I'd be okay with that just to have as a placeholder for all future events like this.
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what on earth could have possibly happened. I wish we could still see comments that resulted in the ban cuz im so curious how people go so far offtrack they can get banned for a comment.
I live in an area where most of the population is religious including fellow comrades. The idealism portion might be a difficult hurdle to cross over for them. I'm not sure how I would address it honestly.
Pamphlets are mainly meant to educate and agitate those that are already willing so I really doubt this needs any changing. But may not be as useful within my area, but I'd still like to print and try. Thank you for creating this.
I wrote a guide for my community on how to build a movement and I had a section talking about prioritizing effort into those that would be easiest to convince over those that would resist. It's better to recruit 10 willing comrades than save 1 nazi from their pit of hate.
Thank you a lot for this, you're totally right. That's how I've been handling it and I just started to kinda forget that. The way you described it is really nice I might screenshot it for others.
You're totally right I think in my circumstances I'm predominantly encountering privileged class individuals. It does return the question to "how can you convince bourgeois to be a class traitor" to a degree.
When people are immediately inflamed by something I definitely step back on what I'm talking about. Especially with people outside the country I'm in I try to keep it more casual as I don't have a big investment in discussing it with them. Totally agree with you're suggestions. Thank you for the insight in your experiences with many difference people. It really helps me feel better about it. I think I'm speaking to a slightly privileged class most of the time and it created a kinda "survivorship bias" effect.
I relate to this immensely, I just recently experienced a similar pain.
I recently have been trouble with intense pain in my abdomen slightly right of center and went to the ER multiple times thrashing from the pain, could even feel it through morphine. Cat scan showed nothing but my family history has gallstones so they scheduled a gastro doc.
I'm fuckin pissed at this guy, I was in so much pain I needed to be wheel chaired in because I couldn't take painkillers before the tests that day and he came in asked me the problem I described it as "pain in my upper stomach area center right" and he tells me my stomach is on my left side and I clarify I meant the belly region below the ribs. He begins poking at several areas and when he hits my ribs i feel intense pain, I almost start crying instantly. He says this is simply a bruised rib, pokes my other organs again and the rib a fucking GAIN. I state the pain this time is too far to the right and before it was more center and he says "I don't know what you tell you its simply your rib" pokes it twice more and then tells me to take advil and finish the tests scheduled(HIDA and Ultrasound. I mentioned I take oxy for the pain right now and he said "no don't take painkillers just advil for anti inflammatory" as if it's no big deal and as if advil is not a mild painkiller and left. When I'm in the HIDA scan they are unable to conduct the test because my gallbladder doesn't fill (a sign of stones) and he cancels my ultrasound. Fucking for no reason
The next night I went to the ER and got an ultrasound and its fucking gallstones. fucking asshole is lucky my organ wasn't infected and I wasn't willing to listen to him. He could've gotten someone seriously injured or killed.
However doctors here often ignore women and believe they're being hysterical. I've seen it most my life with all my family members.
I blame it on doctors predominantly being part of upper class families of petite or regular bourgeois and fall for the usual reactionary tendencies. Basically two different things make them think they're better than you all the time. I trust experts but in this field, and in the imperial core, they're too often refuse to listen to anything else. The best experts hone on the truth with discussion and collaboration.
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Although you do have to like... beat them to capture them. So they have these abilities but you did defeat them in spite of it. Now if they could communicate with each other and work together that's a different story
I think you may be focusing a bit too much on MAGA. Like yeah its a movement that is enacting change now but workers rights have been continuously stripped even before MAGA was even thought about. The reason why is because the workers have not organized a general strike for their own rights. (caused by a variety of factors; lack of support, distrust of others, union busting, union leaders betraying for capital interests, etc) but ultimately striking DOES hurt companies and demand better concessions within America. Many politicians are deeply invested in companies as well, take for example AI. If we had an organized general strike to prevent the use of AI in a majority of industries, we don't even need the law to be passed to enforce it. This would tank investments in it and directly hurt capitalists. It would also empower workers to fight for more of their rights.
A disconnect you might be having is this idea that the majority of profit doesn't come from the workers. While yes most capitalist wealth comes from speculative ventures and investments allowing them to use as collateral on loans. Those are primarily backed BY the excess value that is extracted from the labor force.
Capitalist forces workers to make chairs for 1$/chair and sells them for 10$. He uses another 1$ to pay for materials. He pockets 8$. (Lets assume he simply sells 1 a day for ease of math) An Investor buys a portion of his business for 10$, expecting the growth to pay off. So now the Capitalist, uses this as proof of growth and takes a loan for 18$ to buy more materials and pay for more workers. Now he has enough workers and materials to make 10 chairs a day. (10 workers make 1$/chair with 1$ cost to materials per day) Now the companies profits has grown and the Investor's share, which previously was purchased for 10$ has now grown 10 times that and is worth 100$. Instead of selling, he stays invested and uses it as collateral to take out a 200$ loan.
