Would W.M. Akers' "Comrades" count as a TTRPG to add to your list? It was made by an anarchist with a heavy dislike for "Stalinists" though

O7 We thank you for your service comrade!

I think something along the lines of; Capitalism is unable to ever "win". No matter how many communists you kill, how many of them you force to live under capitalism, or how many of them you force to "disavow" communism, you can't kill the idea. The struggle never ends, dialectics tells us this very clearly: Capitalism is unable to solve it's inherent contradictions, even if all knowledge of communism were to disappear, someone would inevitably bring it up again.

Or he would aggressively point at this picture with the quote over and over again.

It prevents you from realizing that you share problems with the vast majority, preventing many people from becoming class conscious. And if they do realise these problems they'll gravitate towards individualistic solutions to systemic problems (for example: climate change is the consumers fault, just buy your way out of it), for which capitalism swoops in to provide a product/service to give the illusion of "I'm doing my part".

It's also unnatural and doesn't go well with the fact that we were never supposed to live this way.

If you decide to go through with it, know that we're with you every step of the way if you want our help comrade!

I couldn't finish it, was too cringe for me...

Similar energy as: no women on conservative dating apps

I feel this. After 6 years of work I'm about to decide what I'll be studying. Saw the videos and heard the horror stories. Did all the sharing on social media (and still do) but it feels like it achieves nothing.

Spoke to a palestinian refugee 2 weeks ago who studied robotics. 5 years younger than me too. All his plans for his future are gone. And here I am planning for my potential future just like he did.

Only thing keeping me up is revolutionary optimism, which I basically recite like a mantra, like an idiom from a culture I don't understand.

Missing context, but they are trying really hard to bait you to respond. Even if they are acting in good faith, nothing you'll say would persuade them anyway.

Waste of time imo

• Israel tried to ally itself with the Nazis
• literally everything Theodor Herzl has said, done and written
• The ICJ ruling
• IDF commanders citing and paraphrasing SS-Waffen commanders
• watch the documentary (think it's called "Birth of a Nation"), shows them laughing about the atrocities they commited
• biggest open-air concentration camp

While writing this I realized you could probably just watch Hakims youtube videos about Palestine and Israel to get the major points

Happy Birthday comrade!

First I've heard of this, considering it

Did you choose traditional or simplified Chinese?

Only basic stuff, the stuff they can't deny They just portray socialism as bad and utopian (these words are used interchangeably) So capitalism is supposed to be the "grown-ups" way of things; "just look at America they have it way worse than us blabla"

Just had this one in my politics class lol

Is the link not working for everyone else too or is it blocked/deleted?

Thanks for the words of wisdom!

Just to clear up any confusion, the revisionism part was aimed at the MLPD, not the DKP. But thanks for the solid overview!

Currently grappling with this question myself, germany has 2-3 small ML parties, but there is one that is revisionist and doesn't support AES, but they have a bigger reach, higher budget and more (and more diverse) members

Since apathy and alienation are at an all-time high around here, I really don't know what to do

Frodo Baggins from Lotr, Hajime Hinata from Danganronpa 2

edit: Cloud Strife from the Remake comes to mind, though he doesn't rank as high as the former 2

Dark mode, but why are you asking this in this community?

It's pretty hard to write anything concrete that works for all possible works of fiction, but I'd say most of them are ill-suited to a character suddenly spouting ML-rhetoric. There needs to be some basis for the character's radicalization that is rooted in their material conditions. Harry Potter for example has almost no chance of achieving class consciousness, as he's quite privileged (and later on joins the wizard cops).

The benevolent ruler trope is just something I see often in fantasy, even if they mean well, it's just the reform vs. revolution argument.

Well, the conditions for communism to exist must be there. In our world, we have experience with slavery and wage-labour, as well as philosophers (Marx) that built on the ideas of previous ones (Hegel) to radically change society. The proletariat needs certain precarious conditions to achieve class consciousness and needs a vanguard. You can start your story without the vanguard though (maybe the protagonist will build the vanguard?). But to actually formulate it precisely: For the proletariat to rise up it actually needs to be exploited in the first place. Most fantasy societies will have people with different power levels, so you would need to think of an in-universe way of how they would resolve this too.

