Succdems stand for nothing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NcxaVc_zdXg

On a serious note Lenin's most respected member of the Foreign Bureau Y A Zhitomirsky, entrusted with the most confidential operations, was a spy. He was Lenins favourite orator...And was a fed.

Didn't stop the 1917 revolution or Lenin giving Zhitomirsky the old :pika-pickaxe:

Che also had to shoot a double agent

You just gotta suck it up tbh and understand that they'll be feds in orgs and try and give them the most work

UK is so infiltrated that they send spies into rape women in badger culling groups and the amount of times I've heard that the"DDR was a police state" while this shit goes on here. Literal spies in your bed.

You just gotta understand if you wish to organise in any capacity that you'll be going in a feds file. T he NSA was putting Americans on lists for going to Linux forums and UK is literally sending in spies to rape and father children on women.

Anyone remotely interested in socialism/communism or anarchism and I'd bet any visit to this site already has you in a fed file on the NSAs XKeyscore program.

Just be aware of that if you're in an org

How do I know which one is good?

Any org - actually meeting people motivated people will boost you and should create a desire in you to better yourself for the movement - study working class history, theory etc. If you join a shitty org and you realise that tendency is garbage or whatever hey ho this a leaning experience. You move on and find another/better one

Like what am I supposed to do?

Literally anything. If you have a standard printer start writing pamphlets or downloading already made ones of Communist/Socialist or Anarchist sites and start distributing them. You can either leaflet houses if you don't feel up to talking to anyone or stand in your city centre dishing out leaflets and having a chat(first time I did this an old lady exclaimed at me "It's good to see Communists again!"). If you join an org you can ask for work and you will be given work.

Join your local fb groups of anarchist/socialists/communists and trade unionists to see what is going on near you - rent strikes/healthcare issues/pollution. Go to those meetings. Go to strikes. Meet more people. Distribute more propaganda. Get better at talking to people. Get better at formulating arguments logically (yes I heard Shapiro there). Win people to your cause or party or organisation you are attempting to grow. There's actually so much to do when you sit and really think for a few minutes on what you can be doing - most of it is admittedly tedious but this will develop your eye for detail and professionalism etc.

Fire up a blog and begin writing (writing helps you retain information and helps develop you theoretically).

If you want to see what a Communist activist looks like and how to conduct yourself in a Communist Party you can't go wrong with J V Stalin - Foundations of Leninism

Oh no....Bidens racist?

1970s

• Biden led the fight against desegregating schools.

• As an anti-busing crusader, Biden promoted nearly a dozen pieces of legislation aimed at placing strict limits on federal agencies and the courts’ ability to mandate busing to achieve racial integration in schools.

• As part of his crusade against the desegregation of schools, he was the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to block two Black appointees to the Department of Justice.

• Biden opposed Roe v. Wade.

• Biden defeated a 1977 amendment that would have removed all restrictions on federal funding of abortions.

• Biden voted against abolishing the undemocratic, anachronistic Electoral College. A relic of slavery, the Electoral College undemocratically installed both Bush and Trump.

1980s

Biden voted for a conservative constitutional amendment (at the time the National Abortion Rights Action League called it “the most devastating attack yet on abortion rights”) that would allow individual states to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Biden introduced the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1983/1984 and the 1984 Comprehensive Crime Control Act which has enabled law enforcement to engage in billions of dollars of “asset seizure”, mainly from poorer Americans.

Biden crafted the “Biden Amendment” which barred US aid from being used for biomedical research related to abortions.

Years later, Biden intimidated a woman when confronted about his lack of support for reproductive justice.

Biden was one of the original architects of the disastrous War on Drugs.

Biden built upon his history of racism, from making racist comments to defending segregationists and more segregationists and white supremacists.

Biden lied about marching in the Civil Rights Movement.

