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 No.1782926[Reply]

Hello, I just need a few words of advice right now. I'm planning to give out leaflets tomorrow on the street for my organisation that I am trying to start, however I have no experience of anything like this on top of suffering from a lot of social anxiety. I was going to do it today but found I couldn't, but I will do it tomorrow. If anyone could give me good resources and advice on what to say, I would be very thankful. In general I need some words of encouragement as I am working totally alone in an enviroment where nobody even remotely agrees with me. In fact, telling me that I would be a coward if I didn't is good enough. Thank you <3

 No.1782933

Wear a COVID mask in case they take a picture…or will you seem more sus if you do it? Who knows?

 No.1782936

anon don't jump in the water when you can't swim. travel to an org and get training and direction from experienced people.

 No.1782939

>>1782933
Thank you for the advice, but I'm afraid that will make me more sus, wierder and my words less understandable so I will opt to go without a face mask.
>>1782936
You're right, but it's not possible. There are no organisations of my tendency in my country. I am not really up to the task, but unfortunately I am the only person writing theory and trying to organise here, so I have the responsibility until someone comes out of the woodwork with better theoretical knowledge or organisational skills than me.

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>>1782926
>In general I need some words of encouragement as I am working totally alone in an enviroment where nobody even remotely agrees with me.
In terms of talking to people, if you get into a conversation, is to flip things around and ask your subject open-ended questions: who/what/when/where/why. Let them do the talking. If they don't want to talk to you, they'll just ignore you. Even if they violently disagree, don't argue, let them explain to you why they hate you. In my little experience canvassing on the street, that's pretty rare because 99% of people just pretend you don't exist, but it does happen, but that can become an interesting question as to why, or what in their own life or experience has led them to get angry at you.

I had one guy get really angry once at a group of protesters I was in, so I took him aside (to keep him away from everyone else) and started asking him questions about why he thought what he did. "Oh, I had never thought of it that way before." It's a deescalation tactic.

But what you're afraid of is probably not going to kill you. The most dangerous animal in the world is the mosquito. More people die from deer than sharks. It's healthy to put ourselves in unfamiliar or unpredictable places and talk to different people. But people live in fear because they're not used to going into unfamiliar situations without an insurance policy or step-by-step instructions, but it's only through that do we learn how to deal with unpredictable environments or people getting angry at you.



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 No.1782263[Reply]

This is meaningless, right? Tech companies have probably just moved to direct compliance with intelligence and integrated them.

https://therecord.media/nso-group-spyware-company-ordered-code-whatsapp
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/29/pegasus-surveillance-code-whatsapp-meta-lawsuit-nso-group
>WhatsApp notched a major victory against the spyware producer NSO Group last week when a California federal judge ordered the Israeli company to turn over its highly protected secret code as part of discovery in a years-long lawsuit.

 No.1782271

>This is meaningless, right?
the glowies will always find a way.

 No.1782835

>>1782271
Well I'm assuming there was plenty of warning for this and it's a single intelligence contractor.



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 No.1782463[Reply]

Outposts:
Some people interpret Israel as, effectively, a military outpost for enforcing US interests in the region. While it's more complex than that, it's an important role they play.

What are some other examples of this in other regions? Which countries in Africa would you classify as US outposts? How about Asia - Japan, South Korea and Taiwan come to mind, but to varying degrees. How about South and Central Americas?

Are there any countries you would consider to be effectively outposts of non-Western countries?
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 No.1782594

>>1782463
China is probably the biggest. Produces all of America’s goods and acts as its lapdog in UN missions like Haiti

 No.1782608

>>1782463
>Some people interpret Israel as, effectively, a military outpost for enforcing US interests in the region
Those people are wrong. Israel is a complete liability to US interests and they are on the verge of losing global hegemony over this liability - and for other reasons. The only reason the US supports it is because of Epstein parties and campaign donations as well as votes from demented christian zionists.

