redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Parenti lectures are great
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Definitely prevalent among the petty bourgeoisie, to which I counter that they can restructure the business as a worker co-op so all employees are owners, and therefore exempt from minimum wage laws
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Working class yes, but unlike proletariat who sell labor power for wages and are variable capital, slaves are do not sell their labor power for wages and they are constant capital
redjoker 4 years ago • 78%
Lots of Western media isn't blocked, CNN isn't blocked
What was blocked recently was BBC in response to CGTN getting blocked first in the UK
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were blocked because they refused to take down terrorist recruitment pages and accounts. Remember 2011 ISIS Twitter? Like that. Those services were available before
Additionally, the idea of Internet sovereignty is important to a healthy Web industry in any country. Without the firewall, companies like WeChat and Douyin/TikTok could not have developed
Furthermore, getting around the firewall is trivially easy. OpenVPN on port 443 does the trick, I've set one up for a friend before. Anyone who wants to get a VPN account and browse the wider Internet is freely able to, and many do this
Finally, censorship has a purpose, and that's public safety first and foremost. China doesn't have large conspiracy cults like QAnon or antivaxxers, because rumor-mongering gets reported and dealt with seriously. It's like shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, stopping it is censorship but also perfectly legal. They don't have graveyards full of children or measles, mumps, or rubella making a comeback because of this
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Like it said, is within the realm of possibility, you should be focused on making applications secure to work around it as it's an insurmountable problem to address directly
redjoker 4 years ago • 66%
Netscape Navigator gang rise up!
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Wait, it's just OpenVPN, can you just try using your certs and username/password on the normal OpenVPN client?
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Also if you're a party member of an organization with a publishing arm, you could get discounts on bulk orders
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
marxists.org is a great resource. My study group has had some growing pains, but it's helpful to start reading some material during the sessions, like Lenin's Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Yeah, looking forward to more bioplastic research
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
My friend's aunts from Qingdao were totally open to using CBD for pain relief. Since CBD doesn't make you high like THC, I can see hemp being legalized, especially since hemp also has historical usage in TCM. Marijuana, though, I think won't happen for a long while since seeing and treating the effects of opium addiction is in living memory. Some other friends who went to Tibet a few times did mention that there are some hookah cafes where there's something other than tobacco in them
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
They could easily control the entire market once they legalize flower extraction and food/medicine usage
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Wow, China is already one of the world leaders in CBD production, and they're only using the leaves?
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Casting is imprecise for that and cast metal is very brittle
Forging might work, but that still requires a lot of energy
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Great tool, used it often
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Hard agree, they also don't have certain features enabled when you're a host, which really screws things royally when you find this out in the middle of cohosting an event and you're supposed to handle the heavy lifting of moderation
redjoker 4 years ago • 87%
You shouldn't be divulging political affiliation on a job form, and it won't come up on a background check as what they check are credit and criminal records
The only thing you should be worried about with joining any Communist organization is if you're a noncitizen or a naturalized citizen for less than 5 years, as that can get you deported
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Could it be an unofficial port reporting it?
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Not from a liberal
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Behold the power of juche!