Biden voted for the landmark Reagan tax bill that slashed the top income tax rate from 70 percent to 50 percent and exempted many wealthy families from the estate tax on earned inheritances, a measure that cost the federal government $83 billion in annual revenue.

For years, Biden advocated for cuts in social security. After voting for Reagan’s mammoth tax cut for the rich, Biden called for a freeze on federal spending and insisted on including social security in that freeze, even as the Reagan administration fought to protect the program from cuts.

1990s

As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Biden led an all white, all male committee grilling Anita Hill in excruciating detail, attempting to degrade her character, destroy her credibility, and accuse her of being a liar, an erotomaniac, and a fantasist. Refused to call corroborating witnesses.

Biden sexually assaulted Tara Reade. Inappropriate sexual behavior did not start or end with Reade; Biden has a long history of groping, sniffing, and kissing women and young girls without consent. Years later he issued a non-apology where he tried to justify his acts.

Biden voted to ban immigrants with HIV, locking up Haitian refugees in Guantanamo Bay.

Biden cowrote the racist and disastrous 1994 Crime Bill. The crime bill was one of the key contributors to the problem of mass incarceration that we have today. Years later he bragged about writing the bill.

Biden cowrote the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act, which in many ways laid the groundwork for the US Patriot Act, and stripped citizens of a wide range of fundamental civil liberties.

Biden opposed equal rights for the LGBTQ community.

Biden voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants on several occasions.

Long before Trump, Biden argued for the unprecedented step of sending military troops to the border.

Biden sided with banks to overturn Glass-Steagall and deregulate the banking system, which more than any other factor facilitated the 2008 financial crisis. The crisis resulted in over 10 million Americans losing their homes and the African American community losing half their wealth.

Biden was an architect for Plan Colombia, which internationalized the War on Drugs, resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians, the displacement of over a million people, and the destruction of large swaths of food crops.

2000s

Biden voted for the USA Patriot Act, which was an all-out assault on civil liberties.

Biden voted for the disastrous Iraq war, a war that cost over 3 trillion dollars, killed over 1 million Iraqis, displaced over 3 million people and injured millions more. Years later, Biden said he would do it again.

Biden was a key architect for the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which made it more difficult for people to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and made it completely impossible to discharge student debt.

Biden’s second largest source of contributions was credit card company MBNA, the company most ardently supporting the above bill. MBNA also gave Biden’s son Hunter a job.

Biden voted to build border walls along the southwest border of the United States.

Biden supported requiring immigrants to learn English in order to get documentation.

Continuing on his long history of praising segregationists, Biden gave the eulogy for Strom Thurmond and called him one of his “closest friends.”

Biden voted against enhancing the enforcement of labor protections.

2010s

Biden helped expand a deportation apparatus that Trump now uses to commit human rights violations by 3,600 percent.

Biden worked to undermine reproductive rights by trying to cut mandated coverage for contraception from the Affordable Care Act.

The Obama/Biden administration awarded Biden’s brother James’s company a $1.5 billion construction contract, despite having no prior residential construction experience.

Biden supported apartheid and ethnic cleaning in Palestine.

Biden presented racist, chauvinist, reactionary war criminal John McCain with a Liberty Medal.

Biden presented war criminal George Bush with a Liberty Medal.

Biden said the CIA torture report was “not a black stain on this country” but rather a “badge of honor.”

2020s

Biden thinks that social security needs to be cut, and the eligible age increased.

Biden opposes Medicare For All.

Biden opposes the legalization of marijuana.

Biden opposes meaningful action on the climate crisis, including opposing the Green New Deal.

Biden still to this day opposes federal funding for abortion.

Biden sides with Trump in backing a right-wing coup in Venezuela.

Biden thinks we should increase funding for the police.

Biden has promised the bankers that “nothing will change”.

Biden has said that he has zero sympathy for millennials.

Biden supports sanctions on Venezuela which have resulted in more than 100,000 Venezuelan surplus deaths.

