i heard vigotsky books are lit, famous soviet psychologist, if i heard right, he wrote about autism too and collaborated for current days drop of asperger name.

capitalism is so marvelous that applies it inversely, one part gets jobless, the other work like fuck.

I’d say to scale down said debates to not tank your relationship over that. if the debate is inevitable, the “didn’t kill enough” depoliticize the discussion, and to someone outside our circle you make you look like a lunatic, so the best approach imo is bringing the discussion to context, like the other comrade commented quoting losurdo, recognize the repression but putting into the context the political situation soviet union had at the moment, surrounded by reactionary forces including the assassination attempt on lenin, to at least not end the discussion looking like stalin was a monster that killed people for shits and giggles. critic without autophagy.

i’m talking mostly with my dad, he worked his whole life, he knows how to handle stuff and some gold tips i got here.

mental exhaustion has been more demanding that physical i guess, i naturally have social anxieties, suspect of being neurodivergent so i’m not handling well the toxicity of the workplace.

i’m trying at least to be a contact with some new, to show that atheist are normal people, not satan worshipers that eat babies. but sometimes i fell overwhelmed and that i shouldn’t speak progressive topics, since their first contact with one communist has been disappointing since i don’t fit the ideal worker and leave a poor impression that communists are fragile, spoiled, smart pants and etc, plus due particularity of brazilian politics, people are very immersed on neoliberal ideology of each on your own and people have disdain for politics subject and see parties in general as parasites that show up only to ask for votes in election years and steal their money.

i will try to put what highalectical said in simpler terms, and starting pointing out that this discussion is very very important to new people.

so, how communism itself will look in the future will be determined by the material conditions of the future, since we are not there yet, we can’t say for sure, only speculate. but you can say you dream of a society that has x characteristic.

the same goes for socialism itself, how its gonna look for each country, will be determined by said country, for good or bad. that is why soviet socialism is different from chinese, that is different from yugoslavia, that is different from korea and so on.

but if we take all of those and try to dawn similarities, we can note a certain tendency, and that tendency is a uplift on quality of life, like the other comrade said in another comment, drastic reduction or extinction of illiteracy, full employment for long periods of time, agrarian reform, reduction or extinction of homelessness and so on.

and why that discussion is important, there are some revisionists line that throw materialism out of the window and create an abstract form of socialism, and they use that abstraction to shit on former socialists and current ones, for example abolition of family and moneyless economy, no socialist country ever came close to both of these, so these lines spew that there was never a “true socialist country”, all were horrific oriental despotism dictatorship and etc.

first, thank you very much from your message, it helps a lot.

i’m thinking of quitting too, still have some money left from my previous job, that i was saving to buy a house.

i’m very used to insane deadlines, being pushed around by higher ups and whatnot, but i’m good at some stuff and always managed somehow, this time it is physical work and there is this annoying guy that isn’t even a higher up, a lowly employee like me, but like to bosses everyone around, people hate him, even from different parts of the factory, i’m also very bad at handling people, and get pushed around by this dude and he is major part of why i’m down.

i was talking to my dad, he said there was someone just like that in his time, lowly employee that works his ass off and likes to boss people around and gave me tips on how to handle, although not sure i will be able to carry forth with what he said, which is basically tell him to fuck off, especially when he is the one tasked to showing me the rope.

that is a little part of why im collapsing, talking to coworkers. the whole place is pure toxic masculinity, even tho, im not a “manly man” and nowadays i simply can’t engage in homophonic jokes anymore, don’t find them funny. also decided to experiment a little and told when asked which church i went, that im atheist, well that also didn’t went very well.

after these few days I’m realizing that the communist movement has rough days ahead, in overcoming the neopentecostal binds, while being everything that the common sense hates, women, atheists, lgbtq+, african religions and etc…

Well, there are revolutionaries processes ongoing on india and philippines, im not up to date on how they are progressing. in the rest of the third world maxism is slowly rebuilding, my guess the next one will be in africa continent, since there is still an anti colonial struggle.

I’ve been reading a little, i got recommended the mentioned texts here on lemmygrad, not gonna lie that trying to learn philosophy has been a frustrating endeavor, to the point that i don’t even know how to properly judge the quality of theory he produced, so i do rely on other people to help sort some thoughts.

i do know his about his achievements as a leader and why west demonizes him so much, ik it is stupid to use liberals as a compass, anyway, i will keep trying to read more.

are they trots or something else? im reading a little book called What is Dialects by Alexandre Konder, a brazilian author, he goes to similar points, he says that there was metaphysics tendencies growing in communists parties around europe, especially in germany with Berninstein, then Lenin dissed the shit out of everyone in What is to be done, to correct these tendencies, that made possible due to Lenin deep understanding of hegelian dialects, then everything went to crap when Stalin came to power because he despised theory, but had a amazing ability to make didactic examples like in the text historical materialism and dialectical materialism, but still weak on hegel, something something that paved way to revisionists like kruchov to rise.

i felt compelled to translate the part and bring to you guys, but coincidentally the subject came up, so, what is the deal with that? is any of this true that stalin wasn’t up in theory and didn’t understood stuff?

me too, i not sure. a great army sure, all remaining socialists country are military power, not all have nukes tho.

introductory in english i don’t know, but one good about aes is The Haircut, made by an australian couple, they went to drpk to get a haircut and investigate the myth of legal hair styles.

orientalism + drpk achievements like repelling us invasion, the country surviving the fall of east/socialist block but didn’t manage to fully win the war to reunify the country like vietnam, so it’s at a war state and doesn’t take take many tourists from the west, adding all up, its easy to make up bullshit because no one will bother to check, the most wacky lies are taken as truth automatically.

one good example of this was a brazilian blogger that as a prank, made up that north korea was saying to it’s citizens they won the 2010 soccer world cup with ridiculous scores and literally no one bothered to check, the “news” got replicated all over the west, when it was found that it was a prank the drpk embassy sent a thank you letter to him for exposing how shit western media was. it is a very interesting case.

mao too, sadly being a good parent led his son to death.

now, talking seriously, orientalism doesn’t apply only to asians, it is for everyone in the third world, because it works with only two categories, the west and “the rest”.

when the cuba revolution happened, fidel appeared on forbes as the most wealthy person in the world, following the orientalist script that leaders have a ridiculously ostentatious lifestyle they simply put cuba gdp as fidel’s net worth.

cia stands for communism in america, thus invalid tankie source. /s

chetaah and lion being considered badass cats are the most bizarre psyop ever, all hail the mighty jaguar

some parts of it sounds like social chauvinism.

something is very off in that article