They know theyll lose like theyve lost everywhere else in asia so theyre playing the long game. Most successful victories are countries like the Philippines and Syria and against the ussr where the competition of the productive forces and geopolitics led to strategic victories.
Genuinely people need to stop valorizing gun toting because of the black panthers. The line to hold weapons was pushed by eldridge cleaver who infamously became a republican and started selling pants with a penis attached to them. There was a whole split in the party because the MLs recognized they were alienating black mothers in the community by doing so. Im not saying for people to disarm themselves, and its good to know how to use a gun, but its privileged petty b ideology that thinks the solution to the current crisis is because people arent carrying enough guns.
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Is it bad to fight against Nazi Germany because you don’t think you have a chance of winning?
Yes. Yes it is bad to fight nazi germany without planning to win. China sees hegemonism as the primary contradiction holding back progress on the world stage and is not engaging in global wars against the existing hegemon because those wars will not create global governance institutions in and of themselves.
Youre asking for sanctions and military interventions both of which are acts of war and hegemonism that turned the third world away from the soviet union. You keep asking open ended questions when there are answers to these questions, because youre not the only one whos thought about them. Its not about what is profitable, its about the competition of the uneven development of the productive forces, where for historical reasons the most advanced capitalist countries have the highest level of productive forces and use that imbalance to forcibly deny the development of other countries. Its primary to develop your productive forces, and to fight the global uneven development of productive forces that is the base reason for national oppression to put an end to imperialism and allow humanity to progress to the next stage. This development is inevitable (although i know you dont think it is) and the rate at which it can progress is in the last instance based on the objective development of the contradictions of capitalism around the world. Whether latin america has a red wave or blue wave is based entirely on the current stage of the development of its own contradictions, but capitalism and the age of hegemonic imperialism is on the decline regardless.
its mainly the national bourgeoisie which turned its anger and frustration towards the soviet union and many countries like iran and afghanistan have a deep-seated dislike for russia to this day as a result. obviously military support was greatly appreciated in may countries, but it also led to a lot of belief that their countries and people were being used as proxies for the ambitions of larger superpowers
I understand that people just hegemonically accept venezuela as authoritarian, but what are the exact arguments and ideas people have? What are the facts?
In the middle of posting this, someone just told me that many previously colonized countries have to outport their goods at an uneven exchange, and India has their culture as a product. Is there a lot of white washing disrespectful appropriation? Are there lots of cults too?
Its really the hippy movement with the advent of acid and a "modern" interest in third world brown people for being spiritual noble savages (as a result of being closer to precapitalist relations to production compared to the west), as well as the bourgeoning capitalist class wanting to promote nationalism on an international scale especially in regards to tourism (look at japan).
India and the whole subcontinent genuinely has an incredible cultural history that deserves to be shared with the world, but under capitalist relations a big part of it revolves around bourgeois nationalism.
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They have trot politics its lowkey annoying. I was talking to a trot recently who started talking about how china is oppressing the global south by exporting commodities and everything started to click lmao
Ive met trots that like deng. Im just saying that complaining about china to random people on the internet instead of just doing somethig to fix it if ur chinese is liberal behavior. I dont think ur a bad person but its a tendency of a petty bourgeois class outlook
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Philippines protests popping off. Notice how the press only put Akbayan Partylist in any photos as opposed to Bayan, Gabriela or Anakbayan.
Bayan, Gabriela, and Anakbayan are affiliated with the National Democratic Front in the philippines which is supported by the CPP for national democracy and freedom from imperialist powers. They are mass organizations based around different sectors of the peoples movements, workers, women, students, etc Akbayan Partylist are also leftist but exolicitly reject armed struggle, although they stand w the NDF and CPP against fascist redtagging and extrajudicial killings.
By all means the US does not want to support the CPP and a CPP led revolution, so western media probably has a ban on showing any NDF orgs. As a result because these arcommunist led protests the most right force they can show are akbayan partylist.
Note how al jazeera can show them but abc, cnn, nyt, etc never does. The US will also support the left in so far as it destabilizes countries that they deem worth destabilizing.
I dont think the US would allow that to happen, but this might land a blow against the monopoly capitalists.
