Agreed. Was just wondering if anyone here was in favor more gun control and why they are

What are your views

Pretty much what synopsis said but, I was wondering if changing something small like ending the gun show loophole would be regressive.

Although, idk how many mass shooters have abused that loophole so it might not even be relevant. Overall, I think its good for most people to have weapons and I will for sure get one when I'm 21.

lmao yo tf is this

"democratic revolutions"

Been a while.

How are you all doing?

Highly recommend what is to be done by Lenin

Chapter 4 in particular really is great and is easy to connect to today’s conditions

have ur cake and eat it too 101

Anyone interested in trying to revive the reading group discord?

We could do it 2 ways:

1. Weekly VC discussions on chapters of books we select

2. Monthly discussions on books we select

I think both are good ideas, it'll just be up to how much everyone wants to get involved

I've been trying to read through Erich Fromm's "Escape From Freedom", and the first ~70 pages were really interesting and alluring, but it feels like he's hitting a loop with this Protestant Reformation example and keeps repeating the same stuff over and over.

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what I'm reading though.

We've already seen not much lol

The way we were doing isn’t very good IMO, we should be doing VCs in the discord so it’s a more collective learning experience. Each one teach one

Can you explain Socialism to me in layman’s terms?

No

How difficult would it be to do so? How many sentences or paragraphs. Characters even

Communism is a moneyless, stateless, & classless envisioning of society.

Socialism is the stage before that when there still is a state

I will willingly admit, I ignorantly laughed when I read that because to me, off first time hearing it just sounds nuts.
But getting over that, how do the people get food/necessities? Someone has to give that out?wouldn’t that automatically make there be at least more than one class

This video is a very good initial primer on the critiques of capitalism and the tenets of socialism. It utilizes theory without actually filling up the video with theory or economic terms.

After this, the reading list in the OP is a great start.

primitive communism is how we lived before civilizations; its literally human nature!

search these basic questions in these resources -- these questions have been asked a lot:

reddit.com/r/socialism101
reddit.com/r/communism101

it appears less baffling when you begin to understand WHY communism;
it appears less baffling when you see & understand economic oppression; when you look at history through a material lens; through a marxist lens; when you see how all of oppression carries over to the modern day.

when you see how racism & capital are intertwined, when you see decades of imperialist capitalist intervention into the third world, stunting their economies, but labeling them as "underdeveloped"; when you humans living in hovels in the richest economy in the world; you realize simply before the white European settler, no one lived in poverty.

when you realize that the democratic institutions in western countries are symbolic, when you realize that neither have your interest as a low class worker. when you realize and can see patterns of systemic oppression --

it will become second nature to understanding what we need to replace it with.

sure, ask those questions about "how it would actually work."
ask them, learn.

the most important thing in a person wanting to understand socialism is not just the knitty-gritty system details of how it is implemented, but WHY we advocate for this system in the first place. it will become second nature to understand what we need to replace it with.

the second nature is supplemented by theory; marx, lenin, mao.
read them if you want to know, but again, you need the second nature.

Yo it’s ill that you worded it that way bro, because I was literally thinking that like this seems like almost primitive human life. Going to read into the Marxist stuff, thanks for the info guys for real

lmaoo