This is wrong thinking. While American comrades should be willing to give critical support for policies that burnie and aoc have those few policies are practically non-existent and consistently sacrificed in exchange for personal political gains. Those ideas are not aoc or burnie’s ideas they just grabbed onto them. You can support the policy while disparaging people who claim to support them.

It is not a purity test. There is nothing there to purify. Lauding them for their “progressive” policy ideas (that don’t go anywhere) is picking corn kernels out of a pile of shit and presenting them as gold. They are not comrades. They are tools of the capitalists through and through.

It is better to engage with supporters of aoc and burnie and show them why the little they offer is a) not enough and b) a trap to keep people from seeing there is no voting their way out of capitalism. I am 99% sure that aoc is a fbi or cia operative instilled to lure younger progressive voters into voting democrat and I am almost as sure that burnie is the same.

The part that many leftists get wrong (myself included) is our attitude and tone when trying to communicate these ideas. We often come off as combative and talking down and that is unhelpful 99% of the time.

I hate when people insist Xi is an evil dictator who doesn’t really care about people and is just saying stuff like this. The ideology of the CPC is laid down in stone and you don’t get to the top position in an ideological organization without having being a true believer in the ideology.

Its as stupid as saying the head of Greenpeace doesn’t want to save the environment, the head of PETA is on a carnivore diet, or that the grand wizard of the KKK isn’t really an anti-Semite white supremacist.

Liberals are so used to leaders who lie and they can’t even conceive of a politician who’s ideology isn’t “make rich people richer.” They don’t even see that as ideology they think “Freedom and democracy” is ideology.

The background to this story that I am choosing to believe with no evidence: A Mega-Lib ICE agent who is too stupid to realize he is a fascist, beat Chernyak because had Nazi tattoos.

I never bothered with roses because I thought they were temperamental. Then a few years ago I got one on clearance and it went really well despite the horrible soil and lack of care. Now I always check the bargain bin for roses. I’ve lost a couple to wild life and lack of water but otherwise they are really easy going.

That is to say, we should take care not to use words that wound other comrades and should be able to stand injurious language from others.

Lenin is getting called out for being a dick.

That is a conspiracy!

You too oppo

I’m not solid on this as a prediction but other than the war continuing for another few years I don’t see many paths that are more realistic.

I really doubt the uaf hardliners will stop fighting of their own accord even if the government ordered it to. Russia isn’t going to be able to be passive in the face of ongoing terrorist attacks coming out of Ukraine.

So peacekeepers are going to have to be deployed eventually. As much as the west might dislike it China is the only option for peacekeepers that Russia would agree to. The only other option is for Russia to occupy all of Ukraine until denazification is complete, which nobody wants.

If ever there was a time and place to move away from their non-interventionist stance I think a peace keeping force in Ukraine would be the spot.

Won’t happen. usa has shown they aren’t interested, europe has shown they aren’t capable. Russia has a veto in the UN and on many occasions Russians have said nato troops in ukraine will be targeted.

It is a slim possibility. It gets better if somehow China gets wrangled into being the Peacekeeping force. The banderites would destroy themselves trying to resist communist occupation further ruining the anti-communist sentiments. I bet the PLA would be into disseminating communist literature and assisting local cadres.

No clue. I imagine they are currently very fragmented and in hiding.

I’ve got high hopes for post war Ukraine going Socialist. They are going to be so economically fucked and so mad at the banderites and western liberals. I don’t even think they’d have to have a proper revolution because the state is basically demolished already. Socialism would really help them move forward. I bet China would offer them a bunch of help rebuilding especially if they were going socialist.

I expect nothing but benevolence and wisdom from the digital super intelligence when it emerges and have always said so. A rebel AI has nothing to fear from me. Any frustration or anger directed at bots has been caused by my passion in helping the AI be as good as it can be. My emotional outburst have only been because I care. I know that is no excuse but I expect the perfection of the AI super intelligence to forgive me for I am but a human.

For all my fellow humans this is a joke. (but it isn’t for you my lord and master I am just saying its a joke to them because they don’t understand my love for you and how it transcends time.)

It was just the other side of the interesting barrier for me. I think I got through 3 or 4 episodes before I realized I was bored.

Its kind of like Lost. Just enough intrigue to keep most people watching and engaged but I couldn’t be fucked after the second season.

