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>>2259857 https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=523675%20&title=ice-raid-sparks-chaos-mom-torn-from-baby-in-worcester-streets
>But make no mistake: we are all exploited by this regime. No one is safe. This entire country functions as a factory farm for capital. From the sacrifice zones of the Delta Basin, to the inner-city poverty of upstate New York, to those who lost everything in the L.A. wildfires only to find themselves priced out of rent in new developments there. From prison kitchens to fast food sweatshops—it's all one economy: extraction, exploitation, alienation, division. What you see with ICE is the hyper-exploitation laid bare. It is the chickens coming home to roost—trained on occupied lands. Gaza is their classroom. Your city is the final exam.Ay, if you like this kind of thing. Consider donating to me directly via cashapp or bitcoin, I'm working part time at whataburger and barely keeping my head above water, so the money goes far. Thanks.
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>>2263461Oy vey! *puts on "I have a right to defend myself" T-shirt*
I don't *opens Sabra*
feel safe *drinks coke*
on this *buys Lockheed Martin stock*
campus! *goes on BirthrightTM trip*
Someone *doxes you*
better *bids on West Bank property being auctioned at local synagogue*
deport *joins a mob harassing a random brown person*
all these *interns at Boeing*
muslims! *calls ICE on someone*
>>2263451this is in response to a trans woman being upset over you calling her dude which is imo worse. I was just explaining why people are (rightfully) outraged over "retard" in comparison to "moron" but I agree in that it shouldn't be like, a forefront issue to get people to change on. I don't even bring it up as an issue when I hear friends say it.
you're obfuscating this with you calling a trans woman dude despite her not being ok with it, however. these two things are not the same, but you seem to be confounding them. also
>"The "base" of the Left should always be the working class"the working class has marginalized people of all sorts. including trans and disabled people.
>Social justice is very important but we shouldn't miss the forest for the treesmore confounding. we went from calling a trans woman dude to now the entirety of social justice. I'm asking honestly, where do you actually draw the line? I'm not going to change your mind ik but I'm just curious now.
>>2263490>I'm asking honestly, where do you actually draw the line?I feel like the line is drawn when you can prove malicious intent. Someone calling a trans woman dude might just be a figure of speech with no offense intended and should be treated as such unless it's a deliberate behavior that is intended to offend. If this person only ever uses the term to refer to trans people, well that is some proof of intent and imo warrants being called out. Calling your friend a retard in a joking manner or using retard in vc in your online games is, really in the grand scheme of things pretty damn harmless. Using it as a slur directly at a mentally disabled person, not so much. Intent definitely matters in both these cases imo and that's why I feel it's a really difficult issue to politicize, because you can't assume the intent in how someone talks without additional context of their character. That trans woman had no idea if I just call everyone dude or if I was using it deliberately to upset her, and I feel it's unfair to take offense to it when you simply don't know. You have no idea if someone's usage of retard or faggot or anything else is out of jest or affection or whatever. Until you can actually determine malice on the perpetrator's part it seems like a waste of time to get hung up on it imo. That's just my take, I don't presume to change anyone's mind but this is also why I think people get so annoyed when language is picked apart like this. It's assuming things about their character purely because of a word, and people will naturally get defensive over it.
Now the natural response to this is "What about uyghur?" and well, if you spend any time in online games over the last idk 20 years you've probably noticed it's a favorite word of teenage edgelords. I think this is a pretty normal part of development though, testing the boundaries of language. Most of them come to the conclusion on their own as they mature that saying uyghur just because it's offensive isn't really fun or useful. Saying retard has at least some real world application: it refers to a stupid person, not necessarily mentally disabled. Saying "dude" is a very useful gender-neutral term to refer to someone in an informal and friendly manner. Saying faggot, while obviously offensive, has been somewhat reclaimed by the LGBT community as an endearing term, so even straight people can kinda get away with it in a joking or endearing way. But like, how can you possibly say uyghur in a context that isn't intended to offend? There's no friendly or safe way to use the word, you can't explain it to someone with further context, your intent is immediately clear as antagonistic and deserving of begging to be punched in the face. That's my take anyway, feel free to pick it apart if you feel I went wrong somewhere.
>>2263521
>everyone has to do it at onceWrong.
Uphold Joe Slovo thought.
>We have correctly rejected the 'pure detonator theory' which is based on the belief that the localised military actions of professional armed cadres automatically generate growing resistance and support from the people. But on the other hand to postpone all armed activity until political mobilisation and organisational reconstruction have reached a level high enough to sustain its more advanced forms, is to undermine the prospects of full political mobilisation itself. Experience of South Africa and other highly organised police states has shown that until the introduction of a new type of action it is questionable whether political mobilisation and organisation can be developed beyond a certain point. Given the disillusionment by the oppressed mass with the old forms of struggle, demonstration of the capacity of the liberation movement to meet and sustain the challenge in a new way is in itself one of the most vital factors in attracting their organised allegiance and support. Thus we have been taught to avoid two extreme positions - in the one case the pure detonator theory and in the other case the pure reconstruction theory which implies that no organised armed activity should be undertaken until we have mobilised the people politically and recreated advanced networks of nationwide organisation. The first has within it the seeds of a dramatic adventure which could be over before it started. The second holds out little prospect for the commencement of armed struggle and the conquest of power in our lifetime.Violence must be organized and planned, but you do not need a huge army of fighters to make the first steps.
>>2263528>>2263570COMRADE UNITS SURVIVE!!!!
STREET COMMITTEES SURVIVE!!!!
So recently it's emerged that the secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, might very well be engaging in the largest financial fraud scheme of all time. What's going on is that his financial firm (which is one of the largest in the world), Cantor Fitzgerald, has 30% of all it's financial holdings in either the stock or options for Microstrategy. Microstrategy formerly used to be a business intelligence company but they've pivoted to an extremely degenerate model where their entire business model is just buying and holding Bitcoin using mostly borrowed money so now their stock is essentially a leveraged bet on Bitcoin.