By exploiting the workers of 90%~ of their true value, the company has enriched the Capitalist, and the Investor, despite them contributing nothing to the process. But has enriched the worker. The Capitalist could hire more workers to grow, or could pay the workers less, or use cheaper materials to make the chair, etc. But ultimately the WORKER is the sole source of value.
It doesn't matter how complex the chain becomes, the workers are always the ones with all the power and value that is being taken from them. If the workers strike and stop producing chairs, the profit of the company drops, its value drops, the shares drop and the investor and capitalist are unable to pay back their loans.
This is the basic idea, in America there are tons of bail outs for corporations that use government funds to prevent companies from going under but the money used to do this is primarily taxed from people's pay and spending within the country. It always affects them and the oppression is not just from MAGA but from the ruling bourgeoisie class as a whole. ICE existed way before trump and was STILL killing people in detention and putting families in camps.
Overly simplified and also sorry for using the chair example again i just really like it. Pls anyone send corrections if i got something wrong with the theory.
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Unfortunately imperialist actions like this don't really "Wake people up" Most people are completely unaffected and the only ones who care are related to the issue or are already involved in anti imperialist messaging and organizing. If you ask anybody they prob have a very middle position of not wanting a war but also hating iran and thinking its justified. very "whats to be done" kinda ppl
The deaths are needless, to truly speak to the masses we ourselves have to go out and speak to the masses and organize.
Really don't think we have to worry about "normalizing obesity". There's several markets that exist slowly to shame people into being thin, often through dangerous means.
Obesity comes with difficulties sure but people aren't becoming obese because there isn't enough shame for it, or its been normalized.
If anyone here uses duolingo for learning I promise you literally Anki flashcards are better (and thats not perfect for learning a language) Duolingo practices memorization of phrases more than actual spoken language. Its for rich tourists who need to pack in a couple phrases.
I took duolingo for 5 years to learn spanish and I couldn't understand anything spoken to me or really read that much at all. But I created my own study method based on how we ACTUALLY learn languages and I learned japanese in a year. OFC im not perfect at japanese but im like B1~B2 area. I've even started discussing marxism with my japanese friends.
Just use Anki for studying individual words, learn grammar through free resources, and LISTEN,READ, WRITE, AND SPEAK the language for the love of god. Find books in the target language for kids, find friends who are also learning or better yet, who are natives in the target language.
Duolingo is a massive massive massive waste of time. It's tricking you with the "gamifying" mechanics. Opiod of the masses is a satisfying ding and bright colors sdgdfasfgsfdgasdfsgsdfgsdgfsdf.
No but seriously, it's way easier than it seems to learn a language. ESP now with the internet.
I learned Japanese in a year in a really really really intense study program I made for myself but you can chill on it and be able to be conversational on it p quickly. Same for spanish which i also speak. (Tried to learn it on duolingo for 5 years but gave up with little progress and did it this way, like with Japanese.
Apps and textbooks have trouble teaching you languages that are spoken in REAL life. To learn a language you just need comprehensible input. I also used flashcards to study words with Anki.
The strategy I had was: Step 0: have good motivation to learn it(have friends/family/partners who speak the target language) Step 1: Learn the alphabet of the target language Step 2: Begin Study of the top 2000 most common words Step 3: Learn simply phrases preferably with those words that I would use. Step 4: begin speaking as soon as possible. I started speaking to people when I only had like 600 words under my belt. Step 5: Listen and Read childrens media related to the language(this part suuuuuuuucks) Step 6: As you are nearing the end of top 2000 words you'll encounter new words you might be curious about or you might want to use. Add these to your study deck. Step 7: Study simple common grammar rules. BUT DONT OVER DO THIS. (If you know 100 grammar rules but 10 words you cant say much, but if you speak 100 words and know 10 grammar rules you can communicate quite a bit. Think of it like grammar is a multiplier and words are the base number) Step 8: Speak, listen, read, and (if you like) write in the language as much as possible. Replace your TV with target language TV. Music with target language music. Try to focus on listening sometimes and other times just chill with it.
You have to be ok with embarrassing yourself. You're like a baby learning, just keep going. Eventually youll find you can string entire thoughts and jokes together. Repetition is super important, input and use stuff over and over and it becomes second nature and you understand or speak it without thinking, much like your native language.
