• amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    15 days ago

    Bourgeoisie states really do gaslight people. People get immersed in this belief that societal progress is this super hard struggle that always takes decades or more to achieve any progress on.

    And then AES states are like… what do you mean, decades of struggle? We rapidly transformed this sector over here in just a few short years. And that was while dealing with constant attempts by bourgeoisie states to undermine/destroy us.

    If AES states had been running things in the early 1900s and kept that power til now, we wouldn’t even need to have a conversation about climate change today. They would have made pollution largely inconsequential by now and made it look easy. We’d be living in a near utopia with all the rapid progress.

    Colonialism and imperialism in particular have been holding humanity back for centuries now. Choking it out. So that a handful can continue to live like monarchs. AES states are the living proof that when you have sovereign working class power outside of that, you can rapidly transform toward better. You aren’t languishing in “maybe in another election cycle, we’ll move the needle a tiny bit in the direction we want by electing a single representative sympathetic to the issue we care about?” Bougie electoral stuff is so absurd, what people are expected to treat as a legitimate means to getting problems solved.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    201·
    13 days ago

    Sorry folks that I haven’t fully come back. Never expected life to throw me so many issues at the same time while taking a break. For that reason, I will take a longer break.

    In the meantime, found these beautiful photos from Italy. Hope you all like them. And… I miss you all.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    16 days ago

    The (US part of the) world cup is going to be such a shit show and I’m here for it. Parking lots the size of Luxembourg, stadiums in the middle of nowhere with a 2 hour commute into town, probably some shootings here and there, insane temperatures and whatever the fuck Donnie will do

  • Ember_NE@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    15 days ago

    Hi comerades. Finished Capital Vol II this weekend. Gonna take a short break before the next one.

    Remember, we are on the side of the working peoples true interests, and the development of the productive forces. Therefore, we as a movement have a historic advantage, even when times get tough or when nothing seems to get anywhere, because through hardship lies victory, and even still waters can be stirred. Keep up the good work comerades!

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    14 days ago

    Concentration camps don’t happen overnight. It takes years of societal cancer developing to happen. And scenes across Europe have me worried. In The Netherlands there are groups of nazis going to refugee centers to ‘protest’ (read: burning down the buildings). We have riots in England and just last night in Northern Ireland in which non white people are targeted at random. Hell, even white Ukrainians get targeted. And while lots of people shake their head at all of these scenes, nobody really is doing anything to protect these people. Not the politicians, certainly not the police and everyone else is just basically ignoring it because if you are white yourself this does not target you (yet).

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    11 days ago

    Every once in a while the Falun Gong has a stand in our busy shopping street doing god knows what. People actually go over to them lmao.

    I once bumped into them holding a Mao book and they gave me some disgusted looks.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    16 days ago

    Hey everyone, hope you have a great week! Keep up with your goals, hold your heads high, and keep fighting.

    As always, communism will win.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    12 days ago

    Yesterday’s match had two hydration breaks and Dutch public network took the opportunity to introduce ads during those breaks and I genuinely cannot comprehend how USonians accept this. I was ready to throw my couch through the tv in pure rage.

    • ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      12 days ago

      Americans typically work between two to four jobs, an American’s brain is turned off by the time they can lay their body back. Plus the hyper individualism contributes to an inability to imagine a scenario where things change w collective action as everyone is tunnel-visioned on their own precarious situation. Those who resist are thrown into the prison system which disenfranchises them for life.

      And if you combine all that with the literacy rates, the scale of alienation, the quality of our education, and propaganda that instills a fantastically-undeserved arrogance into every citizen then you got the perfect cocktail of a self-absorbed narcissistic population with no time or desire to form a coherent worldview.

      • ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        12 days ago

        I genuinely cannot overstate how poor the education system is. There is no attempt at forming critical thinking skills, if you look at federal and state guidelines theyre primarily testing memory and an absurdly oversimplified cause and effect understanding of history and in literature. We have repeatedly failed every generation with the education we provide, and with the material conditions getting worse we are only seeing worse teaching practices as the resources and training are inadequate.

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    11 days ago

    I am considering permanently stopping making any posts here going forward.

    Here's why:

    I have now made a total of 1234 posts on Lemmygrad and i don’t want to ruin that pretty number.

    If someone can tell me a number that looks better that i can strive to reach in the future, i will continue to post.

  • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    11·
    10 days ago

    Watching Prairie Fire’s video “Germany Was Never Denazified” and you know what as much as I hate my country I can say one positive thing about Americans: we are in fact less Hitler than the average German.

    The American Left can at least call a spade a spade and recognize the fascism of Israel but for Germans that apparently is not fucking possible. Truly a sick and rotten country to the core. Signing that Morgenthau apology form right now; he was cooking and we should’ve listened.

  • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    13 days ago

    Some guy on Bluesky a while back was trying to convince me workers own the means of production because we can vote in elections and I never wanted to slam my head into a wall harder than after reading that post.