The benevolent ruler is just a trope that is loved by liberals, it's at it's core just the old reform vs. revolution argument

Let the Dialectics guide you Lenin. - Karl Marx in A New Hope

I thought the same thing as you before, especially when I started to watch Andor. As long as you keep in mind that the ideas the characters have come from their material conditions and avoid the trope of the benevolent ruler, I don't see much that could go wrong. Really interested in what others here have to say about it.

Learning theory changed my outlook on life a lot. It put a stop to my doomer lifestyle and gave me a light at the end of the tunnel. I got (and still get) a lot of comments from ex-coworkers who said that, in the last few months of this year when I quit my job, that I seemed happier and healthier.

I guess mostly it took away my fear of the world by giving me words and the tools to really understand the world around me.

Worst take so far, please face the wall.

God this whole situation is just so ridiculous I don't even know how to respond anymore. Like, do liberals never read this? Do they actually have no idea that this is happening?

Welcome back comrade

Morality is subjective.

Is it moral that some people work multiple jobs and barely survive?

Is it moral to have the bodys of refugees wash up at the shore because the country said they don't want to take in that many?

Obviously these questions evoke our natural response of "No!". But you would be shocked how, when asked these questions in the context of a debate between lib and ml, most libs might say that these are moral failings that are necessary and are outweighed by the good of the "fReE MaRkEt".

I think I would get firebending. Why? It's so closely related to passion and emotion it would have to be my bending power. That's it really.

definitely 9

incredibly based

but when you tell them that the conversation inevitably goes towards Nukes. How this is the firt big conflict with danger of them being used (not true unless you know 'Murica) or how it only happened cause The Ukraine didn't have any.

So you're telling me that it takes a Nuke for you to finally care about other human lives?

As a vegan I would still participate in the eating of rich people, because it doesn't harm good, sentient beings.

They will use this as proof that we are evil cause tAnKiEs liTEraLly censoring mah freeze-peach

I saw an elderly customer yesterday with this as his t-shirt. Definitely a based lemmygrad user.

lol I am also 25. What is going on here lol.

But I guess: EARLY-MIDLIFE CRISIS GANG UNITE!!! edit: also nicely written text, I salute you comrade

Damn this was hard to read 'cause it hits very close to home. Got beat as a kid by my parents and had to basically learn how to rely only on myself. This obviously fucks up all my relationships now in life.

I know this gets said so much it slowly loses it's meaning but; It's never too late to recover/get better/learn something new. And It gets better. Slowly. But it really does get better. I still beat myself up for what afterwards or viewed by someone else would seem silly.

But everyday, every week every month, I get better at spotting it and stop myself from talking myself down. I was even able to make an important call for my "college" application a few days ago!

Goddammit I always wish to give people more support in these times and say something profound. I feel like a coward for not organising already. For not destroying this worthless system that is trapping everyone I love and care about. Didn't meet my own standards again. But I won't let it get to me. This isn't a showing of me being an ultimate failure. But I am also not a main character in a novel or video game who does epic stuff on their own. I am slowly getting better. Wiser. Smarter. Stronger.

And as much as I am not a failure for being as fit as some people, or as smart as some people, or as determined or as enduring or whatever have you, I know you are not a failure too.

We cannot and should not do everything ourselves. We need other people to cover for our shortcomings and to help us see things from different perspectives.

We will band together and be more than the sum of our parts. And we will win.

Also been to a party a few years back, don't worry you haven't missed anything. They mostly suck.

Ursula Kuczynski is one of my favourites. Spied for the Soviet Union and defended the GDR to the last moment.

German here. People here really love to point out that we have a democracy but it's just for show.

The greens just agreed to build more coal plants and close our last nuclear ones and together with the "workers" party they up our military spending and encourage more wars. Did I also mention that we basically single-handedly stop the entire EU from advancing their climate goals?

There is nothing to be prouud of here, but everyone loves it as all people I know embraced neoliberalism.

Some even say it out loud no joke: "I don't care what happens to people in 3rd world countries as long as the government at least keeps me happy."

I don't identify with any of this, I guess at least we fund people who want to study with affordable and really easy to pay off loans (for me going to college now I don't even have to pay it back).