badposting
badposting is a comm where you post badly
This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.
Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?
Rules:
- Do not post good posts.
- Unauthorized goodposting is to be punished in the manner of commenting the phrase "GOOD post" followed by an emoji that has not yet been used in the thread
- Use an emoticon/kaomoji/rule-three-abiding ASCII art if the rations run out
- This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
- This rule intentionally left blank.
- If you're struck for rule 3, skill issue, not allowed to complain about it.
Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo
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"Vanguard" comes from the military term describing a force that leads the charge in an offensive in an effort to smash a hole in the enemy's lines so that the soldiers behind the vanguard can flood in. It usually consists of the most disciplined, best armed, and most skilled soldiers.
Lenin (as well as Marx and Engels to a lesser extent) saw in their study of revolution that the proletariat could spontaneously do immense damage to a regime if the conditions were right, but without ideological, organizational, and military leadership they could never bring about a revolution in which they seized power. This proved to be true in the 1905 Russian Revolution. Lenin realized that Marxist party needed to provide those forms of leadership to the working classes if a revolution were to ever come about and in 1917 the Russian workers and peasants, led by the Bolshevik vanguard, brought about that revolution.
There are no "downsides" to vanguardism in the sense that some other method is advantageous because no other method has ever worked and there is no indication another method ever would work. Even leftist organizations that proclaim themselves as "anti-vanguardist" are usually fulfilling the role of a vanguard as they are better organized and usually better armed (at least with ideology) than the masses.
This doesn't mean one can simply proclaim themselves the vanguard and bring about the revolution though. The vanguard must be well organized and armed both with weapons and ideology. It must be disciplined. It must have deep roots in the broadest swaths of society and they must look to the vanguard for political leadership in times of crisis. If the vanguard is too radical in action or agitation it risks isolating itself from the masses. If it fails to lead the masses and instead tails behind them they will run wild without leadership.
The question the left broadly should be asking is not "why the vanguard" but "how to be the vanguard".