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@ felipeforte @lemmygrad.ml

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Forward, comrade!

“The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.”

  • A reminder that the US is run by religious fanatics

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  • Lovely metaphor, never thought of it that way

  • Regarding the fall of the Soviet Union

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  • Socialism betrayed is a good book, sometimes falls into "Great Man Theory", but it's overall a good analysis

  • Why Russia and China are NOT Imperialist: A Marxist-Leninist Assessment of Imperialism’s Development Since 1917

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  • It's correct to claim that Russia counters some expressions of US imperialism... But to call it "anti-imperialist" altogether is a big stretch...

  • Why do I want fast food?

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  • It surely is not the case for someone going vegan or eating fast food. The only legitimate reasons to not eat meat or fast food is your own individual health, because your individual choices will only affect your individual outcomes. It's idealist to believe choosing a different source of consumption will have an impact over the industry. For instance, McDonald's main source of income is not even selling food, it's rent and royalties from franchises all over the world.

    The liberal part of this idea is restricting political protest or activity to what you consume, basically transforming action into another individual form of consumerism.

  • Why do I want fast food?

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  • Boycotting is a liberal form of struggle, if you can even call it that. Because it believes that your individual choice will have an impact on the outcome of a company.

    Going vegan won't stop the meat industry from murdering millions of animals. You deciding you won't eat from fast food companies will not affect their profits, because they exploit people internationally, and it's unfeasible to organize a boycott in this scale.

  • Why do I want fast food?

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  • Honestly, just eat it, let it out of your system. You will probably be disappointed at how the taste became worse over time haha. For me, it's better to do it than keep repressing yourself, which at least for me, only makes the desire stronger

  • I don't understand how some people don't fear death (tw:suicide, depression)

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  • You only fear death because your mind is attached to your self, your memories, your experiences, your subjective perceptions... As an exercise, try to the remember the time before you were born. You can't really remember anything, but you know, you can even feel it, there was just total emptiness, no subjective experience, nothing. There is nothing to be afraid of, it's just emptiness. This, to me, was the first step in pacifying my mind in relation to death.

  • No pictures are loading on this website, is this just me?

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  • wholesome to see this 4chan meme from my teenage years

  • China has a very passive policy of non-interference, but will this change in the future?

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  • This policy has earned them the trust of many political actors world wide, so I doubt they would change, as it could result in diplomatic disruptions in many countries. This could be used by the US in attempts to isolate the country. But only time will tell.

  • What happened to Juche years on KCNA?

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  • reducing his cult of personality is a good thing as long as it’s executed right

    It's not like this "cult" is imposed from above and could be gone with a decree. The people has admiration and respect for their leader, who comes from a family of historical revolutionaries.

  • Why are leftist spaces always sabotaging themselves?

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  • vagueposting

    Hahaha never heard that before. I loved it

    not allowing obvious liberals to run rampant in lemmygrad is easily recognized as a political outcome focus

    I don't know what you mean by this paragraph comrade, and I have trouble following your reasoning. But I'll comment about this. The liberal propagandists should definitely be extracted from our community, but the honest liberals should definitely be heard and honestly debated. On our part, trying as much as possible to ignore provocations and try our best to dismantle their arguments in few words. I see a few reasons why:

    1. liberals have common misunderstandings which are useful to debunk. Some of us are well read (most of us aren't), so the thinking you had when you were a conservative, liberal or "apolitical" has been lost. You cannot empathize to how liberals think now. Alas, comes a liberal, with doubts, silly mistakes, but they are prevalent in political discourse and thinking. A lurker on the website may be presented with arguments dismantling the same silly mistakes they may have. So in terms of political education this is useful;
    2. we learn to deal with those who think differently. We need to learn to treat a right-winger well and learn how to defuse a tense situation IRL. Not always we manage to do this, often we manage to hurt others from our own camp, but we aspire to do it. We need to learn how to deal with Nazi provocations both online and personally, physically. We need to learn how to deal emotionally with the situation, train ourselves to not be affected by this interaction. You do this by understanding how your opponents think, and respecting as much as possible their identity. So you do not focus on their religion, their political affiliations, their moral stances on subjects, etc. These are divisive points which separates us from these politically alienated people. We cannot change a person's identity through force or imposition, it only changes socially and historically.

