You don't hate them. You hate the system that educated them to think like that.
When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. - Paulo Freire
Our only way out is to study more, to be better prepared when these conversations happen, and to continue organising where possible.
But also remembering that most people won't be reasoned out of ignorance. It's through emotion, commitment and trust from people that understand themselves as equals that they listen. Right now, you feel enlightened and superior to them. This is not the way.
Also, I may be wrong. Happy for comrades to argue against me.
If you just state it's religious, you open up space for "Muslim bad", or "Christian bad" arguments. Which lead to nonsense and prosecution to specific peoples
If you use imperialism concepts, everything fits well together, and it leads to structural criticism of capitalism, and prosecution (to use the same word) against oppressive ideas and power structures, not against specific peoples.
But I can agree that imperialistic forces oppress religions that are not the same as theirs, if that's what you meant.
It's not a religious conflict. It's an imperialistic conflict.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1710144
I'm making this thing. It's not by any means complete, but maybe it helps?
It's... Dry, and mechanical. But it exists.
And then there's the study group in lemmygrad, which is... A bit slow, but you can start the posts and do your own reviews. Probably will cause people to join you. :)
How would you like to read/study it?
I will agree that many things are really hard to understand without context. I was reading Lenin on what is to be done, and the multiple groups he mentions just don't make any sense to me.
Maybe it should trigger me to make notes and go after the names. But life happens, you know?
Anyway, that's my struggle, you're not alone. :)
Have you seen people overrate "common sense"? That's it.
Don't think deeply, go for common sense, disregard the specialists, we can't understand their areas of study, therefore they are lying.
Also, avoid studying humanities: history, philosophy, sociology, politics. That will make you poor! Stay technical and mathy, don't worry about anything else other than making money! Have a life project! Get rich!
That's the anti intellectual speech.
Who benefits from the smart peoples of the world not questioning the status quo, and the building blocks of capitalism?
I love it's a nitter link.
That's exactly the point.
How much of our lives can money buy?
What if I wanted to sell my whole remaining time for the benefit of the ones I love, in the form of organs?
Should we allow money to buy anything? Or should we actually make people less desperate so that they are not willing to sacrifice all they have for peanuts?
Who makes the laws?
Do the people making the laws respect the laws they create?
They create the laws for whom?
Citation needed for "most Linux users use adblockers"
How do you guarantee pizza ads if the jesus ministries are pushing that sweet money around, too?
Hell, no! The world is happier without the ad industry. The Internet was run basically on pure voluntary effort, and it was great. The ads didn't make it viable, it always was.
The real question is: can consent be bought?
Yes, please? I know "on contradiction" is in the queue. But those things take time. :D
O social-liberalismo ataca a luta dos sindicatos em São Paulo
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Speech 100! Hahaha
Well, yeah. I know some of that stuff indirectly. Haven't been here for long, but there's a few of the concepts that appear over and over again, and are useful in actual conversation, even if sometimes not perfectly precise.
I'll start using "the material conditions of this codebase won't allow for the unfolding of such feature". Or something.
It's really hard to dig deeper into all/most of the concepts.
I also just remembered of "contradiction".
I was there in 2007. I'm happy to see some noise again, after those were demobilised back then.
It's important because it's visible, it teaches you all young peoples how to organise and talk politically. Definitely taught me a lot.
Love it!
Notice I didn't specifically ask about how they look. My example was about something they/we say.
What's something someone would do/say that would have you think "one of us", about them?
How do you recognise a comrade in the wild?
What's something low profile comrades say that communicate immediately that they know which side they fight for in the class struggle?
Example: if anyone in the wild speaks "material conditions", or "bourgeois state", out loud, I'm listening.
When studying or in classes I usually take note of structure, questions, and stuff I find unexpected.
In structure, I just go for quick notes on how one topic flows into another expectedly. Means no surprises and I can probably retrace those steps myself.
Then I note in questions to be asked or researched about specific points. I don't usually note down the answer unless unexpected.
And then, I note the unexpected things, where I think I can't derive myself from the overarching structure. Terminology and specifics usually fall under this category.
If everything is unexpected, well, that's a sign that maybe I'm not ready for that level of content yet. So I'll generally go for more introductory content before I tackle it again.
On a side note, I don't personally annotate books, but lots of researchers do (I'm not a researcher), and actually defend that respecting a book is annotating it thoroughly. So. That's another take on it. :)
Or, you know. Just stop using reddit.
Paulo Galo de Luta e Como Derrubar o iFood? ft. Noir Podcast | João Carvalho
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Conheço menos do galo do que gostaria. Sujeito bom!
Yes. "common sense" is the repetition of dominant ideology. They can bang on "common sense" and destroy things. We have to deconstruct common sense so. That we can build the future.
Mao, the unknown story, by Jung Chang
Hello lemmygrad friends!
