you can really find a take for anything on twitter. my favorite thing is how you can click maybe 2-3 RTs or profiles on twitter and go from normal to batshit insane instantly.

tweet 1: "i will not be voting for joe biden in the coming election."
(3 clicks forward)
tweet 2: "what naxalites fail to understand is the latent homosexual tendencies of the state under maoism contradict the core of marxist philosophy. if you had studied the 1973 bangladeshi train incident, you would know..."

Real 4th head of Marxism

I mean that’s just the capitalism / great man / spectacle based sense of a***ysis

I mean more how so many communists (western ones I’ll concede) aim to a***yze the motivations of leaders rather than the movements below them that place them as their leader collectively

We know that the USSR was collectively controlled during Stalin. How did that give way to the rise of Khrushchev inna collective sense? It’s got to be more than some sense of power struggle

cause Stalin was too ed to look at systematic changes to prevent revisionism and just open fired the guns at the party

Maybe it’s overlooked

Lacking perspective at least in part due to being western

I haven’t observed whatever phenomenon you’re talking about really because i guess i’ve met so few marxists irl that focus on communisms past historically

met plenty of anti capitalist ppl but never really got into a theory discussion like that. normally ends up talking about labor and inequality which are good building blocks regardless

and a strong foundation of education about poverty inequity and labor i think go hand in hand with marxism if someone so chooses

Can u elaborate

True

More pressing matters

instead of seeking changes in like provincial governments or municipal governments which gave rise to revisionist thinking like the revolutionary committees in china during the GPCR was a mistake.

Stalin instead focused on individuals primarily, he thought revisionism was limited to just the party that the party was separated from society rather than being nested in it. so he would only focus on individuals like Bukharin rather than why his thinking existed in the first place (of course easier said than done). So it would mount to just individual changes old members purged new young members to replace them, but the material bases still existed for revisionism (no change between the material relations between the party and masses), and also let people like Khrushchev to sneak past the purge, he just played nice with Stalin when he was alive and infamously was a huge spreader of the cult of stalin which he would later denounce.

Which is why i’m a fan of the GPCR despite its faults it actually seeked structural changes like the revolutionary comities despite how flawed they were to combat revisionism rather than Stalin calling Trotsky a fascist spy and purging him.

-Cockshott, 1976

decided to take a break from marxism and dialectics and all that read something else so i’m reading Birth of Tragedy from Nietzsche (refreshing to read cause i don’t know if Hegel made me a better reader or Hegel is just an awful writer)

and got me curious is there a marxist theory of aesthetics?

Bro you contradicted yourself within two paragraphs. Hegel f***ed ur brain fam

Spinoza invented

an interesting fun fact is that Spinoza's writing was largely to the jewish community as Galileo's writing was to christians

Idk if Ghais is even a good rapper or just a great producer

Nah it wasn't Hegel that did it

Anyone know much about this?

"Peking University students confronted the security office and sang the Internationale"

madeinchinajournal.com/2019/05/27/orwell-in-the-chinese-classroom

The party does go after dissident Marxists (mainly critics from the left-wing), which there was/is a group present at that school, which was involved in the JASIC strikes, which the party did not like.

The Internationale is also the country's anthem, which was being sung during previous lockdowns from apartment balconies as a form of disobedience.

Carl Schmitt would be proud of Xi Jinping and his centralization of power during COVID-19 and using lockdowns as a way of social control

The party is quite decentralized in that people normally have issues with their local branch bureaucrats rather than the whole national thing, but this seems to be changing.

A Chinese Maoist wrote this, very interesting read

His life was a rollercoaster man

I have so many socialist/communist books written in Yugoslavia that aren't translated in English, and it got me thinking how many important texts are out there that never saw the light of day for reasons like that