canada deathtoreddit • 2 weeks ago • 100%

mronline.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5597930 > A good read on how Canada cultivated its "nice" image at first and how its ghoulishness has now inevitably bared its face.

askchapo deathtoreddit • 3 weeks ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5504533 > I'm confused > > So far, I've heard that accumulation, technological advancement, and thus concentration of capital from the previous capitalist economy would leave its print on the later modern socialist economies > > But other than that, I've realized I've never looked much into what distinguishes AES's economic management, mainly of state-owned enterprises, from capitalist economy's management, in concrete policy > > I can understand co-operatives, but such orgs don't necessarily make up socialism, as you guys would say > > > ::: spoiler to Libs > If you gimme a deeply unserious answer, I will fuck your father > ___ > ::: >

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 3 weeks ago • 95%

I'm confused So far, I've heard that accumulation, technological advancement, and thus concentration of capital from the previous capitalist economy would leave its print on the later modern socialist economies But other than that, I've realized I've never looked much into what distinguishes AES's economic management, mainly of state-owned enterprises, from capitalist economy's management, in concrete policy I can understand co-operatives, but such orgs don't necessarily make up socialism, as you guys would say ::: spoiler to Libs If you gimme a deeply unserious answer, I will fuck your father ___ :::

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 100%

The same with Mao, in terms of balancing good and bad policies, of their OWN time.

Be sure to read the rule before you leave deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 94%

From https://hexbear.net/post/2838759

GenZedong deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 97%

How does even mess up "Republique de Coree" for "Republique Populaire Democratique de Coree" Anyways, enjoy the recognition, boys!

chapotraphouse deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 96%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5107328 > Unless something more material like a whole continent turning anti-imperialist, if not socialist, and deciding collectively to nationalize the fruit and veg produce, and thus disrupts U.S's produce imports - > > I don't think any internal problems in America would reach to a boiling point, as to end on a conclusive note > > So what if it's a big deal to you, huh, America is the most armed-country, and has a lot of guns, yet no internal civil war(s), like we've seen in the 20th century like Argentina's Dirty War or China's, has occurred recently... it's just reactionary settler business as usual > > Im America, nichts neues >

GenZedong deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 100%

Unless something more material like a whole continent turning anti-imperialist, if not socialist, and deciding collectively to nationalize the fruit and veg produce, and thus disrupts U.S's produce imports - I don't think any internal problems in America would reach to a boiling point, as to end on a conclusive note So what if it's a big deal to you, huh, America is the most armed-country, and has a lot of guns, yet no civil war(s) has occurred recently... it's just reactionary settler business as usual Im America, nichts neues

Thoughts on ...? deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5089720 > > > Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to: > > prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups. > > > Specifically, D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest... > > 1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate... > > > Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982... > > > I reached this section over here: > > Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; and the suppression of fun and play is one of the things which distinguished DK invidiously from pre-revolutionary Cambodia. > > > > Among the comments accompanying the children's drawings was the account of a boy who had worked minding water buffalo, a typical children's chore in Cambodia. He told of being punished twice in one day, once for allowing the animal to run away, also typical, but once for laughing and joking while at work, which for Cambodia was entirely aberrant. > > Thoughts on this book, or just on D.K Cambodia?

askchapo deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5089720 > > > Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to: > > prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups. > > > In the first half, it talks about how D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest... > > 1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate... > > > Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982... > > > I reached this section over here: > > Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; and the suppression of fun and play is one of the things which distinguished DK invidiously from pre-revolutionary Cambodia. > > > > Among the comments accompanying the children's drawings was the account of a boy who had worked minding water buffalo, a typical children's chore in Cambodia. He told of being punished twice in one day, once for allowing the animal to run away, also typical, but once for laughing and joking while at work, which for Cambodia was entirely aberrant. > > Thoughts on this book, or just on D.K Cambodia?

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 100%

Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to: > prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups. Specifically, D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest... 1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate... Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982... I reached this section over here: > Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; and the suppression of fun and play is one of the things which distinguished DK invidiously from pre-revolutionary Cambodia. > > Among the comments accompanying the children's drawings was the account of a boy who had worked minding water buffalo, a typical children's chore in Cambodia. He told of being punished twice in one day, once for allowing the animal to run away, also typical, but once for laughing and joking while at work, which for Cambodia was entirely aberrant. Thoughts on this book, or just on D.K Cambodia?

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 2 months ago • 97%

As an easter egg: if you recognize which user I am in hexbear, then ye know...

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 3 months ago • 95%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2858492 > I think I understand the simple model of base and superstructure (but that was Gramsci's model) > > The simple use of quantitative to qualitative change, and vice versa > > The simple fact that contradictions can exist in a society, manifesting in the form of problems, which are symptoms of its economic systems... > > > I don't think its about thesis + anti-thesis -> synthesis. > > I think its about one economic class, like capitalist to feudal lord, dominating over one class, and absorbing its birthmark attributes, before surpassing its birthmarks overall... > > Or as if a capitalist upon its created proletariat, not only ruling over them, but co-opting or destroying any of its measures > > To me, its about who the ruling most HEGEMONIC class is, and how it operates... > > Other than that, I don't know how else to apply it, let alone know if its somewhat broadly accurate.... > > Correct me if I'm wrong, if not elaborate on what ye mean?

