dude there’s an ongoing genocide and you join a discussion just to state you don’t give enough fucks to look into it
did anyone force your hand to write this? just shut the fuck up you callous removed. people are grieving, please fuck off.
still not the same thing. if you move in and the local population gets violently displaced to make room for you, you’re not a civilian. settlers are not immigrants.
The number is bs but I wouldn’t make light of ethnic deportations under Stalin, possibly the worst crime in the USSR history
No, economic value is still created at the point of commodity production. What happened is that industrial production has been outsourced to the global South and the value is being siphoned in the form of hugely undervalued commodities via unequal trade. This value is used to inflate payouts to the service, financial, and digital sectors in the global North. So looking purely at monetary value at the point of exchange one might come to the conclusion Twitter creates more value than agriculture, metallurgy etc. This is patently false under the labour theory of value.
This is simply the final stage of imperialism and by the way, just notice that imperialists don’t start wars over Yandex, Baidu, TikTok etc, they start wars over natural gas, lithium, oil, wheat, access to cheap labour, etc.
Same as anyone else really. “Professional” here just means to treat it seriously, be ready to sacrifice, devote fully to the cause. This phrase never meant a career path within the bourgeois society.
I was talking out of my arse! Went back and found the relevant place in Lenin’s “What is to be done”, chapter 4 part D, completely missed or forgot it:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/iv.htm
To be fully prepared for his task, the worker-revolutionary must likewise become a professional revolutionary. Hence B-v is wrong in saying that since the worker spends eleven and a half hours in the factory, the brunt of all other revolutionary functions (apart from agitation) “must necessarily fall mainly upon the shoulders of an extremely small force of intellectuals”. But this condition does not obtain out of sheer “necessity”. It obtains because we are backward, because we do not recognise our duty to assist every capable worker to become a professional agitator, organiser, propagandist, literature distributor, etc., etc. In this respect, we waste our strength in a positively shameful manner; we lack the ability to husband that which should be tended and reared with special care. […] A worker-agitator who is at all gifted and “promising” must not be left to work eleven hours a day in a factory. We must arrange that he be maintained by the Party; that he may go underground in good time; that he change the place of his activity, if he is to enlarge his experience, widen his outlook, and be able to hold out for at least a few years in the struggle against the gendarmes. As the spontaneous rise of their movement becomes broader and deeper, the working-class masses promote from their ranks not only an increasing number of talented agitators, but also talented organisers, propagandists, and “practical workers” in the best sense of the term (of whom there are so few among our intellectuals who, for the most part, in the Russian manner, are somewhat careless and sluggish in their habits). When we have forces of specially trained worker-revolutionaries who have gone through extensive preparation (and, of course, revolutionaries “of all arms of the service”), no political police in the world will then be able to contend with them, for these forces, boundlessly devoted to the revolution, will enjoy the boundless confidence of the widest masses of the workers. We are directly to blame for doing too little to “stimulate” the workers to take this path, common to them and to the “intellectuals”, of professional revolutionary training, and for all too often dragging them back by our silly speeches about what is “accessible” to the masses of the workers, to the “average workers”, etc.
Honestly at this point I prefer a right winger who defends SS for being just like the US Army to a leftist who defends NATO for being totally not Nazis. At least you know where they stand. Is this the horseshoe I’ve been hearing about?
“Falsifiers of history” is the official USSR answer to those accusations, edited by Stalin himself, and a really good read.
Brief overview on Wiki is actually ok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiers_of_History
But the whole thing is really worth reading: https://ebin.pub/falsifiers-of-history-an-historial-document-on-the-origins-of-world-war-ii.html
If you consider how value created by labour globally is distributed, you’ll see that all the Western workers are labour aristocracy, which together with petty bourgeoisie forms the so-called middle class (not exactly a Marxist term)
Yeah, you can already pre-register on Google playstore to have it installed automatically as soon as it releases
Didn’t know that, thanks!
I mean, using slurs like “ukrop” is not any better, is it.
I had an inactive account since Reddit banned MoreTankieChapo, the API debacle and the release of Sync for Lemmy got me here. Sync is ok but I’m waiting for Boost which should release soon and will likely attract even more fence sitters.
Soldiers from special commando unit 112 with a Russian spy. The man, allegedly in possession of a fake Israeli passport, was living in Irpin months before the Russian invasion. Under interrogation he confessed his name is Alexei, from St Petersburg, married with a child and working for the Wagner Group
That one’s bizarre, it’s a civilian sitting in the mud barefoot with some sort of bag over his head and a rope round his neck.
So he lived in the area long before the invasion, but then was captured with an Israeli passport and under “interrogation” confessed to being a Russian spy?
And given the number of Nazis in the army, nothing about this seems off to the “Guardian-reading wokerati”?
Or he’s happy to throw Ukrainian refugees under the bus. If fear mongering and xenophobia forces them back it’s just more meat for the grinder.
Wow what a shitty thing to say and upvote.
Ukraine was a founding member of the USSR, the second largest republic, the bread basket of the whole country, and a major industrial centre.
You pulled the idea that Ukrainians were some ungrateful exploiters during the USSR period straight out your arse.
But to suggest that Ukrainians should be grateful to the West for the proxy war the West is so happy to wage to the last Ukrainian is something else.
Really disappointing to see this liberal brain rot upvoted here.
According to your screenshot, this is the source (Mazdoor Bigul, December issue of 2005)
https://www.mazdoorbigul.net/pdf/Bigul-2005-12.pdf
I don’t speak Hindi so can’t confirm this quote is actually there. It’s clearly a communist publication so not likely to sway liberals.
Only ever applies to the West. Chinese people who got everything they have under CPC rule don’t owe CPC anything, according to the same people.
you owning some stock doesn’t have to define your politics. many revolutionaries and Marxists benefitted from capitalism and privilege. downtroded, illiterate people in abject poverty won’t develop revolutionary theory, organise an international movement, restructure the economy, and so on.
this question only matters in terms of class. what are class interests of workers in the West with spare funds to invest in stocks and spare time to spend on social media. what are their allegiances, their revolutionary potential. those are valid questions if you are looking to build a movement with them.
i can’t recommend Zak Cope’s “Divided world, divided class” strong enough if you’re interested in Western labour class dynamics.
I’ll also take an issue with the whole “vatnik” meme which is very classist.
Vatnik is a quilted coat with extremely simple design: cotton wadding sewn between two sheets of fabtic, square torso, patch pockets sewn through with stiching showing on the other side, much like French chore coats. It originates from Cental Asian quilted robes and was worn in Russia since the 19th century.
It was mass produced in the USSR since 1932, initially for the Red Army but quickly became ubiquitous - it was warm, sturdy, cheap, easy to produce, so it was used by hunters, construction workers, street sweepers, night watchmen, farmers, and virtually anyone who had to spend a lot of time outdoors in the Russian weather. It quickly spread all over Eastern Europe and Asia, widely used from Poland to Mongolia. As an item of the Eastern Block “heritage workwear”, vatnik is as iconic as denim for yanks.
https://cdn.ren.tv/cache/960x540/media/img/05/7f/057f370d0d9f5874b99e367779d398637edddddc.jpg
People wearing this cheap, crude coat pushed Nazis all the way back to Berlin. Incidentally, Hugo Boss designed Nazi coats didn’t fare quite as well in the Russian winter.
https://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2014-07/1405566239_3366354.jpg
In the 60s and 70s as the USSR economy provided better looking winter garments for its army and citizens, vatniks lost some of their use, but were still common in the rural areas, amongst poorer urban population, and as workwear, well after the dissolution of the USSR.
People who use this word as an insult simply hate the workers and the poor.