The thing is is that between duterte and marcos' families theres a contradiction between the national bourgeoisie and comprador bourgeoisie respectively. Theyre both corrupt, but duterte was willing to build belt and road infrastructure w china while marcos' family are hardliner compradors and bong bong immediately discontinued the 3 BRI projects in the Philippines as soon as he took power.
We might see either a. Nothing change qualitatively like indonesia, b. Somebody in the duterte camp taking advantage of the splits in the ruling class, or c. Somebody like leni robredo who is a soft "progressive" [NED/human rights backed] comprador take power.
Its entirely possible given things can change so quickly but as far as i understand the situation atm thats where we are at. All splits amongst the enemy are good for the working class i have to add.
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it's pretty obvious to anybody who has been following color revolutions for a while that there are definite imperialist forces moving in the protests. especially in recent years, SEA has been a hot-bed of color revolution forces that the US has been building to destabilize the region in a new arab spring.
I never defended prabowo for anything, im just reporting the confirmation of what imperialist forces are doing in the protests.
With china successfully winning over the middle countries through practice - even the right wing forces - its going to take the us installing ideologically committed compradors to create backwards forces to chinas progress. These global south countries are middle forces, and even despite domestic conservatism or liberalism we should support their right to self determination, not US backed regime change.
Its entirely possible that like in Chile for instance, the uprisings lead to progressive conditions, but for that to be the case thered need to be an organized left to institutionalize those advances.
anybody else seeing a potential color revolution in indonesia brewing on the news lately? obviously prabowo is not a people's candidate, but he is firmly breaking w us policy and building w china through the belt and road and the US absolutely can not allow that.
The potential of a color revolution is less that the revolutionary conditions are because of the us instead of internal contradictions, and more so that all the islamist and socialist parties are for the most part incoherent petty bourgeois parties w "left" parties in coalition w "right" parties, including those "socialist" parties that are in coalition w prabowo.
Just 7 months ago indonesia finally was announced as a brics partner by brazil and prabowo has made a significant shift towards multipolarity, so im sure the us appreciates the revolutionary situation and i have no doubt that just like ukraine they are doing whatever they can to make the situation fall out in their favor.
I feel like rodney is mandatory reading to fully understand historical materialism. He pretty much fully answers the last part of marxs theory that he was yet to be able to write before passing
I think I've seen discussions about this before, and obviously the USSR produced art because we still see statues of Lenin today. But how does this translate in modern times with the instance of obscure art or other modern art? Often the purpose of that art is to explicitly go against societal norms for aesthetics.
The thing is is that exchange value doesnt really exist. Thats the whole part about commodity fetishism and linen. And use value is highly subjective where for instance postmodern art designed to have no purpose still gets placed in museums where it is transformed into an object w exchange value.
Humans have use for art where even if there was no commodity production at all people will still be making use of art.
Gist is that the US has been forcing anti china political candidates for a long time through the NED and leftist movements in Thailand, while Cambodia a few years ago outlawed all NED funded groups and the US funded political opposition who openly admitted to working with the US.
Another front to open in the encirclement of China
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you have to organize, and you have to move somewhere that it's possible. join a party, get a job in a real working class unionized sector, and do community work. you're dying on the vine and you have so much more life and joy to bring to the world than getting it out on the internet!
you will be so much happier, even if it's hard you have to try. it'll take time but it'll be worth it i promise you
Look at teamsters unionized warehouses, package delivery sectors, bus driving, and worst comes to worst find a craft trade sector. I know plenty of floridians that are building real revolutionary organization, you definitely will need to move to an area thats less petty bourgeois though it seems that aligns with what you want in your life anyways.
I can tell you want working class connections, and youre gonna have to leave petty b areas if you dont want to slowly lose your mind with them. You might have to sacrifice a bit, but it will be worth it i promise. Ive known plenty of people in your exact situation and all of them even the ones that work rough jobs are much much happier in their lives and all their loved ones can tell too.
You despise the petty bourgeois rightfully, but you carry their ideology around with you with your resentment towards the working class. You need stronger class analysis which i dont blame you for not having cuz the left in this country has incredibly weak class analysis in comparison to international groups. You make a lot of correct analyses but youre blinded by the lack of clarity in the relationship between strata.
