Venezuela
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Before this turns into a shit show, please keep all your zingers, updates, and coal regarding what has happened in Venezuela today in this thread,
The only exceptions are gems.
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Hello ultras,
Before this turns into a shit show, please keep all your zingers, updates, and coal regarding what has happened in Venezuela today in this thread,
The only exceptions are gems.
https://redd.it/1q2sybk
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The Ultroid Minecraft Server
Comrades, esteemed members of the worst subreddit ever, an announcement:
The last week or so we've been tirelessly working on setting up a Minecraft server for this subreddit. In show of our great and authentic marxmass spirit we are now fully and publicly launching the server TODAY.
To play on the server, you must join the discord connected with it, where you will be asked for your reddit username, when provided, you will gain access to the server.
The Minecraft server is self hosted on shark's personal computer, so it isn't online all the time. You may join with a cracked account. We are playing on vanilla paper mc, Minecraft version 1.20.1
Depending on how the server does, we may launch a patreon for renting a better server or even finance a move ourselves.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask shark on the server.
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Comrades, esteemed members of the worst subreddit ever, an announcement:
The last week or so we've been tirelessly working on setting up a Minecraft server for this subreddit. In show of our great and authentic marxmass spirit we are now fully and publicly launching the server TODAY.
To play on the server, you must join the discord connected with it, where you will be asked for your reddit username, when provided, you will gain access to the server.
The Minecraft server is self hosted on shark's personal computer, so it isn't online all the time. You may join with a cracked account. We are playing on vanilla paper mc, Minecraft version 1.20.1
Depending on how the server does, we may launch a patreon for renting a better server or even finance a move ourselves.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask shark on the server.
Discord invite: https://discord.gg/qkDEhKrdMP
SEND DISCORD IN RESPONSE, OR JUST DM ME, we can verify you
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Liberalism destroyed
"When a liberal is abused, he says: Thank God they didn’t beat me. When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay."
-Vladimir Lenin
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"When a liberal is abused, he says: Thank God they didn’t beat me. When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay."
-Vladimir Lenin
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Russian nationalists are so pathetic lmao
>america starts special military operation™
"look guys they're getting into multi year grind like we did!!! This will finally show that it's really difficult to fight a war!!!"
>america finishes in two hours with zero lost soldiers
"Guys, this is completely different Venezuela is just poor third world country compared to battle hardened Ukraine of 22... Actually Russia has been going easy on Ukraine, if Russia stopped holding back it would have gone the way Venezuela did!!!"
https://redd.it/1q31t2e
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>america starts special military operation™
"look guys they're getting into multi year grind like we did!!! This will finally show that it's really difficult to fight a war!!!"
>america finishes in two hours with zero lost soldiers
"Guys, this is completely different Venezuela is just poor third world country compared to battle hardened Ukraine of 22... Actually Russia has been going easy on Ukraine, if Russia stopped holding back it would have gone the way Venezuela did!!!"
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I'm third worldist now
I have realized that the primary contradiction is between how much the USA needs to suffer and how much it is currently not suffering.
Not really, but I can see the appeal.
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I have realized that the primary contradiction is between how much the USA needs to suffer and how much it is currently not suffering.
Not really, but I can see the appeal.
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A perspective from a venezuelan on whats happenning
I thought maybe I could share a piece of my mind on what's happening and may happen in the future.
I do have to say that thankfully there haven't been reports of civilian casualties or major destruction of homes. People who lived in proximity to the attacked zones were rapidly evacuated, and it seems they are all safe.
The damaged zones so far seem to be some airports and a shipping dock, mostly military/armed forces facilities, and the Hugo Chavez mausoleum apparently.
There was the sound of aircraft and explosions at around 2 a.m., and some of the intelligence services and police were paranoid, detaining and inspecting people who were out in the streets but this wasn't widespread at all, more like in a couple of avenues close to the center of the capital.
