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Brazilian Catholic. Autistic. I was a far-right theocrat until about 2009, when I started a gradual leftward conversion. I now sympathize with Marxism-Leninism, but am still getting up to speed with feminism and gender equality. Please have patience with this newbie.

Católico brasileiro. Autista. Eu era um teocrata de extrema-direita até aproximadamente 2009, quando iniciei uma gradual conversão à esquerda. Hoje simpatizo com o marxismo-leninismo, mas ainda estou me informando sobre feminismo e igualdade de gênero. Por favor tenham paciência com este novato.

  • In the West, it is a crime to deny one Holocaust and dangerous to name another

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  • Two reasons:

    1. Kicking Hitler's corpse is a cheap way to pretend to care for human life, without improving anything. But fighting a present genocide could actually prevent it. There might also be pushback. The adage: liberals oppose all wars, except the current war.
    2. Europe and its successors (like US and Australia) genocided many red, brown, and yellow peoples. Hitler was meant to genocide slavs (not fully white) and especially communists, but escaped the leash and killed too many French, Jews and other whites.

  • How can I submit a public apology to hexbear

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  • I didn't see the offending comment, but, generally speaking, forgiveness is cool. I myself caused a struggle session when I lectured Hexbear not to show disrespect on Pope Francis death. Then I edited that comment when I realized it was dumb.

    I got disappointed for causing trouble but at least it was a learning opportunity. Recent Popes may have generally nice words, but sweet talk can hide grave evil. Malcolm X comes to mind.

    Here in Brazil, for example, some priests use their big influence to indoctrinate the faithful into far-right lunacy. Both the Church and the State ought to punish these criminals, but AFAIK neither do.

  • Libs on surveillance cameras and ChInA BaD

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  • The article above is from Brazilian 35 years old marxist-leninist comrade Jones Manoel. He is a tall black man from a slum in the state of Pernambuco. The cop who killed his father worked (security guard) in Jones' school. He had to see that cop daily. Did not tell his mom, to avoid worrying a solo mother who worked like a horse to feed her children.

    Jones graduated in History, then got a MsC and is now getting a PhD.

    https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Jones_Manoel

    He recently debated much older Breno Altman, a brilliant communist journalist and member of the Workers Party. Breno, a secular Jew from an influential anti-zionist family, is a major and fierce critic of Zionism. He is under fierce attack by the Zionist lobby. He has been to Israel, and an Israeli politician (a rare humane one) warned him it wouldn't be "convenient" for him to try visiting Israel again. Breno was also convicted in Brazil (facing possible jail time) for accusing a zionist of being "coward".

    Breno is a rare Brazilian communist who still supports Lula's government. Breno maintains the current government has an internal dispute between social-liberalism and social-developmentalism. Jones maintains the goverment is just neoliberal. Great debate!

    Governo Lula é neoliberal? Breno Altman x Jones Manoel - Debate especial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPhJnShKWA

  • Talking to liberals

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  • After reading your comment, I have come across this: https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism

    It says:

    • Nietzche is to fascism and liberalism what Karl Marx is to communism
    • It is confusing to think of fascism as the death rattle of capitalism in decay. Fascism and liberalism coexist. Fascism is based on what Marx called "primitive accumulation", which is violent expropriation. Liberalism is based on (superficially) voluntary exploitation of surplus-value. Liberalism is more common in the empire core, while fascism is more common in the perifery.

    The poor summary above is meant to entice you to read the article. Please do! And then post it on Lemmy for we to discuss. Please message me when you do.

  • project paperclip be like

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  • You think the USA is morally superior to the former USSR?

  • Talking to liberals

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  • You said liberalism is the ideological superstructure of capitalism, as if it was the only one. But there is also fascism, right? Were you imprecise, or am I missing something?

  • Brasil - Geral @lemmy.pt
    Jorge @lemmygrad.ml

    Brics acelera criação de ‘Pix Global’ para países-membros e aumenta tensão com EUA

    iclnoticias.com.br /economia/brics-pix-global-pagamentos-tensao-eua/

  • How to stay humble

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  • I was a far-right theocratic (Catholic) lunatic until about 2009. Many factors converged to slowly convert me to communism, but a big factor was indignation against the grave damage (from hateful obscurantism) to my personal life, including mental health and academic performance.

  • (゜O゜;

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  • Don't you mean its descendants?

  • The China They Don't Want You to See: Xinjiang

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  • Oh great. "I lack any remotely credible evidence of my accusation, but that's because the government has erased all evidence".

    Eqyivalent to: "I lack any remotely credible evidence that the Earth is flat, just as can be expected after the insidious NASA destroyed all evidence".

  • The China They Don't Want You to See: Xinjiang

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  • Are you trolling? We have asked repeatedly and you provide zero arguments that the picture is from a spooky concentration camp. Produce the evidence that conditions in that prison are worse than USian prisons.