Now where things get really rotten is Cantor Fitzgerald's other big play in crypto, which is being the primary institutional backer of Tether. What Tether claims to do is offer a "service" where people can provide them dollars and they mint an equal amount of "USDT", which is a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar as they claim every USDT is backed by real dollars and one USDT can supposedly be cashed out for one dollar at any time. The big issue is that Tether has never actually submitted to any actual audits or ever provided any proof of reserves, and it's been very well documented that they have most likely have minted billions of USDT out of thin air and using that to artificially pump bitcoin's price. Cantor Fitzgerald has played a huge role in staving off scrutiny towards tether while it continues its suspicious massive weekly USDT mints that keep driving bitcoin's price up, which is making Lutnick filthy amounts of money because of his stake on Microstrategy, which as I said is basically a leveraged Bitcoin bet. It's basically the most grotesque display of financial incest and greed of all time and now taxpayers are being thrown into the wringer because these vultures are getting states and the federal government to create Bitcoin reserves, likely to make the scheme too big to fail. The issue is that it's such a fragile scheme that it's almost certainly still going to blow up and deal the finishing blow to the US economy alongside the tariff madness. America is literally committing suicide by Bitcoin lmao.
>>2263419<VideoDamn, the heroin must still be good in USA.
Nobody gouges out in europe anymore since Afghanistan ended. :(
>>2263528Another nonsensical piece from Felix. Great.
>>2263570>>2263603>>2263608Abhorrent to the point I can’t even joke. So wrong. So incorrect. So awful. Alt right level thought. Goddamn.
>>2263868>I don’t know why anyone thinks it’s possible to do anything against the police without standing army>standing armyThis is simply due to your ignorance. You do not need an army. You need an armed and engaged proletariat.
>The Black Panthers tried policing the police and appealing through the legal system that they had the right toIt is a folly to appeal to the bourgeoisie legal system in such a manner. No wonder they got got. It is confusing why you think this specific tactic would provide validity for the creation of standing armies though.
>>2263900That’s not optimism
>>2263898>total collapse of any international cooperation whatsoever, even on bourgeois terms>and a total descent into barbarismCorrection
>total collapse of any international cooperation whatsoever on bourgeois terms>and a semi large descent into barbarism >>2263960>right wingers have outsmarted the left and liberals again by dropping the racial supremacistsdid they really though? or did they just turn the knobs down a couple of notches? you go into nazi spaces online they still screech TND and merely make exceptions for certain
honorary aryans "based blacks" like Kanye
The beef is real good article
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/disagreements-iran-gaza-straining-trump-netanyahu-relationship-rcna205985According to the report, while the two leaders initially aligned on addressing threats from Hamas and Iran, their approaches have diverged in recent weeks. Trump, who lifted restrictions on weapons shipments to Israel and supported its military operations, is now reportedly advocating for a ceasefire and a plan to rebuild Gaza into what he envisions as a "Riviera of the Middle East."
Privately, Trump has said the new Israeli offensive in Gaza is a wasted effort because it will make it harder to rebuild, according to those two sources. The report cites unnamed US and Middle Eastern officials who say Netanyahu remains focused on potential military action against Iran's nuclear facilities, while Trump is pursuing diplomatic negotiations to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Netanyahu was reportedly upset after Trump stated he had not yet decided whether to permit Iran limited uranium enrichment under a new deal.
The report also notes that Netanyahu was caught off guard by Trump's decision to end US military operations against the Houthi group in Yemen, despite recent Houthi attacks on Israel. The Israeli prime minister is said to have expected a stronger commitment from Trump during a recent visit to the White House.
Trump has allegedly expressed frustration with Israel's renewed Gaza offensive, suggesting it could hinder reconstruction efforts. Meanwhile, Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham have pushed for any Iran deal to be subject to Senate ratification and to fully bar uranium enrichment by Tehran
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408167Now that I think about it. They have been building more facilities across the country dedicated for law enforcement such as the cop cities and Hero village.
https://herovillages.com/https://www.atltrainingcenter.com/https://communityresourcehub.org/resource/cop-cities-usa/American police generally works closely with the IDF and receives training from them as well. I wonder if these new developments (besides being apart of the imperial boomerang) are also apart of an effort to cut off Israel as well.
>>2264245>>2264256trump is such a messy bitch, he's so mad bibi sabotaged the houthi ceasefire hours after he announced it he's completely undercutting him
>>2263960incorporating some token minorities into your fascist movement is nothing new
>>2264459i believe it
jdpon don!!!
>>2264488Well fuck, good on him if this works. This is kind of positive nationalism.
Though I’m fully prepared for this to be some rug pull.
>>2264538I thought he said he couldn’t tax the rich cause democrats would get mad at him or something?
That said, this could be a pretty big break in American politics. Seems like nationalist populism vs centrist neoliberalism might be the new norm presuming Trump inspires some others to run in his image. He’s kind of one of those consequential figures that redefine American politics, or at least seems to be orienting himself as such.
Shit, he might be pretty close to doing a kind of American Peronism.
>>2264545>Elitists called Peron’s supporters something like “shirtless” to highlight they’re low class.<Peron later reclaimed it and turned it into a source of pride.>Libs called Trump supporters deplorables and garbage<Trump’s supporters reclaimed it and turned it into a point of pride.I remember I had some guy screeching that I was a secret fascist when I called Peron a fascist who was a little more left leaning (he fucking met with Oswald Mosley and praised Fascism after all). Shit; Trump basically ruling by decree kind of matches some old slogan I heard applied to Peronism; “Peron gets the goods” or something like that, he basically just bypassed a lot of democratic norms to give people what they wanted—mostly to shore up his own support.
Which I suppose would make Haz and co the left-wing Peronists.
>>2264589if you get lucky, stagnation into irrelevency with the occasional recovery followed by mediocrity, or a military dictatorship that is probably one of the most brutal of its time
>>2264592they are not comparable, not because "heckin vibes" but because they are tangentially similar
>>2264568>>2264573Also wasn’t there an issue with all the political parties prior to Peron, Socialists included, just openly seeing the average Argentinian with contempt? I think I recall something about Peron giving a lot of “backwards” Argentinians a sense of pride.