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Everyone has biases. Those biases are in each sub's rules. People are free to make their own subs and host their own servers if a sub or server isn't to one's liking
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Candidates are debated over at the local level and eventually one candidate is decided on for the position. The community ratifies this in a plebiscite. Higher levels of government are elected in similar fashion from the lower levels
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
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Angela Davis, was an ML, now some sort of Marxist Communist, but definitely not an anarchist
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Cedric Robinson was a Marxist
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WEB Du Bois was an ML
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Libraries originally started being attached to feudal research institutions, and public libraries can safely be considered to have originated with liberals and liberally-inclined lords of the late-feudal era. The idea that poor people are simply lacking education which hinders them from raising their status is a wholly liberal notion
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
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redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
I'm glad that Tom Toles was actually being critical of billionaires complaining about public criticism, and whichever editor chose the headline needs to get smacked a few times
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Some things can't be broken, like a sufficiently strong GPG key. That's something which can't be backdoored in and of itself. What they could exploit is weak protection of your private key
Other things you could use are physical one-time pads, writing notes on flash paper and burning them when not needed, holding meetings in areas where nobody has a phone or electronics in a sufficiently remote location
All of these methods increase the expense of surveillance. Even if they could backdoor everything, there's still the expense of assigning police agents to track groups and individuals
If your operation is implementing proper guerilla tactics of leaderless resistance, taking out the #1 or #2 of a cell wouldn't affect anything as everyone is trained to take on the role of each person 3 levels above them
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
You can't stop it, but you can make it more expensive by using end-to-end encrypted communication and running your own encrypted personal cloud
redjoker 4 years ago • 86%
I think they've done well for themselves given they're one of the most-sanctioned countries in the world, and I can understand their military-first system given that the US and ROK have semi-annual training exercises to invade their country
If you want to see relatively unbiased explorations of the country, I recommend checking out Douyin videos from Chinese tourists
Are they living the most ideal life possible? No, no place is that way, but the only way to improve things would be for the US to withdraw its troops from the Korean peninsula (like the treaty they made at the end of the war stated they would) and for sanctions to end
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
That's going to be a little complicated depending on different groups definition of state-ownership. For example, do you mean wholly-owned, partially-owned, or state-subsidized with heavy regulation?
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
China Daily as well, Ian Goodrum works for them
For non-Chinese news, I like peoplesworld.org
Hannah Schneeberger has been identified as one of the Rochester Police officers that pepper sprayed a 9 year old black girl earlier this week. She was identified thanks to the Open Oversight database, the Reddit postings of an ex, her own social media activity, and of course the video of her pepper spraying the child in the back seat of a patrol car...
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Well you likely won't be disturbed in the DMZ until you step on a landmine
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Check out the changes, let me know if you find it appropriate
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Hope you like it, I'm an organizer for the CJS and we usually have an event at least once a month
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
I will do my best, thanks
A resource for political education
Marxist classes are a series of webinars offered by CPUSA
Marxist classes are a series of webinars offered by CPUSA
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
lol, sure, why not?
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
I also found a tweet with some good resources https://twitter.com/SciTechJunkie/status/1341996155408945152
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Deng wasn't even kicked out of the Party, just removed from leadership. Reading Jude Woodward's book The US vs China: Asia's New Cold War really helped me appreciate Deng's vision for building up a stable China.
Regarding allowing monopolies to form, that has been a strategy by MLs since Lenin's time to allow a company to rise to the level of a monopoly and then nationalize it. In China the critical infrastructure monopolies are still state-owned enterprises so capitalists can't control the government. Juxtaposed to countries like the US where PG&E can burn California through neglect and merely get a slap on the wrist.
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Revisionism is specifically the idea of blending capitalism and communism in a peaceful coexistence which will lead to communism through gradual reforms. Deng Xiaoping Theory not only draws from Lenin's NEP, but also Mao's New Democracy period, which allowed for strictly-controlled capitalism for the purpose of building productive forces and wasn't a seamless blending. The New Democracy plans were scrapped because heavy sanctions severely limited foreign trade.
The reform and opening up under Deng was also the result of China accepting World Bank and IMF loans. Taking those loans comes with stipulations that the government loosen control over sectors of the economy as well as institute reduced spending on welfare. Deng approached it in a way which would allow China to get through the rules imposed by outsiders as fast as possible before it destabilized the government.
Now had Khrushchev not moved towards appeasing the West and instead created a strong trading bloc with China and newly liberated countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, Deng would never have needed to appeal to the West. However by the time Deng was leading the country, the USSR was a shadow of its former self, and even Gorbachev's attempt to end the Sino-Soviet split without preconditions couldn't save it.
