Left unity against the distorters of socialism.
Quoting Lenin, but we can replace 'Marxism' with 'socialism' in this case.
Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!).
@PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de say do you have hexbear blocked? Because if you do that helps explains your perception on the subject.
If you're going to be publicly reading the book at the meeting instead of saying 'read X chapter before the meeting' have a format where you read for X amount of minutes then break for a discussion period for X amount of minutes, where you alternate between reading and discussing until the end of the session. To make sure discussions don't get out of hand, follow a loose sort of roberts rules for meetings where you have a speakers list that allots like 1-2 minutes of speaking time per person with new people having priority and repeat speakers being sent to the bottom of the list every time they raise their hand.
So like initially if we're having a discussion where I raise my hand, jimbo raises his hand, Octavia raises her hand, Josh raises his hand, Jessica raises her hand, and Trotters raises his hand, the speaking list would be as follows
And let's say that by the time we reached Josh, I want to speak again because someone said something that inspires me to add to it BUT another person who hadn't spoken, Kiara and José, both raise their hands at the same time. The list would look like as follows
Make sure you keep track of the allotted time for discussion periods to make sure you don't burn your reading time by being firm with saying who's going to be the last speaker for this round but you'll keep the list of speakers who didn't speak so the next round they can go first if they wish to.
This communal reading and discussing style can seem slower for the more book savvy and intelligentsia types but public reading discussions definitely helps build a common foundation of theoretical literacy for the group as a whole.
I would say the closest historical precedent we can examine is the October Revolution and Russian Civil War period that saw the dissolution of the Tsarist empire, the break-away of sections of it that went on to form bourgeois nations, and the efforts the Bolsheviks of all the nationalities contained within the prison house of nations conducted in building socialist governments that went on to federalise into a union of Soviet socialist republics.
The conversation ended when he stated that this problem was the fault of unions
Unions aren't the ones in the boardroom drawing up directives to management for them to execute the design and production of a profitable commodity. Your step-dad is a bootlicker yesman that enjoys thinking he's more valuable to his overlord and will be thanked with nothing but empty kind words after a lifetime of exploitation.
This is the same mindset as the dipshits that blame engineers or manufacturers for producing inefficient commodities. They're just getting a paycheck to produce exactly what was requisitioned of them.
No the european pedo-protectors can pound ~~their heads into a woodchipper~~ sand.
Folks how would you answer the question?
Genuinely a good gut-buster of a sorta podcast-styled stream if you want to have some funny background noise. (Watch it, it's great)
Also stretching. Or massaging my feet instead of putting on socks
Clear and undeniable proof that epstein and Trump are Russian assets.
Ah fuck I forgot about the sports teams that one cracks me up the most every time it's brought up!
I think thar can be expounded more to do with the material development into modernization of both nations with regards to the fact that Japan's pursuit of rapid modernization was built off the back of the capitalist and monarchists crushing reactionary landlords in the boshin war and being able to industrialize more or less completely unhindered by their old feudal aristocracy. This rapid industrialization lead was paired hand in hand with the rapid proletarianization of the masses in addition to rapid increases to the general standard of living with international capital flooding their market with surplus commodities. This would further be supplemented by the imperial Japanese' own colonial acquisition across east Asia, including Korea, where any additional colonial industrialization was conducted for enrichment of the Japanese capitalist class with the usual table scraps for the Japanese masses to complete the circuit of colonial exploitation.
This is drawn in contrast to Korea's own history of being a feudal monarchy that was more or less completely hamstrung by its system of governance that worked hand-in-hand with the entrenched Yangban who thrived on the decentralized system of governance they organically grew through generations in addition to the entrenched system of slavery and diplomatic isolation from the then present European powers that delayed the centralization of power and push to modernization until king Gojong and the reformist cabinet could push it into reality with the reforms that they begun in 1897, a good 30 years later than Japan's own reform and modernization. The decades long cruel repressions waged by the Yangbans on the masses in conjunction to the slow yet steady influx of knowledge and education from beyond koreas borders disseminating western capitalist and socialist ideas into the minds of oppressed koreans seeking radical alternatives to their status quo. In a constant fight against the entrenched aristocracy and the peasant rebellions against them in addition to the intrigue of the aristocrats to undermine the state to further empower themselves, in addition to facing enormous pressure from external powers on all sides, the Korean state had barely 20 tumultuous years for capitalist construction and state modernization to occur before the Japanese Empire conquered them and allowed the more matured Japanese, and foreign, capital to flood in and build their own exploitative construction.
I think those intergenerational differences played pivotal roles - the other major event I think was the Korean War - in shaping the contemporary national character of both nations and why the class consciousness' of both countries are so different.
Makes a good springboard for talking about how monopolized the economy is by talking about how "the phone company Samsung? Yeah they make cars. Baby clothes too. Yeah and windmills. Also giant boats. They also run gold courses, resorts, hotels, have advertising and marketing companies, they also make steel and run powerplants. And the offer life and health insurance. If it wasn't for the other chaebols dominating other markets in their own monopolies, you bet your bottom dollar Samsung would be also selling chips, beer, and burgers." And bouncing from that to the u.s own megacorps and how everything is an illusion of choice dominated by a corporate oligopoly.
I mean it doesn't help that the CPJ had been crushed in the Korean War in the 50s and had it'd entire leadership taken over by social-democratic intelligentsia in the 60s. Also probably doesn't help that nearly all of japans manufacturing industry was also off-shored to cheaper labor markets and had switched to a consumer market with the majority of the workforce being employed in soul-draining service jobs and the only employers are the zaibatsus or the artificially proped up petty bourgeois small business owners. Funny enough that's extremely similar to the situation in South Korea as well. Also the u.s but that's spread more widely so it doesn't seem as apparent.
Huh I could play that one Animaniacs song with Yako listing country names and the comparison probably still holds
If he's not on the run from the CIA, he's still CIA