I cannot express my sorrow properly thru a simple text box.

Every day, tho I spend a lot of time thinking when in breaks. My mind would always wander, and ofc it would wander to the USSR.

Then again, I highly admire it, so there’s that.

Just like they acted on the Eastern Front.

I have the deepest respect for you. Really, what prevents me from violence is not anything moral, but fear. Security cameras, policemen, brand-new equipment, and all that.

I once was at school once with a cop visiting our class. It was in the interests of Copaganda, but I suppose for me it failed horribly. He would dismiss “falsehoods” and overall get kids to like him, which may or may not have worked for the others. I frankly was terrified of the taser. Sure, it had no pins in, but I was regardless scared, probably because I was told to never, ever get in trouble with the law. I think I might’ve been the most scared in the entire class. I doubt this still affects me; I had a solid streak of being scared of other things thruout my life, like running away from movies shown at home.

Really, if using violence doesn’t scare you, kudos. I’d probably just hightail it.

When Lenin rants about Bernstein or Kautsky that means nothing for most modern readers.

It depends on the state of said modern reader; not all live in the same conditions. Some have read a lot of older texts, and some haven’t. Some have taken an interest in the late 19th and early 20th century, and some haven’t. Some believe that the Democratic party will get better, others don’t believe so, but without exactly understanding why. It is in my opinion varied from reader to reader, especially in diverse places from, say, the Bible Belt, to Bavaria, to Okinawa. In this case, the ideology not just of Lenin, but of Kautsky would mean something very different, provoke a different amount of interest, a different reaction, &c. I personally think that it is best when you first teach the history of what went on, then the Marxist application. For instance, teaching what happened in WWI, and then WWI as explained by Lenin. I was able to get my brother to understand a good amount of MLism by explaining how exactly Capitalism affects Japan, and why they have not just the problems that they, but their particular problems.

Good old-fashioned sleep.

Also, I use Minetest to play a variety of games.

I would also daydream about a Communist utopia, but be too spent to write it out.

Also, use DownloadVideoHelper if you can

Altho I have a YouTube acc, I mostly use it to download videos onto my computer. I should start reuploading those videos I have to other sites like TankieTube so people don’t have to use YT, but they’re mostly animations and other videos for fun.

I was thinking of Cascadia, often called the PNW (Pacific Northwest) much more, but not enough people seem to be considering themselves as Cascadian, and as my earlier AskLemmy post went, you cannot build up nationalism, especially national chauvinism, and then expect to have it be a vehicle for socialist education and activity.

Really, I was thinking that Cascadia could be introduced to people first as a left-wing movement, and then once people are subsumed into a cohesive Cascadian culture, they could be given instruction on communism. But altho I see some promising developments, there would be significant work building the shared identity from the ground-up.

Lots of Cascadians are, ultimately, progressive. They are built from left-wing resistance to the U.S. gov’t. It’s stuff like the 1999 WTO protests, resistance to the War On Terror, and the legalization of weed that Cascadians are proud of. But I don’t know that these people will resist effectively. Hell, I don’t know how fascism could be effectively resisted with a shared identity!

Honestly, my main gripe with a shared identity is that resistance to fascism must be class-based first and foremost. The entire purpose of fascism is to protect capitalism from its own contradictions, by any means necessary. I don’t exactly know what a shared identity would do compared to educating and organizing workers into anti-fascist groups.

I wouldn’t necessarily reveal everything, but I am creating an organization that will start out as a book club. Have to just meet regularly. Have convinced three SocDems into becoming MLs, or adjacent.

a (ix) - good a (xxix) - good a (xxx) - good b (viii) - good Four are good so far based on their names. I don’t know what the others are (a) so I’ll research them.

suburban american kids

The American suburbs are the most damaging part to any Marxist-Leninist movement. A suburban house is essentially a little isolation box where class struggle is far away and U.S. propaganda is up close working its magic. Usually the life in the 'burbs would be:

1. Wake up, get ready
2. Watch the morning news (U.S. propaganda)
3. Get ready to go to school, where people will only learn about what they are told
4. Watch the evening news (U.S. prop)
5. Go to bed

Anything connecting people to real, material struggle comes like an unwelcome guest. This is the America so many people want to preserve against all odds.

“has corrupted America” is a massive talking point and a huge pain in the ass.

Imperialists being imperialists as usual. I wish the USA would break up.

I did tons of food boxes and got three or so people reading ProleWiki

I dunno. It probably doesn’t matter, only that the reason for their villainy is established well. Such as a snarky kid who grows up to be an imperialist warmonger. I also particularly like Lovecraftian forces that are not directly fought, but only hinted at. Also also are villains that resemble horrible people in real life, like a hateful dictator resembling Hitler, or a money-hungry industrialist resembling Rockefeller or Henry Ford.

• The World Economic Forum
• The World Bank Group

For me, thinking about life after the revolution cheers me up.

This is gunboat diplomacy ripped from the age of empires and dragged, screaming, into a world that has outgrown it.

Gunboat diplomacy never went away, its perpetrators just used other justifications for the same thing. Fighting communism (Korea, Vietnam) and terrorism (Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen), claiming that countries are “dictatorships” and have to be liberated (Iraq, Libya, Cuba), using mercenary groups like the Contras (Nicaragua), having presidents do it and then meekly apologize (W. Bush, Obama), claiming that countries are developing nuclear weapons (Iraq, Iran) have all happened, and I consider it identical to gunboat diplomacy. The tactics are almost entirely identical (invasion, overthrow, installing dictatorships), and its causes are the same (resources to be delivered to Imperial countries).

There is however obvious evidence of these excuses being more and more flimsy, and history being rewritten. That is from the desparation of Capitalism in decay.

Actual presence of AI would be something that says a lot but has no actual ideas, because AI cannot understand and communicate actual ideas. I however do have some criticisms against small things in the text.