Yes, it is jarring. I’m pretty sure ww3 has already begun too. This reads too much like the last one.

Oof. Antimaterialist perspective imo. I think it is an important read as someone who fits this stereotype but the conclusion is highly chauvinist imo. Reeks of bourgois feminism.

Thats uplifting. Thanks comrade o7

Now allow germans to read russian websites again. /j

Edit: do we have an uplifting news community for revolutionary optimism? If not maybe that should be a thing? Otherwise we could use comradeship.

Thanks comrade. I will save that comment to my reading list. o7

I see more content on china and specifically on the communist party. I’m so glad. When I met some people from china on the book fair in frankfurt i was massively impressed how nice and forthcoming they were. I hope to be able to learn deeper contemporary theory from them.

I started to read governing china but didnt get very far yet.

Are there any other suggestions what to read in terms of getting a fresher opinion on socialism from the huge brainpower over there?

Wait, you mean end stage capitalism with mass child prositution as an industry does not boost the economy? Huh! /jk

Now I begin to understand. Tyvm! o7

I actually looked at this recently and this lets on quite nice but i currently have no time to read the text. Can you dumb down why this makes the other text less sounding like an ultra?

This hugely rubs me the wrong way. What is this stuff?

Great point imo. And nice detail about comrade josef. I had a party meeting recently and was asked “why stalin?” my answer wasnt as concise as i wished it would have been but once you read multiple viewpoints about him and especially his works, it becomes quite clear that he was a devoted socialist and a brillant politician. Afrer reading his works for dozens of hours, there is no doubt left that the truth is quite the opposite of what we are told.

Agreed. I might have misunderstood. I think black shirts and reds as well as washington bullets are pretty spot on in that regard.

I dont currently see how the book can seem dated. I laughed when I read it a week ago how shockingly current it is. Like the fact that international banking is basically the mafia. The imf is like the number one evidence for it.

Fucking incredible!

I love it. China is my last hope at this point.

Thank you very much. :) same goes for you of course.

And for the reader! Please be kind to yourself while growing.

Yeah, same. I often catch others and self crit over it a lot. But i think its the devotion to find and eradicate it that counts in the end. Progressivism (so to speak) knows no end. Otherwise it becomes conservatism.

Yes of course. Both are correct. There are no cryptocommunists but a lot of pseudocommunists or opportubists use communist language.

Good point. i recently witnessed someone living through a cruel breakup and they broke down. dialectical materialism helped a little but liberalisms foothold was very strong.

Good question. I would argue that a lot of people are libs in their heart because its their whole identity. There is such a huge variety of issues where liberalism creeps in. Asking someone who has lived like this for 30+ yrs to pretty much accept that they have been living a lie and unnecessary took responsibility for everything is probably very dangerous. If you break an identity like that, it may become life threatening. Thats why I think that we all hold some lib thoughts here and there and some are dedicated at eradicating such thoughts in themselves at any cost and others think they need to be marxists because its what is expected of them or it helps them atm. And even worse, some might think they are the former but their subconcious will make them the latter at the earliest chance.

Just a bunch of thoughts though. Feel free to work with them.

Yeah. Thats a recent thought of mine as well.

Instead of asking “what are communist/marxist dogwhistles i can use” we should ask “who would use especially communist phrases at all?” and “can we even identify marxists by their wording reliably” to which i would answer “probably not”.

People who use dogwhistles are usually demagogues who try to communicate to an audience they are not openly working for, which recently has been described with the word " crypto" as in cryptical communist ot cryptical fascist.

I would argue that there are no “cryptocommunists” in a capitalist regime. It just goes against historical precedence. But there are tons of cryptofascists. I would even argue that there are cryptolibs in “communist” groups.

But i might be missing something here. Probably there is someone who can explain this in a materialist way.

I am hence very distrustful of people who use marxist language alongside non marxist language. Because it is easy to use “working class” and “bourgeoisie” while not committing to dialectical materialism which is what we need to not get backstabbed.

Feel free to criticise and suggest different or more developed ideas.