Animal Farm’s chief critique is that workers are stupid and helpless, and doomed to go along with whatever a leader says. It’s deeply anti-human.

Hexbear.net is pretty chill most of the time! The News megathread is always more sobering, but the culture is goofy and fun.

The large star is not a class itself, but the organized workers and peasants.

Nah, southern Koreans are pissed, if highly divided on Yoon. It’s southern Korean tradition to kill or imprison presidents at this point. Yoon will likely serve most if not all of his sentence.

That’s why effective agitation needs to lead liberals to want to read theory. You don’t open with theory, you open with pointed questions and common observations, things that open people up to socialism. Lenin didn’t yell at people to read Marx, he brought Marx to the people and the Bolsheviks trained people on it as they came.

Depends on your country! As an example org for the US, PSL does great work and has a good Liberation School. For general theory, I have a basic ML study guide you can check out.

Thanks! I really do appreciate it, sentiments like yours mean a lot to me!

That’s sweet of you, thanks!

Fair enough, lol. Been trying to limit my commenting to specific windows of time to limit doomscrolling, works wonders so far!

The “occupied territories” seceded from Kiev and want nothing to do with western Ukraine.

Why would Marxism-Leninism be a psyop to prevent communist revolution when it’s been by far the most successful ideology and methodology for establishing socialism in history?

I don’t think pointing out a flaw in your logic is synonymous with them being a “bootlicker.”

Subjectivism is common of liberals, who substitute materialist analysis with scary sounding buzzwords and moral phrasemongering. “Oligofascism” is an example, fascism is a well-studied phenomenon, “oligofascism” isn’t a thing and it’s being used to convey an emotional response.

Why not? Both China and the DPRK are democratic, even if their models of democracy are different from liberal democracy.

Eh, I’m not so pessimistic. It looks like Bolivia is headed for socialism, for example.

That’s a huge overstatement, though I appreciate the flattery!

Thanks!

Yes that’s what I first thought too, lol!

Lol, we basically said the same thing but you did so far more succinctly.

Since when was socialism “receiving shares from employers?” Socialism is a mode of production and distribution centering public ownership of the means of production, the dominant aspect of China’s economy is the public sector with a working class state. This is socialism.

As for your word salad, tankie is just a pejorative for socialists that support existing socialist states, “Dengism” isn’t a thing, and all states are “authoritarian,” so the important aspect is which class controls the state, not if the state exists or not.

“True socialism” isn’t a thing, socialism is not a religious vow. It’s a material system where public ownership is the principal aspect and the working classes control the state. Receiving shares from employers is a weird, petty bourgeois notion of socialism utterly disconnected from the scientific socialism of Marx and Engels. Rather than making everyone a worker-owner of the individual firm they work at, socialism leads towards everyone owning all of production and distribution.