I wont claim that I have inside information on china but no matter what platform I look at that has people going to china, they all say life there is decent. They interviewed a person who is on government welfare which takes 90% of their bills, the doctors visit is dirt cheap even for people not having insurance.

I dont think this is an accurate description of whats going on. Otherwise youtube must be in bed with the fascists (proven) and their opponents (absolute idiocy). Same as bezos’ twitch and all other western platforms.

I dont doubt that there is no shit happening. Life is not a tv show but we have people starving and freezing to death on the streets in the thousands.

Agreed. I might have misunderstood. I think black shirts and reds as well as washington bullets are pretty spot on in that regard.

I dont currently see how the book can seem dated. I laughed when I read it a week ago how shockingly current it is. Like the fact that international banking is basically the mafia. The imf is like the number one evidence for it.

Brillant analysis, all of it. Thank you comrade.

To shed light on the dkp first hand (local group):

• they were quite large while the ussr was around
• the destruction of the ussr pretty much was a death sentence
• rampant anticommunism basically zeroed the local member count
• remaining are mostly boomers who know theory but thats it
• if in germany, join the dkp immediately and help those left to defend against further revisionism
• be careful when in government position or immigrant. You risk repression.
• an option would be to help silently without official membership
• keep the party clean from revisionists to preempt hostile takeover

Let me know if you want to know more about them.

While those are technically true, they are inconseuqential at best, plain wrong at worst.

Yes, the dems could be pushed left a little over a long time in theory. But practice has shown that this is not achievable since all other material circumstances are against it.

The “least bad” option is a communist party, absolutely not the dems.

Voting is not going to help half as many people than going to the next soup kitchen or neighborhood meetup and organize there.

I hate these soc dem apology posts. Biden has blood on his hands up to his shoulders.

I stand by my thesis that most westerners who own (as in at least mostly paid off) a house, car (not some 19 yr old trashcan), stock or have an increasing amount of cash in the bank or some savings account that is available, are in fact not fully proletarian.

Having grown up in an actual proletarian household, there were months where food was scarce or clothes had to be hand me downs instead of new. A huge portion of for example german youth has never known scarcity and the same goes for the boomers, genx and y.

The reason i say this is because a working class person who actually has to work and cant really lose their job or face dire consequences is in fact much easier to get convinced than the petty bourgois comfy office job types.

Imo, 5 digit sums of cash, newish cars and houses are means of production in a sense. And just because a full time worker doesnt rent our a spare room to exploit someone else does not mean they cant.

Feel free to disagree or counter with theory. I’m eager to learn.

Now i feel a little bit famous. :) i had to turn off my old instance as it was being tormented by bots day and night (i wonder why!/s) and an update didnt work well. By then i had already joined grad and figured why bother.

Looking back at these posts, mainstream lemmy is pretty likely a fed op and needs to be purged. I’ll stay on grad and have my occasional outside stroll, sometimes productive, sometimes not.

For more updates on me, i also have mastodon.

PS.: oh and of course i was right back then. China and Russia are doing a pretty good job fighting the evil empire. Who does not see that after irak, iran, afghanistan, cuba, korea, japan (use of nuclear weapons, not fighting them), venezuela, gaza and many more is a bot or braindead.

Trotskyist permanent revolution bullshit.

Seeing the downvotes, I would love to see some actual debate in the comments. There are some solid arguments in the video which I believe allow for some debate.

How about making your case instead of lashing out?

Is it not true that fascists in ukraine burned people alive in the days of the euromaidan? Is it not true that the human rights watchdogs stationed in donetsk were recording massive attacks coming from ukraine prior to the invasion? Is it not true that even using russian language is banned in ukraine and has for some time? Is it not true that multiple people have been killed when forcefully kidnapped for war duty?

Its really late for still roleplaying as if the ukraine conflict wasnt a western manipulation game. This is documented on wikipedia, of all places.

People who still fall for the USA installing puppet regimes to keep dominating the world as “peace” really need to get a grip.

YIKES! That would be disgusting. Can you put in a source?