• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    25·
    15 days ago

    I see Dutch leftists unironically saying we need art against rising fascism like, my guy learn self defense maybe

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
        12·
        15 days ago

        Thank you so much! I’m actually about to put out a much smaller guide too, as a sort-of absolute basics guide, so if that sounds more up your alley then I’ll be sure to ping you when it drops!

        • Narri N.@lemmygrad.ml
          8·
          15 days ago

          Hey if it’s too much of a hassle I’d like to get pinged once you’re done also! By what you wrote in that comment lower this approach of two courses sounds better for my frayed ability to concentrate :D

        • prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          6·
          15 days ago

          Sure ping me. Though I’m starting at Section 0 anyways, so I guess there’s gonna be quite some overlap.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
            8·
            15 days ago

            Some, but my goal is instead to condense the first several sections into one month-long course, not just an expansion of section 0. I notice that a lot of people seem to drop off the later in the guide they go, so I want to have 2 guides, one barebones and one comprehensive. The current guide will be restructured so as to be more thorough, and the new will be stripped down as much as possible without losing clarity.

        • DumbBrokeLeftist@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          14 days ago

          Would love a ping as well! I just recently got seven of my friends and I to begin developing a community run Introduction to Marxism-Leninism class using your list. We’re only using Section 0 - 4 for the intro class and if all goes well, we’ll be creating more classes with the later sections.

          We just started Week 3 of our prep work. We read and take notes independently then get together in person once a week to synthesize an ‘official’ summary to use for the class once all the material is prepared.

          Thank you very much for the list, it’s been very good and has been a great resource for collaborating with my local comrades.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
            4·
            14 days ago

            Thank you so much, that’s incredibly humbling to hear! The fact that a guide I made has actually had real-world benefits and utility is what makes continuing to maintain it worth it. Will definitely ping you!

    • Kasama ☭@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      Hey Canadians,

      You’re no different from Statesians. Stop pretending. Your harboring of nazis and genocide of indigenous peoples in fact makes you very similar to them.

      • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        8 days ago
        1. silly question but are you pinoy :3 .? heh :3
        2. the way canadians are so dedicated to Enshrining the Victims Of Gommunism, the way they proudly hosted flagrant ukrainian nazis, the way they ignore the fact that their brutal oppression of their natives was equally as sick and deplorable as their Impolite USAmerican counterparts–that sort of blithe deflection and pretense is the most insufferable part. fuck the canadian propaganda of heated rivalry, death to justin trudeau
        • Kasama ☭@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          6·
          9 days ago

          silly question but are you pinoy :3 .? heh :3

          Yes, but unfortunately I live in the US. I should actually start studying filipino (I only know a couple words) and maybe chinese if I ever decide to travel to China.

        • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          4·
          9 days ago

          In a hilarious series of events, the victims of communism memorial no longer contains the names of any people. None of them could be confirmed to be not a Nazi.

          • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
            2·
            8 days ago

            ya i know!! kkklanada might as well have just saved themselves the extra metal and just changed the name to “Fascists We Would Have Preferred To Survive Over Red Menace”

          • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
            2·
            8 days ago

            im exaggerating and mostly joking but i recall its both funded by canada gov (so im predisposed to be wary of it) and it seems to adopt a homonationalist lens in regards to russia. bear in mind i did not watch it for myself idgaf but i have heard avout the plot from people ik (some who r fans) + osmosis basically. as with all things western on the topic of russia it is very russia critical, which is like, usually fine except it’s always unilateral and absolute about the topic when it comes from west which is steeped in russophobia already.

            i mean ya, russia is like, famously bad on the topic of lgbtqia. im not saying thats good at all, though similarly to projects like burkina faso thats why i have critical support for them, but i also have seen some writeups for how it has this continuing pervasive anti-russia lens during the runtime, and it’s like, i’m never really going to trust very anti russia plot points from west which continually fails to prove it no longer believes russia is ethnic communist degenerates.

            it kind of seems like homonationalism: it has a major focus on russia failures with queer people, i think theres a clip where hes talking to yankees and they insinuate gay sex illegal over in russia (it’s not, ‘lgbtqia propaganda’ isnt which is like, okay, still bad, but im not trusting anti-other-state homophobia position from a yankee) and like, okay. this would be okay at best if not a little clumsy, but then you add in how almost every other russian character apart from ilya and his gf is dickhead and things get weird.

