[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting points, I could see the claustrophobia really becoming a problem.

What I had in mind was much smaller scale and not totally self sufficient, probably just aiming to grow a significant percentage of what we eat and share housing/land responsibilities and costs. But I'm also not the one with the know-how and there's just been mumblings about it, not solid serious discussion.

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks! Interesting to see people's perspectives.

I'm curious about the class/settler analysis, since it seemed like people didn't quite agree on that and I'm not really sure what to think myself.

Also I don't think I would aim to be totally self-sufficient or such a large scale, don't know if that makes a difference. But sounds like that may not be economically feasible from one person's experience.

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I've been thinking about having a small homesteading/subsistence farming commune kinda thing with some extended family and other people to insulate ourselves from increasing precaritization. Several family members are also interested in this kind of thing and quite a few have the relevant knowledge. This seems like it would be individually beneficial to us but I wonder if it's withdrawing from society too much. Or something.

What are y'all's informed commie opinions about this stuff?

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Wait what does 737max have to do with the Titanic

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Defending against accusations of genocide? Yes. Although the phrasing can sound odd because it is largely a fabricated narrative. I think most here would support China's actions as a deradicalization program against religious extremism, especially compared to the US solution in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq.

Tankie is really just used as an insult against "communists I don't like." It's not like it has any theoretical depth. It has an etymology related to the definition they gave you but that only has so much influence on its use.

Class war is the ongoing state of things. Like infation and rent hikes. If a revoluton broke out, of course it would be authoritarian. And the resulting state would probably take an extremely cautious siege socialism approach if it wanted to survive, so yes it would probably be authoritarian. But choosing to not be authoritarian is really just willfully ceding power to the previous ruling class who are not going to give up their position peacefully, even after a revolution. Think about the media narrative and war hawk stances against Cuba, the DPRK, the PRC. Now imagine that but applied to a newly founded socialist republic.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml to c/socialistmusic@lemmygrad.ml

Extremely based agitprop cantata/opera. In the anglo establishment it is caricatured as evil and aggressively misinterpreted, possibly because HUAC translated it to smear Brecht and Eisler. (This production does not use the HUAC translation.)

While the Birmingham opera pushes the misinterpretation that it is about sacrificing yoursef for your values, in actuality it is a parable about a young passionate revalutionary whose idealism fatally clouds their judgement. I suspect that the translation makes this less clear, but I do not know the untranslated text.

Bonus points, I can't tell if the production is ironic or not. The cringe framing device feels ironic but the interviewer mentions solidarity with rail strikers at the end, so I can't tell. Either way, some of the audience and choristers interviewed seemed receptive.

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Selling nukes on the blackmarket, notoriously uncontroversial and unambiguously GOOD and COOL

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

@kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml because they were the first to reply to this post, then replied to themselves AND @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml replied despite their rule of not engaging in discussion here that could affect the game.

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

You're taking away my freedom to experience urban blight, this is basically genocide

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

TFW you meet a Latin American student at a US university who only knows 1 word in Spanish "from his nanny".

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

My god, do you have the clip of that 😂

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Your repression in Xinjiang rivals the Soviet gulags.

lmao

Even better:

Your zero-Covid policy has, at times, transformed China’s great metropolises into vast and unlivable prison colonies.

and, pray tell, where exactly is China's "truculence" you speak of?

I hate that all the NYT is considered the cream of the crop and all the uni educated libs around me imbibe this crap uncritically.

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I don't know, I'm worried about this narrative. Youtube suggested some video claiming to expose secret Chinese police stations in countries around the world, and if this gets pushed in the mainstream then we could get the Chinese Exclusion act 2.0 or something. A few years ago the US already gutted university chinese programs by kicking out all the confucius institutes for baseless accusations of espionage.

[-] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

All the American liberals around me in my experience get uncomfortable if I so much as praise China's rail infrastructure and seem to think that Uyghurs have been poured into the concrete or something.

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