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I keep saying it but white liberal USonians acting like the US has suddenly turned fascist because they MIGHT feel some discomfort from the orange man piss me off beyond belief. It is an insult to the millions murdered by the US so far but they were non white and far away and the president then was probably a civilized man or the 'good party guy'.
I have a very similar gripe but what makes me more mad is the white liberal who thinks that if trump was gone we would stop being facist. I am no matter how annoyed I am it took them this long to see what the US is doing, atleast they have come to reality. What then makes me go insane is when they seem so Eager to put the blinders back on.
Constantly seeing "the US is now 42.31% fascist.." slop on social media and I'm just like "you already were"
Ping pong in the DPRK
Nooooo they will shoot whoever loses
They already shot them they're using Juche necromancy to reanimate their bodies and make them play
I'm so brainrotten and tired that I thought that guy's face was edited to be Kirk's 💀😭
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
From Russia! Solidarity with Venezuela and Palestine!
Shit, I’ve been so focused on Venezuela I haven’t heard shit about Iran, what the fuck’s going on?
Not only Iran has been attacked lately. Burkina Faso had a coup attempt the same day that the US kidnapped Maduro.
What in the- shit, this is why I need regular updates on all of the theaters of imperial bullshit. Same applies to Yemen and Palestine, so much shit’s going under the rug bc of the media cycles, I don’t even know what’s happened in Indonesia or Brazil since Bolsonaro finally went away.
You can stay in tune with c/worldnews ! Lots of comrade try to post as much updates as possible in that community to keep everyone up to speed.
As for Brazil, the last update was this one produced by comrade, Conselheiro -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10076452
US-backed color revolution aimed at regime change. The 12k death toll is fabricated by the US group "Human Rights Activists in Iran", an NED cut out. That's really all I can say.
We’re always somewhere, constantly doing shit, ain’t we? I shouldn’t be surprised but Venezuela’s captured so much of my attention that I can’t really track it all. That and I’ve seen very little direct material analysis of conditions on the ground besides general national feeling in Venezuela, lots of protests against the U.S., tons of mobilization, but not too much else besides trying to recuperate without Maduro.
Lemmy user Cowbee is well-known for their tireless efforts in educating the wider Lemmy community on Marxist-Leninist positions and theory. They are also the author and maintainer of the renowned "Read Theory, Darn it!" introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list.
The reading list has received much praise from long-time MLs, newcomers, and curious liberals alike, earning the recommendation of prominent users such as Lemmy developer and .ml admin Dessalines. At the time of writing, the reading list has amassed over 320 upvotes on Lemmy.ml.
It was first published on November 12th 2024 and has undergone significant changes since then. It has undergone two major revisions, the latest of which was in August of 2025. For comparison, one of the earliest versions can be found on a crosspost to lemmy.world from November 29th 2024.
We have recently received information from credible sources that a third major revision of the reading list might be just around the corner.
We can only speculate in this section, but Cowbee has previously provided hints as to what changes we might expect. Cowbee has expressed on multiple occasions that they would like to bring the reading time down to 50 hours^[1]^^[2]^. The list currently sits around 60 hours total reading time. They have also hinted at possibly splitting the list, creating a separate history-focused list^[3]^^[4]^. This idea has however faced some pushback from the community^[5]^^[6]^.
It is difficult to predict the exact changes that will be made, but in a more general sense, according to Cowbee, the goal of the third revision would be "to make the guide more lean, readable, and remove overlap as much as possible."^[7]^
We have reached out to @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml for a Lemmygrad exclusive preview of the much-anticipated third revision, and will continue to provide new information as it becomes available.
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This comment is just for fun, don't take it too seriously :)
This is a very cute idea comrade, thanks!
For starters, why make a rev 3? There are a number of reasons, but it primarily boils down to 2 contradictory feelings I have:
The guide is too long for a "basic" reading list. Anyone wanting something a few hours long will see it and likely bounce off.
The guide is too incomplete for areas I think are necessary, such as new sections on history, culture, art, propaganda, AI, hard skills, soft skills, and more.
These two competing goals leave the guide as an incomplete but long basic list that feels like it occupies a limbo space. My main solution, therefore, to do the following:
Trim and reduce redundant works, making each minute spent as efficient as possible
Split it into sections:
a. A true beginner list that will allow anyone to keep up with the basics of Marxism in conversation, and make following the main guide easier
b. A true "cadre training" list that goes far more in-depth, without skimping on any areas, like an expanded version of the current list post-trimming
c. A section on history, especially on settler-colonialism, liberalism, and socialism in practice
d. A section on skills, like how to start a reading group and party from scratch, how to agitate, first aid, light guerilla warfare (maybe too fedbaity?), simple evasion, language learning, diet and fitness, OPSEC, OSINT, gardening, repair, self-defense, etc.
-Essentially, I think any revolutionary needs to actively train and prepare for revolution, not just simple organizing. I also want anyone to be able to follow this list, urban or rural, global south or global north, and take away core skills for self-sufficiency, community organizing, and better surviving the day to day both pre-revolution and during revolution.
-Every revolutionary should, therefore, be multilingual (dominant language + most locally relevant secondary language at a minimum), physically and mentally fit (within reason), capable of defending themselves (with whatever is necessary), capable of leading small groups, performing simple first-aid, practice community self-sufficiency (such as covert communication, gardening, cooking, power generation, survivalism, etc), all sorts of useful tools for any cadre. If a revolutionary doesn't meet those areas, that's fine! It just signifies what they should be working towards passively, on a regular basis.
