Considering they’re an active colonialist project, yeah, Marxist movements are highly unlikely.

Tunnel visioning into ‘socialism or nothing’ is part of western marxism.

Herein lies the problem: it always come back to the missing, dialectical foundation of Marxism–that which served revolutionaries as the toolset to face and solve the many problems necessary to shift the balance in favor of socialism against its struggle with capitalist imperialism. They haven’t learned that constant, unwavering, and consistent learning and understanding of changes and development within this world is needed in order to adapt, adjust the revolutionary program to maintain its sharp edge such that it can cut down the contradictory forces in the struggle. This includes learning from the errors of a program’s application by investigating how it was implemented, what or who were the proponents for its set backs, and what were the benefits and adverse effects to the masses. This process is part of what makes Marxist theory and its application scientific.

These western Marxists desperately need to dismantle the framework of liberal idealism that demands nothing but perfect, impossible, ideal conditions, but it never brings forth a program that promotes real-world action. Ask any of these Marxists what their first step is. Anyway, I don’t wish to be over critical of them, because it’s by the bourgeoisie’s design that they don’t know how to engage in real action and programs.

We’ve heard “get organized, become class conscious, and, uh…”, but the ideas–the spark–for going about beginning a program are always missing, and this is by far the biggest set back to Western Marxism. To liberate Western Marxism from its shackles of idealist “purity”, we must investigate and get scientific method with it! Investigate everything, comrades! Ask the working class what their struggles are, work with your comrades and work with these working class folks to hypothesize real, actionable plans to resolve this struggle! The plans could have real, material benefits for those in struggle and for the revolutionary movement’s credibility, so put them to the test. Account for errors, regroup and determine any previously unknown or unforseen factors and work to overcome them by adapting. It’s why we have these brains, agency, and this higher-reasoning!

It is unreasonable to ask Hey, why haven’t you seized the means of production yet? when it’s more realistic to ask “Shall we go out to those who struggle, learn their situation, catalogue these problems, analyze and understand the material context of their situation, town, city, and formulate a plan?” What the plan can entail, well, it would require establishing connections. People are miserable, they’re angry, and they may be mistrusting of strangers, but what should they make of a group of people who take the initiative to physically mobilize, and are looking for a way to help those in need? This is something most folks wouldn’t see everyday. There are folks who will want to help, so they may offer some of whatever service or material resource they can provide. If a consistent connection and relationship can be established, this already is a success that gets the program closer to its goal.

Many of us are novices, and in the West, we have been largely conditioned to want to disengage from any real-world communication, against our very nature, with other people, so this contraction must be identified, understood, its existence accepted, and thought needs to be given so as to address how it may be overcome. Not doing things alone, for one, is powerful. If carrying out the duties necessary to accomplish the tasks outlined in a program seem challenging, well, they are, but that’s why we collaborate with other willing comrades and community members who are willing to help. Become dependable to one another. Uphold, respect, and follow through on your duties so as to ensure that progress towards completing a program is possible. We in the West have a tremendous advantage in that we know how to do this sort of work because we are proletarian–we know how to be dependable at work, we know how to collaborate with our coworkers, we learn to carry out operations necessary to succeed in creating a product, providing a service, and so on.

These are my thoughts, comrades. I know things can be daunting, but we really need to take that initial step to finding our comrades, in the real-world. I wish it could be us, here, on Lemmygrad, but I know there are hundreds, thousands of miles, kilometers of land and sea between most of us. We avoid idealist impossibilities, so we adapt and we identify what is possible for us in each of our own real, material contexts. So, we must go out and find our comrades. They’re around us, no doubt, some may not even know that they can be a tremendous help to improving others lives–they’ve been ensnared, watching the failure of the liberal ideals, in a panic shouting “what do we do!?”. They’ve been in desperation for years watching the liberal idealists step aside, consistently and maliciously misidentify causes behind the unraveling of fascism, supported economic austerity for the working masses, stolen a quality of life from us so as to pamper the parasitic luxury class. And the incessant gaslighting: It’s your own fault for not working harder even though the odds have been stacked against you from the start by this system!

