Oh, I didn’t know breakthrough news was theirs. I thought they only owned Liberation News, which usually lags behind the news cycle by a lot.

On the other hand, Chinese state-supported media model sidesteps these barriers by decoupling news accessibility from commercial pressures.

The same could be said of the BBC, DW, France24 and many others. They’re still trash. Being state supported is nice, but the interests of that state are key.

I’d like to add that western communist parties are doing a very lacklustre job in fighting for hegemony in the digital media/news space. It is depressing that single-person channels like First Thought somehow are better at constant free news coverage than the PSL or other English-language ML parties.

It might not take off in the west where there’s too much propaganda against China for people to turn to Chinese sources, but that’s not the case for the global majority.

Most Chinese news platforms are still mostly only in English, which isn’t accessible for non-westerners. And national bourgeois media is happy to only translate what supports their interests. I’d rather they support the building of national left-wing press structures abroad.

O iFood tá ficando uma porcaria cara pra caramba, então é bom voltar a ter alguma competição. Essas empresas só são boas na época de operar no prejuízo pra monopolizar, depois fica tudo pior do que era antes.

It gets worse now that it’s being made available to people with disabilities and now with mental illness too. In Belgium there’s precedent for people being euthanised for being for autism. Only difference from the Nazis is that at least the Hans Asperger didn’t try to convince his patients they had to die.

Are these tariffs even being implemented or are they just “announced”? I can only imagine the chaos that customs workers must be going through.

Edit: Found an answer to my own question. It starts on may 2.

Definitely not my most rightwing view, but my most rightwing conscious position is that comrades should join and build up whatever organisations they can, even if they are right-deviationists or contain reactionary elements, and fight over those inside the organisations. This includes parties with settler, LGBT-phobic, misogynous among other deviations.

I also have another view that may be seen as rightwing here (and is definitely controversial) that settler-colonialism is not the principal contradiction in current day USA, North America, or most of the rest of the Americas. It’s first between the international bourgeoisie (with home base in the US) and the international proletariat, then between peripheral nations and the imperial core finance, military and cultural sectors, and only after that it’s between oppressed minorities (be they native or “imported”) and the national state repression force. Some day I’ll take the time for this struggle session.

If you look on the FBI “most wanted” page he is one of the top “fugitives” lol

Material context matters, but anything that would help maintaining “soviet” organisation after the revolution. Truck drivers, bikers, hardware-capable technicians, but also nurses and medics, farmers, depending on the society maybe even programmers, and also military-capable workers.

It all depends on what sort of proletarian power structure you’re building and what are the key skills required to maintain and grow it both during repression and after victory. If there’s lots of rails, train engineers. If urban areas are sparse, maybe radio operators.

If there’s an anti-war movement, it’ll be very diverse in its tactics.

Well, in that case those other things can’t be said outright as answers either.

What can be said is a list of sources, perhaps.

TM 31 210

Other more up to date TMs and FMs

Chemistry Youtuber

Some theory

Also check out some circuitry courses online and try to learn how to solder and short-circuit batteries. And join the SRA, maybe budget for a 3D printer.

And finally I recommend reading through David Shub’s biography of Simon Ter-Petrosian, for some lessons on what to do, what not to do, and what can go wrong.

However I still advise those other things to be done with some sort of organisation.

If we get nuclear Armageddon, everybody in the planet will die. There’s no escaping it, we have more than enough nukes to make earth uninhabitable.

I’m guessing you are asking this from a US perspective.

The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism

First: Get yourself organised. Action without organisation is either liberalism, anarchism or adventurism. Join the FRSO or the PSL.

Second: your organisation should organise against the war by agitating against the state itself and for peace, but also by hampering the capabilities for continued war, through strikes, protests, road blockages and whatever else is an acceptable method for your organisation.

Third: Survive yourself but also help others survive. Whatever was the US engages in now, there’ll be a severe economic impact due to deindustrialization. Your organisation should act to help those most in need, which serves a double function of cementing which side the communists are on (the proletariat) against the interests of the parties with state control.

As a side note, it honestly confuses me how much I need to remind people on a Marxist-Leninist forum that getting organised is the first step. I don’t know if this is a cultural US liberal thing of thinking oneself too unique for a movement or too good for a middling party, but that’s what it seems like. I’d understand if the complaint was “I don’t have time for militancy” but it’s usually just “the parties are bad” like a good party is just going to spontaneously manifest itself.

Basically all of them? Thermal and nuclear are not clean energy and rely on mining (unless you mean geothermal), and wind has its issues with regards to wildlife and rural living. Rather than seeking a general optimal form of energy production, we should seek rational and deliberate allocation depending on the geographical and social conditions.

For agitation and propaganda, mainstream websites are infinitely more effective than whatever we have on the fediverse. That is not on you as an individual but on your organisation as a platform for that agitation.

Now for individualist arguments, there’s the clear reason that sadly most people are still only on corporate social media.

The fediverse works as a safe space, and allows for deeper discussion and studies, but it’s definitely not a place for reaching an audience.

Online debate tribunes are cool as fuck and I love that my organisation has one. I don’t have enough energy to contribute to the discussion on a national scale, but it’s fantastic to be able to read so many writings from comrades in order to better refine the line both at the base and at the top. Democratic centralism is the best organisational methodology even in the slogan: “freedom of criticism, unity of action”.

Other than MP4, no major first party games. They really need to announce something of the level of Breath of the Wild next month or this thing is going to go the way of the Wii U. Which I wouldn’t mind really, it’s judicially easier to develop emulation for dead hardware.

“Memes” aren’t a thing that exist anymore. People don’t get attached to some specific formulation of words because they are memorable/funny/interesting. These words are just repeated by content mills because recommendation systems have latched on to them as important keywords, and the cycle repeats itself. Nobody actually really cared about the fake “orange cat” concept, it was just perpetuated by a bunch of funny cat videos having the words “orange cat” in it and is now part of social media SEO. Now every post about some colour of cat has to include the words “orange cat”.

The internet is dead, and Mark Zuckerberg killed it.

Those are absolutely beautiful. What a great gift.

The Vietnam essay exists already 😄 https://criticalresist.substack.com/p/how-vietnam-decolonized-and-what

Nice!

And patsocs don’t deserve an essay of their own lol

I disagree. You quite clearly have some very developed thoughts on them that I’d like to read more about and comprehend better, and I believe right-opportunists should be mercilessly opposed from the cradle to the grave.

This is well meaning critique, but I think you mashed two really good essays into something lesser than they could’ve been. I’d be way more interested in either a thorough dissection of the organisation principles of Ho Chi Minh and specifically about General Giáp and another essay carefully tearing down whatever passes for Marxism in the US with clearer evidence and more neatly tied together.

As somebody who knows very little about both the CPV and the Yankee pseudoleft I look forward to more of your writing on these topics.