If only we could seize the means of production in hell so the Western rich can suffer eternally.
It's so bad here, some radicalized Americans want to skip revolution and have their cultural revolution now. I have already begun to witness the masses in my local area being ahead in class consciousness and itching for real change.
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2927106
It's essentially the opposite of an ultra. An ultra oversteps the political consciousness of the masses where a tailist caters to the reactionary elements of the working class. A communist vanguard party needs to lead, elevate, and unite the masses with integrity while keeping in mind of the masses current political consciousness in order to gain their overwhelming support.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:On_Coalition_Government
Commandism is wrong in any type of work, because in overstepping the level of political consciousness of the masses and violating the principle of voluntary mass action it reflects the disease of impetuosity. Our comrades must not assume that everything they themselves understand is understood by the masses. Whether the masses understand it and are ready to take action can be discovered only by going into their midst and making investigations. If we do so, we can avoid commandism. Tailism in any type of work is also wrong, because in falling below the level of political consciousness of the masses and violating the principle of leading the masses forward it reflects the disease of dilatoriness. Our comrades must not assume that the masses have no understanding of what they themselves do not yet understand. It often happens that the masses outstrip us and are eager to advance a step when our comrades are still tailing behind certain backward elements, for instead of acting as leaders of the masses such comrades reflect the views of these backward elements and, moreover, mistake them for those of the broad masses.
---Mao Zedong. "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 316.*
I do not look forward to the precedent this sets as censorship and surveillance will start ramping up. This will likely lead to bans of free and open source tools, encryption, etc., especially if they originate from "enemy" countries or are used to protest against Israel and other Western imperialist projects, in the future.
Hopefully I can start some data hoarding soon.
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Ugh, I want an affordable tiny electric smart car. US is always a buzzkill.
Any chance of me buying Intel products has completely disappeared. Death to Intael!
Is this loss?
I would argue both parties are the same as the left at this point (and always have been). Both are bloodthirsty, corporate, ruling class parties committing horrific acts of austerity and genocide.
That's fair, I know China really tries to be careful.
Before the Reddit exodus, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml were some of the most wholesome online spaces I experienced. It was like a breath of fresh air and I felt a good sense of community and friendliness here. Now many toxic people jumped to this side of the fediverse, especially on lemmy.ml. Lemmygrad.ml is now my main go-to instance as it is the best one that still has managed to retain its camaraderie, even though it took a slight hit.
I've been wanting an Ushanka. I already have a silver Lenin bust.