Yeah, I remember a while back I introduced a friend to some simple basic facts about capitalism and it just made him really sad to the point of passivity and not wanting to learn any more. I guess my approach was wrong at the time. I have more success now, but I’m not sure what I do differently. Maybe contradictions have just increased.

You could write a whole article about this. I’d read it. I’m mean, you basically did. Maybe with some statistics added in about more commodity export than capital export and about how countries benefitted from trade with China and about how China is mostly a victim of and not benefiting from unequal exchange.

The slogan “oppose all equally” may sound revolutionary in its refusal to compromise, but detached from dialectical and historical materialism it collapses into abstract moralism that objectively serves the very hegemony it claims to reject.

Yes! Say it louder for the people in the back. Even some well meaning western marxists really struggle with this, because it touches on their privilege.

Don’t judge

Thank you :)

Wow! It really works:

• Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
• Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.
• The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make a friend.
• He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
• Success lies in the hands of those who wants it.
• Patience is your alley at the moment. Don’t worry!
• It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
• I am worth a fortune.
• Do not mistake temptation for opportunity.
• Don’t pursue happiness – create it.
• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
• It’s amazing how much good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.
• Happiness isn’t an outside job, it’s an inside job.
• Enter unknown territory.
• He who expects no gratitude shall never be disappointed.

Make sure you only use transparent envelopes.

The post says “anyone saying that you shouldn’t call a Nazi to those who disagree with you means they are by extension Nazis”

No it doesn’t say that. Maybe you’re not overthinking it enough. I’ll walk through the proof referring to the numbering in the post. The post is saying: "anyone is probably a Nazi(3), who’s saying that you shouldn’t call everyone you disagree with a Nazi(2), if they are saying it in the following special context: they are saying it, even though you didn’t do that at all! Not even remotely. You simply made an obvious statement about real genuine actual Nazis in general being bad(1), but they somehow took offence to what should be the most uncontroversial statement ever(1) and came out and created a strawman to attack you for something you didn’t do(2). Simply because they don’t like the one thing they know about you: that you don’t like Nazis(1). Now why might that be? Well probably because they are a Nazi(3). qed

Now what? Depends

Don’t call everyone you disagree with Hitler, simply because they are named Adolf Hitler and were the leader of the German “Third Reich”, committed genocide and started a world war. So quick with the name calling, really /s (calling things by their true name, that is)

That’s a very mindful observation, thanks!

Yes, that can be tactically advantageous, depending on your circumstances. Just leave it at that. Don’t pour all your energy in electoralism, campaigning and following news around those.

Advanced enough dialectics is indistinguishable from a curse and a blessing.

Yes! It’s so annoying! Saying “USians” sounds weird, but it’s the USians own fault for having a stupidly named country on stolen land.

I feel you! Great recommendations, thanks

I’m going to predict the future exactly as it will happen: either the US empire is ended and humanity survives it’s inevitable fall or the empire drags us all down with it in a nuclear fireball. Pick one.

*freedom fighters

This is a great read! Thank you!

That’s ridiculous! Falangists practically invented fascism.