PICKETING APROVED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO (São Carlos campus)
The academic center in São Carlos has voted to enter a strike tomorrow.
"Only sith deal with absolutes"
-some old, senile man
We do not use mailing lists very often here. I think it would be hard to convince them. I suggested reviving the old CAASO website, which is abandoned, but it seems like it will remain abandoned for now.
Search "The long march chinese movie" on Youtube. You'll find a few.
I watched a few minutes of one such movies, but the movie felt too different from what I am accustumed to so I stopped watching it.
The professors' union, ADUSP, has entered the strike in the São Paulo campus, so at least there the research has probably stopped.
I do not use IG or social media in general (Lemmygrad is the exception) so I do not know if CAASO (the student organization responsible for the São Carlos campus) or the DCE are using them to communicate. I'll look into it right now to know the answer.
edit: CAASO has an Instagram page and the DCE has a Facebook page. (I can't access any of them because I do not have an account)
Well, I do not know any websites or anything like that, but in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo there are many news about the strike (although they are basically one-sided agains the students).
Also, I think that the state governor, Tarcísio de Freitas is way more responsible for this than Haddad, since Carlotti, the Dean of the University of São Paulo, wants to be part of the Department of Education of the state of São Paulo, so he is pretty much invested in being "tough" on those "students that only want to cause chaos" or whatever because Tarcísio is basically a "far-right centrist" (he wants to privatize everything and he applauds police brutality, but he tries to not be seen as fash).
edit: I think my poor english made this sound kinda weird, so I'll rephrase it:
Tarcísio de Freitas, state governor of São Paulo, is fash. Carlotti, Dean of the University of São Paulo, wants to cozy up with the fash to get a job in the government. As such, Carlotti is very invested in not appearing weak to "rioters" and as such it will be pretty hard to force him into negotiating.
The University of São Paulo is on strike
In the last few weeks, students from the University of São Paulo, one of the 100 best universities in the world (according to some ranking last year), started a strike. The strike started in the São Paulo campus, but has now spread to the Lorena campus and a few parts of the Ribeirão Preto campus.
The students on strike are demanding a few things, including the hiring of 1400 new professors (to reach the same student/professor ratio as it was in 2014), more financial assistance for low-income students, and a quota for trans students.
The university leadership (I forgot what "Reitoria" means in english, lol) said they will hire 800 new professors, but students think it is not enough, since there are people who are close to graduatinng without having some mandatory classes because of lack of professors.
Also, about the quota for trans students, there are already quotas for students from public high schools (I'm one of them) and for black/mixed race students, so this wouldn't be really without precedents.
My campus (São Carlos) will vote about whether to go on strike next tuesday. There is some resistance to the idea, but it seems like we'll end up going on strike too.
Here, we have two main areas on campus. One of them was the first one to be built, and is on the center of the city. It is where most of the courses happen. My course is on the second area, which is quite far away fron the city center. We always take an university bus from Area 1 to Area 2, which was privatized (it is not operated by the university anymore, but is still free at least). There is literally nothing to eat here other than the subsidized R$2,00 lunch (also privatized) which we can only eat at lunchtime. As such, improving the bus and placing some cafés here on Area 2 will probably become one of the demands of the strike on São Carlos.
So, what do you guys think about this?
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The sources are linked in lemmygrad, but they are from outside lemmygrad.
Also, there is no neutral information in the world, all information has parts omitted (for many possible reasons), has parts that may be distorted because of the bias of the primary sources, or has other biases that you must take into account when reading it.
If you only read information from one side you will only get the biases of that side, and won't be able to understand reality. Most principled communists who study history do not use only pro-communist sources, they actually use mostly anti-communist sources (because, guess what, most historians with resources to do research are american or western european, and literally can't publish pro-soviet or pro-chinese books in well-acclaimed presses) and then they filter out most of the biases (but not all, because that is literally impossible) by using primary sources or translations of primary sources, in case the primary sources aren't in a language they know.
I'm not saying you must read literal nazi books and take their word for it, for example. What I am saying is that if you want to research 19th century India, for example, you must read from at least most of the different perspectives, always questioning yourself about the sources like this:
- Which biases does this source have?
- How can these biases affect the information I am reading?
