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Hey, what's up? Hopefully, I can keep this post up. I'm not looking to argue anyone's beliefs. Everyone's got their beliefs, that's fine.

I was wondering if there is a need here though for any niche hobby stuff, or 'fun' communities like monkey paw or shitty super powers stuff like that, on this instance?

Looking to help possibly provide the variety but wasn't sure if I'd be wasting my time creating communities no one wants to see.

Anyway,

Thank you

I've been seeing a lot of posts for communities in languages I don't know (German being the most common). Well I'm sure these are perfectly fine communities and have no problem with them being around, I don't speak the languages - just English - and having to play whack-a-mole for every single new one that pops up is getting pretty tedious. Is there a way to filter all that out in one fell swoop?

Im working class, and have worked a lot of industrial construction jobs most people are too scared to do.

My coworkers are invariably all subhuman bigoted orcs that are literally dumber than the "people" from the movie Idiocracy.

After arguing with 3 coworkers who all believed that trans people shit in litterboxes i think that i have decided that the working class isnt worth anything. They all just hate all my friends anyway. Id rather have a society of gay landlords oppressing these subhumans.

I cursed them out, which does nothing but get me in trouble. They reported me to HR for harassing them. I hate the working class. I hate straight people.

Do i want to feel this way? No - ive dedicated a lot of my life to socialist organizing. Im a massive hypocrite. I hate myself, dont worry.

The amount of conflicts going on in the world is mindbonggling. Truly decades happening in weeks like Lenin said. Right now Biden's trying really hard to link the Palestinian resistence and "terrorism" with Iran in his tweets and statements, which brings back memories of Bush doing the same thing about Iraq after 9/11. Like Goebells said, repeat something enough and it becomes true.

As a result, it looks like the US may very well go to war with Iran in the close future. We're already proxy warring Russia in Ukraine, but US aid is starting to run dry (correct me if I'm wrong) and it seems like the US will eventually get bored of Ukraine.

The problem here is that Republicans are warhawking for proxy war with China over Taiwan, and some of them are talking about invading Mexico as well. If Biden starts a war with Iran the Republicans will probably be on board. Americans are getting sick of sleepy Biden running their country, and it seems like in the 2024 elections Republicans have a strong chance of winning. If they hold true to their promises, the US could be involved in 3 wars at once, which would be an enormous hit to the economy. The only way I see this playing out is the US shifting to a war economy like Nazi Germany did to prevent the already fragile and heavily indebted economy from collapsing. The US could become even more fascist than it already is, reaching Nazi levels of insanity.

My mind's running a bit on this one, so someone please tell me any more insights on this or any mistakes I have made.

First post even though I've had an account for months. So basically I have ADHD and am autistic, on top of that I've always struggled with self discipline and motivation. All of this has been made worse by a traumatic event causing me severe depression that I can't seem to get out of. I genuinely want to read theory to become a better Marxist but I can barely manage a few pages at a time before giving up. Any ideas?

I am currently undergoing my formal education as a teacher of English and German as a second language, but I've been a full-time private tutor for 5 years. I'm not supposed to teach in a school yet, but due to the state of the education system in my country, there was a lack of teachers and I got invited to teach in my former high school. I teach a group of 11 thirteen-year-olds 6x45 minutes on Mondays and Tuesdays.

I felt like I was doing quite well, but today devastated me. We had our second lesson in the canteen (due to lack of available classrooms) and it was a disaster. I try my best to plan engaging, exciting lessons, so after a short vocabulary test they were due to write, I asked them to go around the classroom and ask each other some questions related to our new unit, I even made and printed them a spreadhseet with their names that they could fill out. They started asking each other for the information in our native language, no matter how many times I asked them to speak in English, and after the time was up, I could not, for the life of me, get them to settle. Half of them were shouting and chatting, the other half were eyeing me, waiting for my response. They are generally quite lively, but today was the first time I could not get them to settle.

Now, I never yell. I do my absolute best to respect everyone, just like I promised them the first time we met. However, I asked for their respect and cooperation in return and I can see that faltering. They got used to me, got bored with me, I don't know.

Initially I thought I would have more problems with the boys, but they are okay. It's the girls, they mature faster so they are already these moody teenagers. I can't get them all to do their homework, even by giving them bad grades for it, can't get them to engage, put away their phones, nothing. I tried interesting debates, topics, but it doesn't work for more than 5 minutes. Nothing I've seen in movies, experienced as a student myself works anymore. They don't have the attention span. They are under- and overstimulated at the same time and cannot sit still, but cannot do a stand-up activity in an organised manner, it turns into chaos.

Academically, they are bright and have a very good level of English thanks to video games and movies. They do fairly well in tests, but they won't improve unless I manage to get through to them. I have some rules in place and I stick to them, so I have given them a few bad grades, etc. but I don't feel like it's enough.

For information, I'm barely taller than them and I'm a 25-year-old, younger looking girl so I'm not very intimidating. I'm also not mean-spirited and never talk down to any of my students, but I realised I need a modified approach to teaching in a group compared to teaching privately.

I would appreciate any insight or tips on how to achieve a calm and disciplined environment in which I can actually use the fun stuff I work hard to prepare.

I'm writing some critical notes on a socdem book (Taplin's MFBT), and at one point it mentions GamerGate while exploring the rise of the internet fascists.

