i mean, it probably varies substantially by branch, but i know my local branch does a lot of community organizing and outreach type events and is very active in protests and such. if there is one near you, i really recommend reaching out and seeing what they have going on.

Haz Al-Din cooked up this theory that the real proletariat is farm owners.

amazing, they’re literally reconstructing the jeffersonian mythology of the yeoman farmer, updated to the modern day and cloaked in misused marxist terminology

that’s impossible, since it requires some degree of expertise, which is literally inconceivable for these people. in their view, anyone positioning themselves as having a rare (or sometimes just slightly uncommon) skill is actively trying to defraud you by making you pay them to do something that would be easy for you to do yourself. i think this evolved out of a devaluing of “low skill” jobs. eventually it was used as a criticism of Pollock-style modern art, you know, the “i could paint that” thing. the fact that it has become a general criticism of any professional category is deeply funny to me.

yeah, they’re running short on munitions right now (what with arming fascists in ukraine and israel for the last few years), so that’s all they could spare right now.

here is the (unfortunately short) prolewiki article on revisionism, of which right deviation is one type. beyond the reformism example given there, the most common kind of right deviation i usually see is tailist bigotry, which includes things like promoting implicit racism or homophobia because “that’s just what people believe around here, and we need to connect with them where they are at”.

The term “globalist” is nonsense, there is no such thing, that is why i left that part out. It’s a word used by people who are not versed in Marxist theory and don’t understand that what they are describing as “globalism” is merely a manifestation of capitalist imperialism as described by Lenin.

Of course “globalist” is a nonsense term, but we can still recognize that anti-semitic conspiracies use it and see that the specific tweet that you linked to is trying to frame Stalin’s criticism of capitalism in terms of that anti-semitic conspiracy, which fundamentally undercuts the Marxist analysis that it is based on.

This “guilt by association”/“attack the messenger” thing is tedious, it’s purity-fetishist and it prevents us from taking valuable contributions wherever we find them. If you are secure enough in your own ideological position you shouldn’t be bothered by who else is saying the same thing.

I also try to read widely. It’s a good thing to do and one I strongly recommend at every opportunity. However, that doesn’t insulate you from criticism of the things you share, and certainly doesn’t excuse sharing anti-semitic conspiracy theories, which this is. It takes work to incorporate the useful parts of other ideologies into a Marxist analysis, and downplaying the bigotries of your sources is precisely the wrong way to do that.

Pointing out the fact that Trump is a Zionist and will act in the interests of Zionists is not one of those bad takes. Does the validity of a point depend on who is making it?

I fundamentally disagree with your reading of that tweet. Saying that Netanyahu is Trump’s master is very explicitly the “Jews control everything” conspiracy theory. This has been a key part of patsoc messaging around Israel the last couple of years and huge part of them trying to insert right-deviation into otherwise Marxist orgs.

Stalin is always on point, but the tweet you linked uses the word “globalist” which we should all recognize as a potential sign of anti-semitic conspiracy theory nonsense. it did not take long scrolling through their account to find this retweeted from Jackson Hinkle.

the fact that you copied their entire tweet except the sentence that has globalist in it suggests to me that you know this.

'round these parts, we call that the Texas Top Hat

https://youtu.be/CduA0TULnow

and the time necessary to dig into a bunch of dubious claims by a politician who is likely lying to you is beyond what’s reasonable for a person working a full-time job with a family or anything vaguely resembling a social life

have you met many quants? a large number of them are like that, in much the same way that crypto currency people are (in fact, i think the crypto people are like that because they are poorly copying the quants).

usually the bits here are somewhat over the top, but this is a very modest proposal.

apologies for not memeing on this, but the parallel that immediately comes to mind is when Kavanaugh was getting confirmed, he said that Roe v Wade was “settled law”. she is absolutely going to enact some anti-trans bullshit.

here is a partial critique i read of whipping girl many years ago which has stuck with me Deconstructing Whipping Girl By b. binaohan

these issues that you highlight seem strongly tied to Serano’s bioessentialist understanding of gender, which (iirc) is whatever in-born tendencies that you have one way or another. once you start trying to find gender in biology, you quickly end up reproducing the biologization of gender that is the basis of modern era misogyny because gender was one of the driving ideologies that shaped the biological study in the first place.

once you make that connection, it becomes more clear where the “binary-phobia” stuff comes from. it’s literally just a reformulation of colonial era justification of eradicating native genders that the colonizers didn’t like. and to get out ahead of the obvious misreading, white non-binary people in the US/europe are not colonized. capital would just generally prefer to be able to easily sort everyone into 2 easily distinguishable categories with pre-defined social positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Navarro

i’m so tired of libs (especially “leftists”) saying things like this are a win, or even that this is a “pretty significant shift in the status quo” (literally quoting one of them) because they might consider restricting arm transfers. another one i saw mentioned potential domestic military raids as a reason not to vote for Trump. the american left is fucking cooked. willing to vote for a genocide to save themselves is pure cowardice.

yeah, i do

this is how you get no-call/no-shows

clearly foreign adversaries are trying to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids

i know at one point they were quite proud to have a federal (DHS i think?) cybersecurity department on there. like, there was an announcement. this was a couple years ago, so i guess stuff may have changed since then, but i don’t trust like that.