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Commiejones

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  • This is trump we are talking about.

    His people are telling him that usa is a net exporter and he thinks that means usa doesn't import any crude.

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  • yeah well past 2 and no sign that 3 isn't going to be avoided.

  • The psychological toll of being an anti-imperialist organizer in the heart of the imperial core

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  • How can I change this mentality? What can I do?

    In this specific instance? Just leave him alone. Some of ideas just take time to settle in. He may come back to talk or maybe he will pick up where you left off with someone else. Either way don't sweat it. You win some you lose some. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

    Based on the very little I know about you my impression is you should focus on large scale agit-prop. You have a knack for it and it is an important specialized skill that is in short supply. Maybe point people to the sources that got through to you instead of trying to explain it all.

    When you are dealing one on one you need to sus out what the person responds to best and what doesn't work. Its a lot of trial and error and mostly its error.

    Sometimes it is better to say less. Sometimes its better to let the other person talk and just ask them leading questions and provide counters to misconceptions they have. Some people need to connect the parts together themselves, rather than be shown the whole picture. Sometimes people have an authority bias and need to be told by a 3rd party; they don't have confidence in themselves and project that onto their peers. Sometimes we aren't good at the type of interaction that is needed. Some people like a wall of text most of the time they don't. Some people like lectures some like reading. Some people respond when you treat them like an asshole.

    What didn't work with this guy might work with the next person. Just remember that your aren't alone there are other comrades out there who will hopefully try different approaches with that person.

  • What is the ultra-left?

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  • People who claim to be communists but denounce all socialist states for not being communist enough. Generally ultra-left organizations are run by anti-communist using leftist language and aesthetics. They don't criticize or analyze Existing Socialism they rebuke it and insist they are traitors. They love failed socialist projects because their goal is to maintain the status quo not bring about communism. They are communists in rhetoric and aesthetic but anti-communist in their word and actions.

  • Whats everyone having for supper tonight?

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  • Baked chicken, potato wedges, beetroot, sweet potato, and coleslaw.

  • Is it me or is ProleWiki down?

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  • I'm getting a 502

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  • I love that the usa announced they had developed their own shahed before using them for false flags.

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  • "Its is his hand to take but it is no longer his hand to let go." -Abdul Raheem Mousavi

  • Moral Supremacy: the 12th type of Liberalism

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  • You keep hearing things I'm not saying. More words are not going to help. I give up.

  • Moral Supremacy: the 12th type of Liberalism

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  • I grew up doing bible study 2-3 times a week. So I came out of high school loaded up with every bigotry with a name.

  • Moral Supremacy: the 12th type of Liberalism

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  • What in all of that allows to determine revolutionary potential?

    That is not what the post is about. I don't know how else to say this.

    The post is about the tendency for some leftists to think their shit doesn't stink because they have found Marx and Lenin. The belief that because they lucked out to be in the right places at the right times for communist agitation to have taken hold in their minds that they are the chosen ones. Supposed Communists who say "liberal" like a Proud Boy says "deg_n_rate" or say "troops" the way the kkk say "n___ers."

  • Moral Supremacy: the 12th type of Liberalism

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  • You've missed the point. The post is not for or against judging peoples morality. It is about understanding that morality is learned. It is a product of material conditions. So having superior morality does not make an Ubermench. Just like how a person who has good education or health isn't superior to someone who is uneducated or has health issues.

    Labor aristocrats aren't inferior to colonized peoples just because they get crumbs from imperialism. People are people. We all have blind spots and shortcomings but if we decide that some of faults are so bad we can deny there is a human underneath that is idealism not materialism. I'm not saying we should overlook faulty morality but we need to analyze it through a materialist lens.

    Historically most petite bougies side with capital in revolutions despite the fact that they have more to gain under socialism. In the age of mega-stores, corporate monopolies and farming cartels there is no reason that we can't change that by winning the propaganda battle ... but leftists love to demonize the petite bougies. They've written them off because owning a small business is a mortal sin and having employees is unforgivable. It is an idealistic stance that is detrimental.

    Dialectical materialism requires reappraisals as conditions are constantly changing. Demonization and supremacist thinking is a calcification of thought.

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  • Demonization is moral absolutism. It is to brand someone with a supernatural evil status to justify treating them as "the other." It is dehumanization.

