discipline posted:Wait what group are you joining... Is it even red or militant?
lmao
RedMaistre posted:Went to check out the meeting of a Maoist group in DC a few months ago. Found striking (but not surprising), that, after a presentation about an unjustly forgotten Southern black organizer from the early 20th century, they were talking about helping a local Green party figure get a municipal office.
(Also got bad vibes from the ex-army fellow in charge of the drinks)
There's some very important history there. the Green Party in DC is really a black party called the dc statehood party. theyre somewhat similar to the mississippi freedom democratic party except they joined the greens instead of the democrats. as such they've got a pretty strong current of black nationalism, which is why your DC maoists were probably supporting them, and more specifically probably supporting Eugene Puryear, who is a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and was running, in this specific context, under the green party.
Urbandale posted:RedMaistre posted:Went to check out the meeting of a Maoist group in DC a few months ago. Found striking (but not surprising), that, after a presentation about an unjustly forgotten Southern black organizer from the early 20th century, they were talking about helping a local Green party figure get a municipal office.
(Also got bad vibes from the ex-army fellow in charge of the drinks)There's some very important history there. the Green Party in DC is really a black party called the dc statehood party. theyre somewhat similar to the mississippi freedom democratic party except they joined the greens instead of the democrats. as such they've got a pretty strong current of black nationalism, which is why your DC maoists were probably supporting them, and more specifically probably supporting Eugene Puryear, who is a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and was running, in this specific context, under the green party.
Thank you for the context. And, yes, that name rings a bell.
tpaine posted:hello, my name is Cias Pook. I would like to joining you special organization.
Urbandale posted:theres a surprising number of PSL members in/previously in the military. as far as 'ap lant' goes was it this guy? he's in the PSL as well.
All I see is "6:29"
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littlegreenpills posted:arent all Arab countries pretty much the same
You're thinking of Nebraskan counties
Urbandale posted:theres a surprising number of PSL members in/previously in the military. as far as 'ap lant' goes was it this guy? he's in the PSL as well.
No, he had a squarer jaw, for one thing. Less prominent of a nose. Brown as opposed to black hair. Maybe a few years older.
RedMaistre posted:(That's a good video, by the way)
getfiscal posted:i went to the meeting of non-red/non-militant leftists yesterday night. it was good. two hours. the people were friendly and asked me questions, and i offered my dumbass vague opinions on subjects they actually teach at their nazi universities. everyone was a professional/bourgeois, but they did quickly cut away a lot of the bullshit and they had sensible opinions. i had no specific opportunity to defend stalin.
Everything else is forgivable except that last part.
getfiscal posted:it was good. two hours. the people were friendly and asked me questions, and i offered my dumbass vague opinions
I answered Comrade Stalin's questions and pointed out that along with the successes achieved in the construction of these and other industrial and social projects, as well as in agriculture, we also had a series of failures. We had analyzed the causes of the failures in the Central Committee of the Party in a spirit of criticism and self-criticism, and defined who was responsible for each of them. "In particular, we are attaching importance to strengthening the leading role of the Party, the continuous bolshevization of its life, the closest possible links with the masses of the people," I told Comrade Stalin, and went on to a summary of the internal situation in our Party.
"Why do you tell us of these problems which, you, Comrade Enver, know better than we do?"
Comrade Stalin broke in, and continued: We are happy to hear that you are building a series of industrial projects in your country. But 1 want to stress that along with the construction of industrial projects you must give great importance to the strengthening of the working class and the training of cadres. The Party should, take particular care of the working class, which will increase and grow stronger day by day, parallel with the development of industry in Albania."
"The question of the development and progress of agriculture has particular importance for us," I told Comrade Stalin, continuing my discourse. "You know that ours is an agricultural country which has inherited great backwardness from the past. Our aim has always been to increase the agricultural products and, bearing in mind that the greatest part of our agriculture consists of small private holdings, we have had and still have to take many steps in order to encourage and help the peasant to work better and produce more. Results have been achieved, production has increased, but we are aware that the present level of the development of agriculture does not respond as it should to the increased needs of the country for food products for the population, raw materials for industry or for expanding export resources. We know that the only way to finally pull our agriculture out of its backwardness and put it on a sound basis for large scale production is that of collectivization. But in this direction we have been and are cautious."
"Have you many cooperatives now in Albania?" Comrade Stalin asked.
"About 90," I replied.
"What is their situation? How do the peasants live in these cooperatives?" he asked next.
"Most of these cooperatives," I told Comrade Stalin in reply to his question, "are not more than one or two years old. Nevertheless, some of them are already displaying their superiority over small fragmented individual holdings. The organized joint work, the continuous state aid f or these cooperatives with seeds, machinery, cadres, etc., has enabled them to put production on a sounder basis and to increase it. Nevertheless, much remains to be done to ensure that the agricultural cooperatives become an example and model for the individual peasant. Therefore, our main aim in the organization of agriculture is that, along with the strengthening of the existing cooperatives, greater aid and care for them, cautious steps should be taken also for the setting up of new cooperatives."
Stalin listened to me and advised:
"You should not rush things in setting up other agricultural cooperatives. Try to strengthen the cooperatives you have, but you must see to it that the yields of crops in these cooperatives are high," he said. "In this way," he went on, "the members will he satisfied with the good results of the production in the cooperative, and the other peasants will see this and will want to become collectivized, too.
"As long as the peasants are not convinced of the superiority of the collective property you have no way to increase the number of cooperatives. If the existing cooperatives prove beneficial to the peasants, then the other peasants will also follow you, too."
sort of like this, right?
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