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I heard that Yugoslavia had markets and stuff, is that true?
I'm unable to update my display name or change my theme. The matrix room link also seems to be dead. Not sure the best way to contact an admin. Thanks!
The admins of lemmy.ml seem communist and one of the admins nutomic have a picture of Fidel Castro as their pfp and one of the popular people Yogthos has a Soviet Cosmonaut as their profile.
I hear sometime people call a certain movie 'the greatest movie ever made' but what's the criteria?
I want to read philosophy which books should I read first
Hi, I am a young student and am going on to university soon. I am interested in helping causes and organisations like unions and such for a profession. I thought of doing political science, but that's not very agreeable to my parents. So I thought of doing economics however I'm not sure how employable a pure economics degree is and whether or not I can stomache the neoliberal economics. If anyone could provide some of your own experiences and help me I would appreciate it.
Hello, Why is every "anti-revisionist" marxist an ultra? "Anti-revisionism" is so amogus because they claim to be the opposite of who they are
Sorry the title's bit wordy but basically I'm looking for stuff like debates that were had within the party and what ultiamtely led to the party signing off on the limited reintroduction of markets.
Hello, You can say the 1961 was when communism was at its peak. But SU was always far weaker than the West. China today alone is as strong as America, and the West is fighting expensive imperialist wars they can't win (Afghanistan, Al-Ghazzah, Russia trade war). We don't have a new Warsaw Pact or COMECON, but China is a huge country of 1.5 bln people, more than Warsaw Pact
I'm just wondering what their views are on other AES countries since they welcome private investment, except for DPRK of course
I know this question will sound silly to some, but suppose a group of people in a low key third world country decide to make their own commune. They work together to build up farming and industry purely based on their own need, and slowly expand to accomodate their needs. I understand Communes are viewed as ineffective, but a commune like this would be meant to grow, not just remain isolated. It would inspire communes in other areas, and it would aim to expand. I see a couple of issues with this: - not all countries can do this. For example, Palestinians living in Palestine will suffer trying to do this. But most countries can, right? - it will only benefit the tiny group of people within proximity to the commune. But the commune can 1) expand and 2) inspire communes in other locations - some needs are hard for a small commune to make, such as computer chip manufacturing, and other things they will need to get from the non commune world But still, I can't see this as less than a good step forward?
I can't pay 10 $ monthly for someone's patreon, but those juicy premium episodes are so enticing, I need them. Help me with this, please 🥺
I couldn't even hack stalin's explanation rip 😢
I have to write a summary paper for a class I'm doing for my masters degree, and since the professor running the seminar this semester specializes in data visualization, the paper has to be related to that. Being the aspiring Marxist that I am, I figured international trade between countries (what commodities are being exported/imported, which countries are exporting to/importing from whom, what fraction of a country's imports/exports are of a specific commodity, etc.) would be a good choice. While I'm going to look for papers myself, I figured I would have a higher likelyhood finding someone into that stuff on Lemmygrad compared to other online spaces.
I mean think about it. You just need a library card (usually free if not always) and you can get anything a library offers for free with no fees. This use to be just movies, books, music CDs (think early 2000's and 1990's but now you can even get new video games for free. (physical copies) it's a collective resource for a lot of media based products. Most countries, (if not all) have and tend to support public libraries. but is this a good communism service. when looking at communist principles? What does the community think?
Title. Is it because looser adventurism gets more headlines? is it an image thing? Dunno how to articulate reliably what I'm thinking, just seems like all I hear about are "anarchists squat building", or about food not bombs (admirable work so I hear), or is it just down to difficulty in organising in other groups?
Dear comrades, School has me reading criminal law and included economist aspect: Marxist theory on punishment. Anyway they keep quoting this Otto kirchheimer as a marxist writer, but it seems that guy worked for the predecessor of the CIA.... So obviously I'm very skeptical about it. Anyone of you have any good sources on Marxist take on criminal law/punishment
China campits exist. There are fantastic sources of information about China who are not even remotely Marxist and just support China for whatever reason. I am wondering what percentage of China supporters do you think that applies to?
Trade unions seem like a handy way for workers to organise, albeit with some exceptions, like say cop unions. - What place do they have in socialist society? They exist in at least Cuba and China, but Solidarity in Poland enjoyed CIA funding. - What benefits do they offer workers in these societies that aren't already offered by a socialist state, or do they serve a different role? - How does one convince people of the benefit of trade unions in spite of their fear of corruption of said unions in non-socialist states? Again, I could be going about it all wrong but yeah. Thanks!
One of my buddies is a hardened anti communist who thinks communists only create famines and genocides. He linked the wiki page of the Kazakh famine and I can only assume its the most biased crap out there. I need sources about what really happenned and caused the famine. Thank you comrades!
This is my current MINIMAL understanding of German politics: AfD- THE fascist party in Germany. Absolute dickheads BSW- Corporatists...? They seem incredibly odd. Maybe nazbol? CDU, SPD- Bog standard neolib right wing twats, don't know anything else. Die Linke- Demsocs? Haven't heard much about them, but know they're not commies, obv. KPD, DKP, SGP, MLPD- No idea. Assuming DKP is nazbol because the name Can i get some help? Don't know who i should look into/support.
I wanted more sources so I can read more details about this. From the economic perspective, I have the following source: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428 However, I am missing how the dictatorship of the proletariet works in this country.
I'm really getting tired of vapid historical analysis which completely sidelines any notions of class, or literally anything other than the mainstream misconstruing of history though great man theory
Opinion on the book "The Shortest History of the Soviet Union" by Sheila Fitzpatrick ? It has lots of good reviews online, but I am not confident in the opinions of those giving the reviews.
So here is my dilemma. We import all food and goods, too small for agriculture. Our main economy is built on financial services and tourism mostly. Our social safety net and most of our let's say, liberal left leaning policies are being eroded as time goes by, which is not ideal, but is still better than nothing I guess. However, since we trade our service based economy for essentially everything else, how does socialism help a nation so dependent on the world around it being capitalist to survive?