Mao did criticize Deng as a capitalist roader and sent him to the countryside to learn from the peasantry, but this ignores that Mao also invited Deng back after Lin Biao tried to stage a coup. This was criticism and education, not an expulsion from the Party. Had Mao thought Deng so irredeemable he would have pushed for expulsion.
Furthermore, the reasons for Deng and Zhou being sent away the 2nd time revolve around their criticisms of the Cultural Revolution, which was leading to an incredible amount of suffering, particularly in urban areas. Personally I think the CR had noble intentions and had better outcomes in rural areas where the peasantry was empowered to take control back from the most corrupt Party officials, but overall was idealistic to presume students would not succumb to excessive violence which the Red Guards became infamous for. The Cultural Revolution was correctly denounced as a left deviation.
redjoker 4 years ago • 100%
Hey Fellow Worker! It's also a good idea to dual-card with a reactionary union in your trade as they have better collective bargaining strength. I know plenty of dual-carders
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This event will feature the following panelists: Frank Chapman was wrongfully convicted of murder and armed robbery in 1961 and sentenced to life and 50 years in the Missouri State Prison. His case was taken up by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) in 1973, and in 1976 he was released. He had been incarcerated for 14 years. In 1983, he was elected executive director of NAARPR. He worked with Charlene Mitchell, who preceded him as executive director of NAARPR, on building an international campaign to free Rev. Ben Chavis and the Wilmington Ten, Joann Little, and others falsely accused and politically persecuted. He was a part of the international campaign to free Nelson Mandela. He has been a part of leading the struggle in Chicago for the past seven years to stop police crimes — especially murder, torture, beatings and racial profiling. He is presently co-chair and educational director of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. In addition to being a community organizer, Frank is also a published writer since 1971, when he first published “Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner” in the Fall 1971 edition of Freedomways magazine. He became a contributing editor of Freedomways magazine in 1981-83. Max Rameau is a Haitian born Pan-African theorist, campaign strategist, organizer and author. While a student in the Washington, DC area, Max was introduced to Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist theory. After moving to Miami, Florida in 1991, he began organizing around a broad range of human rights issues impacting low-income Black communities, including Immigrant rights (particularly Haitian immigrants), economic justice, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, particularly for ex-felons and police abuse, among others. In October 2006, Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot in the Liberty City section of Miami and built the Umoja Village, a full urban shantytown, addressing the issues of land, self-determination and homelessness in the Black community. In October 2007, Take Back the Land initiated a bold campaign that sparked a national movement: "liberating" vacant government owned and foreclosed homes and moving homeless families into them. Max is an organizer with Pan-African Community Action and travels the country facilitating workshops, engaging in campaign strategy sessions and developing models for community control over land and the human right to housing. Max Rameau continues to develop movement theory and is currently working on a book on Community Control Over Police. L. Gato Martinez-Bentley is a native Washingtonian who’s an integral part of the revolutionary socialist movement. He’s a proud father of two daughters and two granddaughters. He’s taught locally, as well as internationally, working with children's theater, and professional community collaborations for well over 30 years. He's a rebel with a cause, who believes in and teaches the importance of all history regarding people of color. He’s a Nubian Warrior / Olmec Spirit. His accomplishments are being a teacher for more than 30 years. As well as being a conductor of a children's choir. He's an accomplished contract negotiator, organizer, and co-founder of the Rosemount Childcare Workers Union and the sole creator of Return To Salt Of The Productions. He’s a passionate believer for people's rights, who began his activist journey at the tender age of 14. He's an accomplished, credited teacher, playwright, producer, director, actor, and social activist. He epitomizes what it means to be a griot, who fully embraces the meaning of keeping an oral history, to educate and entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, and more. The event will be moderated by: Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo is the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated: No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. She worked at the EPA for 18 years and blew the whistle on a US multinational corporation that endangered South African vanadium mine workers. Marsha's successful lawsuit led to the introduction and passage of the first civil rights and whistle-blower law of the 21st century: the Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act). Marsha