Be sure to read the rule before you leave deathtoreddit • 3 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4937005 > If you know, you know > > > ::: spoiler spoiler > Most recent South American coup (attempt) against progressive anti-imperialist ruling government > ___ > ::: >

Quotes deathtoreddit • 3 months ago • 100%

If you know, you know ::: spoiler spoiler Most recent South American coup (attempt) against progressive anti-imperialist ruling government ___ :::

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 3 months ago • 100%

Apparently, even if I put in English settings for my post, my post is not allowed... Here's what I wanted to post: https://web.archive.org/web/20231124232348/https://rebolusyongpangkultura.blogspot.com/2016/03/mga-kanta-ng-rebolusyong-pilipino.html#rebo36

Comradeship // Freechat deathtoreddit • 3 months ago • 100%

Example: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4856206 (Pamphletz not only reveals himself to be patsoc but believes Marxism is Catholic) Jaysus wept... can they not spill their beans?

Philippines [ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔] deathtoreddit • 3 months ago • 100%

> https://hexbear.net/post/2763051 Ang sarap pugutan ng ulo mga yan sino man magkalat mga anti-vax news....

yewtu.be

Tl;dr: mixed geopolitical interests, beyond just oil, power consolidation, Saudis or Zionism It can be thst all of them are equally important goals...

GenZedong deathtoreddit • 4 months ago • 100%

odysee.com

Courtesy of Jinx_edits/Crack-connosieur

Thoughts on ...? deathtoreddit • 4 months ago • 100%

I think this should be one of the goals of ['Controlling the creation of minuscule communities and cleaning up abandoned ones'](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4596595) campaign set by Valbrandur, clearly, as this community is redundant... https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4656538 Yey or ney?

Philippines [ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔] deathtoreddit • 4 months ago • 100%

truthout.org

> Eufemia said that Lumad communities (Indigenous peoples in the southern Philippines) experience militarization, the killing of their relatives, destruction of their ancestral lands and worsening poverty.`___`

askchapo deathtoreddit • 5 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4393803 > We've already talked about school and how we can change it in the past. But today I want to discuss a specific topic related to school: bullying. > > As a neurodivergent person, I've had my own share of bullies pick on me in the past, two of which I was lucky not to get into physical fights with. There are so, so many people who have had even worse experiences with bullying. > > In school, children/adolescents pretty much have to be around each other, making it more difficult to deal with bullying. > > How can socialism deal with this issue?

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 5 months ago • 100%

I've heard this claim make the rounds, but I'm pretty sure there's more to this concept, or rather misconception, than it seems? I do not wish to ask in bad faith. I mean, even if this were true, I wouldn't support the settler state in the Middle East, and its crafted mythology....

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2331989 > I don’t really think he knows this site’s culture at all. No one is dissuading people from reading theory lol > > >  >  Yey or ney for him? As someone said in the post > As far as I can tell, he's a guy who spends all his time posting about how all leftists do is post. ~~And this ain't the first time, Roderick's a bit terminally online, arguing against other progressives like JT (Second Thought) and Michael Hudson....~~ Edit: Ok I've made a right-deviationist mistake in saying that Michael Hudson is a progressive, and indirectly agreeing with the views of the former.... I've not investigated into JT's MMT videos nor looked carefully into Hudson (I thought he was also against capitalism, turns out, only finance and feudalism..., just cares for industrial capitalism)

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns deathtoreddit • 5 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4293617 (The original post by Sovereign State) > ***Oops!*** > > I feel kind of silly. I spent 12-13 years knowing internally that I am a woman. I regularly "pretended" to be a woman online as a kid and teenager. I have always preferred my "feminine" features and appreciated the "feminine" side of my personality far more than the "masculine". I used the nonbinary label as a shield, protecting myself from the truth for *years*. > > I got out of a really rough, codependent relationship in 2023. I was told a lot of really horrible things about myself that I know now aren't true, but believed at the time. A lot of things that had me examining my supposed manhood and the more toxic parts thereof. I "came out" as cis. I created the [Men's Liberation](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/menslib) community here (and proceeded to not take an active role there due to depression and... well, this.) > > I read a lot about masculinity and manhood, and began using my 'maleness' as a means to get better, as a means to *do* better, to *be* better. It would allow me to more critically examine the ways I was socialized and more adequately deconstruct them. It did, for a time. > > In the midst of my stint with manhood, I met a couple of people who *knew* the truth. Before we had even spoken to each other beyond base pleasantries, they would talk about me using she/her pronouns. After we got to talking, I felt like I could be *queer* again, be *me* again. I have found my people and my home, and in doing so I have managed to find myself again. > > I am a woman. I start HRT within the week. I am so, so excited. **I am a woman.** NOTE: I will repeat, I, as the crossposter, am not trans... I am merely crossposting from Sovereign State's post... I just try to give attention to it....

games deathtoreddit • 5 months ago • 100%

www.ign.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4256263 > This dude was selling Pokemans with modified move sets for up to $80 a pop and could now face up to 5 years in prison. > > Is this not insane? Or do you think he could face a much less severe sentence and the 5 years prison and $30k just the upper limit for this particular set of crime?

