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I’m not on VK but happy to open an account. Which groups though?
Appreciate it!
Thank you! Could you point me to a specific article or blog by Michael Roberts on this?
Mainly southeast Asian countries apparently, also added a source to the post
Thanks for keeping the question and added a source
Added a source!
Thank you so much, this is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for 🙏
Do you reckon abolishing imperialism and capitalism will improve the state of the gaming industry from the perspective of a Western consumer who wants a steady supply of innovative and vibrant video games and related media like twitch streams etc, not to mention the hardware needed to play them?
And that was what pushed you left?
If given everything happening around us you get angry over video games, probably there’s no direct path to the left.
But “angry about genocide / abject poverty / failing social services / so on and forth” pipeline to the left exists and that’s the important one.
I do think leaving diamat to specific philosophy studies and instead teaching people about contemporary geopolitics and economics would make society much less susceptible to liberal propaganda.
I don’t think diamat is central to Lenin at all. If you think it is, please explain how.
I’m sorry to say but Stalin’s ramblings about it are complete gibberish, he will for instance say “all things in nature change and diamat is about change so diamat is a natural science” which is not what makes a theory scientific (that would be the application of the scientific method which has nothing to do with diamat).
Diamat is completely unnecessary to understand geopolitics and economics and a few modern economists I’ve read e.g. John Smith, Paul Cockshott, Zack Cope, never even mention it.
But I didn’t read much Marxist theory, I can’t say I’m well read in general, frankly I don’t remember a lot from what I learned in childhood and I don’t have that much time and energy to read dense theory nowadays so I’m open to have my mind changed, just not by pompous proclamations and thinly veiled accusations of “revisionism” like in your reply.
(Edit) Kwame Nkrumah also didn’t need dialectics to formulate neocolonialism. The list goes on.
Also a nice false dichotomy there between diamat and liberal economics, very productive.
nope, i’m too old for podcasts
we had to learn diamat in the USSR, I wish they put more effort into teaching contemporary geopolitics and economy rather than dry philosophical bullshit that has little to do with real world. Looking back, Soviet society was astonishingly politically illiterate and I think this is part of why people so easily let go of achievements of previous generations.
diamat was by far the most hated subject. the boredom was palpable. you don’t need diamat to understand how the world works is what i meant.
How why would you describe gravity in terms of dialectics?
diamat sucks, change my mind
In the meantime, Nazbols (obviously CW, enter at your own risk):
https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/1dhbnwq/
For the uninitiated, the imaginary “trans genocide” is the narrative of the lgbt-ideologues (the T section mainly) claiming that there is an ongoing targeted genocide (apparently transgenders constitute a people that can be genocided in the first place!) towards transgenders in the US through, and get this, through the collective suicides of this group. The trans nation thus has become the first bringer of its own genocide in history, hilarious. Although perhaps they’re not so far from the truth, what else can self-inflicted sterilization en masse be called? They seem to be intent on culling themselves from the gene pool…
Unless you’re moving to a communist country, leaving the imperial core as a communist would put you and your family at a real risk of prison, torture, and death.
more likely you’ll get shot by some Rittenhouse while cops stand around and laugh
You are completely misinformed.
First of all “kulaks” were not working peasants who lived self-sufficiently off farming their land and raising their livestock, you are thinking of “serednyaks”, the class below kulaks in the 4-tier rural class system of Imperial Russia. Kulaks were rural loan sharks and land owners who did not work but rather lived off extortionate interest rates from loans to “serednyaks” and from exploiting the labour of “bednyaks” (literally “the poor”) and, mainly, the seasonal labour of “batraks” who were the class below “the poor” - many of them homeless, traveling from village to village and working quite literally for a bit of food and a place to sleep in the barn.
If you intend to keep talking publically about kulaks, do look into those classes, look up who batraks were and what kind of life they lead before the revolution, the mortality, the diseases, how many they were compared to the number of kulaks. Find out what dekulakisation brought not only for kulaks, but also for that huge number of serednyaks, bednyaks, and batraks they exploited. Find out what dekulakisation did to overall child mortality, child hight, life expectancy, and so on.
Second, kulaks were not murdered, they were eliminated as an economic class by removing the relataionship of exploitation. Their lands were taken and given to the people, and the ones who resisted were deported with their families.