51dz31 [he/him]

If someone even tries to discuss communism with you in good faith, then it means you already have a better starting point than 90% of communists. I discussed the Soviet Union with an American and it was just painful, typical Stalin killed millions of people etc. Also thought that every historian (American btw!) that said something good about USSR was a russian propagandist.

But getting back to the topic, I think the most important part of discussing AES is not knowing the history of the said country per say (although it is very important), but understanding how to talk about the contradictions it faced. When you tell an average person that Stalin didn’t kill 8 million people in the terror, but 700 k it doesn’t really make it look all that better does it? However, when you put in the context of the conflict between regional leaders and Stalin and say that the USSR really had a very real existential threat, then it directly challenges the cartoonish version of Stalin and the USSR.

I think the issue is that you make it seem like you want to overcompensate for real tragedies that happened under AES. What I always want to explain when talking about AES is the role of state power in class societies. Most of libs will dismiss socialist states for killing people, but we know that state power is universally used by all states in the history of the world. The Soviet Union didn’t succeed in spite of using a highly repressive aparatus, it usually succeeded becaause of it.

I don’t know if that was a response you wanted, but that’s my perspective. Just remember that you don’t have to force yourself to persuade everyone.

Do AmeriKKKans actually care about Vietnam from a “principled” perspective? Or do they just think that Vietnam war was bad because the US lost very badly?

Yeah I mean, I liked rdr2, but I also remember that this game was made with the labour of people who worked over 100 hour per week

waiter! waiter! more proxy wars please!!

trvke

Reagan incident

US is so cooked, people there think that DEI is super radical communism, while in reality it’s nothing more than some liberal program

I think this short essay was the first thing that appeared in monthly review

Although I don’t really like january, this month has been really good for me. I managed to read 5 books already and I am doing ok at school do far

The destruction of Twitter would be the biggest defeat of nazism since WW2

MLPD is very dogmatic and sectarian. They also have a very weird stance on Israel. They condemn zionists’ action, but at the same time admit that Israel has a right to exist (?). Typical Germans lol

I don’t know much about DKP however

Few years later we will be seeing Mélenchon crown himself as an emperor

I only have good memories with Rummikub tbh

Sometimes, I like to play Rummikub and Ticket to ride, but I don’t play as often as I used to

Nice, you interested in numismatics?

Tbh to me the most common “western socialists” beliefs are:

• recognize Cuba is a socialist state, doesn’t do the same for DPRK, Vietnam and China
• Marx, Engels, Lenin (sometimes), Che Guevara good, Stalin and Mao bad
• “not true socialism”
• idealizes failed revolutions like german revolution
• against “totalitarianism” and “authoritarianism”

The butcher of Indonesia

Adolf Hitler would see this and say he won

Btw, is Sonic X Shadow generations even good? I liked the original sonic generations, but my thoughts after watching the trailer were mixed

Reminder that Noah Smith said that “Palestinian protesters suck”, because of them burning the US flag

Also Noah Smith the most “I support the current thing” journalist that I have ever seen online. He makes statements like “Egypt will industrialize in 5 nanoseconds” for some weird reasons and also always blames “the left” for being too radical. Average neoliberal.