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  • I agree. I also observed that liberals will cite anything and everything to make their anti-communism valid. Starting with low level bullshit like, that Marx said he is not a marxist (Marxism debunked, you see), Luxemburg saying she doesnt like how the october revolution happened (Lenin debunked!), Trotsky disagreeing with the Soviet Union the way it wents (Soviet Union debunked) and so on. Also dont forget: Debunking Trotsky because of Kronstadt and Luxemburg is bad, because Thälmann wrote so. Sino-Soviet Split: China and Soviet Union debunked again.

    Looking into the history of marxism, it is quite easy to find a ton of writings, letters and discussions. But, as an example, looking into the collected works of Lenin and making notes where Lenin disagreed with someone, is not how history as a science works. Taking Luxemburg and Lenin: She had critique, yes, but she supported the october revolution and wrote important books for marxist movement. But the most time you’ll hear how they cherrypick something and ignore the rest.








  • Since May, according to Microsoft, Chinese hackers have been secretly accessing data from the State Department and Commerce Department, among other targets including Western European entities.

    Shut the fuck up. Its not Chinas fault, that Microsoft miserably failed. Whoever of the whatever-department decided to put their stuff in to the microsoft cloud was an idiot. How the fuck could this happen at the first place. This remindes of Solardwinds, when their password “solarwinds123” (What a secure password!) has been spotted on their Github repo.

    MSA (consumer) keys and Azure AD (enterprise) keys are issued and managed from separate systems and should only be valid for their respective systems. The actor exploited a token validation issue to impersonate Azure AD users and gain access to enterprise mail.

    (source)

    They had one fucking job. But no no, its not their fault, its China! Dont look at us, our cloud products are still great. And please dont forget to put 20 layers of snake oil on your computer



  • The question is whether outsourcing or insourcing is good/bad for the working class under the conditions of capitalism.

    Outsourcing can be seen as a division of labor, which in the meantime also takes place internationally. This is not a bad thing but in principle a good thing, only the capitalists are interested in saving personnel costs. This is equivalent to an increased surplus value. Under socialist conditions, the international division of labor leads to a much higher specialization of industries in the respective regions of the world. With the right to work and that everyone should work who can work, it does not have the problems that arise in capitalism.

    In capitalism this leads to several conflicts.

    1. the bourgeois principle of nation states stands in the way of the development of productive forces. Through imperialist action, for example, attempts are made to prevent the development of other industries (a good example is the trade war of the USA against China).
    2. outsourcing of production is also done at the expense of the local population. People who have done the job for a long time become unemployed.
    3. outsourcing is not only at the expense of the working class, but also at the expense of the environment. Especially if the country to which the outsourcing takes place has poor environmental protection.

    This then also affects trade unions, whose role does not go beyond trade unionism anyway, takes on a national role and then also becomes reactionary. The German union IG Metal railed at the time against the “Chinese steel” and later came the punitive tariffs in the EU on certain types of steel from China and Russia. IG Metal liked that, but it was not enough and would like more. The EU safeguards, which is the name of these tariffs, include among others steel products from Turkey, USA and Indonesia.

    In the case of outsourcing steel production, the working class of the European countries together with the US, Russian, Turkish, etc. States must stand together and united. Prevent plant closures, strike, organize beyond trade unionism. The question of whether to insource or outsource must not be thought of nationally, but must be linked to the struggle for a socialist international revolution.

    For more on the subject, see Lenin’s “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” and also highly recommend Rosa Luxemburg’s “Reform or Revolution”.

    The topic is very extensive and I can only touch on it very roughly, so I can only encourage you to read the works I mentioned. If Lenin is too difficult for you, try the work of Luxemburg. It is very easy to read and understand.


  • Thank you. I speak German and Russian native. I learned english in school, I can understand english quite well and read political theory. But since I dont have any practice, I get nerveous writing in english and it feels odd.

