Богданова

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Isn't this exactly the kind of discussion the CIA wants there to be happening?

Like at some point we should ask ourselves, what are we doing to be better than them? No matter how low someone sets the bar it will never make us be any better.

There's no need to apologize, it's a complicated issue and you had no knowledge of the circumstances I'm dealing with.

This is still value information for any comrade out there who can make use of it so I appreciate you sharing it.

My own message was meant more for anyone who has ties to an already existing org. that they should expand their reach, because there are absolutely people out there who want to contribute and maybe we aren't perfect and I'm sure there are a lot of disagreements, but we need to use whatever methods we can to build up strength in sheet numbers or as the kids say we're gonna be so cooked.

I'm not naive enough that I think this is going to actually end up reaching anyone, but it's worth a try haha

[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I need to actually become independent myself before I do any of this. I don't even have a home. I own nothing. I don't even have a bank account.

The only reason I got by so far is thanks to Liberalism or transfer of wealth specifically. Like people helping me out cause of my disabilities.

And the only way I can become independent is if I stop listening to people telling me what to do. Otherwise at this rate I'm almost become another homeless person roaming the streets and no amount of Karl Marx seems to be capable of preventing that reality from coming true. I need to do something more than that.

Only I can analyze my current position and come up with a plan to execute, but some people will inevitably hate me for it. I always get someone telling me I'm not doing this good enough or that good enough and then I just quit and give up and go back to studying the books, only to repeat the same mistake over and over again.

I'm like trying to do witchcraft here, if only I find the right ingredients. Like I've tried approaching people, they don't listen to me, tried to talk people into forming unions they don't listen to me, but there's probably a bunch of leftists who are trying to find that magical recipe on how to build socialism and it's not going to work.

We don't choose our material conditions that we're born into, nobody is born equal, we can take inspiration from others, but the past cannot be repeated.

[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think we're facing a double problem of "Left" being too dogmatic and not radical enough at the same time. It's happening to various extents all around the "Wester" world.

I don't have a solution. I hardly have any resources because I wasted most of my life so far on dogmatism, so now I'm trying to address that.

I might be wrong here, but I think the correct thing to do for me would be to just focus on getting myself in as high position of influence as I can and ignore the critique of me participating in society. I trust that people will just give me the pickaxe treatment if I turn out to be a traitor anyways or I'd hope so.

Honestly I'd prefer if someone else just gave me the orders on what is to be done, but that's probably what most people around me are thinking...

[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The real CIA masterclass is when you read Das Kapital and use it to exploit the maximum amount of people possible.

They see themselves as peak of Civilization and justify their actions by saying that if they quit it would get worse, therefore they believe they must continue. Emphasis on the word believe. They believe that there's no point stopping what they're doing, if someone else is just going to do the same thing.

They set the world on fire, but keeping it burning keeps them safe, so they don't want to put out the fire, they find any justification necessary for that.

Arguing with them is really a futile effort, because if you ultimately take the argument to it's conclusion you're going to be called a Demagogue, a liar. It's a never ending cat and mouse game. A labyrinth of lies.

[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Surely someone can talk to him about this personally? I don't think we can do anything about it besides bring this to their attention and then hopefully someone he has personal ties to knocks some sense into him.

If he made it this far he can be pushed further. He can dunk on America in more productive ways. He needs to be willing to learn tho' He is providing free ammo to anti-communists if he keeps tweeting shit like this, so I do really hope someone seriously pulls him aside and gives him a well deserved lecture.

Yugo also seems very rejective of praise and compliments on the Pod idk if this is just a personality he puts up for show, but he might be severely underestimating his impact on the world, but now I'm psycho-analyzing that's not very appropriate of me either honestly, but yeah JT, Hakim, please help out your boy.

Why is there a division between Left Socialists/Communists and Left Libertarians?

It boils down to Left Libertarians being unwilling to give up their current position in life. That was acquired through Imperialism.

When I was much younger someone told me: "You know, we really tried to help the Africans, we built apartments for them, but they just leave and go back to their huts!! What can we do?"

And I'm like: "Why the F are we still meddling in Africa's business? Y'all keep talking about how evil the Soviet Union was for Overstaying their welcome and maybe it was a big blunder, cause they couldn't sustain themselves against USA and now every single socialist achievement is attributed to Capitalism and every single flaw is attributed to Communism, but at least the very least they did educate people."

A lot of this just hasn't been studied, historical events have been almost entirely black holed from our collective consciousness. We are being kept in the dark, including by the left libertarians, who are demonizing currently existing socialist experiments and they're stealing valor.

They're also using the 3rd world as hostages and then blaming everyone else for not saving the hostages.

The people I referred to as "cool rebels" is more in line with the petit bourgeoisie, but where I'm at I think a lot of anarchist tendencies stem from the horrendous structure. I've talked to working class anarchists and many of them like communism, but they ask me: okay, where do I sign up?

And I don't know. I've been trying to get in touch with groups that agitate on the streets sometimes, but they can't even send someone for an interview. It's so far obvious they're organized by a clique of friends, that no matter how radical personally, won't accomplish much more than a rush from leading a crowd or personal adventurism. I'd love to be proven wrong.

He says he doesn't know what he's talking about and that it's just his beliefs, in the tweet itself.

He could make the exact same point, while omitting genetics entirely and it'd still land without dipping into eugenics. That's the issue here.

With that being said I feel equally uncomfortable with how yugopnik's mental health is told to be in jeopardy because he pretends to be a leftist?

and why is the solution for him to pretend to be one and not to seek out a real life community to engage with instead of this shithole that is X?

I know things are super tense right now everyone is on the edge so we're gonna be making lots of mistakes, but let's not start telling people to give up. We're acting like crabs in a bucket here while the fascists are arming themselves to kill us.

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.

[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In short: it's because of Immaturity and/or clinging onto the currently existing Cultural Hegemony, which has Capital on it's side.

It's not really that complicated if you look at material interests and I'll try to keep it simple. If you're someone who is just interested in short term goals, you just go with whatever is popular.

Because of contradictions, capitalism becomes more unpopular the better it works. Being a rebel becomes popular, cool.

These rebel forces then take the Communist teachings to the absolute (Dogmatism), which is impossible to practice in the current material state of the world.

So it's kind of complicated, but it's also common sense. You know the saying: "Common sense isn't common." ?

That's not true, "Common Sense" Isn't Profitable.

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