If you claim Marxism and stan for the working class, yet refuse to recognize and take the settler-colonial condition seriously, your Proletarianism is merely Settler-National chauvinism and you should be viewed as incredibly sus by serious Settler and Indigenous communists alike.
@mrnastynodrama
I am a teachers assistant. For the past few months I have had my students taking valuable items around the house they figure their parents won't miss back to the classroom. We will see these items to fund the coming revolution.
The "primary" contradiction is the contradiction that conditions the expression and nature of all others. It isn't determined by what "occurred first". In NA, the primary contradiction is National Liberation <-> National Opression, expressed via Settler-colonialism.
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Reading about Stalin and from Stalin taught me about how the deeply reactive anti-Communist Liberal society in which I live works in unexpected ways.
I learned a lot about how the society we live in shapes our reactions and thoughts. How they shape our biases.
...
Stalin himself had quite a bit to offer in the areas of the Socialist response Nationalism and Colonialism, as well as first-hand accounts of what is it like to participate within the effort of Socialist construction.
But perhaps most importantly (to me)...
I think this effort allows Communists to place the past into proper context, and to be effectively critical. Which allows us to move on and become more effective and more open-eyed in whichever efforts we partake in.
@Ergoat
It really shouldn't be a problem to expect that people don't have sex during serious work.
Go, please, have really excellent consensual sex - somewhere else.
When you're done, come back to doing the work.
You'd think this would be a very normal expectation, actually.
@birrion
Yeah, one of the early things you realize is how effectively reactionaries employ Trotsky to distort and diminish the western working class' understanding of Socialist history, theory, and successes.
For Palestinians, the primary contradiction is settler-colonial oppression. Just as it is for Indigenous nations in NA.
For Canadians (settlers) it may *feel* like the primary contradiction is between classes under capitalism, but that struggle is conditioned by the above.
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In pre-revolutionary China. The primary contradiction was Imperialism, which was why Communists co-operated with the nationalists. Only once this contradiction was "solved" did the primary contradiction change.
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@Ergoat
It is not at all unreasonable (or "authoritarian") for a group engaging in an action such as this to decide that people are not allowed to hook up during said action. It is expected and very good actually for them to set such rules.
It is very weird to be upset by this.
An overlooked and fairly low-effort radicalizing experience is when you decide to do some very simple investigation into the DPRK 🇰🇵, quickly realize it is actually nothing at all like what you were told, then realizing you've been lied to.
Since these accounts don't add any context for understanding, this is months old video and shows him inspecting a flooded paddy field so he can properly direct recovery efforts, his style has always been to see conditions for himself and not just read reports in a distant office.
LAND. In Canada (and arguably all economies) land and access to resource underpins everything else. It is (quite literally) all about the land. Security in this regard is a what allows for the leverage of capital in the financial sector.
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@ProlesPod
is launching a series on Stalin which I'm sure will be worth a listen. They also did a helpful episode with
@RevLeftRadio
a few years back as the podcast's former iteration.
@Prolespod
presents...
#TheStalinEras
A six part audio journey, mixing narrative and discussion, on the life and times of Joseph Stalin.
Featuring special guest hosts - to be announced! Coming September 23, 2024
Security of land allows for Industry to physically exist and to operate. This security underpins the combination of both "industrial" and "financial" capital.
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Settlers share a vested interest in gaining and maintaining security of land, and support their state in securing this. This interest crosses class divides under capitalism, promoting class collaboration.
*THIS* is an example of a primary contradiction conditioning others
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The core interest of Capitalists and Settlers, and the State which manages their contradictions in settler-colonial settings is to MAINTAIN and EXPAND control the land it colonizes. A process that is on-going, far from over.
🇨🇦 society is shaped around this core interest.
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Quebec is absolutely not a nation *imprisoned* within the Canadian settler state, but is instead a full and willing participant in the Canadian Settler-colonial project.
This shouldn't need to be said.😅
@KyleTrainEmoji
In a small party, obviously members of the the bourgeoisie shouldn't be accepted
When you're in power and have millions in the party, it is actually a good thing to have some representation from that class. Keep tabs on them. Integration, negation and what not. The entire point.
@chronicleherald
It wasn't a strike, it was a lock out by the employer.
The employer took a tantrum, locked everyone out, and the government forced the workers back to work without a deal.
"Strike" is the kind of reporting you'd expect from a totally captured media.
@Ergoat
In regard to C., if you can't understand that there are and should be consequences to breaking the rules of the group, I really dont know what anyone can tell you. Even 5 yr olds understand this.
Of course they're not actually gonna hang someone for this, come on man. 😅
"Then what do you want us to do?"
Organize. Form a cell. Teach that cell Marxism, learn it together. Begin communicating with other cells.
Tell everyone you know that the system is rigged and they should withdraw their participation. Get them ready.
@CBCNS
Many of us were calling out this type of "housing solution" long before it was aimed toward seniors - in fact we told you it would be, but you didn't care back then because you felt those living on the streets somehow deserved homelessness.
Seeing a lot of people confused by these news. "These are Houthis, not the Yemeni government" some people screech. You're wrong. Here's a quick crash course on some background history, the political landscape in Yemen & appropriate terminology:
1. The "Houthis" (known officially
@beadagainstfash
Fits my experience with accepting donations from the general public to a T.
These people also get real personally offended if you reject their donations.
"Who TF do you think you are to deny taking my garbage?!?!"