There hasn't really been any movement on the streets, people mostly rushed out in a panic to buy food and supply themselves with essential needs and all that stuff. It has calmed down a bit, tho (and especially with the recent declarations) people are on edge that this might happen again with a far more violent outcome.
So far, it doesnt even seem like the State knows what tf to do. They issued a "decree of foreign shock" (state of emergency basically) and called on for everyone in the defense sector to move on as a unity to defend the country, but they're also telling people to remain calmed, that the constitutional order somehow remains intact, calling on the international community to act and condemn this and telling us that this "too shall pass".
They also haven't even assigned a new president, saying that Maduro must return safely as part of "peaceful negotiation" with the US. They're trying to showcase control after getting bombed and the president and his wife taken away.
So far all the important political and military figures remain safe in the country. The most bizaree thing is that Trump claimed that María Corina (girlboss Pinochet) isn't really realiable or liked in Venezuela and that maybe the current Vice President Delcy Rodríguez should run the country and they could negotiate.
Some will be arguing about the legality of the prole killing license, the Latino Hitler youth of the continent will be hyped up like crazy, and leftists will give critikkkal $upport to a crude social democrat government turned reactionary and murderous against the workers it tried to seduce with welfare and who has continued to leech off the country's oil reserves to maintain both itself and the national bourgeoisie without having to develop national productive forces (a tradition that this "socialist" government fully repeats and reproduces from the 20th-century liberal governments and dictatorships that used to rule the country).
All this to say, the US announcing its plans to stay on Venezuelan soil and collect just for itself all the oil profits it can gather in a monopoly by and for itself isn't something that will spark revolutionary conditions, both because of the massive impopularity of Maduro and because this kind of dependent and unproductive economy has stayed that way for almost a century by this point.
But I do worry about what the remaining government (especially the armed branch) might do now that it has begun its process of disintegration and decay. About what might result for the world from a neo-Monroenian doctrine in the Americas that clashes with the interests of the BRICS/multi-polar wing of international capital. And it worries me, especially seeing the farce of the beginning of the 20th century emerging without a sufficiently prepared working class to confront it.
Sorry if this post is too rambly, or it doesn't really add much to the discussion. If anything these events have shown me that i do need to read more and start paying more attention to the developings of the world.
Anyways take care y'all ❤️
https://redd.it/1q396xm
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I thought maybe I could share a piece of my mind on what's happening and may happen in the future.
I do have to say that thankfully there haven't been reports of civilian casualties or major destruction of homes. People who lived in proximity to the attacked zones were rapidly evacuated, and it seems they are all safe.
The damaged zones so far seem to be some airports and a shipping dock, mostly military/armed forces facilities, and the Hugo Chavez mausoleum apparently.
There was the sound of aircraft and explosions at around 2 a.m., and some of the intelligence services and police were paranoid, detaining and inspecting people who were out in the streets but this wasn't widespread at all, more like in a couple of avenues close to the center of the capital.
There hasn't really been any movement on the streets, people mostly rushed out in a panic to buy food and supply themselves with essential needs and all that stuff. It has calmed down a bit, tho (and especially with the recent declarations) people are on edge that this might happen again with a far more violent outcome.
So far, it doesnt even seem like the State knows what tf to do. They issued a "decree of foreign shock" (state of emergency basically) and called on for everyone in the defense sector to move on as a unity to defend the country, but they're also telling people to remain calmed, that the constitutional order somehow remains intact, calling on the international community to act and condemn this and telling us that this "too shall pass".
They also haven't even assigned a new president, saying that Maduro must return safely as part of "peaceful negotiation" with the US. They're trying to showcase control after getting bombed and the president and his wife taken away.
So far all the important political and military figures remain safe in the country. The most bizaree thing is that Trump claimed that María Corina (girlboss Pinochet) isn't really realiable or liked in Venezuela and that maybe the current Vice President Delcy Rodríguez should run the country and they could negotiate.
