Nice, I do follow them but wasn’t aware of this. Thanks comrade.

I have learned over the past 3 years to not argue about stuff like that anymore. It’s tiring for me, it strains my relationships, and frankly I’m more and more convinced that it undermines actual present organising. I read a couple of articles and listened to some podcasts on climate change and leninism (i.e. socialist revolution; professor Kai Heron) and their argument is convincing enough. We have bigger fish to fry than internally fighting over who was better 70 years ago. Like waaaay bigger fish: climate change and neo-fascism. Let’s fry those first and then we can discuss Stalin and Trotsky and Chinese reforms and what have you.

An example from my hometowm. Almost every dedicated Marxist grouping here is Trotskyist. It refrains me from joining them but I also haven’t asked them WHY they’re Trotskyist. And also our dedicated communist party renounced its founder because they defended Stalin. Maybe it’s the classic falsehood of “Stalin bad, Trotsky would have been better” or maybe they actually engage with Trotsky’s ideas of permanent revolution and find them more helpful in the 21st century. I don’t know. But this also means that I am left without a serious means of organising in my home city as I don’t have time nor energy to start my own organisation and even so, the zeitgeist here is not one of pro-Stalin. So I don’t argue it and just look at axtual actions on the ground and while Trotskyist, these are the people organising, fighting, getting out etc. So it’s a dilemma.

I would say unless your GF is a fascist or right-winger, don’t bother straining your relationship with this. Just inform yourself and that’s good. (Unless you want to strain your relationship in which case, have at it.).

In the US, you,ll end up dead.

While having a point, what an incredibly condescending tone the article has.

After reading, this is a terrible article written by a terrible, contemptuous human being.

I have no real input in this discussion other than reading it and being fascinated. I just wanted to say that I love the phrase: the sun at eight or nine in the morning.

There is more and more proof that one of our extreme right politicians worked in service of the CCP. I’m extremely disappointed in this.

This is a good answer. Thanks. I am doubtfull of your position that capital is subordinate to the prolitariat in China, as I do not see much examples of that. The prolitariat in China, while getting marginally less poor (yes, I’ve read the UN report), is still mostly the world’s construction basket. So while I believe that capital is regulated, I don’t believe it’s subordinate to the proletariat. That said, currently it’s better to not start implementing huge changes in economic law, i.e. take all billionaires money as it would create unrest and also ammunition for thr US to use against China. However, I would have liked to see this as an initial block back before there where billionaires in China. I still have yet to see a good point for them actually existing.

I’m about halfway through and when I kind of lost interest. I should get back into it.

What’s the commie bookstore in your city? Name??

I’ll look for it. I saw it in a newsarticle from my country’s region, which is pro-western, anti-israel.in theory but sending weapons nonetheless in practice kind of country.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/03/05/israel-gaza-hamas-seksueel-geweld-vrouw-vn-rapport/

Ok so this is the full link (in Dutch).

The last sentence of this screenshot literally translates to: researchers spoke to Israeli institutions but were not able to speak to victims directly.