As an autistic commie, I must say I’m also really glad to have joined here. I don’t comment much because the meme about “actual organised militants don’t have time for internet” is actually pretty real. But it is great to know that, no matter how hectic life gets I still always have this safe leftist and leftist-owned virtual space to come back to.

Vijay Prashad will march with us tomorrow, really cool

Hecking cool! Good luck to you too. Stay safe and hydrated!

Me parece uma ótima ideia. É tipo um crosspost entre plataformas. Único problema que eu vejo com isso é a possibilidade de levar shadowban. Lembro que quando eu tentei propagandear o lemmy no Reddit, nada do que eu postava ficava visível.

Testa postar e vê se aparece mesmo em outro computador deslogado. Daqui a pouco o Reddit fica aquela coisa feia de tiktok de ter que escrever l3mmy…

I’m saving this comment for when the coal supplies run low.

I think one thing about “classics” is that they’re just classics for their culture. You should look for art that somehow ties to your own history. One of the best experiences I had was reading “Vidas Secas”, which is a book that ties very well a lot of common themes for my family and community but also our local dialect that’s slowly being erased by the internet.

I can’t really recommend you anything, but I can’t see why the story of Les Miserables, however well written, might touch a good portion of the world population.

I also really enjoy taking note of the many ways some video games portray their themes besides dialogue and text. Things like camera framing, colour coding, ludonarrative, music all driving the same point forward. It’s about both appreciating the emotions that something makes me feel and also the techniques employed to make me feel that. And a great contrast is things like a bad TV series that’s supposed to be tense but it ends up just funny.

I haven’t read either yet, as I haven’t had much time, but as a methodological side note I just want to say I really enjoy this “tribune” style of usage of the forum. Having well thought out polemics is part of the development of a correct line.

I’ll try to read them both carefully later, but right now I just want to compliment the effort put forward by both users.

It not being a holiday there is horrible.

At the very least share some post about the anniversary of the murder of Jordan Neely to show your discontent.

Please be careful not to conflate the official confirmation with Kots’s writing that you’re quoting in the OP. This whole “they swore to never be captured” thing is not officially confirmed and there should be a disclaimer about that.

Other than that, I think it’s fair to assume this must’ve been happening since this November announcement:

“From that moment, the Ukraine conflict previously provoked by the West acquired elements of a global nature, just as we warned more than once,” Putin said on Thursday, in a televised address to the nation.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/607999-putin-ukraine-conflict-global/

It makes sense that they participated in some combat, and I’m wondering why other anti-US countries like Venezuela aren’t at the very least sending generals to get some experience there.

Edit: Alexander Kots’s Wikipedia page is really funny:

Alexander Igorevich Kots (Russian: Александр Игоревич Коц; born 3 September 1978) is a Russian propagandist, fascist and war criminal promoting aggressive wars against independent states and genocide of their population.[a] He reports mostly for the tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and on his own channel on Telegram.

a: According to various international media such as Voice of America, British BBC, Ukrainian media, Israeli, Belarusian and others.

Indeed, it’s very strange that sovereign Ukraine is not the one negotiating this. They could just ignore Trump’s peace deal and keep on fighting without US support.

Surely they can manufacture their own weapons and fight their own war, and don’t need to bow down to US directives imposed from afar. Being the one holding the cards, they definitely don’t need to hear anything from Trump in order to negotiate with Russia.

Currently I don’t have any disposable income, but if I manage to get my shit together this year I probably would contribute a little bit. I find your posts really useful, and I hope they keep coming and are properly archived for future reference.

An embodiment of Latin centre-left Catholicism. Not a real comrade, but progressive in issues that aren’t key to the Church. Preaches love and peace which, although with its contradictions, is consistent enough to denounce the greatest atrocities out our time. A “live and let live” Pope, for better or for worse.

Given the Church’s role as a reactionary cudgel over the past 200 years, and specifically during the Cold War, he was a breath of fresh air. Can’t wait for some out of touch European to start telling third worlders how to pray the proper German way again.

Happy Lenin day!

This is probably not you’re asking for, but (MLM) People’s History of Ideas is a pretty good deep dive into the Chinese revolution.

Besides that, there’s the RevLeft Radio episode on him and Red Pen on the revolution (it’s pretty harsh on the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution).

