Thx for checking up, not sure there’s anything we can do atm.

That’s a good shot. He’s peeking at you a bit trying to figure out what you’re up to.

Honestly revisionism should just be dropped as a term due to how vague it is, and how it’s been used to demonize AES, and as a dogmatic adherence to whatever given text suits the demonizer.

Scientific socialism needs to undergo constant revisions and updates to suit changing conditions and particular situations.

You can also find the audiobook of this on torrents and youtube.

This was clearly written by someone ignoring new tablets, especially from china.

My main working device is a xiaomi pad.

Overall a great video, and she did go over this a bit, but it should be stressed that our participation should be limited to

• Supporting our own candidates in our own working-class parties (IE not the democrats or any capitalist party). These “bourgeios socialists” like AOC, bernie, and mamdani, are not educated enough to realize that by calling themselves “socialists” while running in a capitalist party, they’re watering down the definition to mean just a more equitable sharing of the imperial spoils. None of them are advocating ending the US war machine.
• that it should be used only as a platform to spread socialist ideas, which of course can’t come about through the system of bourgeios democracy.

A common tactic of US imperialist and western supremacist socialists, is to ignore the history of the failure of capitalist-party-entryism, especially in the imperial core. Lenin’s advice to the british communists stressed both above, and still ultimately didn’t work out, due to the bribery of the labor aristocracy from the spoils of imperialism.

I can’t recommend highly enough Losurdo - Western Marxism, audiobook here, for the basis of all these “euro-communist” / western chauvinist marxists.

These rule, thx for these.

Definitely. Christianity was an extremely powerful tool to “pacify” populations, and columbus pretty much inaugurated the era of Christian colonialism.

“If they can’t pacify you with the bible, then they use the gun”.

Italy is also a very extroverted culture with a collectivist, outgoing tradition that even today opposes social atomization that capitalism creates

Almost the polar opposite of anglos. Italians are outgoing, social, community-focused / communitarian. Anglos are reserved, individualistic, and care more about unlimited freedom for individuals than collective betterment.

North Italy especially had a very revolutionary tradition, throughout various periods there were more communists than liberals, especially after the russian revolution, and during the 1950s-70s. It was one of the main fronts of the cold war, which is why the CIA put so many resources into killing them during the years of lead and stamping out their orgs via gladio.

The Italian and other southern and eastern european expats to the US during the early 1900s formed the core of most of its communist / socialist organizing too. They were highly-communitarian minded people, pretty much the opposite of anglos.

Highly recommend comrades read Paul Williams - Operation Gladio.

The vatican and catholic power structure was always allied with reactionaries in both europe and latin america, and helped latin american countries hunt down and kill leftists, including liberation theology priests. The last pope, pope Francis, even helped imprison and kill several during the argentian junta.

Highly recommend reading Paul L Williams - Operation Gladio, because it gets into this history, especially the cold-warrior alliance of the CIA / NATO, the catholic church, fascist lodges and stay-behind units in Europe and SA, and the mob. The vatican played a large role in many of anti-communist atrocities of the 20th century.

Country dependent I suppose. Chile and Argentina are going to have high numbers pro-israel and pro-us ppl of because those countries helped the US kill all their leftists for several generations.

A lot of catholics too are going to follow the vatican’s pro-genocide line.

The proletarian versions also. Class antagonisms are the reason for the repressive organs of state.

When there are no capitalists left to suppress, most of the need for repressive organs withers away, just like you don’t need to keep a large standing army in peace-time.

What would be the point of keeping around a large police force, without poverty, or capitalists to suppress? The diminishing of their numbers will be a gradual process.

Passage is phrased really weird, but regardless, Lenin explicitly stated on many occasions that this is not immediate:

“It will be necessary under the dictatorship of the proletariat to re-educate millions of peasants and small proprietors, hundreds of thousands of office employees, officials and bourgeois intellectuals, to subordinate them all to the proletarian state and to proletarian leadership, to overcome their bourgeois habits and traditions,” just as we must “–in a protracted struggle waged on the basis of the dictatorship of the proletariat–re-educate the proletarians themselves, who do not abandon their petty-bourgeois prejudices at one stroke, by a miracle, at the bidding of the Virgin Mary, at the bidding of a slogan, resolution or decree, but only in the course of a long and difficult mass struggle against the mass petty-bourgeois influences” (see Vol. XXV, pp. 248 and 247).

Even if classes (and the need for armed organizations to suppress capital and uphold proletarian rule) have dissappeared in a single country, that doesn’t mean they have dissappeared everywhere, or that the capitalist-imperialists are going to leave us alone. The history of the 20th century (with all the mass killings that US imperialism inflicted on the world) is a testament to the absolute necessity of socialist states to not disarm.

Any talk of disarming, or ridding ourselves of proletarian police, armies, and intelligence services, is anarchist childishness.

Lenin also doesn’t say this will happen immediately: he says it will take an entire epoch of socialist construction, with advances and retreats, for class antagonisms to resolve (ie the elimination of capital).

Please report usages of ppl using those words also, so we can remove them.

We may also temp ban repeat offenders, and if they dig in on use of these slurs, then permaban them.

We came down to the front of the Twelfth Army, back of Riga, where gaunt and bootless men sickened in the mud of desperate trenches; and when they saw us they started up, with their pinched faces and the flesh showing blue through their torn clothing, demanding eagerly, “Did you bring anything to read?”

• John Reed - The Ten days that shook the world

1. Don’t de-link from the world market. We can’t really blame the USSR for the cold war, and the US successfully alienating them from the rest of the world, but there were times in the USSR’s history when overtures could have been made, especially to non-aligned countries.
2. Don’t shy away from a market economy; create a socialist market economy that serves the people. People love treats, and if the capitalist world is able to give them treats, and you aren’t, then people will lose faith in your system over time.
3. Make sure the military and intelligence forces are controlled by the party, politically educated, and vigilant against opportunists and careerists.
4. Don’t get involved in war quagmires, or fund revolution abroad. The US set many traps the USSR fell into, and used its larger resources to force the USSR to drain its economy and focus too many material and human resources on the military, which isn’t a productive sector. In a poker game where your opponent has more chips, and forces you to pay a high ante, you should always fold except with the strongest of hands. After you get nukes, you can just always fold and never pay any ante, as has been proven by the PRC and DPRK.

The PRC and other socialist countries have mostly addressed these.

The leet-code and AI bubbles are bursting. Plus nearly every industry in the west has high-turnover now. You work there a few years max, get burnt out, then they make room for fresh grads who will work for less.