That was supposed to be my closing paragraph (if you can even call any of the above that lol •,•), but I tend to ramble. Mostly to my wife, as I’ve always been a shy lad growing up and as an adult, now, I guess I just feel comfortable not saying much. But damn, I really need to change that, don’t I? Well, I knew a comrade from years ago, oh, ten years, maybe? We were in jazz band in high school, but we stayed somewhat in touch well after we graduated, but, anyway, he would always ask me on Facebook “Yo, you read theory, bro?”. I never knew what the hell he was on about because I wasn’t a Communist, then. But I wasn’t some Red Scare lunatic either, so I would just ask “what?”. He shared a ton of books in some online repository, but I was an idiot and didn’t really give much attention to any of it after trying to read Das Kapital and not having the aptitude and vocabulary to make sense of any of it and dropped all of it. Well, we sorta lost touch. I deleted all of my socials since the tech industry was very much becoming an apparatus of mass surveillance and snitching on folks who were even remotely dissenting of Trumpism. I came upon some videos of revolutionary, communist literature, like the Manifesto, State & Revolution, Principles of Communism, What is to be Done? especially after learning about the P2025 reactionary program, rising white nationalism and fascism. As a radlib, I was terrified. I was paranoid. I kept thinking to myself “They’re gonna hunt me and my family down. They hate Mexicans so much, they’re gonna come for us.” But all of the revolutionary stuff was mind-blowingly revelatory. I could not believe that all of the rotten aspects of our system were precisely what Lenin outlined in State & Revolution.

I never looked back. This was last February/March. A lot of the Trotskyite, anarchist, left communist stuff had some stock to it, I found, but I never understood why they hated these “tankies” so damned much. So, I checked out actual tankie subreddits (at this point, I had gone ahead and deleted Instagram, way too much mask-off Nazi stuff on there). I was in r/TankieTheDeprogram, but I had all of my accounts nuked eventually for “fedposting” too damned much. I get a little heated sometimes and I’m very good at calming myself down, but they didn’t accept that appeal lol. Anyway, so I learned about Dialectical Materialism and this was something very much foreign to me. Well, at least I thought it was until I realized it was a sort of application of the scientific method to the development of society, classes, civilizations, at large, and pretty much every other phenomenon that is in constant development in existence. I had never even questioned before how absurd it was that our forms of governance and economies were, more or less, all reliant on some materially meaningless abstracts–purely metaphysical, and I’d even say “mystical”, especially in the way they (state officials, politicians, etc) act whenever they’re made to face the people’s real, material hardships. Everything was always so easy for them to dismiss, but whenever it came to legislation aimed at improving people’s lives, they would be up and ready to kill it.

Anyway, that’s a bit about me, I suppose. I tend to be more open, now. Especially when I feel like I understand things a whole lot better, now, since learning the communist, dialectical worldview. I never liked talking much, especially when I was unsure or simply didn’t know about something. That’s why Mao’s saying No investigation? No right to speak! really, really resonated with me. Yeah, I should keep my mouth shut unless I know damned-well what I’m talking about. I’d hate to contribute to all the existing noise, nonsense, and plain falsehoods circulating in this world. Alright, comrades, I wish you all so well. Lastly, on the Western Marxist question, we know where the problems are, so we should make sure to nudge them in the right direction. A Western Marxism with a strong dialectical materialist foundation, stripped of all the idealist, reactionary nonsense that has made its Marxists nothing more than wishful bystanders, will sweep over the Western world and join its Eastern counterpart to create that Internationalist Marxist liberation front to strip the chains of oppression off of the masses and wipe the stain of capitalist imperialism from this world. I am hopeful and anxious to see humankind enter into an era of civilization where humans can be the humans they were meant to be for the very first in history.

