Jusog

I agree, what Palestine and Hamas are currently doing are the only actions left to them by their oppressors. After so many atrocities committed by Israel and so much hatred and violence against them, the Palestinians literally are fighting for survival. Thus, I couldn't, in good conscience, tell them to 'dial down their violence' or whatever it is shitlibs want from them.

And thanks for ur comment. Imma think abt meaningful distinctions.

Well, I kinda get your point.. Though in all honesty I couldn't blame children for being born there. I'd argue there are civilians.

I'm supportive of Hamas' and Palestine's fight for liberation though, just to clarify.

Thanks for this; I shall use this knowledge next time I speak to them. Tho honestly I think my energy is better spent elsewhere.

I was talking with two friends yesterday. Apparently they always supported Palestinians, but once they saw Hamas soldiers screaming Allah Ackbar and kidnapping civilian women, they are of the opinion that they're not better than Israelis. "It's just two Nazi Germanies fighting against eachother." Was a banger I heard during that discussion. Another banger: "You don't see Ukranians murder and kidnap civilians, do you? They are respectful of POW."

I tried my best arguing; to no avail. Whatever I said, I was countered with smth like, "well i support them too, but this kind of force is totally unjustified". So in short I failed the argument.

I finished "How to Be a Good Communist" by Liu Shaoqi recently. Rly rly great book, can't recommend it enough. I'm digging the message of always thinking about what is best for the party and the revolution first and foremost. He also explained that waging discussions with comrades from a place of compassion, by correcting false notions and helping eachother in furthering your understanding of Marxism, is really important for keeping out revisionists, etc. Lots more was discussed.

And now I'm reading "Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and Overthrow of Communism" and I have to say, it's so refreshing to finally read literature again you can comprehend without rereading sentences every few seconds, ngl.

I rly wouldn't be too optimistic.. His views got nothing to do with communism and he already was in cabinet like 3 times. I wouldn't be surprised if he never followed through with these promises. Maybe he'll go the Orbán route? Fico prolly won't be worse than Matovič tho. But who knows.. This is liberal politics at its finest after all.

I personally believe it was and still is a totally valid strategy of China to use Capitalism as a means to bring about prosperity to its people, for it is impossible and irresponsible to build Socialism on poverty.

The strategy Mao implemented was formulated with the, at the time, current material conditions kept in mind. Deng did exactly the same for his time. "A very poor population, the lack of an industrial base and the lack of a large urban population" were the driving forces behind the "Reform and Opening Up" policy. These conditions were brought about by the policies made by Mao. That doesn't mean Mao's policies were 'bad': the average life expectency went up from 35 in the 1950s to 70 in the late 70s. But the average citizen still lived on less than 1$ a day.

^This is taken from Prolewiki's Deng Xiaoping article

So reforms are undertaken by attempting to improve certain aspects, but will inevitably have contradictions accompanying them, which the next reform will address in turn. And such is China's approach. Capitalism brought about fast industrialization which lead to wealth, but has also brought about pollution issues amongst others, which China is addressing now (reduction of reliance on coal, banning it in Beijing altogether, tho not completely eliminated, massive reforestation projects and becoming the global leader in green-technology)

^This is taken from leohezhao.medium.com "The Long Game and Its Contradictions" a generally great article imo.

What I don't know at all is if there was anything like a rivalry between Deng and Mao? I ran out of time so if anyone can shed light on that i'd be happy. Nevertheless I'm certain Mao would have been happy with the results of Deng's reforms.

Oh yeah. They worked out some weird pyramid-theory right? I have heard about it in conversation a week ago, but haven't had time to look into it. I agree with a comrade of mine tho; simply making everyone the imperialists doesn't help u at all in analyzing the world.

Well said! The only ones who actually care about the people are us.

The one thing that stood out to me was patriotism at first. Just cuz I hate patriots and nationalists here in the west. But in a socialist country being a patriot makes way more sense out the gate. So all in all, I'm digging these values. Does anyone know who formulated them?

I'm in that situation rn. Currently in the process of ending a 3 year relationship with a girl I was previously friends with. Thing is, we won't be able to cut eachother out, because the people she calls friends are mine also. So, if we were to go that route, she'd stand there without any good friends on her side, and I would feel terrible for her. That's why it's totally fine for me if we were to stay friends, because for me it's pretty easy to just keep my distance and respect her.

But it would depend on how the relationship comes to an end. I talked with people who said after half a year of not conversing or meeting with them at all, they could normally talk with them again without any bad emotions.