GenZedong VeganicTankie • 2 weeks ago • 98%

"Wallace: To get rich is glorious. That declaration by Chinese leaders to their people surprises many in the capitalist world. What does that have to do with communism? Deng: We went through the “cultural revolution”. During the “cultural revolution” there was a view that poor communism was preferable to rich capitalism. After I resumed office in the central leadership in 1974 and 1975, I criticized that view. Because I did so, I was brought down again. Of course, there were other reasons too. I said to them that there was no such thing as poor communism. According to Marxism, communist society is based on material abundance. Only when there is material abundance can the principle of a communist society — that is, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” — be applied. Socialism is the first stage of communism. Of course, it covers a very long historical period. The main task in the socialist stage is to develop the productive forces, keep increasing the material wealth of society, steadily improve the life of the people and create material conditions for the advent of a communist society. There can be no communism with pauperism, or socialism with pauperism. So to get rich is no sin. However, what we mean by getting rich is different from what you mean. Wealth in a socialist society belongs to the people. To get rich in a socialist society means prosperity for the entire people. The principles of socialism are: first, development of production and second, common prosperity. We permit some people and some regions to become prosperous first, for the purpose of achieving common prosperity faster. That is why our policy will not lead to polarization, to a situation where the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. To be frank, we shall not permit the emergence of a new bourgeoisie." Interview to Deng Xiaoping

Asklemmy VeganicTankie • 4 weeks ago • 98%

Reddit third-party client ban closed user messages behind paywall. I think we the Lemmitors should stop AI training on us or at least monetise it (for our instances)

Open Source VeganicTankie • 1 month ago • 71%

Hello, When a phone is being stolen, the first thing a thief will try to do is to turn on flying mode or shutdown. Google play has an app called "Cerberus" that disables powering off and control panel on your phone when locked, but it asks for too many permissions for a proprietary app IMO. Does anyone know any F-Droid alternatives?

Comradeship // Freechat VeganicTankie • 1 month ago • 97%

I like a few non-political sublemmies from lemmyworld because they are big. But the political ones are so toxic they literally allow citing [mein kamf](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5330805) and dehumanizing Russians. Isn't it hypocritical for their admins to accuse us of "negativity" when they literally allow racism on their instance? The commenters on their defed post call lemmygradians hateful, I think that's projection Liberals are against all forms oppression except those that they like (speciesism, Russophobia, Slavophobia, Sinophobia).

GenZedong VeganicTankie • 3 months ago • 100%

I think we're far from it for now. China still depends on ASML (West) and is nowhere near learning to do EUV for chipmaking.

Ask Lemmygrad VeganicTankie • 3 months ago • 95%

On youtube, there seem to be few videos that explain dialectical materialism in a way children and liberals can understand. How do you explain dialectical thinking to someone in a very popular way?

Ask Lemmygrad VeganicTankie • 3 months ago • 96%

There are "Texas nationalists" who want to secede from the US and "SmthExit" movements all around Europe. These don't sound really anticolonial, but this beef within the West seems to make their bourgeoisie weaker.

Vegan Circlejerk VeganicTankie • 3 months ago • 100%

We outnumber humans, enlist and show these two-legged bastards our moo-power!

Comradeship // Freechat VeganicTankie • 4 months ago • 97%

I decided to support AES with my penny, so I want to buy a phone that has 3+ years of support and is good at privacy. I was a Galaxy user with a Lineageos rom before, but I think even stock roms can be debloated. Lemmygrad (and hex) must be the only place with pro-China folks who are also enthusiastic about privacy, so I'm asking here

Comradeship // Freechat VeganicTankie • 5 months ago • 100%

Why bother making startups when I can just invest in shares&crypto and make my usual 1-2% per year? Capitalism "breeds innovation" but most startups are really just "make toilet paper a subscription" or "buy from China/USA/Germany and resell". There are few startups based on actual scientific advancements. Yes, I'm asking about investing while I'm broke EDIT: 5% was an exaggeration