It’ll have to be something big. As in, being unable to return many of those aircraft carriers and destroyers back to the home front because they’re at the bottom of the sea. Then folks will have a more accurate idea of how many American personnel were expended. We’ll see what sort of hoops the imperialists jump through to cover those big developments up.

US forces cowardly retreat According to an IRGC statement released Wednesday, “the operational planning and coordination among Iranian armed forces in targeting across different fronts has changed the war’s equation,” stressing that Iran’s military capabilities were beyond the estimates of the United States and “Israel.”

The IRGC also asserted that “Iranian armed forces are closely monitoring the cowardly retreat of US soldiers from their bases and their taking refuge in hotels in host countries.”

It added that “the Iranian armed forces are observing the U.S. military’s use of civilian facilities in host countries,” warning that “the Revolutionary Guard is lying in wait for the invading U.S. soldiers and will not let them escape.”

I recall seeing comrades here say that the IRGC wasn’t actively trying to cause US military personnel casualties and that the 6 who were KIA were likely the only ones to perish. I can’t find any reason to believe that this is true. Especially after all that Iran has suffered this past week, the martyring of their Supreme Leader, military brass and civilian leadership and during Ramadan, the events in January that led to the killing of 3000+ civilians, the 12-Day War last year, economic sanctions, sabotage & infiltration ops by enemy intelligence, the Stuxnet cyber attack that set back their nuclear development program under Obama, and so on. Many of us westerners have been conditioned to “forget” about these sort of things by all of the flood of information via social media campaigns. This is something they could not possibly forget, because this is something that has affected them in a real, material way. They’re truly out for justice against the imperialists.

After all the groveling he did on national television followed by all the insults, but nah, they’re my homies, I will fight for you o7 lmao indeed

Capitalist/evil until their last, dying breath.

Aww, shucks! Well, hey, at least we gave it a shot! That’s what really matters! We came to this conclusion via democracy, so that is just simply beautiful and the reason why America is the land of the free, the land of envy of all authoritarian, totalitarian, oppressive regimes like the evil, malicious, bad Soviet Union known as Russia 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Holy shit, I need to go run my brain through the washer for this one.

Oh. Wait, so, what they wanted for Iran is actually unraveling in Israel?? Well, they shouldn’t be too upset, clearly they like this sort of chaos for others, so they should welcome it at the home front as well!

Seriously, though, I don’t know if there are any Marxist movements in that hellhole (probably not, since the fascism is so rampant that they probably have executed any dissenters), but the conditions would be ripening for revolution if they weren’t so incredibly propagandized by their colonialist dogma and program.

Would it also count deleted social media profiles? I’ve, since long, deleted every Meta profile, Reddit. I think I deleted Twitter back in like 2015. I might have an unused Tumblr somewhere lol oh, I think I might have an old LinkedIn, still. Yuck!

I hope they keep believing that and that they will win by miracles alone lol

My reaction to this information:

“Bruh”

What we can do is continue to learn to be better revolutionaries. Material conditions have not gotten to “ripe for revolution” levels in America, but frankly, we’re focusing on something that isn’t realistically achievable yet; revolution requires much work–preparation, convincing and organization of the masses, and establishing material support systems before anything else. We must continue talking no matter how exhausted we become. And we must come up with ways to help those among the working class who are the most disenfranchised–people of color, LGBTQIA+ folks, immigrants, and the destitute.

