it was a line crossed when homeboy said “none of you ITT are socialists”

it’s like.,, okay yeah we just espouse these ideas keep up with socialist happenings around the world and study the history and look at things through a socialist/ML/Maoist lens or whatever specific area we gravitate toward

we're already on the list
it don't matter
I see an Indonesia 1955 coming to US in our lifetime

imagine the 50s in the US when if you just hate somebody u can accuse them of being a communist and they’ll go straight to jail.

people could do that s*** if they don’t like u and get u outta here

they locked up some protesters from the PSL though...

idk if it was at the elijah mcclain demonstrations or what tho

been seeing a lot of ppl on socials repost stuff putting the cuban “communist dictatorship” at fault and brushing off the embargo (aint claiming the gov doesn't bear some faults for certain things but disregarding the embargo makes this posturing people are doing online so incomplete)

i had a pretty good convo with this cuban person i went to school with but she said she can’t send money to family anymore and that s*** is bad for them rn regardless

Also is weird if the pres. called for people to take to the streets / that type of action reminds me of a former us pres i know

also selfishly wish there was an actual photo of lenin above stalin ITT because socialism at large i think benefited greater from lenin,

And as I understand them at this point--Stalin’s achievements (if so granted as such), are more to do with specifically USSR development as a state, and victory in WW2 over Nazis, etc... i guess we could take it there if we’re using war as examples for things, but it isn’t the most compelling of angles to take.

i think i’m just a bit stoned rambling i’m interested to see what y’all are picking up on the topic of cuba or haiti as well... the simultaneous-ness of the two things is peculiar at least

i cant understnad this paragraph

I'm editing it to make more sense

u catching me in between edits and copy and pasting s*** lmao

locked up, raided frso members houses and arrested them in 2009 too

like even though the left in the us is p small, actions are still taken against them :/

do u think these seemingly newer groups just keep taking from the former incarnations of socialist organizations or are they different enough to distinguish them greatly?

tbh im getting tired of talking about lenin/stalin/mao because i feel like they barely apply to our current situation, its outdated; we aren't colonial anymore, these tools don't work.

more interested in reading nkrumah/toure/cabral because of their pivotal works on neocolonialism

i mean the divide between theory and praxis is meaningless because who the f*** cares about what your stance of china right now is when you live in the U.S. and all you can materially change is what is in your neighborhood, right

they're all the same to me. except dsa, dsa is too revisionist.

I can fw this perspective on some level, but I'm still truly trying to understand those three people for myself, so I can't quite move on at this point imo

I think I gotta read more lenin and study some of Mao's history and stuff before I feel comfortable leaving some of those things behind

That being said there is so many regions of the world where these ideas experience both different successes, and different obstacles to where it's overwhelming

i feel u on the dsa for sure but i mean if im always talking about "unity on the left" then I gotta still keep a place in my heart (albeit very limited) for them cause it could bring more people in to a grander view of socialism,

Also I see what you're saying, I'm trying to find out a lot of what is going on locally in my state right now,

been basically talking with anyone I can when situations or conversations present themselves,

yo look at this s***

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Slavic_Forces_of_Russia

tf even is this? a FB group?

“Anti-Americanism, 5G misinformation” as ideology

yeah i mean i haven't really dived deep into lenin and mao, ive read their "greatest hits", but like

obviously they made great contributions to marxism, and MOST applies to today, but just like fanon did you have to stretch marxism . (you still need the BASIS of marxism though to stretch)

however, the material conditions are invetiably different during our time

like one thing i didnt know is when nasser nationalized the suez canal in like the 50's the french, britiain and israel went balls deep in that b**** to colonize em

then the US LITERALLY ALLIED WITH THE USSR to stop them because they'd rather keep them as a NEOCOLONIAL subject

s*** is insane the neoliberalization of everything has confused everyone

basically a sovereign citizen movement

ya i mean i was a liberal for most of my life
most people are
but at the same time liberalization is what kills any social movement, literally look at what happened to BLM

or like even the black panthers, MLK they defang their revolutionary edge and put them on a hallmark card

MLK himself still had fangs enough for him to be assassinated and/or harassed by the government but if you’re strictly referring to the co-opting of his image as a “stop fighting” kind of limited interpretation of him... and yeah that makes me think about how i wonder how many people their act of rebellion is just watching meaningful things in movies or reposting online and it stays that. as if that’s good enough.

i be thinking about the black panthers free breakfast thing all the time for some reason