Yep, I’m aware. Seeing Lenin brought up and butchered is a new one for me, but nevertheless it makes sense. They start from the position that their liberal bias towards reformism is correct, and try to justify that with theory, rather than trying to understand the context and message actually meant.

Unsure where it’s listed, but you can find stats online.

Yep it’s abundantly clear.

For the devout anti-communist Rimu? Absolutely. Here’s the MOG thread discussing it.

I didn’t either, lol. Just @'d a certain “history major” social fascist from a Lemmy.ml thread, debunking claims about the 1930s soviet famine.

The problem here is that individualism isn’t an urban thing, but an aspect of the petite bourgeoisie, think small business owners. Urban areas generally are more pro-social than “fuck you, I got mine,” because production in cities is more socialized. When you are describing “collectivism,” you’re describing not collectivism but instead the communitarian aspects of traditional family units, which also change according to the mode of production.

To go back and re-explain individualism, communalism, and collectivism, think of it in terms of whose interests are primary. Individualists value themselves, communalists value their immediate communities, and collectivists value the entirety of society. This is of course an oversimplification as everything I’ve been explaining thus far has been.

Regarding fascism, I am referring to the historic phenomenon of fascism. Fascism evolved from liberalism, and rose in countries that were faced with the potential for working class organization internally, and a capitalist class in need of new colonies. This is true of Italy and Germany, and the US Empire in its settler-colonial heritage through today. It sounds like you are trying to redefine fascism from an observed phenomenon itself, to instead a way of categorizing systems, which is weaker in that it erases how to stop fascism entirely and how to predict where it rises.

As for Russia, annexing Crimea and the Donbass regions isn’t imperialism, Russia isn’t colonizing them. Both voted to join the Russian Federation. Russia is not a global monopolist power, it’s a nationalist country encircled by imperialists, hence why the war was sparked in the first place. NATO and the west is at fault for installing a Banderite regime in 2014, and violating the Minsk Agreements that were meant to avoid this conflict and resolve the Ukrainian Civil War between the Donbass and Kiev.

As for Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, both have very different political climates, stages in social progress, and levels of development. You’re reading too much into religion as a sole determinent.

As for how to view social progress, progress happens over time through struggle. Countries do not decide to be conservative, they have different stages in the development of the social struggle, how far it has gone.

As for individual traits being randomly distributed, again, it sounds like you’re arguing that different cultures are different at a genetic level, similar to how colonizers said those in Madagascar were naturally more submissive and wanted to be dominated by Europeans. I am not saying you are saying that, but it sounds like your argument can go in that direction, which is why you need to rethink it.

Lmao, fair

Seems people that post more than comment weren’t on the list, or maybe I am not familiar enough with the others.

To be fair, being banned does not mean you do not see it, just that they do not see you.

I agree that it’s ridiculous to use social media comments as evidence. Chinese workers work on average 46 hours a week. This is a fact, and the median is lower as the sectors 996 was found in before the crackdown raised the average, largely in Beijing and Shanghai, and largely in the tech sector.

Again, the practice has been cracked down on, and was largely in bleeding edge tech companies. It isn’t the backbone of the Chinese economy, nor is it the norm.

Insofar as the proletariat is invested in the system, you must use that system.

This is just bowing to sponteneity. The party’s role is to raise the consciousness of the proletariat to their level, not to remain where the working classes are at. That’s the purpose of political parties, to organize and create proletarian intellectuals as a counter to bourgeois intellectuals. Otherwise the proletariat stays at the level of trade union consciousness if it has no means to see the political struggle as a whole.

Stop dragging Lenin through the mud to justify supporting imperialists. Lenin’s point was never to just follow along with whatever is popular among the proletariat without analyzing if it’s achievable or not, it was to raise them to correct praxis.

Want to uphold Lenin? Start with an analysis of class, what’s the class makeup of the US Empire? Largely labor aristocrats, whose spoils have been eroding for decades. The petite bourgeoisie is solidly in the MAGA camp, and big tech capitalists have merged with the big finance capitalists as imperialism is decaying. The people are largely disillusioned in the electoral process. Settler-colonialism is still a primary contradiction internally.

What is to be done? Build up a party like PSL, that upholds indigenous rights and is trying to unite the proletariat at the front lines of every major struggle, both domestic and anti-imperialist.

You are misinterpreting Lenin’s work enormously. What Lenin is describing is fronting working class parties in bourgeois elections, like what PSL is doing, not working within bourgeois parties in bourgeois elections. This is abundantly clear if you read Lenin, Lenin’s central thesis is that the working classes need their own, united party, and that said party needs to combine legal and illegal work to grow. The DNC is not a communist, socialist, or even vaguely anti-imperialist organization, it’s an imperialist party representing capital alone.

You’re redirecting people to a pressure valve, rather than to disabling the genocide machine. You’re talking down on those actually organizing to end the genocide and trying to justify your own complicity in perpetuating it. The actual strategy is to build up organizations like PSL, which are hampered by people having any faith whatsoever in the DNC as a means to prevent harm (which they do not do anyways).

The problem is that those organizations are being built as we speak, and so should redirect people to those organizations. That’s realistic praxis. By pretending that these organizations will magically appear one day without needing to life a finger, you’re absolving yourself of the responsibility to do so and are calling “realistic praxis” upholding a genocidal system.

I’m personally no fan of his, given his transphobia and use of Marxism as a means to be a contrarion, rather than organize for change.

“Violent left-wing extremists” is a broad umbrella that reasonably covers Marxists as well, let’s not kid ourselves here.

Have you read anything else by Marx prior? It can be pretty intimidating if taken on at first. Personally, I found studying dialectical materialism, Marx’s method, to help dramatically with understanding Capital.

996 is illegal, and was restricted mostly to large tech companies. Modern working hours in China are around 44-48 per week, varying year to year.

You’ll get there!