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Commiejones

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  • Micheal Parenti passed away :(

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  • I remember watching Yellow Parenti early in my class awareness and it just being one banger after another. swinging back and forth from "thats so obvious why didn't I see that" to "mind blown"

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    Saying that we can learn from the Shoah ‘implies that […] there was something wrong that the Holocaust needed to correct’

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  • The only people they can trust to protect them is themselves? Is that why usa gives israel billions of dollars of aid every year and billions more worth of weapons? Is that why they lost the 12 day war? because they trusted usa to protect them?

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    Suggest texts for the theory reading group!

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  • Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism

  • Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez assured US of cooperation before Maduro’s capture

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  • Because western media is so reliable./s

    The word "capture" is a shibboleth. Maduro was not a combatant, they were not at war, he is not a criminal. He was not captured he was Kidnapped.

    The guardian is also repeating the "12,000+ dead in Iran" line.

  • Goodbye, comrades. I will be uploading resources and memes exclusively on lemmygrad now. 🫡

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  • Who is unironically reposting the guardian?

  • Computing power woven into hair-thin fibers, paving way for smart clothes, brain implants

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  • Shit like this makes really hope the usa doesn't cause a nuclear appocolypse.

  • Home ownership rates by country

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  • Freedom and democracy means no home.

  • hi chat so i feel a bit ridiculous

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  • That sounds pretty horrible. I hope you find a way to make your way through all that without breaking down again. Hang in there.

  • The Inaugural Meeting

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  • Should have had Blair in there too

  • I don't fully understand dialectical materialism.

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  • Materialism is the understanding that physical matter and energy are the source of ideas. Everything exists whether it is observed or not. Idealism is the approach to reality from the incorrect basis that first ideas exist before the material world. "The world exists because you perceive it." Spiritualism is kinda in the middle. Everything exists because the spirit made it but even if there were no material observers there would still be spirit.

    Dialectics is a method of studying why and how things change from one thing into another. Nothing stays the same. All things have internal contradictions within them driving them to become something else. Ever growing imbalance of internal contradictions (quantitative changes) results in a change from one thing into another (qualitative change). The more complex the thing the more contradictions it has.

    So you have a starting point called the "thesis" the contradiction is called The "antithesis" and the product of the process called the "synthesis."

    Recognizing the main forces at play (Primary contradictions) to find the antithesis is the hard part unless you are analyzing in hindsight. Contradictions are internal. They are attributes of the thing itself that inevitably build up (quantitative) and result in transformation.(qualitative)

    A child, [thesis] cannot stay a child due to its genetic and social blueprints, [antithesis] it will become an adult (if it does not die.) [Synthesis]

    The synthesis is a new thing that shares some attributes with the thesis but at the same time it is not the thesis and the thesis ceases to exist in the transition. (This can be called "negation" because the thing stops being what it was and the "negation of the negation" is it becoming a new thesis of its own.)

    Dialectical Materialism is the understanding that material conditions spawned the human mind and the ideas in the human mind can shape material conditions (praxis) which can in turn shape the human mind in an endless dialectical dance.

  • Sorry for my outburst

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  • You didn't say anything offensive. You were venting, we all need that sometimes. I'm glad you are feeling better.

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    General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 4

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  • Venezuela has not been a win. They kidnapped a man but Chavismo is still strong. All that has happened is that the empire has further unmasked itself.

  • ostracized

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  • Fuck. That sounds really uncomfortable. Maybe have a bit of a chat with another party member about it? Not to try to get them on "your side" or anything but just to see if maybe there is something that you are missing.

    Maybe you are too intense and they feel like recruitment isn't your gig? They should be able to just be honest with you but some people don't get that its better to hurt someones feelings than to hurt their trust especially in a party.

    If it comes to confronting them try to lean into the "did I do something wrong" more than the "why are you guys lying to me and working behind my back" Try to not be accusatory and present it as you wanting to do self crit.

  • Trump reposts txt from macaroon

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  • Trump spends more time posting and scrolling than you do.

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    Trump reposts txt from macaroon

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    [Gusano Miami channel, celebrating the deaths of the 32 cuban soldiers]“"I SAW THEM ALL FALL": Cuban soldier who took part in operation in Venezuela describes how he collected...”

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  • Cuban agents are gonna get this bozo. We won't hear about it because they will make it look like an ice raid gone badly and american media won't care about the death of a gusano soldier at the hands of ice.

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    I don't want to be responsible anymore

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  • You should run away. (maybe wait for spring)

    Maybe go find a job on a fruit farm. It doesn't pay great but its often cash. There's little to no judgement. Nobody cares if you are dirty. You can live in a car or a tent and not pay rent. Learn to cook on a camp stove. Its not "no responsibility" but its pretty close.

