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I dont really understand why Marxism is so stagnant tbh.
I mean…look, i know I’m “different.” But…what else is there? Do people really want another flavour of liberalism or nationalism or whatever? I’m not saying one day i suddenly became a fully fledged ideologically consistent socialist, obviously.
What i mean is just look at the UK. The country is going to shit, and the best there is the greens? I don’t understand how you can go through 20 years of this and then go “well obviously we just need a different type of capitalism.”
It’s not easy, I get that, but i mean in that case you’d think you’d get more Eurocommunists than anything.
But even looking at the global south. The fact that places like Indonesia and Thailand literally don’t have communist parties anymore, or how Argentina is constantly falling down rapidly and people are still worried about Peronists vs Millei-ists. There’s an answer right there, outside of all of that.
This isn’t some criticism of people. I just thought Marxism was easy to understand, and sometimes i wonder if maybe its not. Idk. This isn’t doom posting either. I think I’ll just invent a time machine to kill Friedrich Ebert and Albert Noske. That should fix things
There are a lot of factors that go into the lack of traction for Marxist ideals.
Propaganda is one thing, fear that trying to upset the status quo could backfire, just pessimism about the feasibility of another system, and it doesn’t help that Marxists are often bad at explaining our positions by using too much jargon.
I think it’s good to keep in mind that a lot of communists were purged. I mean look at Jakarta in the 60s, Nazi Germany, all the military dictatorships of LatAm.
Hello nerds
hope you all have a good next week
You too comrade!
I’ve been journaling semi-regulary since 2018. Used to do it daily, but now I only do it when I have something to actually write about (I just do free writing about anything that is on my mind). Anyone else journaling?
I do but not enough because I’m a lefty and hold my pen way too tightly so it hurts to write for long.
Keep your heads held high. Stay the course. One thing you have real control over are your own habits, decisions, and choices on a day to day basis. Be your favorite version of yourself.
As always, communism will win.
I have decided that after my pilgrimage I will return to The Netherlands to work and study. Unfortunately my hometown has no active commie party so I hope I can at least find a regional party to join, if any.
Its Nijmegen time let’s gooooo
It do be on my list
What made you decide to leave Antwerp?
Quitting my job made me realize I have been out of place here for a while. The big city life with constantly being surrounded by people and concrete and cars and whatnot is becoming a bit much. And then I found the BBL system in The Netherlands in which I can work for four days in my study field and go to school for one day and I figured it would be best to go back for now. Gonna study to become a gardener.
The one thing that I miss about Windows is how much easier it was to install and try computer games. Recently I purchased The Settlers® 2: Gold Edition through Good Old Games, and after installing it through Minigalaxy I tried to play it but DOSBox stalled on me until I forced it to crash. WINE gave me an error message, too, and I ran into similar difficulties when I tried to replay Majesty Gold HD. I don’t know how to fix my problems (yet) but the repeated complications almost make me miss Windows. Almost.
You aren’t missing much. I played the first few maps a while ago and it was really rough. You cant disable the music. The UI is trash. Its worse than Warcraft 1 in nearly every respect.
Why do I see so many Polish 🇵🇱 neonazis online? I guess that’s what almost 4 decades of no socialism does to people 🤷♂️
Been playing a game called Esoteric Ebb. Its draws very heavily on Disco Elysium in its narrative style in a Planescape: Torment style fantasy city. Not sure if it is doing those games justice but its interesting.
I’ve stopped posting pictures of my face on my public social media, because I don’t want my face to be used for AI training data. Anybody else who’s feeling the same way?
My lifelong paranoia about posting photos online has finally paid off
Burqas might be the play in public sooner rather than later
Lucky ladies get the whole covering while us guys have to make do with a medical mask and sunglasses.
Just don a Keffiyeh wrapped in front of your face, problem solved. This works for all genders too.
The idea is to hide your identity so you don’t get arrested. A keffiyeh is a target not a disguise.
Sadly with the state of the west at the moment a burka would do the same. Honestly so would most things that isn’t just random cishet white person following societal norms.
Anyways… I still prefer a keffiyeh, but if I actually want to not stand out I will wear subtle makeup, and dress as straight as I can. Blend in with the masses and all. Anything that doesn’t is going to always be a potential target of something.
je vous souhaite à tous une belle et agréable semaine .
Is there a federation issue with lemmy.ml? I can’t see any posts from there.
Same.
I’m seeing posts here on lemmygrad, not sure.
Though admittedly I don’t know how it works
It should be fixed, though it might take a little while for the federation to catch up
Autism Acceptance month. Please make sure you are accepted by a person with autism or suffer the consequences.
Am I allowed to accept myself?
That’s even more important
What’s the difference between socdem and demsoc?
My understanding is socdem are people who want capitalism with healthcare and demsoc are people who think you can vote your way to communism. In reality they are basically indistinguishable.
Bingo.
As a white man in the netherlands, it feels weird knowing that me feeling worse means that the resistance is doing well and the world is getting closer to being better.
I am especially worried because i simply don’t know how to prepare my GF and I for an economic crisis like this and i also don’t have the necessary analytical skills to not feel completely in the dark about the developments of geopolitics without relying on the analysis of the people posting on here.
A really weird mixture of hope towards someone sawing off the rotten branch that i am sitting on, while also not sure how to fall correctly so that i don’t hurt too much. Especially considering that i have exactly zero community here (my anhedonia makes it hard to make efforts towards friendships) and no one seems to have understood yet that there even is a crisis coming.
The future might be uncertain comrade, but that means potential for change aswell. We’ll probably never see a Red Western Europe as long as our continent is built on the exploitation of other peoples. But through their emancipation we can eventually build a brighter future for proletarians in our part of the world too!
Yeah, just hard to imagine me being part of that world while being incapable of actually caring about and celebrating progress due to my anhedonic issues. The world getting better will not make me feel better. This completely eliminates motivation from my equation and leaves me with cold hard logic, discipline and grit. Those things will only carry me so far and without my GF, i likely genuinely would not care about anything in this world and would have perished already.
not sure how to fall correctly so that i don’t hurt too much.
Stockpile some dry foodstuffs. I wish I was joking but there’s a real potential for great depression type of food scarcity. 20% of the worlds fertilizer backed up in the strait and europe’s sanctions on Russia could make it a really rough situation in the near future.
A 25lb bag of dried beans and a roughly same sized bag of rice or quinoa will meet the protein needs of the average person for like 2 months if you use them right.
