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Welcome again to everybody. Take a seat make yourself at home, we are out of tea though. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Keep your heads held high. Stay the course. Some things you have real control over are your own habits, decisions, and choices on a day to day basis. Be your favorite version of yourself.
As always, communism will win.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
The Russian oil tanker reaching Cuba was a good hope boost.
Ugh fine 🙄
Autism Acceptance month. Please make sure you are accepted by a person with autism or suffer the consequences.
Am I allowed to accept myself?
That's even more important
If I disappear for a time, it's probably me trying to take a break from following things closely. Sometime today after reading the news about satanrael passing a death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners, I had what I could only describe as an emotional breakdown. I was getting uncharacteristically angry about random things (not at anyone, just in my own time) and then eventually broke down crying and realized that's what was eating at me more than anything else.
I don't really want to stop following things, I want to be informed and not look away, but I may have to force myself to for a bit so I can cope. I think the pain of it has been building up in me for a while.
As someone that updates the News thread regularly, always take breaks. Take a walk and, if possible, socialize with people that you hold dear.
Also, never forget that this pain, this sadness, and anger is not yours to keep. It is fuel to be used for our agitation. It is fuel to push us to organize and to make others join us to form a movement such as the solidarity rallies.
Our power is in the masses. When enough people of the masses feel and desire a better world, that's when the movement turns into action capable of changing reality.
Thanks. I agree with everything you said, though sometimes it's hard to think of it that way, emotionally. I've been doing a daily thing for more than two years now where I write down what I'm feeling here and there, throughout the day, but it seems I still have trouble with letting stuff bottle up. I am probably not letting myself feel things enough in the moment, so that I can process them then. Though part of it, I know, is just a matter of channeling it into appropriate action, rather than treating it like something to process and let pass (the latter could end up more like pacifism if taken to the extreme).
Incredible 4-d chess play by Maduro to get captured by Trump so Trump got over confident and attacked Iran (/s)
I was thinking next time someone says "trump is playing 4 d chess" I'm gonna say something about how playing 4d chess on a 2d chess board is dumb. Like a guy playing 2d tug of war thinking that pulling on an angle is some genius move.
As a white man in the netherlands, it feels weird knowing that me feeling worse means that the resistance is doing well and the world is getting closer to being better.
I am especially worried because i simply don't know how to prepare my GF and I for an economic crisis like this and i also don't have the necessary analytical skills to not feel completely in the dark about the developments of geopolitics without relying on the analysis of the people posting on here.
A really weird mixture of hope towards someone sawing off the rotten branch that i am sitting on, while also not sure how to fall correctly so that i don't hurt too much. Especially considering that i have exactly zero community here (my anhedonia makes it hard to make efforts towards friendships) and no one seems to have understood yet that there even is a crisis coming.
The future might be uncertain comrade, but that means potential for change aswell. We'll probably never see a Red Western Europe as long as our continent is built on the exploitation of other peoples. But through their emancipation we can eventually build a brighter future for proletarians in our part of the world too!
not sure how to fall correctly so that i don’t hurt too much.
Stockpile some dry foodstuffs. I wish I was joking but there's a real potential for great depression type of food scarcity. 20% of the worlds fertilizer backed up in the strait and europe's sanctions on Russia could make it a really rough situation in the near future.
Moving back to The Netherlands with years of communist organising experience I gained in Belgium will be interesting. I'll return to a typical Dutch working class environment. An environment in dire need of a proper communist movement. Staying at my parents house and they are watching the most shite tv programs on channels like SBS. Absolute brainrot, BUT that's what the working class watches here. I feel like there will be lots of opportunities to seize when I settle down here. Hopefully I can start something meaningful.
Sometimes I wish I had enough energy to join a communist movement, although where I live it's very difficult to find any local communist organization. I'm very excited to hear your experience in communist organizing.
I have decided that after my pilgrimage I will return to The Netherlands to work and study. Unfortunately my hometown has no active commie party so I hope I can at least find a regional party to join, if any.
What made you decide to leave Antwerp?
Quitting my job made me realize I have been out of place here for a while. The big city life with constantly being surrounded by people and concrete and cars and whatnot is becoming a bit much. And then I found the BBL system in The Netherlands in which I can work for four days in my study field and go to school for one day and I figured it would be best to go back for now. Gonna study to become a gardener.
I've stopped posting pictures of my face on my public social media, because I don't want my face to be used for AI training data. Anybody else who's feeling the same way?
Why do I see so many Polish 🇵🇱 neonazis online? I guess that's what almost 4 decades of no socialism does to people 🤷♂️
I've been journaling semi-regulary since 2018. Used to do it daily, but now I only do it when I have something to actually write about (I just do free writing about anything that is on my mind). Anyone else journaling?
I hope you all have a nice week :D
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As a vegan, sober, auty communist I do sometimes feel like I've placed myself outside of society a bit lol
The other day my manager asked my how I managed to stay in good shape and I said: I work out three times a week, walk to the office, currently train for a half marathon, eat healthy and don't drink. And he looked at me as if I insulated his mother. Like, what answer do you want? Lol. I don't get it.
I am genuinely convinced that tertiary education is a scam for most jobs.
Fuck do I need a Bachelor's Degree for a glorified customer service role? Why do I have to go to college for three years just to be a supervisor? Like, what is this nonsense? These aren't complicated roles but they want me to have a degree in order to do something as basic as tracking truck routes.
