so i did state and rev and thought it was great so i kept going w lenin and got ‘what is to be done?’ and i feel like im having a hard time following it, not sure why though because the language isn’t too fierce like i thought engels was

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it’s more about how a party should be organized, the subject matter might make it a dryer read compared to others, Lenin big 2 tend to be State and Rev, + Imperialism highest stage of capitalism

you might have the same problem with the latter which can be dry at times as well like reading about railroad statistics

Trotskyite are too smelly and off putting to follow Trotsky fashion sense

They banned boy?

could have just gotten no avi'd, its been happening to like basically the entire userbase

summery of the 2nd Congress of the TKP-ML

maoistroad.blogspot.com/2024/11/long-live-our-2nd-congress-organize.html?m=1

honestly they came down on him too hard for what he did but its probably just a temporary mute

correct

where i’m getting lost w it is all the references to terms like spontaneity or trade-unionist, social-democrat (i believe that just means reformist?)

Lenin is using the term "social-democrat" as a synonym for the communist movement (since this was the original usage of the term and communists didn't abandon it until the foundation of the Comintern and the split in the 2nd International, which took the form in Russia as the split between Bolshevism and Menshevism).

"Trade unionist" is referring to the consciousness and immediate demands of the workers movement, or reformism, yes.

okay i had it flipped the trade-unionists are the ones who work cooperatively to get concessions from the ruling class, i thought it was the other way given that’s what modern social democracy is

Gramsci's New Year's message:

Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.

That’s why I hate these New Year’s that fall like fixed maturities, which turn life and human spirit into a commercial concern with its neat final balance, its outstanding amounts, its budget for the new management. They make us lose the continuity of life and spirit. You end up seriously thinking that between one year and the next there is a break, that a new history is beginning; you make resolutions, and you regret your irresolution, and so on, and so forth. This is generally what’s wrong with dates.

They say that chronology is the backbone of history. Fine. But we also need to accept that there are four or five fundamental dates that every good person keeps lodged in their brain, which have played bad tricks on history. They too are New Years’. The New Year’s of Roman history, or of the Middle Ages, or of the modern age.

And they have become so invasive and fossilising that we sometimes catch ourselves thinking that life in Italy began in 752, and that 1490 or 1492 are like mountains that humanity vaulted over, suddenly finding itself in a new world, coming into a new life. So the date becomes an obstacle, a parapet that stops us from seeing that history continues to unfold along the same fundamental unchanging line, without abrupt stops, like when at the cinema the film rips and there is an interval of dazzling light.

That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pauses myself, when I feel drunk with the intensity of life and I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigour.

No spiritual time-serving. I would like every hour of my life to be new, though connected to the ones that have passed. No day of celebration with its mandatory collective rhythms, to share with all the strangers I don’t care about. Because our grandfathers’ grandfathers, and so on, celebrated, we too should feel the urge to celebrate. That is nauseating.

I await socialism for this reason too. Because it will hurl into the trash all of these dates which have no resonance in our spirit and, if it creates others, they will at least be our own, and not the ones we have to accept without reservations from our silly ancestors.

I think what American leftists get wrong is where the main contradiction is. The main contradiction is not domestic US politics. The main contradiction is the colonized world directly throwing off the shackles of imperialism. You are seeing this now in Africa.

bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9ezyw0keo
I swear the world can not continue with these facists in power

f*** it, i decided to become a communist

the fires radicalized me/the acceleration on fascism is brazy

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Thread been dead AF with no snowboy

We’ve primarily been on discord for the past year or two

discord.gg/jjCbMTeN

thread alive again

the buffalo-niagara partnership is a local lobbying group that gets all common sense healthcare reform shot down if you guys would sign i’d appreciate it

buffalo-dsa.org/healthcare/back-off-bnp/#sign-the-letter