Biden has proposed the most regressive cabinet full of hawks, warcriminals and servants to the oligarchs in history, easily exceeding Trump and Obama in sheer evil. Biden is a deficit hawk, opposed to stimulus checks and supported halving them.

https://www.greanvillepost.com/2021/01/19/bidens-batshit-bullshit/

These are all lucky, unintended consequences. Trump basically played Russian roulette with Iran and quit after pulling the trigger once or twice. Sure, things are arguably better off now, but all of that only happened because there was a major risk of what would have been a genocidal war. It’s like looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis and focusing on whatever improvements came after it instead of seeing it as a near-miss that must be avoided at all costs. A policy that risks slaughtering millions of Iranians is a shit policy, full stop.

We see things differently then comrade and will have to agree to disagree. My 2 pence is I consider Kruschev a coward for blinking not once, not twice but three times during that period and don't particularly think there should've been something for the Soviets to fear with stationing missiles in Cuba. Once the crisis was in full swing Kruschev should've stared the imperialists down to the last.

Kruschev should've stared them down how Stalin would have (and did do during the Korean war by claiming he had nukes when he had none) and gone the full way instead of pissing his pants like he did during that period and cravenly giving into the imperialists. The entire history of the 20th century would've been different - the Vietnam war probably avoided had missiles been stationed in Cuba and Cuba not under a 6 decade long embargo.

Compare Kruschevs cowardly attitude of avoiding confrontation at all costs versus Che Guevaras stance of "we'll fight with what we've got"

the Russians were so thoroughly stood down, and we knew it. They didn’t make any move. They did not increase their alert; they did not increase any flights, or their air defence posture. They didn’t do a thing, they froze in place.”

Khrushchev’s response, broadcast on Radio Moscow on 28 October, was craven in the extreme, stating that “the Soviet government, in addition to previously issued instructions on the cessation of further work at the building sites for the weapons, has issued a new order on the dismantling of the weapons which you describe as ‘offensive’ and their crating and return to the Soviet Union”.

It is possible that part of Khrushchev’s motivation for embarking so light-mindedly on so serious a course of action was to give the lie to Chinese criticisms of revisionist passivity in the face of imperialist aggression – notably the refusal to assist China in developing her nuclear capability. In point of fact, however, the humiliation and dangers to which this zigzagging revisionist leadership exposed the socialist camp only served to confirm the Chinese comrades’ worst fears.

The October Crisis happened at a moment when fraternal relations between China and the Soviet Union were reaching breaking point, and Mao’s Marxist Leninist characterisation of Khrushchev’s handling of the crisis as moving “from adventurism to capitulationism” really hits the nail on the head.The criticism is not that one should never retreat – Lenin’s insistence on signing the very painful Brest-Litovsk Treaty with German imperialism wascorrect, and Trotsky’s preferred position of “neither peace nor war” was a disaster. The criticism is that, once so serious an undertaking as confronting US imperialism with nukes 90 miles from Miami was embarked upon, it needed to be followed through to its necessary consequences. Contrary to the view that Khrushchev’s retreat was a statesmanlike tactic which enabled Kennedy to pull back from the brink, the reality is that the combination of light-mindedness and cowardice, of adventurism and capitulationism, actually emboldened US imperialism, making the world a more, not less dangerous place. We should ask ourselves: if Kennedy had met a sterner rebuff from Moscow over Cuba, would he have been so ready to launch the genocidal war in Indochina which cost so many Vietnamese lives?

Che: “We shall fight with what we’ve got”

http://www.lalkar.org/article/165/the-october-crisis-remembered

We shouldn’t give Trump any credit for manufacturing such an enormous risk out of nothing, and we definitely shouldn’t give him any credit for how other countries have responded – he has no control over those responses, and he certainly didn’t intend them. It was blind luck, the price for it was a near-miss, and the thing about near-misses is they’re not always misses.

