. As for the content... it's probably just some really, really niche stuff.
Apparently Russian State Humanities University (РГГУ) is opening a new branch. It is called "High Political School", named after famous fascist sympathiser Ilyin and will be headed by Dugin (you know Dugin). The announced goal is to "Channel the attendees into traditional values" with "orthodox gymnasiums as an example". Folks here been saying Russia "isn't heading to fascism". Guess this isn't it, hm.
In other news, two AFU drones have reportedly been intercepted in my region, close to the city. We're hundreds of kilometres away from Ukrainian border.
If mild celebrating of fascist sympathizers (still too much, I agree) and some institutions promoting "traditional values" were enough to define fascism, most countries in existence could be labeled fascist, one way or another.
Obviously none of this is good, but no, I don't think Russia is heading to fascism. Too comfortable with some forms of it? Definitely, 100%. But it is incomparable to what is going on on a daily basis not only in Israel, Ukraine and the Baltics (ie. the most extreme forms of it), but in the USA, Brussels and across the EU, in the UK, Canada, Australia, etc...
Things can have more nuance than "everything is fascism/heading to fascism" and this is one of those things. Russia remains a civilization-state with many constituent peoples and proper autonomous regions rather than a supremacist ethno-state nor a unrepentant, genocidal squatter-state like Israel, the US, and Canada; it remains anti-imperialist and a major part of the forces for white, western supremacy, exploitation, and genocide worldwide (even if a large part of it is due to circumstance); obviously, it should receive critical rather than unconditional support, but same goes with Iran, Afghanistan, with the Saudis' move away from the west, with Mexico, Brazil, the list goes on... hell, same goes (if to a far lesser extent as there simply is far less to criticize, and proletarian rule is something that must inherently be defended in and of itself) for AES states.
Happy Black History Month! Make sure to remind your lib friends that their heroes were commies.
So the farmers protests are still going on over here and I had my doubts about our party supporting them. But they have surprised me I must admit. We are managing to highlight the messed up ways of the big Agricultural Industry in which everything becomes more expensive and the bigger profits stay at the big corps instead of with the farmers.
This summer is going so fast 🙁
So I got called a “red fash” is there anyone here who can push me more left?
That's awesome!
Well, this community in general will help push you leftward on this issue and that issue.
What in particular are you leftwardly curious about? What is it about Marxist Leninists that you are willing to humor?
We can all talk about why we support Russia in Ukraine, why China is awesome and there isn't a genocide on Uighurs, or why the Holodomor wasn't a genocide, we can talk about less fiery controversial things like the history of other socialist, anti imperialist, or Global Southern nations, we can convince you anarchism or electoralism are deadend controlled opposition, we can talk about zany things like the insane shit the CIA has done, we can talk about the word "authoritarianism" and address claims socialist countries are "authoritarian," and so on and so forth.
There are many very knowledgeable comrades here who could give you more information than you would know what to do with 😅
Hey! id like to talk on why exactly you support Russia in the Ukrainian war. I am well aware of Ukraine reactionary fascist leaning present (as i am a Ukrainian myself) but i am not sure how is "less evilism " of getting Russia(a capitalist state that literally forged thousands of documents to undermine USSR reputation) to control Luhansk Donetsk an Zaporizhia is worth starting a war and shit. I believe this is solely imperialist war to gain power and markets, literally ww1.
My position is neutral in this specific conflict, as both of the country leaders could stop the bloodbath for profits any day they wanted, but they value their money more.
Also not to mention that Ukraine has been turned into an Open-air concentration camp (for some mysterious reason Western media is not giving this topic any sight lol)
Male Ukrainians over age of 18 are literally banned from leaving country (this is illegal btw, Constitution states that you are free to leave any time), 20 year olds are fucking hunted by the military and tortured to sign up for volunteering fighting, and lots of other shit that is not really relevant but i can gladly share if you ask, but yeah, i think Russia is reactionary oligarchy-controlled pos. I am free to change my mind if you think you can, i pursue the truth
This has been explained many times, yet I can’t find a good instance, so I’ll quickly explain:
-our support is critical
-Russia does not meet the Leninist definition of imperialism (not exploiting other countries with finance capital)
-Socialist countries support Russia
-The west are the hegemonic imperialists and anything that breaks the imperialist system is good
-Ukraine was ethnic cleansing donbas since 2014, the communist party wanted them to intervene but they didn’t til 2022
-Russia has supported other anti-imperialists like Syria and the DPRK
-Europe has effectively demilitarized with how much over priced support went into the black whole of Ukraine
-the war has also exposed the contradictions in the west’s economic system
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Concentration of production and capital leading to monopolies. In Russia, there is significant concentration of capital in some sectors, such as the energy sector, which is dominated by large state-owned and private companies. This can be consistent with the Leninist understanding of monopolization
The merging of banking capital with industrial capital and the creation of a financial oligarchy. In Russia there is a close relationship between the financial sector and industrial companies, often with state involvement.
Capital exports. The deciding factor in determining whether Russia is imperialistic is the fact whether it exports capital: production and means of production (not to be confused with the export of goods) to gain more influence in the region and profit from it by hooking up "developing countries" to its means of production and exploiting the surplus value. Russia actively exports capital, especially in the energy and natural resources sectors, and through foreign direct investment in various countries. This similarity to Lenin's criteria in particular can reflect Russia's desire to increase its influence abroad through economic instruments.
