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Sometimes I think about the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and get sad over what could have been
Whoever edited/translated this Penguin Classics edition of The State and Revolution is such a turbo-lib, my god. This preface started off fine as a historical context and introduction to what Lenin and the bolsheviks were up to prior to the October revolution but after that it completely falls apart into really blatant revisionism and hard-boiled anti-authoritarian snark that I’ve come to expect from only the most blue-checked among us. I think this is what will get me to skip all these introductory editorials from now on…
This is exactly what happened to me with the spanish version of “The State and Revolution”. A turbo lib did the preface and it was full with anticommunism. I wonder why bother doing a preface then.
Simple. These are warnings for libs. In the unlikely event a lib picks up State and Revolution, they’ll be armed in advance with all the usual thought terminating cliches.
As my wife says, there’s a reason they put it in the beginning and not after everything else!
Lol I started listening to the audible version of the Spanish translation of capital and returned it within about half an hour. I thought the whole thing had been rewritten. Maybe it was only the editor’s intro after all.
This preface is seriously like almost a third of the total length of the text. I subjected myself to way too much of it hoping it would get better before just skipping it. I think all the explicitly Marxist texts have something like this going on; never once did I see stuff like this in Proudhon or Kropotkin.
Really funny seeing the in-fighting between the “civility and democracy” libs and the “trump is the worst thing since Hitler” libs right now.
Is it just me or is there more and more youtube vloggers going to china?
AFAIK since last year you can go to China without needing a visa for I think up to 2 weeks
are you sure? the least restrictive rules I can find online limits visa-free travel to China to 144 hours (6 days) in the case of transit through major ports and cities for the nationals of 54 counries.
Might just be for EU countries
OK appatently only a few countries can benefit from this policy
spoiler since its a long text
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China announced on May 6, 2024 that visa-free policy provided to citizens of 12 countries including France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands was extended to the end of 2025, which was previously effective till the end of November this year. Benefiting from the policy, citizens of these 12 countries can enter China without a visa and stay for at most 15 days.
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From May 15, 2024 on, all foreigners, in despite of their nationalities, arriving in China by cruise ship can enjoy visa-free stay for up to 15 days. The allowed stay areas are the whole China coastal regions including Shanghai, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and its capital Beijing. But please be aware that they need to join a group tour operated by a local travel agency, each with 2 or more members; and leave by the same cruise.
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China will grant visa-free policy among New Zealand, Australia and Poland passport holders from July 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025.
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/china-visa-free-policy.htm
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I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too!
No u! :D
That smile at the end!
You too, Reno 12
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oppoI can’t believe it, a different song
Is it? I don’t think I listened to this video with sound
that would indeed make it difficult to determine whether the music was different
U2
You too Oppo!
oppo my beloved
this could be us
But you had to be a liberal
Me? A liberal? Never! I am a republican.!
Cool globe
Do you condemn Azov tho
And Right Sektor?
Hexbear is currently experiencing a server outage, will update when its back.
It’s because of the trans thread isn’t it
1400 comments broke the site lol
But the October 7 post had like 3k right?
Yes and the largest hexbear post ever has like 6990 comments, doin a bit lol
on two threads
Trans mega STRONG
The stalinist mods have attempted multiple times to stop us. They can’t say it is the reason as they have to keep up a facade of queer acceptance, but we know the truth.
You, yes you. Go read The Flaming Heart by Maxim Gorky.
hexbear down :/
How am I supposed to slack off at work now
Bruh I even made an account here cuz it happens around this time every morning and I was bored.
I need my Hexbear. How am I supposed to show how sad I am about hexbear being down without all the hexbear emojis??
⚡️SUMMARY of Al-Qassam’s spokesperson, Abu Obeida:
• We remind the world that the Al-Aqsa flood was not the beginning of the resistance work, but rather was the explosion in the face of the enemy’s crimes.
• 9 months have passed since the start of Al-Aqsa Flood, and our people are still exposed to Zionist-American aggression and genocide.
• 9 months have passed and our resistance is not tired, and we are still resisting without external support of weapons and supplies, and our people are still steadfast without food or medicine.
