NoFreeWill posted:also i may join medicin sans frontieres at some point and do combat medic stuff, but i have a lot of fucking training/etc. to do first.
ah yes, combat medic stuff in a war zone. i remember there was a SA goon in libya & syria a few years ago with a similar mentality that was very successful in this area
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Gibbonstrength posted:Book request: I'd like some first hand accounts of Soviet/Cuban/Chinese/associated people fighting in foreign countries during the Cold War. Soviets in Vietnam, Cubans in Angola, Chinese wherever Chinese dudes helped out.
i dunno any first-hand accounts but here's an overview of cuba + angola v south africa. http://monthlyreview.org/2013/04/01/the-military-defeat-of-the-south-africans-in-angola/
Aaron Dixon
"First off", Bobby started, "to be a member of the Black Panther Party, every member must have two weapons and a thousand rounds of ammunition. And you need to know how to clean your weapons and break them down and you need to know how to carry your weapons in a disciplined fashion - you dig?"
"Right on," we responded.
"The party isn't just a bunch of niggas getting together with a bunch of guns. You gotta have some ideology. Brother Huey says the power of the people grows out of the barrel of a gun, but at the same time we have to understand how to unravel all the shit the oppressor has put down on the people. Right?"
"Right on," we answered, quietly.
"The minister of education, brother George, is going to talk to you about political education classes."
"You know who Franz Fanon is?" Brother George asked, as he pulled out several books from a large, overstuffed, black briefcase he was carrying. "The book, Wretched of the Earth, is essential for Panthers to read. Brother Franz Fanon breaks it down about the psychology that develops between the oppressed and the oppressor. He talks about the Algerian people and the fight for liberation against French colonizers. We, as the oppressed people, have taken on a number of attributes that can be considered detrimental to our struggle for liberation."
"This is another book by Fanon." He pulled another book from the briefcase entitled Black Skin, White Masks. "Somebody here taking notes?"
Kathy Jones answered quickly, "I'll take notes", pulling out her high school notebook.
"Panthers must read at least two hours a day. Here is a list of books that you have to study. They got some righteous bookstores around here?"
"Yeah," someone bellowed out. "Mrs Boyetta's bookstore."
"And the books you can't find, we'll send you some."
lih says he thought an interesting question was what the bolsheviks actually said to people in the lead-up to the 1917 revolution. and lih says that the common idea today, promoted by both MLs and trotskyists, was that the bolsheviks were like hey gang we're hardcore socialists and we think soviets are a higher form of democracy so they should take power. he says that's not really the image they tried to portray at the time. their argument instead went like this: we all know the government is a bunch of crooks and idiots. we also know what everyone agrees has to be done - we need to keep the factories running and make sure food systems work and get rid of these idiotic generals who keep sending you on dumb raids. the other parties all agree with us that we need to get more factories built and better technology on the farms, and all the progressive parties know that this will require that we fight for socialism. we all agree on that. so why can't we get things working? because there's no legitimate people's government. you can't expect the crooks to run things right, they are crooks. the so-called 'provisional government' is a joke, who even knows who the ministers are today. look at the soviets, though, in some places they are helping a bit and they have real connections to a lot of people. everyone agrees we need an effective people's government, and all the socialists say we need socialism, so why don't we let the soviets take the lead, it can't get worse than this.
which is interesting because it combines an underlying marxist explanation of russia's crisis (which was emphasized after they took power) with a very pragmatic suggestion that soviet government has to be better than no government. anyway togliatti's arguments in 1944 are close to this - he's saying that italy has been ruined by fascists and that italy needs a real people's government that does obvious things like build schools and arrests traitors. and togliatti says alright being a propagandist organization made sense in a period where large numbers of people weren't expecting us to actually solve their daily problems now. if we didn't agree to a state that protects the various anti-fascist/democratic parties then people will think we are crazy or irrelevant and just want a civil war. and the allies are actually occupying half of our country so what do people actually want - do they want us to start fighting outriight with christian democratic leaders because they are anti-communist or do they want us to set up town councils in liberated areas so they can survive the worst winter crisis possibly ever and actually set up an independent war effort against the nazis which keeps moving north and doesn't have to just wait for the allies to do everything. and he discusses the various (unnamed) trotskyist lines that were like oh we need an insurgent communist revolution now and he's like if we did that now what would obviously happen is direct fusion between the liberals and fascists and we'd be fighting for another decade on ruins.
oddly i think mao made a lot of arguments like this before coming to power. his whole theory of new-democracy means "a bourgeois-democratic revolution of a new type" and his point was that (left) nationalists and communists agreed on a lot of the basic things that had to happen, china needed one government, a strong government, which could squash all the fiefdoms and resist imperialist domination. and he said it would still initially be bourgeois insofar as it had to deal with huge problems like landlordism and weak administration, and just building up basic industry. but it couldn't do that in the old way of accumulating private industry because of how rotten capitalism was and how evil imperialism was, so it had to have a worker's revolution and start nationalizing some key industries to run them in the interests of society. (the difference from trotsky's views here is that mao did accept it was initially bourgeois-democratic and also accepted it would pass into socialist construction, while trotsky said it would have socialist tasks but that socialism could only be achieved globally.)
