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Thanks you, yeah, that's true.
Could I kindly ask for some recommended reading, then, if you or anyone happens to have any suggestions, please
I keep thinking how Marxists talk about seizing state power so that capitalists/fascists don't, and just realized, I actually kinda struggle to envision this. We're not capturing a flag, getting on the president's podium isn't gonna let you just dictate the people, so like, exactly *what* locations are we seizing and how are we using them to free the people? (I probably need to read what is to be done)
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I love this post...
Police serve the state, so one one hand, once we have a proletarian state, it will be taken over to oppress the bourgeoisie. This seems fine, at least initially. However, I can't help but feel that the way the current police/prison system is organized is not the best way to tackle the actual issue of crime. Putting prisons aside for just a second, are there better alternatives to the "police"? How do they look like? Do we just have small local "crisis response task forces" for major crimes and patrols for petty ones? Is that any different from the current response/patrol cops necessarily? And while yes, we can of course improve people's conditions so they don't need to e.g. steal, I'd like to focus on the fact that crime will likely occasionally still happen, from the potential jealous art thievery to a murder - and how we should address those once they happen/as they are happening.
(idk what tank that is don't @ me)
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If that's true, that is good and valid. I will kindly say that again, that even if you call yourself a "patsoc" but practice marxist-patriotism, as you state that Caleb does (sorry I don't know anything about them) - nothing wrong with that.
However, there is at least a reactionary group bearing that name, that a lot of people, myself including, have had vastly negative reactionary interactions with.
Have kinda seen these two words used a bit interchangibly, was wondering if there's a destinction?
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@SaddamHusein24 I think you have a small misunderstanding. The patriotism of actual Marxists, dare I say even in America, should be upheld - and I mean the patriotism of wanting your country to be destroyed and reborn as Lenin said, and to flourish for all the American people. The genuine belief that the American worker should be supported and treated fairly, regardless of minority grouping, and that they deserve better is a great thing!
The "patriotism" of "PatSocs" is vastly different. PatSocs are a very specific reactionary group with specific views here in the west. They believe that we should all hunker down and throw away the "liberal wokeness that is internationalism" and put trans people in gulgas since they're "lib degenerates" and that's what Stalin would have wanted. It's reactionary position not based on any real material analysis, and as such, should be combated.
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It's wierd that you say that, I expected MM&TBS to go a lot harder but I didn't find anything too anti-cap at all imo. A lot of personal things but not much about the system. Definitely not compared to e.g. To pimp a butterfly
Then you reach the end songs and he literally says "Lately, I redirected my point of view" I got a kid and a family I choose me i'm sorry
And then you go back to the previous songs again and start reading in a bit
"The industry has killed the creators, I'll be the first to say (What the fuck?) To each exec', "I'm saving your children"—We can't negotiate (What the—)"
e.g. the execs saying "hey with this pay i'm saving your children here but you can't rap about this stuff no more"
and in the songs later he's like 'i can't please everbody people look up to me and i have to just nod along and say the music is gonna keep coming' and that he can't be this world-saviour character
and like total repsect for that he has a family and 2 kids now and it seems like he chose to self-preserve and you know 100% get it
But I think the anti-capitalist Kendrick has been suppressed
At least to pimp a butterfly still goes hard
Got curious, as back in the day I imagine it wouldn't be too out of place for the government to carry out the imprisonment or assaniation of a communist figure, but I haven't heard of any such things happening in the modern day (e.g. past the year 2000). If there is a strong Marxist organisation/organizer in the UK now, what happens? Do they get deported? Imprisoned? Assaniated? Do we have any recent figures to learn about as examples? Thank you!
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They have to, the laws of capital demand it
Some slower than others, sure, but any capitalist that doesn't will be outcompeted by one that does
Look what they did to our poor NHS here in the UK...
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Heck i meant to write You -> VPN -> Tor my bad, but yes you're totally right on that front
Also agree just use tails without anything extra probably easiest way
But also very interested in the convo above explaining why we're both potentially wrong lol
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Hm, that makes sense to me. I am not versed well enough in privacy topics to see why that's not the case, so I think you're correct. And the more I search, the more people say that yes You -> Tor -> VPN does not hinder the tor connection itself and protects the non-tor traffic coming out of your system + people probably trust their VPN way more than their ISP for good reason.
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That is true, yes, but also it highly depends on your VPN provider and what you're avoiding. Since I Imagine most communists want to avoid "the government" and not some specific group:
"Against a global adversary with unlimited resources more hops make passive attacks (slightly) harder but active attacks easier as you are providing more attack surface and send out more data that can be used. " and "If the VPN/SSH server is adversary controlled you weaken the protection provided by Tor." (i.e. the US may very well give large sums of money and threats to access VPN logs, because at the end of the day, these services operate for money).
