Nice, I do follow them but wasn’t aware of this. Thanks comrade.

I have learned over the past 3 years to not argue about stuff like that anymore. It’s tiring for me, it strains my relationships, and frankly I’m more and more convinced that it undermines actual present organising. I read a couple of articles and listened to some podcasts on climate change and leninism (i.e. socialist revolution; professor Kai Heron) and their argument is convincing enough. We have bigger fish to fry than internally fighting over who was better 70 years ago. Like waaaay bigger fish: climate change and neo-fascism. Let’s fry those first and then we can discuss Stalin and Trotsky and Chinese reforms and what have you.

An example from my hometowm. Almost every dedicated Marxist grouping here is Trotskyist. It refrains me from joining them but I also haven’t asked them WHY they’re Trotskyist. And also our dedicated communist party renounced its founder because they defended Stalin. Maybe it’s the classic falsehood of “Stalin bad, Trotsky would have been better” or maybe they actually engage with Trotsky’s ideas of permanent revolution and find them more helpful in the 21st century. I don’t know. But this also means that I am left without a serious means of organising in my home city as I don’t have time nor energy to start my own organisation and even so, the zeitgeist here is not one of pro-Stalin. So I don’t argue it and just look at axtual actions on the ground and while Trotskyist, these are the people organising, fighting, getting out etc. So it’s a dilemma.

I would say unless your GF is a fascist or right-winger, don’t bother straining your relationship with this. Just inform yourself and that’s good. (Unless you want to strain your relationship in which case, have at it.).

In the US, you,ll end up dead.

That’s a semantic justification of what is, in practice, imperialism or at least, imperialism light.

Really wish we wouldn’t because that money could be used in our country. People duying on the street from cold, malnutrition, homelessness. But we’re sending money to a country that’s doomed to fail its war effort and last year vetod a very generous peace deal that Russia proposed. Screw that.

I think the best behind the bastards episodes are the ones on Kissinger (6 pqrts) and the ones on the police (also 6 parts). The funnest however I think are on Alex Jones with those guys from the Alex Jones podcast and the ones on Kellogs becquse wtf.

Does anyone still believe this? It’s been debunked so many times.

The fragile cd 1 is just fantastic depreasion music all around.

My cat wants to eat the rich. But she is also afraid to go outside.

You clearly care, deeply. I look forward to reading something you write on the subject, or to see you organise.

At least those people are looking at places where actual revolutions happened and were sustained. Contrary to the US, where unions get busted, action groeps cointelpro-d, leaders assassinated, police violence used, and only the threat of the USSR to gain any social progress. And where QoL is on a steady decline? Please give me a better example.

Furthermore, historically, no one socialist nation has ever existed without being under continuous attack from those very forces - religious, fascists, corporatists, so I don’t know what your on about. You’re clearly passionate but I read your comments as incredibly idealistic to a fault.

Edit: and what’s happening now is the very likely possibility of a 2nd Trump administration and this insane 2025 plan they’re cooking up. So I don’t even know where you are getting your information.

As soon as you have any actual answer on how to demonstrably improve peoples’ lives and do this either within this system in a way that they’ll let you, or without this system in a way that they won’t assassinate you, I’m with you. I’m serious about that. But you don’t have an answer, I already know, because all I see is posturing and arm chair theorizing.

Edit for Michael Parenti who ofcourse has absolutely amazing things to day on the issue: https://youtu.be/6gtUaGV6mNI?feature=shared

Read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin for an indication of a functioning anarchist society years after it was established. Amazing book.

Well, I’m there with you.

It doesn’t have to. In essence, fanily constellation is about positioning the client within their family, however that may be, so they can experience it from a distance and feel what it does to them when seen like that. The client positions their own members.

Then, they can suggest changes to the co stellation that would make them feel better or resolve their tension. These changes are left open to the client. The therapist should not intervene and just reflect what they see so the client can see the picture better and from an even more objective standpoint.

Louis Rossmann made a video on this. It’s called why I dtopped paying for Netflix. Of you have a smart tv, they want you to use the native app or else they limit your definition.

Yeah you’re right. I might develop it into a manifesto of some sorts, possibly communist even.

Too recognisable. I’ve been writing a pamflette on why billionaires shouldn’t exist for the past 5 months.

I mean didn’t they do this already years ago, and nothing changed? The UN is a spineless, useless organisation. According to wiki, it condemned Israel 45 times since 2013.

I tbink we also need a study list of current Marxist doing research. Economists (if you find them), philosophers, ecologists, and more because one of the critiques i always get is that the people I recommend are too old and we need stuff for this day and age. (I’d say we need to read both).

People like Graeber, Losurdo, and more.