• The crimes of the occupation culminated in systematic cleansing and extermination in the West Bank, Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip.
• The occupation army uses civilians as human shields, bombs homes, and invades hospitals.
• Independent opinion polls show, after months of aggression, how our people are rallying behind their resistance.
• Our fighters are fighting the enemy with a great fighting spirit, as if they were in the time of the Companions [reference to The Prophet (pbuh)]
• Throughout the war, all of our 24 battalions fought from the farthest part of Beit Hanoun to Rafah, and the performance of our resistance fighters improved every time.
• The world saw through the enemy’s crimes in Gaza the lies of international organizations and the alleged impotence of human rights laws.
• There is no place in Gaza for forces holed up in homes like thieves, nor for officers hiding behind armored vehicles.
• We presented righteous martyrs, soldiers and leaders at all levels, but the flag will not fall and will not fall.
• The battle of Rafah, which has been ongoing for about 2 months, and what is happening in Shuja’iya and the northern and central Gaza Strip is the greatest evidence of the strength of our resistance and the failure of the enemy.
• The Netzarim axis will be the axis of terror, God willing.
• We confirm that the Al-Qassam’s capabilities are very well in tact, with God’s help, and that we were able to recruit thousands of new fighters during the war.
• The ability of our fighters to fight and withstand has become greater and greater, and the fire of revenge that the enemy has ignited is enough to burn him and destroy all his plans.
• (‼️) What happened on October 7 will be insignificant compared to what we will reveal in due time.
• All Netanyahu is doing is trying to escape the failure that will haunt him throughout his life.
• A due tribute to Hezbollah, the Palestinian Resistance factions in Lebanon, AnsarAllah in Yemen, and the Iraqi resistance.
• The response of our people in the lands of 1948 to what they are exposed to is coming inevitably and at the hands of our heroic people.
• We are still keen to stop the aggression, and we are with you and for you.
• We have documents that we will reveal at the appropriate time and will show how we carried out a complex strategic deception of the Shin Bet and the enemy’s security system.
• Expelling an ambassador or severing ties with an enemy that is exterminating Arab Muslim people has become a dream for a great nation that has dominated the nations of the earth for centuries.
think there might have been some translation issues with the last bullet point, I can’t quite parse it.
someone gotta make a temporary news mega thread on c/worldnews
the (‼️) one has me poggers… make October 7th look insignificant? YES PLEASE
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This one looks like a bad (AI?) summary. The section of the speech it likely came from is below. Full text here.
🟢 Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman, Abu Obeida, in his speech today, July 7th, 2024 (3/4):
The intelligence documents recently revealed among the enemy about the resounding failure on October 7 are trivial compared to what we will reveal at the appropriate time, Allah willing, with documents that will be harsher and more difficult, showing how we managed to execute a complex strategic deception against the Shin Bet and the enemy’s security system for years.
what about this book? any thoughts
“Tyranny of the Minority”
Sounds like a libertarian screed
Who’s the author?
remembered I have a lemmygrad account today
welcome back
Missed you this week ngl, big things happening in the megas on bearsite
lemmygrad really gotta up your emoji game ffs. Only ONE (1) salute emoji? My brother in christ we have one for like every famous communist.
lies and slander, we have too
Hexbear is back so now I can flex on you
joke’s on you, I have my own emoji picker which enables the use of Big Emojis
Hexbear is ruining my fun
Lmao it was so funny how mad people got at the giant hexbear emojis when we first federated.
Now you know the struggle against revisionism by looking up Hexbear emotes on Github smh
I’m at a bar on my phone too much trouble.
Yeah I only use them on desktop
I’ve been on here for good while now and I still don’t know how to use emojis not gonna lie. I think we only got them on lemmygrad recently so maybe people arent used to using them yet
Damn i really dont pay attention thank you
Cries in Jerboa…
Cute little alien!
My parents found a lil birb
The birb is the word
I found a little crab on my window yesterday. I live on a second floor, somewhat near the sea. I still don’t know how he got up here. I put him inside an old red lunchbox and freed him near some trees.