[-] Magnolia_Marxist@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

He looks lonely :(

[-] Magnolia_Marxist@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Ik. I wasn't trying to shit on you. Just had to do an info dump rq

[-] Magnolia_Marxist@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Warthunder, sadly

[-] Magnolia_Marxist@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Any American socialists who don't know anything of it really should considering its role in the Civil rights era (the 16th Street Church Bombing) as well as it being where the Alabama Chapter of the Communist Party originated and operated up until the 50s.

"In 1928, at the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International, an association of international communists, established the official line on the "Negro Question." Being that the region of the American South was dominated by cotton plantations and rich white elites despite a numerical black majority, the entire region would be defined as an "oppressed nation." The adopted resolution maintained that as an oppressed nation, African Americans had the right to self determination, (the control over political power as well as the economy,) and as such had the right to secede of the United States. In 1930, the resolution was further defined to account for the material differences between the North and South. The new resolution took the position that Northern Blacks sought integration and assimilation giving Blacks in the South the exclusive right to secession.

While it had been argued that South was impenetrable to radical politics and organizing, the Central Committee of the CPUSA chose Birmingham, the industrial center of the South, for the location of their headquarters for their newly establish District 17 chapter. This district encompassed, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

From 1928 to 1951, the Alabama Chapter CPUSA played its most important roles in terms of organizing and fighting against unemployment and the development of the Alabama Sharecroppers Union, a court case involving a group of falsely imprisoned Black youths known as the Scottsboro Case, and for basic civil rights such as voting, to sit on juries, as well as housing and employment equality."

(lifted from Wikipedia but the sources are solid Hammer and Hoe and Organizing in the Depression South: A Communist’s Memoir)

[-] Magnolia_Marxist@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Jon Frakes is a beast

[-] Magnolia_Marxist@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Is this the Saint Patrick's Battalion 2.0?

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I am as white as the day is long. I have never set foot outside of the south. I'm just starting Settlers rn and it is very insightful. It does, however, have me afraid of my own ignorance. I'm the only person from my neck of the woods that I would even call somewhat "progressive", but still. I am aware I was raised in privilege and surrounded by hate. (I even attended a segregated school for many years as a child...) I've always been pretty proud of how far I've come, but I feel like I still probably have some things ingrained in me that need to be smashed up. Recommendations welcome for all kinds of topics. I like to read and learn from whatever is put in front of me.

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