    Oh, and the US incarcerates 6 times as many people per capita as China, and institutes wideapread slave prison labor. Do you boycott the US?

  • The China They Don't Want You to See: Xinjiang

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  • Yes, China is evil because you found the picture of a prisioner. The US imprisions 6 times as many people per capita, and has widespread slave prison labor, but China is the threat.

  • The China They Don't Want You to See: Xinjiang

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  • To the defense of China, there are other videos. There is the assessment of dozens of Muslim countries , who sent representatives to Xinjiang.

    On the accusation, you have the report by Adrian Zenz a CIA-funded religious fanatic who interviewed 8 people and used colorful extrapolations and interpretations to concoct a genocide narrative.

    China is allegedly genociding a Muslim people, but almost no Muslim country buys that narrative. To the defense of those Muslims, come the US government -- the entity that kills Muslim people with no hesitation, and also has "destroy China" as its top foreign policy priority. Give me a break.

    Let me guess: all those dozens of Muslim brown-people countries are being tricked by China, but white countries are immune to deception.

  • Democratic Party Scrambles to fix image

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  • False. China has lower inequality and simultaneously far greater economic growth and more innovation.

    And Putin is bad, but not remotely as harmful to world peace as the US regime. The US (both parties) has been involved in literally 200 military interventions just in the last few decades.

    Democracy is not when a black woman is chosen as the Nurembeg-deserving war criminal in chief.

  • Democratic Party Scrambles to fix image

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  • Are you trolling? Technically there exist other parties, but USian election rules (especially FPTP) are mathematically proven to cause such a huge spoiler effect that, even when a big fraction of voters hate both viable parties, electing a single third-party congressman is very unlikely, and electing a third-party president is nearly impossible.

    It is like saying that the Earth is not round, because, strictly speaking, it is slightly bulged.

  • The western condescension for actually existing socialism

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  • I supposed that because the Baptista dictator was a US lackey, then Cuba was "western". So only imperialist (not imperialized) US-aligned countries are "western"?

  • Mark Twain - Travel is fatal to prejudice.

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  • Here in Brazil, cariocas -- people from the city of Rio de Janeiro -- have a bad reputation, but I actually had pleasant encounters with people when I stayed in the city for more than a month. I do not know if this is analogous to international tourism, but wanted to share this anecdote.

  • The western condescension for actually existing socialism

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  • Hi. I a new to marxism-leninism, so please excuse my ignorance. You (just like my fellow Brazilian Jones Manoel) say western Marxism never produced a revolution, but what about Cuba? Do you consider the Cuban revolutionaires to be non-western Marxists?

  • China tells US to ‘cancel all unilateral tariffs’ if it wants talks

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  • What about the hypothesis that in reality Trump wants to "decouple" from China to enhance is military capability in a war on China?

    I mean, it is clear to me that the US has little chance to compete on economic/innovation merit, yet it still has a considerable chance militarily... for now. The psychopaths running the US probably know they can only hope to compete via violence, and in a few years even that opportunity will be lost.

    I am afraid of WW3. I really hope the US is so blinded by its own neoliberal koolaid that they continue to bet China is about to collapse, as Gordon Chang has been predicting since 2001.

  • There are 2 types of people who hate on Democrats

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  • Fascism is liberalism's plan B, as confirmed by History and by liberal theory itself.

    Historically, look at Latin America (I am Brazilian). All over Latin America, when people elected leftist (not even communist) governments within the institutions of liberal democracy, the elite (with US support) staged a coup and installed a military dictatorship, effectively saying: no, the people are not allowed to choose socialism. So we hereby abolish democracy.

    And Jacobin covers the justification for this under liberal theory itself:

    So, important liberal thinkers insisted as early as John Locke, you can’t tax the rich without their consent. If you do so, you give the victims of these policies a good reason to rebel and use violence against the usurpers. Liberal politics thus had a dictatorial option inscribed in it from the very beginning. And so it became a dogma to assume that the main task of politics is to protect property, and its principal sin to inveigh against it. But of course, that is a very narrow definition of what politics can or should do. And we suffer from that confinement to this day. In a typical Western democracy, you can do many things — as long as you refrain from infringing on private property. [1]

    In short: liberal theory itself gives absolute priority to private property (over the means of production). If it conflicts with democracy, democracy is tossed out the window.

    I always clarify "over the means of production" when attacking private property. There is this widespread confusion that communist thugs are going to invade your house and confiscate your bike. AFAIK, communists don't do that.

    Fun fact: in 1989 Brazilian elections, neoliberal Collor terrorized the people saying that Lula would confiscate everyone's savings. With infamous support from Rede Globo (massive right-wing biased media corporation), Collor won, then quickly moved to confiscate everyone's savings. Lula was elected in 2002, 2006 and 2022, and did nothing of the sort. Sadly, Lula is not communist, but social democrat.

    1: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/nazi-germany-national-socialism-hypercaptialism-social-darwinism-liberalism

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