It really sucks that Sudan and Congo are just treated like props to bring up as whataboutisms in Palestine discourse. Because it means that we aren't even articulating the contradictions in those struggles. Ask those people, "who are we freeing Sudan from? What are your demands?" Who do you support in Sudan? Who's victory leads to a free Sudan? Who's defeat? What material forces drive the war? What are your concrete demands of your own country that aid in the victory of the Sudanese people?

I wanted to try something different and make an *action-oriented* reading list that pushes beginners to apply what they read, as they read it, and get them involved in organizing.

Short, one-sitting texts were prioritized so that it can also be used as a study group curriculum. 1. Principles of Communism by Freiderick Engels

A single-page crash course to basically understand what "Communism" even means. You are reading this simply so that you have the surface understanding needed to digest further materials.

I know you're still in that baby leftist era, but Marxism is quite literally an evolving science. This is how, like, every tendency "thinks" Marxism works. Every science, for that matter. Shoulders of giants and all that.

https://twitter.com/KyleBrovloski01/status/1681098483896315905

@KyleBrovloski01 Application is not the same thing as ideology. Now, all ideology, Marxist or otherwise, does in fact develop in historical material conditions. What makes a theory scientific and therefor a legitimate continuation of Marxism, however, is the proof of its universality in practice.

When I used to do corporate website customer service, there was this one lady that had a website that was just pictures of her squirrel in tiny costumes. Here it is dressed up as Quetzlcoatl, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi This is a living squirrel, I do not know how she gets it to pose for these pictures or why

Multipolarity is just a less specific term for an international situation that is usually interimperialist, and in the current global economy, it has no other choice but to be that.

https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1630252605627564038

The current "unipolar" order is a western imperialist hegemony that has left monopoly capitalism as the standard abroad. Monopoly capitalism leads to imperialism. The new "pole" will be nominally made up of those capitalist countries with burgeoning rival imperialist interests.

Here's a thread on Lysenko that nobody asked for 🧵 Lysenko is a meme, but he was also basically a living fable of why it's important to reject the idealism of an appeal to authority. The reason he climbed his way up in the USSR was because some of his work was actually really good. Notably, he discovered/invented vernalization.

Whether or not you accept Maoism as a "valid 3rd synthesis" of Marxism in the same way that Leninism is regarded as a 2nd synthesis, the actual principles of Leninism are largely exclusive to Maoist parties within the sphere of 21st century class struggle. The neo-Leninist parties that exist outside of existing state power are largely legalistic and parliamentary. These parties have done to Lenin exactly what he feared most in death: he has been converted into a harmless icon, robbing his revolutionary theory of its substance.

The obvious lesson to be learned from the r/antiwork collapse is the same one to be learned from every other spontaneous semi-organized movement in the last few years: the bourgeoisie will exploit the absence of a principled central organ and well-organized central committee. The fleet of professional anti-communists that make up the state and media demand a fleet of professional communists. Vanguardism is not a power grab from the proletariat, it is the necessary construction of a fist with which to smash the state.