@primarycatdad
I'd "known" this before becoming a parent, and it has been undeniably confirmed in the harshest way since.
I'm not sure I'd have really made the connection if I hadn't been a communist beforehand.
@DecolonialMarx
An estimated 1 in 15 people have it in my region (including myself right now), and that ratio is likely higher because the health authorities aren't actively trscking or releasing the statistics anymore.
@Mr_Chris_T
Capitalism requires this reality. This isn't resolved by a simple policy change. Capital requires various avenues to ensure profits as the rate of profit falls. Their most favoured avenue is wage slavery and theft.
A message for those who are organizing and working for revolutionary change:
In times like these it can feel like time is moving super fast, that everyone needs YOU do be and do everything at all times. Don't fall into this current.
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4 of us here are looking forward to reading through this.
Thanks
@RickdaBuffalo
for writing it, and thanks
@MidnightBooksLA
for sending it. Took 2 tries, but they made it here just before a major snow storm. 👌
⚡️Hamas:
“We made with our own hands what reaps your heads. We will continue kiIIing your soldiers by our locally manufactured sniper rifles.”
Video shows the local manufacturing of the Qassam ‘Ghoul’ sniper rifle, which is derived from the Iranian AM50 Sayyad.
Settler colonialism is an ongoing process & a structure, not an event with beginning & ending, as some communists here seem to suggest.
It works to supersede (& hide) the relationship of domination that makes it possible. This requires specific efforts to establish...
@JBudzeyko
@notpatblack
@Nehiyawak2023
I guess it never happened then 🤷♂️
Definitely shouldn't take what Indigenous people tell us has happened (and continues to happen) into account or anything. 🤷♂️
During this time period +500 settler-Quebecois lined up along the road to pelt Mohawk women, children and elders with rocks, killing 1 elder when a rock struck him in the chest.
@FoxyMarxist
This is the main critique I have of it and have heard.
Bevins fails to escape the "Stalin Paradox" wherein you MUST denouce Stalin in order to discuss Communism or Communists in any slightly positive fashion.
Be it Poland, Canada or any other developed/developing Capitalist country, Anti-migrant actions are largely supported and insisted upon by the national labour movement, and an example of working-class collaboration under Fascism.
Polish border guards opened fire against refugees at the Polish-Belarusian border. Video footage released by the armed guards themselves on TikTok shows the migrants fighting back by throwing stones at the heavily fortified border.
The Polish parliament has passed a law that
I absolutely condemn IDF members infiltrating west Bank hospitals disguised as nurses and doctors for the purpose of murdering multiple Palestinian patients in their beds.
I’ve been torn up by the accounts of protestors infiltrating Mount Sinai Hospital, intimidating Jewish patients and doctors, and threatening our already weakened healthcare system.
These antisemitic actions are intentional attempts at destabilizing the safety and security of
Keep your heads. We need to take care of each other, tap eachother out, take shifts. In times of prolonged stress (like the one we are entering) we need to be sure to encourage rest. Individuals need to be willing to accept rest, and ask for help
This is a marathon.
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Québécois comprise a colonizing nation. Quebec is not an oppressed nation within 🇨🇦. It is a very willing participant, proudly claiming its own imperialist mechanism and continued encroachments into Indigenous lands.
The equation of Québec and Indigenous struggle is atrocious.
We can and should talk about Fascist cooption. We should also talk about artists who willingly package their work to be used in such a manner.
Let's not pretend that Columbia Records didn't basically own that song the moment it was penned abd marketed it as they wished.
This just means "Born in the USA" completely failed as a critique, and insofar that goal goes it's worthless.
I suggest less smug, impotent mocking of fascist cooption of art, and more critique of inept artists for writing cooptable art.
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@afrocosmist
Nah, you're still taking your shoes off in our house.😅
Take a comfy seat. No worries, we will bring you anything you need. Here are a pair of soled slippers.
@rezierre
The Chinese revolution has always recognized a need to involve all classes present in the revolution to some degree. It is one of the things that makes its revolution distinct from others. The flag is a literal nod to this.
A sustainable pace needs to be set to complete a marathon. Pheidippides died upon his arrival in Athens to declare news of a victory of a single battle.
Our movement cannot afford "dying" over a single event, and we only have eachtoher to prevent this.
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This is a pretty important book for putting both the USSR at the time of Stalin, and Stalin himself into context with the rest of the world.
Keeping it on my shelf, as I know I will be picking it up for reference, and will likely read it a second time.
Organizational dualism is an important aspect to mass organization that more anarchists need to understand. Organizing average people does not mean they all need to be in your specifically anarchist/horizontalist/libsoc group. Instead, you need two kinds of groups.
We have again reached a moment where Centrists, feeling things shifting under their feet, begin to feel irrelevant and react by embracing their time-honored tradition of punching left in the name of rationality.
🎯 This is the trap, historically and at the present. If empowering the far-left is seen as the only way to stop the far-right, and vice-versa, the middle is hollowed out from both sides and extremists gain. The pendulum swings wider and picks up destructive momentum.
People finding issue with this tweet are people so lost in the Liberal soup that they cannot imagine this statement not being inherently exclusive
Communists don't abandon those Liberal society finds no productive use for. We work for others for the benefit of them and ourselves
@safe_hrm
It wasn't a strike, it was a lock out by the employer.
The employer took a tantrum, locked everyone out, and the government forced the workers back to work without a deal.
"Strike" is the kind of reporting you'd expect from a media totally captured by the employing class.