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documentaries about Japanese empire and their crimes.
Respected Comrades,
I want to know more about the atrocities commited by the Japanese empire during their colonial rule in Asia. Specially around the time of ww2. Are there any documentaries that you can recommend?
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Is the Hexbear Announcements Community Not Federated?
lemmygrad.ml announcements - LemmygradWho announces the announcers? A dedicated place for event and community announcements. Find our current event board here! [https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/3/file/dc04554c70d20e169d4c42c14658610179bec845a09d2c97/]
When I try to browse it from lemmygrad, the newest post is a 10 month old post. But when I view on hexbear, it has recent posts. Is this a bug or intentional?
EDIT: If this is the wrong place to ask, could someone please direct me to the appropriate place?
- sh.itjust.works In Other News - sh.itjust.works
An actual left-wing community sharing a contrarian point of view.
this new community could use your love
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Does Lemmy allow bots? Is there an API?
I'm sketching out an idea for a readability assessment program. It will report the education level required to comfortably read a body of text using formulas, Dale-Chall being the most significant, that count length of sentences, what level of vocab a word is considered to be, etc. I was inspired by the word counter website I always paste my essays into. When it's done, I would like to plug it into APIs for it to be used on Lemmy, Mastodon, and Discord.
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How did the fall of the Soviet Union impact the Stan-countries, and how are they doing today?
So, where I live there is basically 0 news coming from the Stan countries and frankly I often forget they exist lol
I don't know why but I suddenly thought about them today, and I wondered how life has been there since the fall of the Soviet Union and how life is like over there right now. Did market reforms hit them heavy as well? Did neoliberalism find its way into the countries? Did they manage to block foreign influence to a certain extent?
Any comrade who can help me out with this?
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Do we have an agit prop repository? Not historical but for present day agitation?
If not, I think we need one. I want to start postering again but I haven't had the motivation to make the posters myself, in part because I want them to be really good. Also of course historical agit prop is OK if it is still applicable which much of it, but not all, is.
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Guess who's back. Back again. Makan's back. Tell a friend.
Guess who's back...
Guess who's back...
Guess who's back...
Oh yeah, and AMA.
What fun adventures have I been up to?
And won't anyone think of the damn children?
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Were there, in modern history countries without currencies?
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1004233
> Tried searching, but only found results for ancient societies.
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can someone refer me some good sources of the rise of Islamic extremists?
Dear comrades, I had a family BBQ yesterday and my beloved uncle is under the Impression that all Muslim extremists (Al Qaeda, Isis and such) are Iran's fault and that they are the making of Shia Islam. That the Sunni are western Muslims oppressed by Iran.
Are there any documentaries or articles I could use to inform him?
I tried explaining operation Cyclone and timber sycamore but Wikipedia usually isn't that convincing in his circle (he has a PhD in engineering and used to work for a western oil company in the middle east)
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Even Stricter Laws - Why is Russia doing this to LGBT?
www.lgbtqnation.com Russia steps up attacks on LGBTQ+ people amid a climate of fearNew legislation would ban gender-affirming care and ID changes, while Putin explores reinstating conversion therapy...
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/935598
> Hello, > > I want to learn and understand why Russia is doing this? From what i have read on other sites the laws against allowing LGBT people have only been getting stronger, meanwhile in CPC the society is moving slowly more progressively in some ways on the topic of LGBT, like they don't target them like what is happening in russia. > > I'd really like to see this topic and article discussed. > > What are other lemmygrad communities for discussing topics like this in the future? > > Thank you.
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Is it wrong to want systemic change?
Hello,
Please forgive the instance name, i joined to find a place that wouldn't allow "debate me" anti-lgbt comments
Now that is out of the way here is my tl|dr
- Someone posts asking if they should tip
- I explain that if they don't people will treat them badly from a cultural point of view.
- Commenters prove my rudeness claim correct by saying ad hominem to me and name calling me.
- People act like i am the awful capitalist owner class because i gently said not to support bad behavior from other people when i already paid for service and the taxes.
My beliefs:
- in a capitalist society, workers should be paid by the business owner a livable wage.
