MaoistLandlord [he/him]

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Cake day: March 11th, 2021

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  • An analysis by an American Marxist professor from 1995, after reviewing the Secret Soviet Archives:

    The worker - having been stripped of personal ambition and revolutionary fervor - is compelled to comfort the bourgeoisie at the expense of his home and dear mother. The bourgeoisie seeks to muddy the waters and create an identity full of illusions and fear, such that the worker conflates the happiness and goals of his boss as his own. Of course, the bourgeoisie is under no such illusion, for if the worker was happy - truly happy, that is, such that he is not starving and dreading over tomorrow’s rent - it would be the death blow to the exploitative and cruel ideology that supports his decadence and comfort.



  • That’s the gist of it for many countries. Some countries have special programs with the US (like Norway or some other snow country), but the funny thing is that the program seems to benefit Americans much more because it allows Americans to become residents quick and all you need is some sort of small business you can easily cook up as a contractor. But as far as I know, they don’t get the same benefits if they go to the us





  • You can easily tell if someone is truly seeking redemption by the way they react when people don’t forgive them immediately just because they say “war bad, actually”. Redemption is about doing the right thing to correct your past sins even if others no longer trust you, and forgiveness is up to the people you victimized and betrayed.

    As for helping veterans, that’s great and all, but I highly doubt the Black Panthers were just giving them free food and housing without educating them on why their actions in Vietnam were wrong and how they can atone for them.

    And for the people going “we need military for a revolution.” Correct, but take a look back in history. Almost all of the professional military were disillusioned with war or the state and/or starving to death. The communists won them because they promised to end pointless wars and provide food. Right now, your average soldier in the US military is quite comfortable. All they do is stand around on base, sit on a ship for 4 years, get free hot meals and play on their phones until their training session, and they WANT action because they’re bored.

    The ones who are disillusioned are the ones who fought and got nothing in return or wasted half a decade in service only to have 0 job training. The state isn’t scared of those individuals because the majority of soldiers and veterans do fine, and if they aren’t doing fine, they’re still not angry enough to inspire regiment. And wrt the Black Panthers, they were doing this shit during a turbulent civil rights era where the government considered them the greatest threat - more than the Soviets - because they were uniting all sorts of marginalized people. What group or movement has that status today? Antifa? BLM? Lol.