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Welcome again to everybody! Make yoursmellf at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread.
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Wake up
Capitalism still exists
What a shit start of the week
truly a Garfield Moment(TM)
No nice week?
Sometimes I forget to count my blessings and I get caught up in focussing on this marxism stuff too much, and it can wear me down. I find participating in a society that I just can't get behind extremely frustrating and if I then also forget to touch grass, things start to look greyish in my mind.
It is a nice week. I am healthy. My party is having a festival this weekend. It's going to be great weather all week. I am in a good spot. I should just keep that in mind as well.
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
By this guy Logic, Richard Nixon is a tankie
I literally only disagree with two of those. How the hell is the final level “two individuals didn’t kill an extremely specific and high number of people.” Even if you’re not a “tankie” it should be obvious that this could the claim could be eliminated on technicality (Stalin killed 45/55 million instead), or just a basic recognition that an individual can’t be solely responsible for millions of deaths. Even if neither, some of those people were Nazis, and it’s good to kill Nazis.
(Synthetic TikTok voice) Where Are You On The Tankie Scale?
This has to be satire. 70 and 150 are too specific to be genuine
happy (?) substitute USian labour day
Ironically May 1st labour day has a lot of history in the US (was even started there by some accounts), but now some of the amerikkkans I know call May 1st a commie holiday (tongue in cheek but still).
May 1 in the USA is literally called "Loyalty Day"
To me, Amerikan May 1st is just another Hallmark holiday I don't celebrate because there is no loyalty to Amerikans in me anymore. If I had anything of worth to sell for citizenship elsewhere, I'd have done it by now.
Its where I show my loyalty to my fellow prolitarian
Kanada too 🤮
The day PMC gets off but labor still has to go to work
I haven't read a Marx text in a while and I kinda forgot how frustatingly difficult he can write. At least Lenin figured you can at some form of humor to your text without them becoming goofy.
Plus I always struggled more with the philosophical parts of Marxism versus economics, science and things about the state etc. No idea why I started with the philosophy stuff first now.
Marx is far more difficult for me to read through than Lenin, which is why I have read little from him directly so far. What are you reading now? I am going through capital volume 1 at the moment.
Marx is difficult I think because of his background and who he was and who he intended his works to be communicated too. He was purely an academic speaking in academic language writing, in most cases for other academics. Thats why if you read his personal letters, he seems to speak more like a human would, and if you read his publications intended for reading by everyone (like the communist manifesto) he does engage in allegory and imagantive writing to accent his points (...there is a spectre haunting)
Meanwhile Lenin had to be able to communicate with the educated russian class, but also the rank and file of the revolutionary army as well as the Russian serf class; he knew most of his writing had to be understood on the terms of the less educated as a whole class but intended to educate everyone to the level that they could understand him removed from western academic language, to his benefit I think; detatching from liberal academic language is a revolutionary thing in itself.
Materialist philosphy is so cool honestly, I read a great materialist theory on reincarnation recently that argued since our conciousnesses are material things that we can be sure exists, as we pilot one, our conicousnesses themselves where made by material conditions and those conditions will repeat given an infinite amount of time.
Which means we're all trapped in this infinite conciousness loop called reality weeeee.
What philosophical stuff by Marx are you trying to get through?
It wasn't too overphilosophical by Marx per se. I was reading on Marx' and Engels' critique of Hegel and it send me down a rabbit hole of Hegel, Kant, Marx and some rando's at 10 in the evening after working 9.5 hours. Some things are easier on a clear mind.
using my incredible investigative prowess I have determined that this is likely a place in China
PRC - DPRK border
thank you, fellow enjoyer of vegetation
The sign is in English lol (BORDER OF CHINA AND KOREA)
you're right, the resolution is so low I didn't notice
It is a very crunchy image. They don't have many pixels in North Korea y'know
This is clearly on the Chinese side of the border though. No Korean writing in sight.
There is no English on that sign. Did you get a Covid vaccine, by any chance? Maybe your translation chip is starting to work. It's powered by a motor like you get in battery-less wrist watches so you have to jump up and down a lot to get it to turn on.
Indeed it is 😁👍🏼
I hope you all have a nice week :D
I'm sorry but "yoursmellf" made me laugh so hard. Im such a child x)
mission accomplished
Harvested my first tomato from my indoor plants today. It was the size of a marble, but tasted pretty good.
Tomorrow is our party's festival. It's at the beach, with thirty degrees. Should be a big party, excited for it.
Funny thing about Survival of the Fittest. People who hold that as a social belief always assume that they're going to be "the fittest", never even crosses their minds that self serving ideologies can turn on you.