Comradeship // Freechat VeganicTankie • 5 months ago • 93%

Arguing with leftists on reddit is weird. They hate us tankies for loving AES, they hate all successful socialist states. Why do they deny their ideologies (anarchism, demsoc) failed miserably? Ok, maybe we the Soviets had to leave Makhnovites alone. Would they stand up to Western imperialists? No way Demsoc? The moment socialists win elections, your "democracy" disappears faster than I drink my vodka. Allende was violently toppled by Augusto.

vegan VeganicTankie • 5 months ago • 94%

Long live Lenin, long live the Soviet motherland! Most humans aren't vegan for three reasons: 1. Material conditions. As a child, I saw children being kind to stray cats and dogs by feeding them. From what my parents said, they saw kids abusing stray animals and birds. So with better material conditions, people's treatment of animals changes. 2. Social norms. For men, being vegan is sometimes a "feminine" thing. For women, refusing to cook carnist food for your husband is unwelcome (at best) and dangerous (at worst). 3. Consumerism. You're conditioned to eat burgers, you're brainwashed to believe you need meat, your TV series never show vegans in good light (haha their food is boring XDDDD). The animal-industrial complex funds disinformation think tanks, assassinations, lobbyists to keep their business afloat. Is there "natural" speciesism? No idea. If humans are heartless by nature, then they must at least reduce animal ag to simply not destroy our planet and public health. They don't do that. To me it looks like animal ag propaganda is not only hostile to anti-speciesism, but to any reforms. Even environmentalists can't stop animal ag. So maybe there is hope to make the world vegan, after the world become socialist? Lots of carnists pretend to be socially progressive, but eating meat is as bad as racism or transphobia. So you're not socially progressive if you eat meat (or dairy, or eggs). We know that the proletariat is very conservative these days, we must convince them to fight for socialism. For that, all successful movements like the Bolsheviks allowed socially conservative folk to join. No revolution succeeded without your woodworker Ivan and farmer Vladimir, who still have reactionary ideas. These ideas will disappear. So we should ok carnist leftists until capitalism is dead, unless they are actively counterrevolutionary.

badposting VeganicTankie • 5 months ago • 100%

Boo tankies are bad they support China. I oppose every successful communist state, I'm a true leftist. Boo authoritarians

vegan VeganicTankie • 5 months ago • 96%

A lot of leftists are marxist-leninist, anti-sexist, LGBT+ and anti-racist. BUT, they'll tell you the dumbest right-wing arguments to justify eating animals. I get that people aren't ideal, but when you are the urban middle class of the West, there's no excuse to not be vegan. Absolutely, no, excuse, to, murder, animals. Historical materialism lets me ok people from poor/oppressed backgrounds being carnist. I would never denounce a carnist in Gaza, but the Westerners have no any excuses to abuse animals. I get that some people just have no will, I know people can be addicted. But at least DON'T BE A JERK to vegans. Some "leftists" post propaganda about veganism like YT videos that are literally funded by oil corporations. Some "leftists" are so toxic I'd rather have a conservative as my roommate than them. The "leftists" lie all the time. Meat, dairy, eggs and honey are luxury products available mosty to those in the imperial core. The poor countries like India, Nigeria, Uganda and North Korea eat diets closest to veganism BECAUSE plant foods are the cheapest foods, not carnist subsidized McFood. Dealing with leftists, especially online, is draining to me. How can I be productive as a leftist and not go insane? How can I cooperate with carnists to achieve the revolution? I see no easy solution here

Vegan Circlejerk VeganicTankie • 6 months ago • 72%

I consider myself a racist so I went to my city's mall promoting veganism. Obviously veganism is racist because FOOD DESERTS THO. Obviously my target audience at my city's mall were people who live in food deserts. Obviously I hate indigenous people who live off fishing, I hate them by promoting veganism near my city's mall Veganism bad, b12 tho, d4 tho, K9 tho, omega tho