Yes, one needs to study the circumstances of revolution in itself to understand how it develops i guess. I'm kinda loving the idea of studying in china to get a better idea of it but we will see if that is possible. We definitely will not just kick off a revolution tomorrow because people get genocided. Not because we dont want to but because even if we were thousands in eg germany (which we are not) and united (which we are not) and could overwhelm the hypermilitarized state (which we cant) and could seize the military power (which we cant) and could just march on palestine (which we cant) we would still be annihilated with nuclear bombs by either nato or the occupational force in palestine.
Oof. Antimaterialist perspective imo. I think it is an important read as someone who fits this stereotype but the conclusion is highly chauvinist imo. Reeks of bourgois feminism.
I have listened to this anticommunist go full on revisionist. I got kinda tipped off by his flirtation with trotskyism but I still wasnt sure if he was going to go there but he absolutely did. I shit on this reactionary rat.
I feel like today things are kind of popping off on grad. I have seen a lot of posts that arent materialist in nature (no sources) and are very strongly worded. This doesnt help the people here understand the problem, neither does blaming western comrades. People in the west are working overtime in educating, building resilience and keep going at the same time. Its antimaterialist to put blame on them and calling them names isnt respectful. Lets talk about facts that we can prove:
there is a genocide being conducted for a long time with the support of nato states
the conditions for people in palestine are so cruel that a lot of people would outright faint if they saw it
people around the world are working to stop this, slow it down or somehow mitigate the ongoing genocide
Everything else that is provable will need to get pushed, made public and carried through the golden media dome of the west. In the meantime, i will keep in contact with palestinian liberation movements and listen to their suggestions and educate myself and others further. That is what I can do and that is what I suggest others to do.
Fully agree. I think it is important, same as the recent discussion about cutlure, that we band together to work out these things and create actual scientific socialist perspectives on this instead of letting the reactionary west dictate the discussion. o7
Autistics are hyper-exploited in capitalist societies but I too hear very little about it’s impact in socialist and dem-soc countries, or in the global south in general.
My theory to that is that people in the imperial core face a set of contradictions that autistic people on average cant solve and break down due to it. it is the overt cruelty vs the relative comfort which is ultimately bought with blood. The suicide rate is skyrocketing in the imperialist states, legal and illegal drug use is skyrocketing as imo self medication kicks in to not break down individually.
The tension of demanding our (autistics) hyper-exploitation and us being acutely aware of that could be a factor (such as through diagnoses ascribed as ‘pathological demand avoidance’ or other ‘developmental disorders’).
To this, after 25 years of self-studying psychology on and off, I would theorize that it shows the contradiction that autistic people often cant function in this environment and go the self stigmatizing and agonizing route of getting tons of diagnoses to somehow get taken off some of the burden which otherwise might lead to suicide.
Even apparent efforts to reframe autism in a positive light also positions us as exceptional, gifted, and thus groomable and exploitable. Whereas out of that context, epigentic behaviors as impacted by environment don’t seem to be so significant for accomodations (disability).
To this I want to offer a different perspective. The differences between autistic people are also clear in bourgois society but they are much more nuanced in a marxist perspective. Being gifted (as in having a special talent for e.g. spatial thinking, word association, memory, etc.) is real. People have different capabilities and denying such is ableist and reactionary imo. The difference imo is that bourgois society and psychology uses a binary approach which labels people as gifted or non gitfted, making them two "classes" which makes sense in an oppression perspective but of course it also makes sense in a socialist environment to test and build certain talents. This means, as with AI, being gifted or having certain talents is material reality and letting go of the dogmatism of denying that and not further trying to pull people back in their unique talents imo is the way to go.
Again, I think this would loudly scream for a marxist work on it so that we can have a stronger foundation and can set some things as given and throw out others without having to discuss them over and over. :)
The autism question is currently one of my least favorite as one faces some cruel contradictions alongside it:
i dont think we have one percent of marxists in the western population, therefore the amount of non bourgois people who can attack this issue minuscule
autism isnt a huge issue in socialist countries from what i have read so far
culture war is only appropriate alongside class war and imo has no bearing on its own as it ultimately leads to dysfunctionality and sectarianism
My personal situation does not make the question easier to work on:
being gifted and having virtually no theory of mind, I cant imagine what autism feels like for people who are not gifted
being manyfold marginalized, yet privileged in some parts leads to mental health issues for me paired with the bourgois guilt economy
Material circumstances of course dictate that people have different capabilities. Meeting bourgois ableism head on is its own issue entirely.
From those contradictions my answer always is a dialectical materialist work on autism, maybe based on radical psychology as referenced in a prolespod episode of last year which was very good.
If you have additional suggrstions or ideas as how to take on this issue, feel free to voice them. :)
I can also see us being the first ones in the gas chambers again because we dont fall for propaganda as easily due to lacking framing effect and lacking social cohesion.
This is hands down the best perspective I have ever read on the imperial core. THIS is how I understand marxism after like 10 Books or more and praxis. I aspire to become this good at analysis and concise at formulating the results.
i think the best question here would be "what is the communist way in general?" From the movie "the communist" which you can watch for free on youtube, a soviet production btw, I derive that as communists we must see ourselves (abilities dictate the extent) as a leatherman tool which has to do everything but not perfect.
This said and having extensive experience on mastodon, I suggest not hanging up on a single server but staying mobile. Reason being that being honest, we're gonna get banned or expose our backs on mastodon (meaning by ownership of a server aka papertrail).
For that reason, you can of course join any mastodon instance such as matapacos, marxist-network, union.place, etc. Its not important as you might have to hop around anyway. The idea is to start engaging with other marxists and just BEING openly marxist and showing people that this exists. Hoping around will also make you harder to silence. Its one of my issues as owning a server. I can be defederated and cant hop around a lot.
Edit: In addition, bourgois instances might have defederated the instances mentioned above anyway and therefore it is better to join a little bit larger ones and going more crypto while smaller ones can be more open. We obviously must deploy the tactics of the enemy to get a foothold (brigading, etc.) but in a way that does not spoil the communist image as we want people to hear us, not hate us.
Someone I met warned me of reading it. "Be careful, it is very convincing, yet very unnuanced." After reading it, I understood what western "leftists" mean with "nuance". its code for "stabilizing for the status quo".
Can we please talk about the fact that the us and german imperialist states have been running on absolute gross approval ratings for some time now and its either a new thing or the previous generations have done nothing about it. I think there are some juicy contradictions in there to work with. Is it propaganda thats not living up to the heightening deterioration or are there other things at play? I'm asking to do strategy.
Yes, one needs to study the circumstances of revolution in itself to understand how it develops i guess. I'm kinda loving the idea of studying in china to get a better idea of it but we will see if that is possible. We definitely will not just kick off a revolution tomorrow because people get genocided. Not because we dont want to but because even if we were thousands in eg germany (which we are not) and united (which we are not) and could overwhelm the hypermilitarized state (which we cant) and could seize the military power (which we cant) and could just march on palestine (which we cant) we would still be annihilated with nuclear bombs by either nato or the occupational force in palestine.