It should be over soon. Please let it be over soon.
Chairman Daou is planning a revolution. Biden is ahead enough to get 270 if the remain vote isn’t for Trump he’ll increase his margin by small amounts. But where did that bring you? :back-to-me:
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The 🇱🇷 2020 🇱🇷 American 🇱🇷 Presidential 🇱🇷 Elections 🇱🇷 are the single most important political event since The Last Fascist was VOTED 🔫 OUT 🔫. We on the admin team see it as our duty to enforce the views of our audience by any parasocial means necessary.
As a nacho-socialist cabal, we see no path to revolution other than by focusing the majority of our leisure time on consuming bougie media. Media that is obsessed with the details of an election we decided our preferences on months ago, if not years ago. Here’s the bottom line: Voting makes you a good person and not voting makes you a bad one. Don’t believe us? Just ask Lenin:
A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell (through the Palchinskys, Chernovs, Tseretelis and Co.), it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.
We must also note that Engels is most explicit in calling universal suffrage as well an instrument of bourgeois rule. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously taking account of the long experience of German Social-Democracy, is “the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state.”
See? We can’t let capital take control of this “very best shell”! Turtles belong to the people! And the way we do that is by voting for posts.
Link to Megathread Part 1 and the rest of ScreamoBMO’s incredible manifesto
Link to Megathread Wednesday 4th part 1
Link to Megathread Wednesday 4th part 2
Link to Megathread Thursday 5th
But remember comrades ABP, always be posting! All power to all the people! :chavez-salute:
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the cultural revolution was a failure in a lot of ways (idk how people here joke about sparrows, that was a really bad policy) but modernizing a country of nearly a billion people after a century of imperialism was an incredible task that could in no way have been achieved under capitalism
There is a good revleft that covers the different strains of maoism. The communist parties in India, Peru and the Philippines are all Maoist. Imo all of these movements are worth studying and learning from as they are some of the most successful revolutionary movements of the last 30 years or so
Two I know of are that there’s “Maoism” based off Mao’s writings and stuff but then there’s also “Marxist-Leninist-Maosim” which IIRC was coined in Peru by the Shining Path Liberation Army; they’re both distinct books of thought as far as I understand it.
Counterpoint: the PRC is 71 years old. When the USSR was 71 years old, there had been decades of Soviet leadership repudiating Communist ideology. IMO the Cultural Revolution succeeded in that it prevented a wrecker like Kruschev or a well-intentioned sucker like Gorbachev from dismantling the Chinese project.
