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Thread for news and discussions of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, its material conditions, the status and health of its aesocialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.
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>>2509902
I hope they aren’t victims of the meth boom happening in Myanmar rn

>>2509986
Literally happening in Thailand as we speak
https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/phuket-temple-scandal-as-monks-caught-in-drug-bust

>>2509988
Smoking meth with monks sounds interesting

>>2509991
I’ve only ever been on Adderall, I hated it, I can’t imagine meth in that setting to be a fun time, do you fidget around the temple cleaning it? Meditating on it?

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>>2509988
Ze budisme hath falen.
>>2509984
No poppy?


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Does anyone have a download link for Blowback Season 6?
>SEASON 6: ANGOLA out now.
>Pleased to announce @blowbackpod SEASON 6, coming fall 2025 from me and @nkulw
This season concerns Angola and was recently released via premium subscription services.
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>>2503671
thanks broski

Wtf is that?

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>>2509843
It's a podcast about CIA coups, invasions, sanctions, embargoes, and other American Imperialist fuckery.

Season 1 - Iraq War
Season 2 - Bay of Pigs
Season 3 - Korean War
Season 4 - Operation Cyclone
Season 5 - Khmer Rouge
Season 6 - Angola

>>2509898
imo though, and I listened to them over the years, they're not as information dense as one would hope. They're good for educating normies or whatever because they're highly focused on production quality and sound editing and shit like that, less than information density. If you want information density about this kind of stuff just read Killing Hope or Rogue State by William Blum. Their seasons also have source bibliographies.

>>2509910
>A book is more substantive than a podcast
You don't say?


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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Waiting For Happenings Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

🏈 💵 🌭 🍔

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>>2491240
The entirety of the new thread was taken up by that LARPer from that one African island shitting it up with his personal grievances. I'm not the usual bread baker but I'm gonna make a new one

>>2490921
why are you conflating eunuchs with gay men and reactionary politics with docility
>>2490898
>gorky was a reactionary clown so was any unironic retard that agreed with him, including lenin.
lenin yelled at gorky for talking with the "god-builders" and the "fascism = homo" remark was from after lenin died. i doubt lenin was "pro gay" in the contemporary but he did repeal anti-sodomy laws which was pretty forward for the time

new thread

>>2491246
>>2491246
>>2491246

>>2490051
He wouldn't be nationalizing them in our interest.
Nazi Germany had state-owned companies too.

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Leftypolers you fucking disgrace, how come there is no Cuba general?
Take a break from burgertiks and talk about the one successful socialist revolution in the americas which is still alive and well.
Patria o muerte!

HAVANA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Every few days, in one of Havana’s poorest neighborhoods, a unique start-up ships small containers of sprouting vegetable seedlings to upscale restaurants in other parts of the city, while neighbors struggle to feed their families amid the worst economic crisis in decades.
Yet architect Oliesky Fabre, the founder of Enparalelo (Parallel Roads), pointed proudly the other day to a 2022 UN World Food Programme award. It was one of 10 projects, out of 200 initiatives, deemed to have the most innovative solutions to combat hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean.

“We are a business, but also the motor for a local development project,” Fabre explained, as he worked inside one of two refurbished shipping containers on a vacant lot in the La Timba barrio.
The business started out on Fabre’s balcony as the COVID-19 pandemic raged and traditional Cuban agriculture began a more than 50% decline through last year, according to the Communist-run government.
Enparalelo now works out of the containers and is building a larger production facility nearby on land donated by the local government.
“Microgreens are high in nutrition, relatively inexpensive and easy to grow,” Fabre said.

Jorge Pena, in charge of the community side of the business, said that’s where the second container, fitted with wheels, comes in.
“This place serves as a classroom for residents interested in becoming microgreen farmers,” he said.
The start-up will supply seeds and other items such as coco fiber mesh, used instead of soil, to grow the microgreens, Pena explained.
The new home-based urban growers can then sell their microgreens back to the company, but also to neighbors, and keep some for their own consumption, he said.
"We have turned this container into an entity that can travel first here in La Timba, then to different communities,” Pena said.
“We will inspire a new generation of producers,” he said.