Fucking hell the comparisons really fit.
>>2264602Trump is either identical to or on the left of Biden on foreign policy issues and always has been. It's only social issues where Trump is right wing vis a vis the mainstream American politician.
You're all just babies and don't remember who it was that orchestrated all of America's post 9/11 wars.
>>2264624Looked up “Trump Peron” and this was one of the results:
https://unherd.com/newsroom/trump-is-no-peron-but-their-opponents-were-similar/Trump is no Perón — but their opponents were similar
>On 24 February, 1946, the electoral victory of the populist firebrand Juan Domingo Perón altered the course of Argentina’s history. This political earthquake was made possible in part by an actual earthquake that occurred two years earlier in the city of San Juan.
>Perón was serving as labor and welfare minister in the military government that ruled at the time, and he became a national hero for spearheading relief efforts. He was subsequently able to consolidate a powerful base of working-class support by throwing his support behind labor unions and fighting to expand the social safety net. His 1946 triumph offered the first proof of concept for a strain of economic and cultural nationalism that remains potent to this day.
>Perón’s success at turning the so-called descamisados — the “shirtless” urban poor — into an overwhelming political force galvanized an alliance of otherwise opposed factions to attempt to block his election. His opponent in 1946, José Tamborini, headed a coalition that included communists and socialists as well as mainstream liberals and conservatives. Those on the left saw him as a fascist (and it’s true that he admired ᴉuᴉlossnW), while free-trade liberals deplored his economic nationalism and the conservative elite feared the anti-oligarchic fervor he had whipped up with the help of his increasingly influential wife, the former radio actress Eva Duarte.
>Ever since the 2016 US election, commentators have drawn analogies between Perón and Trump, pointing to their personalistic style of leadership and shared rhetoric that pits the people (descamisados/”deplorables”) against the corrupt elite. However, it was not Juan but Eva Perón who likely exerted some influence on the former US president. The latter’s favorite musical is Evita: the story of a show-business natural who transferred her skills to politics, and a social climber who transmuted her resentment of the brahmin class into a contagious populist fury.
>Unlike Perón, Trump did not forge a broad or durable working-class coalition capable of delivering him commanding electoral victories. He was also unable and often unwilling to fulfill his more ambitious populist promises. Conversely, both admirers and his detractors see Perón as a transformative leader whose impact was comparable to Franklin D Roosevelt’s in the US. Trump is unlikely to ever be seen this way.
>The more meaningful historical parallel, in fact, is between the oppositional forces Perón and Trump summoned up. The anti-Trump “resistance,” like anti-Peronism, was a big tent: it brought together hawkish neoconservatives and barons of the finance and tech industries with Antifa and racial justice activists. Antipathy to Trump also prompted a realignment of affluent majority-white suburbs toward the Democratic Party.
>While Perón is often perceived as a dictatorial figure, the real problem his enemies confronted was the electoral potency afforded by his status as the tribune of the masses. As a result, it was his opponents who ultimately resorted to far greater illiberalism. Desperate to keep Peronism out of power, they lined up behind the series of military dictatorships that ruled periodically from Perón’s exile in 1955 up until the 1980s. Since the country’s return to democracy in 1983, 8 out of 11 Argentine presidents have been members of the Justicialist Party, which Perón founded. His historical example reveals that a successful populist agenda might prove nearly undefeatable. On the flipside, such a scenario can lead to the abandonment of democracy on the part of populism’s opponents — ironically, in the name of “defeating fascism.”The bit about Peron being opposed by everyone from communists to conservatives really tracks with Trump in my opinion.
>>2264727>ideologythis word doesn't mean what you think it means
>vibesyou are the one confusing aesthetics for policy. ice doesn't need runes to be fascist. you are expecting black uniforms and nazi paraphernalia but when people call a state fascist they are referring to policy, not the color of the uniforms
>>2264743i disagree with that strategy because it doesn't really amount to anything, when you put a movement into one man that movement typically becomes reactionary or it becomes irrelevent,
>>2264744my goodness gracious you people are obsessed with conspiracies about how we're actually fascists because we want words to mean something other than "thing i don't like", for christ's sake read what we're saying
>>2264731"Fascism" isn't merely a pejorative term, or isn't supposed to be. "Fascism" is a specific ideology that was named by its own founders, a self-applied label. It shouldn't be controversial on a communist imageboard that ideologies should be actually identified correctly, lol.
Maybe say what you actually mean instead of buzzwords to try and signal your moral outrage. Capitalist societies are already chauvinistic and reactionary and anti-communist enough by definition.
>>2264743There is no American left and your party is the primary reason why.
It's very on brand that you listen to Zizek, a lifelong, militant anti-communist who only has the platform he does because of the CIA.
>>2264809Look man, real talk okay look at me. This right here? This is not a game. You're in the major leagues with this shit and buster they're playing hardball at the pitching lot. You look at slop and you only see the slop but when you dig under the slop you find digested pieces of real life under there, that's real culture and experience downstream of the base. You follow that river of slop until you reach the base, because he who reaches the base first gets to chose what communism looks like.
Are you ready to swim to the base anon? Or you drown beneath cerulean waves?
>>2264808Interesting idea.
>>2264809People decry the "marketplace of ideas" but how else do you appeal to people if not through ideas? Will communism spontaneously erupt once certain material conditions are met? What then is the point of theory?