    It wont fix anything but it'll give you time to regroup and figure out some shit.

  • I like PC as much as the next gal, but honestly? With the whole GPU situation we have now?

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  • EV prices have dropped dramatically just not in the west. The price of EVs in China has plummeted and they make up half of EV sales.

    The difference is that western countries have their own car industries. They have tariffs as defensive measure to protect local industry. That is why westerners don't see that drop in EV prices... yet. (canada just dropped its ev tariff from 100% to 6 and europe is in negotiations to lower theirs.)

    usa is the only country with a GPU industry to protect. So only they would put tariffs on GPUs.

  • I like PC as much as the next gal, but honestly? With the whole GPU situation we have now?

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  • Even then the international market will be saturated with Chinese products. The price for amd/nvidia will have to come down to compete.

  • Jesus wouldn't recognise these Christians.

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  • It's not an "internal critique" if you are going to misrepresent what Jesus said. He said he came to complete the law of Moses and that people shouldn't follow the law blindly. His whole deal "love of god and love other people as yourself" and the rest of the law should be applied after that consideration.

    If you want to do an internal critique start with what Jesus said was the most important thing "love god and love your neighbor as yourself." From there you can say "If the rich loved the poor as they loved themselves they would give the poor everything they need. If the bourgeoisie loved their neighbors as themselves they would gladly give up control of the means of production to their neighbors of the working class. So to follow the teachings of Christ is to be a communist."

    Don't get me wrong I'm not a christian. I think 80% of the bible is fabrication and exaggeration. I'm not eve convinced that Jesus even existed. But if you take the book at its word the teachings of Jesus aren't anything bad.

    Churches twist the message into hate and division and that sucks but it doesn't mean the message "love each other" is bad or that it should be ignored. The working classes that are subject to that system are not the problem just like factory workers aren't responsible for the factory owner's wealth and power.

    The goal of communists is to break the bourgeoisie control by reminding Christians of the primary commandment of Jesus not condemn them for being exploited by the bourgeoisie. Just as we don't condemn workers for increasing the wealth of the Bourgeoisie we educate them so they know who really makes the wealth so they can unite against the exploiters.

    There are lots of good Christians who could be good communists if atheist communists weren't so dogmatic spiteful and dismissive.

  • Europe @lemmygrad.ml
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    Jacques Baud: all my peaches thawed

  • World News @lemmygrad.ml
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    Patrik Baab: War Propaganda Destroyed Media & Freedom of Speech

  • Economics @lemmygrad.ml
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    Paulo Nogueira Batista: Decline of the IMF & Rise of the BRICS New Development Bank

  • Economics @lemmygrad.ml
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    Danny Haiphong. Tariff talk w/ Richard Wolff & Sean Foo

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    Environmentalism of the Rich w/ Jason W. Moore

  • Thoughts on ...? @lemmygrad.ml
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    Laith Marouf

  • Palestine @lemmygrad.ml
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    zionists already breaking the Ceasefire

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2025/10/14/israel-imposes-new-gaza-aid-restrictions-keeps-rafah-crossing-closed
  • West Asia @lemmygrad.ml
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    Subverting Syria: Dark Histories of US Empire w/Patrick Higgins

  • Palestine @lemmygrad.ml
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    Airing of Grievances: A Fundraiser for Lifeline4Gaza

  • World News @lemmygrad.ml
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    Mike Benz: How NGOs and the CIA Hijacked Ukraine

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    Pro-Palestine Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike from the US to the UK

    calla.substack.com /p/casey-hoxha
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    Pro-Palestine Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike from the US to the UK

    calla.substack.com /p/casey-hoxha
  • Geopolitics @lemmygrad.ml
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    Tell me what anti-imperialism looks like

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    A rebuke of "China needs to stop the genocide"

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    John Helmer breaks down the whitehouse warmonger meetup

  • Palestine @lemmygrad.ml
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    "No Heaven without Gaza," Interview with Georges Abdallah

    www.palestinechronicle.com /no-heaven-without-gaza-a-palestine-chronicle-exclusive-interview-with-lebanese-revolutionary-georges-abdallah/
  • Geopolitics @lemmygrad.ml
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    The ruins of imperialism w/ Kit Klarenberg and Alexander Mckay

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    From Algeria To Palestine: The Long, Hard Road To Freedom

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Interview about resistance to ICE in L.A. w/ Abraham Marquez. Fuck Ice, Free Gaza!