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About the Hamas manifesto (1980s)

Here in Brazil the media keeps talking about the manifesto that Hamas released upon its founding in the 1980s, where they basically call for genocide against Israel. Knowing that Hamas avoided harming civilians during the october attacks, it seems that their aims have changed and that they do not wish for that anymore. As such, is there any public statement from Hamas where they address the allegations of them wanting genocide?

edit: and the media accuses left-wingers of supporting "real terrorists", while leftists call the people who tried a coup in january 8th terrorists.

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Brazil hits nearly 60°C
  • I heard that about 1000 people fainted in that concert because they didn't allow people to bring water bottles so they would buy overpriced water bottles in the venue (which is against the Consumer Defence Code in Brazil).

  • Brazil hits nearly 60°C
  • I heard that about 1000 people fainted in that concert because they didn't allow people to bring water bottles so they would buy overpriced water bottles in the venue (which is against the Consumer Defence Code in Brazil).

    edit: and people did not buy the water bottles because nobody wants to pay, like, more than R$10,00 in a water bottle that costs a few cents if you just bring tap water from home (incredibly, in most of the state of São Paulo, where the show happened, tap water is completely safe as long as it is coming directly from the grid, and not from your home reservoir)

    edit: also, in Santos (a coastal city near São Paulo), some street thermometers measured 50°C on saturday, as shown in the local news channel "A Tribuna" (The Tribune). The increase in temperature is probably due to the boiling hot asphalt of the streets.

  • How are you doing?
  • wait, they are talking about just going full "dictatorship style" and excluding a party with 14% of the votes of the result?

    Also, I'm pretty fine right now. I'm working on a research project at my university, for which I've received an scholarship grant (about 120USD per month for a year, which is about 0.5x the minimum wage)

    Other stuff to say: Here in Brazil the Palestina conflict is being pretty controversial. The evangelicals are fully supporting Israel, "leftists" are split on the subject, and the government (as in traditional Brazilian foreign policy) is trying to keep itself neutral.

    More stuff to say: The government here is discussing a possible humanitarian visa for armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and palestinians, which would help them escape their conflicts to Brazil. I do not know if I should support this or not (especially the palestinan part) because this would just accelerate their displacement and would in the end help the israeli forces in their effort to ethnically cleanse palestine. Still, I do think that people who want to leave should be able to leave.

  • The University of São Paulo is on strike
  • We do not use mailing lists very often here. I think it would be hard to convince them. I suggested reviving the old CAASO website, which is abandoned, but it seems like it will remain abandoned for now.

  • Mao Zedong movie?
  • Search "The long march chinese movie" on Youtube. You'll find a few.

    I watched a few minutes of one such movies, but the movie felt too different from what I am accustumed to so I stopped watching it.

  • The University of São Paulo is on strike
  • The professors' union, ADUSP, has entered the strike in the São Paulo campus, so at least there the research has probably stopped.

    I do not use IG or social media in general (Lemmygrad is the exception) so I do not know if CAASO (the student organization responsible for the São Carlos campus) or the DCE are using them to communicate. I'll look into it right now to know the answer.

    edit: CAASO has an Instagram page and the DCE has a Facebook page. (I can't access any of them because I do not have an account)

  • The University of São Paulo is on strike
  • Well, I do not know any websites or anything like that, but in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo there are many news about the strike (although they are basically one-sided agains the students).

    Also, I think that the state governor, Tarcísio de Freitas is way more responsible for this than Haddad, since Carlotti, the Dean of the University of São Paulo, wants to be part of the Department of Education of the state of São Paulo, so he is pretty much invested in being "tough" on those "students that only want to cause chaos" or whatever because Tarcísio is basically a "far-right centrist" (he wants to privatize everything and he applauds police brutality, but he tries to not be seen as fash).

    edit: I think my poor english made this sound kinda weird, so I'll rephrase it:

    Tarcísio de Freitas, state governor of São Paulo, is fash. Carlotti, Dean of the University of São Paulo, wants to cozy up with the fash to get a job in the government. As such, Carlotti is very invested in not appearing weak to "rioters" and as such it will be pretty hard to force him into negotiating.

