GarbageShoot [he/him]

You can’t tell in the movie but in the script, all his lines and stage directions are written in greentext.

My friend, terms like “State-owned enterprise” can be helpful here.

Welcome to burgerland

Your apparent way of defining socialism and communism as “when the government kind of does stuff” and “when the government totally does stuff” are very bad and undermine the ability to describe either socialism or sectors of the economy. Markets and capitalism are not the same thing, just as public roads don’t make the US “partly communist”

I think the tarrasque probably gets an SUV.

If his horrendous Ukraine video is any indication, he won’t say anything with teeth.

Look Jack, if you don’t like it, you can vote for the other rapist

The hand has cyan in it

and take this seriously.

And you call me self-indulgent! More directly, it should be obvious to you that I wasn’t trying to substantively explain what “organizing” consists of, anyone could tell from the first sentence of my initial (and in fact I talk about what it is and isn’t under other comments in this very thread). I just wanted to talk about the problem of half-baked exhortations because both of our instances (admittedly mine much more than yours) have a problem with them. Is that bad? Do you have an “all top-level replies must be an answer to the post” type rule? It might be a problem with displaying across instances if that’s the case.

Ok, but what context is that sentence in? If you said “get involved with a group of activists even if you need to make the group yourself” to a neo-nazi, you aren’t really helping the communist cause, are you.

Comrade, what the fuck are you talking about?

You aren’t with saying “organize” either, of course. But

But nothing, it’s just a dumb argument, I’m sorry. You say different things to different groups.

I resisted saying it at first cause I didn’t want it to come across as a snarky gotcha, but

Your resisting was a good impulse and I wish you could have kept it up.

it seems relevant at this stage of our back and forth to point out that in your original post of dismissal, you did not in fact elaborate on what organizing means yourself. And within the back and forth so far, the furthest you have gotten is “get involved with a group of activists even if you need to make the group yourself.” Which has no inherent anti-imperialist, working class, or communist connotation within it.

Ironically, you make the same error here. Telling some chud to “Organize!” isn’t that useful. “Organize!” exhortations come after a transmission of ideas like “apes together strong” or “don’t blame Mexicans for your boss fucking you” or whatever, because the standard formula is to make an argument about values or facts of the world or whatever and then conclude with a call to action. Add one (1) additional tweet to the chain if you need to in order to prevent that call to action from being a single word; it’s really not that hard.

I said a sentence, not a full spiel. Literally “apes together strong” is probably a more useful political message than “Organize!”

We need infrastructure, General. Making a revolutionary army is the job of communist party, not militia adventurists or larpers. Jumping to “revolutionary” violence is putting the cart before the horse. If you want to shoot guns, join an SRA branch or whatever. If you feel like your only use is killing people, seek counseling.

Community defense isn’t about “doing fights” and nearly anything else you might mean is just adventurism (bad)

You never are in a situation where you can say exactly one word and therefore must pick the imperative “Organize!”, and yet all over the internet we see people saying remarkably little (imo because most of them don’t even know what they mean and therefore can’t explain it). A simple “get involved with a group of activists even if you need to make the group yourself” is much better and should clear up a substantial amount of OP’s confusion.

When someone says “organize” without further elaboration or context regarding what they actually mean, they are saying: “I am either so immensely lazy that I refuse to give even the most basic directions to a receptive audience or else I’m a poser who doesn’t know what they’re talking about”

The US military throughout East Asia is notorious for doing sex crimes

That’s just called using heuristics, friend, though if ADHD impeded their progress in math, maybe ADHD people rely more on heuristics than neurotypicals do.

NK isn’t telling South Koreans that they must leave their homes for being the wrong ethnicity.

I think it depends heavily on where you are, since there is at least one dedicated transitioning institution and other institutions that support transitioning, but then there are other places with virtually no support. It’s definitely something Cuba is better about.

You say that the soviet political education that you received was boring because it did not focus enough on contemporary and concrete issues, and this makes perfect sense. But do we need to throw away DIaMat? Wouldn’t it be better to relate DiaMat to existing issues to make it more concrete?

This is kind of what I was trying to get at when I suggested that perhaps Soviet education fell into formalism and phrase-mongering, but you expressed it much better than I did.