International monopolistic alliances. Although Russia participates in various international economic unions and organizations, such as the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), BRICS, and has partnerships with other countries, it is unclear how closely these structures fit Lenin's concept of international monopolistic unions. Primary, Because Russia cannot yet claim a global monopoly due to the weakness of its own capital. Nevertheless, it has quite a claim to regional domination and the division of regional markets by monopolies with, for example, China. I can provide sources on that if you want, its just that i look up stuff on russian so it would take some time translating this for you .
Territorial division of the world. Russia actively divides territories, and even participates in the neo-colonial division of Africa, Wagner's troops have been making sure that the gold of the Central African Republic belongs to Russia for a long time. Not to forget Russia's efforts in Syria to seize local oil and gas assets. Besides, the war in Ukraine can be called imperialist by a few criteria, because it is not primarily conducted for national liberation purposes, but in accordance with Russian economic interests (seizure of resource markets, labor markets, natural assets in eastern Ukraine), and if it were not profitable in the long term for Russia, Russia would not have started this war.
Also if you haven't read it yet, i recommend Lenin's "Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism" Analyzing it will help understanding why we shouldn't support capitalist governments despite the fact they are "less reactionary". Because when time comes, and the power of such states strengthens, they eventually raise their bourgeois appetites and remove the mask of “good guys” Before reading it, Familiarize yourself with the history of the First World War (preferably from Marxist sources)
I’ve read imperialism and know the gist of WWI. I don’t imagine Russia is benevolent or anything. My understanding is that it, as a minor power defended its interests against the fascists who control the world. I know I’ve heard a thorough debunking of the imperialism argument, but I’ll see what I can do here.
For the first part, do you think China’s imperialist because they meet your same standard? https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/china-imperialist If China’s as non-interventionist and anti-hegemonic as they proclaim and is shown by fact, then why would they allow their ally to become the opposite?
Maybe Russia would like to do imperialism if it had the chance, but right now it is on the side of the colonized fighting against the greatest hegemon.
The main goal of the SMO as far as I can tell was to avoid having a fascist NATO puppet that could get nukes right on the border.
In terms of foreign involvement, the west is at least a hundred times as bad.
Didn’t Lenin advocate revolutionary defeatism? As most of us our westerners we should hope that the bloody states we live under should be defeated by Russia in order to help the liberatory movements of us and others under the boot of US and euro imperialism.
Ask yourself who benefits if each side wins. If the US can beat Russia through its Ukrainian proxy it will be emboldened to take China and other anti-imperialist countries. It will carve them up giving decades to their brutal imperialist system. If Russia beats Ukraine the west will have wasted a lot of resources. The west will be shown to be even weaker than they seemed. Their imperialist system will continue to crumble while the global south has a chance to breath free while they develop in a multipolar world.
Edit: also, “they’d be doing even eviler things if they had power instead of the people who do” is not a good argument. It’s the same as “white genocide” people use. The US can only be the hegemon because had the most beneficial outcome from WWII and the old European empires passed the reins to them.
Exactly. We must play divide and conquer, not neutrality.
I agree on what you're saying, this being said, i understand that leftists around the world should rather focus on fighting for Revolution, and Russian imperialist ambitions may be the secondary problem. Important note though, fighting for Revolution does not mean join either side, rather, it means use the world capitalist system failure to turn more people on our side and fight with us for a good cause.
Critical support doesn’t mean we should go join Russia as mercenaries and spend all our days being obnoxious on their behalf like some “MLs” do. What is means is that we recognize the role Russia and China are playing in challenging unipolar dominance and try to be pragmatic, using whatever progressive force to our advantage. In the west there isn’t that much we can do towards revolution besides try to plant seeds in the intelligent and oppressed people around us. What we can do even better in the interests of the international oppressed is to support groups fighting imperialist hegemony. That means Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and so on solidarity. Who is helping these countries the most at the moment? Progressive but non-socialist countries like Iran and Russia. Russia intervened on behalf of the anti-colonial socdems of both Venezuela and Syria. All these countries are building the foundations global economy that doesn’t rely on the west. That is why we must critically support them. Revolutions happen at the weakest chains of imperialism, so we should weaken all the chains we can.
"I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all. You live in the belly of the beast." — Dr. Ernesto "Che" Guevara
In the West there isn't much we can do towards Revolution
You guys are lucky to have guns legalized, we, eastern communists could only have dreamed about that!
Although i agree, Revolution usually starts in the most oppressed places, and USA is not having Revolution in near future
Battling the largest hegemonic imperialist group (western imperialists) to divide and conquer them basically. Also, fighting back against western imperialist expansion in Ukraine.
So far, Russia has been fighting the war as best as possible for civilians, reducing civilian casualties massively, if you don't count the Ukrainian regime sending civilians to die on trenches, I guess.
Lemmygrad is cute because we haven't discovered Melina yet
I was about to say.... Lol
We’re also all just cute
Fr best cuties 🥰
What about me
International security threat
Neither Berlin, nor Korea nor the atom bomb is attracting here as much attention as the tremendous fact that Russia is planting trees!
Stop for a moment, please, and think about that!