 No.1782610

>>1782470
>South Korea is basically an American imperial outpost, not as a military base, but an economic one

Not, it's a military outpost. Economics came to South Korea as a result of China's meddling. Japan to a huge extent, too

 No.1782619

>>1782608
How braindead do you have to be to actually think that the US has been hoodwinked into backing Israel through all of its constant war and ethnic cleansing just because people voting for it.
Obviously Christian Zionism makes the US government support for Israel more acceptable, but US foreign policy isn't determined at all by elections. The one and only time the US had to change foreign policy due to public pressure was in regards to Apartheid South Africa.

 No.1782627

>>1782619
>to actually think that the US has been hoodwinked into backing Israel
I never said nor implied that.
>US foreign policy isn't determined at all by elections.
Yes and no. They need atleast some broad consensus from the proles otherwise why waste resources on the 24/7 propaganda?
But primarily the decisions are made by moronic boomers with incentives ie Epstein parties and campaign donations
If you think some cool, calculated geopolitical strategists are still in charge of the US foreign policy apparatus, you're fucking delusional. Theyre either morons on the take or simply zionists - christian or jewish.
In objective terms, Israel is a complete liability to US interests - both in the region and globally



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India signs $2.36 bln contracts to buy nuclear-capable missiles
India's defence ministry on Friday signed contracts to procure nuclear-capable BrahMos missiles for the navy at a total cost of 195.2 billion rupees ($2.36 billion), the government said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/india-signs-236-bln-contracts-buy-nuclear-capable-missiles-2024-03-01/

Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan rearrested days after release
The case is related to “the sections of rioting, unlawful assembly, endangering human life, attempt to murder under Indian Penal Code [IPC] and Section 13 of UAPA for advocating, abetting or inciting unlawful activity”, according to the lawyer.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/2/kashmiri-journalist-aasif-sultan-re-arrested-days-after-release
https://archive.is/dOUjK

India to open ‘strategically important’ navy base near China-friendly Maldives
India’s navy has said it is bolstering forces on “strategically important” islands close to the Maldives, with a new base set to open just days before Male starts sending home Indian forces. Relations between India and the Maldives have soured since pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu won elections last year after promising to expel Indian forces.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3253974/india-open-strategically-important-navy-base-near-china-friendly-maldives

Japan opposition lawmakers bring no-confidence motion accusing gov’t of halting debate over scandal
Opposition politicians slammed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for failing to provide details about slush funds created by members of the governing Liberal Democratic Party’s leading faction, or where the money went. Kishida apologized for the scandal, which has rocked his governPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1781917

Kroger union workers vote to reject contract, authorize strike
About 3,000 Kroger employees who are members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 Union voted in favor authorizing a strike at 38 stores in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, according to a news release from the union.
https://wchstv.com/news/local/kroger-union-workers-vote-to-reject-contract-authorize-strike

Homeless crackdown gains momentum in California as US Supreme Court test looms
Seven months into a crackdown by the city of San Diego on homeless encampments, many of the tents that once lined downtown sidewalks are gone. Now two California state senators - a Republican and a Democrat - have joined forces to propose a statewide version , opens new tab of San Diego's ordinance, which allows police to roust many homeless people even when shelter is unavailable.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/homeless-crackdown-gains-momentum-california-us-supreme-court-test-looms-2024-03-02/

Unionized YouTube Workers Laid Off During Live City Council Stream
For the past year, contractors associated with Google’s YouTube Music Content Operations Team have been attempting to collectively bargain with the tech giant. Those workers won the right to unionize last April in a historic victory and, since that time, have been trying to get Google to come to the bargaining table. On Friday, amidst yet another effort to spur negotiations, Google simply laid off many of the workers associated with those efforts.
https://gizmodo.com/unionized-youtube-workers-laid-off-during-live-city-cou-1851301249
https://archive.is/68gIm

Joe Biden’s disapproval rating reaches new high, according to new poll
The Siena College-conducted poll, commissioned by the New York Times, showed that Biden currently lags behind likely Republican candidate Donald TruPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1781950