    If you want to laugh about something, take a look on this letter which Lenin send to his Mother on May 1895. I swear, some germans still behave the same:

    I am making use of a two-hour stop at a small Austrian town (not far, now, from my destination) to fulfil my promise to write on the way. This is my second day of travel abroad and I am practising the language; I have discovered that I am weak at this and have the greatest difficulty in understanding the Germans—or rather, I don’t understand them at all. I ask the guard on the train a question, he answers and I don’t understand him. He repeats the answer more loudly. I still don’t understand, and so he gets angry and goes away. In spite of this disgraceful fiasco I am not discouraged and continue distorting the German language with some zeal.

    source


  • We also have exactly 6 rules and no lengthy code of conduct or other documents one needs to read to participate here.

    The rules is lberal (in sense of welcoming, permissive). The rules say nothing about liking or disliking Stalin etc. You can even be an Anarchist, reading Bakunin und Kropotkin all day and it would still be ok to be here. No trolling, chauvinism and anti-communism. This rules include so many point of views. As long as you follow the rules, you will maybe get downvotes, if someone doesnt like your opinion. Maybe a communtie will ban you, if you are way to annoying to them (Not following community specific rules), but thats all.

    I think lemmygrad is well inclusive.

    Whoever defederates from lemmygrad will also miss all the pictures of my pigeons.

    Sorry for mistakes, I reached my daily free DeepL limit.




  • I will still keep updating. This thing is fucking huge. Most stuff is on german. Found some english und french books. Good for me, I speak german. Not only that, it has books straight from the GDR and also great historic books about the French Revolution and almost everything you can imagine. This is a treasure for every marxist. Many things arent even on Z-Library.



  • It is dangerous to identify the inhabitants of a state with its politics. Marxists always ask what exactly are the elements behind the state.

    Looking into Russia: In whose interests does Putin rule? What impact has the privatization of state assets had on the way the Russian capitalist elite perceives its security interests? Which elements of Putins foreign policy have changed compared to the soviet foreign policy? Which have remained?

    Russia is trying to restore the previous status quo, where its bourgeoisie could exploit the country undisturbed. Russia has become a target of Yankee imperialism not because of the autocratic nature of the Putin regime but, first, because its defense of the interests of Russian capitalists clashes with the United States quest for world domination and its related preparations for war against China.

    The attack on Ukraine is a thoroughly reactionary response to the expansion of U.S. hegemony into Russias spheres. In doing so, Putin invokes the reactionary legacy of tsarist Great Russian chauvinism and revives the foreign policy of Tsar Nicholas by also calling for support for “Mother Russia.”

    I have never heard of Russians hating Ukrainians. That is a lie. Many Russians have Ukrainian relatives and vice versa. Elements in the Russian state apparatus use, among other things, nationalist arguments to justify the war. They are aware that the war has no objective benefit for the majority of the Russian population.

    At the beginning of the war Putin spoke in high terms about tsarist generals and was explicitly hostile to the October Revolution. Also saying, that Ukraine was a “project” of Lenin. And even now Putin never tires of expressing his hostility to Bolshevism. For example, his statement on the attempted coup by the Wagner Group:

    A blow like this was dealt to Russia in 1917, when the country was fighting in World War I. But the victory was stolen from it: intrigues, squabbles and politicking behind the backs of the army and the nation turned into the greatest turmoil, the destruction of the army and the collapse of the state, and the loss of vast territories, ultimately leading to the tragedy of the civil war.

    The Ukrainian and Russian proletariat gains nothing from this. The greatest fear of the Ukrainian and Russian bourgeoisie, as well as that of Yankee imperialism, is a militant, class-conscious working class.

    The question, “Why do Russians hate Ukrainians so bad?” implies so much that you probably need more words to explain why this question is wrong in itself.




  • In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children. This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won’t make the abuse go away. We don’t arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

    This logic doesnt work. Child pornography does not exist, because it is not pornography at all. It is documented abuse of children. It is an exploiting of power imbalance. It is confirmed by scienties, that this is abuse.

    The distribution of such material doesnt make the abuse go away, yes. But it is still a form of abuse. Imagine how it is for the survivors, if someone documentated thir abuse and it is even still after years distributed and watched. This is a horrific feeling.

    But saying, that this is the same as having a video, how someone is beeing killed, is stupid. People are also not being killed for videos. It is more a byproduct. Like, the russian mafia was killing someone and one of them took a video. But they didnt killt this person to make video.

    But childrens are abused to make this video.

    This person is stupid.