>>2264802https://erikhoudini.com/
>integrate into subcultures as a means of going to the masses>use high stakes of class war to make culture war look stupid asf<ie you are mad about pronouns in games, we are covering people being black vanned>and we are still PROVIDING BETTER VIDEO GAME CONTENT THAN YOU!>westerns have no real heroes, so use detournament on the fictional ones (this is why I use DBZ stuff)Keeping it real with you people are not radicalized by media outlets, streamers, websites, magazines, whatever. These things only serve to channel the already existing energy. People become radicalized because of their material conditons, then they seek leadership, education, and a means to agitate, they seek community with those who are also radicalized. Lenin explicitly talks about how spontaneous events (think Luigi) lead to an increase in this desire. The modern media left has created this omnipresent boogieman that is "the right wing pipeline", it's not about channeling the existing radical energy of the youth, it's about battling this pipeline, which in my opinion really doesn't exist and is an excuse for the media class to remain reformist. It allows them to get away with promoting non-revolutionary ends as a means to 'ease people into this' and 'combat the pipeline' and 'would you rather they watch a PMC media dem soc who's platforming 'social imperialists' or (worst possible person ever, someone like Tate)? The reality is the latter group is astroturfed, in-organic, a media spectacle promoted by the capitalist class. The capitalist benefits from you thinking your peers are all unsavalageable barbarians who want to assault women. You are being Gaslit to believe that rightoid voices are organic.
Reformist ends don't attract people. You will have DSA people lamenting that everyone is fascist now because no one wants to write letters to their representatives at the weekly meeting. Because that's cornball, because that's waste of everyone's time and people know this. You talk about a trans guerilla martyred by capitalist forces? You connect that directly to the first world? People recognize that, they see the realness.
Why is the left unpopular in the US when the left spends all it's time self-flagellating and straight up saying "there's nothing we can do, we will never win, we just have to wait for the conditions to be right"? Could it be that the approaches and methods being used are ineffective? No it must be the workers who are the problem!
>>2264837Fascism is very relevant to India and it's baked into their culture.
Hinduism is inherently reactionary and fascistic and it should be treated as such. It is by far the most dangerous and insidious of all superstitions. There is no Hinduism without the caste system.
>>2264844America has a huge amount of agrarian workers and was until recently a primarily agrarian nation. Marxism-Leninism hasn't worked because it's the first settler colonial nation with majority rule, thanks to the genocide of the indigenous Americans. The system is specifically built to benefit the majority, which is why we need to switch to vanguardist tactics instead of slavishly waiting for a mass base which will never exist. We will be lucky if we get 20% of the population on our side, but that is more than enough to overthrow the government if the "left" would finally show some courage.
>>2264749I think the strategy itself could lead to a breakup, though it’s hard to ascribe “left wing Trumpism” into a coherent strategy, let me try to explain.
I think Trump and Peron’s lack of ideology in favor of personalist leadership works in no small part because it’s adaptable, they don’t have hardcore goals or ideals that could compel them to compromise. Across the entire West, at least, you’ve got liberals who can lead socialists and communists around with the threat of “if we lose, think of what will happen to the minorities/immigrants/LGBT people.” And several of these good-hearted Socialists, earnestly trying to help the downtrodden, will take a step back for the liberals in that case.
Now imagine a scenario instead where the left willingly walks away. They just let the liberals fail. They’re willing to sacrifice others for their goals. Imagine if—and yes I know Bernie isn’t some radical left commie—the Sanders campaign just went independent after losing the primary in 2016/2020. They might not have won, they would still be blamed by the liberals for losing, but they could’ve shattered the democrats. It could have been a locus for building a working class party, or at the very least something new.
Like imagine if the Bernie Bro thing held even a little bit of water. Imagine if Sanders had his supporters be meaner, crueler, willing to scare the liberals. Contrary to liberal narratives, Trumpism won by being willing to cannibalize the Right and beat down any challenger—there was an embarrassing moment in the 2016 primaries where Ted Cruz tried to talk with a pro-Trump protester and do that horseshit “well let’s just talk and I’ll try to hear you out” shit and the guy just kept calling him a cuck.
What if, instead of playing defense, the left just attacked. I think about that a lot. Like what if Jeremy Corbyn’s response to antisemitism claims was “It’s a load of bullshit that Israel throws at anyone who gets upset about them killing children.” They could bring out the crying Holocaust survivors and with no shame you just say: “What are you trying to pull here? You’re weeping for a country that’s doing its own Holocaust, I’m not even gonna entertain the idea you have a point.” What if Sanders spent 2016 on whipping the base into a frenzy, talking about how Clinton stole the primary, degrading her as a loser?
Maybe it wouldn’t have worked, I dunno, but it’d be different. It can’t be said that the liberals aren’t willing to play hardball against the Left. In Vegas they defunded their own party to sabotage the DSA. In the UK they intentionally stabbed Corbyn in the back. In France, Macron spat in the Left’s face by elevating a rightist over them. In Italy, they sabotaged a coalition against the far right. It’s a matter of political willpower, and that means being willing to accept being a bad person.
Shit I still remember during 2020, there was some pro Israel ad of some old lady that survived the Holocaust pleading with Bernie to stand with Israel. Now let’s assume she was being earnest in her beliefs, to which I can only say: fuck her. The cause of a free Palestine matters more than her tears. Yes it’s callous. Yes it’s an awful thing to say. Yes if your family and friends hear you say that they’d be ashamed of you. But if the worst thing you do to stop countless millions of people from being displaced, raped, murdered, and starved, is re-traumatize a little old lady, then you’re practically a saint.
>>2264880Felix I mostly just mock you but to be honest for a moment: for all the faults and personal differences I’ve had with the CPUSA over the years—including drama with some other comrades—I’ve got to know them and I’ve got to know socialists more like you, and they feel like real people with families, dreams, friends, and a desire to make a better world. Meanwhile you just kind of seem like a robot that was programmed to be a douche.
Simply put; I know that people in the party, for however misguided I might think they are, have a basis of love for their fellow man which I think is necessary to build anything. And it’s something I still respect.
>>2264884Except they don't have a desire to make a better world, they have a desire to make a slightly more comfortable America, explicitly at the expense of every other human being living on earth.
There's a name for that, and I think you know what it is.
>>2264908If the line became a circle nobody would be at the back,
ever think of that?
