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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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I didn't say any of that. Please stop putting words in my mouth.
I still don't know what I am, but thanks for letting me know that it's not communist.
This is the part I don't get. If there was a problem with my answers it would be nice to know what that is. Otherwise all of this information just makes it feel personal and even more frustrating. I have a basic understanding of communism, I've read works by marx and engels, I just don't know how it applies to imperialism and indigenous folks and I didn't know I needed to know that to have the privilege of spectating theory discussions.
Anyways, I'm not interested in studying for and taking your test again. I have many other things I'd rather be doing with my time than trying to prove myself to people that don't want me. I've never been very good at answering prompts anyways.
I don't mean to invade the conversation but the problem is probably your understanding of imperalism, have you read Imperialism by Lenin? That will explain the ML perspective, and I've heard that Ben Becker 'Lenin's Imperialism in the 21st Century' is a good follow up but I haven't read it myself, there might be better ones
You're not invading, it's a public forum. Haven't read that, thanks for the info.
if being politely denied access to a Marxist-Leninist space has convinced you that you're not a communist, I suppose we made the right choice
That's also not what I said.
this is quite literally what you said
No, that is not literally what I said, that was your interpretation.
If you'd like to know how I interpret that statement, I was pointing out that you were gatekeeping the community by making assumptions about what ideology my own beliefs do and do not amount to, even though I can't even do that and you know even less about my beliefs than I do.
Great job assuaging my concerns about not feeling welcome in the community btw, I am so glad we had this exchange 👍
Another interluder, you could also try Imperialism: A Study (1902) by Hobson who was a British economist and as far as I understand explains the same things as Lenin in his book on Imperialism.
Link to a copy
Thanks for the link, I'll check that out!