A spanish version. In the imperial core, english is the most spoken language, but within the US Empire spanish is heavily spoken as well. Being able to better reach these comrades would dramatically aid organizing
A QR code link. Being able to place a sticker in prominent spaces and have people see it in public would be great for outreach!
Making sure everything is convenient to read on the phone natively, but also on eReaders or via audiobooks. My target will always be reading on a smartphone during breaks. One of the bigger obstacles is longer books, Prolewiki has a newish "reading view" for some works but not all. I like ComLib from comrade @Edie@lemmy.ml for ebooks, but I can't use ComLib for everything. This is an ongoing effort for me to try to make them more readable in every preferred format (eReaders, web reading, and audiobooks are the big 3).
The biggest obstacle, however, is my own reading. I need to develop myself more before I try to expand the guide to my own ambitions. I'd like it to also be hosted primarily off of Lemmy eventually, and without my own username attached to it, as a sort of anonymized, generalized guide that can be QR coded anywhere and be applicable and useful all over the world, without such a Statesian focus.
All this is to say that it's probably late 2026-2027 by the time the next rev genuinely comes out, and will likely be the "finalized" list.
Thank you for the very in-depth response! This has me even more hyped up :)
I think you have a great read on how to make the list(s) as useful and accessible as possible for different audiences (though I do share your worry on the potential 'fedbait' aspect of some sections).
Once you are comfortable with a more-or-less 'finalised' version of the list, would you like to see this turn into more of a team or community project?
Less so in terms of changing the content, rather having contributors with different skills and focuses such as localisation, hosting a website or a wiki, collecting and digitising books, 'marketing' so-to-say by designing posters, stickers, or even shareable memes, etc.
I wonder if it could become a canonical list for something like Prolewiki as it would already mesh well with things Prolewiki already does such as the library and collecting ebooks, as well as adding editor's notes to existing works. Maybe @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml could share their thoughts on this.
We easily rehost reading lists as category pages, and then located inside https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Reading_lists. The upside is they can directly contain links, the downside is after that it's up to people to find them in the midst of all our pages. I am actually (very slowly) in the process of making a bunch of reading lists based on our absolute beginner's; very short lists but lots of them on all sorts of different topics instead of every topic all at once.
I would love to make more ebooks, but besides not having energy and adhd, I keep wondering how to do (e.g.) footnotes and end up in a rabbit hole of trying to look into it. This is the Nth time I have ended up on this exact fucking thread EDIT: it I have it bookmarked ffs! And I just end up with "fuck it, just do something" in the end.
There is a longer rant about EPUBs and HTML and CSS that if we had been irl I'd probably done, but I don't have it in me to do in text. I'm sure you already have an idea, you can practically track the times I've opened up an EPUB to work on it by just looking for when I complain about this shit.
I would love to have others help me do EPUBs... but as you can see it's difficult.
In short, what's the best practices for EPUB? I have no fucking clue, and I only keep becoming more 
Comrade Cowbee has been doing truly wonderful work 🫡
Thanks, comrade! 
Have a good week everyone! Stay safe, comrades, keep it up.
As always, communism will win.
Despite its flaws and their involvement with the socdems my place of work the Union has a really based foreign policy as they keep an anti imperialist line. Right now they issued an internal memo saying foreign intervention in Iran is a no go for them and that they absolutely do not support such possible actions, same with Venezuela and Palestine and Greenland for example. I wonder if some higher up secret ML has a say in all this
From Burkina Faso! Solidarity with Venezuela!
From Mexico
Recent events feel like I'm just waiting for disaster to happen any time while pretending everything is fine. But then again stuff has happened before without no consequences.
NATO deleted this off their website. Unfortunately for them, the internet doesn't forget.
Some dude with a fake account replied to an insta comment of mine calling me a cancerous left wing dog and told me to accept his follow request (I assume to insult me or something) so for fun I accepted and messaged him first but he won't reply lol
What is it with these fascist cowards
Fanon's conclusion in Wretched of the Earth, that the global south should not strive to "catch up to" the European colonial and genocidal mentality is so obviously correct.
The top gusano actually went through and gift Trump her fake award in one of the cringiest images ive ever seen.
It seems Belgium is so irrelevant that Trump forgot to include us in his sanctions despite us sending someone to Greenland lol
being sick sucks because you're tired all the time but can't get any sleep because the illness keeps you awake 😞
I had this thought the other night, that I'm remembering now, and it went something like: The world is being terrorized by the US empire (that part is nothing new). In addition, the combination of it being in decline and the persona of it subsequently being a spiraling narcissist (clinical definition of one) gives it a layer of disorienting and erratic that it would otherwise not have. Its decisions seem senseless at times because some of them are, while also having more thought out mechanics behind them because the head of the regime is just one person and the characteristics of the empire still exist underneath. These two priorities, the plodding and plotting empire and the erratic and self-interested narcissistic, are in a certain amount of contradiction, even as the one has helped create the other in leadership. Maybe a good example of internal contradiction.
It's like Trump is a psychological embodiment of the empire crashing out over being in decline. The worse its conditions get, the more erratic he gets, and the more erratic he gets, the more it accelerates the contradictions, creating a kind of feedback loop.
Damn, this is the best shirt and handbag I have ever seen in my life!
Found on Rednote! Makes me want to consoooooom
My problem with Anna Karenina is that Tolstoy framed the communist as a drunk resentful man, basically Harry du bois, which makes me wonder if they were inspired in this novel while modeling Harry.
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