There's nothing blind luck about it. Either he was foolish enough to make a decision to go to war with Iran (a mistake Biden would never have made) in which case the Empire collapses almost immediately given the numerous war games that show US getting it's ass handed to it or he strengthened Irans position and inadvertently China and Russias too

Though it took two years to plan and was scheduled to take place over three weeks, it only took ten minutes for it to end. Within those ten minutes, the backbone of the U.S. forces had been broken, and the Iran-like country emerged victorious.

https://www.albawaba.com/news/remembering-when-us-simulated-war-game-against-iran-1288001

I mean it's hosted on YouTube which is a honeypot. Everythings a honey pot comrade

7/10 posters on here are prob a combination of fbi/cia/mi6/mi5/Democrat paid troll farms etc.

Just accept you're on a list and that you'll probably see the inside of a prison in your lifetime for your political beliefs

Well rather there was no 12th hour. Yes if Biden had committed to war he wouldn't bottle it at the 12th hour but neither would he have led the US up the garden path of strategic blunder after strategic blunder to a dead end

12th hour would've been end of US Empire overnight had they actually gone to war with Iran and if they can't win a war in Iraq which is half the size of Iran with less mountainous terrain and with Iraq a divided society on ethnic lines compared to Iran an ancient civilisation with deep nationalist roots

Let's recap what Trump did

• Pulled out the Iran deal while the Europeans stayed in it and tried to salvage it - Iran looks good in the eyes of the world. US looks deranged

• Europeans realising they basically can't salvage it because of the US swift system

• Europeans start building an alternative to Swift system - destroying a huge component of US hegemony and grip over Europe

• Iran attacks Saudi oil pumps as a show of strength but is a limited strike mainly meant to show that Iran can really fuck up SA if things start to go south

• Sulemani killed

• Iran retaliates by launching missiles at a US base in Iraq. Originally no casualties or injuries and over the months US is forced to admit a contractor was killed and 100 soldiers suffered brain injury and zero retaliation by US meanwhile Iran steps up support for the Houthis in Yemen

• Iran starts refining uranium again with Irans head of atomic energy saying

We should also thank the enemy who gave us this opportunity to demonstrate the strength of the Islamic Republic, especially in the nuclear industry - Ali Akbar Salehi

Who has been strengthened and weakened by US policy under Trump?

Thanks to Trump and his cabinet Iran is now doing military exercises with China and Russia - China and Russia themselves pushed together by US

When asked whether "Democracy is important":

84% Chinese responded with "yes"

Only 73% of Americans responded "yes"

When asked to answed yes or no to "My country is democratic":

73% of Chinese citizens said yes

49% of Americans said yes

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-26/which-nations-are-democracies-some-citizens-might-disagree

So a majority of Americans don't consider their country to be democratic. Let's light em up

:xi-plz: :xi-lib-tears:

:cia:

CIA began funding and arming the separatists who have called for an "East Turkistan"

Çatlı's acts of political agitation among the Uyghurs were designed to further the CIA's goal of transforming the Chinese province into a new Islamic republic, which the Agency had named East Turkistan. Since Xinjiang remained the primary source of oil and natural gas for much of mainland China, the creation of East Turkistan would serve to deprive the country of its vital natural resources, making China considerably less of an economic and political threat to the United States and the Western world. The Tarim Basin in the southern half of Xinjiang contained as much crude oil as Saudi Arabia.16 The new country was officially formed in Washington, DC, on September 14, 2004. Amidst the waving of American and Uyghur flags, Anwar Yusuf Turani, the prime minister, spoke of the new country's need of economic assistance and international recognition. Following the speech, Turani returned to his home—not in Xinjiang but in Fairfax, Virginia.17

Paul L. Williams - Operation Gladio_ The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia -Prometheus Books (2015)Page 292,