PFLP: The Occupier Lies About the Starvation Massacre, and the International Reaction is a Disgrace
The Front affirmed that this international complacency, which was limited to condemnation, “expressing concern,” and calls for an independent investigation, amounts to a green light for the occupation to continue lying about one of the most brutal crimes in human history, committing more massacres, and proceeding with the genocide war. The Front stated that there is no point to continue talking about a temporary truce that represents a vacation for the killers and relieves pressure on their supporters. The whole world must immediately act to stop the genocide and punish the occupier war criminals.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/02/pflp-the-occupier-lies-about-the-starvation-massacre-and-the-international-reaction-is-a-disgrace/

Salvadorans Have Traded Their Rights for Uncertain Security
El Salvador’s presidential election results were predictable given its current political landscape. On February 4, 2024, incumbent Nayib Bukele was reelected with nearly 83 percent of the vote, despite numerous irregularities. The biggest irregularity of all is the fact that, under El Salvador’s constitution, incumbents are not eligible to run for a consecutive term. Yet through a range of smoke and mirrors tactics to quell any potential protest, Bukele did so anyway, flouting democratic norms in favor of strong-arm approaches. The independent Salvadoran outlet El Faro went as far as to proclaim the end of the country’s democracy following Bukele’s dismantling of the judiciary, clearing the way for his candidacy, in 2021. Bukele’s latest victory has been analyzed by many to be a signal of Salvadorans’ exhaustion with the previous status quo. As I have written elsewhere, after decades of gang domination, voters were willing to accept gross human rights violations and indefinite imprisonment for some Salvadorans in exchange for increased security for the masses. Votes for Bukele confirmed Salvadorans’ willingness to maintain Bukele’s state of exception, a form of emergency rule that has been in place since March 27, 2022. The suspension of many rights under the state of exception has been parPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1782324

Tybna



 No.1782042[Reply]

in the few cases of their existence, why do some Marxist-Leninist parties take part in electoralism if electoralism is bourgeois and revisionist? I don't understand, if our main goal is revolution, why even bother with registering as a party in elections at all?? is organizing really that hard?
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 No.1782264

>>1782144
This logic may justify electoralism at lower levels like local councils and boards, where expensive marketing and campaigning isn't wasting a valuable resource.

 No.1782277

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>get elected for city council
>Burn the city
>Get elected for governor
>Burn the state
>Get elected for president
>The electorate is given weapons and they seize property
I think that's the idea

 No.1782305

If communist parties can participate in the electoral system why refuse the opportunity? Communists can impact elections, even in capitalist and militaristic countries. We should not forget that Peru elected a Marxist Leninist political candidate for president and won in 2021 (even though he got put in prison a year later) with the "Free Peru" party. Japan received 6.82% of votes in the 2022 elections for the house of Councillors. Look at Uruguay (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frente_Amplio_(Uruguay)) sorry for using wikipedia i tried find better sources but this is kinda ok i think, if this is a lie please correct me. Anyway, all over the world if a socialist/communist party can participate in electoral elections they will do participate. They can participate in united fronts with the left, have place to speak, funds to organize and visibility, also not being considered terrorists by the state is always nice

 No.1782309

>>1782042
in australia we have preferential voting so they exist as a protest vote along with the shooters and fishers, the animal justice party, the pirate party, and the greens.

anyone who puts a major first is a cuck.

 No.1782318

>>1782277
australias local councils shires and LGAs have the highest penetration of ML candidates because they're coalition builders who deliver mutual aid and support services to the poor, and clean green environmental policy, walkability and public transit to property owners. It's a little self defeating but some of the cleanest, safest, and least affordable suburbs in my city have red/green councils. pic unrelated.