- I want the elimination of an unequal monetary system that oppresses everybody but the ruling class and want qn egalitarian society.
I repeat my post title.
Thanks for reading. i hope you understand
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Likely I will be fired from job today, thinking what to do next
Today, I just got news that our company is mandating that everyone installs spy software on their computers. As I am not going to install such software on my computer, it has been said to me that if we don't find some solution, I will get fired.
To be honest, I was thinking about changing jobs anyway, so I don't mind that much, but I am not sure what to do now.
I work in IT, so I have quite a lot of job opportunities, but most of them are something that is mostly harmful to society.
So I am considering two options: Try to find some meaningful job in IT (which is likely to be very hard).
Find some nice good paying job where I can work, ideally part-time, and focus on working on open source software in my free time.
Not really sure what to do, does anyone have any experience with similar situation?
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Does anyone have updates on Burkina Faso?
A while ago Ibrahim Traoré took over and images of Russian flag waving people went around the world. They also made some anti colonial statements IIRC. But it's been quiet for a while now. Any idea what happened?
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Actual criticism of marxism?
Has anyone in history made some valid criticism against Marxist ideology? And I'm not talking about the CIA propaganda no iPhone vuvuzela shit. But like, someone must've made some good point somewhere along the line?
I don't want this to be a bash marxism thread. Just curious. Debates with people usually tend to incorporate the usual stuff that can be debunked easily.
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Literature on the Black Panther Movement, if possible.
I've said it before but I'm tasked with setting up a youth movement for our party. One of the key things to do is, of course, appeal to the youth in order for them to join us. I've had a few meetings with our group now and while I will not claim I know better than the party, the course we're taking is a bit of the same of our regular action groups. And I can see how that doesn't work, especially for younger people.
So I'm looking for examples in literature on how to effectively reach out to the masses, with a focus on non-leftist or 'regular' people. One of the historical examples for this that I came up with is the Black Panther Movement. A young, radical movement. I was wondering if any of you guys know of literature written about their organizing power. You know, to use as a starting point for my journey.
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Looking for a site to learn a language
That's not DuoLingo, as I find it too simple/slow.
Half the country speaks French and since I only learned Dutch, basic French and good German in high school I am now looking to get my French up to date.
DuoLingo is too basic right now, so I'm wondering if there are any sites that are more advanced for learning language.
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Asking for a friend (maybe)
Is "my friend" horrible for liking, sometimes too much cocaine. He goes to work every day, etc...he also takes days off from substance whence tired. But he also may be sick of attempting treatment whence getting treated like a worthless person. Again... Just asking for a comrade :)
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Difference between conservative and reactionary?
What is the difference between conservative and reactionary or how you would describe and distinguish them?
In Portuguese language I see them as similar but with a significant difference. I suppose they may have the same meaning as in Portuguese and I would like to see how many socialists see these both words.
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Where can I get information regarding the Indochinese Communist Party?
I don't want to digest disinformation.
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Are haircuts really necessary?
I keep getting told by family that haircuts are important to prevent sores.
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Should I ditch the notion of "personalities"?
After a comrade suggested the idea that the human brain is just as adaptable and similar across all humans; I think that "personalities" are just social traits adapted to the material conditions of the human environment.
A human developing in the capitalist environment develops greed (as capital necessitates) merely for survival; not as a default trait.
In socialist and communist environments, humans develop collaborative traits.
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Applying this idea further, the characteristics of how much work people put in is influenced by the environment; being stuck in a petite-bourgeois environment means that a person would develop laziness as a result of lacking the need to work.
In a socialist or communist economy a person would be more willing to work; as a result of the proletariat being the ruling class and thus treating workers well.
So technically, I could change my lazy ass into a worker just by changing the environment to a socialist one.
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Comrades in very small organizations, how do you prevent your group from dissolving?
Especially if the only people willing to work with you are ultras like trots or they just start reading up on politics (because you encouraged them in the first place) No, there is no other leftist party in your area.
