i heard vigotsky books are lit, famous soviet psychologist, if i heard right, he wrote about autism too and collaborated for current days drop of asperger name.

capitalism is so marvelous that applies it inversely, one part gets jobless, the other work like fuck.

I’d say to scale down said debates to not tank your relationship over that. if the debate is inevitable, the “didn’t kill enough” depoliticize the discussion, and to someone outside our circle you make you look like a lunatic, so the best approach imo is bringing the discussion to context, like the other comrade commented quoting losurdo, recognize the repression but putting into the context the political situation soviet union had at the moment, surrounded by reactionary forces including the assassination attempt on lenin, to at least not end the discussion looking like stalin was a monster that killed people for shits and giggles. critic without autophagy.

i will try to put what highalectical said in simpler terms, and starting pointing out that this discussion is very very important to new people.

so, how communism itself will look in the future will be determined by the material conditions of the future, since we are not there yet, we can’t say for sure, only speculate. but you can say you dream of a society that has x characteristic.

the same goes for socialism itself, how its gonna look for each country, will be determined by said country, for good or bad. that is why soviet socialism is different from chinese, that is different from yugoslavia, that is different from korea and so on.

but if we take all of those and try to dawn similarities, we can note a certain tendency, and that tendency is a uplift on quality of life, like the other comrade said in another comment, drastic reduction or extinction of illiteracy, full employment for long periods of time, agrarian reform, reduction or extinction of homelessness and so on.

and why that discussion is important, there are some revisionists line that throw materialism out of the window and create an abstract form of socialism, and they use that abstraction to shit on former socialists and current ones, for example abolition of family and moneyless economy, no socialist country ever came close to both of these, so these lines spew that there was never a “true socialist country”, all were horrific oriental despotism dictatorship and etc.

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i watch a dude that lives in china, he says that because of the century of humiliation and opium abuse, china has a strong anti-drug policy, u can get in jail pretty easily for using, and death penalty for dealing, but wild marijuana cultivation and usage is fine since they haven’t been selected to contain big levels of thc so they can’t get you very high.

as for russia, i guess the church maybe forbid it.

and the last edit part you said basically summed it up, cotton lobby, plantations and the plant be associated religious practices of some people.

i myself wanna try smoking some to see if it can help me sleep a little better, I’ve been trying passiflora but no luck, getting canabis oil prescription is almost impossible and get the medicine itself here in brazil.

i think the source of his skepticism about it is the claim on a healthy alternative to smoking tobacco, and that is total bs, because the act of smoking itself is harmful, you are burning stuff and inhaling carbon monoxide, that is toxic af.

there is a argument about being healthier than cigarettes because it is a natural product, without the chemicals they use, but the tobacco industry is trying to reinvent itself with the same argument by selling roll up cigs with “fresh” tobacco.

that is sad to read :(

Well, there are revolutionaries processes ongoing on india and philippines, im not up to date on how they are progressing. in the rest of the third world maxism is slowly rebuilding, my guess the next one will be in africa continent, since there is still an anti colonial struggle.

me too, i not sure. a great army sure, all remaining socialists country are military power, not all have nukes tho.

depends, are you or your organization a threat on status quo? if not, you will probably get your neighbors pissed, difficult for getting employed and other stuff and some harassment here and there, killed, i don’t think so.

the black panther party for example, were a threat to the status quo, the had ample presence in the whole country, was uniting other ethnical minorities under the rainbow coalition, heck they were even trying to talk it out white people from racism and so on and on, they were great.

sounds like redpill shit.

why and how do you quantify a person?

mao too, sadly being a good parent led his son to death.

what the fucking hell are those question even?

as the other comrades said, centuries of colonization ravished the soil and having difficulty to import farming equipment due to terrorist blockade.

i forgot the author of the quote, saying that cuba’s economy suffers from diabetes.

it is about how racism impacts technology and its bias into ai.

for staters when first prompted to generate a image of franz fanon, the ai generated a white caucasian man, only generated franz as his rly was when give a very detailed prompt about his appearance.

thank you.

thanks for the tips.

in near future, no. based on anecdotal evidence of interacting with west europeans, fear mongering about china has seeped to much, won’t shrug off anytime soon, specially with multiple crises and tensions rising in the world and the role china has on the global stage.

my guess is this effect will be seen in the global south, as china is delivering infrastructure and investments in africa and latin america.