I wasted a fucking hour on this guy. I argued for a while about imperialism being the primary contradiction before I realized he thinks all modern economic modes and equally bad. Doesn't help he's a slow typer. 
Definitely, I was in PCUSA for a few months and they acted like feds. I’m almost worried what my info could be done with by them.
I saved these from discord almost two years ago.
It was such a good book idk how I haven't made this post yet. Just the introduction will have you hooked.
link to free download here or here
In summary, Ted Reese shows how Marxism Leninism is the way forward if we are to save the planet. It is largely a reaction to Fully Automated Luxury Communism and the general trend of people trying to reinvent socialism with utopian ideas in order to stop climate change. I actually read that right before, so it might be part of why I like this book. He explains how the TRPF is leading to the inevitable fall of capitalism in the near future. Anyone who denies that capitalism is reaching its final breaking point is in error. Labor theory of value continues to be vindicated. It's counter-tendencies cannot help it. Humanity looks pretty screwed with climate change, but socialism can enable innovation, stop extraction, and plan our way to a healthy world. Socialism will also employ easy technology and methods that capitalism refuses because it will undermine it's function. The path towards a new socialism is through studying the successes and failures of AES, not through trying to "discover" new forms, or repeating old forms. Principled Leninist tactics are the way.
This book gave me a lot of hope and I've recommended it to multiple libs (🤞). I highly recommend it.
Limitations:
It was published almost five years ago, so it's not all up to date on the geopolitics and so on. As we all know, the past few years we've had many weeks where decades happened. Reese takes a neutral position on China's socialistness, despite presenting evidence to the positive. He doesn't talk about decolonization, which makes sense for a Br*t, but that means it's not all encompassing. There is a lot of great info in there. It might not be easiest for complete newbies, but you don't have to read too much other theory first.
Here's some memes:
Long live ecosocialism!
I don't remember where I found out about Alasdair Macintyre. I looked it up on podcasts and most of the references were in liberal or outright reactionary podcasts, including one called conservative minds (hello, he was a marxist?).
I love making memes people won't understand.
From boondocks: public enemy #2
Solidarity with the trees 🌲 🍉
This is the first I’ve used this format. Lemme know if it works.
Ramaswamy’s super weird. He’s a superficial corporate candidate that came out of nowhere. Most of what he does is say he agrees with trump. He also wants to raise the voting age to hold off zoomers from voting for a couple years.
Ukraine was way more complicated than this and they acted like it was simple. Now they can’t see an obvious “bad guy” staring straight at them.
Slavs aren’t “really white.” You expect western “leftists” to know about the Paris commune or German revolution?
Many communities have no grocery stores nearby. Those that are there are often understaffed. Meanwhile, dollar stores and McDonald’s are everywhere. Amerikkkan car culture and Suburbia has concentrated stores often like half an hour outside the city. If you don’t have a car it’s not accessible. Few want to carry a bunch of bags of groceries on a bus for an hour (if they have the transportation infrastructure). Healthy grocery stores like Whole Foods don’t want to go into poor communities because they can get more money from those who can afford the higher prices they want to charge. As these problems disproportionately affect non-white people, some have opted to call it “food apartheid” rather than desert as the latter suggests it’s natural.
I’m no expert, but as a USian who’s heard a bit about it I thought I’d comment. I can’t think of any further reading.
I thought this was satire, but here’s the real link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/asia/china-xi-jinping-clean-plate-campaign-dst-intl-hnk/index.html
Assange didn’t do anything illegal but even if he did you might as well be saying “criticizing Putin may the right thing do, but it’s illegal so you shouldn’t do it.”
It’s nice to see that most columnists have to admit they’d be doomed fighting China, as the empire has fallen to far already.
How do you embrace something the doesn’t exist and won’t exist?
I support AES and AES.