Lenin from Benin

and they try to say the cultural revolution was a mistake ….

the real political dialectic is the struggle of based vs cringe

lmaoo just replace the tv with the internet and u have the 2022 equivalent

ARPANET working as intended

i had to reread this thread like 10 times to parse that this was not just a random collection of words

Because of conflicts between the revolutionary and counterrevolutionary sectors, because of external enemies, because of the heterogeneity of the movement, because of inexperience, and because of the enormous problems of finding a just way out of backwardness, not everything that happens during a revolutionary process is the result of the wishes of any particular group or of its leaders. And not every change of policy is the result of a struggle among leaders, or some trend toward “reform,” or the rise or fall of “hardliners.”

The lexicon of political science calls up false dichotomies regularly to explain changes in policies or practices. Among these, “reformer” versus “hardliner,” and “pragmatists” versus “ideologues” are among the most frequently invoked. Pragmatists are not supposed to care about principles; they presumably just want to “get things done.” Of course this dodges the question, “What things?” If the “things” are indicators of economic growth, then some policies make sense; but if the goal is meeting the needs of the population or strengthening its capacity to resist, other measures are practical.

Similarly, commitment to meeting the needs of the people can be labeled “ideological” in contrast with neoliberal commitment to the market as “non-ideological.” If someone’s beliefs are the same as our own, they are called principled, if counter to our own, they may be labeled “ideological.” And measures we approve of are “pragmatic,” while if we do not like them, they are “opportunist.”

Policies change because circumstances change or because people learn. Rationing in the hardest times in Cuba has been the guarantee of at least minimal equality in food access. At other times, when more varied goods are available, it may be an obstacle to distribution and create a niche for “middlemen.” Farmers’ markets can make more produce available but also permit profiteering. Tourism may provide important flows of foreign exchange but also become foci of corruption and undermine equality. Policies shift to reconcile opposing demands on an over-taxed system. The Internet may be limited mostly to institutional users when the cost in dollars of satellite access is too great, or may be made more accessible when resources are available—an expression of ordered priorities, rather than “reform.”

The PayPal Mafia is the vanguard of the Californian Ideology, silicon valley's twist on Nietzschean Fascism

idk what any of this means just tell me to bomb something and i will

wayyy worse too

peter thiel and the bunch do a lot of slimy s*** and try their best to engineer political movements from the shadows but there's one problem; they're actually all ed

they have a lot of money but their edgy faux-libertarian beliefs don't amass to much. they haven't managed to genuinely influence anything because what they believe is just spicy liberalism

banks

Idk what it means either

I HATE THE BANKING FINANCIAL COMPLEX
I HATE THE BANKING FINANCIAL COMPLEX
I HATE THE BANKING FINANCIAL COMPLEX
I HATE THE BANKING FINANCIAL COMPLEX

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum
Wtf

Greatest political mind of our epoch

yo what’s the book outlining their history i’m interested in it?

The Shining Path of Peru by Palmer,wasnt really that good, hella academic and too specific

goodreads.com/book/show/1245835.The_Shining_Path_of_Peru

Imagine if instead of people like Lenin and Mao running revolutions it was @AmericanLenin223 and @XXFurries_against_RevisionismXX

Banned

damn i’ve been looking for a good one was reading one before on Peru and the failure of the left including the revolutionary and non revolutionary leftist but my laptop broke before i got to the Peruvian communists