[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Efficiency doesn't care how big your country is, sprawl would be as inefficient in Cyprus as in Russia, you spread your services and infrastructure over an unnecessarily large area, to huge economic and environmental cost, and forcing people to rely on a car to move around

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Cool. I would assume OP knows their children better than you do, given how they came out to them not you.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

"I, one of the few who lives without social media, can speak for everyone who uses them"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

My point is that extremely broad claims about extremely different and unrelated issues, and painting them all "oh so difficult", is a tool used by western media to make people think the problems are too complicated to be solved and there's just nothing to do about violence in "the middle east", as US and its allies weren't responsible for more than half of it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Some reporters being racist, doesn't mean that sensibilities of people aren't moved when it's non-white people, this was very patent during China's oppressive policies against Uyghur in Xinjiang. There were years of condemnation and of people calling it genocide, and there was massive outcry here on Reddit. Would you say Uyghur are white, or is it just convenient to remember them and being concerned because the whole thing paints China in a bad light? I didn't see nearly the same level of outrage during the actual genocide against Rohingya Muslims in south-east Asia.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Wow, funny, I didn't hear the bombing of Yugoslavia and its disintegration, the invasion of Ukraine, and similar conflicts in Europe ever called altogether "European issues", but separated very well individually.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

If Jewish people in Nazi Germany had started a series of terrorist attacks against civilians, would you be comparing them to Nazis and telling that "both have a fair share of blood in their hands"? Because it's THAT black and white.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

If people grouped up every single geopolitical conflict within Europe under a single category of equally non-black and whiteness, they'd be ignorant to do so. When western people do that with the middle east, it's just an excuse to keep their minds free of it and dismiss it all and the responsibility of their governments.

Funnily enough, you know where in middle east there weren't these "non-black and white" issues until three decades ago? Kazakhstan. Uzbekistan. Turkmenistan. Tajikistan. Azerbaijan. Kyrgyzstan. I wonder if there's something black and white about the whole thing now...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Ukraine is targeting Russian troops

They also started sending unmanned air vehicles with explosives to Russian infrastructure such as oil. Which I'm not against. Because they're defending themselves against an invasion. As Palestine is doing. The situation of Palestinians is much, MUCH more dire than that of Ukrainians, so it's only to be expected (not to be confused with justified) that their response is also more violent.

uses civilians as human shields

Sorry, but that's strictly false, and propagating that shit is heinous. I'll paste here what someone else said in the comments:

So this piece doesn't source any evidence that it was used and ignores the literal fact that later investigations by Amnesty didn't find credible evidence of use as a military base and the massive Israeli misinformation campaign on that front: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_military_use_of_al-Shifa_hospital#:~:text=During%20the%20Israel%E2%80%93Hamas%20war,Hamas%20and%20hospital%20administrators%20denied.

But yeah let's justify Israel bombing away access to medical care to people forced into a small, war torn area because fuck Palestinians I guess.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Show me one conflict in that region that's not black and white.

I assume you mean the opposite. I'll bring you one about your own country.

In the Mosaddegh era, a democratically elected, secular, progressive, leftist leader was well on the way of successful policy for Iranians through the nationalization of the oil industry which, up until then, as you probably know better than I do, was extracted by the British Petroleum with the knowledge and approval of the Shah (thanks to some juicy "contributions" to his personal fortune paid by the British), leaving almost no profit from the Iranian oil to the Iranian people. The British blockaded Iran militarily, and through MI6, with help of CIA, staged false-flag attacks on private businesses through paid actors who pretended to be communists (the party was in Mosaddegh's coalition). They literally bribed local mafias and gave them loudspeakers to pretend they were popular protests to prime people. And the poverty induced by the military economical blockade, summed up with all this shit and much more, made it so that the Mosaddegh government was deposed and the status-quo was more or less restored, and British Petroleum was happy.

Tell me how that's not black and white.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Hamas attacked first

Palestinians was there before Israel was even conceived, and the first Nakba, in 1948, which marks the hard line of the invasion, in which 750k+ Palestinians were forcibly relocated, was started by Israel. History didn't start on October 7th

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Grouping up a whole set of countries, ethnicities, histories and conflicts into a "middle east" category and call treating it all as a homogenous "non-black and white" issue is racist, sorry.

nothing about conflicts in that area (including the topic at hand) is black and white

Thank you for ignoring the inconvenient part of my previous comment. Please tell me how the first Nakba isn't black and white.

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Sup fellas.

I'm a Spanish guy who, for the past decade, has been getting increasingly radicalized. I've been mostly so far interested in reading because I wanted to have a solid theoretical background and learn more about the Ws and Ls of communism, from a theoretical and a historical perspective, and while I'm still very much into reading socialist literature, I want to take the step to organizing and activism locally. I was just wondering if anyone here has any resources for any Communist/Socialist/Marxist organisation in Spain or with presence in multiple western-european countries that anyone can recommend me to contact.

Thanks a bunch!

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Martin Luther King was a well-known activist for Black peoples' and worker's rights. After many years of fighting racism and oppression from the establishment, he shared insights on some of his findings of the unjust opposition to rightful change, which may surprise a few of us who are still learning about his figure:

"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

We've recently seen widespread liberal rejection of grassroots progressive movements such as Black Lives Matter, the protests against western collaborationism in the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and many so-called "progressives" dedicating more time to finding the mistakes committed by non-western regimes than those of their own nations, and calling "Tankies" to those who are a bit further to the left than us. Let us consider if we ourselves are the moderates that Dr. Luther King was talking about, and let's push for the change we actually want rather than bickering about who's "too far to the left"

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Last week, I found a used book in a store, called "what the Soviet worker receives besides their salary" (or something like that, translated it literally from my language). It's a short, 40-pages pamphlet written in 1959 by the then Soviet Minister of Finance, A. Zveriev.

On a section regarding housing, the pamphlet claims: "The workers and employees of the USSR pay insignificant rent compared to that paid by workers in capitalist countries. If in the latter, the rent expenditure absorbs 25 to 30% of the family budget, in the USSR, the rent including communal services doesn't rise, on average, above 4 to 5% of the family budget".

Leaving aside how much they paid in the USSR for rent, I want to dedicate a moment to examine this 25-30% expenditure of the family budget in rent in developed capitalist countries. I looked up the data for my western-european, developed country, and for the bottom 50% of families by budget, the housing expenditure actually ranges from 45% to 35% of the family budget in 2023 (latest data available).

Let's forget about the fact that family budgets can't be compared from 1959 to now because nowadays there are more workers per household as a consequence of the mass-incorporation of women in the workplace and young adults staying with their parents because of housing prices. Even if we forget about that, after 65 years of technological and scientific progress, in which the population of western capitalist countries has actually stabilized, the prices of housing as a percentage of family budgets have risen by about 50%, compared to the numbers given in an anticapitalist pamphlet written by a literal Soviet finance minister.

There is no reason for this other than the commodification of a HUMAN RIGHT such as housing. If Cuba and the USSR solved housing for everyone 50+ years ago, there's no actual, physical or economical problem preventing us from doing so. It's purely a desired consequence of our current system.

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