This is how I stay somewhat optimistic. I tell myself that if any society has a chance of surviving the future long-term, it will require a type of planning and action that capitalism can’t provide. The future is tragic, but there’s hope. New spaces will open.
Ah. Well, that’s terrifying.
Thanks for the advice comrade. I’m have that feeling that people will “hate me” and I’m hoping they’ll either be happy I’m there or just not care - which are the two more likely outcomes anyway.
The worse case scenario is hell on Earth and my mind doesn’t even want to go there.
I’ve been wanting to find a reading list on why the USSR caved and contrast it to contemporary China to ease my fears - thankfully signs point to China being in such a different and better suited place. I know Hakim has videos on the topic, and one book I know of is Socialism Betrayed, though I haven’t read it. Curious if others have good suggestions. And I also don’t see the West backing down unfortunately.
I was trying to find some recent update on how much of the convention is planned to be virtual. I haven’t found anything definitive but I found a humourous take from a Notre Dame political scientist (always a source for laughs or frustrations) that denies anything would happen. I’m wondering if he’s a.) just covering and shoring up confidence, b.) he’s just one of many deluded political scientists, or c.) he represents how the dems are thinking about this and they are just this arrogant
A key reason for some Democratic leaders preferring to host the convention virtually is the potential for Israel-Palestine protests, which are reminiscent of the anti-Vietnam protests that took place during the 1968 Democratic National Convention — also held in Chicago.
But, according to Layman, this year represents a different time, a different war and vastly different local leadership. “The specter of the 1968 convention hangs over this a little bit since the last time we had these sorts of major campus protests against a sitting Democratic president and his foreign policy was in 1968,” Layman explained.
“But the context was completely different in 1968. We were many years into a very unpopular war with people in their 20s getting drafted into the military, and we had an old-style political machine running Chicago with a more aggressive police department confronting protesters. I think the probability of the Democrats having a repeat of 1968 is very low.”
Don’t know where
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
Every passing day he grows more evil
Isn’t that why they’re planning on holding it (or parts of it?) virtualy?
Trump will literally delete
the existence of food fromAmerica
But with Trump we’d have two genocides, maybe even three. 
That’s upsetting. The background levels of anti communism is so frustrating and I’m sorry it’s impacting people you used to work with. People can be odd :/ I imagine the anarchist-ish people I’m around would react the same way. Frustrating.
I hope PSL works out for you! I was somewhat involved with them years ago, but life events, moving, etc caused me to… well sorta flake or drop out. I’d like to get involved again but I guess I’m intimidated. I want to make sure I can and will commit. I don’t want to repeat what happened before. So getting in that position’s a goal of mine.
They weren’t Trots, but behaved just like them (there was another group in the city that was a Trot group, and they may as well have been the same). They were pro Stalin, anti-revisionist. And they were pro China before the 60s (interestingly I don’t think their break with China was due to Deng).
I think they just evolved into leftcoms. They didn’t like the Black Panthers, National Liberation movements, etc. because of ‘Nationalism’. They didn’t like that the USSR, China, and AES had money, so they were actually capitalist imperialist states. There is no transition period for them, we’ll just go straight to communism and if a society doesn’t do that then they are capitalists. They phrases everything, EVERYTHING, as a battle between workers and ‘the bosses’. They didn’t really think through any particular contradictions (they were pretty lazy lol). They always talked about how post Apartheid South Africa is in a worse state now because they didn’t push the communism button. Their writings from the 60s gloat about Che being murdered because he deserved it for spreading imperialism (Cuban imperialism anyone?).
Shit tier.
Yes … yes it is. This group bit off more than they could chew. Had good intentions, but no structure. No delegation, no accountability. Then it all fell apart when SA happened with one of the members
Around that time I also joined another group that was actually an ML group, or call themselves one. They were ultras though. Ended up being very chauvinistic and had juvenile takes. Like not believing in settler colonialism, saying the Palestinian and Israeli proletariat should join together, making blanket condemnations of nationalism and even the Black Panther Party, the USSR and China, and other horror stories. I’ve complained about it elsewhere here lol. I’ve had shit luck with groups where I’m at. I wish I had some actual advice, but I can definitely commiserate lol.
Israeli occupation fighter jets strike several locations in Lebanon
Israeli occupation forces strike multiple locations across Lebanon resulting in multiple injuries as tension along the northern occupied Palestine border intensifies.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in southern Lebanon reported that four people were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a detergents factory in Wadi Jilou, southern Lebanon.
Hours before that, the correspondent had confirmed that seven people were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting Beit Yahoun near the city of Bint Jbeil, also in southern Lebanon.
Moreover, our correspondent reported that Israeli airstrikes also targeted the towns of Siddiqin, Adchit, Odaisseh, and Kounine.
These attacks followed Israeli warplanes breaking the sound barrier over several areas in southern Lebanon around midnight
In response to the Israeli aggression, said the correspondent, a military target in the settlement of Metula came under direct fire from Lebanon around midnight.
Significantly, Israeli media reported that a suspicious object was intercepted in the sea off the coast of Nahariya in northern occupied Palestine, without the sounding of sirens.
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon issued its first statement for Thursday announcing the targeting of the al-Ramtha site in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Chouba using rocket-propelled weapons, confirming a direct hit.
Hezbollah’s Military Media also released footage of the Islamic Resistance targeting an Israeli military vehicle and its crew at the Adather site in northern occupied Palestine, as well as footage of targeting an Iron Dome platform at the Ramot Naftali barracks
Gross. Also, an aside, I hate this type of horror subgenre. The Catholic Church are always the good guys, or at least flawed but good. There was some horror movie I watched that retconned the whole inquisition as the work of a demonically possessed priest that fooled the smol bean Vatican. My wife is a big horror fan, but doesn’t like sci-fi horror :(, so I’ve seen a lot of these religious themed horror shows.
I’m sorry to hear and I hope all is well