AlbigensianGhoul

They approach history the way a Catholic layperson approaches the theology, by taking every single (out of context) utterance in the text that agrees with their word as unquestionable Word of God.

If Luxemburg didn't like aspects of the October Revolution that obviously means it was bad, because they're not allowed to build critical opinions of their own. Same for Trots and other ultras.

That's exactly the trend with the "lefty" book publishers over here, (badly) translated What is to be done, with lengthy prefaces and postfaces that say that "communism never works," costing R$ 60 (which is the standard price for brand new books).

The other day I read a whole book about the "economic history of " that spent half of the text dissing on Stalin, who probably never heard of the region, then the rest of the book citing (oddly recent) editions of Trotsky books, all while finding creative new ways to paraphrase "capitalism is a global system" to fill space. It never actually got to economics or that much history.

Written by an emeritus professor, and felt like it was trying to make communism sound boring intentionally.

They didn't seem to have any other name, but it was some university kid thing. They love to pick random names and sell books (at gigantic prices) that are vaguely "left."

I always enjoy re-watching the full "Tank Man" video, with the "brutal Chinese tanks" awkwardly trying to bypass the protestor and patiently waiting him out. I think libs just see that single frame and fill the gaps with their own experiences in their countries in thinking that the guy got ran over or something. If you try that with a secret service car they might do just that.

Officials taking cash and cryptocurrency bribes or helping people eligible to be called up to fight to leave Ukraine are among the charges, said Mr Zelensky, in a video posted on social media.

wtf I support military corruption now. These are probably the Ukrainian officials who have saved the most Ukrainian lives, and they're getting the treatment of Germans who helped Nazi targets flee from Germany. What an odd coincidence.

My issue is not with gender neutral endings in romance languages (though I think they're rather underadopted right now), but that for some reason Yankees decided to go with the unpronounceable "X" ending rather than very old and established Latina/o or Latine or even Latin@. In my experience those are way more common than X endings, though I admit I haven't looked at hard data on that.

They could've just called them "Latins/Latin-Americans" but they chose to first a appropriate the grammar for "Latino" then think try to "fix" it in the classic Yankee fashion of not looking at already established norms.

Yeah, I have a particular beef with those labels because, although I usually like my Latin American cousins, my "Hispanic" country speaks Portuguese and not Spanish. In the census there wasn't even an option for Latin American people who speak languages other than Spanish (Portuguese and French but also Guarani or Quechua or the various creoles).

It's extra insult to injury that they appropriate the gendered "Latino" instead of just using their own "Latin," but then feel the need to slap an X on it. I've never even seen non-Yankees using latinx instead of the age old latino/a/e/@ out there.

Might as well get a couple of them lol. I'll check if any of my local buddies want some and try to get them by the end of the month.

Most definitely! Not only is it important to help homeless people as the most vulnerable class, but a lot of anxieties of rent-paying proletarians are specifically about how horrible it would be to become homeless without any support. Just be careful that some countries have some really backwards laws over organising and helping homeless people. It'll also require a lot of training since some homeless people will be struggling with drug addiction or mental illness, and those need very special care. Over here we have the Homeless Worker Movement that does some cool ideas like free public restaurants in critical regions as well as more direct action such as coordinating occupations of abandoned housing

I don't know who this is, but I'm always very wary of influencers who tell you to give up on doing social change because it has never been done (exactly like that) before. Specially if they're from Western Europe. Sure, acknowledge you don't have hope for a place, though be more honest and say that you just don't know how things can get better. But absolutely pay no heed to somebody speaking from a place of privilege that your worse situation is unfixable and you should "just move" (which for most Yankees means moving on to the afterlife because it's what they can afford).

I argue with conservatives.

how horseshit political thought is outside of social liberal circles

Do we tell them, or let them figure out at the Biden booth?

Fighting for "freedom of the press" has been a liberal capitalist fight since the beginnings of the printing press. They believe that just because their ideas are banned that they'll cease to exist, probably because they require enforcement from the law and state in the first place. And yet they think themselves to be "following human nature."

Everyone knows very well why. Because the publication of a newspaper is a big and profitable capitalist undertaking in which the rich invest millions upon millions of rubles. “Freedom of the press” in bourgeois society means freedom for the rich systematically, unremittingly, daily, in millions of copies, to deceive, corrupt and fool the exploited and oppressed mass of the people, the poor.

This is the simple, generally known, obvious truth which everyone sees and realises but which “almost everyone” “bashfully” passes over in silence, timidly evades.

from our boy Lenin