Absolutely, every “isolated” action is not isolated, what we share with people around us can be shared by people around them. In terms of the subjective conditions for a revolution, this is necessary, and natural even. After all, we are communists in our personal lives as well.

In terms of the objective conditions for a revolution, it all boils down to organization up until the organization is able to supersede the organization of the bourgeois state. So, for revolutionary praxis, there’s no other method.

I say this not condemning anyone for not organizing, there could be several reasons one chooses not to. I’m not organized in a party, for instance, after I broke with PCB in 2021. But I practice organization in parts of my life, such as on ProleWiki, basically only bureaucratically managing stuff. This does not count as revolutionary praxis, in my opinion, even, if there’s a revolutionary purpose.

I have a group with only three people, me, another commie and a left-leaning sympathizer. We created an informal WhatsApp group simply to discuss about these subjects. We are thinking about adding more people. If I’m able to convince the group to study Marxism together, and create a Marxist group, we could perhaps do interesting things in terms of revolutionary praxis, but we’re only engaging here and then, it’s nothing serious, so it’s not even close to that.

This is what I think in terms of revolutionary praxis. Organization is a survival tactic of working people, and we should not be restricted to currently existing parties, nor be afraid to form organizationо of our own to fight for certain immediate issues. This is the only and true revolutionary praxis, everything outside of this is a form of deviation.

Nice edit. Is this the best quality version of it?

There’s no praxis without organization when it comes to revolutionary praxis of the working class. So ideally what a single, isolated person can do is to join other single, isolated people and begin small, by organizing a Marxist study group, for instance.

damn bro

Excellent, I prefer the current version! Great work

It was very interesting how you inverted the roles in the pro-Israel piece by New York Post, suddenly the piece began making much more sense

I don’t know how substack works, is there any way (in form, not content) to make it clearer the inversion of the article is based on the New York Post? Like italics, or a quote thing

Excellent work, comrade. Ping me the link here once it’s out, I’d love to read it!

Is she old? Old people are very stubborn and we shouldn’t expect to change their minds (expect is the keyword here, you can only find out trying)

By the description of your aunt, she is indeed very difficult to work with, and she does look like she needs professional help to deal with her emotional issues. Her odd political views is a second issue, the first one is her personality, attitude and behavior.

However, if she does not want to change, does not see how difficult she makes coexistence, then it’s no use. Save yourself, as best you can, and your siblings. Stick together and try your best to leave that place and leave that woman alone.

Who uses conservapedia as if it was a reliable source

I sing and I play guitar. Used to play French horn too, a long time ago

I usually play classical music on the acoustic guitar, but I’m still learning a few pieces

It was originally coined by a racist schizophrenic (Terry Davis), and adopted by a racist community (4chan), but the meaning itself is not racist.

I can just invest in shares&crypto and make my usual 5% per year

Can you really? Is it really a safe investment?

The main reason why some children are bullies has to do with the prevalence of abusive parents, usually. So to fight against this trend is to implement collective day care which would have professionals taking care of children for the large part of their early life instead of parents who are not trained to do so.

Don’t get fooled by this, the Workers’ Party of Brazil is a social-liberal party dominated by bourgeois factions. They have a few Marxist militants, but it’s by far the minority of the party, which is composed of millions of people, the majority of which blindly follows their opportunist leadership.

No need to anonymize them, we need to know their names, and who they are. We need to recognize our class traitors.

It really depends on where you live. Certain commodities are cheaper depending on their availability and ease of access in relation to the world market or national market.

For instance, in Europe, the price of rice tends to vary between 2€ and 4€, while in Brazil, a large producer of rice tends to vary between R$4 (0.72€) to R$10 (1.79€) at most, because we are a massive producer of it.

Capitalism creates or “prepares” the material conditions for revolution.

Each revolution will be colored by its specific material conditions

We do not set the conditions for revolution. We identify those conditions, through application of theory

It’s true that we do not set the conditions for the revolution. But only a half-truth. There are material, but also subjective conditions. If the people disapproves the revolutionary movement, it won’t ever succeed. And even some material conditions are in our control, the extent of the organization of the revolutionary movement is a material thing. There are people involved.

Every revolutionary movement in the past featured intellectual, military leadership of groups of people or organizations. It’s our responsibility to prepare these conditions for revolution. But the revolution itself won’t happen by our choice.

If Marxism-Leninism is a science, there must be some technical aspect. What are we supposed to do in the world? How do we do it? And how do we know if it’s working?

The whole point of Marxism-Leninism is not to ‘make’ a revolution, but to prepare the conditions for revolution. We shouldn’t expect everyone to read theory, theory is just for the vanguard. But Marxists-Leninists should focus on improving mass consciousness before anything else. Every action should be subordinated to this particular task. An organization should exist solely for that purpose, until the task is achieved

politics cannot be brought up at all when I meet them

What was the reasoning given for this?

I never read it, but how about Inventing Reality by Parenti?