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Cake day: August 24th, 2019

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  • There’s something deeply wrong with that person to collect random and mundane comments as if it’s a catalogue of curiosities. I’m more amazed the instance doesn’t seem to care about hosting this kind of community on their website. It’s going to lead to doxxing, and they’ll act like they could have never predicted it.

    Funny though that they call themselves a welcoming instance and then allow this kind of crap on their server.







  • Interesting project. I would have suggested that @bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml join your mastodon instance since you get 2000 characters per “toot” (weird choice of word tbh), which is not bad at all for shorter writings and you can arrange them into a thread.

    The problem with having a blog or any platform is getting people to read you, social media is a powerful tool to get eyes on your content.

    Substack is also becoming very popular, I think because you manage your blog space however you like.

    And on ProleWiki we’re looking at opening a sort of blog space too for our editors to replace the legacy essays page (which is just a page with a table in it). But you’ll need an editor account and we have no release date at all, we’re still playing around with the idea.









  • The issue is that capitalism has made itself indissoluble. Capitalism is very good at co-opting any threat and integrating it into it. Like how you can buy Leninade in the US (which I hear is just mid). Well, except fascism lol (cf 1945).

    Any revolutionary message can be made into a commodity to be bought and sold, reduced to its simple exchange value – which is something Marx talked about extensively.

    Capitalism doesn’t need to jail people for speaking up against it. It can defang them completely and integrate their message in the pursuit of profit. Like how Just Stop Oil is being funded by an oil heiress. Was the USSR at a same developmental stage that they could allow people to “suggest” a completely different system?

    And the proof this mechanism is working… is that we’re having this conversation. Vocal disagreement with capitalism is useless. It does not materially do anything against capitalism. Whenever we turn that disagreement into action and get slightly too close, that’s when the arm of the state comes up to ban our parties (authoritarian by your definition), jail us (authoritarian by your definition), close down our media outlets (authoritarian by your definition) and even sometimes team up with fascists to assassinate us (authoritarian by your definition).

    But try suggesting in 1790s France that you should have a king again.

    And the DPRK isn’t even communist it is a hereditary monarchy masking as “communist” where you cannot suggest a new leader within the party

    The DPRK is led by a coalition of three parties; the Social-Democrats, the Chongdu party (religious), and the Workers’ Party. I dread to see what they teach you in your polisci degree because this is pretty fundamental stuff about the DPRK, even Wikipedia talks about it, it’s not like it’s some super obscure factoid.




  • being a member of the CPC comes with duties and other obligations because you represent the state. For example you should be married before joining or at least in a relationship because they don’t want you to date around due to the power implications (you being a member and the people you date not being members).

    It’s not like joining a party in liberal democracies where you just pay the dues and then do whatever.