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the final beacon of victory of the people

>>2510822
you're reading but you are not understanding

I'm kind of naive about Cuba and somewhat fascinated by it, because it kind of exists as a living mockery of the United States and its imperialist ambitions - this tiny little island nation right next door that the US just couldn't manage to conquer after trying for like two hundred years.

Whenever I ask people about life in Cuba, I always get very polarized answers, either people describe it as an authoritarian shithole rife with poverty and crime and social decay, or they vehemently defend Cuba and its socialist programs and dismiss criticisms of Cuba as Amerilard propaganda.

>>2510841
It looks pretty run-down in a lot of places, but a lot of the anti-communist stuff rests in a nostalgia towards a splendid Havana from the 1950s. There were huge mansions that fell into disrepair later on, but the problem is that the rest of Cuba was poor and half the population was illiterate, and the government was run by rich criminals. Before that it was a stopping point for colonial-era galleons loaded with gold headed to Spain. It was probably a great place to hang out if you were rich. Also today there are a lot of people in Latin American cities living in poorer and more dangerous conditions than in Cuba.


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I had a conversation with Taiwanese rapper and communist Xiangyu a while back about his visit to Cuba pre-COVID. He openly said it was a shithole, and that the government cares more about using pinkwashing to get support from western libs than it does about building socialism. He said the lumpen are out of control there, and that Cubans have zero work ethic. Even when MLs talk about Cuba's recent "progress" it's all just stuff about their LGBT rights being the best in the world or some shit. I think the reason Cuba is the only socialist country libs like is because they don't provide any challenge to capitalist hegemony. They didn't industrialize when they had the Soviets to subsidize them, so their economy is mostly tourism and service based. To build socialism you need an economy built on productive labor like China. China's rapid economic development is the #1 reason the west sees them as a threat. Cuba is just a vacation resort.
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>>2481135
>Something nobody said
WOW, holy shit! That's crazy!!!

>>2453304
>There might be interesting historical reasons why North Koreans are like North Koreans.
Perhaps it's just their culture man, that's the part that is surprisingly unfathomable for libs when they're ripping on the A E S T H E T I C S of the DPRK. You realise there is a hard limit on how different the cultures can be to be subject to liberal diversity.

>>2453272
>The Korean feudal monarchy is what the vanguard of socialism looks like
I doubt you know what feudal or vanguard means.
<North Korea's leadership is seemingly hereditary though, when the west is over that.
and to what end? What difference did changing how leadership is decided from inheritance to nepotism make? I'm not an anthropologist so I don't know why hereditary leadership has been so common throughout human history, but it is and I know the west is over it, but then the monarchies of Europe and Korea have taken quite different trajectories throughout the last few centuries, one being the side that imperialised the world and enjoyed the unfettered development that awarded and resulting infighting about how much of the booty a monarch received, the other only recently got its independence and start on development on its own terms.

I'm not going to be like North Korea BAD because their vanguard seem to dig hereditary leadership in the same way the European Royal Courts did, when the difference is North Korea being a shockingly nice place to be for those who live there given the pressure placed on them by imperialists and the abject poverty peasants of colonial Europe endured, not to mention that of the lowest rungs of modern, imperial but democratic Europe and American society.

>>2453240
>Why is Cuba the only socialist country libs like?
because they enjoy the sanction-torture they subject to revolutionary Cuba

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>>2481167
>Perhaps it's just their culture man, that's the part that is surprisingly unfathomable for libs when they're ripping on the A E S T H E T I C S of the DPRK. You realise there is a hard limit on how different the cultures can be to be subject to liberal diversity.
I'd add though, North Korea has also been relatively isolated. It's not so easy to get in and out, and they've tried to keep most Western-style tendencies out. It's not like Japan, but if you traveled to Japan in the 1960s it would've seem less "Western" than it does now, although there was a lot of that influence. The same goes for China. But like I was saying, Cuba is really part of the Western world if we include Latin America in that.

Anyhow, there's this whole debate about Westernization, and there are liberals who embrace it and conservatives who push back on it. North Korea from my perspective actually looks like a form of extreme conservatism at least in this respect.

>Anyhow, there's this whole debate about Westernization, and there are liberals who embrace it and conservatives who push back on it. North Korea from my perspective actually looks like a form of extreme conservatism at least in this respect.
There is no debate. You are an imperialist. Rejecting imperialist control of your nation is not "extreme conservatism," but revolution itself.


