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Keep "Voting Blue No Matter Who" and watch as every promise they ran on vanish without a fight because YOU have taken away any incentive to.
Here's the thing. There's a big brigade thing going on right now where I'm apparently the worst human who's ever lived for asking a question. But, one thing that nobody seems to be able to do is tell me what the alternative is to voting Biden. Nobody can answer that question--it's just "you're stupid because Biden" and that's the end of it. So, I'm really asking--what is the proposed alternative action?
If you want an actual answer, the most peaceful possible solution at this juncture is communist revolution.
Sadly, the moment people try, it’s no longer communism. The entire populace would need to see the world differently than they do now.
I'll rephrase: each time it has been attempted it wasn't really a communist revolution, but rather a group responsible for regime change using the term as they appoint a new elite.
That's not true, and it shows that you obviously haven't investigated those revolutions or the theory behind them.
Yes. This issue is dealt with through communist theory. A revolution is a process. It doesn't end at a "change of regime."
Its true that class and money are not immediately abolished, because they can't be immediately abolished. The abolition of class and momey is a theoretical endpoint of a long period of transition because
More or less as you put it.
You are saying that because the process isn't automatic, and people now do not already see the world that way, that the process should never begin
You should investigate the actual revolutions you're talking about, and read some of the basic theories behind them. If you are still against them, then at lesst you will actually know what you're talking about, and your critiques would be worth hearing
No, I'm saying that it hasn't happened yet because humans as a whole aren't ready for it. Maybe in 150-200 years we'll be in a different place. Remember that when people said "Please wear a mask, my grandmother has cancer" about 50% of the populace yelled "FUCK YOUR GRANDMOTHER MY LIBERTIES ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT MATTER." With people like that, you can't really have communism.
Which is what you're wrong about, because there are nations right now engaged in revolution. The largest nation in earth is currently involved in the most successful revolutionary project yet, which began back in 1949.
You're not wrong that the revolutionary potential in the imperial core is low for a number of factors. But that's not the world.
You also said
Which is not true and was more what i was talking about.
I guess I’m saying that Lenin, Mao, and Castro were after the power grab and dressed it up in the clothing of communism.
If they just wanted power, they could have easily joined the very powerful repressive governments that ruled at the time. Castro could have signed on with Batista's regime. Mao could have joined the ruling KMT. Instead, they risked their lives doing the much harder and more dangerous work of going against the US empire and it's puppet states.
I already knew you were saying that. You're wrong. If you want to talk about communism, you should investigate it first because you don't know what you're talking about
Such a missed opportunity. You could have used the chance to persuade me but instead decided to go ad hominem and make it personal.
“You just don’t know what you’re talking about…”
That’s the part that makes it personal. Notable that you’ve still offered nothing in the way of your perceived correction. It stops at “you’re wrong” as if that were how conversations operate. If you believe I’m wrong, why not try to convince me?
That's not a personal attack. A personal attack would be saying your a dumb reddit-brained smuglord. And an ad hominem would be saying you're wrong because youre a dumb reddit-brained smuglord.
I didnt stop at saying your wrong. I said you should investigate the people and revolutions you're talking about, because if you did investigate you would know you're wrong. That's why i said you don't know what you're talking about, because no one could have actually read about the 1917 revolution, the Chinese Revolution, or the Cuban revolution and think that they are not communist revolutions, or just "dressed up in the clothes of communism"
If you believe you're right, why aren't you trying to convincing me?![emoji michael-laugh michael-laugh](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3858ea0f-f09c-4c6f-95a1-5dda154612ad.png)
You're the one who made an assertion that is obvioulsy untrue to anyone who knows about those subjects. You made these obviously false assertions without any evidence whatsoever, but somehow the burden of proof for what you said is on me.
Shapiro voice: You replied with a picture. That's not how conversations work. If you believe you are right, why not try to convince me instead?
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung OPPOSE BOOK WORSHIP
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
No investigation, no right to speak. Do some self-crit + reading or shut the fuck up.
Nah. This is a circle jerk. I say a thing and then the reactionaries descend to tell me that I’m wrong. Yet nobody has anything to offer beyond “you’re stupid”.
A group of better educated people are telling me I’m wrong, clearly they are just reactionaries.
What a beautiful mind you possess.
>I'll rephrase: each time it has been attempted it wasn't really a communist revolution, but rather a group responsible for regime change using the term as they appoint a new elite.
I'll rephrase: each time it has been attempted it wasn't really a banning, but rather a group responsible for userbase change using the term as they appoint a new banned user.
What are you doing to educate me? What have I learned here other than that a difference in thought offends you?
I’m not trying to, the only thing that can make a person learn is if they actually want to. No point in leading a horse to water.
In the mean time I’ll have some fun.
The fun for you really is the ability to tell others they are wrong. Then you’re not willing to help others learn things you think should. You must be great at parties.
I’m out.
byyeeeeeee
Oh, you must have missed my comment then. Here you go:
If they just wanted power, they could have easily joined the very powerful repressive governments that ruled at the time. Castro could have signed on with Batista's regime. Mao could have joined the ruling KMT. Instead, they risked their lives doing the much harder and more dangerous work of going against the US empire and it's puppet states.
Its interesting how they always seem to miss a comment that is providing what they claim to want. Hmmmmmm
Mao literally wearing the "Mao Suit" everywhere, just like a Communist Poser.
If you just want power you dont have to pretend to be socialist. See Pinochet, among many examples. Pretending to be socialist would just be unnecessary extra work and having the most powerful countries as enemies instead of friends.
even liberal and conservative historians agree that the damn commies were actual communists: behind closed doors they didn't talk about machiavellian power grabs - they used the same historical materialist framework they would use in public. (for example Kotkin is adamant about this in his Stalin bio. Communists believed in communism. Shocker.)
You're not being brigaded, I literally browse All Comments & All Posts (I have blocked a lot of communities). I don't have any games on my phone I like to post in random comments sections/replies all over the internet and read a lot.
Choosing to vote for, campaign for, run candidates within, or form a political coalition with a party, those are all things you have to weigh differently. Walking away from a party is a valid move. Half of the country doesn't vote for either candidate. Why try to work with people who oppose your political goals on every level and will never give you access to the donor warchest even if you win a primary?
Why vote for someone who paints a target on minorities and anyone to the left of Adolf Hitler? This is my hottest take.
Some people argue you should vote for Trump because he's an isolationist or something, but that's complete nonsense, he's the one who murdered Gen Soleimani
I still don't get what you really want to argue for, though. Is it just to not participate until better candidates come around?
And, having in excess of 15 comments insulting my person in one thread is being brigaded.
I'm gonna be honest, I don't think the race for president is an important place to invest political energy, of which I have a finite amount. Local agitation & elections are more flexible honestly. Stop a city council from destroying some ecosystem further. Elect a lady who hates Jeff Bezos (idk if this made any difference but it took little energy to do my part).
I don't think I actually care who wins ❓ they subsequently either ride the wave of shit, or they wipe out. Regardless of what people think the kinder Zionist Sen. Sanders would have accomplished in the general election (when the dems would have assuredly pulled funding), being in the Oval Office itself would be a completely different story. Nixon wasn't enough of a ghoul for Washington half of the time, mein gott.
Thanks, that take makes sense. Now I wonder if that is the base from which many are operating?
To expand on my seething hot take here the use of LGBTQ+ people & symbols as imperialist mascots by the United States, Europeans, and Israel is an international disaster. Similar to the way Zionists abuse conscientious Jews with their rhetoric
This is why I don't participate in Pride. It's all corporate bullshit.