How do you get liberals to read?

Maybe this is a semantic thing, but communist parties actually don’t force revolutions. A revolutionary situation from capitalist crisis must occur for that to happen. This is clarified by Lenin. Trying to force a revolution before a truly revolutionary situation is an error ultra-left parties and orgs do and it ends up alienating them from the masses.

(Good) communist parties aren’t passive though; they build revolutionary consciousness, provide alternative systems for addressing people’s needs, and form networks with other organizations and unions and ultimately win over as much as the working masses and their allies that they can, so that when a revolutionary situation occurs the people have a party to turn towards. Communists don’t wait; they organize and prepare.

The most recent estimate outside of the US state department is well over 300k. That is taking into account the Lancet’s estimate of 186k by military violence earlier this July and estimating further indirect deaths due to disease and starvation based on previous conflicts of total war against civilians.

Gaza has likely already lost 20% of its population.

Liberal: “Russia is colonizing Ukraine!”

Meanwhile the majority of the country is now owned by Blackrock.

Not only that. Companies are now charging people extra for using cards, passing on their processing fees to consumers.

Well, several close friends reached out to end their friendship with me because I won’t vote for Kamala.

Saw this coming, because it happens every time there is an opportunity for liberals to go full fash, but still hurts.

The left needs to start arming themselves and investing in community self-defense

How many times y’all think Putin has watched the clip of Biden calling him President of Ukraine?

Pigs also have emotional intelligence. Unlike cops.

Yet.

Remember, they expanded the draft age just last week. You know, for no reason at all. /s

Liberals are gonna be seething if their kids eventually get drafted for a hot war with China under Trump. It’ll be our job to remind them that the draft expansion was introduced by a fucking Democrat.

Adding to this, there is no guarantee that revolution will be socialist either. It is more likely that the US balkanizes and descends into civil war between multiple factions that will occupy and go to war over different territories.

There may be socialist projects of various tendencies that arise and form from whatever entities take the US’s place. However, I don’t believe the US as it currently exists on its mainland would likely ever become socialist. Of course, anything’s possible.

When the rest of the world eventually embraces a socialist future, they will look upon the US the same way we look at the pathetic dwindling monarchies still existing in our current age of global capitalism.

The world can possibly only deescalate its nuclear arsenal under communism. As terrible as nukes are, anti-imperialist countries having nukes makes it less likely that the imperialists will use theirs.

Even then, “positive stereotypes” embraced by a community still cause a lot of harm, especially when those stereotypes originate outside the community. Like Asians being “model minorities” or Black men having “BBCs”

Every leftist Hollywood movie villain is always some extreme ultraleft accelerationist. See: Killmonger

And every leftist Hollywood hero is an anarchist.

Can’t wait for the day these racist cartoons are in the history books as an example of Amerikkka’s fascist dehumanizations, right next to the Nazis’.

Plenty, yeah. But also, plenty of people leave or are forced to leave their countries during revolution because revolutions and the periods after are violent times full of chaos. It takes a while for these countries to stabilize. It’s not always an ideological thing.

One can only hope this ruins neocon plans to start WW3 over Taiwan.

Honestly though. When you actually study the context of the political purges in the USSR it’s almost frustrating how forgiving the party under Stalin was in the beginning. Like things eventually escalated to extremity because they kept forgiving saboteurs and opportunists.

I haven’t read much Furr, but as far as the common accusations of “historical revisionism” go…

ALL history books are attempts at historical revisionism. What else is the point of writing a history book if not to recontextualize and revise how we see historical narratives? Any “serious” historian that charges another historian with “revisionism” for offering counter-narratives is a clown.

That’s not to say that a scholar altering cold hard facts should go without challenge (that douchebag Stephane Courtois), but Furr doesn’t do this. Like others have pointed out, his work is well sourced, much of it from the Soviet archives, which when declassified disproved so many anticommunist myths.

Given Furr’s reputation though, I would only feel comfortable bring his name up in leftist circles. If you’re in a discussion with some left-sympathetic liberal on the cusp of a breakthrough and want to recommend an esteemed historian that challenges the “Evil Stalin” narrative, I’d recommend Ludo Martens.

Of course it’s worth it. PSL is the among the most promising left orgs in America right now and whether you’re sympathetic to their ideology/praxis or not, it’s good for every American comrade to familiarize themselves with it.

IMO We need new theory, especially in the imperial core. Marxists in imperial core countries can’t necessarily translate all of the Soviet Union’s or China’s theory to their own country and the dogmatic belief that they can do so is a major thing holding back factions of the Western left.