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well comrades, this needs to be discussed, what is to be done?, how do we combat the zionist menace?, if you want to spew rhetoric about impotent protest, get off the thread, if you wish to do something, engage, either way, I am fucking tired, you have no excuse to do nothing if you know the truth and have the means to act, get off your fucking ass your lazy fucking slack jawed dogs, people are fucking dying!. I believe we must form International Brigades and a new global working class organization, for once in your lives you shitposting bastards, fucking organise and show some fucking balls!
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i'm not gonna watch seinfeld anymore

>>2510257
Kill yourself Zionist.

>>2510257
we can always exterminate them for flimsy excuses them at any time.

How feasiable is the one state solution? I don't like Zionist, but I think there are alot of people using zionist hate to justify anti semitism, how one can be a effective anti-zionist without falling into clear and open anti semitism?

>>2510656
Impossible. The only way you can have a single state is by Palestinian victory followed by a mass exodus of jews towards NA and EU. Palestinian victory is impossible because the nearby Arab states have given up on this, for a long time now.


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Some of the problems with modern "anarchists" are the following:
•They support national liberation movements and/or nations.

•They choose the "lesser evil" from capitalist reactionary positions.

•They are not interested in material analysis or class analysis, only in identity politics (meaningless "cultural analysis" of races, orientations, genders, and similar issues).

•They concern themselves with cultural preservation (disguised conservativism) as opposed to societal development.

•They accept and present, or sympathize with, the most reactionary ideologies (like primitivism) as legitimate forms of "anarchism".

•They don’t see a problem with participating in the market economy (hiring for wage labor, making profit, running businesses, etc.) and deny the need for a planned economy.

•They don’t see the contradictions between religion and science or deliberately ignore them and avoid criticizing certain religions (such as Islam) while creating contradictory modernizations (i.e. queer feminist anarcha-islam),

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If anarchism is no rules then how come they love rules so much? Libtards owned.

well op, the jerk store called and they're all out of you

Anarchism is a deeply white supremacists ideology. Those who read theory, know.

>>2510552
where is this image from, garçon?

Anarchy isn't an ideology, it is just another word for statelessness. The anarchist by definition does not believe in ideology - ideology is antithetical to anarchy. The anarchist simply believes in achieving anarchy, bringing the state to its final and permanent end, by whatever means necessary. Marxists think that they can turn the state into an instrument of its own destruction, but it doesn't work that way. The state does not destroy the state. Those who attempt to use the state as an instrument of liberation only become consumed by its power; they only become the state. The only way to destroy the state is to destroy the social inequalities that give rise to it through organized choreographed dance.


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What are all the ways the bourgeoisie may be frightened into spending more and more of their personal wealth on security while the rate of profit is falling, and make sure those security guards are themselves unmotivated, scared, revolutionary infiltrators, or at the very least self-interested backstabbing coup-plotters?

consult the Narodniks, SRs, and Anarchists of the late 1800s

Why do you think they are going all into robotics and AI?

The ruling class are the masters of causing general chaos when they feel they are being threatened. Notice how in Shakespearean plays, anytime a king is killed, suddenly there's a natural disaster or plague or war etc. That's not just literary devices, its an insinctual understanding Shakespeare had that the ruling class will always make sure the public suffers more than the ruling class during times of upheaval.

The point is to make the public desire order and return to normalcy, and deter further attempts at direct violence against the rulers. In the modern world creating mass suffering and chaos has become even easier with genetically modified viruses, increasing racial and religious hatred, social media manipulation etc.

It is the police that function as the primary instrument of brute force and protecting the property of the bourgeosie from the proles, so if you want to do that plan you'll have to get leftist moles to infiltrate the police force. Infiltrating the police and military is something the far-right have already been working hard at for many, many years and leftists will have a tough time getting a foothold in these domains.

If you really do want to cause trouble for the bourgeosie, the best thing to do is find creative ways to hurt their investments that they wouldn't or couldn't possibly plan or account for, preferrably at the worst possible time. For example, go to a large department store before they open for Black Friday and stick weld all of the doors shut.


