I went to visit Chethams library in Manchester because Marx and Engels used to study there and their study corner is still there. I expected to be probably the only one hyped for it (it is a 70 min tour of lots of things after all) but multiple people nearly RAN to the booth as soon as we saw it lol. They had books on Engles for sale as well and they were all gone after the tour. Sometimes I’m surprised to see other commies in the wild.

🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.

Have a wonderful week, everyone! Also, we are doing a reading of This Soviet World over on Hexbear, the thread started today on c/soviet, so if you haven’t read it yet it’s a great chance to start!

As always, communism will win.

everyone should be aware of the upcoming/ongoing infiltration campaign as remarked by marco rubio.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

When I was at Tishʻa Bʼav service a few hours ago, the Rabbi made no mention of the pogroms of 1917–1923 (but did mention the 1929 Hebron massacre as well as the Oct. 7th incident). When I asked him after the service why he omitted these events, he justified it on the grounds that mentioning every anti-Jewish atrocity would have taken too long. I then said that that era was very significant, and he brushed it aside saying that Tishʻa Bʼav is mostly about the destruction of the Temple anyway. (Although the service spent only a little time on the Temple.)

I know that asking for some recognition of the Palestinians—beyond mentioning the ‘Arabs’ behind the Hebron massacre—would have been an ‘outrageous’ demand, but I would have at least expected the clergy to mention the largest anti-Jewish massacre before the 1940s. I sent the Rabbi an email about the subject, but as I was rushing I carelessly left in the part where I wrote, ‘While most Herzlians insist that the Shoah was so unique that it was incomparable to anything else in history, it would be utterly baffling if they explicitly included this catastrophe as something else incomparable to the Shoah, which is possibly another reason that they almost never discuss it.’ If he ever reads that email then I get the feeling that he is not going to take that comment lightly; it would be so typical for me if I received an extreme reaction.

I can’t say that I was satisfied with the service, but oh well; it wasn’t for me. If it makes somebody sleep easier at night, good for them.

ETA: The Rabbi replied to my email with this:

Thank you for sharing. I am not sure I would call it a photo-shoah, but it was certainly part of the larger history of anti-Jewish violence in Europe. And you are right, it deserves more attention.

I’m surprised that he overlooked my potshot. Maybe he was unsure how to interpret the word ‘Herzlian’.

The web being full of liberals is never a great thing but at least it usually doesn’t prevent me for watching entertainment videos. For some reasons though I have encountered quite a lot of videos with crazy claims in the last two days. Your typical “communism requires following a leader without questioning them” or “Stalin committed atrocities” or “Cuba is a dictatorship” and I even got a bit of “Sweden is true socialism” and “people in Finland are happier than in China, therefore the Finnish system is better.”
I have no idea how this happened, I wasn’t even watching anything overtly political, but it was a bit infuriating.
What do you do when you are in a bad mood comrades? Me, I like to write stuff.

I saw where Trump announced he’s running again, and I just wish he would have done it later so I wouldn’t have to see an endless barrage of liberals saying that “It’s illegal” and how “congress will stop him”.

Also I am putting my prediction up of a Trump win in 2028.

China is good and all but the USA did give us Jerma985 so i think they’re equally good countries (/s)

“Never invade Russia, you fools.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Scientists wonder whether the October Revolution was an example of Russia invading itself or merely a transformation of Russia. Research is ongoing.

R E A L

I just became aware of this strange video of Putin singing Blubery hill to a crowd including Goldie Hawn, Kevin Costner, Sharon Stone and Kurt Russle and now you too are aware of it.

The attacker at Berlin Pride might be a Muslim so right wingers who also want to kill lgbtq+ people are coming out of their dungeons to defend us

Was noticing how Lego stuff in a store was almost entirely sets based on popular media (such as Harry Potter or Minecraft). I can’t remember too well if Lego was always like that, but I think to a degree it was at least because I remember getting some Star Wars sets as a kid.

Anyway, it got me thinking about the way capitalism chases whatever is the big thing and tries to siphon every bit of value out of it that it possibly can. It fits very well with the AI bubble. Also fits with how even a thing like Black Lives Matter could get co-opted and turned into money-making. Capitalism is pretty shameless about that. If people will buy it, somebody will try to produce it and sell it. And sometimes, if people won’t buy it, they’ll do marketing campaigns to try to convince people that they should. But the path of least resistance is to chase the coattails of something already popular. You just make something derivative enough that it’s legal, or make some merchandising deal for a popular IP, and sell away.

I tried writing about what I learned reading Capital vol II, check it out here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12264322