commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]

Unintended may be somewhat true, in that nobody explicitly had that as a conscious reason, but it was an obvious result that they could’ve known beforehand. So I don’t think it’s useful at all to call it unintended. Just an easily understood and expected side effect

Libs and your obsession with whataboutism. This one isn’t even “whatabout,” the point is that the guy in this picture was fine, and in fact the army did everything in their power not to harm him.

In a complete opposite fashion, US drone operators gleefully shot random people and caused unbelievable harm to an entire region.

I proudly defend whataboutism when it’s used to exemplify the necessity of some tactic elsewhere or to compare similar cases for better understanding. But this isn’t even that

Is bike theft not a major issue in New York It’s the main thing keeping me from getting one. Bikes get stolen so frequently that I prefer my 100 buck bike, much more easily replaced.

Philosophy absolutely has the ability to examine and propose better definitions when definitions (like the ones you linked) do not capture the phenomenon. Losurdo read more books than you’ve seen by liberals in order to write his “Liberalism” book. He understood the phenomenon deeper and further than its dictionary use.

How do you capture such a thing in your world view? Because he found flaws in definitions and worked deeper, he just did nothing because it wasnt the Oxford definition?

Liberalism is associated with those things because it allowed them to happen to avoid a negative effect to property rights (revolution, riots) once more radical people pushed for them. Liberalism is reactionary and regressive, but some liberals are easier to convince of specific rights extensions than others. You’ve been lied to a lot if you think liberals did these things

Now I’m not sure about making those 1 thing or relating them at all.

Max Ajl is famously at least hopeful about Degrowth but rails against half-earth socialism.

Degrowth has nothing to do with population, it claims that overconsumption for the purpose of profit (like single-use, non-repairable, non-renewable) all correlate much more strongly to destruction that population. Degrowthers often see humans living harmoniously with nature as the goal, and often in integrated ways.

Half earth socialism sees earth being split into 2 portions and “not touching” some and allowing others to have human activity. It misunderstands the issue at base and assigns a solution which will almost definitely require genocide of those who already live harmoniously with the environment in places that humans are forced out of.

Goddamn, a significant amount of commies in the country where I live consider themselves some absurd combination of “Post-Trotsky Kautskyists” and I haven’t a damn clue how it’s unironic. It’s mistaking ideological positions for methods and analysis. Pisses me off

I have also said many times that I’d love to volunteer my skills and knowledge to Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Loas, Ethiopia, or any other “non-luxurious” country which has been held back by imperialism. I just don’t necessarily think it’s the best way to help until we have a much more equal world. Bringing that about is priority even if it makes you feel like you’re not directly helping at the moment.

Honestly, I see this text often quoted form the book but I don’t find it super useful as a way to understand fascism. The steps and reforms were all taken for a reason and people agreed with that reason, even the apprehensive agreed enough to stay seated. I think this “separation” isn’t the best thesis out of this book, because the Nazi Party didn’t shift too much in terms of popularity throughout these shifts, except to grow more popular during wartime. The government promised something and many accepted those conditions or at least lent moral license to the achieving the goal and were unwilling to oppose the conditions.

Fascism is Liberalism when and where Liberalism fails to accomplish it’s promises and must consume the people and stuff at the periphery to achieve its goals. A government is just as “far” from its people when it is doing good things that it’s people desire as when it does bad things.

I love the book but have major issues with the ideological assumptions, mostly surrounding fascism’s relationship to its people and to other ideologies

They Thought They Were Free. Book caused me to reevaluate exactly how politics at individual and social levels happened and how fascism works without any individual being inherently “evil.” Class politics and interests followed closely behind to explain how evil can arise among populations that all consider themselves “good people”

Thanks comrade. Language philosophy is why I got into reading in depth books. The national question arises reallllly quickly once you try to understand this whole amazing tapestry of speech and writing around the world. And communism follows quickly to provide a framework for analysis and answers.

Sorry that rant got off topic but I still want to leave it

The flattening of dialect continuums for either nationalist reasons or ease of reading a certain written version of important books (the Bible, often) has had some absurd results. The Russian dialect spoken in east Ukraine is not something that historically was spoken there outside of the influence from the Russian empire or the soviet union, but it’s similarity to Russian was close enough for that to be an easy pickup. The dialect can shift more regionally until it’s less intelligible and Russian was seen as always something different enough to need to speak it separately (as opposed to just shifting some sounds to be more understandable).

This whole thing gets flattened to meaninglessness and just “2 languages” or “2 dialects” because we obsess with this categorization with the desire for some meaningful Continuum through time. It’s idealist to name this “distinction” as causal, but it still is easy to see the results of these processes as being tragic in so many contexts.

There is a gorgeous aspect to this historical situation, but of course we can’t return to that: now we have standardized languages in much of the world and people who have been convinced to fight for those sets of ways of speaking. Idk what my point is exactly, besides that this is all socially determined (whether or not a language is mutually intelligible is determined by a social history, and whether it’s considered to be a specific of some universal is also socially determined) and we communists should keep that in mind. It becomes material is liberation struggles, as well as during the oppression before it. But it’s material under more primary material aspects

Some really good artists at Hexbear too

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They meant that the diagram refers to neither as communist but “leftist” and “anti-american…” respectively. They are both communists in reality but not in the meme

Everything brothers Grimm. They were obviously early socialists, apparent in stories such as “Handel and Gretel” which feature the obvious insinuation that the witch was an anarchist feeding off of the organisation of ML’s. Don’t get the wimpy versions either, gotta be the scary ones, or else the impact of such topics won’t land for the children. More gore is better, you know? /s

Coming back to reiterate, the absolute worst thing about working for rail is that everything expensive is provided by the worst bastards ever. Fuckin imperialist military machine builders and they’re all on the fuckin BDS lists. It was devastating looking into all of the “partners” and only seeing murderers. They took our goddamn trains and oligopolized the market so that governments are dependent on them for infrastructure and transport so that any break of military ties can only destruct transport.

Delende est El occident

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Damn I work in the rail sector and what I wouldn’t give to go help China’s progress instead of the absurdly inefficient bullshit of the western world. Of course, I wish I was contributing more to fixing the world too, but just the fulfillment of seeing something done compared to all of Europe begging until defense contractors drop a couple rails down for the bloated bureaucracy

Anyone know how I can do that? I’d take serious requests