There’s been a lot of bad popular fiction about Mao. There’s one book in particular that I steal from independent left wing book stores and burn whenever I find it
I absolutely love Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History. It’s a rewrite of history, all the way up to Xi in 2019. Highly recommended if you want to learn about a lot of revolutions and revolutionaries.
I’d love to point out the virtues of mescaline, Huxley’s drug. The Doors of Perception.
A dialectical molecule! Half MDMA, half DMT!
Mescaline is considered to be one of the most gentle, insightful, and euphoric psychedelics, known for its greater emphasis on bodily and tactile sensations (sometimes compared to MDMA) than tryptamine psychedelics like psilocybin or DMT, which tend to have a more dynamic/frenetic headspace and visual geometry. It is considered to be one of the best agents for psychedelic therapy due to its gentle, organic nature. Synthetic mescaline is highly sought after and is typically produced in limited batches for connoisseurs, owing to its low potency and relatively high production cost.
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it’s a very lucid high. It’s extremely pleasant and colourful. You see love in colour.
Mescaline used to be the standard rating system for psychedelics, until naturally, the CIA flooded the world with LSD.
you’d be very surprised? I’d like to stand up for drug addicts here
the actions of dopaminergic drugs on the brain are very dependent on dose and setting, it is not always a simple issue of neurotoxicity, especially without methylation.
Trump being anti-drug use is part of the psyop. People who worked with him on The Apprentice confirm that the man has a hard, lifelong stimulant addiction.
Maybe he just doesn’t drink? Either way, it’s all bullshit.
Absolutely. Mao Zedong writes very clearly on this.
A work that would be particularly relevant to Hong Kong would be of course inside Maoism itself.
There is a particularly relevant example here for Hungary. Please read the whole thing carefully, then move on to On Contradiction and other Maoist works. This is necessary to think clearly about China, Hong Kong, and so on.
I think the problem we have run into here, that lead you to downvote my comment unfairly and uncritically, immediately, is that you do not yet have what I would call a leftist conception of democracy. You have a bourgeois conception of democracy because you live in the imperial core. You have not sufficiently revolutionized your own politics, in all honesty.
Bourgeois electoralism is simply the freedom for one class to oppress another with democracy. If one class is oppressing another, is the oppressed class truly democratized?
You do know that they are attempting a bourgeois and reactionary break away from China and into the welcoming arms of global capitalism?
The rightist leaders want more slaves. More money. More blood. Bourgeois parliamentarianism. This isn’t about reform, or democracy - it’s a rightist autonomy movement, how could it be?
I’m very confused. There is autonomy, and it divides into two - left and right. How could you think that this “revolution” is a good thing for the left?
China has a large, tremendous position within the nightmare of global capitalism. Anyone can look at the planetary balance sheet and confirm this. Yet, China is still “socialist”, in the sense that there is socialism in the hearts and minds of the masses and leadership. This is clear. The Chinese state is acting, generally, in the interests of the masses.
Comrade, I have a feeling that there are major contradictions that you have not resolved with regards to China, and your own position within global capitalism. It is not enough to simply say all states are bad and then, in contradiction, creating new ones without doing a full class study. This cannot be leftism.
We all sympathize with Hong Kong’s protestors, who are of course real people, more than we do the Chinese state.
However - the rightist leaders do not have the authentic support of the masses. Their movement is tainted by the influence of imperialism. Because of this, they cannot be successful. They cannot bring any “national liberation”. Did the CIA amplify Hong Kong? Of course they did.
If the autonomy movement was left, or becomes left, then of course all of this changes.
If we have to use a flag can we just use something universal? Personally if I ever hold up a bourgeois flag it better be something beyond nationalism and patriotism and unnecessary ideological symbolism. I always preferred the 🏳️🌈 for all humanity.
They are all very nice. However, the red white and blue colour schema is culturally attached to bourgeois revolutions and bourgeois states and democracy, which of course turned out to be a lie.
I like vexillology, so maybe we should have lots of flags. It’s a free planet
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