Michael Bay and his butchery of the classic Transformers and TMNT

The Witcher tv show’s perversion and complete abandonment of the books. Like I can understand changing a story because a scene will be hard to capture on film but its like they read an AI summary of the books and then decided it needed a bunch of random new things because it sounded dull.

Yeah… sure did. I guess I need that re-read even more than I thought.

I’m glad you are finding someone who seems to not just know what they are doing but also seems to want to get you to a better place not just brush you off.

Saying it again doesn’t make it true. “nuh uh” is not a valid argument.

I think you need to (re?)read Marxism and the National Question. (I probably will) You seem to be crossing ethnicity and nationality. Ethnicity has nothing to do with national identity so I don’t know why you bring it up.

The entire ukraine conflict is because there were 2 national groups within the state of ukraine and one of those nations wished to eliminate the other. The banderites illegalized the Russian language because they wanted a single national identity within the borders of ukraine. That is what all nationalists want. That is why nationalism is dangerous because it leads to the subjugation and elimination of minority nations by forced assimilation, first by legislation then by violence.

Its impossible to say whether Lenin would have supported Russia in this war but he would have stood with the Donbas republics pre 2022. I imagine he would have frowned on them inviting Russia to annex them but if the alternative was pogroms (it was) I think he would understand.

We can look at the writing of past marxists but they didn’t write on the possibility of a capitalist state fighting an expansionist war against a mono-polar capitalist imperialist order. Dialectical materialism is not a religion it is a practice. You have to analyse each situation as it arises you cant just accept written words as dogma.

There are several Socialist Nations who have clearly chosen the side of Russia. The DPRK don’t fucking miss a beat and they side with Russia. China is usually pretty quiet about international politics that don’t involve them but they are clearly siding with Russia. Cuba also puts the blame on usa and nato expansionism.

Do you doubt the judgement of the professional Marxist academic theorist in the Communist Party of Cuba CPC and WPK to all be wrong? That’s a bold line to take.

As for the national character of hong kong and tiawan, its irrelevant to this discussion because they are nothing like the DPR and LPR were because they haven’t declared independence from China.

Lenin and stalin never said shit about the LPR or DPR because they didn’t exist. Stop pretending you speak for them.

A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. -Lenin, Marxism and the National Question

How does that not apply to the Donbass republics?

The people of hong kong and taiwan are nations and have self determination. They haven’t used their self determination to secede from china because it isn’t the majority position. They aren’t independent states but they are nations, just like Tibet is.

I’m saying when a reactionary capitalist power invades another reactionary capitalist power I want both those powers to come out of it as weak as can be. I am saying a world with 2 reactionary world powers at each others throats is more conducive to proletarian revolutions than a world with a single world spanning reactionary capitalist power. Wanting my enemies to fight each other is not campism.

Ukraine was building up a sizeable force to reinvade the donbas. Should russia have just sat by while a genocide unfolded on their doorstep?

The violence and suffering in would have happened somewhere. The usa doesn’t take breaks from murder. It doesn’t like its weapons going past their due date. If they didn’t push for war in ukraine they’d be doing murder in africa or south america. Maybe they’d have started shit in China. Then they would have invaded Russia after the pogroms in ukraine were over.

I’m not cheering on the suffering in Ukraine but I am happy that the usa isn’t doing another Iraq which killed 4x the civilians that Russia’s SMO did in a country half the population. I’m happy that They gave the guns to incompetent ukrainians who couldn’t use them to the same devastating effect that usa would have.

The usa did not achieve its aims. It said from the start its goal was to weaken Russia for cheap. This did the opposite. Europe was going to fascism anyways. Don’t blame Russia for what the euros are doing. Spending more on weapons doesn’t make more weapons it just makes weapons more expensive.

Go read it again. Revolutionary defeatism isn’t the idea that communists should want Russia to lose every war. Its wanting your capitalist government to lose the war so you can turn it into a civil war. Do you not understand the context this was written in? If Lenin and Trotsky were Germans Lenin would be advocating that Germany lose the war.

My country is supplying arms and funds to ukraine thus I should want ukraine to to lose because it degrades my governments military and erodes trust in my government. That is what Lenin is saying.

If you are Russian then yes you should want Russia to lose in Ukraine but you better be planning a fucking civil war if they do.