∞🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, null/void, des/pair, none/use name]

As cowbee said, you can’t disengage and then continue to engage. Either disengage and do not include your arguments against what the other has said, or continue to engage.

be an an anti-communist.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun

— Mao

Although I have limited knowledge of Marx, I would have assumed that he thought more along the lines of Mao.

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Similarly: Saying we shouldn’t read theory, is akin to saying we shouldn’t learn science. You are going to have a very difficult time doing particle physics if you have no understanding of the world. Exactly as we say that without theory you are just going to be redoing the same stuff, so would every scientist have to rediscover the basics.

One might say that Marx is like Newton, describing/discovering many things and setting a foundation for their field. Saying “we shouldn’t read Newton because his stuff is old” or that his ideas are wrong simply because they are old is ludicrous. Both of them probably had things they got wrong, sure, and newer theory corrects this, but they still set the foundations.

While one might not read Newton directly in school, so for some Marxist theory it is too (see Elementary Principles of Philosophy teaching DiaMat), but Marxs books that haven’t been superseded in this way should still be read.

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It is a real thing, which is what I was joking about.

It was a joke.

Its because he’s German

Someone between 1804 and 1830: Democracy doesn’t work, just look at France, it dissolves into an empire

Russia, equally, believes it has a chance now to raise its fundamental concerns, about Nato expansion and Ukraine’s sovereignty

Russians have infiltrated the BBC.

You’re on .world. It leans right-wing, essentially trying to be reddit 2 and having de-federated from the explicitly Marxist-Leninist lemmygrad.ml and Communist/Anarchist hexbear.net

And nothing from lemmygrad since .world defederated from it.

At the very least, it’s an incredibly shortened version of it that skips quite a bit of stuff.

If What is to be Done is not a part of the reading list, making it a footnote, might help a bit with readability

E.g:

— Vladimir Lenin^[1]

What if the government

“The government”. Am I thinking of Anna L. Strong on the disconnect between people and “government” in western countries.

Ah, my point is that you seem to think yourself distant from the government. You don’t take part in making decisions, some entity (“government”) does.

Edit, yes I am, This Soviet World, “ON INTERPRETING A WORLD”

I note a remark about American unemployment: “If it gets any worse, they’ll have to do something.” Who is this ultimate, uncontrollable “they”? The term betrays the class society of which the speakers are unconscious; they are waiting for some boss to act. To hear a debate: “Is America going fascist?” and think how much less passively Soviet folk would word it. “Shall we go fascist? No. Then exactly how shall we prevent it?” Soviet folk say “we” of one-sixth of the earth’s surface. Uzbek cotton-pickers, toiling under the sun of Central Asia, say: “We are conquering the Arctic; we rescued the Chelyuskinites.” Ukrainian farmers who never went up in an airplane talk of “our stratosphere records” and “the loss of our Maxim Gorky airplane” as they take up collections to build ten new ones. But even Mrs. Roosevelt asks me: “Are Russian peasants getting more reconciled to accepting direction?” I feel the hopelessness of language as I answer: “No, they are learning better to organize and direct themselves.”

A victory for communism would be far more dangerous to the United States than a victory for fascism.

—Robert A. Taft

(Denna F. Flemming, The Cold War and Its Origins, citing: Foster Rhea Dulles, The Road to Teheran, 1944, p 232.)

As all the others have said, its about convenience, being able to check just one place for news is nice.

As for feeds. If you feel like your day is too nice, too happy, try https://reliefweb.int/ it itself is an aggregate of news from many humanitarian organizations, which means the stuff that comes in can be a bit grim and miserable.

I hope that one day you will understand Politzer, or well, idealism and materialism, even if it isn’t through reading Politzer. Then you will understand why I said you are doing idealism.

I think the private ownership is coming from this:

Also, as a defender of the idea of division of powers, I honestly prefer when executive powers at all levels are distinct from planning/legislative. So if it does really “necessarily trend towards Communism” I’d hope whatever replaces the private owners does the same job of assuming responsibility if/when unfairness happens as it did before the fall. I’d hate if the same level of scrutiny and legal/social pressure wasn’t placed against the ones replacing them.

The liberal idea of… meritocracy, ah, not that’s maybe part of it, but… I know what I want to say, but I forget what it is called, hopefully you can guess it.