  • The University of São Paulo is on strike

    In the last few weeks, students from the University of São Paulo, one of the 100 best universities in the world (according to some ranking last year), started a strike. The strike started in the São Paulo campus, but has now spread to the Lorena campus and a few parts of the Ribeirão Preto campus.

    The students on strike are demanding a few things, including the hiring of 1400 new professors (to reach the same student/professor ratio as it was in 2014), more financial assistance for low-income students, and a quota for trans students.

    The university leadership (I forgot what "Reitoria" means in english, lol) said they will hire 800 new professors, but students think it is not enough, since there are people who are close to graduatinng without having some mandatory classes because of lack of professors.

    Also, about the quota for trans students, there are already quotas for students from public high schools (I'm one of them) and for black/mixed race students, so this wouldn't be really without precedents.

    My campus (São Carlos) will vote about whether to go on strike next tuesday. There is some resistance to the idea, but it seems like we'll end up going on strike too.

    Here, we have two main areas on campus. One of them was the first one to be built, and is on the center of the city. It is where most of the courses happen. My course is on the second area, which is quite far away fron the city center. We always take an university bus from Area 1 to Area 2, which was privatized (it is not operated by the university anymore, but is still free at least). There is literally nothing to eat here other than the subsidized R$2,00 lunch (also privatized) which we can only eat at lunchtime. As such, improving the bus and placing some cafés here on Area 2 will probably become one of the demands of the strike on São Carlos.

    So, what do you guys think about this?

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    Oh dear...
  • ????

    The sources are linked in lemmygrad, but they are from outside lemmygrad.

    Also, there is no neutral information in the world, all information has parts omitted (for many possible reasons), has parts that may be distorted because of the bias of the primary sources, or has other biases that you must take into account when reading it.

    If you only read information from one side you will only get the biases of that side, and won't be able to understand reality. Most principled communists who study history do not use only pro-communist sources, they actually use mostly anti-communist sources (because, guess what, most historians with resources to do research are american or western european, and literally can't publish pro-soviet or pro-chinese books in well-acclaimed presses) and then they filter out most of the biases (but not all, because that is literally impossible) by using primary sources or translations of primary sources, in case the primary sources aren't in a language they know.

    I'm not saying you must read literal nazi books and take their word for it, for example. What I am saying is that if you want to research 19th century India, for example, you must read from at least most of the different perspectives, always questioning yourself about the sources like this:

    1. Which biases does this source have?
    2. How can these biases affect the information I am reading?
    3. Which other perspectives can I use to understand this information?
    4. Is this source reliable? (have they been caught lying?)

    If you can't even do this, you really won't understand history.

    Also, what is considered "neutral" at any point in time is what the ruling classes consider to be beneficial to them. If you could talk to the average white person of mid 19th century southern USA about slavery, they would tell you that news articles criticizing abolitionists and promoting slavery were "neutral". The same applies to current times.

  • Oh dear...
  • You do not know what fascism is. You do not know what communism is. Go read a book before you argue online, it is good for you.

    I know that you did not read anything because of your mention of Tiananmen Square. You did not do any investigation on the subject nor did you read someone else's investigation into the subject. You just took the propaganda as truth and ran with it.

    If you want to actually learn about communism, fascism, the USSR, China, Tiananmen Square, etc. you can just use the search function of lemmygrad. You'll find many resources to learn.

    (or you can just continue helping the fascists by regurgitating propaganda, do whatever you want, I won't force you)

  • Oh dear...
  • Do you even know what you are talking about?

    The USSR was a state controlled by the workers, while the Russian Federation is a state controlled by the russian capitalists.

    Putin distorts the history of the USSR every time he speaks about it. He wants russians to think that Russia was "a glorious empire that almost beat the West", not a country led by the working class that gave hope to billions of people worldwide.