Some will be arguing about the legality of the prole killing license, the Latino Hitler youth of the continent will be hyped up like crazy, and leftists will give critikkkal $upport to a crude social democrat government turned reactionary and murderous against the workers it tried to seduce with welfare and who has continued to leech off the country's oil reserves to maintain both itself and the national bourgeoisie without having to develop national productive forces (a tradition that this "socialist" government fully repeats and reproduces from the 20th-century liberal governments and dictatorships that used to rule the country).
All this to say, the US announcing its plans to stay on Venezuelan soil and collect just for itself all the oil profits it can gather in a monopoly by and for itself isn't something that will spark revolutionary conditions, both because of the massive impopularity of Maduro and because this kind of dependent and unproductive economy has stayed that way for almost a century by this point.
But I do worry about what the remaining government (especially the armed branch) might do now that it has begun its process of disintegration and decay. About what might result for the world from a neo-Monroenian doctrine in the Americas that clashes with the interests of the BRICS/multi-polar wing of international capital. And it worries me, especially seeing the farce of the beginning of the 20th century emerging without a sufficiently prepared working class to confront it.
Sorry if this post is too rambly, or it doesn't really add much to the discussion. If anything these events have shown me that i do need to read more and start paying more attention to the developings of the world.
Anyways take care y'all ❤️
https://redd.it/1q396xm
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Media is too big
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Brave leftist defends hamas and maduro against fascist leftKKKoms🥹
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“Yo big J don’t do this our love is worth more than this hardship”
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This sub should talk more about comrade Trump
Trump is one of the most important commies in the frontline rn. He literally kidnapped a social facist who was exporting oil in ships (he essentially stopped the commodity production chain). Not only that, the legend is letting famous trotskyist Vladimir Putin do the global revolution in Europe to restore the Soviet Union, while pretending to the liberals this is buffonery. HE is anti-westernhimself, just see his aims of expansionism in Greenland against the imperialist EU.
Put the art of the deal on your read list. It only shows how much of an important, and eloquent, socialist academic he is. "B-But he is against internationalism! He built a wall keep mexicans out!" The soviets too built a wall around Berlin. Wall building is the epitome of socialism because it produces no capital but you do it robbing the burgeoisie through taxes.
https://redd.it/1q38p8m
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Trump is one of the most important commies in the frontline rn. He literally kidnapped a social facist who was exporting oil in ships (he essentially stopped the commodity production chain). Not only that, the legend is letting famous trotskyist Vladimir Putin do the global revolution in Europe to restore the Soviet Union, while pretending to the liberals this is buffonery. HE is anti-westernhimself, just see his aims of expansionism in Greenland against the imperialist EU.
Put the art of the deal on your read list. It only shows how much of an important, and eloquent, socialist academic he is. "B-But he is against internationalism! He built a wall keep mexicans out!" The soviets too built a wall around Berlin. Wall building is the epitome of socialism because it produces no capital but you do it robbing the burgeoisie through taxes.
https://redd.it/1q38p8m
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How did you discover the Communist Left? +read the post
(Serious)
I’m asking this primarily because I’ve personally observed a marked increase in the visibility and appeal of left communism over the past five years, likely coinciding with the exhaustion of Marxism-Leninism as a viable historical form and the effective closure of the counter-revolutionary century. For example, ten years ago I would never have met someone aligned with the communist left outside explicitly communist spaces. Today, however, perhaps one in five ‘communists’ I encounter outside those spaces identifies with the communist left. I’m interested in the consequences of this resurgence both at the level of political dynamics and individual subjectivity. In my experience, most Marxist-Leninists remain suspended in a preliminary phase before ultimately collapsing into social-chauvinism or social democracy once their party proves incapable of meaningfully opposing existing conditions.
