Hi ! I've really wanted to have an internet friendship where you can discuss stuff , vent to someone and exchange ideas etc . I've tried on other forums but it got ruined everything i said I was a Socialist. Most of them think I'm some sort of maniac for thinking that way even if i say thats its alright that they think otherwise . So I wanted to post it here . Amongst people who share my interests. So if someone wanna start a chat about really any topic at all , vent , propose ideas , talk about your quirky ideas or just have a nice talk I'll try to do my best to be a supportive friend . If it's important I'm from Germany , male , 16 years old .

I know multiple socialist/communist/arnachist brands that have good quality and ethical "merch". But what l am searching for are basically normal brands, that don't sell merch but rather normal, good looking clothes that are just not exploiting there laborers or the planet in any way. If you know what I mean I'd be thankful for every help!

Hi socialism reddit community. I'm a leftist organizer and writer who just launched a series called "distilling leftist jargon." The first piece in this series is an explainer of neoliberalism, how it functions globally/individually, and how you can hold a conversation about it.

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i rarely ever hear any conversations about blanquism by contemporary socialists. what is the general consensus (from reading about the ideology im going to assume negative). do blanquists even exist today?

They are mad about healthcare. Good. Now let’s open their eyes to what else privatization is to be blamed for.

Social security, for example. If it is privatized like they all want, a fat cat will be on top earning a multimillion dollar salary for no reason deciding that you didn’t actually work hard enough to “earn” your social security payments. You will reach 67 (or whatever the retirement age will be) and that fat cat can deny your retirement. You’ve paid into social security your life, and you won’t receive it. This is their nightmare, this is what the conservatives have been saying for decades - that social security will not be there when they retire. Well, privatization is exactly how that will come to be.

Privatized education? Some fat cat deciding your child doesn’t get to have books this year because they “aren’t necessary for learning.”

Maybe, just maybe, if they can wrap their heads around this, public ownership of the means of production won’t be too far of a leap for them.

Edit: Liberals, too.

It’s such an underrated part of history in the West and coming from a Greek background I’d like be interested something about it from a left perspective. While it was an empire, it really breaks a lot of conceptions of the typical Eurocentric view.

It’s interesting to me how this area of the world goes from being viewed by westerners as “European” to “Oriental” depending on the circumstance. Or how Greek nationalism / identity conflicts with this period of “Greek” history.

My Greek (Romanika?) isn’t strong enough to read something like this so English is preferable (signomi, yiayia)

Thanks in advance.

(And I’ve read Orientalism which isn’t Eastern Rome focused but does touch on a lot of the viewpoints westerners have had on Eastern Rome)

I feel like socialists aren't connecting the profit motives of healthcare to a holistic, economic view. It's very similar to what liberals do. They focus on a single issue, disregard its systemic origins, and thereby in complete equivalence, leave it unfixed. They don't actually change society, whether or not its for a benevolent cause of healthcare, or an incentive to destroy profit. That's literally just democratic party policy(as in, government spending in the healthcare sector, i,e,, deprivitization), it's not anything special. The only way is to add actual Marxist implications to this, in a broader critique of profit in our entire society. How does this affect other necessities, like food or housing? How is this profit motive related to our mode of production? How can we abolish it, and what do we replace it with?

What do you think?

I know this is not something new to say as it seems to be the general consensus surrounding Luigi Mangione, he most likely is a patsy. Like how could Altoona police see him in the McDonald's with the same bag with the gun he used and a manifesto? It doesn't make sense. Like unless he had a second bag at another location, picked it up, and then left NYC, then there's no way they found him with the same bag right? It didn't look like there was a second bag on the bike with him, and it doesn't seem that preplanned that the assassin would have a second bag somewhere else to pick up. Plus the manifesto doesn't even sit right, I just get off vibes from this whole thing.

So back when I (22M) was a young bi lad of 19 and in college and still a left-wing market anarchist (specifically a free-market anti-capitalist Mutualist along the lines of Proudhon or Benjamin Tucker) I was wildly antisemetic because I blamed Jews for inventing homo/biphobia and capitalism. And when I briefly stopped being a socialist and became a Hellenic neo-pagan fascist I blamed Jews for the fall of a bisexual Rome by converting it to homophobic Christianity. Now I’m moving past it as a Post-Marxist (a blend of Marx, Nietzsche, and Foucault) and since I’ve learned that most Jews are Reform and Secular and even some Orthodox Jews are fine with queer men. But even if they weren’t they don’t deserve bigotry. Just like how the Palestinians don’t deserve the genocide in Gaza or the occupation of the West Bank. And I now look at history through a more historical materialist lense now which I think helps. But every now and then when I face homophobia from straight men or biphobia from gay men and straight women, I have an antisemetic intrustive thought. And then guilt over it. Because I’ve since learned that some of the greatest bi activists were Jewish. Socialist activism has been dominated by Jewish people too. As a bisexual socialist I shouldn’t be having these thoughts. How do I get rid of them? I’ve even been projecting it onto other leftists assuming they’re saying something antisemetic. How do I get rid of it?

It's just purely aesthetic, but I don't love french Republican calendar (1789) or the Soviet one (1917) because their are too early.

I hesitate with : -1158, first history recorded strike in Deir el Medineh, Egypt -133, Gracchus brothers law in favor of agricultural redistribution, killed by the Senate

Have you other dates ?

(Not saying full name because Reddit erased my entire post instead of just removing it, so I had to rewrite it. Some words will be censored.

(There used to be a link here, but just search his manifesto on Google. The one by KenKlepenstein.)

In his manifesto, he states,

“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country."

Notice the wording, "what you do for our country," and an association with the federal government. "What you do for our country" is eerily similar to the excuses made for the U.S. The government that (systemically and systematically took care of) hundreds of millions across the globe and subjugated billions into destitution. It has started and fought wars in the name of resource acquisition and exploitation. An extraordinarily obvious example being PLSTNE.

No matter if he calls for violence against the authority of profit, he is a liberal subject of the American empire. He is no different from the so-called "MAGA Socialists." If even one soul has increased their trust in the government because of him, then he has supported it.

He is your enemy as he is a liberal.

Edit: This does not mean we should not seize as much influence or at least, ideological agreement on the topic of the authority of profit. But we should also recognize and educate people on the evils of the imperial government, his lack of disdain for it. and the broader picture that connects economics to the state, which he fails to mention.