• countries in Africa are in revolt Which ones? Any articles I should read?

“Japan is hardly socialist” how tf did they come to the conclusion that they are at all? (Probably “socialism is when the government does stuff”)

Agreed, it will take a bit to convince people that it’s fine, but also plenty of people already eat food grown in sewage like the traditional fish ponds in places like Vietnam and India (there’s a great piece in low tech magazine on it, im sure people like the great people working on that will have a large place in dealing with environment and how we live after the revolution)

Worse, they’re left-coms. At least trots claim to support Lenin.

Those are good points. Wouldn’t it not be to hard to use sewage as an input for both for energy and nutrients? Also, if we vastly decrease energy use for shipping food and refrigerating it, it might be more sustainable for local vertical farming in cites.

Speaking of “Marxist” anti-communists, I was just listening to the General Intellect Unit, and they are very cringe. They’re going over this book (that they mostly agree with) criticizing “anti-authoritarian” leftists for not having an actual plan for revolution, but for some reason they keep taking jabs at MLs suggesting that we are the equivalent of these anarkiddies who think organization is bad and the revolution will be spontaneous, but on the opposite side of the spectrum. The author of the book they’re covering keeps saying “Lenin had some good points but Stalin bad” and they think that’s too far.

I thought the book was pretty good. A little too Anarchisty and unrealistic but it’s a superhero book so that’s fine. Relatively good political messaging and interesting esoteric and philosophical story telling. Unfortunately there was one anti-Stalin panel where v says humanity has submitted itself to bad leaders with a picture of Stalin as one of the visual examples, but I let it slide, not painfully anarchildish overall. I haven’t seen the movie so I can’t compare.

Nice, you’ve got the essentials. I’ve got a bit of a weirder collection. Things just adjacent to a basic Marxist reading list. I’ve got Imperialism by Lenin, Anti-Duhring by Engels, Red star over the third world by prishad, Capital vol 1 by Marx, and the role of communists in the black liberation movement (pcusa book). I’ve also got some succdem theory with evil geniuses by Anderson and some lefty fiction with March book 1, v for vendetta, and god loves man kills X-men. My parents also have Black Agaisnt Empire, Pedagogy of the oppressed, and some liberation theology stuff.

That is a good point. Could that be helped by a return to a more community based way of raising children? If people can feel the benefit of taking care of children without them all being biological to them we might have the pros of larger families without the cons of resource use.

Not that this means we can triple population or anything, but increasing vertical and other urban farming is an option for a reasonable increase in food production with out significant increased environmental damage.

They never suggested we reduce the population, we can sustain what we already have easily with a rational planned economy, however we couldn’t have a significant increase, say 20 billion or something. Also, we probably won’t exceed 10 billion by much anyway since people have fewer children when their material conditions improve.

They probably haven’t heard about Lemmygrad. It’s rather difficult to post invitations to this site and get anyone to see it. I guess a lot of people didn’t see the original gzd post recommending places for refugees to go. Last I tried I got maybe one in a r/thedeprogram post while the rest stayed at neutral in karma. Maybe we should collectively reach out, collectively promote a single call to join so it looks more organic?

I honestly didn’t know genzhou was a thing till it was outright banned

“What happened to them”

I’m sure there are a lot of people on the Genzedong and tankie bunker discords that aren’t on here. Also plenty are still on r/thedeprogram, r/sendinthetanks etc. Edit: the subs have 15.9k and 16.3k respectively, in the top 5% of subs

Named after the book programmed to kill, it’s a podcast about “crime, parapolitics, and esoterica” (according to the intro). They’ve mainly covered fascist history and random conspiracy stuff. I think theyre pretty well read. I don’t know if they’re ML, but I think Jimmy’s (host) at least read Lenin.

Ah, I knew walking and sitting meditation were a thing, but I haven’t thought about doing it in a line or something, also a deep meditation might be dangerous driving since if you’re doing it right the only thing you are conscious of is your breath.

I was only active a few weeks after the quarantine. My last real activity was asking thedeprogram sub what they thought of billy Bragg 177 days ago

I’m doing better than recently. I’m very tired and somewhat anxious, but I’ve gotten back into reading which is great. I’m eating a bit healthier and trying to exercise more. I’ve also finally gotten into Buddhism, which is interesting, but I can’t find the time to meditate.

Are you still active? It’s not like you have a moral obligation to get yourself banned or delete your account.

I bet I’m one of the most karma rich mls who weren’t banned. How many of you weren’t banned?

r/thedeprogram, r/dongistan, and r/tankiesandtankinis? I haven’t been on Reddit much since a couple weeks after it was quarantined. Edit: r/sendinthetanks is still a thing

The link’s not working, but no Im not that good

I’m reading Evil Geniouses by Kurt Anderson, which is kind of liberal, but it’s a reasonably well researched book on the rise of neoliberalism in the US. I’m reading Bear Awareness by Ajahn Brahm and it’s a good introduction to Buddhism, im noticing some apparent contradictions, as often comes from organized religion, but a lot of it seems valuable. I’m also reading Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism by Kohei Saito which is a little anti-Stalinist, but otherwise fine so far. In fiction I recently finished the Fault in our Stars by John Green (for school), which wasn’t terrible, but I don’t like romance books too much, and I’m considering reading the Crying at Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon thanks to the Programmed to Chill podcast’s episodes on it and also Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, which I quit near the end a couple years ago.

Haven’t read any of these, but: The economics of revolution, The motercycle diaries, and reminiscences of the Cuban revolution, all by Che Guevara,

I’ve been playing minesweeper.

@Tankeke, If you are interested the website may be hard to find, so here it is: https://www.partyofcommunistsusa.net/contact-join/ At the moment not living near comrades should not be a problem, and most of it is online, with the weekly party school and commissions, but they’re also involved with actions like Rage Against the War Machine and international solidarity missions. We are trying to build membership so it’d be nice for you to join comrade.

You could try PCUSA

I haven’t seen the earlier ones, but I liked Thor ragnarok and guardians of the galaxy mostly for the soundtrack, and I don’t think they’ve aged too poorly (besides Chris Pratt sucking). I also liked Black Panther when I was like 10, and it’s kinda cringe now, haven’t seen the sequel yet tho (i don’t plan to).

I wouldn’t say liberal, more like ultra left

I agree, we shouldn’t whitewash him, but we can also appreciate that he wasn’t the worst by president standards.

I agree, Clinton not only destroyed Serbia, opened Mexico and the Balkans up to neoliberalism, destroyed welfare, and gave a boost to the prison industrial complex, but he also was also a “skillful” groomer, using his authority over Monica Lewinsky to pressure her into an affair, and also being besties with Jeffrey Epstein. Also, I wouldn’t say there’ve been no good presidents, for example, Marx’s penpal Lincoln ended slavery.

Supposedly in retaliation for…

Isn’t there a socialist area in India?

True, you might need a good artist, but look it up and there’s a lot of people have decent tats of stalin

It might be nice to get ones that have plausible deniability. A prominent hammsick might be a target on your back, but maybe if you get a slogan in another language or a meaningful, but not explicit theory quote you could still use it for communist pride without being too obvious.

For being such big fans of lesser-evilism, they sure can’t understand critical support

Same, why tf do they need gelatin in altoids? The sugar free ones don’t have it, why the sugar ones?

Commodity fetishism?

You could also get a picture of Stalin/Mao/etc tattooed

Yeah, the classic Lenin face design would make a great tattoo