comrade-bear

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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • I have no idea what you’re talking about naming conventions. But hating Ukrainians it’s easy to clarify, I for one hate Nazis and there are a lot of those in Ukraine particularly in the army,but I have nothing against Ukrainians at large, and about the war NATO was created with the purpose of fighting Russian (Soviet Union at the time but same peoplend) and there were (against treaties that had been signed to not expand NATO eastwards) negotiations to put a NATO base, possibly with nuclear capabilities so close to the Russian urban centers and capital, and people expect Russia wouldn’t react? Imagine if China wanted to build a military base southeast of Canada, how would the US feel about it.



  • For sure, it is imperialism, but what I think the comrade is getting at, is that since the end of the cold war, and maybe even a bit before, the USA acted, and was regarded in some ways as the world police, and would get involved with any countries “breaking the law”, in whatever form it might take. And yeah it was just imperialism disguised as bringing democracy, but they at least had the connivance of much of the world, and the muscle to do it and not be called out. Now they are just LARPing as the role they used to have. The Ukraine war is an example of what they used to do, but not being successful at it. And now with Cambodia, where they acted as “World Police” in the past, they are just barking. They have no way to mess that much with a partner of China with the excuse of being partner with China. it would be a diplomatic shitstorm, where the US would not end up on top.





  • Comrade you are exactly right. About connecting wirh the people that struggle more financially it’s not just a matter of investigating the root of why they think that way(although this is crucial too), but also of learning, the more oppressed is the individual the more they have to teach us about the shape the source the effects of oppression.

    As for the people better off the core of the question is the same connecting with them is also crucial, but the argumentation is different, for the poor you don’t have to tell them that they have to worry about a problem, cause the problem makes itself quite loud in their life, but the ones with a bit more money they often feel, since they are not suffering quite as much, that they’re on the same team of a billionaire, and that’s no more than an illusion. But, and here is where things get real tricky, it’s a very very comfortable illusion that they’ll fight to retain, so it makes dispelling such illusion a delicate process of making the truth evident, without sacrificing the connecting we cultivated with them.

    So yeah I think you understood me comrade, really happy with our talk, and I really hope that what I’m saying is close to being correct, I feel strongly that it is, and yeah this thoughts do not offer all the answers, but maybe just maybe it asks the right questions.



  • I like the way you’ve put it but I have something to complement, because often when we talk like people are walking to the swamp and we need to convince them to move away it can sound like we are the ones with the answers and are there to show people (don’t know if that’s what you think though) and unfortunately it’s a very common way of thinking among our comrades, I myself am guilty of that many times. So back to the point the way to ofer our side as an option to someone who doesn’t know is, going back to the swamp metaphor, waking a bit by their side and asking hey how are you, how did you get here, what’s going on with your life. Things like that connect with the people talk to them see them who they are what they struggle wirh, so when you wanna explain our position we show how we understand the reasons and causes of their real issues, and why the answers people give to it are often fake. Our job is much more a job of offer then of convincing we just need to take out the barriers that make our side inviable to them, cause our product sells itself, they just need to be in contact with it.


  • My way of thinking to help me be grounded, is to understand that we are not fighting the people, even the people with fascist views, we are fighting fascism, we are fighting neoliberalism and so on, the people who are seduced by that, are consequence of a very well articulated machine of our enemies, but the people ARE NOT our enemies, they might make the will of our enemy but they ARE NOT the enemy, cause we need the people.

    And secondly the other thing that is important to always keep in mind, is that people are much much much more often swayed by someone that they respect and that treats them with respect, and respecting somebody even though you disagree viscerally with their ideas can be helpful. Albeit this advice is geared more towards the liberal than the fascist, for the fascist is much more dangerous to get close so we need better strategies, but the point is, if someone likes you they might listen to you more. It’s a hard thing, but to be close to the people, however the people are at the moment, it’s our duty, there is no dancing around it, if we do not work with the people we are not progressing, we are just keeping a circle jerk instead of moving Marxism forward.




  • I think this type of question is much too premature, we are strggling with how to create a persistent revolutionary organization in Latin America, and before we see the answer of that, trying to answer how said organization is gonna succeed is little more than guesswork, which is fine, if understood as that, imagining some possibility of future can be useful, but it should not be used as a map to be followed too closely for we don’t know for which type of vehicle we are charting the map yet.