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Banned orioler25@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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16 hours ago
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Removed Comment I normally wouldn't respond to these kinds of comments after seeing the gap here, and I want to make it clear that I won't be reading or responding to any more from you after this. I also see that you have left two comments for some reason, but I'll respond to both here. **Yes**, the fundamental concept of property is a pivotal question in socialist and anarchist scholarship; especially so after the rise of poststructuralist and decolonial analytical frameworks emerged in the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. On that note, I'd recommend that you not take the writing of a white man from over 100 years ago as your only understanding of socialist thought or even practical applications of the socialism that existed during his time; even if only because such a lack of criticality is bad for effective change. I wonder why someone with this shallow understanding of these ideas would reference Lenin and not Lukács if they're so into Leninism? Have you ever asked yourself that? (Reminder, I'm not asking these questions with the intent to get an answer for myself) by orioler25@lemmy.world
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16 hours ago
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Removed Comment Yes, that is what I have referenced. This way of thinking is incapable of making sense of that as it attributes the inequities to a small group of individuals in positions of power than systems of power. How are *all* of you so uninformed? by orioler25@lemmy.world
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16 hours ago
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Removed Comment Oh, I didn't realize this was a LARP community, my apologies. Most socialists I engage with are interested in pragmatic action and are typically interested in socialist scholarship. Have fun. by orioler25@lemmy.world
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2 days ago
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Banned flabberjabber@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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2 days ago
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Removed Comment Can we have some academic references for your claims OP? Here are mine: Mandarin is now the primary medium of instruction/education for approximately 95% of schools in Tibetan areas, including kindergartens. We have a large body of verified statistics and independent institutions that show this clearly: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/18/7267 https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/03/05/chinas-bilingual-education-policy-tibet/tibetan-medium-schooling-under-threat https://www.right-to-education.org/resource/chinas-bilingual-education-policy-tibet-tibetan-medium-schooling-under-threat Tibetan educator and researcher Gyal Lo has projected that up to 70% of Tibetans in China may lose the ability to speak their mother tongue by 2030 if current trends continue. This projection is supported by a wealth of academic studies: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/tibets-invisible-languages-and-chinas-language-endangerment-crisis-lessons-from-the-gochang-language-of-western-sichuan/994D3B3CFDFEA96C30F022369F1DB1FD https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29033477/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324778661_Tibet%27s_Minority_Languages_Diversity_and_endangerment Also, in terms of the overarching theme you're engendering, the idea that Tibetans do not experience oppression or persecution, here's a summary of most of the ways in which that provably isn't true. I haven't referenced these as it would take quite a bit of time; but much of it is well documented and you're welcome to conduct a literature search if you'd like: -military suppression of uprisings, -political imprisonment, -torture and deaths in custody, -restrictions on religion, -interference in Buddhist institutions, -suppression of Tibetan language, -cultural assimilation policies, -mass surveillance, -censorship and speech restrictions, -forced relocation of nomads, -environmental displacement, -economic discrimination allegations, -coercive labor allegations, -restrictions on travel and foreign access. Many of these same allegations can be levied at governments such as the Americans; but to differing proportions and often historical rather than modern contexts (excluding Trump). However, rather than one being preferred, it is my opinion that any immoral and unethical system of government does not deserve the support of the people. The fact that you're trying to garner support for just another form of tyranny is at the least concerning and at the most likely duplicitous and an attempt at manipulation from said government itself. In other words, in all likelihood, *waves at the Chinese intelligence system running this thread*. by flabberjabber@lemmy.world
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6 days ago
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Banned ayyy@sh.itjust.works from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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9 days ago
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Removed Post On AI Usage
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10 days ago
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Banned fadirafaat [ey/em, ey/em]@hexbear.net from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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10 days ago
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Banned null@lemmy.org from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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13 days ago
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Banned Retail4068@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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13 days ago
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Banned hoch@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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15 days ago
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Removed Comment Both the pro-Russian demonstration and anti-pro-Russian counterparty were far right. Right Sector organized football fans (anti-separatists). Anti-maidan (separatists) organized tituszki. > By “that did it” do you mean the ones that committed the terror attack or the ones who organized the march? Right Sector is likely the culpirit for the terror attack. by ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
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15 days ago
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Banned ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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15 days ago
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Removed Comment Communist Party of Poland in recent years was marred with scandals of it's secretaries being in cahoots with far right Confederacy party. Taking and doing are not the same. Them waving USSR flags does not make them socialist. by ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
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16 days ago
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Removed Comment They're still privileged over the workers, and that bore out in the USSR and basically every other state socialist experiment. We should learn from that, not stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the weaknesses in the philosophy just because it's convenient. It's almost cult-like: “Create a state, my followers, and you will get true communism.” Your solution to abolishing the state is to replicate the state with more rules and different bosses, but that has never worked. You can call that arrangement whatever you want; it does not change the material relationship when workers are still subordinated to a privileged layer above them. by MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
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18 days ago
