fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Class%20Readings/Marx/The%20German%20Ideology.pdf

you have a monthly review subscription right?
when does your monthly magazine come?
its october 9th, didn't expect it take this long to come

I’ve paused it since I’m in uni again now but I only had the electronic sub

China proposes ban on private capital participation in media

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-09/china-proposes-bans-on-private-capital-participation-in-media

bump

socialism >>>

wowwww
what a great article lol, i was expecting bloomberg to have hella bias

twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1447076792292937732?s=20

damn thats beautiful I always felt bad for the Romanov kids, Nicholas and wife I didnt care for but those kids should have lived but reality often doesnt care and being in the middle of a civil war forces tough decisions

How can I bring class consciousness to those around me people are still stuck in this bootstrapping idealism and regularly tell me “it’ll be okay something good always happens”

talk to em like normal people and when they're talking about hardship try relating it to communism and s*** without being overt.

Also depends on the person themselves, and you gotta be patient my friends voted conservative last time and now they voting NDP not exactly communism but still progress it takes time, you cant force someone to change political views through debates or outsmarting them, political views tend to be deeply embedded within people since it usually how they see the world, for example we see through a materialist lease while the people u talking about see through it with a idealist lense. S*** like that doesnt change overnight.

I’ve gotten my dad to begin Capital because his side of the family has history with the Communist Party in Afghanistan from the 70’s so he was pretty inclined already

My mom came from landed aristocracy that owned farmland before they became refugees so it’s been super hard for me to get her to understand

damn ur dads history is cool and yeah some people wont ever change or its not worth the time due to their class standings, family history etc.

Idk how to go do it with family personally I think its a waste of time, time volunteering with a tenet hotline or helping workplaces unionise would be much better because your actually helping people here materially or trying to which will always be much more impactful these people might not become communists but you know they will become more supportive of the cause, than just trying to convert friends or families.

Absolutely

But how can their support help bring forth the idea of revolution and change if it doesn’t instill a sense of what socialism actually is y’know? Someone has to organize and move the vanguard forward

that tends to be the job of people schools to raise class consciousness or other organisations like mutual aid or that act as fronts for the party, or creating dual power. you cant really do this as an individual.

The vanguard party comes from the communist party that has the correct lines and tend to be the most successful at organising the people

Well America is f***ed then ive really been thinking about politically organizing but I’m only 21 and everyone around me is too caught up in the capitalist day to day to really disengage and organize

i’m 21 as well man dw have u tried searching up an organizations around like a serve the people group or anything ?

i have low hopes for the west as well but that shouldn’t mean we should just give up. even there’s a low chance of us accomplishing anything there’s still a chance and who knows at the end of the day Russia used to be the capital of reaction during Lenin’s life and Lenin himself thought he would never see a socialist revolution in his lifetime and guess what happened two years later.

A day in my life as an anarchist

Be me

37 year old anarchist

Lime-green mohawk

Sleeveless leather vest even though I’ve never worked out a day in my life

r/swoletariat is tankie cringe

Walking home from commune (no of course I don’t actually live there, that’s gross)

Hear screams from across the street

Am hard as f*** so go to investigate

Get my swagger on while I cross the road

See man beating his wife through an open window

Naa I’m not having this s***

Approach the window and stare at the couple

Woman looks up at me pleadingly, face swollen, blood dripping from her nose

Husband glares at me

“Help me” she says

“Ackshaully due to the inherent hierarchies involved marriage is a sham institution”

“All spouses are bad.”

Husband stares at me, dumbfounded

Woman looks up at me again

“Please call the police”

Holy s*** this is my big chance

Once in a lifetime

Turn my body so she can see the top of my left arm

Point to the ACAB tattoo

Look her deadpan in the eye so she knows she’s been bested

Leave to the sound of muffled screams and thuds

Another day, another authoritarian owned

Reunification imminent cope and seethe

nice take on joão abel manta's "portugal, um problema difícil" by instagram.com/leftaesthetic

thoughts on this thread?

Not reading all that tbh
Especially if it's just a dunk on another person lmfao

eh i agree with the social imperialist nature of China currently but i always hate it when someone does something like as a women it just reeks of opportunism to dodge valid criticism

I’m gonna begin reading Marx directly this week