http://manyfesto.org/2015/10/20/only-a-person-with-no-sense-of-history-or-sense-in-their-head-thinks-the-world-is-better-off-without-a-communist-superpower/
and thought hell I'll go ahead and post something and maybe get owned to hell and back who gives a shit
so because i got a stupid tiny chicken brain and don;t really know anything and was originally just going to ask a question or two ill keep this simple:
It occurred to me that Russia, still not too long ago th3e most important and influential locus of socialism in the history of the gay earth, is probably the most ripe and ready place to go about building socialism*; in no small part because it's a modern nation literally built on socialism and has a large population that seems to overwhelmingly prefer its socialist past and harbour goodtime attitudes in general about the USSR and communism. It also has the resources and nice big strong military that's already arguably the biggest bulwark against Empire today, defense of Syria being the most available and obvious example atm. I could go on about shit I don't really know much about but there's definitely people who know way more about Russia and hte pragmatic obstacles that would stand in the way of socialism being restored there and the eventual reestablishment of a Union of Soviets (I would assume mostly political and killing lots of capitalists). But I honestly believe it's not unrealistic at this point to look to Russia as the potential site of rebuilding a powerful global communist opposition to capitalist hegemony
*Not anti-China at all and in some respects I still think China might be more likely to fill this role, given the whole communist party being in power and stuff, and I'm much more optimistic about the prospect of their current and recent developments leading eventually towards more substantial socialism but I still think the rightist deviation with Xiaoping at the very least means a delay past the point where it is 'safe' to wait for and that wanting change and upset in the global order sooner does not at this time constitute an ultraleft position given the dire threat the world is facing. Also the reemergence of a powerful socialist Russia would be pretty much the best thing China could hope for outside of fairytale spontaneous global revolutionary insurrection, and China would obviously continue to be very important and a key ally of socialist Russia in any case.
So uh yeah apologies if i'm stupid and gas this or wahtever, here are the questions i was goign to briefly ask originally:
-what exactly does the state of communist movements in Russia look like today, I think the answer to this remains deliberately obscure to idiots like me for various reasons and I'd love to hear something ,anything, from someone who knows what they're talking about
-whe n do we get started
please ban my ass
the word superpower is an insult which means imperialist. people who called the USSR a superpower meant that it was attempting to impose its rule on others. this was the claim of dissident communists like mao.
getfiscal posted:"only a person with no sense of history (or sense in their head) thinks the world is better off without a communist superpower"
the word superpower is an insult which means imperialist. people who called the USSR a superpower meant that it was attempting to impose its rule on others. this was the claim of dissident communists like mao.
the chinaman is not the issue dude
NoFreeWill posted:im gonna restore the CCCP in fucking america.... as an ecomtwist ultraleft atheist antiliberal
It will stand for the Crappy Crappy Crappy Polity
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Lykourgos posted:The op said something about china getting full blown terminal college communism or whatever. Didn't read it too closely, looked a bit shit. Not happening, though, at any rate.
it's hard to know how much of xi's pro-marxist push is complete bullshit, but i still find it encouraging. fwiw i had one really cool chinese history prof who has been visiting china steadily since mao era and he has faith in the party
Lykourgos posted:Sorry, dibs on China. They're too busy bringing back the classics to bother with your american college student commie bullshit
aren't they currently trying to dump the whole jiang era confucian thing? i think your info might be dated by about 20 years
stegosaurus posted:it would be cool if everyone in this country were forced to learn undialectical marxism.
im going door 2 door doing this and i just sent 2 mormons a taco street address in east la lmao
getfiscal posted:"only a person with no sense of history (or sense in their head) thinks the world is better off without a communist superpower"
the word superpower is an insult which means imperialist. people who called the USSR a superpower meant that it was attempting to impose its rule on others. this was the claim of dissident communists like mao.
actually it means that like, youre incredibly strong or can fly or run really fast or shoot lasers out of your eyes or whatever. NOT an insult
getfiscal posted:all chinese schools have marxism departments where people have to memorize like why having mcdonalds is socialist or whatever to get their scholarship or whatever
I think having students learn about Marxism as a living philosophy with practical, contemporary relevanc isn't bad, and maybe better than not
tpaine posted:chicken check the music thread baby!!!
i saw im gonna listen to all that tomorrow, cheers
getfiscal posted:all chinese schools have marxism departments where people have to memorize like why having mcdonalds is socialist or whatever to get their scholarship or whatever
breakfast all day *is* socialist, not seeing a problem tbh
TheIneff posted:I think having students learn about Marxism as a living philosophy with practical, contemporary relevanc isn't bad, and maybe better than not
probably true, like how it's good the US constitution has a liberal ideology instead of a straightforward fascist one. even though china is obviously a capitalist country, the pseudo-marxist remnants at least provide some constraint on state actions.
HenryKrinkle posted:https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3oswdt/unusual_happenings_with_inactive_radio_stations/
I realised after reading this that I love conspiracy discussion. Like these guys all saying guys I heard a fighter jet fly over my house...it's happening...gets me pumped
Looking at that subreddit it also seems like the conspiracy xommunity is beginning to appreciate how Isis is a U.S. contra, which is encouraging. Potential converts.