- Which other perspectives can I use to understand this information?
- Is this source reliable? (have they been caught lying?)
If you can't even do this, you really won't understand history.
Also, what is considered "neutral" at any point in time is what the ruling classes consider to be beneficial to them. If you could talk to the average white person of mid 19th century southern USA about slavery, they would tell you that news articles criticizing abolitionists and promoting slavery were "neutral". The same applies to current times.
You do not know what fascism is. You do not know what communism is. Go read a book before you argue online, it is good for you.
I know that you did not read anything because of your mention of Tiananmen Square. You did not do any investigation on the subject nor did you read someone else's investigation into the subject. You just took the propaganda as truth and ran with it.
If you want to actually learn about communism, fascism, the USSR, China, Tiananmen Square, etc. you can just use the search function of lemmygrad. You'll find many resources to learn.
(or you can just continue helping the fascists by regurgitating propaganda, do whatever you want, I won't force you)
Do you even know what you are talking about?
The USSR was a state controlled by the workers, while the Russian Federation is a state controlled by the russian capitalists.
Putin distorts the history of the USSR every time he speaks about it. He wants russians to think that Russia was "a glorious empire that almost beat the West", not a country led by the working class that gave hope to billions of people worldwide.
I mean, Russia is fashy, but they are way less fashy than their enemies (The West).
edit: Also, this guy (Kings and Generals) is probably fash as well and is trying to make the West seem less fashy by exagerating Putin's fashyness.
They know that they are losing, so they are trying to escalate the conflict so that everybody loses.
Even if that person helped kill many thousands of people around the world? This is pure liberal "but muh people dying is bad!!!! Even if the person in question was literally Hitler!!!!". Also, Thatcher has already been dead for a long time.
Blur Nazi imagery
I read Lemmygrad in public so it is kinda bad, especially with the recent war in Ukraine, to see nazi imagery in Lemmygrad posts unblurred, so I suggest that we blur any posts with nazi imagery so that people can choose when they want to see the posts that contain it.
Viva ao SUS!
(Long live the SUS! (Unified Health System))
isn't this literally victim-blaming?
what if Venezuela didn't want to diversify its economy? should it be punished by illegal sanctions for that? where is the free market that neolibs talk so much about?
They literally have cut a part of the interview with one of the protesters, exactly when she said that "parents should choose what to teach their children, even if it is...", now, what was she going to say that they do not want us to hear?
edit: they even played the same clip twice just to show us that they don't care that we know that they removed a part of the clip.
edit2: also, one of the interviewed people said called the counterprotestors "sodomites".
edit3: one guy even said that "this is a christian nation, that is why you have freedom of speech" and said that "this is caused by sin".
edit4: bruh, one guy complained that when he was in school students were expelled for "not complying with a trans student's pronouns". I mean, if you do racist stuff you get expelled, so why shouldn't you be expelled for being transphobic? It is easy to use the right pronouns.
I think that the value of a currency doesn't mean anything by itself. It is better to talk about purchasing power than that.
The reason you don't need a VPN to access Lemmygrad is because, as we all know, the CPC are tankies just like us.
Why can't I see my post on shitreactionariessay?
I just posted on GenZedong but I noticed that my post fits better in shitreactionariessay, so I deleted my GenZedong post and posted it again on shitreactionaries say.
I can't see my post on shitreactionariessay, but I can see my comment on the same post explaining how I first posted on GenZedong and then deleted it.
EVs are dumb, especially in Brazil
I just wrote a rant on some random post on another instance about Trump not liking EVs where I said that EVs are dumb, and I'd like to share my thoughts here.
EVs do not really make cars sustainable. They just shift the polution from the cars themselves to some far-away coal or gas plant. But even if we got 100% renewable energy, they would still not be sustainable since their batteries are cancer to nature (do a search on the internet about lithium mining or cobalt mining).
So, how do I propose we solve the car question? Public transit is the answer.
Now, I won't elaborate much on public transit since most urbanism Youtube channels can explain it way better than me (just don't watch Azov Something, please), but I'd like to talk about the situation in Brazil.
Brazil is a place where we have a grid with almost 100% renewables (mainly hydrelectrics), so EVs would be nice here, wouldn't they?
