• Tubby6945@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    11 hours ago

    My mind is still reeling after I stared at the abyss (new batch of Epstein docs) for just a little too long. If you haven’t looked into it yet, please heed the warnings, there’s some horrific stuff in there.

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 hours ago

    non ML leftists are tiresome i think i need to get off this website for a bit. also the pms + executive dysfunction combo hit this weekend. feel like shit

    • Богданова@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      44 minutes ago

      If you’re tired that means you care about it and it’s a good sign imo. Part of Marxism-Leninism includes taking care of yourself, as part of taking care of the cause, so you should take a break for sure. Otherwise you’ll burn out and I’ve had that happen, nothing good comes out of burnout.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I’ll never discourage people from spending less time online but If dealing with libs isn’t your cup of tea you can just block them. You can block entire instances if you need to.

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      13 hours ago

      i’ve seen like two stumble in here cmon man it says it on the tin. there’s a tank in the logo. you can try and learn but stop gawking at the tankie tendencies you’re on the tankie section of lemmy it can’t be more obvious

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        7 hours ago

        I actually appreciate it when we have libs showing up. Yes, this is an ML space, but it doesn’t have to be a bubble insulated from the outside world. If libs want to come here and learn or engage in good faith discussions, then we should welcome that. People won’t change their views overnight, but we can plant a seed and perhaps over time they will come to understand.

        • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          45 minutes ago

          yeah, no, i agree. i don’t have a problem with that at all. the only thing i wanted to complain about was just the personal frustration of those who enter spaces at first determinedly against opening their mind to said ideology because of anti-communist programming.

          but yes it is good to be receptive something something thomas sankara’s banger quote. it’s just sometimes the bad-faith people or anticommunist lefists are baffling when they choose to enter these spaces and be combative to all positions upheld. it’s fine, because either way it’s a chance to try to disseminate said information, and i am never going to be like “get out of here and die,” because again it’s a chance for people to try to teach, (once again, the sankara quote in sidebar) which is good, but it’s also a bit exhausting to see sometimes and i just wanted to express that irritation.

          ETA: yeah, i think i just need to get better at theory and conveying it to other users, no matter their starting point… this complaint really is frivolous and not something disparaging engagement with non-communist/anti-communist positions!! i really admire everyone who is able to do so effectively, and that should always be my ambition on this internet.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Quoting Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, pg. 63:

    Perhaps inevitably, the public hysteria about medical murder was stoked by incendiary manuscript pamphlets listing the names and places of residence of individual medical practitioners accused of murdering their patients.

    By way of illustration, the Portuguese pamphlet Treatise in which it is proved that the New Christians of the [Hebrew] Nation who dwell in Portugal are secret Jews and in which the evils that they inflict upon Old Christians are pointed out, circulating in the 1630s, enumerated the names of fifty-one New Christian physicians, surgeons and apothecaries working in Portugal and Spain convicted by the Inquisition of crypto-Jewish beliefs and, in some cases, even of mass murder.

    Looks like doxxing is an older phenomenon than I thought.

      • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Pg. 66:

        Vesga certainly expressed his claims in an atmosphere of heightened anti-morisco popular anxiety and in the years immediately preceding the royal decision to decree the expulsion of the moriscos from Spain in 1609.

        The decades preceding the expulsion decree were characterised by increasingly strident and alarmist claims targeting the moriscos: from the allegation accusing them of systematically conspiring with Spain’s Muslim adversaries in the Mediterranean to that of seeking to take over the kingdoms through their allegedly explosive birth rate.³⁶

        (Emphasis added.)

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    2 days ago

    Currently visiting the former Soviet State known as Estonia. On my way here the universe decided that the funniest thing to do was to stick a communist in a plane full of Estonian NATO soldiers with Ukraine patches and even NAFO patches lmao (grown men btw). I had to carefully hide some stickers on my phone and stuff because I had a feeling it would not be received well.

  • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Keep waiting for the day I come into work to find half my co-workers have been deported.

    Surprised ICE hasn’t been sent here yet. We have a large African population - including Somalis, which Trump seems to be singling out for some reason.

  • GeoffreyKlien@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    3 days ago

    Can anyone direct me to sources on how China’s government works. Like elections or processes of moving stuff around.

    I understand how the DPRK’s elections and processes work, but I don’t think I’ve ever looked into China.

  • Solas@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    3 days ago

    General quick question, as someone fairly new to ML spaces (I came from reddit): what do people mean when they call others “ultras?”

    I assume, based on context clues it has to do with the broken political system in the imperial core, but I’m not 100% sure. I would appreciate any insight, and thank you in advance.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      14·
      3 days ago

      Ultra is short for Ultra Left, which very broadly speaking can be considered a form of what Lenin called “Left-Wing” Communism.

      There are a lot of different kinds of ultras, and depending on who you ask you will get a different answer as to who the label applies to (Anarchists, Trotskyists, Maoists, etc.), but what generally unites them all is their idealism, their dogmatism, and their focus on ideological purity. They reject materialist analysis that doesn’t conform with their ideology and demand the skipping of stages in the development of socialism. Ultra-leftism is often associated with adventurism and hyper-militancy.

      Ultra-leftism in many ways is simply the opposite side of the same coin to which right-opportunism belongs. They are undialectical deviations from Marxism. Because of their shared lack of solid dialectical grounding, sometimes former ultra-leftists, feeling scorned or frustrated, can flip straight into becoming right deviationists (capitalist roaders), or worse. Their danger stems from the fact that both can steer revolutionary forces and socialist governments off-course and into dead ends, though they do so in different ways.

      “It should not be forgotten that Rights and “ultra-Lefts” are actually twins, that consequently both take an opportunist stand, the difference between them being that whereas the Rights do not always conceal their opportunism, the Lefts invariably camouflage their opportunism with “revolutionary” phrases.”

