It does feel like one of those simple-but-heavy problems.

Seconding @woodenghost@hexbear.net. You have a responsibility to your partner to keep these double-dates a group event and not two parallel conversations.

Right now your proposition to her is basically ‘Give up however many hours of your limited freetime so I can hang out with my buddy! I am going to ignore you and stick you with someone you actively dislike hanging out with.’ How else do you expect a rational person to feel about that?

De-industrialization in the West was made possible by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the scenario you describe.

The primary contradiction shifts from the domestic contradiction between the workers and the bourgeoisie to the contradiction between imperialist and colonized nations. This is the same reason why there is a star for national capitalists on the flag of the PRC!

Thanks for the clarification! I remember the brief negative oil prices during March 2020 as speculators suddenly were on the hook to collect oil which there was no demand for and for which they had no facilities.

I think it’s important to make use of it while it’s available but still be critical/suspicious. In the meantime, Pal Action is making some real wins. I am sorry to hear about the pain and hardship he has caused your comrades and organization. For radical movements to really be sustainable, they need to be member funded and independent of these fickle streams of support which can be turned off at a whim.

Why are coffee prices given in cents per pound but referred to as dollars per pound in source material?

Partisan usually refers to guerilla bands without strong institutions or state infrastructure. For example, it doesn’t really apply to Hezbollah which is a quasi-state and approaching a conventional military. It certainly doesn’t apply to Iran which is a conventonal army.

NPA and Naxals have large numbers of active women combatants.

Exactly. It would be amusing if this was a rug-pull: “thanks for the capital, you are now expropriated.” Although that would dissuade a lot of future investment. 30% government stake also means getting to majority ownership is %66 the cost they have already put up. Definitely doable.

I’m familiar with that source! Thank you so much for sharing and for taking the time to make the relevant sections parsable.

I would be a bit worried about foreign investment/ownership (70%) mentioned. But they seem to be very critical and deliberate with disciplining foreign capital. This capacity is 16% of power from oil and 13.8% of total national power usage in 2022.

Could you share the document if at all possible? This is a big help! The particular new insights are about how to plan the run of appliances.

Thanks!

Could you share it?

For sure! Thankfully I never became a sodahead. I usually want to eat flavored popcorn or ice cream.

Personifying the concept of world communism is wrong. It removes communism from the agency of the working peoples and makes it into a reified abstraction. We should not look up to see communism but side to side into the eyes of our comrades and siblings.

This is the ultimate embodiment of great man history.

I think I just need to start leaving my wallet at home honestly. Just carry busfare for emergenices.

This is the main thing. I don’t have AC and the US heat wave has been a struggle. I have stocked up on frozen fruit which helps a lot at home & now I just have to resist the siren song while out of the house.

Y donde gobeirnan el partido communista? Yo se que Jadu era el alcalde de un pueblo pero no mas de esto…