    There is nothing magical about gaining class consciousness that makes you fundamentally better than the people who have not. Having better morality does not make you a superior type of human. If you approach the proletariat with the intention of "saving" them like a missionary would you are not helping the cause. It is just another form of the "white savior" complex.

    I want every imperialist soldier to cease to be. If I could snap and they would all die I wouldn't hesitate. I don't want them to die because they are "evil" or because they need to be punished for their crimes. I want them to cease being because it would further the cause of communism.

    Punishment, Evil, Demonization, Othering these are all reactionary, idealist nonsense.

  • How is Hasanabi so popular?

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  • 4 words: Congress for Cultural Freedom.

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  • nah. just short term speculation.

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  • Oh fuck! sorry. I must have mistaken you for someone else. HEY EVERYBODY! HES HERE. The one true leftist! The holy reincarnation of Marx who has never done anything to assist capitalism. He will lead us to communism by telling us who is evil and beyond redemption and who is good and worthy of our efforts.

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  • You saw the word "troops" and lost the entire plot. The post is not about reaching out and making friends with reactionaries or trying to make cops or troops into comrades. The post is about Moral Supremacy. I mentioned troops because the topic is a lightning rod for moral supremacists. (and it worked!)

    Demonizing is the act of labeling a person or thing as supernatural evil. Evil is not a materialist concept. Demonization is inherently reactionary. A demonized thing is irredeemable and inhuman. This is something that can only be done if you have an idealist or spiritualist mindset.

    Demonizing comrades because of their past as enforcers of capitalism is not the behavior of a comrade. A comrade who was a goon for capitalism (a cop or a soldier same thing) is still a comrade. Their actions before gaining class consciousness do not define a comrade. What we do to oppose capitalism and imperialism is what defines us as comrades.

    Does that mean I expect troops or cops to become comrades? no. The people with the most reactionary thinking are inherently attracted to join the police and military. If it was up to me all they would all get a one way ticket on Tito's Coal Mine Tour. Should we focus our agitation on them? fuck no. You get better results agitating laborers.

    But if one should choose to change sides? They shouldn't have to hide who they used to be because of an idealist mindset that refuses to believe that people can change. They may have useful information and skills that you can only get by being in their position and we will not get that out of them if they are hiding.

    Should we trust them? no but we shouldn't trust anyone. Every new comrade is a potential wrecker or fed. Every new comrade has brain worms that need to be killed and extracted. We should be pushing and testing our comrades all the time to be sure nobody is harboring bigotry, liberalism, idealism, or supremacy.

    And that includes Moral Supremacy like "the ex-soldier who teaches commies to shoot guns build tunnels and avoid being seen by drones did bad things. so even though all I do is read theory and post on the internet, I'm a better communist."

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  • I think you are misunderstanding what material conditions are. It isn't just wealth, "material conditions" are all the factors that influence the situation. Most of the time financial security is a major factor in peoples thinking but it isn't the only thing. Some people don't believe that joining the military means killing children because their unique conditions are flooded with imperialist propaganda and the truth hasn't hooked in their brain yet.

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  • How is this unaustralian? Watching an episode of its always sunny and then using it as a guide to make a quick buck sounds like peek australian culture.

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    Moral Supremacy: the 12th type of Liberalism

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    A People's Congress Deputy chats about China's Two Sessions

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    Trump says he will order the release of Pentagon files on aliens and UFOs

    www.theguardian.com /world/2026/feb/20/trump-aliens-ufos-pentagon-files-release
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    The real flag of "Free" Iran

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    What China Said, What the West Heard

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    Inside Iran w/Milad Dokhanchi

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    The East is a Podcast with Navid Zarrinal on the ground report about Iran protests.

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    Trump reposts txt from macaroon

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    Jacques Baud: all my peaches thawed

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    Patrik Baab: War Propaganda Destroyed Media & Freedom of Speech

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    Paulo Nogueira Batista: Decline of the IMF & Rise of the BRICS New Development Bank

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    Danny Haiphong. Tariff talk w/ Richard Wolff & Sean Foo

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    Environmentalism of the Rich w/ Jason W. Moore

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    Laith Marouf

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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
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    Subverting Syria: Dark Histories of US Empire w/Patrick Higgins

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    Airing of Grievances: A Fundraiser for Lifeline4Gaza

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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