    We need to learn to treat a right-winger well and learn how to defuse a tense situation IRL.

    A comment on this, about treating well right-wing colleagues, etc. (unless they are awful people of course, besides their shitty foolish worldview). Of course a Nazi provocateur should be harassed or physically assaulted until they stop their provocation, because it is ethical to do so. It is ethical to repress genocidal ideologies because you're saving lives by punishing some. But notice a liberal surely would equate us with genociders! They are indoctrinated by bourgeois ideology. Bourgeois ideology needs to accuse communists of what they do so that they feel at least "equal" in comparison, and thus, shielded from criticism. At least you're doing genocide for a just cause! Not the communists, they genocide for evil!

    Bourgeois ideology is hegemonic. You should already expect people to be right-wing. You need to learn to accept this fact so that you're able to be friendly with right-wingers and not be affected by their provocations. Because you understand their worldview is not their fault, they are too distracted to realize the facts, and we need to reach them somehow. How would you achieve this person to eventually learn the facts if you're provoking the person, teasing them, insulting them, questioning their sanity, their ability to think, mocking them, etc. Practice shows us that these behaviors tend to alienate these people even further, and even worse, alienate yourself from others.

  • Why are leftist spaces always sabotaging themselves?

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  • Left-wingers tend to be more critical of certain expressions of authority, whereas sometimes this in excess can be destructive.

    Side note on this.

    Many leaders and progressive thinkers were awful in their personal lives, especially with relatives or spouses, like comrade Stalin, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, etc. This is because humans make grave mistakes all the time, irrespective of how correct they are. Except Lenin, perhaps, he was both an impeccable human being and very often correct. Look at your own lives, have you not hurt someone? Were you never selfish, arrogant, insensible? People make those mistakes all the time, to a greater or lesser extent. Why should our leaderships be different? Should we disregard historical figures in the past because of their personal mistakes? Should we disregard current leaderships for that?

    I think this is a case by case thing, but sometimes we simply cannot afford to be too much critical. Think of an actual communist, politically isolated, representing a small city in the bourgeois state, or something. If the opposition found out bad stuff about that guy's past, of course the bourgeois media would create a campaign to hunt them down. In such cases should we join the hunt? This is the challenge of having the correct historical understanding of your time and place, so these choices become clearer. Over the time you start acting based on the political outcome, instead of an abstract moral value which you do not adopt yourself in your life. Then you criticize any mistake in private if possible, outside the eyes of the opposition.

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Why are leftist spaces always sabotaging themselves?

  • Communism in religion?

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  • Any religion is welcome. We cannot fight against religion, practice has showed us this. Religion is by definition under the influence of bourgeois control, it follows that there should be a political struggle in the religious camp as well. Liberation theology is one example of that. So if we accept people from different religious origins and beliefs in our party, it's an opportunity in following the party line on religious places of action, such as churches, mosques, sanctuaries, etc. Churches are already a place where people share an identity, it can perfectly become a place of political organization. This is well exploited by the extreme right-wing in Brazil, for instance.

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Absolute shit take from Communist Party of Venezuela

  • Comunismo @lemmy.eco.br
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Enciclopédia marxista-leninista

    pt.prolewiki.org /wiki/ProleWiki:P%C3%A1gina_principal

  • Palestine is one of the reasons I've decided to stop smoking a pack a day

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  • Also, smoking a pack a day had become part of my identity

    Not many people realize this, but this is a part why many smokers have trouble quitting. Close friends of them smoke, or everyone associates them with smoking, so they also smoke to claim their own identity, or that of their group.

