wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them] @ wrecker_vs_dracula @hexbear.net

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It depends on what you're using it for. Linear switches are better for gaming, and tactile switches are better for typing. If you're making your money by typing all day, placing the backspace on your left thumb can make a huge difference. No Idea what the landscape is like for keyboard manufacturers nowadays. I built two ergodox boards years ago, and they're good enough that I haven't wanted to collect more. If I could have paid someone else to make them for me I would have.

Wait till they learn about class systems

Maybe I'm thinking about it backwards. This potential glut of lumpen office workers could pose a huge danger to the left if they become the "bribed tool of reactionary intrigue".

I guess it's only a blind spot if you think that the people that hold these endangered bullshit jobs have revolutionary potential as a class. My understanding of history is that these sorts of lumpen or declassed groups have only been effectively mobilized in anticolonial struggles, not proletarian revolutions generally. Fanon documents how lumpen proles were organized and motivated to participate in the Algerian Revolution, but national liberation presents a different set of incentives from socialist revolution. Marx argued that lumpen proles would make unreliable allies, and I think he was right about that.

Let's assume that there is a large population of bullshit spreadsheet workers, and that all or most of them will certainly be replaced by automation in the near future. If you were to organize a majority of them under a party banner, what power would they have to aid the revolution? If this were to happen after they had all lost their bullshit spreadsheet jobs, they would no longer have any power to disrupt the flow of bullshit spreadsheets. If you were able to convince them right now that their jobs were in mortal danger, would they be able to being society to its knees by withholding their labor? If "the left" were to take power, would this class's knowledge and experience in the field of bullshit spreadsheets be a boon to the project of socialist construction?

I'm searching around for this blind spot, and failing to find it. But I suppose it wouldn't be a blind spot if it were easy to see. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you meant by "the left".

They have a really excellent web interface that makes generating expense reports easy. That has a lot of value for big companies that use credit cards for employee expense accounts.

We are going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning

Tbf Mao saw the US as a paper tiger in relation to People’s China, not Palestine.

Ngl I get a little choked up just thinking about Stakhanov. So much love. So much optimism.

The winds of history blow without mercy. Is it your path to become the wind, or merely to feel it sweep across your face?

Victory is now in the hands of the RUAF

If that's the case, then it's a good thing OP has received so many thoughtful responses. We're not monsters here.

Liberalism is the ideology that emerged in opposition to royalism during the European bourgeois revolutions and the American creole revolutions. It advocates for a capitalist system that is progressive in the context of feudalism, but conservative in the context of socialism. Every political organization that holds any real power in the USA represents some strain of liberalism. Anticapitalist liberalism is not a thing. Liberals may advocate for socialist structures within the capitalist system, but will never support the actions necessary to dismantle the wealth and power of the capitalist class.

Holy shit I don’t think they had it in them. This is really the best case scenario for the UAF. They avoid total encirclement, and can retreat at a time when the western media is all tied up with stories about Navalny.

A stalemate is when the enemy captures your cities, and the more cities they capture, the more of a stalemate it is.

This doesn’t answer your question, but they also helped organize anti-war protests against American involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian war. If I remember correctly, the organization of these protests was rocky, and they split very early on.

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That was fun. Thanks.

Yo this is the party of Lenin we’re talking about here. It’s also the most powerful communist party in today’s Europe, holding a double digit percentage of seats in the duma of Europe’s most populous country. I wish them well in the upcoming elections.

Thank You! I will read this book.

Well said. But I'm skeptical about the comparison to Milosevic. Idk much about that guy except that the American media hated him during the Yugoslav war. I'd be happy to receive education on this subject.