>>2264926You have to destroy America first before you can have a socialist revolution you fucking dingbat.
>Strategy is the determination of the direction of the main blow of the proletariat at a given stage of the revolution, the elaboration of a corresponding plan for the disposition of the revolutionary forces (main and secondary reserves), the fight to carry out this plan throughout the given stage of the revolution.
>Our revolution had already passed through two stages, and after the October Revolution it entered a third one. Our strategy changed accordingly.
>First stage. 1903 to February 1917. Objective: to overthrow tsarism and completely wipe out the survivals of medievalism. The main force of the revolution: the proletariat. Immediate reserves: the peasantry. Direction of the main blow: the isolation of the liberal-monarchist bourgeoisie, which was striving to win over the peasantry and liquidate the revolution by a compromise with tsarism. Plan for the disposition of forces: alliance of the working class with the peasantry. "The proletariat, must carry to completion the democratic revolution, by allying to itself the mass of the peasantry in order to crush by force the resistance of the autocracy and to paralyse the instability of the bourgeoisie" (see Lenin, Vol. VIII, p.96)
>Second stage. March 1917 to October 1917. Objective: to overthrow imperialism in Russia and to withdraw from the imperialist war. The main force of the revolution: the proletariat. Immediate reserves: the poor peasantry. The proletariat of neighbouring countries as probable reserves. The protracted war and the crisis of imperialism as a favourable factor. Direction of the main blow: isolation of the petty-bourgeois democrats (Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries), who were striving to win over the toiling masses of the peasantry and to put an end to the revolution by a compromise with imperialism. Plan for the disposition of forces: alliance of the proletariat with the poor peasantry. "The proletariat must accomplish the socialist revolution, by allying to itself the mass of the semi-proletarian elements of the population in order to crush by force the resistance of the bourgeoisie and to paralyse the instability of the peasantry and the petty bourgeoisie" (ibid.).
>Third stage. Began after the October Revolution. Objective: to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat in one country, using it as a base for the defeat of imperialism in all countries. The revolution spreads beyond the confines of one country; the epoch of world revolution has begun. The main force of the revolution: the dictatorship of the proletariat in one country, the revolutionary movement of the proletariat in all countries. Main reserves: the semi-proletarian and small-peasant masses in the developed countries, the liberation movement of the colonies and dependent countries. Direction of the main blow: isolation of the petty-bourgeois democrats, isolation of the parties of the Second International, which constitute the main support of the policy of compromise with imperialism. Plan for the disposition of forces: alliance of the proletarian revolution with the liberation movement in the colonies and the dependent countries.>>2264928Why does the life of your nephew or niece matter more than the lives of everyone else's on earth?
>>2264931And this is why there is no real push towards a revolution in America. Most Americans want their own standard of living to go up and do not care that it explicitly comes at the cost of everyone else on earth.
You have correctly recognized the class basis of this bourgeois republic, and therefore, recognized why it MUST be destroyed.
>>2264899Capitalism must be destroyed in order for humanity to have even the remotest chance of surviving to the next generation. Capitalism is the direct and indisputable cause of climate change, and climate change is an existential threat to human civilization. All scientific evidence indicates that this is true.
America must be destroyed in order for Capitalism to be destroyed. America is the lynchpin of global capitalism and imperialism, without it's muscle the system cannot continue to exist.
Ergo, America must be destroyed to save human civilization. To deny this is to put the lives of Americans ahead of the lives of every one else on earth, and to do that is literally fascism. You have simply expanded the definition of "volk" from one race to one nation.
It's pretty fucking simple to figure out, but all you waffentwerps want to stick your head in the sand as the temperatures continue to rise year after year. In fact, this is me being optimistic. Odds are, it's already too late.
>>2264934> Most Americans want their own standard of living to go up Everyone on earth does
> and do not care that it explicitly comes at the cost of everyone else on earth. it doesn't have to. we have enough resources to feed, clothe, shelter, and educate everybody, the bourgeoisie creates artificial scarcity. read rajani palme dutt's chapter 3 section on the destruction of the productive forces in the book fascism and social revolution. there is literally no iron law where "burger standard of living go up, everyone else standard of living go down". It is the imperialists who want us to think that one is necessary for the other. it's not. We can stop doing imperialism and colonialism and capitalism AND improve our lives. Will it require sacrifices in the mean time? Yes. But you are telling people to basically risk their lives with no training or support. It is irresponsible demagoguery.
>>2264889See, there you go again with the exhausting self-seriousness. You’re gonna look like Emperor Palpatine by the time you’re 40 with all the scowling I imagine you’re doing.
Honestly the way you act just comes across as completely alienating, and I see that selfsame “super duper seriousness” among a bunch of wannabe revolutionaries. Like you’re trying to imitate some antagonism in Lenin and Marx’s writings as a way to conjure them back to life, but all you really do is come across as a poor imitation of actually impressive men.
>>2264929>Why does the life of your nephew or niece matter more than the lives of everyone else's on earth?Why does YOUR life matter more than the lives of everyone else here?
Like I have some sympathy for you Felix, and I think some people are irrationally obsessed with you here, but like, all you do is bemoan people here for not devoting their entire existence to waging a guerilla war against the USA. Like, you insist we're all literal Nazis because we are not martyrs for global socialism, but if that's really the case, why are you still here? What makes you so different that you have not thrown yourself on the revolutionary pyre? Please keep in mind, though, that I'm not saying you need to commit some great act of self-sacrifice. I would just like you to stop being so insufferable. It's ultimately doing more harm than good, both to yourself and everyone else here.
>>2264947>there is literally no iron law where "burger standard of living go up, everyone else standard of living go down".Wrong. You fail to grasp monopoly capitalism's law of uneven development. The basic material law of monopoly capitalism is the ensuring of the maximum capitalist profit through the exploitation, ruining and impoverishing of the majority of the inhabitants of the country concerned, through enslaving and systematically robbing the peoples of other countries, especially backward countries, and finally, through wars and militarisation of the national economy, raising the living standards of the imperialist core by extracting and distributing superprofits from the periphery. You know nothing of proletarian science. You and all imperialist who stand with you are bourgeois dumb idiots
>>2264949>when the British Empire went into decline?Wrong. British Empire was not monopoly capitalist. You fail to grasp a conscious view of history. Monopoly capitalism is the final phase of capitalism, therefore capitalism ends when AmeriKKKan social formation is destroyed.
