• Fruitbat [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    I just wanted to post this stamp I got, not my photo but it’s the same one. I just like a lot of the art designs that went into soviet stamps.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    Sometimes I am reminded that the city I live in is 55% migrants (from everywhere around the world) and I’m amazed at the diversity. Over 180 nationalities in this city.

  • lobshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Can someone tell me why I was told by an r/ultraleft member that Marxist Literature is banned in Dprk?

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      Well, the “why” is only known to that r/ultraleft user. Unless that user could share evidence of a policy detailing the ban, Marxist Literature is not banned in the DPRK as far as I know. Marxist literature is referenced in plenty of popular books of Kim Jong Il:

      Maybe, the user is misinformed or misinterpreting the fact that the Juche idea(born from the teachings of Marxism-Leninism) is taught over other Marxist literature(twisted this information to reach the conclusion that it was “banned”). The answer that clears this confusion is simple and it is referenced in Prolewiki:

      • “In the early years of revolutionary activities, the leader (Kim Il-Sung) was well versed in Marxism-Leninism. But he did not confine himself to applying Marxism-Leninism to the Korean Revolution but pioneered a new phase of revolutionary theory from a steadfast Juche-oriented standpoint and resolved the problems arising in the revolutionary practice from a unique angle.” -> https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Juche#Marxism–Leninism
      • lobshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        This is exactly what I told him that Juche is born out of Marxism-Leninism and is still relevant.

    • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      If literature is written in a asiatic language it loses its class chatecter or something.

      Most ultroids are about as chauvinistic as that kind of claim so i wouldn’t be surprised if I saw one say it.

  • YeltsinHitByABus@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Does anyone know of a dictionary of Marxist terms and concepts? Found one from around 70 years ago, but it isn’t as detailed as I’d like. I’m wanting to have something like this to bring around with me to jog my memory talking about politics.

    If nobody has anything else, I may just make it myself and post it as some sort of collaborative thing, though I’d need to make the time for it.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Election day in The Netherlands today. Again, because we can’t keep a government for more than a year it seems.

    Anyway, most of the topics boiled down to: ‘MIGRANTS’ as if that’s the only thing that matters now. Can’t have a single discussion about anything in that parody country without worrying about brown people.

    Also, some dubbed the potential Green/Labour-Neolib-Christian Democrat government as ‘left wing’.

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        Probably because every single party except Bij1 and maybe SP are in favour of increasing spending so they don’t need to debate that. They know everybody will just follow Yankeeland on that one. And according to D66 you can horndog on Princess Amalia in the army too!

  • ernidel@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Hello everyone, I’m new here, I’ve been lurking around for a little bit and have finally decided to get myself a lemmygrad account. 🫡 🫡

  • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    As if the US moves here in Latin America has not been worrying enough, the police of Rio de Janeiro just committed the biggest massacre the state of RJ has ever had, there’s more than 160 dead, and only 4 cops died. The governor of RJ is saying that the operation was a success, even tho they did not even get the person they invaded the favela for. From January to September of this year alone, the RJ police has killed more than 510 people.

    Shit’s getting bleaker.

      • prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Not necessarily. The military police and these death squads go back to the US coup in '64. They were aligned with Bolsonaro recently, but they are going to align themselves with any right wing government. Bolsonaro is not all that relevant anymore. He’s under house arrest for now, and he’s gonna be sent to jail soon. He’s been convicted already.

      • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        The vast majority is definitely very reactionary. I can’t say if they are still aligned with Bolsonaro since he has been losing popularity a lot for some time now, specially because of how he handled the pandemic. But I would bet they are Bolsonaristas, even tho some of them might not like Bolsonaro himself anymore.

        I know there is a very, very small minority of leftists in the military police force, but they have to keep their mouths shut not to be extremely harassed, fired or worse.

      • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Thanks comrade! I’m not from Rio and am fortunate enough to live in a place where I don’t have to worry about the police, but seeing the reporting of the amount of people dead has been daunting.

    • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      I was reading about the favela raids yesterday and physically cringed. I’m so sorry and I hope you are able to be reasonably safe.

      • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Thanks comrade, reading and hearing about it has been horrifying. I’m not from Rio so I don’t have to worry about any of that, but I feel for those living in direct line of sight of the police.

        • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
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          5 months ago

          You are welcome. Please take precautions, as I imagine the circle to be ever expanding.