Weird Communism @404@mastodon.social

"We must distinguish between the programmes of the bourgeois parties, between the banquet and parliamentary speeches of the liberal careerists and their actual participation in the real struggle of the people. Bourgeois politicians, one and all, in all parliamentary countries, have always paid lip-service to democracy while betraying it."

- V.I. Lenin, "Deception of the People by the Liberals"

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mar/12b.htm

Men are a psy-op.

whenever i see a DSAer or leftcom go full tankie, my heart swells up with joy and hope

In the end, in either situation, the loudest proponents are usually putting someone else out there to do the riskiest part for them, while they applaud from the sidelines and reap the benefits. I mean, if the ACLU's your thing, fine. But you have to know someone lower down the food chain is most at risk in this open "free speech mkt.," not you.

I just don't know many FSAs who deep down are longing to spend their lives trying to win over Nazis with logic and kindness.

Free Speech Absolutism is a lot like Free Market Absolutism, so it makes sense that so many people who are enamored of one feel the same way about the other.

How many people have died in US prisons? How many died under the custody of Sheriff Clarke and Sheriff Arpaio? In FL there was a case of a prisoner being scalded with hot water to death to the point their skin fell off.

The right wing is only using the death of Otto Warmbier as a way to play the outrage game against liberals. They never cared. Neither did the liberals mocking Otto Warmbier.

@TransCommunist being a Marxist means constantly being at war with who you were two days ago, and it's also liberating coming out the other side

You don't have to accept everyone's apologies.

You're allowed to walk away from people who've hurt you and you don't have to forgive them if you don't want to.

Sometimes just cutting someone off is better than making peace with them.

it's really telling that a point like "men shouldn't be violent misogynists towards reactionary women" somehow manages to be contentious among the left, misogyny does not have a neutral character that can be utilized for revolutionary purposes nor does it exist in a vacuum where men can selectively hold misogynist attitudes towards the Bad Women while being pro-women's liberation..stomp out misogyny entirely, don't allow any chauvinism period

You're all my internet friends and I really love y'all.

Me: Violence doesn't decide who is right. Just who is left.

Also Me: I'm going to put that axe in that Nazi when I'm 100% sure I won't be punished for it.

TEACH BERNIE SUPPORTERS HOW TO AIM

the whole internet loves The Singularity, an artificial intelligence that has surpassed human comprehension *five mins later* we regret to inform you that the singularity is racist

it's amazing how everything i thought about the soviet union is just a reflection of the actuality of life in the u.s.
1) systemic killing (death penalty, police brutality, etc)
2) labor camps (prisons)
3) systemic poverty (bc capitalism, generational wealth, etc)
4) starvation (bc capitalism)
5) control by the elite (two-party system of two imperialist, relatively pro-business parties, iron triangle)
6) controlled news (90% of major news owned by corporations)

"Fake news" and "Alternative facts" aren't a new phenomenon. In fact they're an incredibly old one. It's called "Propaganda" and recognizing that you're barraged by it 24 hours a day is the first step towards personal liberation.