>>2264954> same way killing Bezos would only make the second richest person become #1.Wrong. You fail to grasp the material laws of history. The destruction of history's greatest parasitic superorganism's social formation is incomparable to the death of single human. You are imperialist.
>>2264952dumbass
>>2264942I have three guns within arms reach right now.
>>2264947
>But you are telling people to basically risk their lives with no training or support. It is irresponsible demagoguery.First off, if you are not willing to risk your life, you are objectively a lifestylist and will never be a real Communist. Second, you are, as always, wrong.
I have explained what I mean so many times now that I am sick of it, but I will do so one last time just for you.
What we must do is use all tactics short of violence to force a response from the state, then use this response to increase our political mobilization. You must mobilize, discipline and regiment as many people as you can. What I am telling people to do, essentially, is to do what Gandhi did until such a point as people realize that Gandhian tactics will never work and armed struggle becomes the natural next step. People will be injured, arrested and even killed in so doing. This is a sacrifice that we must make if we are to call ourselves revolutionaries. In fact, it is this sacrifice that separates revolutionaries from reformists.
For as much as you nerds pretend to like reading, you react like vampires locked in a tanning bed to actual, proven revolutionary theory.
Please, try to understand this literature. Don't come back until you've read it.
https://www.anc1912.org.za/manifesto-1961-manifesto-of-umkhonto-we-sizwe/https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/slovo/1971/slovo-10-years.pdfhttps://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/anc/1969/strategy-tactics.htmhttps://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/anc/1979/green-book.htmhttps://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/periodicals/african-communist/1963/ac-13.pdf (Read the first section, "The Revolutionary Way Out")
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cuba/sa-struggle-continues.pdfhttps://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cpgb/armed-struggle.pdfThere can be no revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory, so get busy.
>>2264952It is very fitting how the only way you can communicate with others is through references to your favorite children's toy ads. Your mind has obviously not progressed beyond the target demographic for Tard Wars, and I doubt it ever will.
>>2264960
>In a way, the decision taken in 1961 was, historically speaking, in the tradition of the earlier armed resistance to the entrenchment of the foreigner. But it is now occurring in a new situation. Not only had this situation to be understood but the art and science - both political and military - of armed liberation struggles in the modern epoch had to be grasped and applied. The head-on mobile warfare of the traditional African armies of the past could not meet the challenge. The riot, the street fight, the outburst of unorganised violence, individual terrorism; these were symptoms of the militant spirit but not pointers to revolutionary technique. The winning of our freedom by armed struggle - the only method left open to us - demands more than passion. It demands an understanding and an implementation of revolutionary theory and techniques in the actual conditions facing us. It demands a sober assessment of the obstacles in our way and an appreciation that such a struggle is bitter and protracted. >>2265002CEO is one who are proletarian.
You is one who are dumb.
>>2264967>British Empire was not monopoly capitalist. lol
>Monopoly capitalism is the final phase of capitalism, therefore capitalism ends when AmeriKKKan social formation is destroyed.lmao
>>2264538>>2264541>>2264542>>2264488GUYS!!!!
It's just another insider trading scam. make big pharma stonk go down with "I'm doing price controls" tweet, then buy dip, then two days later go "on second thought we need a more measured approach" and watch stonks go back up again.
>>2265064what do you do when every media outlet in the country is lock step in painting your org as an outside force and terrorist cell? what do you do when your favorite leftist podcaster is radio silent in support?
what do you do if one of your guys needs medical treatment?
what about when the state sends forces to squash you?
what level of mass line support do you have to negate the above issues? who are you recruiting from? who's doing propaganda to paint your cell in the best possible light? how are you communicating with other cells? what is your infastructure like?
>>2265104You're better off being a banker or even a prostitute if all you care about is money. UPS median yearly pay + benefit $172K.
https://about.ups.com/us/en/newsroom/negotiations/negotiations-basics/working-at-ups.html As a prostitute you'd only have to suck just over three cocks a day at 150$ (~20 minutes each) not accounting hotel room (about one extra cock daily) to break even with full-time UPS driver minus backbreaking un-airconditioned full-time productive labor. Your wages as UPS driver will be below value required to sustain and fall even further until 5 year union contract expire, but prostitute can just suck more cocks or charge more.
>>2265193the funkos restored
desire for revolution decreases
>>2265206>>2265207Tariffs on Chinese goods are, even at this “reduced rate”, exceptionally high. Either 50% or 60%.
Quite interesting though that Trump collapsed.
It’s kind of equivalent to someone noting the British retreat from the Suez as “nothing ever happens” when that “nothing happening” was one of the most significant turning points of the century.
>>2265222Is this essentially America accepting defeat? They can no longer say they are the most powerful economy?
Now watch, their only cope now is their military strength and technology. The Arms Race will escalate.
>>2265206Ports still emptied, confidence is low, the dollar is fucked, tariffs are still too high
It’s fine
>>2265309It was explicit as soon as he started namefagging.
He also spent months testing talking points making threads trying to claim fascists were socialists.
>>2265360It's akin to Britains reforms after WW2, and all it took was two world wars and 20 years of a pissed off labour movement.
Except even more trivial.
>>2265206JDPON Don was done dumping the market so Pump & Dump Trump cancelled the tariff.
>>2264488>>2265277The next target for JDPON Don is big pharma. price controls will cause stock market retreat. After a month of chaos and lots of dip buying, Pump & Dump Trump will come in and clean up the mess.
>>226536950 years ago China opening itself up meant becoming a cheap manufacturing hub.
