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Jiufeng Mountain, China

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WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE PETS WITH WIKIPEDIA PAGES YOU PEOPLE KEEP POSTING

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i also think that the way people on here talk about protests is sometimes needlessly fearmongering like it's always good to have your wits about you and be aware of dangers from cops or counterprotesters but also i feel like a lot of people on here have become convinced that by going to a large peaceful protest march they are taking their lives in their hands which is just simply not the case (the point of those events is optics and showing that a lot of people are willing to show up for the cause) and i'm worried it might be deterring people from actually showing up to protests

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Is it true that, in most revolutions, the farthest left-leaning/most radical group is betrayed and killed afterwards?

(If true) how do we deal with that after the U.S. American revolution finishes up?

That's also a right wing thing; night of long knives and such. Also true in liberal democracies, given how the usa democratic party is shedding the left for the neo-cons and "moderates".

If you're thinking of things like the Kronstadt rebellion or the ukrainian "free territory", then these were cases more of actively aiding counterrevolution or hampering the revolution's progress.

I'm a Marxist-Leninist. I stand with the position that a worker's state is a necessary 'evil' in order to both defend the gains of the revolution and serve as an anchor for the construction of socialism. From there, internal and external contradictions should be resolved through the organs of class rule. Materially speaking, someone "more left" than a proletariat state are those who seek the total abolition of all states, or dogmatists. Regardless of which ideology they subscribe to, when you agitate for the destruction of the DOTP, you materially serve the interests of the bourgeoisie, who should be the main target of ideological attack, not the DOTP.

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One time I saw a video on reddit of a guy in China apparently being arrested for violating covid protocols. The comments were all nonsense about how dystopian it was, but the actual video was a man flailing around on his sofa like a kid having a tantrum while five people in high-vis vests pleaded with him to calm down and tried to hold his ankles. Is that a typical level of force to see from PRC law enforcement against someone not dangerous?

I saw a guy march over to a cop and yell at him for doing something rude so yeah just about. It's why excessive force cases are rare and so shocking in the PRC; so much so that it can earn you the death penalty for serious cases. They do thoroughly investigate their own cops in the PRC and they will do everything from fire to jail to execute them. Here's a video of them handling a drunken brawl. And to further prove my point, here's a guy yelling at the cops and telling them they should "give themselves a ticket" for not putting their seatbelt on before driving. Like I've referred to before, only the PAP (people's armed police) carry weapons and they are only deployed for serious and known armed individuals; everyone else has to resolve problems through deescalation.

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Theyre sending me to da foppish dandys effeminate school for pansy boys

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Whats wrong with defending small businesses? /Gen

A lot of people with "progressive" or "leftist" politics seem to think that defending small businesses and aspiring to start one is the peak of anti-capitalist action or countercultural when it's like... one of the most common liberal talking points. Like you can't be some epic punk anarchist and then want to reproduce the American Dream.

They tend to place a lot more emphasis on BigBusiness vs SmallBusiness and act like small business owners can like do no wrong. Also very common for small business defenders to be like "sure, you can pirate/shoplift but not from small business!!!" which like lol lmao.

There are a lot of problems with the mindset. It tends to distract from actual class politics, instead focusing more on the aesthetics of capital. It tends to towards all kinds of reactionary positions, especially on things such as IP as we have seen recently. The petit bougeoisie have (both historically and presently) often contributed against the working class, siding with the regular bourgeoisie when coming against working class movements. The class interests of the petit bourgoise are often in conflict with the class interests of the workers.

There are situations in which it can beneficial to defend small business but you should not hold a policy of "small business good" in general if you consider yourself anti-capitalist or "leftist" in any meaningful way (although leftist is in itself a meaningless term).

Anyways, obligatory disclaimer: No, you aren't evil for being a petit bourgeois. Class politics aren't moral categories. Yes, being petit bourgeois means that your class interests are in conflict with the working class. Yes, you can still be a communist, it just means you're going against your class interests, something that most of your peers do not do.

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Ilya Chashnik, Red Circle on a Black Surface, 1925

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It’s el muchacho monday

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Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

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Brother Hao goes hard

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anti-ai people need to understand that the opposition communists have to luddism and reactionary sentiment isn't like, a moral one. the main problem with luddism is that it doesn't actually work. like when we say 'we mustn't try to fight against technology itself, we need to fight against the social system that makes it so that advancement in technology and labour-saving devices lead to layoffs' the reason we're saying it is because, if you try fighting the technology, you're going to lose, and you're still going to lose your job too. when you say 'yeah i understand your criticism but I'm still going to fight against AI' you very clearly did not understand the criticism, because the point is that it isn't even in your own self-interest, because it will not work. the fact that, even if it did work, it would only mean maintaining a privileged strata of 'skilled labour' above other workers is secondary -- because, again, flatly resisting technological advancement has never worked in history.

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You can choose *One* of these mildly non-human traits to have.

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Once US civil war 2 happens, Cuba should take Florida while they're not looking

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March 18, 1871: Beginning of the proletarian revolution which formed the first working class government in history – the Paris Commune.