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There’s not much of an communist presence in my city (I’ve seen 1 sticker lol), so I was wondering if anyone had some posters they’d be willing to share that i could put up around places. I know its not much but I still feel its better than no action at all.

Both lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone are both down, this issue IS URGENT as this could be why they are both down.

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A new week, a new news thread to see how much engagement it gets. We plan on continuing these threads for a little while to see how much engagement we get from them.

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Welcome Comrades to this, our weekly tradition! All I ask is that no one touch the Giant Spoon, we just got that back and I do not want to explain how it got lost again.

We have a Matrix homeserver at genzedong.xyz. See this thread for information about our Matrix space. Did you know we have a Theory Reading Group, in the matrix space? well we do, and we would like you to be a part!

Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Anna's Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.

An article I thought was very interesting. It highlighted to me how having technology development centralised like this allows for faster innovation and development. Red Sails also has lots of other good articles too.

Oh yeah the source of that claim is a LA Times article that doesn't mention this blatant contradiction at all

If I make art, I would like to get compensated by it. However, under market capitalism, my art has to sell well to make money, which means that I cannot make art out of pure volition, but have to adhere to what consumers like, which may not be in line with what I like. Plus, market capitalism/SnD opens up a whole other can of worms about copyright, piracy, and morality. With an LToV-based system for compensating for art, I will get paid based on how much I worked, rather than if consumers like it or not. In other words, I can allow people to copy and redistribute/remix it without worrying about a loss of customers. To quote George Lucas "[In the USA], you have to adhere to a very narrow line of commercialism".

The Black Panther Party was able to defend their community until the criminal, terrorist American police went and murdered them all. While the masses might not need a new Panther group exactly, what organizations can be founded that would be able to fulfill the capacity of providing social support and resources to the masses? Whether it is a labor union, a political party, I don't care if it's a knitting club that patrols the streets as long as it gives us someone else to call besides the pigs.

And how large does it need to be before it is viable to defend people from the pigs?

When I see growing nationalism in Europe and the whole world, climate being fucked up, what will create a migration catastrophe and wars, rich becoming richer and poor getting poorer, I think the world is burning and going to a catastrophe, and there is too late for a world revolution. World is already in fire and angry people will go to the far right and nazi instead build communism. China will not save the world since in my opinion it becomes nationalist and focused on making private money; it is just the least disgusting of the main players. It is not Deng Xiaoping's China anymore. The fucking world will burn soon. I do not see a reason why bring children into this world and actually live here. Is there a light of hope?

A little while ago I created a sort of podcast using audio ripped from Michael Parenti YouTube videos. It can be found here:

• Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xKKAAcZUgnlg88k1KXKee
• RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/ddf4dbd8/podcast/rss

I only shared it here and once in a discord server but it has been racking up listens slowly:

I take no credit but it's cool that people are interested in Dr. Parenti's lectures. Feel free to share the podcast with other people and communities.

P.S. I make no money from it.

I am not interested in talking about the game play of this arcade zombie mode of CoD, but rather about ideology.

As we all now, the Call of Duty franchise is know for its pro militarist, pro US imperialist views, the banalisation and commercialisation of US atrocities and war crimes, and also of working as fuel for the industrial military complex propaganda machine. It can, therefore, be considered one of the ruling class' gears in the capitalist superstructure.

In this series of maps, the characters are Edward Richtofen (soldier for Nazi Germany), "Tank" Dempsey (US marine), Nikolai Belinski (member of the Red Army) and Takeo Masaki (captain for the Imperial Japanese Army). So we have a soviet, who is a communist; an American, who is a social democrat; a German who is a fascist; and a Japanese, who is a monarchist.

The scenarios, relationships and characters are caricatures of real life, one dimensional representations of the type of human each of these would be on each side of the political spectrum. Of course I wasn't looking for some deep narrative or profound exploration of characters from a CoD video game, but this concentrated essence of burlesque ridicule is in our favour to understand the ideological meaning it tries to purvey.

It is the bourgeoisie rationale of a possible co-existence among classes. The idea that the proletariat, the feudal lord and the fascist can all live along and find a cure for its differences. This idea populated among the social democrats and reformists, that the State is an entity in charge of facilitating the détente between oppressors and oppressed, and which vindicates the necessity of a group of people rightfully guiding the other.

This reflection is two folded. On one side, it is the diluted hallucination it tries to engrave in the working class' skull, of this possible amicability amid exploiter and exploited, an unfathomable synthesis. On the other, it lifts the veil and turns on the light over the disfigured and true face of the bourgeoisie: they will collaborate with the fascist and the remaining and decaying feudal forces in order to entomb any advance coming from the revolutionary movement.

There is no such thing as absolute class conciliation, by definition, "the State is an organ of the rule of a definite class which cannot be reconciled with its antipode (the class opposite to it)", there is an opportunity for temporary truces, but this only works with the objective in mind of either defeating and enemy or securing the existence of the proletariat movement in a determined time. This idea, this bourgeois make-believe of a infinite expanse of never ending historical conciliation is a farce and a trap.

Real emancipation and freedom can only be achieved when the flow of history untangles from this crossroad it is at right now. Alas, just when the destruction of the bourgeois State, the internationalisation of the proletariat cause occurs and class society is abolished will the human being be able to enjoy true comradeship among its kin. Till then, don't fall for tales of cordial treatment with the enemy, and remember "fascism in capitalism in decay".

It can't be.

When I came to Lemmy today, I thought it's a bug and tried restarting, but apparently it's not, why is everything so small?

Interesting piece by Wolff pointing out the ways China-bashers contradict themselves. This passage is particularly germane:

Scapegoating China joins with scapegoating immigrants, BIPOCs, and many of the other usual targets. The broader decline of the U.S. empire and capitalist economic system confronts the nation with the stark question: whose standard of living will bear the burden of the impact of this decline? The answer to that question has been crystal clear: the government will pursue austerity policies (cut vital public services) and will allow price inflation and then rising interest rates that reduce living standards and jobs.

As Yves Smith puts it,

Richard Wolff provides a wide ranging yet comparatively compact tour of the incoherence of America’s official posture on China, using that as an example of late imperial disfunction. This would be a usefully provocative piece to send to China detractors.

Might be a useful piece to send to liberals inevitably screeching Yellow Peril nonsense.

hello, i have discovered this comedic gem of a video that makes me have a laughing fit for 20 minutes.

it seems to be about "china communism evil" and the original poster was literally named "nsatester" which makes it even funnier to me. also the bloody trumpets from universal pictures are the cause of my laughing fits in this case

a repost is linked due to the fact that the original doesn't work for me in invidious.

if anyone knows chinese and can translate it, it would be nice