I found this to be really useful as well, it’s systematic and fairly thorough: https://www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1953/materialism-and-dialectical-method.pdf

“The only constant is change”

It’s cliché, but I think it captures the essence of it pretty well, especially for how concise it is.

Diarrheatical materialism

I’m digging this new roman lore drop

Indeed, although it’s their numbers, especially irl, that I find disheartening sometimes. Like, I interact with plenty of decent people too, but reactionaries are always the most outspoken and seen as the most authoritative in the circles I’m in (mostly work related). At the end of the day, their opinions fit in the discourse space allowed by the MSM, so they don’t come across as crazy, and they tend to be more career focused and therefore 1) the impression of work competency carries over in other areas, and 2) they spend less time exploring other areas of life like politics, and they are, like you pointed out, immature adults.

The more comments I read on Youtube, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter, the less I sleep and the more I risk a stroke. Idk how you manage going through all that crap

Unfortunately Lenin came before Xi. Marxism-Xism would’ve sounded much funnier than Marxism-Leninism

For those who may stumble upon this and think OP was exaggerating about this sort of drivel being directly from Mein Kampf…

Dang, wish I’d known that sooner so I could’ve called out people I’ve heard paraphrase this. Thanks for adding the quote!

Why is that abstract, but redrawing borders on a map isn’t?

Ok, thanks for the reply. It does sound somewhat similar to what I’ve heard (empty shopping malls), but not quite as dire as others would make it seem. All I hear is the economy is so bad and people are unhappy and the government is struggling to keep order but it seems blown out of proportion since the arguments for this are always the real estate bubble and how empty the shopping malls are.

Thanks for sharing this!

not great state of the economy.

I have a question about this, how did you see this reflected in the things you saw? Did you get any insight into how it’s affecting day-to-day life? I’ve heard this plenty from Chinese liberals, but given their bias and all the “China collapse” stories that have been circulating for many years now, I’m always a bit skeptical.

Broke: Twitter bans Maduro

Woke: Maduro bans Twitter

Very cool Greg, point taken, now you go stand in front of the wall

This leftist meme goes hard and it takes less than one minute to read! o7

a growing number of defense analysts in Taipei and Washington say Taiwan must prepare for the worst possible scenario: a protracted battle on the island itself.

“Taiwan’s reservists are going to be mobilizing where the fight is happening, when the fight is happening,” said Michael Hunzeker, a retired Marine who studies military reform at George Mason University.

It’s not Volkssturm if you pre-emptively recruit them 🧠👈

My lifts are still shit, guess I need to do more sets of theory 😆

It would be cursed if Kenya and Kazakhstan join as well 😳😳

They take a socialist country that exists in a predominantly capitalist world and which has to contend with that reality, and purity-test it against socialism on paper, abstracted from reality

This sounds similar to the UK. I’ve heard it called an ecological desert and almost everywhere you go feels very much like paths through some meadow or woods to take a stroll through. I would hope it’s not like this everywhere since they still have a few large natural parks, but from the little I’ve seen, it sounds like what you’re describing.

We act as if we completely own the world. As if it is our personal theme park to have fun in, instead of actual wilderness with biodiversity and wild animals and stuff.

Yep, the hubris and arrogance of westerners in their relationship to nature is staggering. My coworkers are some of the most disrespectful people towards the environment I’ve ever seen. Drinking water from plastic bottles instead of filling up their glasses from the water cooler because it takes fewer trips to the kitchen, and throwing them in the nearest trash can instead of walking an extra 30 seconds to the recycling. I know in the grand scheme of things this isn’t what’s causing the climate catastrophe, but still I think it speaks volumes about these people

As always with the US smearing its geopolitical opponents, it’s projection