You can democratically elect a party that will impose a 99% corporate profit tax rate.

Please, enlighten us and show where that was done. If it was never done, then no, you can’t.

This is my analysis of it, and I call myself Marxist. I’ve never seen a Marxist author delve into this subject specifically.

Antinatalism, as I understand, is an ethical imperative with an argument that goes like, “capitalism is a monstrous system, and I wouldn’t want to bring another human to this planet to suffer”. I will assume this is antinatalism in the context you brought.

First, suffering cannot be avoided. All humans, hell, all beings suffer. For one reason or another. Suffering is a part of living. But it’s not the only part. I feel antinatalists are nihilists out of touch with the beauty of life. Even in the most extreme circumstances humans face, there is still something to live for. Slaves can love one another, have admiration, respect, companionship or friendships with their fellow enslaved, shared hope for liberty, etc. Even under extreme examples of suffering, you can find something in life that is a valuable experience.

Second, having more kids, having less kids, having no kids, it makes no difference in the outcome of things. While a single antinatalist proclaims moral superiority because they don’t have children, millions of people are constantly having children daily anyways. Our social system will continue reproducing the capitalist mode of production irrespective of your choice of having children.

Honestly, if you are

1. able to sustain yourself and a partner economically, and even better if the partner also contributes too,
2. able to dedicate a larger part of your time on the life of a child than your own
3. able to handle your own frustrations and the frustration of others

then you should have children in my opinion. Or adopt children, if that’s not possible. I’m the opposite of antinatalist. Because your children will have a much better education with parents who study Marxism and are sensible to exploitation, to the struggles of the working class and the contradictions of the capitalist system. It’s quite obvious, if communists have more children, they will tend to have a larger generation of people educated as communists. The trouble is trying to handle being a worker/small owner, a mother and a party militant, unless all those aspects of your life were a single thing. Like Black Panther Party militant mothers.

In some instances, like in the cases of an ethnically persecuted population, having more children is actually a reasonable form of resistance.

Thanks, comrade

I guess that the bourgeois China was better than socialist China? Not sure either

I never understood what “war games” are

Excuse me

Progressive rock as in progrock or progressive as in the opposite of reactionary? 😂

Excellent work, thanks for sharing your readings with us, comrade

I think you are right, comrade. The installation now works 👍

But I had to load the modules with a2enmod proxy and a2enmod proxy_http

I found a recurring message in the error log:

[Sat Feb 24 02:21:57.081476 2024] [proxy:warn] [pid 614188] [client 213.32.242.176:47708] AH01144: No protocol handler was valid for the URL /_matrix (scheme 'http'). If you are using a DSO version of mod_proxy, make sure the proxy submodules are included in the configuration using LoadModule.
[Sat Feb 24 02:29:39.507804 2024] [proxy:warn] [pid 615347] [client 213.32.242.176:2635] AH01144: No protocol handler was valid for the URL /_matrix/static/ (scheme 'http'). If you are using a DSO version of mod_proxy, make sure the proxy submodules are included in the configuration using LoadModule.

etc.

Excellent, I’ve relayed this to the editors, we’ll see if there’s anything worth adding into

This is the Apache config @ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml @ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml @comrade_nomad@lemmygrad.ml :

	ServerName matrix.prolewiki.org
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/matrix.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/matrix_access.log combined

	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =matrix.prolewiki.org
	RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]




	SSLEngine on
	ServerName matrix.prolewiki.org

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/matrix.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/matrix_access.log combined

	Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf

	RequestHeader set "X-Forwarded-Proto"expr=%{REQUEST_SCHEME}
	ProxyPreserveHost On
	ProxyPass "/_matrix/identity" "http://localhost:8090/_matrix/identity"
	ProxyPass "/_matrix" "http://localhost:8008/_matrix"nocanon

	
		ErrorDocument 200 '{"m.server": "matrix.prolewiki.org"}'
		Redirect 200 /
		Header always set Content-Type application/json
		Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin *
	
	
		ErrorDocument 200 '{"m.homeserver": {"base_url": "https://matrix.prolewiki.org" } }'
		Redirect 200 /
		Header always set Content-Type application/json
		Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin *
	
	SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/prolewiki.org/fullchain.pem
	SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/prolewiki.org/privkey.pem

The only reason we use Apache is because there is more documentation for MediaWiki running on Apache webservers, but I’m considering transferring our stuff to nginx, not sure if that will be easy

Based on suggestions by Elara, I’m currently trying to deploy Dendrite.

I’ve installed it, managed to make it run, and currently is operating at matrix.prolewiki.org:8008. But I probably didn’t set up Apache correctly because matrix.prolewiki.org doesn’t redirect to it. Federation Tester shows we’re not correctly configured

Who knew racist pieces of shit would be racist pieces of shit

Political parties always have something to be criticized about, and parties make mistakes too. To publicly discuss those mistakes is not bias, it’s trying to reach towards an accurate description of the organization.

Of course, we also make mistakes too, so if you have something to add about the party which would improve our article, you can either write paragraphs here with sources, and the editors will put there after we verify it or you can also apply for an account on the wiki as well

I agree with others about not labeling oneself in if you’re introducing yourself. Labels are useful exactly for the reason you stated:

identifying oneself to new folks that let you “skip intro” and get into the results-focused conversations

The problem is, you have no way to guarantee that when you say “leftist”, “progressive”, “Marxist”, “Communist”, or similar, they actually understand what you mean. If they have no idea what Marxism, Communism is, they will probably bring to mind the preconceived notions of bourgeois ideology, and they will either ask more useless and tiring questions or will completely shut off contact with you

Also, smoking a pack a day had become part of my identity

Not many people realize this, but this is a part why many smokers have trouble quitting. Close friends of them smoke, or everyone associates them with smoking, so they also smoke to claim their own identity, or that of their group.

To stop smoking for your own sake, and for your own health is already a noble enough cause. You’re more useful to the revolution if you’re alive

Have any of you had luck with breaking down preconceived notions others may have?

I did, and I have many ideas for anyone wanting to better prepare themselves for these discussions.

I’d just like to be better prepared since apparently this is just something that happens to me.

Most people use [bourgeois] social media, ask them “out of curiosity”, if they use any social media. This will give you two valuable insights:

• first, the main source of propaganda which instructs their worldview. We can easily identify propagandistic discourse by noticing how common it is, sometimes even word for word repeated by numerous people.
• second, the place where you will engage with content related to their grievances, and debate with people in the comments. The comment sections of Facebook and Instagram, for instance, are very lively and from there you can engage with multiple people with access to online research for you to back your own views

It was there that I was able to master my debate bro skills

I agree, this could be nice, but we’re currently lacking editors knowledgeable on this particular area