was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame, March 2017. Currently, she is working to stop the Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC) and the Bethesda Self-Storage Company/1784 Holdings from its continue desecration of Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland. Luci Murphy is a singer, political activist, community organizer, and language interpreter. Since the 1950s, she has been a featured vocalist at progressive events leading group singing. She has performed internationally such as in Cuba, China, Brazil, Palestine and elsewhere and can also sing in ten different languages. She is a native from Washington D.C. whose insights are informed by the movements and folkways of people across the globe. She currently sings with the D.C. Labor Chorus and the ONE DC Black Workers Center Chorus and in 2007 she received the Paul Robeson Award for Peace and Justice from the Friends of the People’s Weekly World. Queshia Bradley is a global public health and new business development leader with over 14 years experience. Her expertise is in designing, developing, managing, and implementing a diverse range of programs for international and national NGOs. She is also an accomplished grant and proposal writer, effective capacity building/ training specialist, proficient researcher and strategic analyst. Queshia holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business with a concentration in Marketing from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She enjoys travelling abroad, dancing, speaking Portuguese, learning about esoteric teachings from around the world, and debating foreign policy and geopolitics. Queshia serves on 3 Boards, and lends her expertise to 11 community organizations, whose missions range from adult workforce development, youth development, immigration rights, supporting returning citizens, anti-war efforts, expanding political education in underserved African-American communities, to promoting international solidarity, fostering collaboration across the Afrikan Diaspora, and advancing the role of women of color working in peace and security fields. Our co-hosts are the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (http://www.naarpr.org) , Pan African Community Action (https://pacapower.org/index.php?page=community-control-over-police-2) , and DC Metro CPUSA (https://cpusa.org) . ASL interpretation will be provided. In Solidarity, Claudia Jones School for Political Education Donate (https://claudiajonesschool.org/donate/)
This event will feature the following panelists: Frank Chapman was wrongfully convicted of murder and armed robbery in 1961 and sentenced to life and 50 years in the Missouri State Prison. His case was taken up by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) in 1973, and in 1976 he was released. He had been incarcerated for 14 years. In 1983, he was elected executive director of NAARPR. He worked with Charlene Mitchell, who preceded him as executive director of NAARPR, on building an international campaign to free Rev. Ben Chavis and the Wilmington Ten, Joann Little, and others falsely accused and politically persecuted. He was a part of the international campaign to free Nelson Mandela. He has been a part of leading the struggle in Chicago for the past seven years to stop police crimes — especially murder, torture, beatings and racial profiling. He is presently co-chair and educational director of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. In addition to being a community organizer, Frank is also a published writer since 1971, when he first published “Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner” in the Fall 1971 edition of Freedomways magazine. He became a contributing editor of Freedomways magazine in 1981-83. Max Rameau is a Haitian born Pan-African theorist, campaign strategist, organizer and author. While a student in the Washington, DC area, Max was introduced to Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist theory. After moving to Miami, Florida in 1991, he began organizing around a broad range of human rights issues impacting low-income Black communities, including Immigrant rights (particularly Haitian immigrants), economic justice, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, particularly for ex-felons and police abuse, among others. In October 2006, Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot in the Liberty City section of Miami and built the Umoja Village, a full urban shantytown, addressing the issues of land, self-determination and homelessness in the Black community. In October 2007, Take Back the Land initiated a bold campaign that sparked a national movement: "liberating" vacant government owned and foreclosed homes and moving homeless families into them. Max is an organizer with Pan-African Community Action and travels the country facilitating workshops, engaging in campaign strategy sessions and developing models for community control over land and the human right to housing. Max Rameau continues to develop movement theory and is currently working on a book on Community Control Over Police. L. Gato Martinez-Bentley is a native Washingtonian who’s an integral part of the revolutionary socialist movement. He’s a proud father of two daughters and two granddaughters. He’s taught locally, as well as internationally, working with children's theater, and professional community