Brazil is distancing itself from China at such a fast pace that some analysts are predicting it’ll leave BRICS after a right wing victory in the next election.

Do you have any idea how many more people China has compared to Vietnam?

Yes, 14 times. I’m not saying it is going to be easy or that it’ll be concentrated on a single country like it was with China. In fact, I believe that some fragmentation will be optimal to prevent China 2 from just doing what China did.

The USA is looking for lebensraum.

The US doesn’t need Lebensraum because they already have colonies and barely any national industry. Incorporating Canada and subduing Mexico for geopolitical reasons aren’t incompatible with trying to replace China in the international division of labour.

Surplus value must be extracted from somewhere, and although Mexico and Canada have their industries it’ll not be enough and too close to home to be too heavy handed.

That’s not even considering how ideologically communist Vietnam is.

China, Vietnam and the USSR were all nominally communists when Kissinger was playing the three of them against each other. The superstructure follows the base, and unless both countries integrate their economies or at least make SolidNet into a proper successor to the Third International, I won’t hold my breath. Right now the CPV is already negotiating zero tariffs with the US.

The only countries I would seriously bet on staying with China are Venezuela, Iran, Russia, the DPRK and Cuba, and possibly the AES. And that’s just because they are so economically desintegrated from the world economy that they have nothing to lose and everything to gain, for both their proletariat and (if it exists) their bourgeoisie.

No idea, but if he is, the fact that it never comes up is exactly what I’m complaining about.

Don’t worry about losing your social circle by changing parties, you’ll probably still meet a lot whenever your new and old parties converge on specific actions. Some might even follow you or try to organise joint actions.

For changing, if you get into touch with some comrade from your current party, ask them about how it’s going and advice on making the jump. Other than that, if they publicise any of their events (specially reading groups, those are the usual recruiting gateways) try to go and meet some people, and see if you feel comfortable with the people there. Eventually you might get close enough to someone for specific advice.

Good luck comrade!

Tinha que ser estudo de “sindicato patronal”. Devia ser proibido isso existir. Esse troço tem nome, chama cartel.

I don’t expect much from broader leftist YouTubers like hbomberguy, Shaun, philosophytube, so it doesn’t disappoint me when they do a liberalism, and their content is otherwise fine.

But I actually really dislike the couple “actually socialist” ones like Second Thought because they do the exact same thing as the previous ones (pointing at the problem with no perspective for solution) but are lauded as some heroes of Marxism-Leninism. The only video of his that I find minimally ML is the one telling people to get organised. He barely advertises US parties (keeping in mind that’s his main audience) or points to what can be done, and wastes too much effort on “production values” over agitation. If he refuses to join any party, the very least he could do is make a video explaining all of them to help out his followers. Effectively, he’s an anti-capitalist/pro-China agitator at best, and I’m tired of USAmericans hopefully waiting for China to fix everything. The other deprogram lads fit the bill too, but I don’t even bother watching them.

English-language YouTube is generally really bad at agitation (clarifying the contradictions of singular notable events), specially due to the “monthly video” model. There’s a huge space for short daily news analysis being ignored. But there are some really good propagandists, so I’d like to recommend RevLeft Radio for current events and Red Pen for understanding theory. Besides that there’s also Socialism for All for commentated reading of theory, though he is MLM.

Oh, I didn’t know breakthrough news was theirs. I thought they only owned Liberation News, which usually lags behind the news cycle by a lot.

On the other hand, Chinese state-supported media model sidesteps these barriers by decoupling news accessibility from commercial pressures.

The same could be said of the BBC, DW, France24 and many others. They’re still trash. Being state supported is nice, but the interests of that state are key.

I’d like to add that western communist parties are doing a very lacklustre job in fighting for hegemony in the digital media/news space. It is depressing that single-person channels like First Thought somehow are better at constant free news coverage than the PSL or other English-language ML parties.

It might not take off in the west where there’s too much propaganda against China for people to turn to Chinese sources, but that’s not the case for the global majority.

Most Chinese news platforms are still mostly only in English, which isn’t accessible for non-westerners. And national bourgeois media is happy to only translate what supports their interests. I’d rather they support the building of national left-wing press structures abroad.