 No.1781484[Reply]

I’m tired of seeing leftists sit around and whine while the world burns. If any of you actually cared about disseminating communist thought to generate the next revolutionary upheavel we could have it done in a week but instead of subsuming your very life to the project and dedicating every moment to the blossoming of the revolution in our lifetime, you sit around merely knowing true enlightenment itself while you go on living lives of the unenlightened flesh-seekers.

It is not hard to convince and raise consciousness in proletarians, you just have to be consistent, selective with your words, and confident. I myself have convinced several of my coworkers to start a union at my dad’s business and staged a strike for better wages. It got to a point where I gave out an explicitly communist speech littered with Marx and Lenin quotes that was attended by both management and my fellow proletarians
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 No.1781854

>call to action meme thread
everyone wants to be lenin at a podium
nobody wants to be lenin taking 3 bullets

 No.1782238

Communists these days are socially inpet to do any agitation. Most of the people in my org were fascinated that I could run from person to person for 5 hours, give leaflets, talk with them on a one to one basis (sometimes one to few) and retain clarity in my speech and ideas, even collecting some contacts along the way.

>>1781854
I almost got in a fistfight the othe day when we were agitating for protests.

 No.1782313

99% of proles are NPC cattle, teh workerz revolution will never happen

 No.1782314

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>>1781484
>at my dad’s business

 No.1782317

Balls, we need balls (or "Eier, wir brauchen Eier" in the original)
Did anyone ever notice this parallel between german goalkeeping legend Olli Kahn and abolitionist legend John Brown?
Same cadence.



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 No.1623527[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

REMEMBER: Still care about this conflict? Ukraine is so 2022. Everyone is now interested in the Israel general threads these days instead

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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 No.1782037

>>1782026
C EVERETT COOP???

 No.1782038

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>>1782017
>Literally just sneak into a voice chat of your local fbi.gov server, mute yourself and listen.

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 No.1781269[Reply]

Remember that communism already exists, it's called the worldwide proletarian struggle. The association of proletarians fighting for their class interests is itself communism, this is the reason communism is not a state of affairs to be realized at some future date, but the very movement as it exists. Communist society is but the end result of this association expanding over time.
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 No.1781677

The Doom modding community is actually existing communism, all those .wad files are being passed around for free and so are the modding tools

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 No.1781776

>>1781297
I lean more towards Andre Gunder Frank's ideas about modes of production than "communism is when we share coffee and booze" fucks' sake man

 No.1781987

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>Nothing illustrates this better than 2008. If Wolgang Streeck is correct, 2008 was less an example of oscillating, periodic crisis (albeit one of unusual proportions) and more the ‘kicking the can down the road’ of crisis-suspension running backwards to the 1970s coming back to bite us, the ‘Great Recession’ expresses in itself all the truths that zombie-capital wishes to bury. And indeed, it is clear that since 2008, nothing has been the same. The Fed, formerly an essential figure relegated to the background, some abstract tool of policy wonks, moved to the fore. Quantitative easing, the fine-tune manipulation of the money supply, became a household word and the interest rate transformed was transformed into the defining feature of economic life. Nothing less than central planning was introduced on a grand, overt scale, functioning through esoteric special purpose vehicles, swap lines, Open Market Operations and the like…
>In Metacartel America, universal owners carefully manage vast economic resources while central banks work quickly as modulators of the money supply and acts as a backstop to prevent crisis from reaching its apex. Together, these form the the double pincer that allows central planning to truly take place in order to maintain capital in its state of suspended animation. Janus-faced monster, the socialism that nobody wanted—“A certain technocratic Omega-state is achieved”.
>edberg.substack.com/p/metacartel/
>SMarx and Engels recognized capitalism as a force of disruption and immiseration, but in it they recognized also the forces which would lead to socialism. Never did they assert this trajectory as voluntaristic, self-conscious construction of a new system by individuals subjectively opposed to capitalism. Rather, socialism was the inevitable conclusion of tendencies integral to capitalism itself. Capitalism was for them the process by which Socialism constructed itself, independent of any individual subjective will. Communism is the real movement which gives discursive and political recognition to this fact.

