Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
☭ Matrix homeserver and space
☭ Theory discussion group on /c/[email protected]
☭ Find theory on ProleWiki, marxists.org, Anna’s Archive, libgen
Today I learned for the first time in thirty-one years that I am circumcised. All this time I thought that my genitals looked natural even when I was aware of what circumcision was, but after rewatching Eric Clopper’s presentation on the subject I asked my mother and she unambiguously confirmed that my deliverer gave me the procedure.
G-d, I feel so blockheaded. I should have figured it out so much sooner than I did.
Ngl had a similar experience. Im uncircumcised, and I was always so confused why so many people’s genitals looks so different from mine. Even though I knew what circumcision was, I didn’t put two and two together until like a couple years ago :p
I’m working on this plan of a mutual aid kitchen - clothes and general stuff redistribution system in which people from my city can provide for eachother. It’s something I have been thinking about for a while and I think it can be a good asset in getting out party out there in a really material way. Life will be harder with the upcoming budget cuts.
My theory is that, through organising in this way, we can show people that it is possible to create some sort of alternative society in which we can provide for eachother on the basis of ‘each according to his abilities, each according to his needs’. Even though it is currently only an idea, and the party is not involved yet, I feel like it can work.
From there on we can involve other areas. Gardening for example, to create more greenery in the city.
Why do I watch election debates? The moderators keep mentioning that the far right candidate Wilders isn’t present at the debate and how terrible that is, and with every question they keep asking the candidates how they are going to pay for it
I’m sorry that we Antwerpenaren tried to bomb him and that he is now too chicken to debate in a bunker
There are a couple of Venezuelan guasanos at my work celebrating María Corina Machado. I’m pretty sure this guy was approached by the FBI
If they ever approach you with this topic, you can talk to them about the vile things that she has done. This is a list of that -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9405110
Each accusation about her can be investigated and, if you need it, we can pool for sources in c/asklemmygrad. Hope it helps.
My local radio guy last night offered a “tribute to Lennon” saying that “He was a man who wanted to see peace in the world, but the world didn’t wanna hear it” and then started playing 38 Special - Hold On Loosely. Didn’t expect that.
Insane that people still romanticize that guy.
Adulterer, wife beater, egotist, fake hippie, etc.
Dude was just a fraud. Worst Beatle by far and as a musician he was just ‘meh’ at best.
daily reminder that the nobel prize is selected by a committe appointed by the norwegian goverment.
Got left in charge of making protest signs for the upcoming strike on the 14th in Brussels. Did it together with my other young colleagues. Most of us are communist or anarchist so I think the signs became a bit more radical than they wanted.
Calling our prime minister a genocidal fuck, lots of anti NATO signs, destroy billionaires, etc. It’s going to be fun handing them over to the old heads at work lmao.
There is a real lesson here. “If you have to collaborate with libs at a protest be sure you are the one making the signs”
And it works, kinda. Because the NATO signs sparked some discussion with some other colleagues and I got to explain to them how NATO bad basically.
Slay, Guevara
A new world is slowly appearing. A world full of solidarity among the oppressed and hope for a brighter future
die zeitgeist verändert sich
i hope so
Does anyone ever wonder the variety of research chemicals that Shulgin discovered that could have potential psychiatric or therapeutic uses that have yet to be properly and rigorously studied due to federal regulations on psychedelics? With the miracles that psilocin, ergot alkaloids and other similar compounds can do on mental health, we have so many that have yet to be discovered. I use some for health reasons already.
For some non-political non-fiction that’s interesting, “Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved”/PiHKAL is a good read. TiHKAL is good too. I enjoy his commentary.
Good books and good stuff.
ergotamines are so cool to me, they have so many unique uses for migraines and blood pressure issues. Completely banned in some states though!
Does anyone else think the USA right wing appropriating rhetoric from the left is because we have a massive vanguard party-shaped void here? There is a greater demand than ever for a vanguard and we do not have one so the right is trying to use the opportunity to absorb parts of the loose coalition we have of anti-imperialists, socialists, and groups targeted by the administration who are looking for somewhere to direct their energy.