It’s imperative that we realize that we have to start from precisely where we find ourselves; if it’s just one of us, we must find that second person. Now, we must think about what it is we want to do (find this second person) and identify the things working against this (the contradictions). Likely, there are many of these contradictions and they could be something that are severely out of our control, but others, likely aren’t. We must identify what the most pressing contradictions are and come up with ways to tackle them and resolve them so that we can achieve the desired outcome–finding this second person, our comrade. Maybe identifying where it is one can meet another person? This will vary by individual, no doubt, but perhaps, we can try to adapt and work within our constraints. If we spend many waking hours at work or at school, well, luckily, we are exposed to people, here, so we can get to know people. Going out to the library, to some sort of “third space” or hobby area, perhaps we can find someone here, as well. We also have the Internet–we can look to see if there aren’t already existing groups locally. If so, then we can reach out to these groups, meet them, learn about them, share our ideas, and maybe collaborate on creating a program that would mobilize these groups, if they aren’t already, into going out, identifying who among the working community is the neediest, and doing something that can address or alleviate some of their problems. Then, teaching them about your mission goal (wanting to become larger, more influential and effective at helping the community, teaching them to–and making it realistically possible to do so–collaborate and help one another, or something to this effect), the sort of things you would like on a community level, and your understanding of why things are the way they are and why the system has failed at achieving that.

We must see, in the real world, though, that there truly are others like us and we’re all not just a few hundred people scattered across the globe. When we achieve steps to becoming organized, we must realize that these are successes; finding a comrade or a group even within our own town, village, or city, is a very hope-inspiring thing, I would say! With two comrades, it becomes significantly less difficult to go out and find a third, then, a fourth, a fifth, or an _n_th comrade. These are all victories because we are advancing toward having a foundation that is capable, then, of going out and investigating–we meet the workers of our neighborhoods, our towns, our communities, and we learn from them their greatest immediate material struggles. Once they tell us what they need, we remove that guesswork of knowing what needs to be done.

I like looking and learning from the Black Panther Party and the community services they provided black communities; feeding them, providing clothing, teaching them, empowering them to resist oppressive forces, creating kinship and community bonds.

I’d like to point out that we, as individuals, don’t have to do every single one of these things. That’s why it’s important that we meet folks who have a good idea of their strength in whichever regard. Perhaps some are better at cooking, others have more means or connections at acquiring material resources, some have transportation, some are tremendously well-read on Marxist theory and/or great teachers, some have good organizational, planning, and/or leadership skills, some are charismatic, and maybe some are better at agitating, inspiring the people, and making calls to action.

There is much that needs to be done, but beyond helping folks with their material conditions, it is important that they know how powerful even their contributions to the cause would be to expanding the effectiveness of this program to further help more and more people. I know there are already a lot of charity organizations or mutual aid groups, but many of these groups likely aren’t actively going out to the community and instead wait for the community to come to them; many times, this isn’t realistic, as the folks who struggle the most are likely preoccupied surviving and it lessens the chances that they will know about an organization’s existence. We must learn from the experience of other revolutionaries; think of the pamphlets and fliers that they distributed. Remember that many community members aren’t online, especially those who struggle and do some of the most grueling waged labor. These are the people we want to help with their struggle, even if it’s just something like food or anything that would alleviate some of their material problems. When we improve their material conditions, something that the current state isn’t doing, we gain legitimacy and credibility. And equipped with Marxist theory and a dialectical program, we can begin to teach them why it is that things are the way they are in their lives, within their local context.

I dunno if there are comrades with far more real-world experience, but I think doing this sort of work in a manner in which the revolutionaries go out and reach out to the masses, catalogue their problems, work towards solutions or at least alleviate their problems seems like the most effective at organizing. This is what I learned from reading parts of Selected Works of Mao Zedong; he stressed going out into the villages and interviewing folks or “investigating” (he loved emphasizing investigation–No investigation? No right to speak!). But before we can do this, it’s also important to have others already by our side who are also willing to collaborate, provide efforts based on their ability and work as a group. There will obviously be folks who are more capable, under the current constraints of the system, to do this sort of work. When we make community with others and when people have been sought out and helped, that sort of thing does something tremendous and transformative for folks. I think that’s when the spark and desire to help others comes in or sort of “propagates” among working people. Not to mention that if they’re given that small “breathing room” to actually not have to struggle for survival every waking moment; this is, without a doubt, instrumental in giving people the real ability to contribute to helping others.

