PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them] @ PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS @hexbear.net

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It's like a retirement home for millennial liberals

A miserable pile of secrets

I have previously done a little personal investigation into dronerights and its many alts and come to the conclusion that it is not a troll, but a true, first-class internet weirdo. It is not capable of doing what you're talking about. It would be going on about Soulism and goddess gender and shit at every opportunity

Been on my wishlist for a while

My original sentiment was that not everybody is the leader of the revolution, not even most people, not even many people, but everybody is still a revolutionary.

I don't know what you're trying to say here. Outside the context of an actual mass movement for a revolution, this isn't the case. Most people are not revolutionaries, and if they were they'd likely be in the vanguard.

When left libertarians argue that communism is authoritarian do you argue that it's not and that it's actually democratic and blah blah blah or do you say yes, authority is required to maintain a socialist state in the face of reaction?

I certainly don't adopt their childish notions of "authoritarianism," a term popularized by the CIA to conflate communist and fascist governments. I don't say "uhh actually authoritarianism is based

Socialist states are definitionally more democratic than a bourgeois state because the government represents the interests of the proletariat rather than the tiny fraction of the ownership class. Democracy is not bad or unsocialist. Bourgeois democracy is bad because it is not, in fact, democratic. Authority can be effectively wielded to crush reaction by the democratic, socialist state. The USSR was democratic. Cuba is democratic. China is democratic.

Eyyyyyyyy

The first among equals as it were.

Wow its literally like Animal Farm 1984

What are you talking about, man? You seem to be thinking that a vanguard party is a bunch of pointy head intellectuals pushing up their glasses. It's just the people who are politically aware and actively engaging in organized class struggle. Do you think a ditch digger cannot join or would not be welcomed into a vanguard party?

Read some Mao and free your mind from anticommunist State Department talking points

What's your Elo

That is so cool.

The vanguard is the proletariat. They're not separate from the masses, but rather the most politically advanced and organized section of it

We're all liberals here, so no worries

The important thing is to engage in a continual process of learning and self-education, so that you can engage in correct practice. Liberals don't have to do this because a. we're constantly bathed in propaganda that disseminates their worldview and b. they don't want to change the world in any meaningful way. You can pick up a lot by just hanging out with other leftists here and listening and chatting, but eventually you will want to read theory to better understand why they think the the things they do. Better yet, join an org irl, engage in political education through them and put it into practice.

At the end of the day, leftism isn't something you are, it's something you do.

It's that I need the files available locally across multiple devices, synced through the cloud. Ideally automatically, but I'd take a manual sync

Your imgur link is down, but let me ask: are those files actually physically present on your hard drive or they streamed from the cloud server

Now to think about how to explain to my partner why I'm buying a whole vintage Iranian military uniform

The pursuit of my happiness even at the cost of your life and liberty

Oof. I have a bsky account I made a long time ago but I don't use it because the vibes over there are so rancid

If anyone knows where I can cop one of these sick as fuck IRGC caps with the super long brim I'll kiss you right on the mouth. I've looked everywhere

To protect the treats

I'm not kidding at all

The open embrace of imperial violence to maintain one's own personal lifestyle will be an increasingly popular position as material conditions deteriorate: Treatlerism

Almost as if by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the left enemies of liberals are at the same time too strong and too weak.