Indeed, it’s very strange that sovereign Ukraine is not the one negotiating this. They could just ignore Trump’s peace deal and keep on fighting without US support.

Surely they can manufacture their own weapons and fight their own war, and don’t need to bow down to US directives imposed from afar. Being the one holding the cards, they definitely don’t need to hear anything from Trump in order to negotiate with Russia.

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.

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.

I think somebody on hexbear posted a tool on GitHub that is exactly that. Can’t remember the name though.

The Fifth Republic predates the 1968 strikes by 10 years. Maybe you’re mistaking that for May 1958 in which De Gaulle led a coup that actually toppled the Fourth Republic to “prevent communists” after crises caused by the Algerian War of Independence led by the FLN. That one was a successful counter revolution, though I’m open to the idea that it was a close one if evidence of that is presented. Besides all that, there’s nothing to celebrate about the Fifth Republic still existing as a “victory”.

But on the 1968 strikes and election, Pompidou went from Prime Minister to president, and was from the same party as de Gaulle, as was the new Prime Minister de Murville. The conservative UDR also gained seats. I may not be very knowledgeable about cold war French history, but you’re really not helping your arguments with such easily debunked claims.

The government wasn’t toppled, they just did a snap election. That’s like saying the UK government was toppled when Theresa May called one back when she couldn’t Brexit.

Also, on that same election the communists lost chairs. This is nowhere close to a successful revolution.

I may have been too harsh and knee-jerky on you on my first reply, but it’s seriously very important to acknowledge our past failures and self-crit in order to find the correct path to revolution. In Brazil the Communist Party split specifically because the party was ossified and the faction that left/was expelled wanted to seek better paths. There’s no shame in admitting that what has been tried did not work.

Pretty cool, thanks comrade!

Name one successful socialist revolution in the West.

Browser engines are the clients in a client-server system. Social media interactions follow a client-server-client pattern. Federation merely allows for something like client-server-server-client, and wouldn’t make sense for browsers.

What you’re probably looking for is simply communities built around forking the codebase of those engines for innovation and development. Those probably already exist, since that’s part of the cultural backbone of the FOSS movement.

Since my (leftist) instance is blocked, OP probably can’t even read this comment.

That irony aside, although I disagree that federated Lemmy as a whole is homogenous, it’s only natural that an alternative social network would skew away from the mainstream, and that instances would be relatively homogenous internally.

I believe this is by design, but to expect something else is unrealistic. The only options for Lemmy would be for it to be either further left or further right than Reddit. And there are a couple fascist instances, though they are blocked.

Fantastic reply, thank you very much. I’ll see if I can get them a USB Mint for a test drive. Thanks!

For YouTube, there’s sponsorblock, including YouTube Revanced, but it’s not 100% reliable (specially for less popular or non-English content).

Fantastic interview, specially the insights wrt participation in parliament. Could watch way more of these from other functioning Marxist parties around the world.

A few months ago, the search engine expanded its offering by making available data from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database. Anna’s Archive scraped several terabytes of data over the course of a year and published roughly 700 million unique records online, for free.

Scraping data is now “hacking”. Every single computer science department will have to close its doors and surrender their research datasets to the police.

In the case of shop owners, you can point out how corporations like Amazon can spend speculative money on undercutting smaller businesses like theirs through operations like the Gazelle Project and pay barely any taxes, being effectively subsidized by smaller businesses like theirs.

Despite being theoretically flawed, we can’t deny the success Bernie Sanders’s phrase “in this country we have socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor” among the capitalistpilled Yankees.

Has anybody done a “Mickey Mouse leads the Battleship Potemkin mutiny” story yet?

BTW why is your text background all brown and hard to read?

Seems to be the indicator for “new reply” in the new lemmy version. Maybe whoever implemented that did not consider how that’d be harder to read for some folks. As a quick fix you can just refresh the page again.

Any reading recommendations?

On critiques of MLM specifically or just MLM in general? If the latter, the PCP had a web page that’s still up on the web archive, complete with a very long and detailed FAQ section in both English and Spanish. No better sources for their beliefs than themselves.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061003131815/http://www.blythe.org/peru-pcp/

Now the criticisms were mostly loose texts in Portuguese (in particular against our own university Maoists), so they won’t be of much help. But I’ve heard that there’s some ProleWiki book with heavy critiques of the Peruvian people’s war in the works.

Not directly answering your question but I was watching a guy explaining MLM the other day and the very beginning he stressed how Scientific Socialism is scientific due to falsifiability. Then much later on he does the classic “Denying MLM to uphold ML is like denying Einstein to uphold Newton” and that tickled my brain.

So ML is scientific because it has successfully led to revolutions, but MLM is even more scientific because it has successfully done… what exactly? Temporarily occupied rural areas with guerrillas? Even if you buy their position that the ML states reverted to Capitalism, it’s not that much of an improvement.

Honestly I just think it’s obscurantism. Most MLM’s I’ve found would start the explanation with “some aspects of the Cultural Revolution are universal” but then flounder in explaining which specific ones those were. Probably because if they peg one down they’ll cause dogmatic splits in their groups. But then they get to claim that you just don’t understand, it’s all peak Marxism, and all other Marxists aren’t real Marxists. I’ve been doing a lot of reading on different authors this year and major difference between (most) ML authors and (most) MLM authors is that the former are actually pretty intuitive while the latter were very confusing and all-over-the-place.