We always hear “get organized” and such, but never how to even begin. If we take a scientific approach to achieving this sort of “organized”, we see that in the initial stage or granular level of an organization, it’s just one, two, maybe a handful of people. This is organization in its infancy, as it buds. Much like our understanding of communism itself–something that we continuously work to achieve–its the same with organizing that desperately needed group. It starts small and it expands to those who are sought out and helped out of the problems brought upon them by the current system. When new members of this organization join, ability to carry out tasks and resolve problems improves. Everyone has value and something that they can contribute, but it’s also imperative that they learn the program and foundations necessary for the continued growth of the organization, how to distribute material resources, and how to weaken the chains of the system that it has on individuals and their households.

Sorry if any of this seems out of order. My ADHD brain can become quite scattered and I sort of jump from point to point rather ungracefully, at times. For that, I apologize, but I hope someone can find some sort of meaning out of any of this. If there are any comrades who have a ton of real-life experience undertaking this, I would love to learn. Most of what I know is from what I’ve come to understand from my studies of revolutionary texts. But writing much of this out was revelatory to me. I’m very much inspired to seek out and find that somebody or somebodies in my town. I know I have my own strengths, and I aim to improve in other ways, such that these skills can be used for the organization of working people to help one another. I know it is a ton of work, but knowing that struggles can be overcome with combined efforts gives me strength and fills me with hope that there is, indeed, a path out of the current system.

I was distressed hearing the cries, but then I remembered the gore of the children in plastic bags and the 300+ bullets expended on a single little girl trapped in a vehicle. I then hoped that by some miracle, they would be engulfed in cleansing flames, giving them but a small taste of the sea of fire they would come to expect as soon as they crossed from this world. I’ve not been a religious man for well over a decade, but man, sometimes I really wish that a hell, as their final destination, existed so that these monsters’ miserable existence & contributions to humankind could be repaid in kind.

Indeed. We know too well how reactionary, opportunist, and revisionist forces paired with CIA liberal propaganda campaigns and their wretched “colour revolutions” had such devastating consequences for the Soviet Republic.

He must, without a doubt, believe that if a certain head of state were to be decapitated (literally, because why the fuck not at this point lol), that nation would collapse. Man, are things really, really that fragile, then? I’m familiar with Chairman Mao’s “reactionaries are paper tigers” quote, but holy-moly, it’s laughable how literal things are.

I knew Trump purging the military and intelligence apparati of competent warmongers would end up biting him in the keister. Having yes-men and loyalists above anything else gives such a feeling of, oh, I dunno, like this sort of thing has happened before in the history of humankind. Some medieval king or a Chinese emperor or something has definitely done something this catastrophically asinine. Or perhaps it was a Roman emperor!

“I SAID IVE PLAYED THESE GAMES SEEN THIS ONE BEFORE!”

I’m glad I nuked all my accounts on those ZioMeta platforms. On XHS and Stacknote, a lot of actual content from Iran really comes through, which is fucking phenomenal.

I’ve straight up just told them using the shit they’ve been bombarded with online lately: “the Epstein government and clique?” or “the fascist government that is deputizing chuds within ICE and sending people to concentration camps, whether they’re citizens or not, with no due process of law?” The thing with these libs is that they fucking forget so goddamned fast. All the bullshit, all the human rights abuses, all the suspension of constitutional rights, essentially; they forget it all so damn quickly. They think perhaps these are anomalies in their democracy (ignoring every single decade and its respective litany of crimes since even before the nation’s infancy). These people have been so thoroughly corrupted to only understand the real world through all of their combined senses at once; it isn’t enough for them to only see or hear the testimonies of the oppressed subgroups of working people. They would have to be at the direct receiving end of the fascist boot, it seems. They quickly forget about systematic slaying of black, queer, and brown folks, not to mention the economic cruelty dished out to American households at an economic level. When it shows up on their feed, they are empassioned with such a rage… one that fizzles out far too quickly, though. They can only begin to see the US government for what it truly is only when it aims its cannons inwards. How quickly have they forgotten about the Imperial Boomerang.