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For your experience to be a happy one, the experience is not primarily reliant on what is being experienced being something which brings happiness to you, it is the you, which is experiencing, that needs to be of happiness.

So, although the outer world affects the inner being and a better world will improve the inner experience for many and is therefore a just cause, the search for a life of personal happiness is primarily about the situation within you and not the situation around you. - PunkMonk

  • Who is this alaskaball person and why are they banning me from every community?

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  • We support the Ukrainian proletariat, not the fascist state. We also support the Russian proletariat, not the oligarchic fake democracy BUT the western capitalist regime is the bigger enemy here and Ukraine are in bed with the EU and NATO.

  • NHS cancels the operations of 140K patients to save money.

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  • I think the neoliberal plan is to make the NHS so overworked and underfunded that people stop supporting it, then push private healthcare as the solution and scrap the NHS for a model similar to the US's. Then they can claim that this privatisation is boosting the economy by manipulating data when in actuality all it is doing is giving the rich more wealth from the poor.

  • I spent too much time on this edit so I thought I would make it its own post. Maoism class.

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  • There are certain people who seem to be unable to understand that their exact method is not the only viable option. Like they close their minds so tightly that nothing but this one exact thing is the 'real' thing.

    Imagine someone being like, "This painting I created is the only beautiful piece of art ever made, every other painting is painted incorrectly by dumb, talentless artists, I am the one true painter."

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 5

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  • Christ, so being able to own a home quite easily under western capitalism was only possible due to the pressure of communism (also it was 100% a white privilege), revolution really is so much more effective than reform it's laughable.

    Xi Jinping, keep winning please!

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 5

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  • I've been firmly socially progressive ever since I got ever my edgy phase when I was like 13-16 years old so when it came time to vote I was a Labour voter, originally Corbyn and then Starmer. I didn't go deep into what these people represent or what they have done I just thought it was a fight to keep progressing and getting rid of the tories. I lacked any real political education and feel for the culture war bullshit, like many people.

    All I heard all my life about communism is it is violent and brutal and it doesn't work and so on, I knew my country was far from perfect but I didn't think they would lie to me my whole life in so many different ways, so in a way the naïvety kept me anti-communist.

    A few years ago I started getting really depressed and realised I had been quite depressed for a long time, it lead me to question everything, why should I live, what is this society, what type of person should I aim to be e.t.c. and while this was happening I was seeing the end of 14 years of the conservative government, I put all my hope in Labour bringing back hope and progress. Well it became clear maybe about 6 months in to Starmer's term that these guys are not the solution. Then I started getting into the tax the rich and wealth inequality sort of crowd (AOC, Gary's economics, JimmyTheGiant, Hasan somewhat) that pushed me to be less of a liberal and more of a demsoc, socdem type of guy and be opposed to neoliberalism and centrism.

    But crucially after that depressive episode and the existentialising that came with it, I had learned to keep an open-mind and I realised that now identifying as a socialist, I was hearing about Marx and Lenin and I just decided to hear out these communists side of the story, because what didn't make sense was that if the USSR was everything I had been told about it, no one in their right mind would still be a communist.

    I think it might have been Hakim who did the most for me with youtube class consciousness or whatever you want to call it but I can't remember an exact video that 'pushed me over the edge', so to speak. It didn't take long for me to recognise the genius in Marxism-Leninism anyway, I then had to undo all my anti-com propaganda (that was still making me doubt if I was on the right path) and start learning the theory, science, philosophy, start applying it where I could, and here I am now, still doing that. I've come to really love the online culture the imagery, the music - red sun in the sky will always be a hell of a tune - and the community of course, I really want to see that kind of community IRL one day.

  • China bad because

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  • Tried explain to my nana today that me owning a house is basically impossible even if I get a university degree and work very hard, saving up for decades, investing smartly, sacrificing my spare time e.t.c. which is unlikely for me to be able to handle as an autistic ADHDer.

    I explained that most who own a house only can because they either did back when it was affordable decades ago like some of her friends or because their parents are wealthy and thus so are they because nepotism. She tried arguing, "well the world is just not fair like that" and I replied, "well let's fight to make it fair".

    Slowly but surely my nana will be radicalised, I am the evil brainwashing commie grandson.

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 5

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  • I was a liberal last year, I credit youtube docs for that more than anything else really

  • I have trouble seeing Trotskyism as a real ideology

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  • That helps me understand yeah, thanks & well said

  • I have trouble seeing Trotskyism as a real ideology

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  • But I thought Maoists are different to MLM's, no?

  • I have trouble seeing Trotskyism as a real ideology

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  • Am I right in saying this is like how Maoists are different to Marxist-Leninist-Maoists and the Marxist-Leninists who follow Mao Zedong Thought because they ignore reality and follow the dogma? Or am I misunderstanding? I'm still a bit of a novice communist and get confused sometimes.

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  • r/CentristHell would be a more accurate sub name

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  • I totally see the progressiveHQ mods nuking that post, nice one with the archive

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  • Ah okay, I had like 4 different golden screenshots I wanted to share with the homies, I'll comment them when I can

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  • NSFW

    "Regulating video game content with unclear regulations is no different from China and North Korea."

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  • American Liberal - who's imprisoned because he's 1/8 black - in New Nazi United States of America's Chicago concentration camp in 2033: "Well yeah our government isn't great but at least we aren't like those tankie asians"

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    This post's comment section is an absolute goldmine

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    A goldmine of a comment section, sort by controversial recommended

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    Horseshoe theory is not real and most people who identify with far-right views are a lost cause, however...

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    My brother visited that famous wax museum in Poland not that long ago