            ilya’s big arc with his identity ends with him rejecting his national identity, and the family of his that remains in russia are evil people. his dad at the least is irredeemable jackass and his mom is desd and his brother sucks. the only other pretty nice russian character is his gf who apparently speaks eng and may have dual citizenship. you can see why my skepticism doubles.

            overall, it’s a pretty anti russia story, which like, okay, again that would be more acceptable from russian creator, but it’s not, i know it’s canadian product. and i respond to it same way i would respond to usa funding movie about queer chinese girl going to states and completely disavowing her cultural identity because of glorious freedoms. there is room to improve but im not taking the fucking canadians gov word on it bc i know their ulterior motives.

            is it that serious? no. not really. its not as bad a piece of propaganda as like call of duty where killing arabs on screen is fantasy teens grow up to fulfill in us army.

            but west continues to fund the far right militia in ukraine and uses them as vessel for NATO expansion, which canada has had a big role in, all while not examining homophobia locally in terrorist states of usa and canada, and my contempt for it is kind of enhanced becausw canada gets away w its soft power bullshit since people think its Nicer than USA, and it continues to be very russophobic so no i dont give heated rivalry benefit of doubt

            ETA: rereading chinawatcherwatcher comment and actually finally taking in that ilyas dad is evil abusive man who was in high role in russian gov WHILE HAVING DEMENTIA completely convinces me. already people chomp for russia regime change but like, i have no doubts this show is sowing it further however subtly

            • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml
              3·
              8 days ago

              i watched it and had pretty mixed feelings about it all around. as far as the russophobia is concerned though, i actually thought everything to do with ilya’s (the russian main character) family had much worse implications than anything else. the issues for queer people in russia are at least believable, but the ancillary stuff was not: ilya’s father was both an important figure in the government, and also suffering from dementia at the same time, for multiple years (i mean, really???). and ilya’s brother was a coked up exploitative asshole trying to milk ilya for everything that he was worth. that stuff really stuck out to me as russophobic, because what kind of government except a totally inept and fake one would keep on a prominent figure with dementia? this despite all the issues in the past with western gov leaders having dementia (biden, reagan, possibly even bush, etc).

              • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
                1·
                8 days ago

                oh yeah. ive heard a lot about the family itself bc ilyas dad is jackass who we are meant to hate, mother dies cuz her relationship w him is bad and she khs, brother is mooch who then goes on to hate on him when he comes out or whatever or refuses to send money back. so it’s like, kind of cartoonish evil but i didnt say cuz i didnt see the arcs, in general if that’s what the russian rep is like, almost unilaterally dickish except for ilya who chooses to leave russia and then goes on to hate on it (i think he says he doesnt want the passport wtf doe she mean) that’s pretty bad. aladdin levels of ‘subtle’ racism

                didnt know he had dementia though so funny bruh. incompetent senile oriental despots!

                • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml
                  2·
                  8 days ago

                  the only other russian representation in the show is a woman who is his longstanding “deep friends with benefits,” but she’s played off as being more worldly and therefore less russian: she speaks english fluently, she travels to see him in various US/canadian cities, etc etc. otherwise yes, all of the other russians in the show are definitely cartoonishly evil lol

            • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
              2·
              8 days ago

              like at best ik western people are going to consume this and its going to feed their already very negative and lacking understanding of russia (slava ukraini is a phrase so many non ukrainian people seem to repeat uncritically) which, alone, wouldnt be the problem since someone seeing something thats criticizing something worthwhile (homophobia) and then interpreting that wrongly/extending it disproportionately and untruthfully is stupid silly and their problem but the most uncharitable writeups ive seen have basically reported on peculiar stereotyping in the show which if u understand russophobia as a permitted orientalism just makes it like. weird and possibly dehumanizing for group that people have come back around to being called asiatic hordes in recent years

              again, idgaf, honestly, the show not important for all the words i spend on it, but like, tjats just my critical take. and any canayank jerkoff content already pisses me off to be honest

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    Anxiety has been killing me these days, i feel so powerless just observing my country and other latin american countries just standing still against the ongoing genocide preparations towards Cuba. Like when are we going to start developing ANY deterrence against the fascist americans, there is a negative amount of sense of urgency here.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    10 days ago

    Christians will complain about how lgbtqia+ is so confusing while having 100+ different denominations that are supposed to be just following the teachings of one guy

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      10 days ago

      REAL IDENTITY: yeah i’m poly and a panromantic asexual, i’m also agender and go by they/xem/fang

