Hot take: all "tankie" denominations irl are exactly the same way people on the internet say Trotskyists are. In my uni they were Maoists and exactly like this

Looks like art-nouveau

If this was someone like me or people I know, I would say I think this strategy is unlikely to work and it would be better if they went somewhere else to do this, preferably either with people they have some social connection to or in an environment where people go to have fun.

I remember you going all up my last thread tryna poo-poo the last article I posted here to foster some discussion. This combined with my frustration with the kinda positions that are allowed here without much pushback vs the ones that aren't (ML, Titoist, Maoist, Socialist of the 21st century, Dengist, Anarchist, liberal, completely illiterate? A-OK, no contradiction whatsoever! Left unity! Leftcom, Trot, Stupidpol? Angry emoji) might have made me jump the gun a bit. Sorry about that.

This might be wrong, but I remember Trotsky at some point bringing up that Russia was in the Asiatic state of production at some point, saying it was like China where the power is more centralized in the figure of the sovereign who delegates to handpicked provincial governors instead of local power having local sovereignty like in Western Europe. Regardless, I think there is something to be said about China and Russia being alike one another and unlike the West at that point in history.

Sounds like an alright answer to me, although you would think China and Russia would be more like the Asiatic mode of production.

Excuse me for having more than one neuron and knowing what leftcoms think.

This person would say that the Soviet Union and China didn't abolish commodity production in favor of production regulated by the criterion of use-value, which according to Marx is what characterizes the transition from capitalism to socialism.

Posting an article that echoes a narrative I have observed on Twitter, just to see what people think.

Inb4 "OMG this article is so Sinophobic, it takes all sorts of things about modern China and makes them look worse than they are" - I knooooow. Try to shrug that off if you can.

I don't know about Bolivia, but it seems like what they did in Nicaragua according to that video you posted can't be what American progressives mean when they say land back though, since America already has autonomous regions for Indians just like Nicaragua. That's not even bringing up the fact that Miskito are a former British colony, are closer to Anglos and have a different culture from the Nicaraguans, meaning they need different schools that teach in English instead of Spanish and all sorts of other differentiated infrastructure that American Indians don't i.e. there's a different possible interpretation of "autonomous" more akin to China's autonomous regions.

American "socialists" deal with socialist criticism of one of their social justice pet projects maturely challenge (impossible).

Come on guys, you know what he means. From his perspective China is the Nazis because it has elements of the far left (socialist) and far right (bans sissies from the media), Woke America is the Soviet Union because it is "leftist" and the center is America because it's the everyman everyone can relate to.

Hehehehehe OP is a bold guy, gotta give him that

Wroooooong, white guys look good with this hairstyle, sorry bro.

Sounds more like socialism with neoliberal characteristics to me.

That's because everybody knows deep down inside that being a leftist in the imperial core really only means you want social justice stuff, that leftists only realized organized labor even existed like 4 years ago and that even today they will distance themselves from organized labor at the drop of a hat if it's even vaguely insinuated by anyone that something they want is in conflict with any traditionally social justicey pet cause at all.

This is why leftists in America have such an easy time imagining the concept of "right wing socialists" but consider the idea of "right wing social justice advocates" to be paradoxical, because in America, being left wing is the same as being a social justice person.

I'm going to be the negative one here and say that the amount of it I've watched is hagiographical to the point of being ridiculous and attributes to Marx a very silly cookie cutter anime boy personality. Also, it seems like they've used almost all the scenes they animated on this trailer and the rest is clunky-looking CGI.

Sure, sounds good. I feel like it might make more sense to refer to their worldly form as male though.

The version of the story I know is that Oduduwa was the first woman and Obatala the first man, a sort of representation of the divine feminine/masculine. She is also a representation of the earth while Obatala is a representation of the sky.

Correct me if I'm wrong on this but Oduduwa is female, right? She came into the world as male but her God form is female.