Ask Lemmygrad

I don't know if I'd be able to restrain myself from moving... but I may try 😀

Hello, Comrades! I am looking for well educated responses to evidence presented and points made in the linked video. Was it fair reporting? What is the ML, dialectical materialist, perspective of the situation in Xinjiang?

(If there's a better or more appropriate place to ask this, please let me know!)

I keep getting waves of posts from them from a few hours ago. It's happened twice. Does it mean they're refederating us? Are they also unfederating afterwards? Is there a chance they do it to flood our server with data to slow it down? It's so odd I'm confused.

I just had a though that its generally possible to call any news outlet a propaganda machine, depending on the ideology a person was grown up with.

Am I wrong? Why?

In my view degrowth is required, either we do it on our own or climate change will degrow for us. It's necessary not only to combat climate change but also ecological destruction. Jason Hickel is maybe the most well-known author on the topic, though it's a much broader field.

To be clear, degrowth is not a form of primitivism, it's not genocidal or Malthusian. It's simply the concept that especially/primarily in the global north/imperial core production and consumption must be curbed, we are simply using more resources than can be supported by the planet. Planned obsolescence and unchecked consumption cannot continue. Those living in areas with sufficient productive ability need to shift production towards things that are necessary to allow those in the global south the ability to achieve standards of living available in the global north.

I know it's controversial among some communists, so I wanted to see what lemmygrad thinks about the concept.

I couldn't access the site for a wile today, not my posts are working, but post replies don't.

Sever load?

Raise your hand if you support giving Ukraine tanks. Yeah, that's what I thought. 😤

So genuinely curious, i have heard the tianonmen square massacre never happened, but if that is the case, could somebody kindly explain this picture? Thanks! And much love comrades

Apologies in advance for the huge wall of text:-

I organise with a communist party in the UK and am in regular contact with other organisers/activists across multiple different organisations throughout my country.

Its become increasingly obvious that the UK is lurching into ever deepening crises with no end in sight, a situation which has provided fertile soil upon which to carry out genuine communist work in the labour movement here. There isn't a week that goes by that myself and my comrades aren't called upon to agitate for this or that strike; unions that have been complacent for the longest time are once again in need of experienced agitators to mobilise the workers, more and more of whom are coming over to our side and achieving class consciousness. Our own upstart union groups are finding their legs and being given a seat at the table with some of the biggest pre-established trade unions in the country in order to help them set up their own movement with the Enough is Enough campaign. This in itself illustrates how far advanced the situation has become in the cradle of the capitalist world. It shows no sign of letting up.

With all this said, I'm increasingly convinced that the first great socialist breakthrough in the imperial core will happen here in Britain. Everything from the international isolation caused by Brexit to the moribund state of Britain's economy and its overstretched security apparatus is heralding total collapse if the country's current trajectory isn't radically shifted in the next few years. To top this all off, the British state hasn't demonstrated the means to achieve such a correction even if it tried. Taking all of this into account, I'm increasingly concerned about interference from foreign powers in the event that the British government is eventually toppled and a socialist one is established in its place. A lot of US soldiers and materiel are present in air bases all over England. It's extremely hard to imagine that they'll stand idly by if the US' chief imperialist lapdogs are swept from power, to say nothing of the French and the Germans looking on from across the channel.

It was stated by the CIA themselves that Maurice Bishop's New Jewel movement in Grenada represented a uniquely dangerous challenge to the US during the cold war, not because of its economic or military power, but simply because for the first time ever there was a socialist government whose people spoke in the English language; people who could speak directly to the US public. This is part of the rationale used by the US' security services to justify regime change in that country. If Grenada was pounced on so ferociously, then what exactly would Britain --a country widely considered a fraternal nation to the United States-- have in store? What could Britain's workers possibly do to keep out an American "peace keeping" operation on its own? The US imperialists would sooner reduce Britain to a dead zone than allow it to limp on under socialist governance.

With all of this in mind, I'm becoming increasingly concerned that especially close ties need to be sewn between socialist movements throughout the Anglosphere, particularly between the British and American proletariat. There may well come a day when internationalism from our American comrades will be needed more than any other group; to spearhead a hands-off Britain campaign that can pull back on the leash of US imperialism and pressure their government to beat a retreat. Trusted points of contact that can smuggle communications past the inevitable media blackouts and place our plight directly in front of the English speaking world will be necessary, and they will have to be established well before a situation like this actually develops. US militants ready and willing to sabotage US munitions and infrastructure will almost certainly be an extremely important element of a hypothetical struggle of this kind.

So what do you all think? Do you think the following scenario is at all likely or is it all in my head? Should British communist movements place a special focus on cultivating connections amongst organisations based in fraternal English speaking nations in the core, so as to disrupt attempts to strangle a potential British revolution in its crib, or should it follow a different strategy?

America and Canada are extremely close economically, culturally and politically. The US and Canada are far and away each other's largest trade partners, accounting for almost 7 times the total trade of Canada's next largest partner, the EU. 51.9% of foreign owned companies based in Canada are American owned. On top of this, Canada is demographically dwarfed by its southern neighbour, whose population share a common linguistic and cultural base. This demographic gap has prompted the Canadian government to pursue a natalist policy goal of achieving a population of 100 million people by the end of the century, likely a project pursued by Canada's national bourgeoisie in an effort to prevent themselves from being subsumed by the juggernaut to the south.

Two previous Canadian prime ministers have in the past considered pursuing political union with the US, who would stand to benefit enormously from Canada's substantial natural resources and strategic position in the North. Annexation of Canada would likewise benefit the American state by eliminating the largest land border in the world, administration of which currently costs the Canadian state 1.5% of its GDP. Moreover, this would finally connect America's strategically important territory of Alaska to the US' territorial mainland and thus render continental north America a single contiguous political territory, more easily administered and defended.

With all this in mind, do you think that America is likely to integrate Canada into its territory in the future? If so, long do you suspect it will take for this to occur? What implications would such an enormous development have for the international communist movement?