TeezyZeezy

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Are they responsible for the conditions there?

Of course all of the other "China is imperialist" claims are bullshit but it seems like this is true and could potentially lead to valid accusations of imperialism or at least bad regulations.

What's the reason for what's going on in the Congo, I guess? What is happening on a detailed level? I can't find many resources outside of blatantly western shit.

I know what's going on and like the bad things but I'm asking why basically. Is it China?

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Same here in the states. Just frothing to give an excuse to start the bloodshed with all the buzzwords you included. Jihadist, terrorist, etc

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, calling for a great war against the hegemon BASICALLY means WW3, but I see what you're saying. They're seething at the mouth to justify pummeling a country to ashes

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 9 months ago

You don't think that America falling would advance the revolution? I don't need them to explicitly say "yes this is a Marxist-Leninist revolution"

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Happy birthday my friend, you will be gifted with the fall of the empire within your lifetime

 

Incredibly based

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Definitely good, but how serious are you about the pictures thing?

Every event I've ever been to I've wanted to amplify and the way to do that is through videos and posting pictures. Obviously your face and other people's faces should try to stay out of it, but just a span of the size of the crowd isn't hurting anyone.

I might be biased because I am honestly at the point of just saying fuck it with my identity being linked to communism. If the pigs want to find me, they already have plenty of evidence of me being involved with this and there's no shame in my game. They don't need a reason to do something to me, so I might as well amplify and document this shit.

I do agree about clothing and blending in.

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 9 months ago

It does. I'm on an anti-psychotic/anti-depressant right now that knocks me the fuck out for 12 hours at a time, though, which is really rough. I can barely wake up the next morning and I'm late to a lot of things, even political events I genuinely want to be at. There have been times where I sleep from 11pm to 1pm the next day completely uninterrupted.

Now when I don't take them, I literally cannot sleep. Last night I was up all night and then I conked at 8am until 1pm.

Don't fuck with your sleep.

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

NO NEED TO RAIN ON THE PARADE WITH A DOSE OF REALISM OKAY

Jk, I figured. But still, the fact that it was the Bolsheviks that actually were able to make it happen and seize power is inspiring

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Apologies, just did a reading and it said that in February of 1917 they had 24,000 members. By the October of that year they had 200,000.

Still, 24,000 is a very small number. I'm sure it had to do with the increasingly worsening material conditions and diligent party work done by the Bolsheviks.

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Nah you're definitely right. The whole insufferable leftist stereotype is kinda true haha

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Definitely not. There's literally like 600 million people in the core added together, you do not need even a tenth of them to be active revolutionaries for something like that to work.

Think about 50 million people actively erm... doing a Marxism-Leninism. There's no stopping that.

In another post, a comrade brought to my attention that just months before the revolution there were only 8,000 party members in the Bolsheviks. That should bring you relief.

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Totally agree.

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not unlikely there will actually be inter-bourgeois conflict

That's kind of what I mean. Like others have said, I don't see nukes flying/world ending scenario anytime soon, but large redistribution of power and yes, bourgeois infighting which will create perfect conditions for a revolution.

Wow, that Bolshevik fact is seriously comforting.

 

*their job is to kill and oppress working class people, specifically racialized ones.

They did their job. They almost did it better than they ever have.

 

Obviously it's a process that is always brewing under capitalism but you know what I mean. Do you think we are close, like within 5 to 10 years close to a major declaration of war between the imperial core and the periphery or something of the sort? Would you argue it's already started?

I see Palestine liberating itself, I see solidarity with them along the people, I see the ripples that the Ukraine conflict has started, I see more and more revolutionary sentiment building. Could be an experience bias because now I'm more involved in real life so I see it more, but things just seem to be accelerating and I'm here for it. Much work needs to be done to capitalize and educate/funnel us all towards a progressive revolution and not a reactionary one, but I'm ready

 

I remember when I was very young (don't actually remember I was like 2) when Katrina hit Florida and New Orleans and Bush left our people to starve and die, didn't rebuild shit and allocated like a few million at most for aid.

Chad China response to natural disasters sending out the whole PLA and disaster teams to find every single citizen in sub-zero weather

 

Comrades who have been/live in China, I'm visiting sometime next year! I've commented about this before but it's coming up on the new year so.

