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Cake day: February 4th, 2026
  • shreditdude0@lemmygrad.mltoChina@lemmygrad.ml•Zheng Liwen, KMT opposition figure, realizes she doesn't want ROC to become new Ukraine of Asia
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    10 days ago

    I remember Hegseth, in an interview, talking about some sort of “war game” simulation in which the USN got completely obliterated by China. Not sure if it was against the PLAN specifically, but it was still defeated by China.

    So if there is any truth to what he yapped on at that time, it seems the military brass would be very, very apprehensive to engaging China directly. I mean, they don’t admit it publically, at least not entirely & bluntly, at that, but behind the scenes in the current fiasco against Iran they know they’re in major hot water. I imagine many of them are anxious at the thought of having to openly engage with the PRC, especially while being simultaneously engaged on multiple other fronts.

  • shreditdude0@lemmygrad.mltoChina@lemmygrad.ml•So Chinese netizens are trying to send their life savings to the Iran gov - and this is kinda huge for marxism
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    2 months ago

    Tunnel visioning into ‘socialism or nothing’ is part of western marxism.

    Herein lies the problem: it always come back to the missing, dialectical foundation of Marxism–that which served revolutionaries as the toolset to face and solve the many problems necessary to shift the balance in favor of socialism against its struggle with capitalist imperialism. They haven’t learned that constant, unwavering, and consistent learning and understanding of changes and development within this world is needed in order to adapt, adjust the revolutionary program to maintain its sharp edge such that it can cut down the contradictory forces in the struggle. This includes learning from the errors of a program’s application by investigating how it was implemented, what or who were the proponents for its set backs, and what were the benefits and adverse effects to the masses. This process is part of what makes Marxist theory and its application scientific.

    These western Marxists desperately need to dismantle the framework of liberal idealism that demands nothing but perfect, impossible, ideal conditions, but it never brings forth a program that promotes real-world action. Ask any of these Marxists what their first step is. Anyway, I don’t wish to be over critical of them, because it’s by the bourgeoisie’s design that they don’t know how to engage in real action and programs.

    We’ve heard “get organized, become class conscious, and, uh…”, but the ideas–the spark–for going about beginning a program are always missing, and this is by far the biggest set back to Western Marxism. To liberate Western Marxism from its shackles of idealist “purity”, we must investigate and get scientific method with it! Investigate everything, comrades! Ask the working class what their struggles are, work with your comrades and work with these working class folks to hypothesize real, actionable plans to resolve this struggle! The plans could have real, material benefits for those in struggle and for the revolutionary movement’s credibility, so put them to the test. Account for errors, regroup and determine any previously unknown or unforseen factors and work to overcome them by adapting. It’s why we have these brains, agency, and this higher-reasoning!

    It is unreasonable to ask Hey, why haven’t you seized the means of production yet? when it’s more realistic to ask “Shall we go out to those who struggle, learn their situation, catalogue these problems, analyze and understand the material context of their situation, town, city, and formulate a plan?” What the plan can entail, well, it would require establishing connections. People are miserable, they’re angry, and they may be mistrusting of strangers, but what should they make of a group of people who take the initiative to physically mobilize, and are looking for a way to help those in need? This is something most folks wouldn’t see everyday. There are folks who will want to help, so they may offer some of whatever service or material resource they can provide. If a consistent connection and relationship can be established, this already is a success that gets the program closer to its goal.

    Many of us are novices, and in the West, we have been largely conditioned to want to disengage from any real-world communication, against our very nature, with other people, so this contraction must be identified, understood, its existence accepted, and thought needs to be given so as to address how it may be overcome. Not doing things alone, for one, is powerful. If carrying out the duties necessary to accomplish the tasks outlined in a program seem challenging, well, they are, but that’s why we collaborate with other willing comrades and community members who are willing to help. Become dependable to one another. Uphold, respect, and follow through on your duties so as to ensure that progress towards completing a program is possible. We in the West have a tremendous advantage in that we know how to do this sort of work because we are proletarian–we know how to be dependable at work, we know how to collaborate with our coworkers, we learn to carry out operations necessary to succeed in creating a product, providing a service, and so on.

