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51dz31 [he/him]

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  • The Polish far right is gaining popularity – Mentzen and Braun (Konfederacja) have gotten a combined +20% vote in yesterdays presidential election. Third and fourth place respectively.

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  • Expected. Tusk's shift to the right and normalization of racism/xenophobia in polish political discourse "normalized" people like Braun and Mentzen

  • Touching grass... makes things worse?

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  • Those who know, know

  • How to talk about AES states?

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  • If someone even tries to discuss communism with you in good faith, then it means you already have a better starting point than 90% of communists. I discussed the Soviet Union with an American and it was just painful, typical Stalin killed millions of people etc. Also thought that every historian (American btw!) that said something good about USSR was a russian propagandist.

    But getting back to the topic, I think the most important part of discussing AES is not knowing the history of the said country per say (although it is very important), but understanding how to talk about the contradictions it faced. When you tell an average person that Stalin didn't kill 8 million people in the terror, but 700 k it doesn't really make it look all that better does it? However, when you put in the context of the conflict between regional leaders and Stalin and say that the USSR really had a very real existential threat, then it directly challenges the cartoonish version of Stalin and the USSR.

    I think the issue is that you make it seem like you want to overcompensate for real tragedies that happened under AES. What I always want to explain when talking about AES is the role of state power in class societies. Most of libs will dismiss socialist states for killing people, but we know that state power is universally used by all states in the history of the world. The Soviet Union didn't succeed in spite of using a highly repressive aparatus, it usually succeeded becaause of it.

    I don't know if that was a response you wanted, but that's my perspective. Just remember that you don't have to force yourself to persuade everyone.

  • May Day (1889) - New General Megathread for the 1st-4th of May 2025

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  • I've started reading "Wild Faith" lately. Still baffled how Americans can believe dumb shit like QAnon

  • Joke's on you tankies: The Soviet Union was ethnically diverse

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  • I mean, even conservapedia considers USSR to be the first woke country on earth

  • Folks I have managed to dodge homelessness yet again.

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  • My friend worked for human rights group or some other organization as volunteer. He had to hand out leaflets (I think?) and got fired pretty fast. Hopefully your experience will be much different

  • Folks I have managed to dodge homelessness yet again.

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  • Congrats

  • No more brown slaves, only white slaves i mean patriots only.

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  • Looks like AI

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  • He died, but his particles will live forever

  • Deepseek giving me the lay of the land as to why I am not as successful as other people under capitalism/ corporate America

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  • trvke

  • Someone got a call from the CIA

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  • There goes the argument that Ukraine is not a puppet of the USA

  • Why Socialism? is a good read

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  • I think this short essay was the first thing that appeared in monthly review

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    Antonio Gramsci - New General Megathread for the 22nd-24th of January 2025

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  • Although I don't really like january, this month has been really good for me. I managed to read 5 books already and I am doing ok at school do far

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    Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree ‘Hitler Was a Communist’

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  • The destruction of Twitter would be the biggest defeat of nazism since WW2

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  • Tbh what I hate in Simpsons is that Lisa is shown as a very progressive person, while she is just a chauvinistic liberal lol