I took it out of the meme to avoid seeming cluttered, but I must mention that they don’t just want USian corporations to have the monopoly. Renewables are at odds with capitalism and capitalists know oil is more lucrative than less labor intensive alternatives. Ted Reese makes a strong explanation for the lack of adoption of hemp and solar in SoE.
You’re serious, aren’t you? 
Tbf a lot of people just want a petty bourgeois vacation.
The language on the next article 💀💀
I just want to read actual books, but I’m far more drawn to this unfortunately. It requires less focus.
I realized why turning off notifications works for some people and not me for reducing tech use. At one time I got many discord notifications, on another Instagram. Now all the notifications I get (on the off screen of my phone) are texts that I often don’t feel like responding to. Meanwhile I’m in the habit of constantly checking things like Lemmygrad because someone just might have replied to me. Lack of notifications don’t deter me because I’m used to opening my phone and refreshing. Suppose I should re-declutter.
from a protest
That’s true. It probably would’ve been good for capitalism, but the Empire had a lose lose situation, and of course they’re going to pick the more openly violent and antagonistic path.
If Trump’s re-elected and continues his anti-NATO position they’re fucked. Not that he wouldn’t open new fronts in the war against the world.
They’ve got some strong competition.
Early 2000’s Putin also wanted to join NATO…
from From Hell
It was such a good book idk how I haven't made this post yet. Just the introduction will have you hooked.
link to free download here or here
In summary, Ted Reese shows how Marxism Leninism is the way forward if we are to save the planet. It is largely a reaction to Fully Automated Luxury Communism and the general trend of people trying to reinvent socialism with utopian ideas in order to stop climate change. I actually read that right before, so it might be part of why I like this book. He explains how the TRPF is leading to the inevitable fall of capitalism in the near future. Anyone who denies that capitalism is reaching its final breaking point is in error. Labor theory of value continues to be vindicated. It's counter-tendencies cannot help it. Humanity looks pretty screwed with climate change, but socialism can enable innovation, stop extraction, and plan our way to a healthy world. Socialism will also employ easy technology and methods that capitalism refuses because it will undermine it's function. The path towards a new socialism is through studying the successes and failures of AES, not through trying to "discover" new forms, or repeating old forms. Principled Leninist tactics are the way.
This book gave me a lot of hope and I've recommended it to multiple libs (🤞). I highly recommend it.
Limitations:
It was published almost five years ago, so it's not all up to date on the geopolitics and so on. As we all know, the past few years we've had many weeks where decades happened. Reese takes a neutral position on China's socialistness, despite presenting evidence to the positive. He doesn't talk about decolonization, which makes sense for a Br*t, but that means it's not all encompassing. There is a lot of great info in there. It might not be easiest for complete newbies, but you don't have to read too much other theory first.
Here's some memes:
Long live ecosocialism!
I don't remember where I found out about Alasdair Macintyre. I looked it up on podcasts and most of the references were in liberal or outright reactionary podcasts, including one called conservative minds (hello, he was a marxist?).
I love making memes people won't understand.
Last month I did a digital declutter going without social media. Ironically, ceasing to consume memes only made me a better producer. I made many. Here’s a few:
I probably used the template wrong, but I like it. The left is from ‘The World as Will and Idea.’ The right is from ‘State and Revolution’ (which everyone should read).
This one’s immature, but it’s been in my screenshots for years, so why not?
Me irl. Fortunately, I was reminded that regular medical masks exist and I don’t have to wear N95 all the time. Before the liberal in the wall says I’m irrational, I must say that it saved me from a bad flu last week. I swear almost only communists take health seriously these days. People around me be coughing into their hands or straight into the air.
Fun, but obvious one. I like switching up the template though.
I read some new atheist from 2003 saying this shit and it annoyed me.
No comment.
Stupid thing I thought of
Socialism or Extinction is better than both
Last month I did a digital declutter going without social media. Ironically, ceasing to consume memes only made me a better producer. I made many. Here’s a few:
I probably used the template wrong, but I like it. The left is from ‘The World as Will and Idea.’ The right is from ‘State and Revolution’ (which everyone should read).
This one’s immature, but it’s been in my screenshots for years, so why not?
Me irl. Fortunately, I was reminded that regular medical masks exist and I don’t have to wear N95 all the time. Before the liberal in the wall says I’m irrational, I must say that it saved me from a bad flu last week. I swear almost only communists take health seriously these days. People around me be coughing into their hands or straight into the air.
Fun, but obvious one. I like switching up the template though.
Like the gun-owners aren’t mostly cowards too.