well folks, buy me a bookstore in africa
if i aint talked to the reverend again
about dinner with his wife, who said
WE NEED THOSE WHO ARE UNAFRAID
but she only dropped out after
BREAKFASTS WITH AND FOR THE PEOPLE
projectiles aka tater tots
HELL YEAH MY PHYSICAL GAMES TRAIN FOR WAR
yeah my parents just took away (maybe destroyed)
my axes
fuck no i wasn't practicing violence against trees
to prepare to lumberjack
a mcrib
the struggle is fucking real
get a book called a party
called the game of clue
very good way to learn
how many ways
capitalism has to die
MRGREEN in the MACHINE ROOM
with a
.05mm
PEN
peace is just musical war by a different noise
THE SOUND OF BLM BEING FIELD RECORDED
not knowing HOW TO USE A MEGAPHONE LOUDLY
well my little GITAROO MAN AMP
iS A WEAPON FO COMMUSICAL FUCKWAR
we peace in deathmetal format
actually theres one good death metal album
nihilist - entombed
in linens
in lies
in leninistas babies
PLEASE FUCK THEM
but not me
c0nec i have indeed been traited on so hard
IM A VALUABLE MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RACE
i died
we lived
laughter and sunshine from solar fucking powered
Los Angeles
errybody in the club get comedy cramps
i might be successful at moving out
and if i make money we make stacks of fine ass russian latina
well
COMMUNIST PARTIES THAT ARENT CULTS ARE DEDHEADS
like rove
and the rest
you party and you blest
but marry each other pronto and have kids to read this poem to:
NOW!
fuck .wads
EXE is action in videosports FUCKMAT
counterstrike players are more communist at least they practice they ak and deagle 1-taps
swampman posted:Fun participation component to this fun thread: please tHE r H i z z o n E member, list the 10 Basic Books Any Real Leftist Would Have Read Long Ago. Im placing some book orders and want to "roundout" my collecton.
1 charlotte's web
2 where the wild things are
3harry potter and the sorcerer;s stone
4 the very hungry caterpillar
5 where the sidewalk ends
6 corduroy
7 diary of a wimpy kid
8 the lion the witch and the wardrobe
9 the bernstein bears and too much tv
10 the magic schoolbus gets baked in a cake
swampman posted:Fun participation component to this fun thread: please tHE r H i z z o n E member, list the 10 Basic Books Any Real Leftist Would Have Read Long Ago. Im placing some book orders and want to "roundout" my collecton.
Non-Fiction
Lenin's Imperialism
Farm to Factory
Liberalism: A Counter History
John Brown at Harper's Ferry
Red Star over China
Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War
Fiction
Use of Weapons
Handmaid's Tale
Look to Windward
The Left Hand of Darkness
swampman posted:Fun participation component to this fun thread: please tHE r H i z z o n E member, list the 10 Basic Books Any Real Leftist Would Have Read Long Ago. Im placing some book orders and want to "roundout" my collecton.
You can read any ten books closely enough and arrive at Marxism-Leninism.
getfiscal posted:swampman posted:Fun participation component to this fun thread: please tHE r H i z z o n E member, list the 10 Basic Books Any Real Leftist Would Have Read Long Ago. Im placing some book orders and want to "roundout" my collecton.
You can read any ten books closely enough and arrive at Marxism-Leninism.
currently reading: the road to serfdom. this hayek guy is predicting a ton of awesome stuff! A+
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Urbandale posted:oh theres Fanshen too
& Through a Glass Darkly if you're a westerner
tpaine posted:whatever happened to brother aziz anyway. did he die or...???
Yes. They either died or ???
Urbandale posted:swampman posted:Fun participation component to this fun thread: please tHE r H i z z o n E member, list the 10 Basic Books Any Real Leftist Would Have Read Long Ago. Im placing some book orders and want to "roundout" my collecton.
Non-Fiction
Lenin's Imperialism
Farm to Factory
Liberalism: A Counter History
John Brown at Harper's Ferry
Red Star over China
Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War
farm to factory is almost $40. that is bullshit I'm not buying that one.
tpaine posted:i'm pretty sure brother aziz identified as male, terry.
maybe they did then, because they weren't acknowledging that to themselves, or just to others, or maybe just not online, at the time.
tpaine posted:i will buy it for you terry along with new clothes for methlaberetriever
Send me a box full of books
"Par Tous les Moyens Nécessaires!"
swampman posted:Urbandale posted:swampman posted:Fun participation component to this fun thread: please tHE r H i z z o n E member, list the 10 Basic Books Any Real Leftist Would Have Read Long Ago. Im placing some book orders and want to "roundout" my collecton.
Non-Fiction
Lenin's Imperialism
Farm to Factory
Liberalism: A Counter History
John Brown at Harper's Ferry
Red Star over China
Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam Warfarm to factory is almost $40. that is bullshit I'm not buying that one.
fair. its my favorite book that covers the early soviet period though. details the arguments between various soviet economists (largely preobrazhensky v bukharin), the specific reasons why they went with a heavy-industry focus for the first five year plan and what various policies were that effected the peasants, pile-of-skull history attributed to stalin/the ussr (purges, holodomor, etc)