Better Red Actually

he/him Twinky bi commie

[betterredactually]

On the scale of bad to good there are points that are still bad, but less bad than others. Important to remember that defending or praising something does not mean it is necessarily good, simply that it is better than the alternative (US imperialism). Ofc some will say that these countries are good, but thats their opinion

[mellodrammattic]

as a communist, the most common insult i’ve gotten is "tankie," the funniest is "cultist," and the worst by far is "liberal."

[betterredactually]

Evaluation of past socialist experiments serves only one useful purpose: the bettering of future ones. Don't forget that. It can be fun to talk about them, and that is good. New socialism is better though, build it.

[betterredactually]

Latinos in the USA must, if out of nothing else but necessity, adopt at least Bolivarianismo and Chicanismo.

[txttletale]

it's easy to make fun of marxists for being like "we have a special way of understanding society called Thinking About Things That Are Real" but to be fair if you ask the average person what their ideas about society are based on they will start listing some of the Least Real things to ever not exist

[natoapologistblocker]

anyway, I know this post is mostly aimed at people who think history is secretly a 6,000-year-long metaphysical turf war orchestrated by The Jews™, or who read every political event as a religious morality play with different costumes, but academia absolutely has its own version of this impulse.

the respectable academic variant, especially in the post-Cold War West, was the enormous cloud of intellectual febreze called post-structuralism. a lot of post-structural approaches, postcolonialism, liberal feminism, green studies, discourse-oriented theory generally, became institutionally dominant during the late neoliberal turn of the 1980s and 1990s, precisely when capitalism itself was reorganising into more decentralised, flexible forms of accumulation. suddenly theory is less about totalising structures and political economy, and more about fragmented subjectivities, localised identities, fluid meanings, discourse, hybridity, micro-narratives. which is not to say these frameworks are useless or wrong in their entirety, because many produced genuinely valuable critiques, but it is hard not to notice how neatly their intellectual grammar mirrored the restructuring of capitalism itself. academia became increasingly comfortable with critiques that could be endlessly discussed, deconstructed, and circulated without necessarily threatening the underlying organisation of production or power. the sharper material edges get softened into language that institutions can metabolise safely. and honestly, this is probably the fate of almost every new theory that enters academia; eventually it stops being insurgent and becomes part of the furniture because everyone still needs salaries, grants, tenure, conference invitations, etc.

[digitalcommiediary]

The revolution in Cuba made several strides in reducing infant mortality, illiteracy and provided free education and healthcare. How would one want to resist such an opportunity by being selfish enough to think only of oneself and one's own money instead of what will benefit more people in society. It is purely selfish to think that you are worth more than someone else just because you managed to earn more than others.

[mellodrammattic]

first date idea: we read communist theory together n halfway through u stop just to tell me how pretty i look

[betterredactually]

You can write theory too. That's kinda the point

[natoapologistblocker]

Just make sure to have a literature review and to outline your methodology and you know not reinvent the wheel just because you think your idea is suuuuper original

[betterredactually]

Except for the stuff about random selection over election, Paul Cockshott may be a key figure for modern Marxists to at least engage with. It is thus highly unfortunate that that is his name...

[betterredactually]

What the fuck is Jacobin even about anymore

[betterredactually]

[betterredactually]

If you want to get better at convincing people/public speaking watch Fidel Castro and Che Guevara speeches & interviews. Become comfortable in the pause, consistent in your views, kind but firm in your words and do not fall for their framing.

[tinyuglyworld]

being a liberal israeli basically requires you to constantly gaslight yourself about your own country and people 24/7

[tinyuglyworld]

they genuinely believe themselves too

[lesbianfidelcastro]

Hi i just remembered that fidel knew that ppl accused him of killing che

Oh completely, he knew about all the accusations

It kind of breaks my heart :(

[betterredactually]

If a certain Communist Party stopped participating in capitalist governments, and only voted in parliament for things that directly benefited the workers and against things that harmed them while abstaining on everything else, we probably already would've had another revolution btw

[betterredactually]

I keep thinking maybe we hype Marx up too much and then I read Marx and, no, he lowk did predict everything wtf

[betterredactually]

You can write theory too. That's kinda the point

[pompomoiselle]

"Bae you're not a train conductor in socialist Hungary" la la la la not listening!!!