Youre correctly analyzing that the lower strata of the working class is too immiserated by the conditions of existence to effectively organize, while the upper strata and petty bourgeois have too much disdain for the working class and too much self importance to make a difference. The reason why i point towards unionized working class sectors is because the unions provide stability and an extra working class association to organize in.
Unions can only ever prevent losses to the working class, and yet every win in a union both provides real benefits to people and teaches working class people how to struggle against the enemy. However unions only staving off immiseration is why we need a real communist party, and we need to build one in this generation so next generations dont get handed down the same problem.
Ultimately imo it all boils down to you being an individual. You will not be revolutionary and you will not be a communist if youre not in a party that can effectively facilitate your transformation into a revolutionary. You can either contribute to the cause of revolution in this country - the heart of empire where we can deliver the most possible damage to imperialism - or give up on being a communist, which to be clear is fine. Our subjective life experiences determine how much we can contribute to the struggle in our lives. From what ive heard, i would love to have you in my party and your class background and upbringing would make you an incredible fighter, but its ultimately up to you whether your personal life trajectory lines up with this cause or not.
This is gonna be my last reply cuz theres not really anywhere else for this conversation to go. Its either through the experience of your life that the ideology of the working class - communism and marxism leninism - makes sense to you or you smash together a hundred ideologies like the petty b.
Your ideology is petty b, and not close to marxist leninist, or even communist. To believe students are the revolutionary force in this country is literally the ideology of the intelligentsia and petty b. I dont know how much more apparent that can be.
You cant claim to know the fate of the working class in this country without having even struggled against the enemy. People learn through struggle, and you cant call the shots of history from the caboose without even participating.
The issue with the left in this country is that its largely a movement from the upper middle strata to the petty bourgeois, meaning the socialist movement and the working class movement are entirely separate entities making both extremely weak and easy to push aside. If we can succeed at fusion of these two movements we can have the type of communist movement youre imagining. As marxists we start from our objective conditions and unless you want the next generation to suffer the exact same struggle as you with previous generations suffering from petty b ideology and skipping out on struggle, we have to build a real communist party thats representative of the working class. You either participate, or let others do it for you.
Youre correctly looking at the link between the intelligentsia and the left, but instead of seeing it as an issue youre seeing it as fact. People go to college, have the opportunity and environment to learn about this stuff, and then enter the left; unfortunately with their class position intact. Hence the reason why the left is all college educated upper middle strata and why the means of life create a petty bourgeois ideology that vacillates and makes it weak.
Theres a whole merry go round of union staffers and non profit workers who do nothing to create the conditions of struggle that constitute the left. This exact current reason is why all the left from the New Communist Movement of the 70s and 80s liquidated into adventurism or the democrat party. They were all students who instead of transforming the movement into a working class one never challenged their class conditions and followed the spontaneous ideology of their strata.
I dont have optimism because i dont need it, because i see the sections of our society that are revolutionary and i organize in them. Your life is miserable and you dont see a way out, because youre accurately assessing the dead end of the strata and class around you. Im telling you if you can figure out how to change the political economy of your life, you will be proud of yourself and happy to be a communist in this country. Youre smart and picking up on the right things - ive met a lot of leftists that havent picked up on half of what youve mentioned - and i want you in this movement, but our social being conditions our social consciouseness and you will have to change the political economy of your life if you want to be happy. I can see how you can be happy, and i hope you are able to figure it out too.
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There definitely are spies, the border w china is pretty open so people go between all the time. Ik there used to be feds who during the famine in the 90s would ask people to cut off ox tails for money because ox lose their balance and strength to till the land without their tails etc
Theres probably just a genuine active culture against espionage because culture is such a big element of juche.
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Genuinely why are people calling maduro a dictator?
I understand that people just hegemonically accept venezuela as authoritarian, but what are the exact arguments and ideas people have? What are the facts?
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Idk much about India being colonialized. What made India go from that to being one of the major hotspots in the world for spiritual tourism today? It's an impressive feat.
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Just starting Capital and this line made me wonder: what about art?
I think I've seen discussions about this before, and obviously the USSR produced art because we still see statues of Lenin today. But how does this translate in modern times with the instance of obscure art or other modern art? Often the purpose of that art is to explicitly go against societal norms for aesthetics.
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