Happy birthweek? Stalin!

Went into a book store and noticed they don’t have any socialist books, even though they have a whole section on economy and another on society. Even if you wanted to buy a book to change someone’s mind, you can’t. But they have a lot of liberal books, for example I saw one about how bad and evil the DPRK is.

I wish there were more communist video essayists who didn’t primarily talk about politics but instead discussed stuff like history, writing, gaming, guns, etc. Literally anything that isn’t politics, really.

There’s nothing worse than when I’m enjoying a good critique of some trashy media and then the person in the video libs out and compares the villain to Stalin or makes that stupid “haha commie no food” joke or starts complaining about how evil, sinister China is planning evil, sinister things because the company that made the media is Chinese or something to that effect. It takes me out of what was otherwise a good, informative video and whacks me with severe mental exhaustion.

There’s all these video essayists out here promoting their liberal or fascist ideologies while simultaneously focusing on topics that aren’t explicitly about political theory, political science, current events, geopolitics, etc. and I’d like to see communists doing the same thing like a Marxist explaining the rationale behind why Soviet firearms developed the way they did, or picking apart how cyberpunk settings don’t work even if they look cool as settings, or just discussing the history of ancient civilizations like the Achaemenids from a dialectical materialist perspective or stuff like that.

Like, I enjoy what Hakim does and all. It’s very important work of course. I just feel like it might be easier to expose people to Marxist ideals through discussion of pop culture and the like and then use this as a jumping point to funnel people down the rabbit hole of actual political theory. Also it’d just be nice to sit down and watch a video about how to write villains and not have one of the examples used be fucking Stalin of all people - I actually did click on a video discussing this exact topic and deadass the video opened with the essayist talking about how “some people don’t get punished for all the harm they’ve done” (paraphrased) while showing video of Stalin and I had never clicked off a video so quickly in my life. I audibly groaned.

I’m just tired, boss. I’m just tired of libs and fash dominating every discussion about everything. I want to be able to consume the thoughts and feelings of other people discussing things I’m interested in without them having shitty political takes about how Obama is a “cool guy” and a complete misunderstanding of historical socialism up to the point of treating the Holodomor as a serious narrative and not a complete invention of Nazi propaganda.

I don’t not want politics in my videos that aren’t about political subjects; I just want the politics to be GOOD.

Happy birthday Stalin!

Crazy that I share a birth week with Stalin

Have a good week everyone!

As always, communism will win.

It’s nearly Christmas and I haven’t even turned on the heating yet. Some trees and flowers in my street are even blossoming. Because that’s normal.

First time seeing a small ad from the DRPK

I find it’s hard not to feel a bit arrogant sometimes having ML views in the west. I don’t really like feeling that way, but I have the feeling sometimes. Maybe lingering arrogance from previous socialization is part of it. But I also think a factor is that the western status quo insists on being blind to the insight and direction that scientific socialism can provide. So it’s like you’re on “team science but applied to politics” and they’re like “nuh uh, that’s communism, communism bad.” And even with a basic understanding of the framework, you’re already so far past on understanding how things work and why, and what could be done differently. It doesn’t even mean you’re good at it in a broader, practiced sense (like you might be really bad at it compared to an average party member in an AES state), but compared to the average westerner with no understanding of it, it’s leaps and bounds just to have the basics.

So I don’t know. I self-hate arrogance and ego in general. But maybe that feeling is my way of coping with how politically illiterate people tend to be. Arrogance rather than despairing about it or something.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

The Belgian government is nicknamed Arizona because the party colours of the coalition match with the State of Arizona flag and our party keeps saying that we can take down Arizona. Which seems like we have this very one sided beef with this random state.

I’m honestly so excited for this course on Imperialism by the Critical Theory Workshop.

Edit: website source for the image: https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/upcoming-events/

Ever since that new chinese ww2 has been making the rounds, I have seen an extreme spike in westerners claiming that the cpc “waited” out the war in caves and then claimed victory, while in earnest the KMT did all the fighting. Or worse that the chinese communists attacked the KMT while they were invaded by the japanese, linking metaphorically it to “tankies/ultras/doomers/wreckers/etc…” refusing to work with socdems inside capitalist political parties.

The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, might influence the future towards Western imperialist demands.

Every time Wikipedia does censoring anti-imperialist voices, the NPOV policy may not be genuine.

I feel like being vegan is less acceptable than being a communist. Whenever I talk about communism with people they do not always accept it but at least they tolerate it it seems. Being vegan though. Oh no. That’s the biggest sin you can commit.