GenZedong

5064 readers

38 users here now

This is a Dengist community in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This community is not ironic. We are Marxists-Leninists.

See this GitHub page for a collection of sources about socialism, imperialism, and other relevant topics.

This community is for posts about Marxism and geopolitics (including shitposts to some extent). Serious posts can be posted here or in /c/GenZhou. Reactionary or ultra-leftist cringe posts belong in /c/shitreactionariessay or /c/shitultrassay respectively.

We have a Matrix homeserver and a Matrix space. See this thread for more information. If you believe the server may be down, check the status on status.elara.ws.

Rules:

No bigotry, anti-communism, pro-imperialism or ultra-leftism (anti-AES)
We support indigenous liberation as the primary contradiction in settler colonies like the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel
If you post an archived link (excluding archive.org), include the URL of the original article as well
Unless it's an obvious shitpost, include relevant sources
For articles behind paywalls, try to include the text in the post
Mark all posts containing NSFW images as NSFW (including things like Nazi imagery)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml

Elara@lemmygrad.ml

ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml

American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml

Zohran Mamdani's victory and the class struggle in the United States (youtu.be)

submitted 3 months ago by KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

With the recent victory of Mamdani, I thought about sharing this video by Marxist-Leninist content creator Jones Manoel.

The whole video is in portuguese, but the automatic subtitles from youtube are pretty good here, with a few exceptions like getting a few names wrong and confusing "Hollywood" with "Dutch" for some reason.

Still, comrade Jones take seems pretty solid to me. He's skeptical of Zohran's actual power to enact any meaning change in NY, while also acknowledging the historical significance of his win as a Muslim and Palestine supporter, specially because it happened in the heart of the empire.

He also throws shade and criticism towards China and Vietnam in regards to the Palestinian genocide, which I think are well deserved, and since he is someone that constantly studies Brasil, and talks primarily to a Brasilian audience, he also talks about it in the context of the video.

What do y'all think about his take?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Again you assume we can just pressure China into doing something, when I have more than once stated that China is not internationalist at this time...

So you have... material constraints... where you have to make strategic concessions... despite a genocide.

Idealism here is waving angry fists at clouds and considering what pretty much about amounts to debate-bro non-actionable "arguments", and then saying that counts as marxism.

The hubris to consider that a country with about 100 million party members have not considered the implications of what actions to take and not take is unbelievable. From people who have achieved far less. Idealism is probably an understatement. The CPC have material constraints - of which their decisions from that may not be to our liking when it less than utopian ideal in our heads - but like I said we are meant to be dialectical materialists.

This really isn't that hard. And this isn't even a defence of the PRC. It's an attack on liberal idealistic thinking.