Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Have a seat in the overpriced, sweat-infused Razer™ gaming chair over there. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!

We have our own Matrix homeserver at https://genzedong.org, and a Matrix space; see this thread for more information.

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Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory (and other books), you can use z-lib, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.

  • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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    171 year ago

    From Yahoo news on 29 Jan:

    The UK is braced for even more strike action in the coming weeks, with teachers, rail workers, university staff, and civil servants among just some of those staging walkouts.

    1 February is arguably one of the worst days affected, with 70,000 staff from 150 universities striking, along with 100,000 civil servants, workers from 14 train operators, and eligible members of the National Education Union (NEU).

    The government is still not taking the desired action by unions, and this pattern of events could continue for months.

  • DankZedong
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    1 year ago

    Just finished day one of a two day marxist introduction course our party offers to new members. Never got one myself for some reason.

    It was interesting to see new members with lots of question starting to understand marxism. One guy was brave enough to say we need some form of capitalism in order for innovation to exist. He got, respectfully, educated by more advanced marxists lol.

      • DankZedong
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        31 year ago

        Pretty cool. A lot of talk went into explaining what a marxist party is and how it’s different from other parties, and also into how our party is organized with our action groups and campaigns at people’s places of work. Plus we had a lesson in antifascism lol. That’s always good.

  • @freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    121 year ago

    Can someone help me understand Lavenderism from a historical context? I keep trying to research it and it appears to be a single-person project that is attempting to build a whole new metaphysics and spirituality from whole cloth.

    • Charming Owl
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      81 year ago

      That’s exactly what it is. I am teaching people how to gain supernatural powers, defending spiritual philosophies from anti-proletarian ideas, and venerating comrades as heroes such as Ho Chi Min or Mao Zedong. If you are wondering what kind of stuff Lavenderism is based on, you could say it is a mix of Ancestor Worship, New Age Spirituality, and Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.

      I am very surprised to see my religious group mentioned in this community tbh. I try to keep all the spirituality stuff in my own community because if I say to the average secular communist person I have occult powers or I opened my third eye they are not going to want to hear about it. I know it works though because people tell me I have otherworldly energies and they think I am familiar despite me never having met them before. You can feel free to ask me about Lavenderism or these things but I am not sure the people of Genzedong want me to talk about Lavenderism in this community or they might think I am silly.

      • SovereignState
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        101 year ago

        Just want to say that although I’m skeptical as MLs usually should be, I appreciate your good faith non-prosetylizing approach and enjoy many of the stories you share.

        I think philosophy and spirituality are personal interests of study for many of us, even if they don’t apparently directly influence our scientific socialist worldviews.

    • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      21 year ago

      Myes because I guess GLORIOUS MURICAN ™ AI has no such problems, eh? Except…

      From personal experience: typing “the most beautiful woman in the world” into Midjourney prompt produces an image of a white, specifically European looking woman. Typing “beautiful alien woman”, however, gives the portrait African facial features. No racism here, nosireebob.

  • @RedSquid@lemmygrad.ml
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    91 year ago

    It’s so frustrating interacting with mainstream trans communities. The amount of political naïveté, or sometimes outright anticommunist or imperialist trash you have to deal with from people who really should know better.

    I’m just so frustrated, with one person in particular who is friends with an employee at Raytheon, loves to talk like one of those pro-Nazi ‘military analysis’ twitter folks about the US’s war in the Ukraine - including using slurs to describe Russians (very cool coming from a member of a marginalized group that has quite a lot of slurs directed at us). And even now complained about a “Stalin-shill” who was trying to argue that air travel should use metric instead of imperial measurements. I mean… wtf does someone being a communist have to do with their promotion of metric?

    • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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      11 year ago

      I honestly have a feeling that many trans idpol activists being in the labor aristocracy and blindly pandering to imperialist talking points drives many would-be comrades into the patsoc camp

      • @RedSquid@lemmygrad.ml
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        41 year ago

        tbf I have no idea what this lass does, beyond wasting time on discord.

        And while I get what you’re saying, I have zero patience for patsocs who see trans people parroting imperialist lies; but somehow don’t care about all the cishet white men who massively outnumber us and who mostly originate those lies. I think a lot of them just want an excuse not to confront their bigotry.

  • DankZedong
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    1 year ago

    A suitcase with a human torso was found a few days ago in a garage box belonging to a big housing project in my city. The arms, legs and head are still missing.

    Immediately fingers were pointed at the Moroccan minorities and drug related problems that the city is dealing with (a homicide is not out of the ordinary).

    Police have now determined that it is a female torso and they suspect is from a woman doing sex work, which happened a lot in the garage boxes underneath the building.

    It sucks because this type of murder can oftentimes be a sign of some very disturbed individual going around. That, and femicide is already a big problem in this country, one which our party keeps fighting against. I hope that whoever did this can be caught soon. Sad to see yet another woman killed and to see racists having a field day again.

  • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    61 year ago

    Right Sector (UA Nazi group) had posted a video boasting about preparing chemical weapons (grenades) for their UAVs. Openly and unapologetically.

    Brace yourself for another wave of western propaganda.

    UPD: reportedly, not only are drones used to drop chemical weapons, they themselves are covered in toxic chemicals. So anyone picking one up without gloves will at best be heavily poisoned.

    • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      61 year ago

      I don’t trust this move. It seems our government is working hard to appropriate Soviet/communist stylistics, while obviously denying the meaning behind the symbols. Either they’re actually clever and are doing it to pre-emptively counter potential socialist movements in the future, or they just noticed that people respond well to this stuff and it’s just performative.