[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Even the cis on hexbear aren't cis.

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We have two communities that seemingly serve the same purpose. TankieTunes is more active and Socialist music only has a single mod that hasn't posted in 4 years.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LMAO 3 times a year? IDK, that kinda sounds like a lot.

Almost half of single men said they don't wash their bed sheets for up to four months

Alright, seems so.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I wanna know what their problem with Engles is though lol"

Have fun

Rhetorically collapsing back on Engles “on authority”. An argument that can be reasonably boiled down to ”they’d do it to us”. Therefore any atrocities we deem necessary are justified. I cringed so hard. It gave me whiplash, swept me off my feet and body checked me through a wall.

And can be readily viewed through the lens of their use of Engles “on authority” as a crutch

Not the Engles lenin variety. But the kind Marx spoke on. The thing to remember is that the Soviet Communist party was as communist as the national socialist party of Germany was socialist. Which is to say neither of them were.

Bonus from that link:

This of course all starts with actual large scale engagement. We absolutely need to change the voting system etc as a start. For all the flaws and problems of the founding fathers, the fact that they saw us needing to largely rewrite the Constitution every few decades, let alone every few hundred years was not one of their flaws.
Then we need to uncap the House of Representatives. That’s a century overdue. Followed by abolishing the electoral college. Then reforming the house, Senate, judiciary and even the concept of the presidency. Basically take as many steps as necessary to make things as democratic/granular as possible. Dilute power.

But if you disagree please point out where in Marx’s writing the fault lies. Engles is a spiteful lunatic who’s musings and philosophy have caused untold damage to the ideology as a whole.

Essentially, it seems to boil down exactly as IMF_DOOM said.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

I remember this bozo. Still incredible to see.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

This is where someone paints Biden (or Blinken) and German+British+Fr*nch+others PM sitting at a table eating the third world.

[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago

"We are going to eat you". They are stating it out loud.

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Hi Hexbear!

Over at [email protected] we have a survival minecraft server at mc.encryptionin.space running 1.20.4 (there is whitelist on, see below). We recently started fresh and want to increase the playerbase. So, if you want to play some minecraft with other leftists, join the matrix room to talk with others. And either message me here on lemmy or tell me in the matrix room to get whitelisted.

Have a nice day.

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Heya! if anybody actually reads this.

I checked the logs, and it seemed as if people rarely played, and when someone did login, it was for a short time‒a few minutes.

I've wiped the worlds. Well, I have moved the worlds to a different location on the server, so it generates a new one. I've also taken this opportunity to update the server to 1.20.4, and update some of the plugins. Also to get a feel, now that things are changing, should they change more? Should we do something else than vanilla survival?

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Packet asked me in the monthly thread if the server should get wiped and start anew, with a push for publicity on here and hexbear.

So I wanted to make this post to gauge interest in this. If people are against it, I won't do it. But if people think it might be a good idea, I'll work on it.

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In Anna Louise Strongs wikipedia article, they write:

In 1936, she returned once again to the United States. Quietly and privately distressed with developments in the USSR (The "Great Purges"), she continued to write for leading periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Nation and Asia

This has three footnotes, 4, 9, and 24.

4 is a link to Peoples World, it writes:

In 1936 she returned home to the U.S., quietly and privately distressed with political developments in the USSR after Joseph Stalin launched the Great Purge

Sounds like Wikipedia copied them doesn't it? One may be inclined to try and figure out where Peoples World got this from, that's the point of checking out the sources in the first place. Unfortunately PW doesn't footnote it, but maybe they write at the bottom where they got it from... Let's check it out!

Adapted from Wikipedia.

LMAO! Wikipedia cites Wikipedia as a source.


24 Is about the trials of the "Zinoviev-Trotskist Center", but nothing in it (at least to me) seems to back up their claim of being distressed with the developments. Rather, it seems to me like she writes in the opposite direction, in favor of the trials.

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I would have just added a comment under the current weeks general thread. If it weren't for the fact that I really like the book and REALLY think you should read it.

Strong writes in a way that is easy to read. And, as she has done before, she writes about the successes of the Soviet Union and Socialism. My liberal brain-worms were writhing, chapter by chapter they could not accept what was written, too good to be true, propaganda! Though I must have gotten very happy reading about these success, because I at one point got teary-eyed.

quote from where it boiled over.

When a winter childbirth in a distant Arctic station developed complications, the neighbors got the Dixon Island surgeon on the radio and for more than three hours he directed over the air every detail while the whole of a much-worried Arctic listened in. When the child and mother were safe, congratulations poured in from thousands of miles of icebound waterfront.

 

Please read it, not because I made an epub (although yea, also that), but because I think it's a great book.

Download my EPUB version: https://comlib.encryptionin.space (or https://archive.org/details/this-soviet-world-anna-louise-strong)

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I have made what I believe to be the first reflowable version of "This Soviet World" by Anna Louise Strong.

This book is incredibly fucking good. READ IT. (please)

Download my EPUB version: https://comlib.encryptionin.space/ (or https://archive.org/details/this-soviet-world-anna-louise-strong)

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The heads of government in America are not the real rulers. I have talked with many of them from the President down. Some of them would really like to use power for the people. They feel baffled by their inability to do so; they blame other branches of government, legislatures, courts. But they haven’t analyzed the real reason. The difficulty is that they haven’t power to use. Neither the President nor Congress nor the common people, under any form of organization whatever, can legally dispose of the oil of Rockefeller or the gold in the vaults of Morgan. If they try, they will be checked by other branches of government, which was designed as a system of checks and balances precisely to prevent such “usurpation of power.” Private capitalists own the means of production and thus rule the lives of millions. Government, however chosen, is limited to the function of making regulations which will help capitalism run more easily by adjusting relations between property and protecting it against the “lawless” demands of non-owners. This constitutes what Marxists call the dictatorship of property. “The talk about pure democracy is but a bourgeois screen,” says Stalin, “to conceal the fact that equality between exploiters and exploited is impossible. . . . It was invented to hide the sores of capitalism . . . and lend it moral strength.” [Stalin, Leninism, I, 46]

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Discussion for the month of Nov.
.. Haha, lol, completely forgot to do this.

Link to last thread

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Great idea! Hey USA, one HSR and Universal Healthcare? Instead of all that police and genocide plz thanks.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Every time I forget just how bad the U.S. is, I am reminded "death to amerikkka".

[-] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago

Thank you. As you said, even if the person you responded to didn't read it, there are us comrades that will learn from it.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This isn't the security council, or anywhere else, where the U.S. has veto rights. This (the Third Committee) seems to run on "majority yes" voting (i.e. if enough vote yes, it is adopted).

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

^From^ ^Voting^ ^records^ ^of^ ^the^ ^Third^ ^Committee^^:^

Recorded vote on draft resolution A/C.3/77/L.5, as orally revised and as amended - Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

Recorded vote on draft amendment A/C.3/77/L.52 - Amendment to draft resolution A/C.3/77/L.5

US and Ukraine voted no, on L.5. And yes on the L.52 amendment.


For reference:

The Committee then took up draft amendment “L.52”, which inserts a new operative paragraph, reading: “Notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.”

^(^^press.un.org;^ ^GA/SHC/4365^^)^

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