ExistentialNightmare

Such a beautiful reply, I wish I was as educated with my research & analysis as well as so articulate with my points as you are - instead of my typical half-assed rambling lol. Thank you and sorry for being overly pessimistic!

Ted Kazcynski had somewhat of a point - I say somewhat because he was a leftist hater and I think a bit off the rails. Technology is already way out of control, I don’t think most people understand that if there were to be a socialist revolution in a 1st world country any time soon, just how much of an advantage the state has over the people due to it’s surveillance network. Privacy for all intents and purposes is practically gone already if you’re of interest to the intelligence agencies and around anything with a connection and/or even just standing outside thanks to satellite imagery. And that is just the technology which we know of, it’s horrifying to think about the possibility of tech that remains classified.

“Yes I was, but my good friend Jeff, I am more interested in raping children on your island, let’s talk about that instead”

We support the Ukrainian proletariat, not the fascist state. We also support the Russian proletariat, not the oligarchic fake democracy BUT the western capitalist regime is the bigger enemy here and Ukraine are in bed with the EU and NATO.

I think the neoliberal plan is to make the NHS so overworked and underfunded that people stop supporting it, then push private healthcare as the solution and scrap the NHS for a model similar to the US’s. Then they can claim that this privatisation is boosting the economy by manipulating data when in actuality all it is doing is giving the rich more wealth from the poor.

Christ, so being able to own a home quite easily under western capitalism was only possible due to the pressure of communism (also it was 100% a white privilege), revolution really is so much more effective than reform it’s laughable.

Xi Jinping, keep winning please!

I’ve been firmly socially progressive ever since I got ever my edgy phase when I was like 13-16 years old so when it came time to vote I was a Labour voter, originally Corbyn and then Starmer. I didn’t go deep into what these people represent or what they have done I just thought it was a fight to keep progressing and getting rid of the tories. I lacked any real political education and feel for the culture war bullshit, like many people.

All I heard all my life about communism is it is violent and brutal and it doesn’t work and so on, I knew my country was far from perfect but I didn’t think they would lie to me my whole life in so many different ways, so in a way the naïvety kept me anti-communist.

A few years ago I started getting really depressed and realised I had been quite depressed for a long time, it lead me to question everything, why should I live, what is this society, what type of person should I aim to be e.t.c. and while this was happening I was seeing the end of 14 years of the conservative government, I put all my hope in Labour bringing back hope and progress. Well it became clear maybe about 6 months in to Starmer’s term that these guys are not the solution. Then I started getting into the tax the rich and wealth inequality sort of crowd (AOC, Gary’s economics, JimmyTheGiant, Hasan somewhat) that pushed me to be less of a liberal and more of a demsoc, socdem type of guy and be opposed to neoliberalism and centrism.

But crucially after that depressive episode and the existentialising that came with it, I had learned to keep an open-mind and I realised that now identifying as a socialist, I was hearing about Marx and Lenin and I just decided to hear out these communists side of the story, because what didn’t make sense was that if the USSR was everything I had been told about it, no one in their right mind would still be a communist.

I think it might have been Hakim who did the most for me with youtube class consciousness or whatever you want to call it but I can’t remember an exact video that ‘pushed me over the edge’, so to speak. It didn’t take long for me to recognise the genius in Marxism-Leninism anyway, I then had to undo all my anti-com propaganda (that was still making me doubt if I was on the right path) and start learning the theory, science, philosophy, start applying it where I could, and here I am now, still doing that. I’ve come to really love the online culture the imagery, the music - red sun in the sky will always be a hell of a tune - and the community of course, I really want to see that kind of community IRL one day.

I was a liberal last year, I credit youtube docs for that more than anything else really

That helps me understand yeah, thanks & well said

But I thought Maoists are different to MLM’s, no?

Am I right in saying this is like how Maoists are different to Marxist-Leninist-Maoists and the Marxist-Leninists who follow Mao Zedong Thought because they ignore reality and follow the dogma? Or am I misunderstanding? I’m still a bit of a novice communist and get confused sometimes.

I’m not waiting, I and many others are constantly going through the process of learning and applying Marxist-Leninist ideology to themselves and their local community. The Bolshevik’s were a small party until revolution came, the decline and fall of systems and ideologies is not linear, they unpredictably and wildly grow and shrink.

But look around, capitalism is in decay, it is clearer now than it was just a few years ago and in a few years it is very likely it will be even clearer and even more decayed. And this will directly affect people’s political views.

Real, signifcant change to our society only has come through organised revolution (it is how feudalism became capitalism) history has shown this. Please read Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxembourg.

Oh yes because there only the 2 types of people I gave as examples who voted leave. No more nuance to it than that of course.

A broken clock is right twice a day. We did not leave the EU for the long-term betterment of the working class but it is something which we have gained. If we want better working rights, we need to organise within our own country for major changes not join a capitalist, imperialist entity for mild concessions.

The EU is a capitalist cult, if the working class of Britain want a better Britain we should stay out of the EU. Yes, many voted leave because they’re anti-immigrant flagshaggers types but many were also misled, such as my mum, who believed the narrative that if we left the EU the NHS would get more funding.

Fuck off back to reddit with this libshit take.

I have been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 this week for the first time and part of the game is blacksmithing your own tools, it has this whole well-designed minigame for making badass weapons and you have to buy your own materials for it, make the gear properly so it is high quality and then find somewhere to sell it or use it yourself, if you do use it yourself you also have to repair it over time on this little sharpening wheel thing.

It is so rewarding and freeing to be able to work when you want, for yourself and then be rewarded properly for your hard work and feel the pride of your own ability! I know real life working is not as simple as it is in this game but it really made it click for me that our relations to production, our exploitation as workers, our necessity to work to survive rather than to thrive all make working go from a mostly positive to a mostly negative for the majority of individuals.

If we could all live with relative comfort as a guarantee and then have our own self-employed trades we are passionate to make extra money for ourselves and our community, life would be pretty good as it turns out, someone should write a manifesto about this ‘community-ism’ thing.

It’s scary though, the same shit is kind of happening in the UK and I just hope it leads to something good one day

I know being dogmatically anti-US everything is, well, dogma but yeah Iran is probably going to get worse off from these protests. Their current leadership is far from perfect but at least they’re not monarchal puppets of the west.

I mean, it depends what your definition of leftist is, all the communists I know here in the UK have been very much against the invasion.

• US is still bad with Trump gone
• Israel is still bad with Netanyahu gone
• UK is still bad with Starmer gone
• France is still bad with Macron gone
• Capitalist Russia is still bad with Putin gone

It is not the individuals at fault, it is the system and it’s ruling class and this is evident if you actually educate yourself, so please do.