Throughout the 1990s, hundreds of Uyghurs were transported to Afghanistan by the CIA for training in guerrilla warfare by the mujahideen. When they returned to Xinjiang, they formed the East Turkistan Islamic Movement and came under Çatlı's expert direction.21 Graham Fuller, CIA superspy, offered this explanation for radicalizing the Chinese Muslims: The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them [Muslims] against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.22

This policy of destabilization was devised by Bernard Lewis, an Oxford University specialist on Islamic studies, who called for the creation of an “Arc of Crisis” around the southern borders of the Soviet Union by empowering Muslim radicals to rebel against their Communist overlords.

p.292, ibid

Why is US in Afghanistan according to US Colonel Lawrence Wilkinson

"Here is what it (the US beaureaucray) has decided for Afghanistan and that you don’t know this either we’re in Afghanistan as we were in Germany post-world War two that is for at least a half a century. It has nothing to do with Kabul and State Building. Nothing to do with fighting the Taliban or proving that we can reconcile with the Taliban and nothing to do with fighting any terrorist group it is everything to do with three primary strategic objective objectives.

And as a former military officer as a professional I don’t necessarily object to these objectives. I just think the American people probably ought to be told about them and there ought to be a debate as to whether or not they want to spend their money on these objectives.

First objective is to be in the place that Donald Rumsfeld discovered was the most difficult country in the world to get military power into in 2001 and take my word for it it is look at it on a map and leave it there because it is the only hard power of the United States has that sits proximate to the central base Road initiative of China that runs across Central Asia if we had to impact that with military power we are in position to do so in Afghanistan.

Second reason we’re there is because we’re cheek and jowel with the potentially most unstable nuclear stock pile on the face of the earth in Pakistan we want to be able to leap on that stockpile and stabilize it if necessary.

And the third reason we’re there is because there are 20 million Uyghurs and they don’t like han chinese and Xinjiang province in western china. And if the CIA has to mount an operation using those Uyghurs. As Erdogan has done in turkey against assad there are 20,000 of them ended up in Idlib, syria right now. For example that’s why the Chinese might be deploying military forces to Syria in the very near future to take care of those Uyghurs that Erdogan invited in well the CIA would want to destabilize China and that would be the best way to do it. To ferment unrest and to join with those we use in pushing the Han Chinese in Beijing from internal places rather than external

Not saying it’s going on right now. You didn’t hear that but it is a possibility. So that’s why we’re there and I’ll wager they’re not a handful of Americans who realize that our military has decided that, for these strategic reasons which are well thought out, we’re going to be in Afghanistan for the next half century." - Col Lawrence Wilkinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91wz5syVNZs&feature=youtu.be&t=1248

In 2018 the USA bombed East Turkestan Islamic Movement and here's a US general talking about it. In 2020 US took ETIM off their terrorist list in an exact replay of the Kosovo Liberation Army. In 1996 KLA was a disparate tiny group. US takes them off the list and gets the muhjadeen training and arming them and within a few years the KLA is the main force that destroys the rump state of Yugoslavia and the US carves off Kosovo and implants a military base so large "it can withstand any internal revolutions of the country" (Diana Johnstone, Yugoslavia and Western Delusions)

https://video.ploud.fr/videos/watch/4573f9cc-ea0b-4480-9f29-7484ad903ecc

Uyghurs have been influenced by Wahhabist Islam and have been fighting all over the ME in ISIS /Al Qaeda and Al Nusra.

https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/07/22/march-of-the-uyghurs/

What China is basically doing is a de-radicalisation program and putting those they deem at risk through trade schools to get jobs afterward. Is it heavy handed? Almost certainly.

Are China Nazis? Well the West has set an entire region on fire and sent it back to the dark ages and China is educating their population so they dont fall for radical islam.

Instead of you know sanctioning, carpet bombing, torturing or slitting the throats of children while waving nazi flags like the West does

Ah my bad still I don't think Biden or Clinton would've bottled it on Iran like Trump did.