    To stop smoking for your own sake, and for your own health is already a noble enough cause. You're more useful to the revolution if you're alive

  • Unwitting conversation with a shop owner

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  • Have any of you had luck with breaking down preconceived notions others may have?

    I did, and I have many ideas for anyone wanting to better prepare themselves for these discussions.

    I’d just like to be better prepared since apparently this is just something that happens to me.

    Most people use [bourgeois] social media, ask them "out of curiosity", if they use any social media. This will give you two valuable insights:

    • first, the main source of propaganda which instructs their worldview. We can easily identify propagandistic discourse by noticing how common it is, sometimes even word for word repeated by numerous people.
    • second, the place where you will engage with content related to their grievances, and debate with people in the comments. The comment sections of Facebook and Instagram, for instance, are very lively and from there you can engage with multiple people with access to online research for you to back your own views

    It was there that I was able to master my debate bro skills

  • How can I encourage (programming) students to be more proactive? (specially without sounding rude or disrespectful)

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  • I think what you're doing is fine. I guess the problem with searching for solutions is that they're either not used to doing that, or they want quick answers. Try to discuss with them about it, and tell them explicitly that you're guiding them to be independent. Show them how you personally would look for problems with an example. Like "How to declare an array in Java", etc. My professor used to pick an individual student's problem and discuss it collectively and show others how to solve it, and I personally enjoyed it, too.

  • [CW: Alcohol] How to covertly drink while watching a theatre performance?

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  • I guess getting shitfaced beforehand is your better option, then, for whatever reason you want to be drunk during the play

  • [CW: Alcohol] How to covertly drink while watching a theatre performance?

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  • Why can't you just watch it sober?

  • What are some good extensions or apps that you use for your browser or desktop? Really useful ones outside of uBlock Origin or Dark Reader.

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  • Thank you for Bypass paywalls clean, I didn't know it existed

  • República Socialista do Brasil @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Manifesto em defesa da Reconstrução Revolucionária do PCB

    emdefesadocomunismo.com.br /manifesto-em-defesa-da-reconstrucao-revolucionaria-do-pcb/
  • República Socialista do Brasil @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Haddad é um Guedes light

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    A comment on the Russia/NATO war

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    We need to use our collective knowledge to develop a GPT-style algorithm trained on the collected works of Marxist authors from all countries

  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
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    What's your opinion on conspiracy theories regarding George Soros?

  • Memes @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    United States collapse Any%

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Gorbachev is dead! 🥳🎉🎊 🥳🎉🎊 🥳🎉🎊

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Lenin destroys philosopher's career by literally citing him

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Have you ever read Trotsky?

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    How about we brigade the EnoughCommieSpam subreddit and speak positively of communism in the comments?

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    We welcome our new members from r/GenZedong

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    A Congolese man in Brazil was tortured to death after demanding his already delayed wages from a petty-bourgeois kiosk

    twitter.com /prolewiki/status/1488675422808199168
  • Security @lemmy.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Packet drop attack?

  • República Socialista do Brasil @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    U.S. Senator urges Department of Defense secretary to bolster bilateral security with Brazil against China

    www.rubio.senate.gov /public/index.cfm/2022/1/rubio-urges-secretary-austin-to-bolster-bilateral-security-with-brazil-to-combat-ccp-s-malign-influence
  • República Socialista do Brasil @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Perfis bolsonaristas falsos recebem R$ 1.500 para atacar oposição à Bolsonaro nas redes

    revistaforum.com.br /noticias/denuncia-perfis-falsos-recebem-r-1-500-para-defender-bolsonaro-nas-redes/
  • Late Stage Capitalism @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Psy op-ed

  • República Socialista do Brasil @lemmygrad.ml
    Camarada Forte @lemmygrad.ml

    Bolsonaro convoca golpe para próximo mês

    www.metropoles.com /colunas/guilherme-amado/bolsonaro-envia-mensagem-no-whatsapp-sobre-provavel-e-necessario-contragolpe-e-chama-para-ato