      FAKE IDENTITY: i’m a Jehovah’s Witness

      ULTRA FAKE IDENTITY: i’m a Mormon

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    14 days ago

    i wish china and the dprk had more counterops/botfarms in the anglosphere internet than conspiratorial libs say they do. like cmon man please

      • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
        12·
        13 days ago

        ive said this a million times i’m so sick of anticapitalist posturingonline that isn’t ML. i’m so so so sick of it bro. because it ends up going full swede socdem (as Joseph Stalin said… socdem is the leftwing of WHAT) and then they go back to hating evil gommunist totalitarians and then it’s like, literally all revolutionary potential being squandered in front of u, and its worse that now they’re extra inundated with anti-AES talking points, and now are the most effective anti-communists of the bunch. yes, chomsky and other compatible left intellectuals were cultivated to produce such outcomes, but there’s also wholly organic examples

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    9 days ago

    After quitting my job I have decided to walk the Camino to Santiago from my house. It will take me probably three months, maybe more if I do some side quests.

    Afterwards I will write my version of the Motorcycle Diaries.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      8 days ago

      This is an excellent idea. Everyone should do a Haj whether it is to Mecca or just hitting the road with nothing but what they can carry. There is something zen and psychically purifying about making miles. I loved life on the road but my back loves nights in a bed.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      Seems inevitable, Narco Rubio speech was a declaration that good ol’ masks off colonialism is back on the menu and he received a standing ovation.

      As gramsci said, the old world is dying and the new one is struggling to be born, now is the time for monsters. Neocolonialism is dead, now we either win or go back to ol’ colonialism.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    131·
    13 days ago

    I dont really understand how people just kinda…unconsciously move through life. “Politics” is one thing, i don’t really get how people aren’t thinking about their worldview daily. But even beyond that. Love, sex, drink, food, movies, games, etc. I’m not asking why people aren’t like me [in that I have niche tastes like Switchel and Italian post modern novels] but…I suppose I don’t understand why people aren’t curious. They don’t have to be curious in the same way as I am, but I just don’t understand how someone can “just” do something. “Just” read shlock novels and “just” cook the food you’ve eaten youre whole life, “just” play madden or call of duty, etc.

    Eh, perhaps I’m jealous. A lot of these type of people seem really content, and I think the lack of contentness is one of the reasons why I’m so stressed all the time. I always have to have more, be better, know more, make more, etc. Nor can I really just repeat things. It’s rare that I’ll ever reread a book or replay a game in the same way. Im constantly looking for new recipes. Why reread Kokoro or Invisible Cities when I have so many books I have to read anyway? So maybe I’m just jealous

    • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      13 days ago

      self and class consciousness is tough man, especially if you’ve lived that way your whole life, you learned to live like that from a very young age, and furthermore if you have childhood or other trauma that incentivizes you to keep yourself from becoming conscious in order to avoid processing painful memories without a sufficient framework (or social support) to do so. unless you have a material interest, a material need to become conscious, most people don’t, and that’s okay. that doesn’t make them any less rational

      on the other hand, jealousy and lack of contentedness seem like internal contradictions for you to work on personally, regardless of how you relate to or interpret others. in my opinion jealousy is a cognitive error taught to us by liberalism, and the correct response is actually something more like inspiration or wonder. in my own personal experience, my feelings of jealousy were derived from insecurity (material, leading to psychological) that i experienced as a young child, and resolving those feelings has made it much easier to not feel jealous of others.

      if you feel that the way you interact with things (from what you said, primarily how you consume media) is the only possible way for you, but you don’t feel content about it, i would explore why it is that you feel that way. if you feel that the way you interact with things is truly inferior than the approach of others for any reason, and yet you still feel compelled to interact with things in the way that you do, i would investigate why. and if you’re uncertain which of those two statements is more correct, i would investigate that as well.

      i think it’s not enough to just point out errors of liberalism in the fashion of mao and expect them to be magically corrected. if we fully accept the rationality of every human (on an individual and class level), then there are always specific material reasons why we learned to think incorrectly, as it were. in the same way that diamat gives us the tools to investigate the history of society in terms of its internal contradictions, dialectical materialism also gives us the tools to investigate - and resolve - our own internal contradictions, resulting in more correct and less liberal cognition.

      sorry for the text dump hahaha. it’s just something i happen to have been thinking a lot about lately.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    11 days ago

    Reddit has this hate boner for Eileen Gu because she chose China over the US to represent at her sport and schooling everyone else doing so. They can’t handle someone not wanting to compete for the US, even less so if China is the one instead.