Every Party member should raise his revolutionary qualities in every respect to the same level as those of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.
Some say that it is impossible to acquire the great qualities of revolutionary geniuses like Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and that it is impossible to raise our own qualities to the same level as theirs. But as long as Party members work hard and earnestly, never allow themselves to be isolated for one single moment from the day to day struggle of the people, and make serious efforts to study Marxist literature, learn from the experiences of other comrades and the masses of the people, and constantly strive to steel and cultivate themselves, they will be perfectly able to raise their qualities to the same level as that of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.
Nelson Mandela, from his book: “How To Be A Good Communist” (1962)
The processes leading to the formation of the SACP started in 1914 when communists across the world, including in South Africa, condemned the imperialist war known as World War 1. Preceded by the War-on-War League, formed by revolutionary militants in opposition to the war, the International Socialist League was formed in 1915. The International Socialist League went on to become the largest component of the various communist organisations in South Africa that came together to form the SACP as the Communist Party of South Africa.
The founding conference of the Communist Party was held at 20 Plein Street in Cape Town on 30 July – 1 August 1921. This historic step had been announced on the evening of 29 July 1921 at a public meeting in the Cape Town City Hall, attended by over 2,000 people. However, it was not until the following day, 30 July 1921, that the founding conference delegates formally passed the resolution constituting the Communist Party.
The Communist Party contributed in no small measure to building South Africa’s national liberation movement and advancing the struggle for liberation and democracy, towards social emancipation. Communist revolutionaries played an active role on all fronts of the struggle.
In reaction, the apartheid regime banned the Communist Party and prohibited any communist activity in South Africa in 1950, ten years before banning other political organisations. In response, the Communist Party adopted new methods of organisation to carry on and intensify the struggle.
Communist revolutionaries played a great part in the organisation of our Alliance, the Congress of the People held in the mid-1950s and the drafting of the Freedom Charter that it adopted, the turn to the armed struggle and the formation of uMkhonto weSizwe in the early 1960s, mass struggles, and, finally, the defeat of the apartheid regime in the early to mid-1990s, to mention but a few events of historic importance.
The communists were among those who made immense sacrifices towards the South African freedom. It was in this process that others were assassinated. Others disappeared. To this day we still have families that do not know where their loved ones ended, because of the actions of the apartheid security networks.
Post-1994, it was the SACP that characterised the 1996 class project epitomised by GEAR in terms of policy substance as a neoliberal policy regime that went against the objectives of a radical national democratic revolution. The SACP pushed caring broader social transformation policies, including through its flagship campaigns such as the Financial Sector Transformation Campaign and the Red October Campaign.
It was also the SACP in the struggle against corruption that first exposed the problem it characterised as corporate state capture and first called for a judicial commission of inquiry into state capture.
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I did something very stupid
I'm lucky I'm alive and unhurt but I shouldn't do anything reckless anymore, no matter what
if you are smarter than me (extremely likely), you will not expose yourself to the same or worse risk
If you live it's what's known as a freebie, and you don't have to learn any lessons
When I was a kid we have family friends who were Afrikaners or however you spell it, who left in approximately the 90s. They'd tell u all about how evil Mandela is and how all the nice (white) neighborhoods have been run into the ground and the good (white) schools are all terrible now because of the black people "taking power".
And the worst part? They were such liberals about it. So much hand wringing and "Oh I hate that it had to be this way, what a sacrifice the country had to make for the sake of giving the population more rights, I weep for the damage that's being done to my home, and even as terrible as its become I love it all the same."
Awful.
As a South African, I can assure you none of that is true lol
Least racist SA expats
I figured that out using a special skill called not being a white supremacist
It irks me how lots of American just refer to the wars of atrocities their country committed on other countries by the name of the those countries. Just "Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan", not even bother to append a "war" after. Like those countries only relevance is that there was a war there.
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me trying to find any anime with characters over 18 :joker-shopping:
ghost in the shell is all adults
it's cop stuff, but a well-made series
though i do wonder
unless it's because of extremely creepy paedophilic fan service (in which case, fair enough) otherwise why does it really matter?
any recommendations for
illegal russianstreaming sites for ghost in the shell?
Because while life doesn't end at adulthood in Japan, they see it as the end of every childhood dream of adventure you ever had. They are so miserable that they can't conceive of anyone experiencing hope and joy, except children.
I think this is it. Fun doesn't exist for adults in anime. Japan has a brutal work environment so childhood is your only chance to have these fun relationships and adventures.
Confession
I watched the season of Nagatoro and now I feel dirty in a bad way. It was a great show, why do all of the characters have to be underage?
Currently trying to find something that will make me feel similar but you know, not a libertarian :libertarian-alert:
But yeah as you said most stuff contains children as the central characters. Even in Fullmetal Alchemist, the main characters are children living in the world of adults literally fighting with people twice their age. They could have been 25 and the story could have been pretty much the same except that at 25 their adventures seem a bit more believable.
classic one for this is my personal favourite, Mobile Suit Gundam
almost all of the series have teenagers as the main characters
though it has literally zero (sexual) fan service at all
plus cool fuckin robotswe should make a list of every episode in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid that has pedophilic content in it, so people can skip them
I would simply not watch the show with pedophilic content in it, but ok
anime/manga artists are the most insane people on Earth
in their (meagre) defense, they are extremely exploited
for their rare skillset, they are wildly underpaid
at the very least give me more romances about adults. i can deal with denji chainsaw man being 16, but i try to read high school romance manga and it just does nothing for me.