    These are my thoughts, comrades. I know things can be daunting, but we really need to take that initial step to finding our comrades, in the real-world. I wish it could be us, here, on Lemmygrad, but I know there are hundreds, thousands of miles, kilometers of land and sea between most of us. We avoid idealist impossibilities, so we adapt and we identify what is possible for us in each of our own real, material contexts. So, we must go out and find our comrades. They’re around us, no doubt, some may not even know that they can be a tremendous help to improving others lives–they’ve been ensnared, watching the failure of the liberal ideals, in a panic shouting “what do we do!?”. They’ve been in desperation for years watching the liberal idealists step aside, consistently and maliciously misidentify causes behind the unraveling of fascism, supported economic austerity for the working masses, stolen a quality of life from us so as to pamper the parasitic luxury class. And the incessant gaslighting: It’s your own fault for not working harder even though the odds have been stacked against you from the start by this system!

    That was supposed to be my closing paragraph (if you can even call any of the above that lol •,•), but I tend to ramble. Mostly to my wife, as I’ve always been a shy lad growing up and as an adult, now, I guess I just feel comfortable not saying much. But damn, I really need to change that, don’t I? Well, I knew a comrade from years ago, oh, ten years, maybe? We were in jazz band in high school, but we stayed somewhat in touch well after we graduated, but, anyway, he would always ask me on Facebook “Yo, you read theory, bro?”. I never knew what the hell he was on about because I wasn’t a Communist, then. But I wasn’t some Red Scare lunatic either, so I would just ask “what?”. He shared a ton of books in some online repository, but I was an idiot and didn’t really give much attention to any of it after trying to read Das Kapital and not having the aptitude and vocabulary to make sense of any of it and dropped all of it. Well, we sorta lost touch. I deleted all of my socials since the tech industry was very much becoming an apparatus of mass surveillance and snitching on folks who were even remotely dissenting of Trumpism. I came upon some videos of revolutionary, communist literature, like the Manifesto, State & Revolution, Principles of Communism, What is to be Done? especially after learning about the P2025 reactionary program, rising white nationalism and fascism. As a radlib, I was terrified. I was paranoid. I kept thinking to myself “They’re gonna hunt me and my family down. They hate Mexicans so much, they’re gonna come for us.” But all of the revolutionary stuff was mind-blowingly revelatory. I could not believe that all of the rotten aspects of our system were precisely what Lenin outlined in State & Revolution.

    I never looked back. This was last February/March. A lot of the Trotskyite, anarchist, left communist stuff had some stock to it, I found, but I never understood why they hated these “tankies” so damned much. So, I checked out actual tankie subreddits (at this point, I had gone ahead and deleted Instagram, way too much mask-off Nazi stuff on there). I was in r/TankieTheDeprogram, but I had all of my accounts nuked eventually for “fedposting” too damned much. I get a little heated sometimes and I’m very good at calming myself down, but they didn’t accept that appeal lol. Anyway, so I learned about Dialectical Materialism and this was something very much foreign to me. Well, at least I thought it was until I realized it was a sort of application of the scientific method to the development of society, classes, civilizations, at large, and pretty much every other phenomenon that is in constant development in existence. I had never even questioned before how absurd it was that our forms of governance and economies were, more or less, all reliant on some materially meaningless abstracts–purely metaphysical, and I’d even say “mystical”, especially in the way they (state officials, politicians, etc) act whenever they’re made to face the people’s real, material hardships. Everything was always so easy for them to dismiss, but whenever it came to legislation aimed at improving people’s lives, they would be up and ready to kill it.

    Anyway, that’s a bit about me, I suppose. I tend to be more open, now. Especially when I feel like I understand things a whole lot better, now, since learning the communist, dialectical worldview. I never liked talking much, especially when I was unsure or simply didn’t know about something. That’s why Mao’s saying No investigation? No right to speak! really, really resonated with me. Yeah, I should keep my mouth shut unless I know damned-well what I’m talking about. I’d hate to contribute to all the existing noise, nonsense, and plain falsehoods circulating in this world. Alright, comrades, I wish you all so well. Lastly, on the Western Marxist question, we know where the problems are, so we should make sure to nudge them in the right direction. A Western Marxism with a strong dialectical materialist foundation, stripped of all the idealist, reactionary nonsense that has made its Marxists nothing more than wishful bystanders, will sweep over the Western world and join its Eastern counterpart to create that Internationalist Marxist liberation front to strip the chains of oppression off of the masses and wipe the stain of capitalist imperialism from this world. I am hopeful and anxious to see humankind enter into an era of civilization where humans can be the humans they were meant to be for the very first in history.