I guess critique of PSL counts as wrecker behavior on this site, but I'm thinking of when Gloria La Riva tried to brush aside accusations of transphobia and was all "how dare you call me cis, I'm a woman of color"

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real world organizing =/= a bunch of internet dogmatists getting together to march

their local branch announced their formation with a post hashtagged #marx #engels #lenin #trotsky and had a ton of Alan Woods books for sale. they're trots.

Well maybe not at the time but he definitely talked about how he thought more deeply about it after the war

i like the term "hitlerite," i remember seeing it in a russian ww2 doc

you wanna see some timecube level shit check out haz' substack

They say that Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is revisionist so I'm pretty uninterested in the two paragraphs of pentecostal babbling they'll eventually wring out of their bottle of Adderall

"Article" is a pretty generous word to use. I wasn't really worried that there would be convincing arguments for patsoc but I like how they're this openly incoherent "yeah all the Abrahamic religions agree on this so naturally that's part of our Marxist program." By far the worst part of the fact these people exist is how often I hear people using reading groups to shit on patsocs instead of thinking about what we should be doing instead.

Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation

Well it worked well enough for him last time

because for most of them being a gym rat is an expression of a bourgeois individualist conception of masculinity. they can afford to spend a lot of time, energy, and money on improving their physique and they think that's a better use of their time than stuff that would lead them to question their place in society.

i'm more skeptical of their commitment towards socialism but now i just kinda lurk and try to work on practice since no matter what they're doing over there they're not exactly trying to provide assistance to international revolutionary movements, and since posting is not practice.

I'm gonna guess it's about galaxy formation, that seems to be a focus of their gravitational wave thing. It might adjust some stuff in our understanding of cosmic history but I'd be very surprised if it's about really close-to-the-big-bang stuff, which is what a lot of people think of as foundational

Damn I liked bayarea

I'm torn between wanting an Eli Roth or a Rian Johnson treatment of this story in film.

I agree with the urgency, but I don't agree at all that we can solve the problem within bourgeois politics.

What is to be done?

Someone wrote a book about that, it's a good read. I think the main challenge we're facing now is we don't have a network we can get working in concert to investigate the links between local conditions and systemic problems and hash out the actions, agitation, and exposure that best mobilize people.

https://readsettlers.org/green-nazi/

Crimea is host to Russian naval bases and a big Russian population, and the bases were leased from Ukraine after their transfer to the Ukrainian SSR and the dissolution of the USSR. When the NATO government was established in Kiev, Russian forces were already in Crimea and clearly weren't going to hand over Sevastopol to NATO.

westworld shit, and not the cool early seasons but the weird late ones

critical support for treating UK public officials as legitimate military targets