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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home I just ask that you dont solve the crossword in this weeks Lemmygrad Weekly. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Have a great week, everyone! We live in uncertain times, so it's best to stay to your goals, habits, and maintain revolutionary optimism. We don't have the luxury of nihilism!
As always, communism will win.
I’m joining the Party for Socialism and Liberation. I attended a volunteer event for Greg Levy in Ohio. I am excited to be organizing with them.
I'm grieving right now and it's hard. I never lost someone so close to me before. I'm mostly fine, mainly because of denial, but then it randomly hits me they're really gone and I break down. I notice that I'm more irritable and fall back on stress behaviors.
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you recover your spirit after your time of grief.
Grief is like that, it keeps coming back in waves, even years after. Make sure to accept those feelings as a necessary part of healing. All the love, comrade!
The Netherlands is so individualistic that family bonds are becoming less strong. I haven't seen my cousins (except one) in a coupke of years. One of them has a one year old child which I've never seen. It doesn't help that we all live in different parts of the country, but still I feel like this wouldn't happen in communist countries
According to polls, if there were a vote in Brussels today we would be the largest party with nearly 27% of the votes
Soon will be the beginning of our celebrations. Soon the empire will finally collapse.
Chuck Norris is dead. I knew he shouldn't have gotten vaxxed.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
There's this dude at my job who has a son that has been recently diagnosed with autism and he says he doesn't know how to handle it properly yet as he has no experience with autism. The other day I caught him changing his shoes mid day because he bought new shoes and said 'yeah I always do this as I have troubles with getting used to new shoe feels often'
My friend, I may have some news for you
Honestly, as much as men swinging right concerns me, i am given a lot of hope by the amount of women who are going further left.
inshallah transfeminist communists take over the world
Wallahi my sleep schedule is cooked
I finally deleted all the social media apps off my phone because my ADHD leads me to use that effortless means of dopamine instead of genuinely fulfilling things and it just got so absurd recently
Im working on a map project for the near future (2050) if anyone has any cool ideas for countries and such in that scenario lmk
Have a good Monday comrades and here’s an Evil for morale
In the 2000s I was a patriot and I saw America's apparent invincibility and it made me happy.
In the 2010s I was a patriot and I saw America's apparent invincibility and it made me sad.
In the 2020s I am no longer a patriot and I see America's actual vulnerability and it makes me happy.
It's been a wild ride.
I'll finally visit Beijing in July. I'm currently waiting for my invitation letter for adding to my visa application. And I have to buy plane tickets while I can; their already unreasonable prices will skyrocket after the current conflict ends.
Genuinely hilarious to watch game theorists be wrong because they don't understand marxist theory or historical materialism
One of the far right Dutch parties, FVD, has a guy running for the municipalities who lost his teaching job for harassing underage girls. So I went to their insta to say how cool it was of them to let a pedo run for their party and they blocked me lmao. Free speech enthusiasts btw.
The United States wanted something, too: for China to get on board with a U.S.-led, liberal-democratic order and move away from its communist model. But that's not quite what happened.
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I don't really get the point of "critical" in critical support. It implies theres such a thing as "uncritical" support. When would that ever be a thing? As a marxist you're always being critical. If you're critical to the point you don't support the government, then you're not doing critical support. If you support something to the point you aren't critical, you're not doing marxism.
Russia needs critical support because they are simply not marxist or any other flavour of leftism and therefore every pro-russia stance will be followed with that they need to fundamentally change.
This is different from, say, vietnam or china where we would criticise their approach to communism, but more in a friendly way towards comrades so that they can do better.
I think of it that it is critical that we support Iran and Russia no matter their politics and laws as long as they stay anti-imperialist whereas our support for China is a given because they are comrades.
Eid Mubarak and Nowrooz Mubarak comrades. Hopefully the next year for Iran is one free from US imperialism. Inshahallah the Palestinians are able to be liberated come next Ramadan. May this bevthe last Eid Al-Fitr under zionist occupation.
in somewhat of a study group for history where we have shared doc. libleft girl talking about some horseshoe theory nonsense 
I wish you all a great week comrades!
May the future bring you peace and success. Communism will win
Interesting observation by a port employee in Mexico, apparently the major ports in Mexico have had a surge in traffic by chinese ships, mostly for transboarding. So they're using these ports mostly as logistics hubs not necesarily dropping containers in Mexico. This was previously done in Panama.
This is very likely caused by the panama canal fiasco where americans forced panama to break the COSCO contract. That concession lost them a lot of business.
horseshoe theory evil deng tiananmen square massacre history class versus ONE silly girl. feel like a jubilee video up in here bro
neoliberals who hate socialism are so funny, i feel like nobody realizes it's 2026. like, i just don't think we can keep pretending the PRC isn't real
and it's also happening as xi is still cracking down and being more, well, recognizably 'socialist' even to politically illiterate westerners. we have had simultaneous xi-doomposting for the last 10 years and also watched as they continued to prosper, continued to be dynamic and continue to support its population, and like, okay, are we just going to pretend a) it's doomed Gommunist/Gocialist country failed state ohhh any day now or b) big ebil Capitalist country evil evil? are we still doing this? today? on march 19th?
Yes, some will hold on to these neurotic beliefs until the grave. Parenti quote is relevant, in case you haven't seen it already.
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Edit: RIP Parenti quote bot?
Far right party FVD won big in my Dutch hometown as they become the fourth largest party. Which is sad because it is a heavy working class city.
diesel prices are killing me rn, fortunately i bought 2k liters the day USrael started the terrorist campaign. Prices went from 26.4 to 29.6 mxn per liter in these 2 weeks. I am about to run out and i guess i should buy another 2k before it increases even further, DEATH TO USRAEL.
Funny side piece, 8 years ago the opposition parties in Mexico were saying that investing in oil was a investing in a sinking ship because and i quote "oil is on it's way out" (their goal complete the privatization of oil and give it to the US), now they're saying that oil prices are way too high.
Sometimes I'm reminded that the French speaking part of the country has a media boycot of the far right. They will not broadcast anything about them, in any way. And as a result, the far right has a very hard time getting their points across over there.
hi i posted this in wrong thread but i stand by it
it is true entirely that xitter is filled with bots and it infests almost any avenue you pick, but while i’d only largely heard secondhand stories, scrolling xcancel looking at pop-culture blogs really shocks you because it’s kind of staggering the level of cultural revolution the anglosphere desperately needs in every single facet of life
I wore an ACAB shirt to work today and someone asked what it meant so I convinced them it was the police union
Last thing, has anyone here been the Beijing? I want to go on a trip there sometime. I'm planning on going to the Mao Mausoleum and the national museum, any other reccomendations?
How do you guys deal with doomscrolling and a sense of helplessness? Struggling with it a lot, switch between this and periods of hopefulness but it's really hard to feel hope lmao
firstly, i got rid of or altered any social media that has algorithmic content suggestion and endless scrolling. overproduction (in this case, of content/information) incentivizes capitalists to get you to overconsume, regardless of whether or not that overconsumption is unhealthy/addictive.
secondly, i investigated what internal features or contradictions i had left to resolve that would explain why i defaulted to hopelessness. part of what's meaningful about revolutionary optimism to me is the fact that it not only feels much better than hopelessness, but is also the correct/optimal cognitive approach. and, it applies to society as much as it does to every individual life.
i think it's much easier to be revolutionary optimistic when you actively unlearn whatever you learned to become/feel helpless, rather than trying to simply paper over your helpless feelings with revolutionary optimism, which always felt kind of fake to me. this may or may not track with your experience, but that's the process i've gone through to actively and permanently feel more hopeful.
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