The Conquest of Mexico & The Conquest of Peru by William H. Prescott. I am only 200 pages in so I have a lot more to go but its good so far. For someone from the 1840s he does a remarkably good job at countering colonial propaganda and supremacist thought. There is still some of course but better than I expected
Their cops probably aren’t shooting kids for holding a toy gun like ours do
Banjo was pretty easy to make sound good in my experience
I think its charming
It depends entirely on what the task is but either way I am not doing it
There is literally nothing to fix
Please don’t put any love related fluids in my coffee
I too have made this mistake 😔
I think I blocked it so I wouldn’t do that again
Chairman Mao on Chili peppers:
At a banquet, Chairman Mao entertained the Soviet delegation, and he asked an interesting question: “Should we be loyal to the red watch represented by communism?” So as a red believer, who wants to join my chili party? "
He once said: "It can be said that people who engage in revolution can basically eat spicy.
“If you don’t eat chili peppers, you won’t have a revolution.”
In July 1936, Mao Zedong entertained the American journalist Edgar Snow in Yan’an. Of course, the dishes served were not without chili peppers. Mao Zedong was happy for a while, so he sang a Hunan folk song “Chili Pepper Song” for the guests
You can’t be a revolutionary if you don’t eat chilies.
Critical reading for every communist
(I am pretty sure 3 of these are different translations of the same quote but I loved all of them enough to include them)
We stand for active ideological struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the Party and the revolutionary organizations in the interest of our fight. Every Communist and revolutionary should take up this weapon.
But liberalism rejects ideological struggle and stands for unprincipled peace, thus giving rise to a decadent, Philistine attitude and bringing about political degeneration in certain units and individuals in the Party and the revolutionary organizations.
Liberalism manifests itself in various ways.
To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.
To indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one’s suggestions to the organization. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards. To show no regard at all for the principles of collective life but to follow one’s own inclination. This is a second type.
To let things drift if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame. This is a third type.
Not to obey orders but to give pride of place to one’s own opinions. To demand special consideration from the organization but to reject its discipline. This is a fourth type.
To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly. This is a fifth type.
To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type.
To be among the masses and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or speak at meetings or conduct investigations and inquiries among them, and instead to be indifferent to them and show no concern for their well-being, forgetting that one is a Communist and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Communist. This is a seventh type.
To see someone harming the interests of the masses and yet not feel indignant, or dissuade or stop him or reason with him, but to allow him to continue. This is an eighth type.
To work half-heartedly without a definite plan or direction; to work perfunctorily and muddle along–“So long as one remains a monk, one goes on tolling the bell.” This is a ninth type.
To regard oneself as having rendered great service to the revolution, to pride oneself on being a veteran, to disdain minor assignments while being quite unequal to major tasks, to be slipshod in work and slack in study. This is a tenth type.
To be aware of one’s own mistakes and yet make no attempt to correct them, taking a liberal attitude towards oneself. This is an eleventh type.
We could name more. But these eleven are the principal types.
They are all manifestations of liberalism.
Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.
Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism.
People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well–they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.
Liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the revolution.
We must use Marxism, which is positive in spirit, to overcome liberalism, which is negative. A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist.
All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.
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In order to create a tolerant space for people of all walks of life we must not tolerate intolerance. Lemmy was made by communists and is ultimately a leftist space in many regards. I’m sure you know enough about leftism to identify how it ties into the federated model. If you are getting banned from instances or communities it means you are not welcome there. You are free to leave, we won’t miss you.
Stick to sh.itjust.works and you’ll be fine, they seem to accept right wing drivel sometimes
Its endlessly fascinating to me how throughout all of human history the ruling class has been intent on achieving immortality. The first story we know of is about a despotic ruler scouring the world for the key to immortality. Many emporers of China were driven to madness by this search.
Many indigenous americans including the Aztec and Mayan cultural groups used cacao as currency. I can’t say if it was intentionally a method to reduce wealth hoarding but it did have that effect.
Ghost pipe. Its a parasitic plant
Wait I thought using the washing machine to masturbate was a meme. Can you actually do this?
Its naked lunch, looked more into it now that I am sober and its definitely naked lunch. No talking horse though
Yes I know its more complex I just didn’t have the desire to elaborate on that point, I was drunk and more focused on what I saw as terrible agitprop. I saw NATO expansion as a primary cause. The existence of Nazis and the crimes they commit are reprehensible but I don’t think Russia actually cares about the victims. It is primarily a useful tool of legal and public legitimacy.
Man, you and I both know Russia is not there to kill Nazis. Yeah there are Nazis in Ukraine but this is not a materialist understanding of the conflict and you know it. Ukrainian Nazis did not pose an existential threat to Russia. Russia attacked Ukraine because it saw NATO expansion in the region as a threat. It labeled this as a redline numerous times. The Nazi thing is convenient but liberals don’t even like fighting nazis. You aren’t going to convince anyone of anything like this. Why agitate in this way? What is the point?
I see your posts often and they have always perplexed me. Why use RT as a source on this conflict? Yeah it shows the other side of the war but just like western news on this issue it too is an arm of propaganda. I just can’t see you changing any minds or naturally fostering a materialist understanding in this manner
Being a fascist of any stripe is not just “wrong opinion” you are calling for genocide and should be treated like a genocidier