Yo, I’ve gotten people to describe capitalism whilst trying to describe “communism” lol! That’s my accolade.

Try to not disagree with them, try not to argue or debate. Unless they’re very rational and reasonable and not very emotional. So, not most people, lol. Just listen to them and be an example to them any way you can. Be more patient, be more calm, be smarter or kinder, it doesn’t really matter how you are an example. They will change in time. At some point they will start asking questions, then you can show them the the way, the Engles essay and more. You want them to question the group of anarchism. By avoiding antagonizing yourself and leading by being a positive example, anarchists themselves usually scare people off.

The process of change takes time, practice and patience. Good luck!

Yo, I’ve even read some of his stuff, but I really don’t know what his criticism is of Marx and Engels. Does someone have the sparknote?

Wasn’t he a young Hegelian?

But Cuba guys! Cuba is evil and has no meds tho. This shortage must be the communists’ fault.

That is outlandish.

White people spreading diseases on foreign lands? Never heard of that!

Wonderful, thank you! It’s a topic I’ve been putting off, but I agree. It is important to learn about.

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It’s time to sharpen the guillotines

Marx looks like he’s about to pull a gun out of his pocket. Lol

Yo, as far as “death games” go, Battle Royale is the goat

What a pathetic article. First, the premise is so shaky. It’s based on a straw-man of general American sentiment.

Then, at the end, he asks us to look in the mirror. Yet, there aren’t any solutions expanded upon besides some shitty “build more rentals!!!” What exactly can a normal person do? Is this guy’s audience landlords? Probably.

The problem is the market, not housing. There are more than enough houses for everyone. But since it’s a fucking market, what can you expect but a minority landlord class absorbing the largest amount of housings to artificially limit housing? It’s a clear and predictable outcome. Thompson completely avoids this simple fact in order to blame the consumer of a necessity for the shit show that is investor market capitalism.

I just watched Barry Lyndon. It’s a beautiful period piece that follows the life of a young man and his rise and fall in elite British society. It’s by Kubrick. They used satellite lenses to film inside candle lit rooms and so actors move strangely to stay in the field of focus.

Funny side note: Kubrick received a death from the IRA for filming scenes with red coats fighting in Ireland. Prompting him and his team to flee the country within 48hrs. It may have been a hoax, but they didn’t take any chances lol.

I feel like materialism really isn’t that complicated or obtuse of an idea and Stalin does a good job at explaining it very intuitively. Ideas come from BRAINS, not some abstract non-material source.

I mean, name an idea that didn’t come from a brain… I’ll wait.

So why the hell is your pasty ass in an Asian desert?

“That’s the sound of pending civil unrest … you shut the fuck up with your boos.” -Dave Chapelle

Shit is at the same time hilarious and so dissonant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor

Here’s the wiki page. The science is solid. They know how to make them and there are experimental reactors. It’s safer than uranium reactors for lots of reasons, but no energy is without flaws or disadvantages.

They’ve mostly just not invested the resources into it, but we can blame that on the profit motive and the bomb lol.

PS. It’s hard to really understand the nuances of this stuff if you’re not some nuclear scientist… I’m most certainly not.

Thorium-based molten salt reactors are very promising and there are many ways to get around the trickyness of traditional nuclear energy.

There are schematics for these dating back to mid XX century. Thorium reactors are pretty much incapable of melting down since it’s reaction requires constant energy input to fissure, contrasted with uranium which needs energy input to keep from melting down and chain reacting. Thorium is at present date simply considered mining refuse bc it’s so abundant while uranium is rarer than gold. The reason why thorium was not accepted for experimentation is bc uranium is much easier to weaponize, as it requires much less processing.

I think people just need to be informed. A true environmentalist will readily accept the need for nuclear energy. While clout-chasers will continue to deny its necessity.

Yeah, I’m not entirely sure what the Zapatista movement is besides an experiment in indigenous sovereignty. I think that should be respected even if it doesn’t have an explicit ML structure or practice. I think their form of leadership and govt works for them for now, and I trust that they are on the right path for their people and that their govt represents their people. Maybe in time they will change, but maybe they won’t. Regardless of this possibility, their indigenous sovereignty should be above anything we might agree or disagree with since indigenous peoples around the world have historically been denied the privilege of sovereignty.

The Zapatista movement is understandably reclusive and suspicious of outsiders and non natives. They are not going to be super open about how they run things since Mexico is still a very anti-communist, post McCarthyist nation, albeit less so than USA. Cuba didn’t explicitly say that they were socialist until after they rose to power. I’m guessing that the Zapatista movements don’t want to attract CIA attention either. So it’s safer just to say you’re anarchists and call it a day so that you don’t have to worry so much ab getting infiltrated. But that just a few of the possible reasons I could imagine as to why they behave and portray themselves in this way.

Dude, the guardián does a shit job at interpreting Xi. Fuck that newspaper.

But Xi does teach this lil boy a lesson.

Edit: @Aria posted this video with the actual transcript, since the guardian is such a lazy publication.

Honestly, Guerrilla Warfare by Che is really cool. It helps solidify in the mind what a REAL anti-imperial war would look like just about anywhere on Earth. It helped me see that, with some updates, it is viable, it’s a great sacrifice, but it is possible to wage a war like this. Really, any committed communist revolutionary should read it.

It is less philosophical and more practical. Something I really appreciate. Beyond that, it’s an interesting view into the mind of a great one like Che.

Besides that, On Contradiction by Mao is awesome. Critique of the Gotha Program is so good.