Should probably add US vassals to the US tally but it probably won't change the overall picture.
redtea
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Is it more a case of waiting an opening and then helping people to change than trying to change everyone right away?
Then there's also organising efforts to change the masses, rather than going one-by-one with people who aren't interested.
Hmmm… it's been a long time since I read it. I wasn't a Marxist at the time. Only interested. I knew very little truth about anything Marxism or Soviet Revolution/USSR. By the time I finished, I came away thinking that Trotsky was praiseworthy.
I confess to only reading the first book. The other two could paint a different picture.
Then again, it really was enough to get me to question everything I thought I knew about communism, the Soviets, and Marx/Marxism. So it didn't leave me so enthralled to Trotsky that I couldn't easily accept Marxism-Leninism once I read a broader range of texts.
Read as part of a balanced diet, I could still recommend it. If you're already opposed to Trotskyism, try it out and put it down if it's too sycophantic?
I'd still recommend it for those who need the characters to come alive to make the theoretical works more accessible. I guess it depends on the other influences on a person's development. Left to think for themselves after sampling enough texts, it could work out well. Pushed into reading this or that by one of the myriad Trotsky orgs, they might be more easily led down some problematic paths.
That's the funny side. These Muppets don't seem to get that you can't have neoliberal deregulation without a robust state. You know that if a left wing party ever gained power the bureaucracy would resist every step of the way. It'll be no different when that same bureaucracy eats and sees itself being eaten. The hidden-power-level zealots might be keen. Until someone lays them off under the same programme. Chaos under the heavens.
What's your favourite author and food?
I ask this knowing that I don't know if I could answer if myself because there's so much choice. I've stated my favourite author before, then re-read them years later to be disappointed. I used to really like Conn Iggulden but I'm a bit scared to re-read him and confirm that he's a favourite. I tried to get into his Rome series and put it down after a couple of chapters.
Food-wise, even harder. My most memorable meals have been Vietnamese or homemade pizza.
Edit: I'm not bad, thanks.
"the far left and the far right are the same. No I won't support the far left and yes I will compromise with the far right. Why do you ask?"
Tell me about it. When I first learned that the website developed and run by Communists had Communists on it, I couldn't believe what was happening.
The only moral stance is to post about the US election in lemmydotEthiopia, the Australian election in lemmydotSuriname, the Bolivian election in LemmydotAlbania, and so on, but only if it's months out of sync. Anything else is suspicious.
That fits nicely because it's always people who have and will continue to have enough food in their belly that they can indulge in an extra meal while indulging in fantasies like 'one more election cycle, pleeeease, I trust them to stop murdering millions of innocent people, just one more election cycle and then they'll fix everything, pleeease'.
What's non-wealth-based fascism?
Fr when I'm filling in my spreadsheet for the people I have to watch, it's a lot easier if everyone goes in column A or column B.
Column A is titled 'Radical speech but thinks that voting will change anything – no action required'.
Column B is 'Radical shitposter – maintain eyes, no immediate action required'.
The other columns, though – damn it's a lot of paperwork.
Column O, 'Organising their community, feeding people, and providing healthcare' is the worst. Luckily for me, the agency's action means they don't stay on the list for long so the paperwork is finite. I probably shouldn't be saying all this as it's top secret. But we do know what's up in our department.
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