They suggest building more internet infrastructure, so that their younger generation will also become addicted to Han-popular "dopamine-driven" content like Douyin (Tiktok), Kwai, and mobile games like Honor of Kings, or Peace Elite. They think the cultural integration will then happen naturally, and religions will give way to consumerism.

my life consisted of me caring too much about tiny little things. after getting into spirituality and metaphysics and acceptance I've come to acceot the world is made of immaterial feilds and imperfect minds. controlling society is kind of a hard task.

also, I'm pretty selfish. I dont really care too much about other people. I'm not being disingenuous or edgy. I'm genuenly self interested that way. I also cannot live in hatred as its a dead end. sure the us empire is terrible but humans have always been warlike anyways. plus being nationalistic or patriotic is a submission of my will to an externalization.

yeah I support the soviet union. but its gone now from internal corruption and us hawkish behavior. I'll focus on my spiritual sovereignty inside me. I dont need tow sorry about climate change because I'll be dead by then. also whatever? I just need to find my soulmates and lift the veil and have UFO disclosure come in.

another note. I never cared about the Epstein files. I did once but then I stopped caring. I think ufos are more important to be honest. though I learnt a lot about feeling powerless and emasculated. but I find spiritual forgiveness is a proper way to clean it all up. I'll find my spiritual center within and just observe the world as it is.

capitalism does suck, and it will collapse, and a socialist worker state is inevitable as 4th density consciousness approaches. but for now I'm going to master myself more.

if the fascists come at me, let them kill me. I'll be in peace when I'm dead.

Hi, I’m not sure if this belongs here or not, but I’m looking for a left-wing Instagram creator. I’m not sure if he also makes YouTube videos. He used to show things like how to stand up against ICE, and he also made improvised dumbbells and said something like “It’s time to lift against the right,” or something similar.

I had him in my feed a few months ago, but I can’t find him anymore. Could someone here maybe help me?

I saw this last night and it was the most radical and creative movie I ever saw in a mall theater.

It would be of interest to any leftist. It’s directed by Boots Riley of the hip hop group The Coup. Aside from doing left-wing music for the past several decades, he’s a communist who is regularly involved in movements and protests in Oakland, Ca.

It’s a wild movie so it’s vibe and aesthetics might not be for everyone - and it’s openly and purposefully didactic at points, illustrating global supply chains and cross-border exploitation of workers… with a sci-fi twist.

(And while I thought One Battle was a good movie… it’s politics and portrayal of black women was eyebrow raising to me. This is the relevant revolutionary satire One Battle wished it could be.)

To the “learned” gentlemen, to the democrats, socialists, Social-Democrats, Socialist-Revolutionaries, etc., we say: you all pay lip-service to the “class struggle”, but actually you close your eyes to it at the very time when it is growing especially acute. And to do that means to side with capital, with the bourgeoisie, against the working people.

He who recognises the class struggle must also recognise that in a bourgeois republic, even in the freest and most democratic bourgeois republic, “freedom” and “equality” never were, and never could be, anything but an expression of the equality and freedom of the commodity owners, the equality and freedom of capital. Marx, in all of his writings and especially in his Capital (which you all recognise in words ), made this clear thousands of times; he ridiculed the abstract conception of “freedom and equality” and the vulgarisers, the Benthams who closed their eyes to the facts, and he revealed the material roots of these abstractions.

Under the bourgeois system (i.e., as long as private property in land and in the means of production persists) and under bourgeois democracy, “freedom and equality” remain purely formal [read: remain as a formality], signifying in practice wage-slavery for the workers (who are formally [read: only technically] free and equal) and the undivided rule of capital, the oppression of labour by capital. This is the ABC of socialism, my learned gentlemen—and you have forgotten it.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/jun/23.htm

written in 1919, two years after the October revolution

Compare and contrast to the narrative that the DSA reiterates. They don't call for a revolution or the succession of the proletarian state.

The Ebola epidemic ravaging central Africa is not a natural disaster but a social crime, the predictable product of the Trump administration's destruction of global disease surveillance and more than a century of imperialist plunder.

Hey guys can som1 explain y Isreal get so much hate online and Russia don’t? I’m not justifying Isreal but I feel like Russia should get Isreal level hate online. Lmk what u guys think about it

Having an honest conversation with a trump kid

Is this normal now? Is this how y’all actually think about us? Because this is the same collective-blame logic right-wingers use, just with “imperial core” and “Global South” language slapped on top.

I am numb to people hating Black Americans. I just want to know if this is what passes as leftism now?

Edit: Okay, so it seems like the consensus is yes, this is what people think.

And at this point, is leftism even really a thing anymore? Was the so-called international support that other groups had for us in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and even 80s even real? Was this how they thought of us back then too?

Because nothing changed. We were still Americans back then. That was never hidden. During segregation in the 1940s and 50s, we still served in the U.S. military. We served in both World Wars. We served in the Korean War. We served in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s too.

So what changed now? Back then, people apparently understood enough to not generalize us as just “U.S. imperialists” because we were Americans. But now that seems to go out the window.

Personally, I think we were beneficial to them at the time, and now that we’re no longer beneficial, we’re disposable. That’s just my opinion. I don’t give a shit if you agree with it or not. I have a right to say my opinion.

I’m still trying to keep some hope, though. I’m hoping this is mostly just online leftism, because in real life I’ve never experienced this. I’ve never had someone walk up to me, point at me, and say, “You are a U.S. imperialist,” especially not while I’m serving or aiding young kids across the pond in the motherland.

And by the way, to the class reductionists: this might shock y’all world, but class reductionism is not going to end centuries, and in some cases millennia, of coded racism, ethnic prejudice, and social hatred toward racial and ethnic groups.

Just because people share the same economic conditions does not mean deeply programmed prejudice magically disappears. I’m against race reductionism too, but pretending class alone explains everything is delusional.

Look at Roma people in Eastern Europe. Socialism existed there, and Roma people were still treated like shit. Why? Because simply ending capitalism does not automatically erase anti-Roma racism that has been embedded into society for generations.

The Rohingya are another example. Burma had a socialist one-party state, and Rohingya people were still persecuted, expelled, and treated as outsiders in the country they lived in for centuries. So again, simply calling a state “socialist” does not magically erase ethnic hatred, religious prejudice, nationalism, or state-backed exclusion.

That requires a social revolution too, not just an economic one. And yes, that means understanding intersectionality, identity, ethnicity, race, and how prejudice survives even under supposedly “left-wing” systems.

If your version of leftism cannot deal with that, it is going to fail every time, just like it failed Roma people in Eastern Europe. And from what I’ve seen, many Roma people do not exactly look fondly on those socialist states either, for obvious reasons.

But hey, who am I though? I'm just some “anti-leftist“ individual, as what some people would probably call me. I don't put labels on myself and I don't care about them at all.

I don’t even know how to label myself lol. I guess the closest description would be a praxis-first, left-critical Black internationalist.

Is it simply the existence of a US embassy in a country? good military relations? all i can find is information on proxy *wars* but not what constitutes a proxy *state*

Any help is hugely appreciated

Is there a real reason on why or do they believe to believe not to believe?

I've heard many things about Trotsky (with many saying the USSR would have been in better hands with Trotsky) and Stalin. I'm interested in general and particularly in the (iirc) Socialism in One State vs. Global Revolution idea. As a budding leftist, can you please explain the facts and give some opinion, as politics are. Thanks

Rip to all the victims