GenZedong

Classifying fascist ideologies as "collectivist" is a bizarre choice.

Fascism doesn't have a collective. You're expected to obliterate yourself for the state - sometimes literally. Blind, unwavering loyalty to the ruling class without exception. What on Earth is "collectivist" about being a proud slave?

Fascist being collectivist is outside my typical understanding of the term. The fact that they used it in that way is wild. I mostly heard this term in my phycology class where they referred to the west as more individualist and Asia (including non-socialist countries) more as being collectivist. The implication was that in the west individuals are more likely to put themselves(and sometimes their immediate family) before society, but in the collectivist mindset, the individual was more likely to put themselves after society. This typically applied to duties, behaviour, and sacrifice when it was discussed in the class.

This is something that I need to interrogate since I haven't really thought about it for several years since I was a lib in university. My initial thought now is that socialist society engenders solidarity with your fellow workers, allowing you to see the benefit in helping other people. Honestly though, I shouldn't speculate too much without further investigation.

Thank you comrade!

Let me know if there's an even better place to put this

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

• yewtu.be
• inv.nadeko.net
• yt.artemislena.eu
• piped.video

So we can just discuss about anything?

Nope. This is the General Discussion Thread. You are only allowed to discuss generals. Zhang getting fired is permitted discussion.

yea we can! i tink. i hope. i dont even think neccessarily attached to ML stuff or analysis, weekly megathreads in many places allow for the users to just talk and commune w others :3

on the purge stories they seemed pretty irrelevant to me first time around, afaik prc has so many purges that go under radar since its no dog and pony show. makes sense for them to be so stringent atm with how shaky the world is, it reassures me at the least. plus i never trust whatever western rags have to say about largely confidential machinations in prc especially pla

Yep, you can discuss anything you want!

It's like a mastodon replacement, basically

You too comrade!

call me the band featured on XXX by kendrick lamar the way i'm saying "u2"

You too Oppo!

You too!

We shouldn't be waiting until the US empire collapses to start building an alternative digital infrastructure. China and Russia have already started. Doing so now will also help protect countries from the rampages of the dying empire.

The next best thing for the State Department, if they can't get leftists to outright support imperialist intervention and regime change, is to get you to "both-sides" it.

They don't need to get you to support imperialism if they can, for all practical intents and purposes, simply neutralize your opposition to imperialism.

There is absolutely no comparison between a global empire and a state defending itself from imperialist aggression and nefarious regime change operations.

If Iran's government is toppled it will be subjugated again to the interests of imperialism as it was under the Shah, its resources extracted for Western profits.

How did the regime change in Syria turn out? How did it turn out in Libya? Are the people there better off now?

There is only so often that we can tolerate imperial core so-called leftists to fall for the same trick over and over again before we have to admit that maybe they're not being tricked.

Maybe they are siding with empire over the victims of empire because it validates their chauvinism and advances their material interests.

should one discuss it wherever possible, voice it until i get kicked out, etc

That would be my instinct. Do it loud. Do it hard. Do it with planned talking points like "Free Iran like how they freed Iraq? How is Syria doing with all that freedom? America has never made anywhere better. All they ever do is steal, murder, and r pe. Even their own country is a shit hole because of the actions of their government. anyone who thinks a free Iran involves the USA or israel is a zionist fascist who belongs in Barbara pit mine." and when anyone pushes back You say "Oh look a running dog for imperialism. Are you getting a paid by the CIA or are you a soulless monster for fun?" "anyone associating with these running dog of empire is not my comrade. I can forgive ignorant liberals but I expect comrades to know better than to support american interventions."

You need to plan this out carefully, otherwise they will just deal with you, especially if you are alone, but you can agitate within the larger groups.

If their leaders censor your opinions uncritically, they lose legitimacy in the eyes of any potential turnover.