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archive.ph OR archive.org might not be trustable anymore
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/361844
> So I just went to archive.ph and archive.org to archive this url page : https://www.instagram.com/p/Chon-8JjeP6/ > > Because zeleski had uploaded another cute looking nazi logo wearing soldiers pic. > ! > > But no archive site could archive it at all and all the moreover when I refreshed the Instagram post page after trying to archive it, the nazi related picture was deleted?!?! Whaaaat?? It was up there for more than 24hrs unnoticed but suddenly when I tried to archive it failed and the photo got deleted???
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So I have a question about "fitting in" with neoliberalism
Hi, I have a question that I can't find any one else talking about in the texts/posts I've read so far.
I've been thinking that if everyone is capable of being brainwashed by capitalist realism, save if they have in some way picked up on communist ideas, they could be being anything on the right side of the political spectrum. To me, it seems, staying in a traditional country, conservatism is coded in reality, just like in some non-traditional countries, liberalism is more likely to be found (sorry if I'm being simplistic, I am of course open to explaining this further).
To relate with people in neoliberalism, where nobody is benefitting except the upper castes (also known as oppressor castes here), one must either align with conservative or liberal values?
But praxis also involves taking radical steps in daily life, organising, informing, educating. Is there anyone who has written about this from the point of view of how someone who has been "radicalised" can align their views more relevantly, to relate and to a better job at praxis? What do you comrades think?
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What's the difference between Xism and X thought?
Like, Maoism/Mao Zedong thought or Dengism/Deng Xiaoping thought. This distinction seems to matter but I don't understand why.
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What are the origins of the phrase "critical support"?
I see people talk about it a lot, but I can't find much information about who coined the phrase and what it actually means. It would be much appreciated if someone could post some theory on the subject!
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Can a sexual marxism be marxist? If not is it always fascist? Is any marxist in favor of it? If so, where would one draw the line?
I feel a somewhat shy, but I've read one post seeing that it's okay to disagree. I'm not exactly communist, but I'm not anti-China, support universal basic income, and that seems to be communist enough for the average Anglo-American, so I hope I should be okay asking about these very touchy subjects.
I would like to know what the answer is among marxists to the questions of
- "Is sexual marxism marxist?"
- "If not it always fascist?"
- "Is anyone here in favor of it?"
- "And if so, where would you draw the line?"
While also boring everyone with my own view.
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My short answer, not a marxist myself, though on the left, I don't see why sexual marxism should be avoided. I see it as no different from let's say, housing marxism. So I'm in favor of it and I draw the line at any solution that includes force, coercion or manipulation as I find such solutions inhumane, creating conflict and drama and especially completely unnecessary when the problem comes down to a lack of non-elderly women and the solution to me seems very simple.
The solution? Just add more women. And since it shouldn't matter if they're artificial, subsidize sex robots and keep them legal. Problem solved.
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As for my long answer....
I'll start off with saying that being an anime fan and seeing that the word incel is defined as 'person who has a difficult time finding a partner', I feel like , and that communism is about 'helping the downtrodden', that the term 'sexual marxism' is born.
However, I feel like the incel community is mostly dominated by fascists and the fact that 'the downtrodden' in this market are men warps the entire premise in two ways.
- Progressives, feminists and 'their allies' on the left massively hating on sexual marxism and incels, which I will call sexual capitalists.
- Sexual fascists coming up with sexual "marxist" solutions.
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Let me start with group #2. Looking at the incel wiki here are the sexual marxist potential policies:
- covert government program to societally brainwash people to make incels more attractive to women.
- Government funded prostitutes or escorts for incels
- Mass legal rape and universal forced monogamy
- Culturally encouraged volunteer corps of women to sex up incels
And the incel wiki has this to add:
"Some blackpillers have mixed feelings on sexual Marxism, as some seem to like the idea of legal mass rape, but everything else they tend to make fun of, or not dwell on much. "
Personally, I would consider #2 as the only policy in the list as truly sexual marxist, while the other three are sexual fascist as policies advocate manipulation, coercion and/or force.
#2 actually has been implemented in the Netherlands between 1992 and 2017 for the disabled and while I think that's a good thing, I kind of feel it's missing the full picture.
