Hey there, my name is Dante. I’m a young Marxist whose goal is self-education in Marxist theory, to the effect that it may be one day used in praxis, so I may assist the global proletariat in intensifying class struggle in the advent of rampant imperialist capitalism and its epiphenomenal catastrophes. Currently, I am trying to do so in the form of a discord group consisting of a few dedicated members sharing our thoughts and having discussions on different pieces of Marxist literature. I know many may flock to the comments as to have a go at our methods lacking a sense of concreteness and whilst these criticisms are not unfounded and understandable, there cannot be a denial of the utility of online platforms for the purpose of education and global networking. I have no reservations about a revolution occurring purely in a digital space, however as Marxist, we must adopt a tendency to be as ubiquitous as our political opponents. One of our primary goals, as a group, is to rectify the absence in concrete policy and tendencies towards revisionism, especially within the global north, we are trying to organize with a certain stringency in operational principles, allowing discourse yet unified in established objectives. Our aim is not a matter of quantity, but one of quality, to paraphrase Castro, “I enacted a revolution with 82 men, I would do it all again with 15 trustworthy ones and as strong will.” Based on these notions, we intend to build our own group. Our ultimate goal will however not be lost, in trying to affect real world change, we acknowledge that times are dire and are something that can presently only be conceived as a finite resource, but we can only have faith that we will be prepared enough when the time comes. If any of this interests you, feel free to message me and lets chat. Have a good day!

The Autre Pays, (Other Country) Factor

Introduction:

What information is needed to deduce whether one is a socialist country or not? These are questions that plague the socialist and communist movements. These questions have divided the cause in the America and have spit parties, distracted comrades, led to mass confusion, and have led to split messaging. What is to be done to solve these questions? What are the answers? And what is to be done with the solution? This theses will dive into these questions and the answers I've found and continue to find. This theses will discuss the crux of the issue, which is a perceptive limitation issue rather than an information limited one. I will primarily focus on the People's Republic of China in the theses. Carry forth comrade!

Theses:

Millions in our country of America, the world, and within our cause will believe different information and different ways of interpreting and understanding. This is one of the great divides in socialism and communism, I call it the autre pays factor, the other country factor. This divide is greatly expressed in how supporters of viewing the People's Republic of China one way have been at conflict with those that see the PRC another way. This conflict is a direct threat to the unity of the communist/leftist/antifascist movement, and a bridge that would be helpful to cross in order to have more might for our cause.

In movement their are two main groups concerning support for the PRC, the pro-PRC group and the anti-PRC group. Both have different information and interpretations of information. To reconcile this divide and deal with this issue one must ask certain questions and develop certain positions. One being, how is one able to discern whether or not another country is socialist or progressing to socialism or not? Does one have to consume a certain level of information about the inner workings of that government to obtain the truth?

Does one need to consume a certain amount of bureaucratic information and/or on the ground information to ascertain the probability of what is true? Yes. That is unequivocally needed to have a chance at obtain that information. But, what is one to do with that information? For, even if you unequivocally know what countries are and will be then you will be arguing against people who don't and those that disagree with said facts will have their own misinformation. For example, if one figured out the true nature of the PRC, there would be heaps of information, or from your perspective misinformation, against that truth. If the PRC is a true example of socialism in development and you have sources, there will be countless people who would reject those sources in favor of what they view as the truth and would counter your truth by calling it misinformation and warped truth. This is a divide that cannot be crossed with information alone currently. It must be conquered through a reconciliation of values and acceptance that, as of the time of writing this, the PRC should be a secondary note. Our main concern currently should be creating socialism in our country, not debating whether other countries are socialist or not, at least right now.

The divide, as you can see, is a perspective one primarily. If one takes a pro-PRC perspective and doesn't put that aside to focus on creating and fermenting a new government in our own country they decrease their odds of doing so. If one rejects working with with pro-PRC people due to only thinking that their information is absolutely correct, they lose allies in a vital time. This is a vital moment in our history, and if we stand divided we have a higher chance of falling in the short-term and if we stand together we increase our odds, our unity, and our manpower.

This is not to say we can't learn from other countries regardless of which perspective we choose. Generally speaking most leftists view the PRC, the USSR, and the DPRK completely differently. But if one chooses to view them as beacons of socialism, then one can copy the positive traits they believe those regimes to have. If one believes those regimes have no redeemable qualities then one can choose a different path from those ideas of the countries to be like the positive traits that those who view those countries as beacons of socialism to have.

To reiterate it again from a different questions perspective, another question on to focus on is whether or not that it is useful to know if countries are socialist are not at the present moment. The present moment being a somewhat divided left in some aspects and an oligarchy in control of institutions. To cross this bridge will help unify the left, which is exactly what we should do with this information.

Well, what are your guy's thoughts?

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Since the new season of Squid Game is out I wanted to share this article about the real life event that inspired the creation of the main character.

