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I absolutly love your weekly landscape photos
thank you 😊 I’m very glad that the comrades like it . I will be doing more posting weekly landscape images.
The union associated with my org just ended up on a Chinese newspaper, we are famous omg
(context: in the 26th of may that particular union, about a million strong, per Wikipedia, launched a general strike. And that has piqued the interest of CCTVnews)
Let me guess: Britain? Or the United States?
Nvm, you don’t have to say.
i pretty much doxxed myself many times soooo, the union is USB (funny name, they always joke about it) and the country is Italy
Edit: here’s a screenshot if a comrade that knows Chinese wants to translate
中文：意大利全国多个行业举行罢工抗议高通胀
英文："Strikes in various industries across Italy to protest high inflation„
Thank a lot, also I want to start learning mandarin, is it really as hard as some people make it out to be? For now I only know Italian and (broken) English
No not at all Comrade. it’s not that “hard” as some people say.
is it difficult ? Yes !
I started learning it since I was little, so. that is why is very easy for me to read and write it but I don’t know how to speak it.
Sat down with an old acquaintance for the first time in a couple of years yesterday and she’s unsurprisingly turned into a complete radlib. Not the screeching twitter type, she’s extremely well meaning and nice about it.
I haven’t talked to someone with politics like that in a while and man are discussions with them hard. They have such a fundamentally different philosophical disposition. Their entire worldview and ideology is idealistic. Talking to them as a Marxist is frustrating as hell, because dialectical materialism is so so foreign to them and creates difference on every single issue in every conceivable way. Class is missing entirely in their world, so no matter the topic you always have to explain your position from the ground up, starting at the very basics.
It’s kinda interesting too, but in a way it feels like talking to a toddler.
Yet as a Marxist my contributions to conversations are shrugged off as liberals for being “too idealistic.”
AMA.
Ask me anything.
Are you actually a member of the CPUSA? Why does the party endorse Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden?
