Today, Oct 11, marks the 84th anniversary of the start of the Macedonian people's antifascist struggle in WW2.

I've been out of the loop as of recent, why is spain having a general strike?

Finished chapter 1 of The Capital yay

any books on chinese history and politics covering mainly great leap forward, the revolution, dengist reforms?

I just finished 1260 pages epic by China Mievelle The Rouse. and i think I need to re-read this thing again. holy fuck what a ride. 12 days to finish with a day of drinking in between. This is one of the best books I have ever read.

The writing is very modernist with disjointed prose constantly switching between action and stream of consciousness, shifting back and forth with time and reset in next paragraph. the book is 32 parts with 4 chapters in each part. 2 of them follow one timeline which is a woman journey and grief in recent timeline. And 2 other chapters in each part follows a 1950s British army soldier. Somehow these are interrelated.

most of it is set during cold War when we follow the soldier story.

there is a lot of references to leftist revolutionary figures, western imperialism, gladio other euro CIA like orgs and stuff. Lots of references to other international things as well which I cant say.

I pre-ordered this book and went in totally blind didnt even read the blurb. I didnt know the genre of this or anything. Didnt even look at tags on goodreads or whatever. extremely surprised. also very beautiful writing

This is not really theory but inspired me to look at other countries revolutionary movements.

This only happens in my Latin America 🥴

Hitler Mussolini won the municipal election in Cerro Patoso, Peru, with 34.54% of the vote.

If everything was alright there would be nothing left.

Rent is insane in The Netherlands. You need an income of like 5700 euro to be able to rent an average apartment. In my nothing of importance city the average rent is like 1600 euro. Back in Antwerp I was able to live in the middle of the city center for 900-1000 euro no questions asked about income. Government controlled housing is an option but you are in the race with hundreds of others for a single home.

I'm gonna need a partner just to get a place.

A sense of impending doom is a symptom of ProleWiki withdrawal. I’ve hit rock-bottom, posting links to marxists.org.

The movie "Once Upon a Time in the Middle East" looks very promising.

As context, the movie portraits a Chinese chef as the protagonist that is dragged into the US invasion of Iraq and uses his tiny Chinese restaurant to protect civilians.

Hope it reaches the movie theater in my country. I will finally have something good to look forward to instead of the usual US movie slop that comes to my country.

Starting to lock in on some stuff. Pulled a 10/10 on my first exam.

Young Dutch men are, to put in their own words, kinda cooked. It's like a monkey rock at college. I don't know why this country produces such dense and arrogant pricks. You especially notice this if you leave the country and move elsewhere. It has led me to just assume every single white guy I see here is by default a racist and homophobic douche. Maybe if they have like a mullet or a mustache that they can be an exception. The rest of them need some serious gulag time.

So, I voted for the first time in my life. Every politician here sucks a lot, but at least I wasn't apolitical for the 21st year of my life.

Given that Bolsonaro might win in one way or another, I don't know why the possibility of another military dictatorship in Brazil doesn't scare me. Gave me some motivation, strangely enough. The terror must not have set in yet.

Anyway currently reading Assata Shakur's biography. She was funny; good sense of humor. The shit she went through was crazy and it sucks she had to end her life in exile.

Rest in power, comrade. ✊

A lot of my friends have been moving out of the capital city where we all used to live, obviously due to the insane rents and them not being able to afford to live here anymore. I'm sad that they aren't here anymore :(

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Happy October 7th comrades

Have a great week, everyone! Keep your heads held high and your mind focused.

As always, communism will win.

If news got out that Epstein is still alive, would you be surprised or no?

🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.

DSA is a social fascist party organization, y'all were right the whole time. I will admit I was interested in what kind of impact they could have within the imperial core early on, but now? Fuck'em.

Since I'm still new here I didn't know the differences between Lemmy and Lemmygrad, so I did a quick search in lemmy and sure enough it's more liberal. hope they get more leftist and stop clinging to their old ideas by seeing the failings of the system and the subsequent suffering of people each passing day.