I disagree, I think it’s healthy as communists to be skeptical and do our due diligence and background checks before we start getting too confident in someone.

I dodge this by keeping with my younger anarchist tendancy of having no idols, no gods, no masters.

If I want to be inspired by someone I will look to someone I know in real life within my community. Media figures, celebs, they are all fake and manufactured. With people like Assange, western leftist ‘celebs’ (for lack of a better term) I just take what good they have to say and ignore the rest while assuming they have skeletons.

Typically if I know about them in the first place they have passed some media check that they arent a serious threat to power. (Zizek, Chomsky)

With Assange, the decades long campaign to have him put in solitary is enough for me to know the upper class are aware of the real threat he poses, hes still nothing id idolize but someone I will take the good from.

Tony Hawk Blair

Not going to throw my trans comrades under the bus for political convience, and to vote for a center right liberal party.

I’m not trying to persuade you to vote Labour (I’m not voting them), but isn’t their current trans policy a slight improvement over now?

They are arguing for segregation of trans people on hospital wards, are meeting with JK rowling to ‘discuss concerns’ today and are seeking to ban ‘trans ideology’ from schools.

‘no but the observer isnt real’ they likely think.

Its a symptom of utter detatchment from reality and the perspective of the type of voyuer that only achknowledges the object as a stand alone entity with an objective meaning; you see it manifest in partiarchal right wing liberal socieities that objectify the womens body to such an absurd degree you get chuds arguing for legal ‘drawn’ child porn.

See Japan.

Scratch a liberal and a pedo bleeds

houses owned by people

turns out if you just kill everyone who mentions it no one is left to complain about it, interesting

find a feminist one, present as a marxist (always be honest)

failing that, trade union.

I dont personally mind the take that Jesus is a proto-revolutionary.

didnt this literally happen to tens of thousands of people during the white terror or am I tripping

That was the vibe I got from other commenters that havent replied to me. I appreciate you and others have less deranged views on this.

I dont think there is a magic number, I think the hope behind these actions are to inspire to enact more change and to show all human life has value, I think disregarding this as nothing demonstrates a lack of empathy or working class spirit.

Actually the US government was far far more a concern than NK. However now I’ve done work in the space of sort of what they called “guerrilla/unconventional warfare” for folks in the DoD because of this. I’m also working with the folks that would be the ones arresting me and they gave me a nice unofficial commendation (a challenge coin if you’re familiar)

lmao they do it for free

Aussig supports the Shining Path.

Disgusting, they should talk to socialists alive in Peru so they can slap the shit out of them for being so guilable.

first article, near the top I made the mistake to read this shit

It is important to note that the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc, with the exception of Albania, beyond the year 1956 will not be accounted for, as that period contained the abandonment of the construction of Socialism, de-Stalinization, and other economic, political, and ideological deviations.

(https://wisconcom.substack.com/p/totalitarianism-truth-or-propaganda)

All I can say is

lets just ignore one of the most sucsesfull era of soviet communism (space, showing american hegemony can be challenged, eliminating the gender pay gap, rent being 2-3% of a workers wage etc)

Right, but what makes you think they are actually going to leave the EU? He’s just emulating countries like Hungary, turkey, and India, who are utilizing geopolitical schisms to consolidate authoritarian regimes while staying plugged into the western capital apparatus.

Im not sure, if they do would you eat your hat and support it?

Do the communists in Hungary support removal from the EU also?

I don’t buy into the false dichotomy that anything that seemingly opposes western imperialism is automatically a win for communist.

Breaking up a bloc that was setup to counter communist infulence, is in fact good.

He is one of the “seven bankers” employed by Yeltsin to destroy and sell the communist government… He literally has made billions destroying communism.

This is greviances from the 90s, im taking the actions as they are now. We can agree Putin, this billionare are likely opportunistic captialist butchers while still seeing this as a move that benefits communists.

And who do you think was the person most responsible for Georgia joining the EU?

Im taking the actions as they are now, even if for cynical reasons breaking up the EU further and moving towards a direction that communism is permitted, and of which the most powerfull member of that bloc is a communist country is progressive.

You absolutely should be against chain suicides, like any good person is.

‘Chain suicides’ you’re inserting a bunch of nonsense no one has argued for. Lenin absolutely sent people to commit acts of violence on his behalf, and there have been many examples of suicide protest during occupied nazi europe having an impact.

You judge these things as not being impactfull the literal day after it happens, this is ridiculous. Its had enough of an impact we’re sitting here talking about it, this can be said to be more than most are doing.

Because it shouldn’t be copied, by anyone. There were many dozens of people that did this during Vietnam, of similar ages. Did that cause America to stop? No. None of the protesting did. Military defeat at the hands of Vietnamese communists did.

It pressured people to come back to the table, of course it did. Your ignorance of the impact of those protests doesnt make them not impactfull.

‘Inspiration’ and nonsense does not make a change in the world. All it does is add another sad headline, of which there are plenty to be had.

It likely sounds like nonsense because you’ve already accepted defeat.

Material reality. People have done this before for a myriad of causes. Does it stop empire? No. Lenin never said ‘go kill yourself it totally will change everything’.

Marxism isnt a orthodoxy that needs to be followed like a religion, im not going to judge the protest actions of others if it serves to protest a ongoing genocide being comitted by that persons government.

I run a homeless shelter. Thats at least one thing you could do that is far better than killing yourself for a cause. In fact, anything is better.

Firstly, cool. That doesnt change anything about how much you’re smugging over a dead person rather than allowing it to inspire.