This is just financial gatekeeping to keep poor people out of these roles and I don't understand why. What's the end game here? How do the bourgeoisie benefit from artificially limiting their recruitment pool like this?
I am genuinely convinced that tertiary education is a scam for most jobs.
it is, it only started being a thing like 25-30 years ago when tertiary education was opened up
This is just financial gatekeeping to keep poor people out of these roles
bingo. Its a hazing ritual. The wealthy can get through easily because they dont have to worry about anything other than going through school. The poor people who can complete the process of getting higher education are then forced to stay poor to pay off student loans. They have had to work so hard to pay for their subsistence while also doing the work of studying that they are stripped of any time for politics.
The one thing that I miss about Windows is how much easier it was to install and try computer games. Recently I purchased The Settlers® 2: Gold Edition through Good Old Games, and after installing it through Minigalaxy I tried to play it but DOSBox stalled on me until I forced it to crash. WINE gave me an error message, too, and I ran into similar difficulties when I tried to replay Majesty Gold HD. I don’t know how to fix my problems (yet) but the repeated complications almost make me miss Windows. Almost.
Been playing a game called Esoteric Ebb. Its draws very heavily on Disco Elysium in its narrative style in a Planescape: Torment style fantasy city. Not sure if it is doing those games justice but its interesting.
je vous souhaite à tous une belle et agréable semaine .
et n'oubliez jamais ; le communisme va gagner ! ✊🏼
I feel like there are two types of engineers
White guy with a beard, possibly balding. Decently tired. Most employed man you've ever met. If the Stasi followed him his file would be one page long that said he likes football and drank beer occasionally. Usually apolitical, if not just a liberal who doesn't care that much
Pioneer in his field. Extremely odd. Personally believes they will summon Cthulu with their new invention. Is or was a communist/fascist, and is extremely deboucherous. Everyone wants to fire him but he's too valuable to the project. Might become an odd recluse and/or accidentally blow themselves up
Got an exam back today. I technically did about 15 points better than the average (out of 100). But I still feel bad because lI feel like i could've done better. Idk. Honestly my brain is so out of wack for exams. For some reason i don't feel stressed when I feel like i should. I have another tomorrow and I just don't have motivation for some reason. It's not that i dislike the subjects either. So idk
Edit: the subject is supposed to be hard but our professor is really chill so idk if me getting what i did was good or bad.
I think that's something I really dislike about college is that class difficulties are really up to the professor but that isn't accounted for on your GPA or anything. I could have taken much easier professors and be on the deans list or i could take harder professors and fail classes. Idk, just a pet peeve I'm starting to have
I just wanted to post this somewhere, but It feels so weird now that my dad is gone, and weird that both my parents are now gone. I think the main thing I noticed is I'm no longer constantly fretting over my dad and his drinking anymore or living in that kind of environment, and I'm realizing how much living in that kind of space took away from me. It really wasn't a good environment, how could it ever be.
That is some healthy introspection. Sounds like you are doing well. :)
I dont really understand why Marxism is so stagnant tbh.
I mean...look, i know I'm "different." But...what else is there? Do people really want another flavour of liberalism or nationalism or whatever? I'm not saying one day i suddenly became a fully fledged ideologically consistent socialist, obviously.
What i mean is just look at the UK. The country is going to shit, and the best there is the greens? I don't understand how you can go through 20 years of this and then go "well obviously we just need a different type of capitalism."
It's not easy, I get that, but i mean in that case you'd think you'd get more Eurocommunists than anything.
But even looking at the global south. The fact that places like Indonesia and Thailand literally don't have communist parties anymore, or how Argentina is constantly falling down rapidly and people are still worried about Peronists vs Millei-ists. There's an answer right there, outside of all of that.
This isn't some criticism of people. I just thought Marxism was easy to understand, and sometimes i wonder if maybe its not. Idk. This isn't doom posting either. I think I'll just invent a time machine to kill Friedrich Ebert and Albert Noske. That should fix things
There are a lot of factors that go into the lack of traction for Marxist ideals.
Propaganda is one thing, fear that trying to upset the status quo could backfire, just pessimism about the feasibility of another system, and it doesn't help that Marxists are often bad at explaining our positions by using too much jargon.
I think it’s good to keep in mind that a lot of communists were purged. I mean look at Jakarta in the 60s, Nazi Germany, all the military dictatorships of LatAm.
I wonder if there's a more casual term for "labor aristocracy" than the "aristocracy" part. My understanding is it (tends to refer to) the position that the working class of the empire tends to be in, but it's one of those words that's a bit obscure. Maybe a casual way would be "the comfortable working class" or something - referring to those who, despite being working class, have enough financial padding and material comforts that doubting the system, much less thoughts of revolt, may never even occur to them.
Is there a federation issue with lemmy.ml? I can't see any posts from there.
Had sort of an ego check thought I guess you might call it: If it was easy for me to change the world, it'd also be easy for it to fall apart. Which got me thinking more about what it means to create a legacy of lasting change. And in the dialectical view, I'd say that means a change in base most of all; superstructure too to go along with it, but if you only chip away at the superstructure and never challenge the base, then you get the kind of situation the US is in, where it had some mild reforms at points and some of that is losing ground over time.