Regardless of what you think about China, you need to realize that you, as an American, do not get to dictate to over a billion people about how they should organize their society. Chinese people can handle their own affairs, if they desired the overthrow of the CPC, they could make that happen. They by and large do not desire this, in fact the CPC is broadly popular with tens of millions of Chinese citizens. Do not even try to dismiss that fact with some foolishness like “propaganda” or “brainwashing” ect.

You know nothing about Chinese life or how an average citizen feels about their government there, reading foreign press doesn’t offer any insight into that. The nation-state of China is one of the oldest and most influential human institutions in history, and they will not be ordered around by some imperialist anglos again. I suggest you find a way to reconcile that with your personal opinions about them, and recognize that 1.4 billion people do not and will never have to care about you or what you think about them. So either give up your leftist aesthetics and just accept you are an imperialist, or figure out how to treat Chinese people as an equal competitor if not a friend.

Probably was Aldrich Aims, he’s is one of the best known American double agents and passed a bunch of lie detectors. He did it for money though so he’s not as cool as the Cambridge Five in my opinion.

Kendall Myers is his wife Gwendolyn were very based however. They worked for the state department and passed secrets to the Cuban government for 30 years out of ideological loyalty.

According to a “law enforcement official”, they were “true believers” in the Cuban system.[11] The United States federal affidavit quoted a diary entry by Kendall Myers as saying, “I can see nothing of value that has been lost by the revolution. The revolution has released enormous potential and liberated the Cuban spirit”,[11] and referred to Fidel Castro as “one of the great political leaders of our time.”[13] Other entries quoted reference a comparison of health care in the United States and healthcare in Cuba, and “complacency about the poor” in the United States.[11]

Unfortunately they caught him and he is now locked up at ADX Florence supermax facility, where they put all the terrorists.

I have a premonition that a socialist America will end up having to fight a fundamentalist Mormon insurgency in the rocky mountains

what we consider the foundations of modern liberalism (multiculturalism acceptance of gender and sexual minorities), is seen in Eastern Europe (specifically Russia/former USSR) as a controversial “western import”. It’s like the culture war in America, there are two different general cultural factions: westernizers and slavophiles. The disastrous economic changes the “westernizer” liberals brought to some parts of eastern Europe really soured their reputation. The Soviet Union and nostalgia for it are firmly culturally linked to the slavophiles, which are also consistently socially conservative on other issues (they are strongly tied to the Orthodox Church). In other eastern European countries like Poland the Catholic Church is still very dominant politically.

So I guess the answer to your question is that a lot of eastern Europeans are homophobic and racist because they think these ideas are just more western attempts to destroy their culture. People who are nostalgic for the Soviet Union tend to be anti-western for obvious reasons, and unfortunately cultural conditioning pushes them towards these backwards views.

part of that is that the whole faction is half-baked because it was rushed to release. Legion got the most cut from it, multiple towns beyond the Colorado were scrapped. And siding with the legion locks you out of a lot of other quests, so why bother?

Gorbachev wasn’t a full liberal he was a reformist and basically wanted social democracy. The liberal opposition that he at first championed with glastnost quickly outflanked him while the Soviet conservatives also hated him. His naivete and ineptitude destroyed the country by allowing liberal and nationalist forces (Yeltsin and his cronies) to tear the union apart from under his unsteady feet. The August coup was an attempt by the conservatives to force Gorbachev to fucking do something to save the country (several states had already declared independence at this point), but he couldn’t even be assed to take a side so the conservative had to try to throw together a new government overnight.

So he’s less of a sell out (that fits Yeltsin better) and more of a person who was just completely incapable of recognizing the situation and was overcome by more decisive forces.

Literally listening to some Ochs rn. (Miranda) He is so much better than Dylan, who fucking hangs out with Obama now.

yeah Sinclair said afterwards “I was aiming at the audience’s heart but missed and hit their stomach”

But tbh reading it I am not sure how you could come away thinking food safety was the main point of the book unless you were willfully ignoring the rest of The Jungle where the poor immigrant family gets scammed and exploited. Or maybe nice middle class people read that and think it’s just the will of the free market for the poor to be brutalized but eww I don’t want gross sausage.

guard is great you get to be like those historically incorrect descriptions of the Soviet Union, sending unarmed masses to soak up the bullets with their cheap bodies while your commissars shoot everyone who even thinks of running away. Great fun.

while I think joining an org is worthwhile and you should try, everyone should also know that not every org is worth your time and energy. Many are just lib shit door knocking for the Democrats, but even some “hard communist” ones will just make you sell stupid newspapers on the corner to teenagers. These orgs make you feel used, exploited for free labor even. Also especially with the communist orgs you run a good chance of befriending a undercover police officer who will fuck with you and the org, often undercovers get into the leadership position because it’s literally their job to be there unlike everyone else. So make sure you feel like you are actually participating in something you feel is meaningful. Maybe look for mutual aid like food not bombs

I hate driving, I hate maintaining a car, I hate having to own a car, and I hate what cars have done to our cities.

unfortunately forcing every American to buy a car allows the capitalists to squeeze like a cool $20k out of everyone which is “good for the economy” I guess because cars are one of the few things we still make here. Everything in this country is a fucking racket it sucks.

Sprite instead of actual lemonade is not excusable by “different language.” Do better, self-crit, read some lemonade making theory, apologize to those harmed by your caviler attitude towards soft drinks, and hold yourself accountable in the future.

goddamn it why did the fucking Europeans have to find the Incas when they were in the middle of a civil war such awful timing. I hate this person for reminding me of this tragedy because the Inca Empire was incredible before the Spanish burned it all down and looted an entire civilization.

fuck that’s why the price was insane when I looked into it last week

good to see capitalism slowly hanging itself at least

This…is art. it’s the cutting, vulgar destruction of our society I so desperately crave! @Shitbird you have achieved great things

nah the Clash were OG anti-imperialists. When Strummer found out that US pilots played that song whole bombing Iraqi civilians during the the 1st Gulf War, he said he broke down and cried. Named a whole album after the Sandinistas.

The Indochinese/Vietnamese Communist Party actually considered inter-party fucking to be incest. Party members called each other “brother” and “sister” not just as a sign of respect but also to forge sibling-like egalitarian bonds. Other types of relationships in Vietnam were very hierarchical, including husband-wife back then. Sleeping with your fellow party members was definitely as frowned upon as incest and could get you in serious trouble if you were in a leadership position.

In one story I read, an underground local city committee discovered their regional commander had pressured one of female guerillas into sleeping with him, so the other members of the city committee found their commander and slit his throat. Normally this would have had them killed themselves but when the city committee explained the situation the party agreed that the commander had indeed committed the crime of incest so his killers were forgiven.

Point of this: DSA needs to introduce the death penalty for sex pests in their ranks.

ah if course, the Teutoloid Head has been warped through papist devilry over the generations leaving them fit to only march around in random shapes and eat potato. Tragically prone to “crusader moment” spasms. Only by a conversation to Protestantism and a thorough washing can they be saved.

Russians are just naturally commies it has to do with their skull shape or something I think