collaborations for well over 30 years. He's a rebel with a cause, who believes in and teaches the importance of all history regarding people of color. He’s a Nubian Warrior / Olmec Spirit. His accomplishments are being a teacher for more than 30 years. As well as being a conductor of a children's choir. He's an accomplished contract negotiator, organizer, and co-founder of the Rosemount Childcare Workers Union and the sole creator of Return To Salt Of The Productions. He’s a passionate believer for people's rights, who began his activist journey at the tender age of 14. He's an accomplished, credited teacher, playwright, producer, director, actor, and social activist. He epitomizes what it means to be a griot, who fully embraces the meaning of keeping an oral history, to educate and entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, and more. The event will be moderated by: Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo is the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated: No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. She worked at the EPA for 18 years and blew the whistle on a US multinational corporation that endangered South African vanadium mine workers. Marsha's successful lawsuit led to the introduction and passage of the first civil rights and whistle-blower law of the 21st century: the Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act). Marsha was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame, March 2017. Currently, she is working to stop the Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC) and the Bethesda Self-Storage Company/1784 Holdings from its continue desecration of Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland. Luci Murphy is a singer, political activist, community organizer, and language interpreter. Since the 1950s, she has been a featured vocalist at progressive events leading group singing. She has performed internationally such as in Cuba, China, Brazil, Palestine and elsewhere and can also sing in ten different languages. She is a native from Washington D.C. whose insights are informed by the movements and folkways of people across the globe. She currently sings with the D.C. Labor Chorus and the ONE DC Black Workers Center Chorus and in 2007 she received the Paul Robeson Award for Peace and Justice from the Friends of the People’s Weekly World. Queshia Bradley is a global public health and new business development leader with over 14 years experience. Her expertise is in designing, developing, managing, and implementing a diverse range of programs for international and national NGOs. She is also an accomplished grant and proposal writer, effective capacity building/ training specialist, proficient researcher and strategic analyst. Queshia holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business with a concentration in Marketing from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She enjoys travelling abroad, dancing, speaking Portuguese, learning about esoteric teachings from around the world, and debating foreign policy and geopolitics. Queshia serves on 3 Boards, and lends her expertise to 11 community organizations, whose missions range from adult workforce development, youth development, immigration rights, supporting returning citizens, anti-war efforts, expanding political education in underserved African-American communities, to promoting international solidarity, fostering collaboration across the Afrikan Diaspora, and advancing the role of women of color working in peace and security fields. Our co-hosts are the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (http://www.naarpr.org) , Pan African Community Action (https://pacapower.org/index.php?page=community-control-over-police-2) , and DC Metro CPUSA (https://cpusa.org) . ASL interpretation will be provided. In Solidarity, Claudia Jones School for Political Education Donate (https://claudiajonesschool.org/donate/)
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Claudia Jones School webinar on Jack O'Dell
Claudia Jones School webinar on Jack O'Dell
LIBS INCOMING! Edit: For real I'm proud of the hard work all the devs did to implement federation, it was a difficult task and I love you all!
Open to the public, please join us for the forum discussion https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G0xu8H0mQSmoF4gv-RtdYQ
You read that right From a series called *Fall of Eagles*
Marxist economics professor at both University of Missouri Kansas City and Tsinghua University
Hilarious short Russian comic translated to English about Stalin fighting Hitler using magical powers
Just getting into it now
Pros: This show is too cute. If it spreads, everyone will become MLs. Imagine if Hetalia was done from a pro-PRC perspective with adorable animals Cons: Early season 2 is problematic, being chauvinistic towards Tanzanian revolutionaries at the beginning, but the show also emphasizes Mao's appreciation of Africa for getting it to the UNSC and the subsequent duty China has to help Africa rise up in return. Also since the show is propaganda for children, it glosses over things where China was clearly on the wrong side of history, like the Sino-Vietnamese war, or Mao supporting Pol Pot. Purely domestic affairs aren't touched on, so the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution aren't referenced (given the international relations focus, I could let those slide)
Wishing all comrades a happy midwinter