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Onto group #1, I think the term 'sexual capitalists' suffices for the people who sympathize more with the haves than the have-nots.
Women who are raped in marriage is sad, but it's sad in a similar fashion that small business owners having lost their shops or landlords going bankrupt because their tenants refuse to pay rent during eviction moratorium.
To me it's sad but it also reminds me that I never owned a small business and I never had a marriage partner. They lose something I never had in the first place.
And what I noticed is that those who sympathize the most with them often seems to be related about the status of the cause. If the perp is an ugly man, if the shop was burned down by poor protesters, think of the poor "This is horrible. We HAVE to DO something about this." If the perp is a hot woman, if the shop was burned down by a large corperation, "Oh, that's bad. What's for dinner?"
It's almost as if they hate competition coming from below, while supporting anyone that's being punched down except when they themselves are the target.
I don't apply to that line of thought and it gets worse when I start stating solutions that turn have-nots into haves, because I think that any form of scarcity, artificial or natural, is the most pressing issue in a society, and then it suddenly becomes a problem for them.
My line of thought is when I am confonted with a rigged game, I will try to fix the game. When someone tells me "Don't bother with the rigs, just try improving yourself", my reply will always be "What!? No!! This game is rigged! And if a game is rigged, it needs fixing! That's a first priority. Always."
And what annoy me the most about this, is which group is now the largest addressing the issue and which group is the largest defending it.
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So here's my point of view.
For starters, sex, unlike most products is a two-way market. One could argue that any market is a two-way-exchange as one gets money and the other one a service or a good, but while a prostitute that offers sex, gets to have sex, a plumber does not get his sink fixed for fixing someone else's sink.
On top of that, a prostitute won't be as keen as a plumber of 'doing the job herself'.
Next to it being a two-way market, it's also an intimate service. Imagine potential policy #3, but then for plumbers. They'd be obligated by one designated costumer to repair their sinks at any time and have their sink 'fixed' at the same time, even when they don't want their sink 'fixed'. That is exploitation. Now if plumbing was an intimate service on top of that, it's exploitation on an intimate level, making the policy even more inhumane.
So sex, or more encompassing, a relationship, is a two-way market intimacy market which of course has demand and supply.
From what I've experienced in life the demand of heterosexual men for women is slightly above 1, while that of women slightly below.
The birth ratio however is approximately 21 men to 20 women and while in the past this quickly dropped due to high infant mortality hitting more boys than girls, this no longer is the case for Europe, North America and Australia since the mid 20th century.
Thus the sex ration stays around 21 to 20 all the way up to the beginning of old age.
And as birth rates are dropping, the previously in history softening solution of a two-year-gap selection, where women can and will choose higher status men by age with an average of two-year older men only exacerbates the problem.
With sex being a two-way intimate market, sexual marxism in my view would have to need a solution that isn't invasive in anyone's life.
And so my solutions are ensuring that there enough women, which can be achieved in the near future through the production of sex robots and further into the future by adding girls via ecto-genesis. So here is my list of potential policies:
- Subsidize sex robots until one sees online dating no longer being (un)favorable for one gender.
- Make spying/collecting data via sex robots illegal.
- Subsidize ecto-genesis and orphanages for girls that close the 3-10% gender birth gap so future generations don't have to deal with robots.
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P.S. This post was quite long. If there's any gaps in it due to my editing, please let me know.
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Where do y'all get news about your country from?
I've discovered many good news sources here on Lemmygrad, but most of these seem to be focused on either global events or the USA. Where do you get news about what's going on in your own country?
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So, err, I literally paced for at least 3 hours straight today...
...thinking about Star Wars along with other things.
I think I'm a bit "over-primed" now. I've been pacing a lot for the last two days and getting nothing done.
What do I do?
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¡My school is unionizing student workers!
Please ask questions, share anecdotes, and have discussions on how to help others become involved with a union.
This is a new account because I want to share details!
I am a graduate student worker at a small state school in and we are unionizing with a federal branch of United Electrical, Radio
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Anarchists who became Marxist-Leninist, what convinced you?
Somewhat inspired by this post on [email protected], but I genuinely want to know.