Comradeship // Freechat lemat_87 • 7 months ago • 100%

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For me, he is a real hero.

Ask Lemmygrad lemat_87 • 8 months ago • 94%

Over 100 years ago, Russia became core of USSR and the pioneer of international struggle for workers' liberation, poverty lifting, enlightenment, scientific progress and propagation of socialism and communism. Now -- in my humble and maybe biased by liberal propaganda view -- Russia is one of the most reactionary, conservative, backward-looking, clerical country. Please excuse me posting some liberal, imperialist shit here, but seems that Kremlin officially admits going far-right: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/kremlin-finally-puts-together-ideology Speaking locally, there seems to be evidence that Polish far-right party PiS (Law and Justice) is backed by Kremlin as well as the extremely influential priest, Tadeusz Rydzyk, founder and director of the ultra-catholic, conservative Radio Maryja station has/had ties with Polish and Russian security services before the end of People's Republic of Poland and USSR (sic!). I have some generally available videos, but in Polish, sadly. Could you tell me how far this is true? If so, what purpose had the late communist states and today's Russia in spreading far-right propaganda? WTF went wrong?

Technology lemat_87 • 8 months ago • 97%

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Marx to other Reddit alternatives: I fucking told you!

Technology lemat_87 • 9 months ago • 100%

Chinese citizens are among those who feel the most positively about AI products and services. Americans … not so much. In a 2022 IPSOS survey, 78% of Chinese respondents (the highest proportion of surveyed countries) agreed with the statement that products and services using AI have more benefits than drawbacks. After Chinese respondents, those from Saudi Arabia (76%) and India (71%) felt the most positive about AI products. Only 35% of sampled Americans (among the lowest of surveyed countries) agreed that products and services using AI had more benefits than drawbacks. Source: https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/

Mathematics lemat_87 • 10 months ago • 100%

On 1 July 2010, he rejected the prize of one million dollars, saying that he considered the decision of the board of the Clay Institute to be unfair, in that his contribution to solving the Poincaré conjecture was no greater than that of Richard S. Hamilton, the mathematician who pioneered the Ricci flow partly with the aim of attacking the conjecture. In August 2006, Perelman was offered the Fields Medal ("Nobel in math") for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow", but he declined the award, stating: "I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo." More: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

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He visitied USSR many times and knew Russian well. He rejected communism after he saw the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia. The intervention took less than 300 hundred lives on both sides, but McCarthy choose to support republicans, a fascist regime responsible for thousands of victims all over the World. Edit: Wikipedia says: "he distanced himself after making visits to the Soviet Bloc, which led to him becoming a conservative Republican." but it seems that this particular intervention changed his mind, not the earlier multiple visits in Soviet Union. Wikipedia is biased as fuck.

Physical Education lemat_87 • 10 months ago • 95%

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I searched quite a few webpages, some says that it is beneficial (as the one I cite), some say that it is bad, especially if a person is genetically a night owl, and I suspect that websites as Fortune, Virgin, Forbes, etc. have an interest to say people that they should wake up earlier and work harder. Anyway, Harvard medical school and some researches also recommends getting up earlier (and going to bed earlier). But it seems that there is not so much scientific references about it. What are your thoughts?

on.soundcloud.com

An obscure genre popular in Russia/Spain/UK and Poland around 2000s. Powerful and free of any decadence and snobbery. Libs would hate it - leave them listening to sonic-fast-food smooth jazz and pretending that they have sophisticated music taste.

Ask Lemmygrad lemat_87 • 11 months ago • 100%

The October Revolution evolution brough liberation to workers, agriculture proletariat and also woman in USSR. Woman were no longer a property of husband, and they could pursuit any career, like scientist, engineer, soldier or even a cosmonaut. Their voice finally could be heard publicly. It seems that the years after the October Revolution were also the time of sexual liberation, e.g. like women could have more partners without social stigma, characteristic to patriarchal societies. Conservatives describe this as moral decandency, they write that the Bolsheviks allowed "sadism and masochism" and all kind of sexual perversion. Of course, these conservative fucks do not admit that this "sadism and masochism" cases were most probably consensual sexual practices. Then, I heard, when Stalin took power, the sexual liberty was tamed. The conservative fucks write something like "Stalin was a monster, but at least he put in order the sexual and moral decandency". And it looks that the sex matters were quite a tabu during Stalin times. Maybe because there was the Great War and a maximal mobilization and discipline were needed. But after Stalin, things seems similar. I read a story of some Polish man, who met some ladies from USSR, probably in 80s. He said that they were more sexualy prudent than people rised in (ultra-?)catholic Poland (even if at that time there was People's Republic of Poland, this country is cursed by very strong catholic mind-worm). I know that USSR had many based gay posters, but I do not see evidence of any sexual playfulnes in practice since Stalin. To put it shortly, USSR since Stalin looks as conservative in matters of customs and sex. Is a grain of truth in the above or I get it wrong?

