Secondthought_JT [he/him]

Great question! For a liberal, I’d start with Blowback (specifically season 1). For a conservative, I’d go with Killing Hope by William Blum

I hate Dallas with all my heart

Tough question! There’s one I’ve been meaning to read that looks really interesting and I’ve never heard anyone else talk about it. It’s not exactly theory, but it’s theory-adjacent. It’s called Spacial Revolution: Architecture And Planning In The Early Soviet Union

Good question. On the one hand, yeah, it’s a despicable career. On the other, we all have to survive under capitalism. If that’s what you’re trained to do, get that bag, but you better also agitate to destroy the machine that makes defense companies so lucrative. And heck, I’m not advocating for anything, but having some communists working on these crucial bits of US military equipment could be…interesting

To your first question, not a chance. Too far up their own ass. To your second question, they’ll continue to assert they are the only rational actors, or “the adults in the room.” Which is funny because they all have a child’s understanding of the world

I’ve only seen their hands and their hogs

Mostly we need our orgs to shake the accusation that they’re tailing the democrats or too heavily invested in electoral politics. CPUSA has real trouble with this. I’m not saying these accusations are accurate, but if so many people come to that conclusion we’re doing something wrong. I think part of it is the associated publication, People’s World. Some of those articles are absolute trash and really harm the party’s image

You’re more than okay, comrade ❤️

I wrote up a response to a similar question elsewhere, so I’ll paraphrase here. Our job is to fight fascism at home and support fraternal organizations abroad by joining and working with our domestic communist orgs. We can’t help the revolutionaries in the global south alone, but inter-organization solidarity is very useful and there are often concrete initiatives we can get involved in!

Howdy, pardner!