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Banned ElectricVocalist@jlai.lu from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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20 days ago
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Banned massi1008@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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Removed Comment Ah yes China, the totally peaceful country with no border conflicts whatsoever and no aggressive military actions against anyone <3 I really need to watch the video again where two PLN ships ram each other trying to capsize a Filipino vessel in Filipino waters. That one was very funny. by massi1008@lemmy.world
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23 days ago
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Banned TheTechnician27@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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1 month ago
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Banned Beetschnapps@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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1 month ago
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Banned Crashumbc@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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1 month ago
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Banned Egriaga@lemmy.ml from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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Banned mojofrododojo@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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1 month ago
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Banned Fizz@lemmy.nz from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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1 month ago
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Banned BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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1 month ago
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Removed Comment Yeah they definitely upped that policy from one of the worst on the plant ages ago in (checks notes)... 2025 🙄 Just tankie shit 🤷‍♂️ by Retail4068@lemmy.world
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1 month ago
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Banned droopy4096@lemmy.ca from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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1 month ago
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Banned Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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2 months ago
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Banned lemmylommy@lemmy.world from the community Socialism@lemmy.ml
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2 months ago
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Removed Comment Is the most recent dip because assassination by the state has had an uptick or what? by 9point6@lemmy.world
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2 months ago
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Removed Comment Still, where is the data from? Especially regarding North Korea? P.S. Oh, now I see the post is from lemmy.ml. All right then. by circledot@feddit.org
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2 months ago
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Removed Post We Haven’t Received Donations for a While… But We Are Grateful 🤍
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2 months ago
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Removed Post China and Russia will always let you down
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3 months ago
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Removed Post I need $150 for my family and me to cover our basic needs. Please, I kindly ask for your help.
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4 months ago
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Removed Comment if humans need to eat, need shelter, and need a place to stand, any "socialism/communism" concept would need to start with an accomodation for feeding/sheltering/giving a space to everyone. dont "label" it away, just cause im trying to do something new, and youre used to arguing for pre-existing theories! youre pre-existing theories had their chance. by Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world
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4 months ago
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Removed Comment please read the above "long" comment i wrote, in full ^ see it? the really long one i wrote to someone else. this should answer your comment by Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world
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4 months ago
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Removed Comment please read the above "long" comment i wrote, in full ^ see it? the really long one i wrote to someone else. this should answer your comment by Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world
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4 months ago
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Removed Comment ok all youre convincing me of is i should come up with my own name for own ideas, but, how will i pass it then to the only people who would care about it, the people who are already into the most similar idea, only called "socialism/communism" so far? how bout "a new socialism/communism"? no? okay well if i call it agrarian utopianism youre gonna call me pol pot; im not fucking pol pot!!!! hahahaha geez. that guy was a total tool and fool, and no subsequent idea of a system that includes thoughts about general sustenance should be "labelled away" uncritically. meanwhile, i think, and im the one doing the thinking here, that actually my system is more reminiscent otherwise of what was called socialism/communism, because this idea above isnt the whole of it, this is the just the start of it. Its not "only this" ^. i have lots of ideas for how everything else would go on top of this. this is just sort of the "first right" on my "world bill of rights". if i started reading the bill of rights to you, would you cut me off after the first sentence and say, "thats not enough, and thats dumb!" ? haha. i dont see why anyone could possibly disagree with me about this above ^ people need food to live. maybe i should come up with own name for it, how bout "fancy space pants", the system. what group does that go in. anyway if you wouldnt want to work on a farm to grow free food to give to others for free (a lot of people dont), would you at least want to make it so that anyones able to grow their own food? isnt that fair enough? more fair? how bout you could also have communal farms if you wanted, but this way, people dont even have to work on those if they dont want to, and they can still feed themself. maximum freedom is one of the goals of this system. a lack of freedom mind you is one thing that people hated about communism. this isnt libertarianism either. this is a complete, rethinking, of "the system" (whatever it is), from the ground up, this is just the very first item/conversation of that larger conversation. this is where it starts- the most fair way- i think- and id love to hear comments about making it even more fair if possible, which i havent heard yet. just "hey wait this isnt marxism!" like i said to begin with, this isnt marxism, in so many words. yet, marxism is otherwise the closest historical precedent to any idea like this. cmon this does not go in "shitposting", the community. or "memes", the community. cmon this goes right here. you can deal with someone rethinking marxism, marxists. you can also deal with someone outdoing marxism. marx was no savior or wed all be saved. admit it needs a little work somehow as a concept. actually i do have a name for the whole eventual system, i call it either "freetime communism" or "science communism" (or "planet vulcan"), and i can explain these. its not quite like marxist communism but i do think thats the closest word otherwise for the concept. there are basic things that all people need; we start a system that handles those. there are things people want beyond the basic necessity; we do a system that handles those also. in the end mine looks something like ok agrarian communism mixed with science mixed with