It's been a long time, but maybe try Trigun or Samurai 7?
I don't remember there being any children protags in Trigun, and Samurai 7 is a post-apocalyptic retelling of 7 Samurai so like even though there's two children sent to recruit samurai it's a component of a mostly-adult story about the village and samurai
Trigun plot below
spoiler
In the 32nd century, a man known as "Vash the Stampede" has earned a bounty of $$60 billion ("double dollar") on his head and the nickname "The Humanoid Typhoon" (人間台風) after accidentally destroying a city with his supernatural powers. However, whenever he is attacked, Vash displays a pacifist personality as noted by two Bernardelli Insurance Society employees, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, who follow him around in order to minimize the damages inevitably caused by his appearance. Most of the damage attributed to Vash is actually caused by bounty hunters in pursuit of the sixty billion double-dollar bounty on Vash's head for the destruction of the city of July. However, he cannot remember the incident due to retrograde amnesia, being able to recall only fragments of the destroyed city and memories of his childhood. Throughout his travels, Vash tries to save lives using non-lethal force. He is occasionally joined by a priest, Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who, like Vash, is a superb gunfighter with a mysterious past. As the series progresses, more about Vash's past and the history of human civilization on the planet Gunsmoke is revealed.
Samurai 7 plot below
spoiler
Samurai 7 tells the story of a village named Kanna. Set in a futuristic world that has just witnessed the end of a massive war, scores of villages are terrorized by Nobuseri bandits. But the Nobuseri are no normal bandits. They were once samurai, who during the war integrated their living cells with machines to become dangerous weapons now appearing more machine than man. Absolute power corrupts, and their reign of terror is increasing its hold on the countryside.
The elder of Kanna Village has decided that to protect the village they must hire samurai to fight against the bandits. However, the village has no money and thus must find samurai willing to protect the village for a payment of rice. Three members of the village leave to attempt to recruit samurai. They travel to the city and search for samurai willing to work, and after finding several samurai and having a few encounters with the local government, they return to Kanna village to prepare defenses against the bandits.
The guy who was supposed to train me didn't show up today. So they paired me with a Mexican lady who can barely speak English. She quickly realized I didn't need much training, so we have been covering each other to take long ass breaks. "Break one hour. People talk, it's 25". When I get back I help her get the station clean, and then she goes and does the same thing.
Back and forth all night long. This is awesome.
Why does the working class, the thiccest class, not simply buttmog the owning class?
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For a developmental psychology class we had to read an autobiography of someone that covered at least childhood to seniority.
Nelson Mandela’s autobiography was used as an example and as such about 2/3rds of the 200 + member class read it. I imagine for many of these people it will be the only piece of media they ever consume where Communists (of the “tankie” variety) are on the good side.
That along with how “acceptable” Nelson Mandela is to the general public means I try to recommend his autobiography whenever the opportunity presents itself.
If everyone dyed their hair blue it would eliminate class conflict by making everyone bourgeoisie. The reason "humanitarian aid" is useless crap like food and medicine instead of the blue hair dye they need is because they want to keep them poor :very-smart:
I want to talk about porn in a critical non horny way but I want to avoid the police here and I also don't want to cop to what I'm into. Suffice to say racial stuff in kink is fucking weird and bad.
by racial stuff do you mean the extremely weird racial component to a lot of cuckoldry porn?
or like raceplay?Raceplay creeps me out definitely and I don't completely exclude it from what I'm on about as it seems to have the same tone frequently. And you don't even have to go looking for cuckoldry porn to have it seep into basically anything geared towards submissive males.
As much as i just viscerally hate the word cuckold, cuckoldry sounds like some kind of fun woodcraft
It's hard to have a good critical discussion about porn because it always attracts the "looking at a picture of a naked woman will disintegrate your soul"-nofap crowd.
I've thought the same way for a while. The alt-right today does a lot of its recruiting through those messed up fetishes. To the surprise of nobody, they are also the most into it.
/gif/ on 4chan is a fucking wasteland because the right does so much propaganda work through porn there both pretending to be Jewish conspirators pushing interracial/queer porn threads and then also playing the parts of reactionaries getting mad at those people and I guess dunking on them? Idk it’s definitely ground zero in terms of toxic reactionary pornographic wastelands
Fetishism isn't progressive, I think Ik the kind of stuff ur talking about and I agree it's p gross
Leftists get blamed more for not voting because "that's just a vote for the Republicans!" then actual Republicans get for literally voting Republican and it's always one of the most mask off things about centrists.
A couple kids just walked by me playing the penis game. A true classic 😎
pedantic guy who gets mad at 'himbo' since 'bimbo' is already masculine in italian