On discussing China with a friend, he took a beautiful copy of the book in the title as support for "but the Chinese revolution actually prosecuted people", or something. The usual.
Challenge is now I have 700 pages to read, apparently about how Mao bad, China bad, communism bad.
To my questions: anyone out there knows about this book? Anything I should know while reading it? Anything worthwhile to expect about the book?
Thnak you in advance!
Toda riqueza é fruto da exploração?
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Boa semana, camaradas!
Formação comunista direto no seu tocador podcast
Pessoal da soberana trabalhando impressiona.
Esse é praticamente um guia de estudos, já em formato próprio pra consumo longo. Também disponível nas outras plataformas de podcast e rss como "Audioteca critica".
Inspired by the Michael Parenti collection I made this podcast for articles from marxists.org
Listen to TTS Marxists Internet Archive on Spotify. Text to speech converted articles from the Marxists Internet Archive. This is not affiliated with them in any other way.
Available on plain rss https://anchor.fm/s/e8b6108c/podcast/rss too
Also, please send me suggestions for articles I should add there, because I have no idea how to approach curation of that library.
Any other feedback is appreciated.
Edit: I just found this https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6319. Looks excellent! I'll work on getting it through.
Edit 2: and then I'll probably come this way: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/dessalines_marxism_study_plan.html
Edit 3: I'll also play with the order, because it feels like a good idea to mix introductions for multiple subjects, so that it feels a little less repetitive. Even though... can't do much about the dryness of AI speech.
Essa é pra descontrair!
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E como todo vídeo da esquerda q vale a pena, tem mais de uma hora de duração. Beijo no coração, camaradas!
Soberana.doc: Sindicatos em Tecnologia
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Belo início de discussão sobre pautas para um sindicato de tecnologia.
Bastantes definições pra serem trabalhadas nas conversas.
João Carvalho nesse podcast de negócios que traz comunistas com uma boa frequência
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Eu gosto porque dá material pra gente que seja acessível pra quem tá fora da bolha. Acho que esse pessoal do kritikê faz um trabalho honesto, em linhas gerais, num nicho mais suave do que o Eduardo Moreira.
Afinal, Jones Manoel, embora genial, não é imediatamente acessível pra parte da classe trabalhadora que passou a vida inteira modelando sua visão de mundo em termos de mérito e negócios.
A quem interessa a queda do avião do Prigozhin?
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João Carvalho traz aí uma tese alternativa para os motivos pelos quais caiu o avião. Tudo especulação, como pede o calor do momento, óbvio.
Does anyone have context over the political situation of south africa?
Polish media has a superficial take, and we know "far left" is meaningless without context.
I'd appreciate if any comrades have suggestion, material or overview about the situation there.
O pai dos povos: avanços e contradições de Stalin na URSS
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Quase 2 horas de aula sobre o tema do título, onde o Gaiofato entrevista esse colega historiador de São Petersburgo sobre o período de Stalin como líder da URSS. Preparem a pipoca!
Perseguição contra a midia de esquerda no Brasil?
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Tô vendo o vídeo agora. Mas tô crendo de antemão que vai valer a pena.
Renato Freitas em discurso contra a redução da carga horária de filosofia e sociologia
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Opiniões?
A minha é que é difícil de discordar desse rapaz, assim como é difícil discordar do Silvio Almeida. É gente que dá gosto de ouvir, sobre praticamente qualquer tema.
Melhor de hoje, João reage ao Load comentando a dor nerdola
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E qq vcs acham dessa estratégia de React?
Eu curto o comentário e eu curto q espalha o trabalho de outros camaradas. :D
A democracia é relativa? Lula acertou na sua fala.
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Lemmy é lugar de conteúdo! Vou compartilhar aqui conforme puder o melhor vídeo do dia. O de hoje foi este. :)
Tragam mais, camaradas!
Q vcs acham dessa personalidade?
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E tem esse livro que ele escreveu no hospital: O Que os Donos do Poder Não Querem Que Você Saiba.
Acho o título brega mas talvez tenha uma análise interessante, dessa visão que ele tinha durante essa transição?
E confesso que gosto de ver entrevista de revolucionário em canal de liberal. Geralmente é material introdutório bom pra passar pros amigos. :)
A economia sempre vai melhorar assim!
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Dudu Moreira dando aula. Se tem algo a se criticar nesse governo é q não é radical o suficiente.
What if we used this community for prompts for dialectical materialist analysis?
For random stuff, possibly even fictional, and the people come up with a short dialectical materialist analysis, as a common exercise for everyone?
I would propose a prompt, in r/WritingPrompts style, but I don't really know what could be interesting topics on the matter. I would just love to see your analytic skills, and possibly pick it up on how you are doing it. :)
Maybe I got a prompt: What's the value of this idea? Did I miss the point of dialectical materialist analysis?