What is she trying to say? Genuinely.

Holy shit they are so mad at basic facts, and none of them have any counter, just vitriol. That’s abaurd, but you’re right, effective agitprop creates enemies (and I’m flattered that you’d mention me alongside that).

Mega mega mega THREAD

Yep, that would make sense!

dbzer0 as an instance and Hexbear seem to have been getting on better over the last year or so, gradually!

Blahaj is pretty anti-communist, it’s usually just transphobia and homophobia that causes reactionaries to group them in with us.

These people don’t see queerness as valid or Chinese people as human.

For clarity, I’m a former anarchist, now Marxist-Leninist (have been ML for years, my anarchist days are a good while ago). That’s going to color my disagreements, and Roderic Day as an ML’s as well.

I disagree that the state exists to “concentrate power,” as in accumulate more and more power. The state instead exists to protect the ruling class of a given society. This coincides with the formation of states historically, as they arose as class society arose. From that point, I also disagree with the notion that serving ones own class interests necessitates corruption. If the proletariat holds power over the state and uses it in its own interests, then this is both logical and a good thing. In China, for example, after the proletariat took power and wielded the state against the landlords and existing capitalists, life expectancy doubled:

This is why class analysis is so important. In socialist states, throughout history, life expectancies, literacy rates, democratization, the rights of women, education and healthcare guarantees, and more have all skyrocketed. The violence that comes from revolution and protecting the revolution isn’t because the proletariat used states to do so, but instead because class struggle does not cease overnight. Corruption exists into socialism, but this is not an insurmountable obstacle, and is instead something a healthy socialist state must keep in check, same as any other societal problem, as the state withers away gradually.

The author isn’t suggesting that people’s way of thought isn’t colored by how they live and exist, but rather that this is essential to understanding this. You can spread ideas, but you cannot “brainwash” people, for good or bad. They have to realize their own class interests to avoid falling into false consciousness, and this can be agitated for by those of us that have already undergone transformations (forever incomplete, and always transforming) in how we think. We have to bring people over.

Cognitive dissonance is common there.

Imperialism ends when the global south breaks their chains and organizers in the global north overthrow their capitalist systems. Imperialism is moribund capitalism, eating itself alive.

I got banned for “voting while tankie,” lmao

Same as saying the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was genocide against Polish and Germans

Yep lol

I really recommend reading Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”. The IDF knows what they are doing. The people of “Israel” know what they are doing. They may seek narratives to comfort their worldview, but they are not ignorant and simply “duped” into committing atrocities.

Yep! It’s not that they are formless, but they are formed in a neutral way embodying whatever is culturally dominant. Humanity is a social animal, and Lemmy.world as a subsection is for those that specifically love the flavor “general, non-descript.”

PieFed.social is the PieFed equivalent of Lemmy.ml, as in it’s the dev-run instance, and as such has dominant views similar to that of the head dev. PieFed.world already exists, as do other instances on PieFed. Let’s just say this shit is entirely expected from that instance.

In a short word, yes.

Reddit was once good enough to join, but is now bad enough to leave. Could be from the IPO, API scandal, or other period. Thus, we have Reddit’s more ideological crowd, but not the ones who are interested enough in the structure of Lemmy.

Lemmy.world provides a generalist, non-committed community that they believe will replicate “earlier” Reddit, though the nature of federation means the people with more niche interests already joined a different server.

Lemmy.world attracts, therefore, terminally online radlibs with no specific interests.

~2 years ago (looks like a deleted post, found the comment by searching for it)

I’m sure others have said similar even earlier than I, just remembered this being something I also predicted.

That’s funny, considering some of the most prominent posters on quokk.au are radlibs that lie about communists, and cape for Nazis by ignoring pograms and lynchings to suit their narrative. You’d think that would be right up the anti-communist’s alley.

Settlers is good! I’d personally start with Lenin:s Imperialism, the Current Highest Stage of Capitalism, then explore Nkrumah’s Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism and then Cheng Enfu’s Five Characteristics of Neoimperialism. All of these help trace how late stage capitalism has dealt with its own existence in decay, as international plunder morphing over time.

As for what defines a proletarian, it’s someone who sells their labor power to a capitalist to produce commodities. An example of a proletarian engineer is one who works for a firm, and is paid in wages, while a petite bourgeois engineer would be a small business owner that takes their pay in profits. The peasantry typically pay rent in kind, ie they give up a portion of what they produce and keep the rest, bartering it or selling it on the market for what they don’t produce. Sectors do have impact, but not as a different class, but different strata of the same class.

Yep! That’s an excellent way of putting it.