Any advice on where to go, how to behave, what to see, do? Any information would be appreciated, I'm so excited

 

I'm curious about the validity of the claim that anarchism is an acceptable form of anti-status quo politics in the US because they're not actually a threat.

Is this true? Have anarchist groups not been infiltrated as often as MLs have? Is it easier to take them down?

I only ask because I feel like any form of left wing/anti-capitalist thought would be heavily suppressed here but I don't know

 

It's Joever for the Democrats no lie. I know polls are still pretty even and something could happen to give them a shot in the arm but honestly all the videos I've been watching and conversations I've been having IRL are just pointing to a complete anti-Democrat vibe. Watching a few videos that are saying the same thing and it could just be algorithm bias but idk. I don't even mean just for 2024 election like long term this party is fucked. I used to think they were going to be bent over and moved out of the way by the Republicans (consequently establishing a further fascist government) because Dems are spineless but they're actually doing such a terrible job that they're going to get voted out and allow the Republicans to further fascist-ize the US if that's even possible.

I'm low-key here for it, going to be interesting but I'm very scared for marginalized people and the proleys in general.

 

I hope you're all doing well. I really enjoy this community and you all bring something nice to my day. I love getting Lemmygrad notifications, compared to deep fear of reddit notifications because I know I'm going to be shit on for no reason lol. But even beyond that I just like you all!

We will end this machine! Keep your heads up and DM me any time if you need anything :)

 

I dropped Spanish which was the only language offered during my high school years. I regret it, and now I'm embarrassed to start learning as a uni-aged guy. I want to learn Mandarin because then I would know English and Mandarin which would cover like 50% of the populations speaking abilities.

Basically I just feel like a dumb American and being a Marxist I need to know another language.

 

I'm seriously getting really disillusioned with everyone around me. I love my family and friends, but they are Ameri-brained as fuck and it's hard to ignore.

First, yesterday I went to a sports game. The US national anthem was played and I stayed seated and played on my phone as always. Nothing special, I don't make a scene or anything, just refuse to participate. Everyone else of course is looking at me weird and one of my friends was like "dude points at flag stand up" and I just shrug and say "I'm good" and go back to what I was doing. He didn't give me too much shit but he rolled his eyes and the usual. Just couldn't get past how people can know what my country is doing (I post about it a lot) and still show such blind support. It's not a huge deal, obviously just a fucking flag but still.

Second, was talking to my family about revolution and change and they made some good points. They pointed out that a lot of people in USA are too well-off materially to put their necks out regarding serious change. But then they kinda started defending it like that was justified. They brought up people losing scholarships at Harvard because of the Palestine support rally. That's shitty, but I still honestly feel like that's what I would do and what the right thing is. Fuck my "successful" future, a successful future is making change any means necessary. The people in Gaza don't have scholarships to lose and try telling them you didn't speak up because you were afraid of losing it. Idk. Maybe I'm inconsiderate and it's easy for me to say because I'm younger and have less to lose but it's just like bro why are people so hesitant? I can't imagine sticking my head in the sand, regardless of my material reality. I have a great life materially right now and I am willing to lose it for change. Not trying to be like moral high ground but just ye.

"If you're asked to make a commitment at the age of 20 and you say I don't want to make that commitment only because of the simple reason that I'm too young to die I want to live a little bit longer, what you did is you're dead already" - Fred Hampton

Idk maybe too ranty but I just feel like I'm the only one that I know irl who's really about it like that. Outside of my comrades organizing ofc I mean like personal life. But then again comrades = best friends so anyways I'll stfu thx

 

I've had this question for quite awhile but don't really know who to consult about it.

I've revealed that I'm a university-aged guy on here and so there's a lot of talk surrounding what people want to do with their lives. Naturally, I've gotten some less than desirable answers. I don't know how to go about responding.

For example, some people want to be cops or work for a three letter agency (I'm in the US). We can obviously see how that's not a good thing. I'm just torn on how I should respond. I'm not going to shit on these people, they're fundamentally good, just misinformed. But my morals cannot allow me in good faith to be like "oh cool yeah!"

How should I respond when someone wants to work for the oppressive state (assuming they're naive/ignorant about it and not like, openly fascist)

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