freetime and some capitalism. its kind of like a hybridized system that takes care of everyones needs and wants, as long as theyre decent. takes care of three kinds of people sufficiently: if you want to do as little as possible, work with others as little as possible, and just live and enjoy life on your own, ok this system provides that to those people. if you want to pursue as much pleasure as possible, ok you can spend your time doing that. it can include trying to acquire wealth; you need to at least come up with something to trade others, and the people who want to do that can have a system of money on top of the other things between each other. their basic needs are being met, but if they want to start luxury restaurants or build luxury watches or whatever, they can do that and trade those things with each other, they can even have their own system of currency for that between each other. but, in this system, its not like that deprives anyone else of the ability to eat or live. in this system you wouldnt need money; money would be an available option though for people who want that for luxury goods trade between each other- this is for the purpose of not restricting peoples freedom, as much as possible- this is the major problem people have with communism. now for my third type of person, the one that im really supportive of and want to emphasize- the people who see the value of just being scientists and using their working time for that- my hope would be that most people would want to just be a type of scientist for their dayjob, and the most obvious feature of this system would be lots of collective laboratories basically and research groups, exploration groups. my hope would be that most people would want to work on science discovery, environment/ocean/space exploration, invention. i think if you made it so that nobody needed to worry about basic survival in life, then everyone would want to do something really meaningful with their life instead of "just a definitely reliable job of any type to make money" which results of course in all of us wasting our time. science is the best thing we have and how we define ourselves; the animals that have tools and knowledge so they dont have to be just animals. (even though my system provides at a start for how we could all just be animals). thats just to take the pressure off, so that no ones like "well i have to join an office job where ill push papers around, cause those are the most stable jobs and i can definitely get one". cmon thats not an impressive general use of humans' time. humans are impressive for their inventions and discoveries and collective knowledge; we should emphasize that. retool ourselves to just really focus on that as a community. i think we should basically keep normal work hours that we've already established, like 9-5 M-F, and everyone can still do whatever they want for fun and pleasure in their freetime and on their weekends. but i think basically you should take care of everyones basic needs in the most efficient, sensible, fair way practicable, and then basically give them all science jobs, with a provision for how if anyone really doesnt want to do that they dont have to, and if anyone really just prefers the older way of doing things, theyre still able to do something like it. its like communism but with freedom and with sensible direction, a purpose. a thoughtful, decent purpose. when humans arent using their best talents (vocal cords and opposable thumbs allowing them to share, store, and build collective knowledge, and, to build any kind of tool or move the earth in any manner, transport themselves however they please, etcetera).... when arent doing the best things theyre capable of theyre wasting their time. by Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world
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Removed Comment no im not, because these basic plots of land would be given to each person by everyone else; making it a novel sort of communism or socialism; it's a pro-social, communal ownership, overall. the plots are essentially communally owned; if you die it goes to a next person. it's completely free to you and you don't pay taxes on it. it's your private piece of land while you're alive, but all the land is owned and distributed by all the humans at once, collectively. it's based on the idea that all people have a right to live as a native, if they want, and they should at a minimum be provided with the ability to do this. you should be able to live as a native, at a minimum, without being bothered. this system provides that basic sustenance. i think this is the minimum right of any human, which is a sort of feral animal after all on this planet like any other. the great shame of modern life is that we've taken away the ability of anyone to take care of themselves naturally- you have to do a series of other unrelated things just to get food- this takes care of that, from the beginning. no pressure to compete for a job or to start a gang, just so you can eat. youre an animal. you should be able to eat and live for free, at a basic minimum, on planet earth. you should be able to have a sustenance plot somewhere. in fact, this should be a free, basic right, that you use as basis to reform the world over. it starts with this idea. everyone has a right to be an animal- thats what they are- so everyone should have a right, and an ability, to live off nature in the normal sense. in our society, no one is given land to begin with, and its hard to get, and its all owned, and you have to pay taxes on it, and youre not just given food or this stuff called money that you otherwise need to get food, and to get that stuff called money you have to do x y and z and jump through a series of other hoops, and it becomes distanced from actual survival to a point where people feel insanely pressured, and it ends with them cheating against each other to get ahead because they think life is so unfair and hard. lets make it easy on everyone, no pressure. if you just want to live lets basically equip everyone to do that. then lets rebuild the good stuff about the rest of our society back up on top of this system. if you want to do more than just live, whats good to do? what other activities beside just living should be encouraged? can you admit that more than half the stuff that most people do is total bullshit and a waste of everyone's collective time? science is worthwhile, art and pleasure are worthwhile. go ahead name something else. science includes all discovery, all exploration, all invention. by Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world
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Removed Comment marxism-leninism and its direct subsidiaries are known for several catastrophic, millions-killing, devastation-famines, most notably in russia, china, and cambodia, as a result of communal farms that were atrociously poorly planned by people with no idea how to plan farms who were just eager communist beaureacrats. this disgusting track record certainly needs someone rethinking it. my system is nothing like those failed attempts. by Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world
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4 months ago
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Removed Comment ive looked at prior history and theory plenty! i think it would be better to rewrite and rethink it from scratch. i am very, and completely, familiar with the history of marx/socialism/communism and the states that have tried those. i dont need any lectures on those! by Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world
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4 months ago
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Removed Comment "in the middle ages there were famines every few years" nope and my system would obviously prevent that by Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world
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4 months ago
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Removed Comment suck it turd by andybytes@programming.dev
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4 months ago
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Removed Post Century of humiliation
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Removed Post Losurdo's Lies
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