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To my European comrades on here: our party is organizing a festival! (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I know it's a stretch, but if someone or their org wants to come, by all means do!

Every year my party organizes Manifiesta festival. It's a leftist festival with music, debate, sports, film and food and it takes place in Oostende, Belgium.

Topics of debate and guests of this year include, but are not limited to: Chris Smalls (the Starbucks Union guy), debates on Niger and Burkina Faso, Cuban and Palestinian comrades, Jeremy Corbyn (yeah, I know lol) and many more. There will also be free leftist movies to watch, local food and drinks and countless of other activites. Oh, and I will be there as well lol.

Anyway, here is the website for those interested :)

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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Minor correction, Smalls is the Amazon Union guy.

Kinda funny how Corbyn went from nobody, to beloved, to hated and now he's getting relevant again. I think he's a masterclass example of how social democracy alone is not enough to fight the entrenched reactionaries of Europe.

The event sounds cool! European comrades are too geographically close to not do more stuff like this.

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, Amazon lol.

What I like is that we invite socdem guests who also draw other socdems only to have them catch glimpes of Cuban revolutionary talk etc. It's bound to radicalize some of them.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One of my turning points was listening to a talk at a socdem rally and enjoying the talk that quoted Lenin. Until that point, I'd thought that Lenin was so obviously a mass-murdering psychopath that he wouldn't be worth reading. Certainly not worth praising. What was this trickery, and why is this speaker cherry-picking bits where it sounds like he cares about ordinary people? I can't believe people fall for that! He does sound right, though. Hang on, what's happening to me??

I was also surprised to learn that he'd written anything at all and thought, 'huh, maybe it was a speech or a book of speeches'. You can imagine my surprise as I realised this beautiful bald genius wrote a small library worth of books.

I should add that I was highly educated by that point. The propaganda machine is powerful. I don't think my past self was a rarity.

You're bound to get some people thinking differently.