General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 14
General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 14
Welcome Welcome, please make yourself at home, have a chocolate milkshake. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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In the three years of the revolution our ideas on this subject have changed greatly. A new philosophy, which has little m common with the old ideas, is in the making. Three years ago we regarded a merchant as a completely respectable person. Provided his accounts were in order and he did not cheat or dupe his customer too obviously, he was rewarded with the title of “merchant of the first guild”, “respected citizen”, etc. Since the revolution attitudes, to trade and merchants have changed radically. We now call the “honest merchant” a speculator, and instead of awarding him honorary tides we drag him before a special committee and put him in a forced labour camp. Why do we do this?’ Because we know that we can only build a new communist economy if all adult citizens are involved in productive labour. The person who does not work and who lives off someone else or on an unearned wage harms the collective and the republic. We, therefore, hunt down the speculators, the traders and the hoarders who all live off unearned income. - Alexandra Kollontai
Can we add this unfathomably based quote?
I'm having my first week off of work since July and I feel like it was much needed. I'll be making plans for my upcoming move and I will travel with my friend's van for a few days. This weekend I spent visiting my gf's dying grandfather in the heart of the Dutch Bible Belt. The contrast with my daily life was interesting to say they least. Yesterday I had an Easter brunch with friends and we visited a gay couple's city garden next to a church where they planted a lot of different herbs with which they served tea. It was a lovely place.
Anyway, I feel more alive now. I hope you all have a nice week.
Ever since I started commenting on Instagram posts made by a far right wannabe militia they started to seem less confident of their case. Sometimes my comments get deleted, sometimes people I reply to even delete their comment altogether. I think it goes to show that they are just cowards who can bend easily when shown a bit of competition.
Asked this in my group chat, figured I ask it here as well. Why don't any of these parties apply anarchist tactics within the party frame work to build dual power and do praxis? My experience with organizing IRL is mostly stuff like Food Not Bombs Things like tactical urbanism
I see this a lot in my neighborhood, most of the bus stops lack shade or a place to sit, so you'll have old and disabled ppl forced to stand. Saw a old lady with a walker having to wait like that. Tactical urbanism would be getting together and building benches for those bus stops no cross walks in my neighborhood, we could fix that
communists tend to be more educated than average, we could be helping people get their GEDs, holding classes funded and organized by the party, this appeals directly to the masses, you help someone get their GED? You'll have a loyal comrade.
I have a friend who is a school teacher, a science teacher. She has four classes of students, each with about 30 kids in it. She's given $300 at the start of the school year to buy all of her supplies. Not only would it be an incredible propaganda win to go, Hey, look, the Communist Party is supplying schoolteachers with the supplies to teach your kids. Because the current regime won't provide for your kids. You see what I'm saying? We have to build that dual power. We have to improve the material conditions of the working class.
I mean, this could range from anything from helping the homeless have food in their belly, setting up mobile libraries, setting up coat drives, cooling centers, building bus benches, running workshops, building impromptu third spaces, guerrilla gardening, lot cleanup, Alleyway restoration. Like, if a party has numbers and has people paying dues, those people should be being put to work, and those dues should be being spent building the dual power and improving the work that can be done.
To me, if I join a party, that's what I want to be doing. I want to be put to work. I want to be with a leadership that is trying to get work done. I'm trying to stack W's, and my concern is that I'll join one of these parties, and we'll just be selling newspapers, which is, I guess, important. I mean, I run a blog, but I want to do things that I couldn't do alone and have zero interest in reformist electoralism within this settler state. Maybe they do these things already and I'm just ignorant.
ATTENTION CITIZENS OF GRAAD
hi
¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
I am feeling very bummed-out. I am more and more acutely aware of my alienation from those who are ostensibly my comrades because the intersection of disability seems completely absent from every corner of life. Covid has only furthered this contradiction that I unwisely tried to ignore and push through in my younger years. The assured influx of avian flu outbreaks will strain it even more. I need to know organizers and my able-bodied peers will not continue to completely ignore us in favor of an unsustainable status quo even they can’t seem to acknowledge, but I will be disappointed. If you have gotten this far in my ramble, thank you- please don’t forget about your medically vulnerable comrades in your learning and practice.
My kiddo was singing along with this on the way home. I must be doing something right. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gaXHUI6Gl1Q
let me just say the taglines are a great addition
you know the drill. boycott google
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/
I agree with this article a lot! We need more unity in the organization.
https://www.cpusa.org/article/strategies-for-organizational-unity-and-action/
"We cannot wait for favours from nature; we must wrestle them from her!" - Ivan Michurin
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While I first saw it mentioned on Alexander Mercouris' channel, it seems to be floating around as of today that Medvedev named Macron as one of the sponsors of the Crocus attack- anyone know more about that?
