I hate “ruling class”. It feels defeatist. Like yeah, they are the rulers what can ya do about it?

That’s not true. But their signifiers of wealth are invisible to the common folk. They wear sweaters that cost as much as a used car. Jackets that cost as much as new cars. Their watches cost more than a house.

I think a good look on how they live really is succession. The clothes they wear don’t look crazy expensive, to us. But they are more expensive than you could even imagine.

Idk man I think there’s as many people like that as “anarchists” who live under bridges and dump dive.

It’s just that libs and left anti-communists usually see any type of real actual action and revolutionary practice as “evil”.

This comes from the unfortunate viral idea that communism has stages.

Some people get really attached to this idea, and either become super against it or super for it. Then they end up wanting to either fully concentrate on “lower stage communism” and idolize militaristic aesthetics of early communist revolutions, and the perceived “toughness” and “authoritarianism” they had. In the extreme this becomes shit like the ACP.

On the other hand, others completely forgo any large scale timeline thinking, and start fantasizing and theorizing about a possible quick jump to “stateless, classless, moneyless” society (which is in itself a misinterpretation of what communism is but that’s another thing completely) in a single revolutionary moment and process.

There are no stages, communism is not total anarchy either. Communism is the means and methods the working class uses to abolish itself. This should start with a revolution, and continue until it’s finished. This process likely would take many generations. And it would be one continuous revolution. This is communism, this state of affairs. Of the long revolution of self-abolishment of the working class.

What comes AFTER, is a stateless classless moneyless society. What is dissolved first and when depends on the revolution, but it wouldn’t all be at once, or it would. Who knows.

Idk man, if you are against all communist movements in history you’re an anti-communist to me 🤷‍♂️

That doesn’t happen though. What we saw were rightwing counterrevolutionaries taking over the USSR, China etc.

But historically it’s a great mischaracterization of all socialist revolutions to say they were “overtaken by authoritarians”.

All revolutions are “authoritarian”.

There’s a weird misunderstanding of what a “vanguard” is, in both left anti-communist and communist circles.

A vanguard is not a self-defined group that rules over the proles and directs them towards a revolution and governs once it’s won.

Vanguards are not things that exist in the present. Vanguard is just a term to help understand a revolution after it happens.

When a revolution happens, the most politically advanced (in class consciousness and left theory) individuals and groups that participate will steer the people towards socialism. They will lead, by example, on who to fight, how and why.

During the revolution, they aren’t called anything and specially not by themselves.

But after the revolution, when analyzing it, those people are then called the vanguard of the revolution.

Any communist that says they want to “form and participate in a vanguard party” has no understanding of revolutions and left theory.

Any left anti-communist that derides vanguards for being authoritarian and “replicating state oppression” also have no understanding of revolutions or left theory.

Honestly we would all be better off just not using the term vanguard at all anymore.

Wait the kangaroo is actually a commie in the movie…? What the hell 😂

Idk man, if we had the drugs of the Victorian era but the worker rights of today, I think everybody would be happier 🤷‍♂️

We know that the Hungarian “popular revolt” was recently proven to be a CIA color revolution, right? Like CIA documents were released proving they instigated and supported the whole thing to destabilize the USSR, right?

Not that the USSR of that time was all that great, but why are we using Cold War anti-communist operations and propaganda for our arguments…?

My only real take here is basically every single libertarian eventually becomes a technofascist. Why is that? Idk. But it happens over and over again.

Nah you gotta feed and house the slaves. With workers you just pay enough they don’t die and many will even live in cars and eat trash.

The problem is the system that was set up hundreds of years ago (“liberal democracy”) ended up just incentivizing psychopathy. This system always brings the worst people in society up to the top. Either in government or business.

You can’t be a genuinely good person and become a general, a congressperson or a billionaire.

Some of the push for “safety” has been responsible for cars lasting less and getting larger as well… but I’m sure this is NOT what they mean.

At your age you be profen?? Is this a flex cause you can get it up as an old man or are you admitting you’re a teenager? Cause you be profen ALL night long?? Hey guys this guy be profen!

It’s not banned, but it’s not forced. Only mandarin is forced (all other languages are optional to the school), and teachers are forced to pass mandarin exams to teach. And even in Guangzhou most people speak mandarin in a business setting, so parents make their children focus on mandarin even if they are native Cantonese speakers themselves.

But dude, it’s like a much milder version of language consolidation than what happened in France, Spain, Germany or Italy. They literally killed people for speaking the wrong language.

It’s just that I am inclined to not believe the white supremacist colonizers on what counts as “repressing minorities”.

Real criticism based on reality, yes. Empty claims based on propaganda, no.

Repression of minorities? Seriously, can anyone in the west even judge any country like that? Why, because you’re the experts in oppressing and repressing minorities?

Bro China has autonomous regions with self-governance for all major minorities. And they still spend a lot of federal funds to develop their regions, building schools, hospitals, power plants, roads, trains etc.

The federal government built one of the largest Buddhist temples in the world in the Dai autonomous region, for the Dai people. They sponsor cultural and religious festivals, spending federal funds to promote minority culture. All minority languages are taught in school in their respective home regions.

When has the US, Canada, Europe ever done anything like that? Japan doesn’t recognize its minorities at all, Sami are repressed in the nordics, and don’t even get me started on native peoples in the US and Canada.

Seriously this is all pure propaganda. It’s literally the meme “China lifts hundreds of millions out of poverty. But at what cost?! 😱”.

Trains > light-rail > (preferably traffic separated) trams > bikes >>>>>>>>>>>>>> cars.

Ah that’s where you draw the line? Not killing and starving millions in Gaza, Sudan? Not killing millions in invasions in the Middle East?

Ok, you know where your allegiance is. You’re wrong, as your “good billionaires” would eat you for an afternoon snack. But have fun.