Around 10,000 words is what is known and spoken for most young adults. Focus on stuff your interested in or stuff you think youll need to talk about. If anki sucks to do and you cant keep it up just focus more on input with the language through other sources like media or books.
Depending on the difficulty of the target language you can get conversational p fast. Remember, babies are stupid and take like 18 years to get to 10,000 words. But we're smart adults and can structure our study towards our goals.
As an artist I'd love to see suggestions in this thread. The specific recommendations might be different country to country or smaller districts. Something thats difficult for the US is that a lotta people are doing jobs related to tech and there's not really a single unifying symbol for this. Hammer and sickle to represent farming and manufacturing is possible, and I believe adding a brush branches out to a wider movement.
But finding symbols to speak to the workers as a whole can be difficult with how diverse it all is. Theres so many hyper specialized machines and tools.
When making Icons before I've used my states iconography and Black panthers, and queer symbols like the pink triangle. This is extremely important and a good symbol will speak to the audiences you want and pull dedicated people into the movement.
It might be necessary to focus on smaller regions within the US and Unite those before creating broader movements. (OFC whichever is in the best interests of the end goal of revolution at that time.) I can only speak to the US however
Part of the reason we have so few blood types is because humans nearly went extinct during the ice age. I think estimates put around 2000~ humans alive at one point. Because of this massive bottle neck, humans of today arent as diverse as you find in other species. It also explains why we don't really have much sexual dimorphism in comparison to other species as well. Except, species that also went through similar near extinction events, for example; Hyenas. They also went through a similar near extinction event and as a result have a ton of associated diseases having to do with it. Just like us.
This is useful because it means animals we drive to near extinction will be altered for thousands of years onward even if we were to vanish right now.
coincidentally, Trotsky's valentine has identical text
Occurs to me this is a buy European board....this is still decent advice for ppl but uh....yeah
IG we all jokin on american's
Strange this hasn't been suggested before, but seriously build relationships in your community to bring them closer to class consciousness and revolutionary ideas. Find a small group that you can REALLY REALLY REALLY trust as revolutionaries and do what you can.
Organize housing unions, workers unions, mutual aid, help people enroll in food or health programs that they are eligible for. Spend time in clubs and public areas, reach out to people and become a notable and well liked community member. (If publicity would prevent you from doing certain actions or make it too dangerous then avoid notoriety)Learn any skill someone is willing to teach you. And teach anyone who will listen your skills, and help each other. Find people who are more agreeable first, don't go to the house with the fuckin nazi flag preaching about communism. People who are more likely to act, and more likely to be agreeable are often already acting in events with similar views. Like protests, garden groups, unions, etc.
Make Zines and posters of acute class contradictions in your area. My area has especially bad landlords with no union so I'm working to fix that and show people the issues with landlords owning everything. Repair stuff, wear slogan t-shirts and signs and pick up trash. Let these ideas be seen, as that's one way we are kept suppressed.
You want to make connections with people actually in your area and find other revolutionaries. No matter where you are chances are there's a good dozen who are also looking for someone to organize with. You personally do not need to convince every person in your area, find comrades. If you know some online find out what you can do together, visit each other, help organize, share knowledge, etc.
America suffers from the lack of a unifying leftist party. There are several groups people might be interested in but they've never even heard of. There are people in my area who haven't even heard of the DSA. Often you'll find there's only like one branch of any given leftist group in your state. If the people are already uniting together with leftist ideals, they're more likely to join a state wide or national movement. (If people are already helping each other with food stamps and medical aid, they're more likely to join a DSA push for housing unions in your area etc.)
There is TONS to do comrade, look around. I understand the desire to be told what to do but you truly have the power to unite people with this knowledge.
TBH this should work for a lotta revolutionaries wondering what to do. This is how you build public support for revolution in your area.
It was a video he made and removed that was about knitting and programming and how theyre connected in some ways. But he spent the entire video making very overt comments on how "simple" and "unimportant" knitting is. Even implying it requires no thought and even kids can do it. Its really fuckin weird honestly. But obviously he got called out for comparing a historically predominantly woman owned skill to something that takes lil to no effort and anyone can do it with no thought.
He then deleted the video and IDK what he said in response. Never liked the guy so idk. There's tons of videos of people reacting to it.
Yeah honestly I totally agree.
The idea that religion would be on the side resisting oppression or against it inherently is flawed. We see religion used to justify just about anything. Even within the same system and same struggles. You could replace religion with just about any societal construct and the issue comes from the leaders of said constructs and their own struggles, to be opportunistic and aid imperialism or to fight for the workers, and the workers in their stringent trust in the leaders. Just the same issues different name.
But because dialectical materialism is exactly that, materialism, religion as a concept tends to be a kind of antithetical thought.