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4 yr. ago

Anti-colonial Marxism is as good as a country breakfast.

4w ago

Opinions on guns under capitalism & later socialism?
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CountryBreakfast @lemmygrad.ml 4w ago
Anyone who makes themselves safer by making others more vulnerable is obviously cynical. Everyone is worried about ideology, citizenship, and ethics. I am concerned with neither on this matter.

3mo ago

Look on the bright side

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CountryBreakfast @lemmygrad.ml 3mo ago

Considering the Epstein situation, and the general horrors of the sex trade, what the fuck are you talking about?

3mo ago

Why can't a socialist party/org use deceptions and dirty tactics to win power?

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CountryBreakfast @lemmygrad.ml 3mo ago

IMO you are caught up in savior narratives and rationalizations. It is OK to take care of yourself. It is OK to not sacrifice everything to gain basically nothing. There is no God to prove yourself to, no Christ to advocate for you, no spot in Heaven to reward you.

As for others, I can say I am overwhelmed and unsatisfied with everything. I cling to what is most important to me. I have already lost a lot in recent months, and I am resolved to not lose anything else. The cacophony of contradictions is overwhelming, and if others cannot quiet themselves enough to hear it all, then they are compromised, but most of all I just need people to oppose and face imperialism in whatever domain they are in. For some reason this seems to be the one thing people won't face, and instead they exploit subordinate contradictions so they don't have to prioritize imperialism.

You don’t need to be loved to be capable of being a force for good imo.

Is this not a justification to harm yourself for nothing? I think the ruling class currently believes this and they do whatever they want with no connection to anyone but their own power. Good is fundamentally subjective, but the love from others is a necessary grounding force that gives it meaning. Love builds the consent needed to imagine collective futures and the accountability needed to set them in motion.

I'm not saying this to tell you to get connected to the real world, or to touch grass and make more likeminded friends, or to stop feeling the way you do. I'm saying this to say you need to take care of yourself and love yourself in dark times. I do care about you and people like you. Your mind and your will and your desires. Your hatred and malice for evil. I also have a lot of love for other autistic people that just can't fucking take this shit anymore. A person like you is far more valuable to me than whatever reward you would trade yourself for in the face of loneliness and darkness. You are a pearl and you must not cast yourself before swine just for a fleeting sense of belonging in a world we do not belong in. Not everyone is on our side and it isn't our fault. If graves are to be defaced, let it be all of ours.

3mo ago

Why can't a socialist party/org use deceptions and dirty tactics to win power?

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CountryBreakfast @lemmygrad.ml 3mo ago

There’s plenty of human rights enjoyers in the liberal crowd who I could bait into supporting socialism

This is too bold of a claim to take at face value or incorporate into a strategy. I don't think it's very true either. Rights are already a liberal trap for those who want emancipation, liberation, or revolution to be re-colonized by the imperial state. Liberals believe in rights because it is a system that uses the ills of imperialism to justify said imperial system. If a socialist told me they were using this strategy with success, I would assume nothing beyond their labor being co-opted by empire.

IMO this is a fundamental problem, and it indeed rings true that communists need to be quite honest about everything we say about what we believe. Especially when engaging with things that are ostensibly agreeable between communists and liberals. We do not have an advantage on this terrain, and we must differentiate ourselves or else we will lose ourselves.

Deception is not our chief weapon against the ruling class either. Our weapon is realizing and actualizing that we don't need to appeal to any power but our own, and with that power we can have our way with the world. I believe this power will not grow by trying to trick liberals into being communists.

4mo ago

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CountryBreakfast @lemmygrad.ml 4mo ago

This is one of my fundamental hangups with other communists. Class consciousness in the US will not reliably produce communists. It will produce imperialists much more reliably.

Socialist revolution is not a natural outcome of American class consciousness, WW3 is.

So, in fact, critical consciousness combined with a very refined ethical (not moral, more onto-epistemological) orientation is necessary to arrive at the consciousness needed for revolution in the US. In many regards, you DO need to be very critically skilled to be a communist in the US. Class doesn't automatically hand you your politics, and the class that would hand you a proletarian politic does not exist in the US. Having a boss and having needs doesn't magically create communists in a society built on theft and rape. It creates fascists.

4mo ago

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CountryBreakfast @lemmygrad.ml 4mo ago

I work in university education and critical thinking is abysmal among students. I deal with 40-60 students per class, maybe 10-15 in a class show worthwhile critical skills. Most struggle to retain key points or cannot read and follow instructions. The majority don't, or don't know how, to access library databases or archives. Most assignments are full of sources they got from Google because the library search function is an extra click away.

Students also make life hell for themselves, their peers, and teachers because of their lack of respect for their surroundings. A significant portion of students just sit there with earbuds in and text or shop online.

And this isn't even mentioning the fact that half the curriculum isn't worth learning because the professor or department are compromised by liberalism and settler imperialism.

Not sure what I'm contributing here. I think this is nothing new, it's just so intense these days that it's hard to believe it's ONLY education and ideology. It feels like there is more to the puzzle otherwise my story of emerging out of Christian fascism through criticism is just an accident and not a universal model for personal growth.

Edit: I want to add that my deepest frustration isn't even with fascism per se. It's with liberals. I am about as scared of liberals as fascists, because liberals (and anarchist types) are very self righteous about things that will only make things worse and they are so poisoned by discourse that whatever critical skills they have only function as their own ideological prison, a golden cage to be proud of. Fascists do exactly what I expect at least. Fanon was right that people can only truly become themselves through conflict against oppression and by destroying their oppressors. There is no other anvil to be molded on but imperial ideology.