      The Fight Against Right and “Ultra-Left” Deviations, - J. V. Stalin

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      3 days ago

      Ultras are the kind of people who would say that China is bad not because it is communist but because it isn’t communist enough. They want full blown communism to happen right now, which is understandable as a desire, but then they don’t want to engage with a process of transition, based in dialectical materialist theory and practice, to get there. Those who actively engage in trying to transition to communism invariably find they can’t change everything and everyone all at once, and on top of that, are surrounded by violent capitalists/imperialists who want them dead. So they have to contend with that and work out an effective strategy to move toward communism anyway. This invariably involves some compromising and negotiating along the way. Not to be confused with the kind of compromising that liberals talk of in “progressive” politics. For members of a vanguard party belonging to a socialist state, compromising is not bowing to capital or empire, but figuring out how to deal with the fact that those forces exist and develop socialism and then communism anyway. For "progressive’ liberals, compromising means giving up on anything revolutionary and satisfying yourself with minor reforms within the oppressive status quo.

      I note the distinction in part because some ultras would appear to think these are the same thing, that the compromises a socialist state makes are the same type of concessions that liberals make. But the fundamental difference is in where the power lies and who controls the means of production and distribution. That’s what you want to be looking for, primarily, not whether every policy of a socialist state exactly lines up with communist ideology at the state’s current stage of development.

      They have a tendency to show up in the western left because the west has yet to actually do a socialist state project and because decades of vilifying socialist states has put a stigma on supporting them in any way, but leaves it as moderately acceptable to support communism in the abstract, as long as communism only exists as a nebulous idea that “hasn’t truly been tried yet.” In other words, believing in an idea is something the western empire is more or less okay with, since action doesn’t necessarily follow from it. But if you start supporting the entities that are standing up to it, whether these entities are explicitly communist in intent or are just trying to be sovereign and self-determining, it gets mad fast.

    • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      3 days ago

      The TL;DR is basically: Ultras, or ultra-leftists, are self-proclaimed communists who are extremely dogmatic about doing everything exactly as it was written to the letter even if it’s not possible in the given material conditions, while also ironically often not having read much theory and/or not understanding theory very well.

      Here’s what prolewiki has to say about ultras

    • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      what ExotiqueMatter said with the addition of in some circles it is used incorrectly as a thought terminator the same way “tankie” is among anarchists/liberals
      that’s mostly among baby MLs though

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    4 days ago

    Bought this Bohemians FC Kneecap edition jersey which is in support of Palestine and wore it to work today. It got a lot of smiles from our Palestinian members.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    4 days ago

    I was thinking about it recently, another reason [beyond the other 10973 ones] I have job searching is that the stakes on each side are so different. HR person makes a mistake (assuming it’s not illegal and is blatant enough that you can actually sue) it’s “oopsie, bit of a mess up on my part” cause the stakes are that they might be mildly reprimanded at most. But if the applicant messes up (both in ways that are actual mistakes and ways that are “I said one word wrong and this neurotypical-maxxer thinks I’m a basement dweller now”) it’s “sorry, we don’t think you’ll be good for this position” and the consequences are you get to stress more about finding a job and not having an income

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    4 days ago

    I finally started writing today. Like fully fledged fiction writing, that i finally found the inspiration for, and now I have to go to work. I’m genuinely angry rn I don’t wanna stop

    • PleasantPeasant@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      4 days ago

      nice! it feels to me there is a dearth of communist fiction out there, although admittedly i have only mostly read fanfiction for a longtime so maybe there is much more original communist fiction compared to fanfic which for whatever reason seems to have a particularly high concentration of shitlib/radlib works (not to mention ive found way more outright fascist work than communist fanfics!)

      • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
        6·
        3 days ago

        There is a genuine lack of communist fiction. There are some anti-capitalist and anti-corporations fictions as ultra-capitalist dystopias, typically cyberpunk stuff, and the occasional post-scarcity sci-fi setting that is communist in all but name, but there is barely any explicitly communist fictions.

        I’ve been thinking for a while that we should make a list of leftist novels (and other medias), pin it somewhere, like in a dedicated community, or in the sidebar, and regularly update it with new recommendations from comrades in the community.

        It would be cool also to have more comrades writing, and have a place to post writings at. Maybe they could post short pieces in c/worldbuilding but a lemmy post wouldn’t do for longer works so it would be nice to have a dedicated place for the writers of our community to post stuff, like something similar to royalroad maybe.

        • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          That would be awesome and I’m down for it. I’m trying to work on the lack of explicitly pro-communist fiction myself and it’d be cool to see what other comrades are working on in this regard.

          • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
            5·
            3 days ago

            I’ve been working on a sci-fi setting I could tell stories in for a while. I’m still very much only doing worldbuilding and haven’t written any stories yet though. Also, I tend to be very inconsistent with continuing things I started because ADHD and all that so no definitive promises.

      • Semoan@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        4 days ago

        it’s hard to do such fanfics when there’s not much in way of lore to build upon, especially ones concerning material and historical crises

        • PleasantPeasant@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          4 days ago

          i dont think it’s any harder than any other fiction? surely even a little shared world building is easier than coming up with all of it on your own? it’s so bad man people dont even display class struggle of like, workers coming together to strike and how the owning class deals with that? like ultimately even with a magic system i dont think should actually be that hard to display some sort of class struggle, really my complaint boils down to not only are there very view outright socialist works there are barely even any works that show class struggle in fantasy/sci fi worlds?

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      4 days ago

      It’s a relatable feeling. It can be hard for me to get started writing fiction sometimes, but when I do, there are times I want to ride it out even if it’s hours cause the inspiration just starts flowing.