I think you are getting cause and effect jumbled. The right wing have created a vanguard party shaped void so they can better appropriate leftist rhetoric and terminology because they know it mobilizes the masses. hitler said a lot of psuedo-socialist stuff hell he rebranded the party as “national socialists.”
This happens even more so in Europe, because we no longer have an anti-EU, anti-NATO left. The entire mainstream left has capitulated to Brussels and jumped on the Ukraine war bandwagon. So the right wing has stepped in to fill that void with anti-EU rhetoric, anti-war rhetoric and opposition to conscription, which is making them very popular.
Hey now, we exist. And the funny thing is, none of our right wing parties can fill the anti nato, anti defense spending, anti conscription void anymore.
I’m talking mainly about Germany. Die Linke really fucked up on all of this. Not only are they still way too pro-EU, haven’t done or said anything about the obvious electoral rigging that the EU has been involved in in Romania and Moldova, or how the EU sabotages and plots against European governments that oppose the EU’s drive to war with Russia, but they themselves have also gone along with the disgusting demonization of Russia.
They consistently vote along with the establishment parties for sanctions on Russia and sending money to the Kiev regime. How are people supposed to believe them when they say that they want to protect social programs and welfare in Germany when they are literally helping to sabotage Germany’s economy by going along with the self-harming sanctions, ignoring the act of war against the German economy that was the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines, and sending German taxpayer money to the most corrupt regime in Europe?
Their behavior reminds me of the WWI social democrats who voted along with the bourgeois parties for war funds. They may nominally oppose sending weapons to Ukraine but all their rhetoric legitimizes the weapons deliveries by pretending like Russia is somehow the bad guy there and not NATO who started the proxy war. Their official party “NGO” (actually government funded) “Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung” has also been involved with pro-imperialist forces in Latin America and Ukraine. They are very much a pro-imperialist left.
Almost nobody in Germany likes them anymore. Right wingers think they are too “woke” while most people who might be inclined to support a populist leftist platform think they are sellouts.
And BSW who are more anti-imperialist, more anti-war and more EU-critical (though they have their own huge problems on other subjects) did not make it past the 5% hurdle last elections. There are good indications that they probably got cheated out of a lot of votes and they are involved in lawsuits right now to recount, but for the time being they are out of the equation, and the media has tried very hard to sweep them under the rug and not give them publicity except when they compare them with the AfD.
I’m not talking about niche voices and parties. Yes, we do have the DKP who are all around pretty good, probably a lot like your party except not as successful. But the point is that the only voice you are likely to hear on mainstream TV rallying against the conscription proposal and against involvement in the Ukraine war is the AfD. That is the only one that the “normies”, the average people who watch TV and listen to the radio are likely to hear. And that is a disaster.
There is a terrorism investigation in a street in my city rn but cops won’t release info on what it’s about until later this evening.
Thing is, we have some holdouts in the street lol. I doubt it’s us but ehhhh
Well it turns out some islamist group in the street was planning to drone strike the prime minister lmao
Gotta love how people in Belgium react shocked but people from my city are like 🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼 ‘ehh’
I really needed this. Here’s Gazans celebrating the ceasefire: https://t.me/PalestineResist/82561
I am glad for them. I am sad it took this long. And I am sad Israel still exists.
Same on all counts.
Work is going to put me in an insane asylum at this rate. This is the worst job I’ve ever had, easily.
In 2016 the Belgian government decided to lower the tax percentage on the employer side, meaning they are paying less taxes on the wages they pay, effectively making sure the state gets 8,6 billion euro less in tax revenue each year. Taxes that paid for welfare, retirement, healthcare, education, etc.
Now, nearly ten years later, the same figures that proposed the tax cuts are now making sure we get budget cuts in that same social security because we now have a deficit.
I think it is a clear example of how much the people at the top are planning ahead to fuck us over.
