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Drewfro66

@ Drewfro66 @lemmygrad.ml

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He/They. Marxist-Leninist, Butcher, DnD 3.5e enthusiast and member of PSL NEO and UFCW local 880. ASAB (All Scolds Are Bastards). Plague rat settler. I administrate a DnD 3.5e West Marches server for Socialists called the Axe and Sickle. https://discord.gg/R5dPsZU

  • Why isn't Vietnam demonized in US propaganda like the DPRK is?

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  • My personal belief is that a contradiction between the professed ideology of a governing party and their actual ideology cannot last for very long. If the membership of the Party are Communist and can articulate Communist ideology, it's a Communist Party and if they're the party in charge, it's a Socialist state. The idea that entire parties (of a relevant size) can exist whose members don't actually believe what they say they believe is Liberalism.

    Many Socialists and Communists have ideologies that are revisionist or ineffective but this doesn't make them not Socialists, it makes them revisionist, ineffective Socialists. Their stated aims should be analyzed according to Marxist dialectics to determine if any given group is still truly Marxist, and there will always be some wiggle room with this.

    Personally, I believe that the MPLA is still a Marxist-Leninist party, it's just a mildly corrupt one. There is a difference between it and just any other "Social People's Democratic" party in some post-colonial African state. The reason Angola is not typically counted among the "ML States" is because it is not a single-party state; they hold elections where other Parties can and do participate and could hypothetically win.

  • Why isn't Vietnam demonized in US propaganda like the DPRK is?

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  • Vietnam "opened up" after the fall of the Soviet Union, Korea did not. The common consensus among the average Western "academic" was that Vietnam had abandoned Socialism and was embracing free market Capitalism.

    Now, real G's understand that a worker's state with a free market is not wholly contradictory, as we can see in China. But to the average Capitalism fan, Vietnam's "opening up" was seen as Capitalism's triumph in that country through peaceful means.

    The same could be said for China, of course, up until very recently - when I think those same academics are coming to the stark realization that markets and Socialism are not incompatible and that, in actuality, China is not the Western neocolony they thought it was but is instead a Socialist state that has used markets to propel itself to a preeminent world power.

    They have yet to come to this same conclusion with regards to Vietnam but I believe this represents a contradictory worldview which will resolve itself in the coming years.

  • We're still getting new taglines I see

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  • The Good DSA faction makes ted cruz mad

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  • MUG is alright too, at least the local guys

  • We're still getting new taglines I see

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  • This tagline is at least several years old lmao

  • Race communism

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  • Liberalism used to be favored by the Bourgeoisie because they found themselves at odds with the old ruling classes - they wanted free elections (that at least they could participate in, so many had citizenship, property or tax requirements), free speech/press (at least for Liberals, Socialists could get fucked), and free markets (so they could continue to accumulate wealth and overtake the traditional elites).

    Under Fascism, the Bourgeoisie is at the top and wants to consolidate their position. Protectionist trade policies, rigged elections, and censorship are used to promote and protect the most virulently pro-Bourgeoise elements of the Bourgeoisie.

  • Students at British campuses in China ‘made to pledge loyalty to party’, required to take ‘ideology courses’ and participate in ceremonies honouring the Chinese Communist Party

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  • They should expand this to the campuses in the home Islands as well

  • I literally just saw Hasan at a NO KINGS protest in LA and I yelled at him "DOG SHOCKER! DOG SHOCKER!" and he turned to me and pretended to be electrocuted. Utterly disgusting behavior.

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  • Dog Shocker? I hardly know her!

  • No Kings? More like no shame!

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  • There are Palestine flags at all of the protests, lmao, except maybe some really lame ones out in the suburbs no-one cares about.

    Don't let people like this define what a protest is about.

  • designer vagina under communism, huh?

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  • I want to preface my comment with saying that I'm a political activist who has been part of the local movement for Transgender rights for years, I have many transgender friends, I consider myself non-binary, and have dated both trans men and women. I'm not a transphobe.

    Within Marxist, especially Marxist-Leninist, philosophy and political thought, there is a division made between Communitarianism/Collectivism and Individualism. With Collectivism being considered proletarian in nature and Individualism being a Bourgeoise abomination.

    Much of our modern philosophy around gender is steeped in Bourgeoise, individualist ideas, because North America and Western Europe are dominated by Capitalism and, with it, Bourgeois Individualism.

    Concepts within gender science such as Self-Identification and a desire to "buck norms", the idea that people have a right to express themselves however they want without consideration for their larger communities, would be considered Bourgeoise and individualist. Some Individualism is fine and even necessary within a Communitarian society, but not when taken to an extreme.

    I believe a Socialist society should advance Collectivist ideas of transgender acceptance. If the majority of a community accepts a member's transgender identity but there is a vocal transphobic minority, it is they who are acting Individualistically and should be persecuted. Gender presentation should not be based in mutual ostentatiousness but in mutual modesty; women wearing pants, not men wearing eyeliner. Vanity is individualistic and Bourgeoise.

    The power of the State should be used to advance Transgender rights, including free healthcare for gender transition and education on transgender issues in public schools. Public schools and state media are the primary means by which a Collectivist society can alter public consciousness and both should be used to advance the idea that some people have a medical requirement for gender transition.

  • What's a Tankie?

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  • You say this ironically, but there are several relatively recent U.S. presidents or people in their administration who have said things that would get them branded tankies today.

    I'm thinking specifically of a speech Jimmy Carter gave where he said it's no wonder North Korea ended up the way it had, considering we bombed every building over two stories into the ground.

    Kissinger is also obviously evil but only because of his realpolitik - by modern ideological standards where any anti-Western power is treated as worse than Hitler by even social Democrats, his dispassionate readings would get him labeled a Marxist.

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    Do you believe in Supernatural things?

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  • Marxism is the only valid framework to analyze the world.

  • "In the beginning, there was the terminal."

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  • Physical, human-legible media, like punch cards

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    [CW: assault, sexism, gender-based violence] Riiiiight, because attacking someone from behind is an equal fight.

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  • "equal rights for equal lefts"

    "Lefts" is slang for "Left Hooks", a style of punch.

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    Do you believe in Supernatural things?

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  • They're answering like that because they're trying to be kind and give you the benefit of the doubt - but no, lol, no one here over the age of ten believes in magic anymore lmao. If that's the straight answer you want

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    Do you believe in Supernatural things?

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  • No lol. Belief in the supernatural in any form is un-Marxist.

    Whether that's angels and demons and deities, witches and ghosts, or astrology and healing crystals. It is a virtue to have a completely Materialist worldview.

  • Marxist Female Representation?

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  • The subtle manipulation of language.

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  • If Palestine is free from the river to the sea there's no Israel to hold accountable anymore

  • North Korea shows off 'most powerful' missile at military parade

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  • The subtle manipulation of language.

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  • "A ceasefire is a positive first step, but must come with a future where all Palestine is free from the river to the sea."

    He never will say something like this because he's in the pocket of the Zionist lobby, but if he said something like that and actually followed up I would be satisfied.