Ask Lemmygrad lemat_87 • 11 months ago • 82%

Today in Poland there is voting, so you could choose between open fascists, mild fascists with religious fanaticism flavour, conservative neoliberals, and neoliberal puppets called themselves "leftists", but this is a mild socdem at best. The "leftists" are quite concerned about empreteneurs and support the neoliberal opposition. I decided to not vote. However, there is a strong pression to go voting. What would you do?

TANKS! lemat_87 • 11 months ago • 94%

(Yes, I know this is not strictly a tank). But it was also used in offensive tasks, as a tank.

First of all, I need to say that, even if it is ignorant, I even do not bother to read philosophical speculations. I am interested in empirical premises. I've heard that there is some research, where scientists, monitoring activity of a person's brain, are able to predict which switch (s)he's going to switch, before (s)he does, or maybe before (s)he's conscious about the choice. This implies that our decisions are results of some chemical processes determined aside of our "free choice" and so called free will is only an illusion, a way in which alternatives presents to us, while the choice is made already deep in our minds unconsciously and maybe even deterministically. Does anybody know this research and could cite it? Since I am constantly busy, I really sucks in the theory, so could anybody say what's the Marxist stance on free will if any?

I found an information, that Klaus Barbie, the sadistic head of gestapo in Lyon, was an U$ spy, but Wikipedia tells nothing about it, it only gives a criptic link at the bottom to der Spigel article: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-nazi-criminal-to-postwar-spy-german-intelligence-hired-klaus-barbie-as-agent-a-740393.html The Spigel article says that Americans helped flee Barbie to Bolivia in 1951. In some Polish source I found that in 1951 he fleed to Argentina, with the help of catholic bishop Alois Hudal (the one who helped dr Mengele), and then Barbie fleed to Bolivia. This is so dirty I want to vomit.

Mathematics lemat_87 • 1 year ago • 100%

As the author writes: "The philosophy of mathematics is not the most vital issue facing Marxists today, but its clarifcation can help us argue that the materialist framework is the correct one for making sense of every aspect of the world."

shitposting lemat_87 • 1 year ago • 86%

In Greek, "private" means "ιδιωτικός", spelled something like "idioticos". Sounds funny for me.

☭ Community for Polish Communists ☭ lemat_87 • 1 year ago • 100%

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Według mnie Urban to libek, który żył w luksusowej willi z basenem, w którymś wywiadzie twierdził, że przestał wierzyć w komunizm jak miał 17 lat, bo w tym wieku wyrasta się z głupot, tylko wierzył w rację stanu (a miałem go za mądrzejszego), ale kij w to, w każdym razie jakoś trafia do mnie jego poczucie humoru i tutaj pięknie załatwił swojego oponenta. Szkoda, że w dzisiejszej polskiej polityce nie ma takiego stylu.

Space lemat_87 • 1 year ago • 100%

Space programs were speciality of USSR, and the SU made many breakthroughs and records. These days, some people (I suppose that similar to degrowthers) say that this is an unnecessary cost and they question why we should explore the space, while there are so much unsolved problems on Earth. I think this is wrong: the great Voyager missions brought many scientific breakthrougs and the total cost per citizen was something like cents. What are your views on space exploration, like scientific one? (I assume that even degrowthers and anarchists would agree that metorogical, navigation, communication etc. satellites are indispensable.) Edit: There are some pessimistic views about space exploration from philosophical point of view, but quite obvious for an anti-capitalists: https://jacobin.com/2022/07/colonization-space-exploration-moon-gunther-anders-privatization-earth-destruction/

TANKS! lemat_87 • 1 year ago • 93%

Some say that tanks are obsolete in modern battlefield. One example is a recent total destruction of Leopard tanks in Ukraine by Russian Lancet drones. On the other hand, it may be just because Leopards were not prepared for such a kind of weapon, and tank designs will adapt for the use of drones. I hope tanks will survive of course :) What do you think?

World News lemat_87 • 1 year ago • 93%

While social democrats allowed ultra right party Vox to enter the parlament (first time since franco), it is not so bad: the leading right wing party PP probably will not ally with Vox since they both would not have majority. A nice feature of Spanish politics is that they have a party with a percentage of communists (led by Yolanda Diaz), something what would be not possible with ultraconservative countries like Poland.

☭ Community for Polish Communists ☭ lemat_87 • 1 year ago • 100%

Ktoś powiedziałby, że jestem złym człowiekiem (może jestem), ale może Wy Towarzysze zrozumiecie radość z pozbycia się jebanego uprzywilejowanego banana, "który do wszystkiego doszedł własną pracą", zaśmiecającego miasto hałasem i traktującym je jak własny folwark, narażając innych na utratę życia.

GenZedong lemat_87 • 1 year ago • 92%

When I see growing nationalism in Europe and the whole world, climate being fucked up, what will create a migration catastrophe and wars, rich becoming richer and poor getting poorer, I think the world is burning and going to a catastrophe, and there is too late for a world revolution. World is already in fire and angry people will go to the far right and nazi instead build communism. China will not save the world since in my opinion it becomes nationalist and focused on making private money; it is just the least disgusting of the main players. It is not Deng Xiaoping's China anymore. The fucking world will burn soon. I do not see a reason why bring children into this world and actually live here. Is there a light of hope?