Another aspect of this trend worth noting is that those who gravitate toward the communist left tend overwhelmingly to be younger. This suggests that the historical weight of twentieth-century “socialism” has largely receded along with the generations that directly experienced it. This phenomenon is not a result of “left communism” as a popular identity, but rather of the fact that the communist left alone has preserved the scientific core of Marxism as all previous distortions of communism have eroded away into historical irrelevancy. Precisely because it maintained this theoretical continuity, it remains the only doctrine capable of posing a real exit from capitalism as a total social relation. For the same reason, it alone is able to account coherently for the complete degeneration of Third Internationale revolutionary socialism, correctly identifying it as a capitalist deviation whose trajectory could only culminate in regression and collapse. That's how the communist left appealed to me.
I'm specifically naming the Italian left here, however this trend appears to extend broadly across the communist left in general. Another fact is a good handful of individuals within the Italian left I communicate to were formerly council communists, anarchists, or other such anti-ML anti-capitalist doctrines which makes me believe there's pull towards scientific Marxism as the only doctrine capable of understanding and toppling the contemporary state of affairs.
This isn’t meant as a scientific study, just a set of personal reflections, and I’m curious whether your own observations align with what I’m noticing. Beyond the question posed in the noscript, I’m also interested in how you think the communist movement is likely to develop over the next decade, and what that development might look like at the level of individual militants. Based on your experience, how many people who identify as left communists eventually drift away from the movement? Is this tendency more than a passing phase? And at what point do most people first encounter or seriously engage with the doctrine?
Sorry if this post is silly or a waste of time, I'm just absolutely fascinated by my experiences regarding this post and I just desperately hope to discuss them with other comrades.
https://redd.it/1q3dpc3
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(Serious)
I’m asking this primarily because I’ve personally observed a marked increase in the visibility and appeal of left communism over the past five years, likely coinciding with the exhaustion of Marxism-Leninism as a viable historical form and the effective closure of the counter-revolutionary century. For example, ten years ago I would never have met someone aligned with the communist left outside explicitly communist spaces. Today, however, perhaps one in five ‘communists’ I encounter outside those spaces identifies with the communist left. I’m interested in the consequences of this resurgence both at the level of political dynamics and individual subjectivity. In my experience, most Marxist-Leninists remain suspended in a preliminary phase before ultimately collapsing into social-chauvinism or social democracy once their party proves incapable of meaningfully opposing existing conditions.
Another aspect of this trend worth noting is that those who gravitate toward the communist left tend overwhelmingly to be younger. This suggests that the historical weight of twentieth-century “socialism” has largely receded along with the generations that directly experienced it. This phenomenon is not a result of “left communism” as a popular identity, but rather of the fact that the communist left alone has preserved the scientific core of Marxism as all previous distortions of communism have eroded away into historical irrelevancy. Precisely because it maintained this theoretical continuity, it remains the only doctrine capable of posing a real exit from capitalism as a total social relation. For the same reason, it alone is able to account coherently for the complete degeneration of Third Internationale revolutionary socialism, correctly identifying it as a capitalist deviation whose trajectory could only culminate in regression and collapse. That's how the communist left appealed to me.
I'm specifically naming the Italian left here, however this trend appears to extend broadly across the communist left in general. Another fact is a good handful of individuals within the Italian left I communicate to were formerly council communists, anarchists, or other such anti-ML anti-capitalist doctrines which makes me believe there's pull towards scientific Marxism as the only doctrine capable of understanding and toppling the contemporary state of affairs.
This isn’t meant as a scientific study, just a set of personal reflections, and I’m curious whether your own observations align with what I’m noticing. Beyond the question posed in the noscript, I’m also interested in how you think the communist movement is likely to develop over the next decade, and what that development might look like at the level of individual militants. Based on your experience, how many people who identify as left communists eventually drift away from the movement? Is this tendency more than a passing phase? And at what point do most people first encounter or seriously engage with the doctrine?
Sorry if this post is silly or a waste of time, I'm just absolutely fascinated by my experiences regarding this post and I just desperately hope to discuss them with other comrades.
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