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"if you know how to configure it properly" is key because you actually should not use a VPN if you use tor unless you know exactly what you are doing.
You are creating a common entry/exit point that your government/ISP can monitor, which might make tor less secure at best, and basically obsolete at worst, depending on how you set it up.
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Of course it does
Not to sound like an ad, but I can confirm proton currently doesn't (though it's not that much greater for privacy)
Would like to ask - what is a good, concise but full definition of Marxism-Leninism? Of course, I know what it is generally, but I am not sure how to convey it cleanly. Generally I always want to mention that it's a science (i.e. what would you answer to "define fluid physics") so my go to is usually something like "In science, referring to the Marxist-Leninist branch of socio-economics" but I think it might extend a bit beyond that? Would like to ask your guys thoughts on it.
Mostly asking cause I'm very impatient to contribute aha, it's been a few days and I hope I wasn't missed, or if I was rejected I'd like to know the reason, etc. <3
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I'll believe it when I see it
The post literally shows you it's happening
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communism <=> lgbt identity <=> really fucking obscure hardcore music, it's okay I completley understand
As for getting doxxed, it's about the same as torrenting, people can see your ip and country flag but nobody cares they just use it to download music lol. Use a diff username and a vpn if you're too concerned
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So...they're doing ZeroNET again?
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ye, i like the idea of having a bunch of commie soulseek people in one place so i can browse their stuff and see if i find something cool, honestly
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"Why would the classes ever disappear"
Well if you actually talked with MLs or read Lenin you'd know...
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Well...yes. Closed source software coming from the west can do anything in your country, and you wouldn't even know it. Closed source software that you made and you know what it does does not compromise national security. In fact, it improves security against outside agents. It's not closed source to the Cuban government, they made it.
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Yeah looks it
Though just use Rclone + RcloneBrowser
I know it's mostly used for audio, but I thought it'd be cool to have a lil lemmygrad soulseek room to share books around (and commie music anyway?), so I made one! Feel free to join, it's just called "lemmygrad", just tick the auto-join room option. For those that don't know, Soulseek is a P2P (but 1-to-1) file sharing app. You mark a folder you like to share and now users can find it's files in the search bar and download them directly (or ask you to if you restrict them). Rooms lets you chat around and click on users directly to browse what they have, so we can share and aggregate our stuff (= (if you're on Linux you can use nicotine+ as the front-end which is in the official arch repos and also looks nicer I say)
Anyone has a copy of that? Would greatly appreciate <3
Don't go to r/EuropeanSocialists apparently, worst mistake of my life. Feel very sad for all the people wishing to learn more about socialism and getting roped into trash like this.
This is probably mostly related to strategy games, but honestly any will do. The only thing I can think of is Stellaris with the communist mod, which is cool, but it's outdated to heck at this point and I'd like to hear more options =)
There are currently cultures in the world that perform unconsentual mutilation, or practices that otherwise are extremely harmful to human beings. Then there are places that are so destabilised that they turn to religious extremism. China handles it's case of that by educating and improving the material conditions within it's relevant regions, which I think is really good. However what if those regions lie outside your jurisdiction, I.e. autonomous? Is it the duty of Marxist-Leninists to educate and provide better conditions of them, or is the right thing to let them develop on their own terms until they ask for help? More specifically also: 1. What if they reject outsiders/turn down negotiation? 2. What if they are an actual threat to other people (e.g. terrorism). I understand that realistically, there's no real reason for me to be thinking about this. But I would like to understand the world and Marxist-Leninist principles better, thanks.
Anyone have a higher tally count? God those mods can be infuriating sometimes aha
I'm being honest, it's looking more and more like a "within our lifetime" by the hour
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/225150 > I would like to learn more about Ireland and it's history, namely about the troubles, bombings, what the British were doing in there, and the anti-Irish sentiment, etc. Maybe also about it's foundations and general history. > > Basically I have a friend talking to me about it, saying that the Northern Irish were terrorists and how the majority of them did not consider the British their oppressors, but simultaneously how the bombings were done to force the British government to withdraw. But I simply do not know enough about the topic, so I'd like to ask for some in-depth reading materials so I can understand the current hot-spot between the British/Irish/Northern Irish from a non-reactionary perspective.
I would like to learn more about Ireland and it's history, namely about the troubles, bombings, what the British were doing in there, and the anti-Irish sentiment, etc. Maybe also about it's foundations and general history. Basically I have a friend talking to me about it, saying that the Northern Irish were terrorists and how the majority of them did not consider the British their oppressors, but simultaneously how the bombings were done to force the British government to withdraw. But I simply do not know enough about the topic, so I'd like to ask for some in-depth reading materials so I can understand the current hot-spot between the British/Irish/Northern Irish from a non-reactionary perspective.
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