PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Yeah, I'm still posting content on YT 😁
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Hey, sorry it took me so long to respond. Well, I only spam once a week on my YT and a few times a week on TT. There are a few people watching ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I used to have a PeerTube, but I can't keep up with it.
Hello, comrades, Wow, it's been two years since I've come here. So much is happening all over the world. I'm so overwhelmed with everything. We've been trying to create something cohesive here locally, we fought a battle to unionize, we've organized with some local activists, and we failed, and we connected with some great people. I wish I had the capacity to keep up with everything, but I just don't. I am also very much in need of support and community. I was not able to keep up with posting videos on PeerTube. I'm kinda keeping up with YouTube and TikTok somewhat, and if anyone is interested in supporting a Marxist-Leninist from Kazakhstan who is neurodivergent and not good at keeping in touch with individuals, I would be glad to connect somehow. I can drop the links to my YouTube and TikTok, if anyone is using them.
Personal observations.
We have been experiencing a rapid spread of peaceful protests in Kazakhstan - starting in Zhanauzen over gas prices (which increased 100%), quickly spreading in the West of the country. Almaty protests started yesterday. The military (Rapid Action Force) were dispersed to stop the peaceful protests. The calls from the protestors quickly took on an anti-government sentiment. The people started fighting back since the Rapid Action Force started using smoke bombs against them. Some representatives of the military allegedly joined the people. Now the city of Almaty is quiet. Transport doesn't operate, no social media except Twitter works. Many people cannot go to work. Many roads are blocked. The president declared the resignation of the government cabinet. The state of emergency has been issued for two weeks.
Read the poem here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/stay-stay
Haven't posted a poem on PeerTube in a while. Poetry helped me deal with frustration and desperation for twenty years. Read the poem here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/peace
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
No worries, comrade.
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
I started my channel on BreadTube because I didn't know where else to do so at the time ¯_(ツ)_/¯ The clique-isness in online "leftist" circles is so annoying.
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Do you have any recommendations for more current ethnographic studies? I found Fromm's recounting of the Çatalhöyük findings to be enlightening.
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
A lot of Soviet movies I grew up with, our comedies were HILARIOUS: Приключения Шурика (Операция Ы, Кавказская пленница, и т.д.), 12 Стульев, Джентльмены удачи, Иван Васильевич меняет профессию). My favourite Soviet drama as of late is Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, it's soo good 😭 I also enjoy early-ish J-horror (mid 90s-early 00s), the classics: Ringu, Ju-on, Dark Water, Tomie, etc. We watch quite a few European kinda art house-ish movies (mostly, horror). For the 90s nostalgia, we watch the X-files, lol.
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Yes, it's so hard to find good shows and movies. I watch a lot of "old" stuff because of this.
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
I always read all of the comments first. I very rarely comment myself, because very often, what I have to say has already been said. The power of the collective!
Read the poem here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/when-sadness-encompasses-you
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Why not deride christianity, lol? I was born far, far, from the imperialist core, and this rotten ideology of defeatism, individualism, the just world hypothesis, the myth of meritocracy, etc. has freaking wrecked my life. It had seeped into the collective unconscious in the lands that used to be united by the people's power of the Soviets, and it had ruined many a life even before the collapse of USSR (Parenti gives a pretty good analysis of this in, I think, the second chapter of Blackshirts and Reds). I am a good example - I used to be my own freaking big brother. It's dialectical materialism that has set my mind free. It's comrades Lenin, Stalin, Mao, who were humans, just like me, who have helped me begin understanding the world. And I, by no means, blame "the rotten West" of all our woes, but Marx damn it, what we used to have in these lands - and what we could have achieved!..
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Also, does anyone else notice how patriotism is revered, in some cases, almost fetishized by some? I've always had a hard time understanding what patriotism even is, before I came across Lenin's and Stalin's statements on self-determination and national struggle. I can understand a love for one's land and people. But how can a modern person even feel connected to the land and the people in conditions of such alienation? It appears to me, almost as if modern day "developed" world's patriotism is fueled by individualistic and opportunistic (if not outright egocentric) view of the world, a religious division into "us vs them", and a banal desire to feel a sense of belonging (which, by itself, is not at all strange) - which may stem from not only a lack of understanding of history, but a profound disconnect with self.
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Hey, this is an aside, but thank you so much for recommending An Indigenous People's History of the United States. I found it a few weeks ago thanks to your posts!
PeaceLaborMay Now • 90%
How do you define support? Have you looked into dialectical materialism? One can support *an entity and still see the contradictions, and still strive for the resolution of these contradictions. This is said a lot - communism is not a religion. It is not a static set of rules and principles. It is a science, and it aims to resolve the contradictions of capitalism through materialist means. We should not succumb to the black and white dichotomy that monotheism has been instilling into us.
Read the text here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/why-dont-people-like-you
Read the text here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/militant-altruism
Read the text here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/the-fox-woman
A more poetic take on the question of the rich. Read the text here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/the-rich
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Thank you!
Read the text here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/everything-changes-constantly-continuously-nothing-is-ever-the-same
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
You're welcome, thanks for reading!
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
It's PeerTube, a decentralised, federated alternative to YouTube.
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
Yes, anyone can. It's PeerTube, a decentralised, federated alternative to YouTube.
PeaceLaborMay Now • 100%
I appreciate it! :)