Instead Trump assassinates Suleimani giving Iran the sympathy of the world and the US looking like a Mafia state preventing any reasonable casus belli being created by USA - my 2 pence

No im talking about Venezuela

Bolton mentions it in his book - they had geared up for Venezuela invasion and Trump bottled it with the phrase i said.

Accounting for institutional power like this shows how absurd stuff like “Donald Trump would have been the end of NATO” really is.

You should go watch The Munich Conference and see what the European Atlanticists (read pro american neocon war criminals) think

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rto1BZwAk

Even your two examples here are not tainted by the blood thirsty west: who knows what Russian society would look like without the Wests support for Yeltsin (and the subsequent looting of Russia) or the coup of Irans democracy in 53

Iran probably wouldnt have retreated in theocracy and with Russia the subsequent mass death brought on from shock privatisation probably wouldnt have brought on the masses demanding the return of the Church as a pillar of the state and strong conservatism and machismo culture your(read homophobic)

My point was the West spreads barbarism across the globe then smells their own farts over Idpol shit like lighting their Mi6 up in rainbow colours whilst they finance jihadis in Syria

I stand by it - that's where power lies in liberal society and OP is claiming Russia and China are patriarchal (despite power residing in more womens hands in those nations)

@Pezevenk makes the point about domestic abuse rates but when i googled domestic abuse rates US and Russia were similar at about 1 in 4 for women

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1053986/russia-families-with-domestic-violence/

https://www.ncadv.org/statistics

@Pezevenk also made the point about LGBT rights and sure LGBT rights are better in Germany or France....But those societies are part of NATO and have murdered hundreds of thousands of people across the ME in the last 2 decades. By sheer numbers alone (for example 2% of British people identify as LGBT ) so for every 100 people the West has killed they've killed 2 LGB people.

So if we look at I raq where 2.5 million people were killed you're looking at 62500 LGB people dead.

Not including Somalia, Yemen (27 million people starving), Afghanistan, Pakistan etc.

So.... are we supposed to celebrate the liberal feminism the LGBT friendliness in select parts of London/France and Berlin or the maternity packages of Sweden or Germany when their societies are engaged in wholesale slaughter abroad to subordinate the world to the West

And as horrific as the homophobic, machismo and misogynistic environment Russia has created since capitalist restoration...Have they killed anywhere near 62500 LGB people?

With the improvement of material conditions societies morality changes and societies give ever more rights (sexual rights, rights to women, LGBT rights etc.)

The material conditions of Nato nations are one of forcible extraction of resources from the global south whilst the West arms jihadis and dictators and keeping them impoverished etc. - which allows them to further develop rights for their citizens (womens rights/LGBT rights etc.)

Why don't you like those 2?

Jacobin is dogshit though

Remember that time they setup a "socialism" conference and had it packed with US regime change agents?

Pepperidge farm remembers

I see the appeal in leaving a one liner on their shitty twitter account without reading the article ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/07/07/dsa-jacobin-haymarket-sponsored-socialism-conference-features-us-gov-funded-regime-change-activists/

https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/06/29/farce-of-democratic-socialism-exposed-again-dsa-jacobin-haymarket-sponsored-socialism-conference-features-us-gov-funded-regime-change-activists/

Yes I'm aware of the church's return to a firm pillar of the state

CEO positions as an indicator which

CEOs hold much more power under capitalist society.

Is just a horrible indicator and unironically liberal idpol.

It's unironically how liberals define equality and even under this metric they fall short of Russia and China - which was my point

We live under neoliberalism what other metric do you propose we use when looking societies that were socialist countries when looking at womens emancipation?

Way, way too soft

She's responsible for the El Alto massacre in which 8 young people were murdered and should publicly get :pika-pickaxe:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/20/bolivia-el-alto-violence-death-protest

Bonus: AOC supporting the coup of 2019 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/14/ocasio-cortez-to-constituents-on-bolivian-coup-drop-dead/