NO!!!
Here in Brazil we have also a huge sugarcane production, which goes to make ethanol (biofuel) and sugar. Ethanol is pretty based, sugar is not (I do agree that sugar is tasty though). So, since most cars in Brazil can run on any mixture of ethanol and gasoline thanks to their "flex" engines (yes, this is their real name), if the price of ethanol falls, no one will use gasoline, and then we get a carbon-neutral fleet of cars (which is still bad for the environment, but less so than going full gasoline). And since lots of sugarcane goes to make sugar, if we incentivize producers to produce ethanol instead, we can get more ethanol without having to clear more land for farming!
This concludes my rant on EVs.
edit: I do not like Trump at all. I just noticed that my post makes it seem like I agree with him, but I do not. In fact, he likes internal combustion engines and big oil, which is why he said that EVs are "madness". I do not agree with that. I just think that EVs are the new "technology that will save the world" trend and that they won't really save the world. It is imperative that we progress into socialism, or else we will be destined to fall to barbarism.
Falcon BMS 4.37.2 on Linux tutorial
Hello there! I just managed to install and play Falcon BMS on my Linux machine (Arch), and as such I'll make a brief tutorial on how I did it.
Step 1: Buy Falcon 4.0 on Steam
Step 2: Open Falcon 4.0 on Steam
This is so the BMS installer can recognize that you aren't pirating Falcon 4.0.
Step 3: Close Falcon 4.0 after it reaches main menu.
Step 4: Download latest Proton-GE and install it on your Steam install.
This is a custom Proton fork by Glorious Eggroll. It is better than regular Proton for some reason.
Step 5: Run Falcon BMS 4.37 installer through Protontricks in Falcon 4.0's prefix.
If you haven't installed Protontricks, install it, since it is necessary for this tutorial.
Step 6: Update Falcon BMS to 4.37.2 using the updater through Protontricks (Falcon 4.0's prefix).
Step 7: Play Falcon BMS using the regular launcher (The alternative launcher did not work for me) through Protontricks, using Falcon 4.0's prefix.
Now it is done and you can play Falcon BMS.
Now I just need to figure out how to use TacView and Simple Radio Standalone so I can finish this tutorial.
edit: Tacview is pretty simple. Just install it using Protontricks and launch it also using Protontricks (on Falcon 4.0's prefix, as always).
Nice quote about "selfishness is human nature" from Harman in "How marxism works"
>People’s ideas are intimately linked to the sort of lives they are able to live. Take, for instance, ‘selfishness’. Present day capitalist society breeds selfishness – even in people who continually try to put other people first. A worker who wants to do their best for their children, or to give their parents something on top of their pension, finds the only way is to struggle continually against other people – to get a better job, more overtime, to be first in the queue for redundancy. In such a society you cannot get rid of ‘selfishness’ or ‘greediness’ merely by changing the minds of individuals.
edit: read theory, comrades, it is worth it.
Como que funcionam as organizações comunistas das quais vocês participam?
Eu me considero comunista desde por volta de 2020, mas eu só começei mesmo a estudar um pouco sobre o marxismo em 2022 (quando entrei na universidade). Desde então eu tive um desejo de entrar em alguma organização para poder contribuir ao movimento, porém por conta da dificuldade do meu curso e por conta dos meus pais serem um pouco reacionários (principalmente minha mãe, que fica grande parte do dia assistindo conteúdo de fascistas na internet) eu ainda não consegui me juntar a alguma organização.
Recentemente, percebi que o dia em que eu começarei a viver sozinho está se aproximando, e com isso virá a minha primeira oportunidade de me involver na política. Por isso estou começando recentemente a estudar mais as escritas de diversos teóricos marxistas para poder me educar.
Então, eu gostaria que meus camaradas do lemmygrado me falassem um pouco sobre os movimentos dos quais participam e suas atuações para que eu possa num futuro próximo me juntar a uma dessas organizações.
Eu sinceramente não sei muito como funciona uma organização marxista no dia-a-dia, então também seria legal ouvir um pouco sobre a experiência de vocês nas organizações.
Peço desculpas pelo post longo e agradeço antecipadamente pelas respostas.