Alot of people have seen Squid Game but few outside Korea know that the flashbacks were based on a real life tale of resistance that as socialists we should all know and honour

"Director Hwang Dong-hyuk has said that the backstory of Gi-hun, the show’s protagonist, is a reference to the real-life 2009 Ssangyong Motor strike. The character is a composite of the nearly 2,600 workers who occupied the Ssangyong plant for seventy-seven days to protest layoffs before police violently quelled the strike. The following is a review of Squid Game written by one of those real workers: Lee Chang-kun, a Ssangyong Motor employee who was a spokesperson for his labor union during the 2009 strike"

I would like to share a few quotes but the entire article is worth reading.

"Police were trampling us, beating us, and continuing to beat us even after we fell unconscious."

"The ear-piercing noise of the swooping choppers drowned out our screams, depriving us of even the right to cry. For how long were we beaten? Workers fell on the rooftop like dried squids. Smoke from burning tires was billowing everywhere, thickening the air, like we were in a warzone."

"about ninety-four workers were jailed and 230 were prosecuted. To date, more than thirty workers and family members are dead by their own hands or from conditions related to the trauma they endured."

"The South Korean government claimed they would protect us, but instead ran roughshod over us. The country’s weak social safety net makes a layoff nearly a death sentence. If workers can’t hang onto what they have, they will begin a vertical free fall."

"Extreme fear of layoffs escalates the fierceness of workers’ resistance — there is no alternative. At that time, Ssangyong had a total of 5,300 assembly workers, and exactly half, or 2,646 workers, received pink slips. One in every two! Kill or be killed!

At first, workers often talked about ways to share work and workweeks. We could all chip in to support coworkers who would face difficulty after losing their jobs. We believed we could stay alive as long as we could come together as one. But what capitalism wanted was not to see us sharing, but to halve us, literally."

"From that point on, a divide cracked us from within. We were pitted one against another, the laid-off versus the employed, the dead versus the living."

Out of the blue, we were left with no option but to squat at the factory. We first attempted to turn to each other to survive together. However, we were thrown into a life-or-death situation, often with no other option but to betray and dupe each other. At least once, as in Squid Game, we each had to hurt our closest friends. By the time the police raided the strike, there were only about 700 of us left, and mistrust of our coworkers nearly outweighed our trust. This pains me.

"The order of games in Squid Game resembles the phases of agony Ssangyong workers had to undergo"

"Nonetheless, we stood against government brutality and never abandoned our principle of “stay alive by sticking together.” This was why I felt thankful as I watched Gi-hun, the protagonist based on many aspects of our real lives, showing human dignity and demonstrating altruism. That was the least we did"

https://jacobin.com/2021/11/squid-game-ssangyong-dragon-motor-strike-south-korea

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The organization has a page on their website where you can apply to join them, and I submitted an application there. I’m wondering why I haven’t received a response yet, does anyone here know what might be going on?

Anybody here likes the works of the marxist writer Rosa Luxemburg? Specially her book Reform or Revolution? I've been reading her works and I think she has a point in revolution being a lot better than reformism in order to see real changes

*Disclaimer that I shouldn't ever have to make but do because the Western world lives under a propaganda narrative that is divorced from historical facts, truth and justice: I oppose zionism, the racist, genocidal state of "Israel" it produced, and I stand with the Palestinians, Lebanese and all other Arabic people in West Asia who have been brutally dehumanized, oppressed and murdered by the zionist regime and the US and West that has always used "Israel" as a proxy in West Asia. I support the end of the entire zionist occupation in Palestine (and the zionist occupation is moving forward with its plans to occupy all of Palestine and the lands of several other countries in West Asia. THAT ALL SAID, I do NOT hate Jews and consider all Jews who are not zionists to be equal to all other people in the world. "Israel" and zionism have NOTHING legitimate to do with Jews and Judaism. Therefore, I am never an antisemitic person, because my quarrel is not with Jews; it is with zionists. Many antizionists are Jews, and the majority of zionists in the world are white christian fundamentalists.

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I'm trying to track down the funding sources for some of the many Jewish-specific organizations and companies that exist to promote and encourage more production of Jewish-content books, especially books that are about or include sections about the Holocaust, in the North American publishing industry. I work in the industry and the publisher I work for produces a disproportionately high number of specifically "Jewish-interest" books by Jewish authors compared to books related to any other identifiable group, especially minorities. And they work the Holocaust into their nonfiction books regardless of the books main topic. I know from the inside that there are purchasers and reviewers that are strictly Jewish by name and focus which will purchase bulk quantities of these "Jewish-interest" books to distribute. It is clear to me that the publishers pursue that easy money, but I'm quite certain they also support zionism in general. And after years of privately knowing what's going on, I want to have the evidence to support my claim, that the zionist lobby is heavily involved in publishing and, more important, many publishers are cognizant of that and are happy to oblige that lobby when there is money to be made.

For starters, is there any source with a compilation of names of known zionist organizations that are directly linked to "Israel"? At least that would be a start, and then I could follow the funding trail from one of the orgs in the publishing world back to a known zionist entity. There are so many of these front orgs that aren't directly linked to the genocidal zionist colony, so people have to follow the money trail for each one.

As an example of some of the orgs I want to look into: JP Library (created by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (and see this zionist page on the PJ Library website, with a button to it on the homepage that has the "Israeli" flag on it), the Association of Jewish Libraries, Jewish Book Awards, Jewish Book Council, Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, The Jewish Review of Books Foundation, etc.

Any advice would be much appreciated.