 No.1782888

>>1781454
See, nothing against Althusser, he wrote some interesting stuff.
But there's just no way in hell to have an interpretation of this passage to makes it is more than empty blather.



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 No.1736123[Reply]

Did Posadas have anything of value written or was it all just corny pseudoscientific claims and conspiracy theories along with doomer prepper anti-civ thought?
It just seems like a complete joke with the only thing legitimizing it being its brief involvement with the Cuban revolutionaries before being disowned.
The way it presents itself is like a Bordigist art project which somehow was schizophrenic enough to take itself seriously - also reminiscent of Nick Land after drugs.
Outside the obvious - we wouldn't survive a full on nuclear war. So is there anything worth reading about it or is it just a dead meme living on aesthetic and sci-fi?
I got to admit though, these covers look cool enough that I'm questioning if I should buy the books just for the swag.
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 No.1779078

>>1777921
We experimented with it for a while and /X/ died. So no not everyone isn't that stuff here.

 No.1779096

>>1777966
>You think self sustaining underground bunkers are impossible?

Not impossible per se but I really can't imagine them being successfully built under capitalism.

>Why would billionaires be investing into it if its pointless?


People with more money than sense have always thrown their money away on stupid bullshit. When you're that rich it doesn't matter if it's a bust because you're still filthy stinking rich.

 No.1779123

>>1779078
That's unfortunate :(

 No.1781897

Nuclear War won’t destroy capitalism.
The imperial core will shift their powers to the southern hemisphere excluding Australia.

 No.1781914

>>1781897
>Nuclear War won’t destroy capitalism.
>>1777949
<A modern nuke going off over a modern city is going to put so much shit into the atmosphere that a new ice age is an optimistic scenario.
These replies are conflicting….
Why not just critique Posadas' analysis directly instead of just making broader statements about nuclear war? Or are you afraid that he might be correct?



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 No.1775685[Reply]

Here's a small challenge: name the most important accomplishment and one chief criticism for each leader of the Soviet Union. Malenkov is excluded due to the brevity of his rule.

As a bonus, name something you'd like to learn more about each leader.

If you can't think of an accomplishment or criticism for a leader, you are allowed one additional criticism of Gorbachev.
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 No.1780424

>>1779445
>Stalin: Killed millions, power-hungry prick. Wanna learn how he slept.
by not doing your first point.

 No.1781210

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>>1779445
>>Stalin: Killed millions, power-hungry prick.
Stalin didn't kill anybody, neither did anybody die while he was a general secretary. Anyone who did die was a nobody.
Millions was not enough if he did do it (which he didin't), but he did kill millions of reactionaries (which were inflated numbers under falsified statistics).
His biggest mistake was not using nuclear weapon to kill all the reactionaries of this World (anarchists, liberals, anarchists, leftcoms and anarchist trotskyists anarchists and anarchist fascists).
Stalin was a pragmatic and moderate pacifist, like Ghandi. Also without Stalin everyone would be dead and billions would be dead or enslaved.
He didn't do anything wrong, just like Lenin. So yeah keep crying liberals. Long live Stalin!

 No.1781373

Okay!
>Lenin
<Good thing: Created the USSR
<Bad thing: Died, also the NEP raised the kulak class
>Stalin
<Good: eded the third reich, industrialized the USSr to a superpower through the 5 year plan
<Bad: Deporting koreans, great purge had unfortunate casualties of legitimately loyal cabinet members, supported Israel
>Kruschev
<Good: crushed revisionist hungarian LIBERALS ad generally funded and assisted
<Bad: HE WAS A REVISIONIST and grew corn in a country with a climate that can't fucking grow corn so he just imports wheat from the west Kruschev you idiot.
>Brezhnev
<Good:
<Bad: Began the USSR's slow death
>Andropov
<Good: he didn't destory the USSR
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 No.1781375

>>1776048
Krondstandt lolololololololo

 No.1781817

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