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

Maggie Thatcher's grave still has enough space for all the world's piss to cam intae! Oh, and there's the solar eclipse news at 2 PM... How nice... I only know this because of William Brown, an Irish admiral who led the Argentine Navy, had a song made in commemoration of him, post mortem of him, and the Malvinas War... which ol' Maggie decided to commit to, after the Argentinians took back those islas.... Source: " "Admiral William Brown" - Irish Pro-Argentine Folk Ballad [+Lyrics]"by the Wolfe Tones

shitposting deathtoreddit • 6 months ago • 87%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2068144 > It's called the Hannibal doctrine 

China deathtoreddit • 6 months ago • 87%

yewtu.be

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3933012 > Notes: > Besides the gaokao prep starting from middle school, and taking at least 12-14 hours a hour to prep for it each day and it being mentally strenuous and seemingly decisive to your career, > > the narrator talks about how the Gaokao varies per province and apparently > > depending on how high your city/province's GDP is, it may be easier compared to other provinces > > Other than that, though, he talks more about societal issues rather than political ones, so I think he's at most, a naive Chinese lib, even considering his reddit account, which has little activity... > > Also, I've heard there are other comparable hard exams which are not necessarily hard as the Gaokao, in the comments, such as Brazil and India, thoughts on that as well > > If you lemmy libs want to come on here, I'll politely tell you which instance you're in and tell you to go back your mother's skirts....

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 6 months ago • 100%

yewtu.be

Notes: Besides the gaokao prep starting from middle school, and taking at least 12-14 hours a hour to prep for it each day and it being mentally strenuous and seemingly decisive to your career, the narrator talks about how the Gaokao varies per province and apparently depending on how high your city/province's GDP is, it may be easier compared to other provinces Other than that, though, he talks more about societal issues rather than political ones, so I think he's at worst, a good-faith Chinese lib, even considering his reddit account, which has little political activity... Also, I've heard there are other comparable hard exams which are not necessarily hard as the Gaokao, in the comments, such as Brazil and India, thoughts on that as well To any libs around here: If you lemmy libs want to wander on here, I'll politely tell you which instance you're in and tell you to go back your mother's skirts....

Videos deathtoreddit • 7 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1941858 > Note: > ["nice fuckin' model"](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0MjpOZT6W9w) > >  > > Anyways, it reminds me of Jinxedits... Don't mind me...

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 7 months ago • 100%

What does your history textbooks say? [@Aru@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Aru) Edit: next time, I tag in the comments...

Asklemmy deathtoreddit • 8 months ago • 86%

Most of the time, it's not the voice-acting quality that's bad... It's just a bit of an awkward uncanny valley hearing it...

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 8 months ago • 95%

My man, are you trying to give us despair? [@Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Kirbywithwhip1987)

askchapo deathtoreddit • 9 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3190259 > To me they're like mere servants of the State, like Lenin talked about in "[2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch03.htm#s2)" in his writing "The State and Revolution" > > Under Capitalism, they are its privileged knights that try to deflect and control, if not defend directly its image as "the only option", who have their incentive in doing so, with their class status stake being in their duty to shepherd the means of production and its resulting benefits > > However, they don't own the means of production, as they merely manage it for the landholding, industrialist, and financier capitalists > > On the other hand, under Socialism, while its privileges will be probably be done away, the PM class on its own would innovated upon, for their new duty of overseeing, managing, and reporting the collectivized cooperatives and state-owned enterprises.. > > Until the final stage of Communism arrives, I think they're pretty handy > > I say this, because I hear such disgusted sentiment in Hexbear against them Note: I know a bit about the bazingo techbro culture that the PMC is associated with, please don't criticize them solely on those vibes...

Ask Lemmygrad deathtoreddit • 9 months ago • 100%

To me they're like mere servants of the State, like Lenin talked about in "[2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch03.htm#s2)" in his writing "The State and Revolution" Under Capitalism, they are its privileged knights that try to deflect and control, if not defend directly its image as "the only option", who have their incentive in doing so, with their class status stake being in their duty to shepherd the means of production and its resulting benefits However, they don't own the means of production, as they merely manage it for the landholding, industrialist, and financier capitalists On the other hand, under Socialism, while its privileges will be probably be done away, the PM class on its own would innovated upon, for their new duty of overseeing, managing, and reporting the collectivized cooperatives and state-owned enterprises.. Until the final stage of Communism arrives, I think they're pretty handy I say this, because I hear such disgusted sentiment in Hexbear against them

askchapo deathtoreddit • 10 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2859765 > So far, I've only heard of nation-states committing atrocities whose gov't officials end up in the Hague... > > How about companies, whose CEOs and stockholders have a role in committing such large scale crimes who deserve the wall? > > Edit: > Bonus points if you include a death toll... > > From what I've read on wikipedia's Nestle > > >In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by "mothers in [low and middle-income countries] without clean water sources", with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.[47] >