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Essentially do you see any big modern marxist public figures coming in as the "old guard" ages out? Who?

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[–] cosmonautjem@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

For anticapitalist content from Turtle Island, I think we need to start looking for and platforming more Black and Indigenous decolonial content creators. Ones who can take the lessons from the past and apply them to the conditions of the here and now. There are already many people like this on TikTok. Personally I wouldn't put too much trust in big Twitch streamers, but that's just my take.

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

Zizek! I'm kidding, but maybe the answer is not in the West, but elsewhere, and maybe the media just doesn't pay attention to them because it is in their best interest.

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

These are big shoes to fill and they will of course be filled by Bad Empanada and Vaush.

[–] alekhine_alexander@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hi comrade, is something wrong with bad empanada? I watched a few of his and thought it was pretty neat. I am asking because you mention him together with vaush.

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

He doesn't acknowledge PRC's achievements, doesn't support AES except Cuba (I think) and doesn't align himself with other anti-imperialists. He attacks journalists critical of the west, I faintly recall a bona fide NED spook quote tweeting BE to attack the Greyzone.

Insofar as he limits himself to attacking rightists, especially the ones claiming to be socialists, he's fine.

[–] redpen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any chance you could tell me what those initialisms mean? Thanks.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not OP but I believe:

PRC - People's Republic of China. Self explanatory.

AES - Actually Existing Socialism. Countries that are now operating under at least a form of socialist government.

NED - National Endowment for Democracy. A front for US operations abroad, such as the Hong Kong protests.

BE - Bad Empanada, obviously.

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[–] ledlecreeper27@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've read that just like PSL, Gloria La Riva is unfortunately a plant that is CIA-controlled opposition. I'm still shocked.

Edit: Why the downvotes? I can provide a link to what I read.

[–] 10nica@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You got those links? Interested in the psl claims

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does the paranoid “fleawar” person support any actual organizations (besides maybe Hezbollah)? Sure any leftist movement is gonna have feds, but where are we supposed to organize?

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's a fair point, but aside from reading their articles, I don't know much about them.

I would argue that its not paranoia if there really are people after us, working visibly and in the shadows.

I don't have an answer, but I hope the point fleawar is making is that we have to build something on our own.

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[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Who comes next in terms of dying?

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[–] SillyJester@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Hopefully not. I'm an iconoclast. I tire of cults of personality. Hopefully class conscious people can cultivate class consciousness in people around them till the breaking point of dissent is reached.

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