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Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Trotskyists should be banned from leftist unity, their prevalence in the west is only due to them being the least threatening and effective form of marxism so therefore the least discriminated. Trotsky did not have many good takes and flip flopped on most of them just to side with any opposition because he was a grifter. Calling him a Bolshevik is an insult to Bolsheviks. Anyone could organize the Red Army, just because he was assigned to it doesn't mean he gets a pass on being the most annoying leftist until bordiga.

dengism should be applied only to the nations that had adopted it already, but nowhere else. It was a costly concession to the capitalists in order to avoid capitalist overthrow and encirclement. Such concessions are no longer necessary as the west is receding in power and countries are more likely to trade with ones with planned economies in the name of multipolarity. China's now reaching the end of its usefulness with market socialism and will be entirely unprepared for the inevitable hot/cold war with the west over taiwan, south korea, or other regional conflict the west will generate unless they adopt a more anti capitalist or state capitalist system. They rely far too much on foreign trade that a war near their shores would be quite devastating. The belt and road will help this of course but is vulnerable to those countries apart of it being overthrown by western backed coups (pakistan). But i think china is definitely capable of making this transition, unlike others who stupidly regard china as just like any other capitalist country.

Religion is an inherently reactionary institution, and if communism gains power in a nation with large religious institutions it needs to work hard to weaken them. Cooperate if you must for a time in order to not actively push them into agitation, but they will never be friends and have historically been easily used by capitalists for infiltration and overthrow. Religion tied to heritage, like judaism and hinduism is another matter and im unequipped to have a real position on it so i wont include those in this. Spiritualism as well.

religious socialism should be a method of crushing religion and bringing about socialism, and is not actually possible. Not to say we should be vulgar in our hatred as thats stupid. Just recognize in the context of a socialist nation religion is an enemy force.

freedom of debate, unity of action needs more debates after the unity of action because choosing the wrong way is devastating if you never correct it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Light is a product of condensed space-time. Matter is condensed light. The speed of light is a constant, but a relative constant. You just need to change your realtive spacetime environment. We live in a fish bowl of a relatively constant temperature. #heatdeathoftheuniverse

Spacetime has properties like solid, liquid, gas. It is elastic. It flows. It boils. It freezes. It's cellular in nature. It vibrates.

The speed of light is relative to the density of spacetime. This bridges the 2D fields that make up our 3D reality. It's a grand unifying theory with string theory and general realativity works all the way down. We just haven't developed the tech. All the fish know is the tank they're in. To us we can try to think we're standing still and things only move at one pace, but it's realtive. We broke the sound barrier. We can break the light barrier, or even skim in between the cells, but we need to learn how to probe and manupulate the fabric. We really haven't done much probing of the fabric. We're still regulating ourselves to percision slingshots in moving around in this fabric. (That's just my lament on not seriously developing more than just pushing mass and not refueling craft which would be a lot easier and cheaper if we put batteries and ion engines or field thrusters on craft).

We're getting there with like Higg-Boson concetrate on one side (micro) and JWST finding "older than is possible" and really stretched out extreme red shift unverses (macro). There is also noticable time-space "gravitational" waves.

You don't have gravity, the bending of spacetime without mass. Why is that? One would think that there's a realtionship there. Light can add or subtract from mass, yet it us massless. More like we don't know why. There's a lot of that too. We witness it. We don't know WHY, but here's an odds chart from running experiments and witnessing. It certianly points to there is a realtionship between mass, light, spacetime.

The great attractor is either a hole in the bubble of boiling space.

Think it's nuts? NGT is seriously thinking we might all exist in a black hole. Or what I call boiling space. I think that's how mass is made. Black holes don't need to be huge. They could be quantum. I think these are found in Stars and gas giants but they are quickly overwhelmed snd collapse. Come to think of it....neutrinos might be related to this. Hopefully the new detectors can make some correlations besides light flashes. Can you imagine if China is the one that comes up with the Philosopher's Stone and manipulates light and spacetime to make matter? timmy-pray

Going to have to get there if we want to be a Type 1+ civilization.

There is some thing about the fractal nature of the universe and everything you need to know about the universe you can find in a cup of coffee with creamer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

reading is dumb

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Btw sort by controversial 😉

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