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François Bayrou's government is probably going to fall this evening.

Essentially, after Macron chose to start early legislatives elections in 2024, the French national assembly has been divided in 3 main blocs, the NFP, a coalition of parties affiliated to the left, the Presidential camp, who allied themselves with the hard right republican party and the RN, the main far right party

with the NFP having come first in the elections, Macron was supposed to chose a prime minister of their desires, but he didn't do that, instead choosing Michel Barnier to lead a center-right government. Barnier's government became the shortest lived government of the 5th republic. Macron replaced him with Bayrou who started yet another centrist government. Essentially, Bayrou's government was riddled with scandals, the major one being his coverup of child rape in a private catholic school when he was minister of the education, but the main reason he's going down is his budget for 2026, where he intended to make major cuts in the economy, such as removing certain holidays like VE day, and other ultraliberal policies. He did chose to let the national assembly vote in their confidence in him, the left wing parties and the far right both agreed that they would vote against him, and even 2/3 of the republican party promised they'd vote against him. So it's extremely likely he gets fired this evening.

Now, once he gets fired Macron has 3 main options

-Continue as he has done previously, put another centrist guy in power, and hope he doesn't get fired again
-Find an agreement with the left or the far right, now, in the left, there is the PS who have often been favorable to Barnier and Bayrou, going against the grain of their allies in the NFP, a united coalition from PS to Republican doesn't have an absolute majority, but it's fairly close, such a government could be sustainable.
- He can dissolve again and hope for a solution there, but it's unlikely to yield any favorable results for him, as Bayrou is very unpopular, and he is less likely to benefit from leftists voting for him as the lesser evil.
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>>2509617
Macron s’amuse depuis 2017. J’aime bien me moquer de lui, mais franchement dans cette France de cons, il est pas si con que ça. Dommage que ça doit être un neoliberal et pas un bon Manu de goôoche :(

>>2509621
Didn't Melenchon say he would exit both the EU and NATO before? He's probably hiding his power level at the moment due to the cucks in PS

>>2509625
Melenchon has said everything and its contrary in the past. A top opportunist. No wonder, as he started his career as a trotskyist who’s life goal was to destroy the PCF.

>>2465989
>he intended to make major cuts in the economy, such as removing certain holidays
it's fucking ogre for him he shall be taken to the guillotines soon

>>2465989
New government collapsed again, lasted less then a day, shortest government in French History


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>Shortly before 1989, Jaruzelski changed the course and instead pursued a strategy of reaching a "round table" agreement with Solidarity, mediated by the Catholic Church. This decision was strongly opposed by Endocommunists, which took a hardline stance - Grunwald members were ones of the few delegates to vote against the Polish United Workers' Party self-dissolution at its last congress in January 1990.
>Autistic nationalists loyal to the bitter end
>le heckin "humanists" such as Rakowski, KOR tardos instantly turned coat betrayed socialism changed suits to a succdem
>Same phenomenon was seen all over former warpac
Have Leninists wisen up over the years?

Warsaw pact was a socialist fortress in a capitalist world. It is more properly seen as proto-socialist, the same way the maritime merchant republics in medieval Europe (like Venice) were proto-capitalist. Have Leninists become wiser from the failures of the Warsaw Pact? Depends on the "Leninists" in question since many different kinds of people adopt that label.

I am less interested in that question than I am in the question of setbacks in general. You might not like Deng, but Deng said the following:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1992/179.htm

>I am convinced that more and more people will come to believe in Marxism, because it is a science. Using historical materialism, it has uncovered the laws governing the development of human society. Feudal society replaced slave society, capitalism supplanted feudalism, and, after a long time, socialism will necessarily supersede capitalism. This is an irreversible general trend of historical development, but the road has many twists and turns. Over the several centuries that it took for capitalism to replace feudalism, how many times were monarchies restored! So, in a sense, temporary restorations are usual and can hardly be avoided. Some countries have suffered major setbacks, and socialism appears to have been weakened. But the people have been tempered by the setbacks and have drawn lessons from them, and that will make socialism develop in a healthier direction. So don’t panic, don’t think that Marxism has disappeared, that it’s not useful any more and that it has been defeated. Nothing of the sort!


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