  • Oh dear...
  • I mean, Russia is fashy, but they are way less fashy than their enemies (The West).

    edit: Also, this guy (Kings and Generals) is probably fash as well and is trying to make the West seem less fashy by exagerating Putin's fashyness.

  • EVs are dumb, especially in Brazil

    I just wrote a rant on some random post on another instance about Trump not liking EVs where I said that EVs are dumb, and I'd like to share my thoughts here.

    EVs do not really make cars sustainable. They just shift the polution from the cars themselves to some far-away coal or gas plant. But even if we got 100% renewable energy, they would still not be sustainable since their batteries are cancer to nature (do a search on the internet about lithium mining or cobalt mining).

    So, how do I propose we solve the car question? Public transit is the answer.

    Now, I won't elaborate much on public transit since most urbanism Youtube channels can explain it way better than me (just don't watch Azov Something, please), but I'd like to talk about the situation in Brazil.

    Brazil is a place where we have a grid with almost 100% renewables (mainly hydrelectrics), so EVs would be nice here, wouldn't they?

    NO!!!

    Here in Brazil we have also a huge sugarcane production, which goes to make ethanol (biofuel) and sugar. Ethanol is pretty based, sugar is not (I do agree that sugar is tasty though). So, since most cars in Brazil can run on any mixture of ethanol and gasoline thanks to their "flex" engines (yes, this is their real name), if the price of ethanol falls, no one will use gasoline, and then we get a carbon-neutral fleet of cars (which is still bad for the environment, but less so than going full gasoline). And since lots of sugarcane goes to make sugar, if we incentivize producers to produce ethanol instead, we can get more ethanol without having to clear more land for farming!

    This concludes my rant on EVs.

    edit: I do not like Trump at all. I just noticed that my post makes it seem like I agree with him, but I do not. In fact, he likes internal combustion engines and big oil, which is why he said that EVs are "madness". I do not agree with that. I just think that EVs are the new "technology that will save the world" trend and that they won't really save the world. It is imperative that we progress into socialism, or else we will be destined to fall to barbarism.

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    Nice quote about "selfishness is human nature" from Harman in "How marxism works"

    >People’s ideas are intimately linked to the sort of lives they are able to live. Take, for instance, ‘selfishness’. Present day capitalist society breeds selfishness – even in people who continually try to put other people first. A worker who wants to do their best for their children, or to give their parents something on top of their pension, finds the only way is to struggle continually against other people – to get a better job, more overtime, to be first in the queue for redundancy. In such a society you cannot get rid of ‘selfishness’ or ‘greediness’ merely by changing the minds of individuals.

    edit: read theory, comrades, it is worth it.

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    Como que funcionam as organizações comunistas das quais vocês participam?

    Eu me considero comunista desde por volta de 2020, mas eu só começei mesmo a estudar um pouco sobre o marxismo em 2022 (quando entrei na universidade). Desde então eu tive um desejo de entrar em alguma organização para poder contribuir ao movimento, porém por conta da dificuldade do meu curso e por conta dos meus pais serem um pouco reacionários (principalmente minha mãe, que fica grande parte do dia assistindo conteúdo de fascistas na internet) eu ainda não consegui me juntar a alguma organização.

    Recentemente, percebi que o dia em que eu começarei a viver sozinho está se aproximando, e com isso virá a minha primeira oportunidade de me involver na política. Por isso estou começando recentemente a estudar mais as escritas de diversos teóricos marxistas para poder me educar.

    Então, eu gostaria que meus camaradas do lemmygrado me falassem um pouco sobre os movimentos dos quais participam e suas atuações para que eu possa num futuro próximo me juntar a uma dessas organizações.

    Eu sinceramente não sei muito como funciona uma organização marxista no dia-a-dia, então também seria legal ouvir um pouco sobre a experiência de vocês nas organizações.

    Peço desculpas pelo post longo e agradeço antecipadamente pelas respostas.

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