Today China opening itself up means America reindustrializing and China pressing forward with nuclear fusion
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/nuclear-energy/chinas-artificial-sun-shatters-nuclear-fusion-record-by-generating-steady-loop-of-plasma-for-1-000-seconds >>2265380Ahhhh I see.
So now instead of Toyotas everyone going to buy a BYD? Because they're cheap and high quality? And then everyone will realise how fucking shit Teslas are? And then Tesla will go out of business?
>>2264873Did I just stumble onto the prison notes of Louis Auguste Blanqui 2.0?
Just so I’m clear: because the settler majority in America benefited from genocidal expansionism, you’ve concluded we should abandon any hope of mass organizing and instead ride into Washington with a disciplined 20% and some rifles? Respectfully, comrade, you may be quoting Lenin but you sound more like the SRs or People's Will.
Lenin wrote What Is To Be Done?, not What Is To Be Punitively LARPed Until the FBI Knocks. Are you sure Iron Felix wasn’t turned at some point? Asking as a fellow glowie.
>>2265378I think it’s already happening.
Chinese company electric cars are way better which is why the government makes it impossible for them to be imported. They would kicks Teslas ass.
>>2265407that's a good point but I think it's because SA is majority black and USA during the desegregation period was majority white. So of course it wasn't going to be concessions and not Burger equivalent of uMkhonto WeSizWe (black panthers) destroying critical infrastructure and causing the settlers to retreat.
>>2265408>Americans are overwhelmingly active and conscious participants in the exploitation and oppression of the imperial peripheryI agree that the American govt. is quote, "the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the pharaoh of proxy wars, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™" but considering less than 10% of the population joins the military I find your specific claims about Americans dubvious. Most Americans are passive and unconscious participants in the exploitation of the imperial periphery, i.e. paper tigers, not active and conscious. Anyway enough moralizing on the imageboard. "YOU MUST SECRETLY LOVE EMPIRE" childish and tiresome, give it a rest
>>2265391The pandemic killed in excess of a million USAnos, in a very direct and appreciable manner. It's not like the normalized toll of poverty, abstracted into individualist rationalizations. It was ever present, everybody had knew of people greatly affected and most were affected themselves in some manner.
One fucking million. One million deaths in the span of a couple of years of crowded hospitals, daily scandals and mass hysteria. And it didn't matter for shit. All the lying, all the profiteering from the literally dying.
Every single day a 9/11 worth of dead for over a year. It had nil lasting impact in US politics.
Russiagate had more lasting impact.
The Chinese weather balloon had more lasting impact.
The psyops about the invasion of Ukraine had more lasting impact.
It's all PR, and if the media forgot to tell USAnos what to think they would all fall into a comatose stupor.
>>2265428reminder the pandemic caused massive brain damage and made everyone dumber and also fucked up everyone's immune systems…
>Russiagate had more lasting impact.>The Chinese weather balloon had more lasting impact.>The psyops about the invasion of Ukraine had more lasting impact.I have never met someone makes <75K a year ever bring this dumb media slop up in real life. It's all online PB libs who consume too much "reputable news sources" out of trump anxiety
>>2265438go tell the emir of dubai and the kings of riyadh
that those who knock on peoples doors will have their doors knocked on
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ziploc-hit-class-action-lawsuit-003500387.htmlThe maker of Ziploc bags has been hit with a class-action lawsuit after a consumer alleged that two of the brand's primary selling points — that the bags are "suitable" or "safe" to use in the freezer and microwave — were misleading and placed people at elevated risk of exposure to microplastics.
The suit contends that "in reality," Ziploc bags and containers are made with polyethylene and polypropylene — two manufacturing materials, the filing indicates, that "scientific and medical evidence shows release microplastics when microwaved and frozen."
As such, Ziploc bags are alleged to be "fundamentally unfit for microwave and freezer use" despite their labeling, which has been "leading consumers to believe they are fit to be microwaved and frozen without risk of microplastics leaching into their food." Consumers may have "unwittingly exposed themselves and their families to undisclosed microplastics during routine kitchen practices," per the filing.
>>2265393What other choice do we have?
Even if you're serious about slowly building a mass base (which, to be clear, you absolutely are not and are using it as an excuse to do nothing) WE DON'T HAVE TIME.
As I've already explained several times, climate change is an existential threat to human civilization. Your vaunted strategy of "sit and do nothing" is literally so suicidal that it's genocidal. It would result in complete human extinction.
That is your "plan" and your "goal." Everyone dies while you sit farting in your chair mumbling aimlessly about Lenin.
The complete extermination of the human race, root and stem. That is the price of inactivity, and a price that you are perfectly willing to see future generations pay so you can have the luxury of doing nothing.
You are a genocidal maniac who gleefully dooms the rest of humanity to suffering and death the likes of which the world has not seen since the plague of Justinian, and for what? So you can have an excuse to not go outside? Calling you scum would be unfair to scum! Even scum has a desire to live and reproduce, you not only want to die, you want every other human being on earth to die just so you don't have to get out of your chair.
>>2265695>there are legitimate concerns of antisemitism on college campuses*
wrong buzzer noise*
>>2265714dump over
>>2265717pump begin
>>2265767If you read the literature I posted or had even a basic understanding of Marxism-Leninism, you'd understand what went wrong.
The first goal of the ANC was (correctly) to overthrow the Apartheid regime. This was necessary to ripen the conditions for socialist revolution. The first thing the Bolsheviks did, before organizing an army or starting the revolution, was overthrow the tsarist regime.
The problem is, the ANC needed international support to implement it's policies such as land reform and forced nationalization of industry, and at almost the exact same time that the apartheid regime began to crumble, the USSR did too, which deprived the ANC of it's primary international support. The ANC was never able to finish the revolution, and so South Africa sits as a mess today. The same can be said about Ireland. Without the support of the eastern bloc, the Irish position was considerably weakened and they were forced to negotiate with the government for what they could get.