Now, I know what GamerGate was, I even watched a lot of it as it unfolded, but I can't find a way to properly characterise it. It doesn't help that, with some hindsight I can see both how a lot of the "leaders" of the movement became barely relevant but a lot of their tactics were adopted or further developed by the more mainstream fascists. Besides that the whole structure of it looks very fishy considering all the known astroturfing strategies used nowadays.

A lot of the resources I've read on it is the typical lib idealist mass psychoanalysis (Innuendo Studios comes to mind), so I was wondering if y'all had some more critical resources about that.

I have 2 cats and a dog

Dear comrades, we are living in dire times indeed. With the Zionist occupation escalating further , I am in need of an "old" video where a poor Palestinian father wearing a red shirt goes back to his bombed farmhouse to find all his children dead and the poor man keeps repeating Allahu Akbar.

The first time I saw it was in 2020 although it could've been filmed before

I recently stumbled on take on the Khrushchev Lied https://mltoday.com/khrushchev-lied-but-what-is-the-truth/

And I wanted to know if this makes sense or am I missing something and what is known about the stances of Grover Furr

I have been looking up some more politics of my land of origin (Portugal Caralho) and learned some more about Otelo. He was a socialist and leader of the portuguese uprising against the fascist regime. He at one point held most power in the country and envisioned to "turn portugal in europe's cuba". As you can maybe tell he was a fan of Fidel Castro and wanted to be "europe's Castro" as he allegedly wrote in his diary but at the end did not arm the working class to lead a revolution against the bourgeois but ran for presidency in which he lost. He was also accused of being involved in the FP25 (Força Popular) which were a left-wing terrorist organisation who killed civillians...(idk about this its hard to get non-pro-capitalist information on them) and was sentenced to jail for 15 years but got out after 5 years. He is now dead, he died at the age of 84

Why CPRF formed coalition with nazbols and monarchists during Russian constitutional crisis?

Im aware that he is not a socialist by any means but i watched some interviews of him and he does have some good takes on US imperialism and the Western Hegemony but i also recall hearing that he did some pretty shady stuff but i cant remember any specifics....Im generally supportive of leaders who try to free their countries of the boots of the US even when they're not socialist per se but this Assad guy seems a little off

Does anyone have books/long length documentaries on the fascist groups currently active in Ukraine? With the recent surge in nazi apologia, I feel it would be best to educate myself more on their history in Ukraine.

I do agree that in retrospect, the war doesn't make much sense for Russia. As the article speculates, Putin must have thought that Ukraine was weak enough to be conquered in a matter of weeks, and that the west wouldn't intervene, since it also didn't intervene in the case of Crimea and Donbas.

I think i understand the basics. For example, a capitalist buys wood for 20 (money) to make a chair, he employs someone else to make the chair which adds value to the wood...lets just say the value added through the labour is 20 (money) the chairs cost therefore is 40 (money) but the capitalist steas some of the added value to make a profit and now the chair is only worth 30 (money). The worker has therefore worked a significant amount of time for free because the value added does not correspond to what the chair is sold for. Thats already what i understand but how exactly does the capitalist turn this into profit? Yes he has gained some money but he still has 30 dollars in debt due to the production costs and the labours costs...and it would not change in the future as the debt just like the value he steals from the workers grows. Can someone pls explian?

I have tried writing things I don’t want to forget, but I didn’t like it much. I have copied short quotes and added sticky notes at important parts, which I liked, but felt possibly not enough. I tried annotating, but it made me feel bad and disrespectful for the book.

The USA is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, this is known. From the vast sums of money dumped into political campaigns by monopoly capital, to the cushy corporate lobbyist jobs awaiting elected officials after retirement, to the huge gulf between the values and desires of the people and the voting records of their so-called representatives. But there's one thing that I heard a lot of "progressive" liberals (or whatever you want to call them) saying over my many years in the USA: if voting didn't matter, they (referring to the republican party, naturally) wouldn't be trying to stop you from doing it.

Voting, and the outcome of elections in the USA, matters to somebody. Again, the capitalist powers that be invest quite a bit of money and effort into these political campaigns. But why? Why should contests over political office be so expensive and complicated if the result -- that imperialism wins -- is a foregone conclusion? Is it just the battlefield for the redivision of the domestic markets? How do the fights over civil rights issues and such factor in, or is it precisely because capital doesn't really care either way that bickering over those issues is so fierce?

I'm working through the manifesto and i'm really struggling with chapter 3s Feudal and Petty-Bourgeois socialism section. It seems he's waxing a bit into prose, or i lack important historical context. Is there something i can read that will provide this? Barring that i would also love any links or recommendations to literature that helped you understand

Oh and if this is stickied somewhere i apologize for dumb

I have heard mixed reviews on it. What do you think about it?

Also, is America benefiting from the war?

I've been very curious about it, and I believe there is no better way than to ask you computer geniuses for information.

Like title says, have recently gotten around to reading "Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?" but would like to hear how successful each country was and maybe where they fell short. Feel free to share any literature on this if you can, thanks comrades!

I want future generations to look at this question thread and marvel at our predictions and probably make lots of fun of us 😂

So there is a loneliness epidemic caused by capitalist alienation. However, I wonder if lack of material conditions also adds to this. I just keep seeing lots of my broke guy friends depressed because they can’t find a partner and it is so hard for them to meet new people. This makes me wonder if their financial situation is the main reason.