I feel you 100%.

A rather intense one. It has created far more problems than it’s solved, in my experience.

Was this on lemmygrad or lemmy.ml?

cough Katyn massacre cough

did Shea post some more cringe?

I got whooped as a kid and I turned out alright!

(THE DEMONS IN MY BRAIN YEARN FOR ESCAPE. AHHHGAGAHAHEHEHHFFUCKKKK)

Yeah, I turned out alright.

Navalny, the guy who called Muslims cockroaches?

Navalny, the guy who was already imprisoned and posed literally no threat to Russia from behind bars? That Navalny?

You’re worse than QAnon types.

In as few words as possible: U.S. academia functions as an MLM* scheme where your best career prospect after getting out will be in academia, preparing further students to leave academia only to return, ad infinitum.

Except for STEM degrees. Then you might be able to get a job for the military industrial complex.

Almost no one I know who finished university wound up doing the kind of work they studied for. One’s in healthcare. The rest are still doing odd-jobs or wound up back in academia.

*MLM = multi-level marketing, not Marxist-Leninist-Maoist

Reactionary, old, prole-hating pervert is intercepted by the state before he can do a terrorism and is rehabilitated with no lasting harm done to his person.

Long live Ingsoc, Glory to Oceania! The thought police are here… for you.

I like to look at the DPRK and try to find these mysterious PRISON CAMPS I’ve heard so much about.

Mostly just awe-inspiring nature and beautiful architecture. Most google reviews for places in the DPRK are malding libs who’ve never left Nowhere, Minnesota owning the Koreans. Funny in its sadness.

I would say you are probably correct. A lot of it is semantics - I think prior to the eighties you’re just more likely to run into phrases like “adherent to Mao Zedong Thought” rather than “Marxist-Leninist-Maoist”.

Undeniably, I would say, they were Maoist, but at the time ‘Maoism’ and ‘Marxism-Leninism’ were considered pretty much one and the same by “anti-revisionists” or those communists who split with the USSR after Khruschev’s coup d’etat. I’d say calling Pol Pot a ‘Maoist’ is a fair enough examination, it’s just that to him “Maoism” and “Marxism-Leninism” were synonymous. I’d maybe go so far as to call him a proto-MLM.

source: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-3/cpml-pol-pot.htm

A Maoist, not a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. No one really called themselves an MLM til the 80s, when the PCP/Shining Path officially “synthesized” it.

Proles of the Roundtable is my favorite, they went onto do Invent the Future after they had a falling out, though. Both are great.

New RuZZian invention: the blood clot gun, from the same designers of the sonic weaponry that caused Havana syndrome!

I did say most, but I appreciate the clarification.

Nasser, Qasim, Hussein, Gadaffi, Mossadegh, Árbenz. None of them communists, but all had something in common: nationalization of local industry as policy. All were also demonized, hated, and most even directly murdered by U.S. intelligence.

Empire fears the communist movement because nationalization has proven inherent to its implementation. Nationalization is the greatest fear of empire, though, as it rips production (and profit) from the stranglehold of foreign exploiters and brings it that much closer to the native toilers.

I’ve thought about this but with American flag rolling papers. Patriotic potheads buy it for the design, revolutionaries buy it for a chance to burn Old Glory 🔥🇺🇸🔥

Hell, I’ll take a revisionist Russia. Glad to hear they never abandoned socialism, at least.

1991 who?

It’s like being a monarchist who works in retail. They think they’ll be king when their revolution happens, completely oblivious to their predetermined role as serf.

Rogue state.