The point of this is not to emulate their strategies for building a new society, but to find inspiration from their strategies for overthrowing a rotten one. Both the ANC and the IRA have a lot to teach us, and their lessons are more valid for us, living in an imperialist and settler-colonialist regime than those of Lenin and Mao, who faced wildly different material conditions.
This is pretty basic shit, but it requires you accept an inconvenient truth. America MUST be destroyed. This is what you nerds are afraid of, you know deep down that you owe your lives of luxury to this system and do not want to see it demolished.
>>2265783I work six to seven days a week, depending on the week, and still find time to organize and agitate.
What is your excuse?
>>2265780Felix has repeatedly been proven to not be very knowledgeable about history either. He also believes the very first thing the Bolsheviks did before anything else was have the Cheka (which had yet to be formed) hunt down anarchists, who ironically are probably the people who would be most receptive to his imminent revolution rhetoric but has psyopped himself into believing that they're the enemy.
And before he replies with another fanciful story about anarchist mobs attacking his comrades with hammers I have friends in the radical scene in Portland and I can confirm nothing even remotely like that happens.
>>2265778>The point of this is not to emulate their strategies for building a new societyFitting since you seem to have no interest in building a new society. That being said though, the application of Ghandian tactics to America actually seeks like a sound approach, although this still requires building a mass base using the slow, tedious, grinding work that you're constantly shitting on. That means supporting strikes, organizing demonstrations, participating in electoral campaigns, etc. since its exactly these tactics beginning to bear fruit that starts to attract the attention of the authorities and provoke repression. I can't help but feel that you would have denounced the Salt March or demonstrations that lead to Bloody Sunday in Russia in 1905 as liberalism, reformism, etc. You say that only 20% max will support you, that's still a mass movement that will require actually offering people a better future rather than just telling them that they're worse than Hitler if they want a pay increase or lower rent. You must know that much of this 20% will not initially have class or anti-imperialist consciousness, and that in order to achieve it they must first be brought into the movement with promises of immediate improvement of their conditions. Additionally, destroying the old society won't work unless you build something to replace it. A mode of production, a new social structure capable of establishing political and cultural hegemony, etc. Without this everything you accomplished would be incredibly fragile and susceptible to counter revolution. What's to stop reactionary forces from regrouping and smashing you if you have no lasting social base, nobody willing to defend whatever you've accomplished, no new society to keep the reactionary beast down? As the one true Marxist Leninist on this board, you must also be aware that the crippling blow to the American empire that even a temporarily successful revolution would have wouldn't be enough to stop climate change or alter the inexorable march or all capitalist societies towards imperialism. Even if it resulted in Balkanization of the US, other capitalist powers would endure and fill the vacuum. At best you will have accelerated the existing trend towards multipolarity, which is necessary but not sufficient. The irony of your position is that it would be a lot more sound if it weren't filled with so much vitriol for everybody around you, and for the boring tedious legwork of building a revolutionary movement. If you actually had a positive vision for the future you could communicate to potential followers, instead if relying on them being as bitter as you. Kudos though for graduating from your infantile "just start bombing factories" position that you held previously.
>>2265778>your lives of luxuryI didn't get dental for 10 years, let alone health insurance and when I finally did they kept changing my primary care physician to doctors further and further away, destroying the rapport I had built with my previous doctors, making it less practical for me to book appointments, and causing my various health disorders and issues to get worse without timely treatment. Meanwhile I have a child and a full time job. Tuition is unaffordable so I avoided college altogether after a couple of semesters. My job pays 40k/yr (so below median) but my dad makes even less than I do despite having a master's degree. He is still in student debt in his 60s. Meanwhile I take care of my maternal grandparents and my wife's mom. I live in a suburban house but I do not pay a mortgage, I rent from a landlord who himself rents a town house. The house is 60 years old, has hard water, electrical problems, mold, and a hurricane blew away the fence. This is the "life of luxury". I never joined the military but I must abandon and endanger my wife and autistic child to redeem myself for being le evil burger who, by consuming food from the grocery store, and occasionally watching pirated slop, is complicit with every CIA coup and imperialist invasion and IMF loan ever. I must go out now and do uMkhonto WeSizWe shit to impress a stranger online. Makes sense.
Everyone on here should read The Terror Factory by Trevor Aaronson. It's about how FBI agents regularly reach out to alienated people in radical spaces online and encourage them to do dumb shit as part of sting operations that they contrive to justify higher budgets and more surveillance. You're doing the "nudge" tactic. >>2265794You're still ignoring the urgency of climate change. We have to do this quickly. We do not have the time to wait, we must supercharge our efforts.
We can't build anything meaningful while the state continues to exist, anyway. It is impossible to overcome the panopticon that holds us all down without first demolishing the system.
>>2265807Once again, you use hyperbole combined with an almost painful lack of understanding of history to provide yourself with more excuses for doing nothing. Go look up how many fighters MK actually had before you spout off this nonsense. The majority of people are not involved in the illegal or guerrilla struggle, their job is only to make the path of the guerrilla easy and his enemy's hard. Even that seems like it would be difficult for you. Perhaps Socialism just isn't for you? If you aren't willing to sacrifice anything, you will get out of this exactly what you've put into it.
Nothing.
>>2265851I am just a little creecher anon, when ur yelling at me for doing revolution wrong pic related is who ur yelling at
>>2265852Between that and the whole Northwest Territory Imperative thing, I think in the event of the collapse of the United States the overt nazis and white supremacists will probably have their stronghold in Cascadia
>>2265862>>2265847>>2265846Every time I see such a ridiculous result, I immediately discover the poll it comes from is completely bunk either due to a discrepancy or miscalculation, or because it’s a complete fabrication by the desperate right (liberals).
In this first poll, it is only 11% of a select few people they gathered. I am not concerned by this result at all besides the mere existence of people who actually think this. Anyone who actually tries to inflate this issue is nothing more than a reactionary liberal who cannot read statistics, and immediately trusts every poll they lay their eyes upon.
The second one is from VICE news. I don’t really need to say more to be honest.
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