mah 1 year ago • 100%
“Cuba has a firm and clear historical position against mercenarism and plays an active role in the United Nations in repudiation of this practice,” the ministry added, according to an unofficial translation.
“Cuba is not part of the war in Ukraine. It is acting and will act vigorously against whoever, from the national territory, participates in any form of human trafficking for the purposes of recruitment of mercenarism so that Cuban citizens use weapons against any country.”
The Russian government has not commented on the allegations.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
super interesting
mah 1 year ago • 100%
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(1997_film)
IMDB user reviews: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119794/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
mah 1 year ago • 100%
i feel bad for ppl having consumption as an hobby. what a life.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
it's so beautiful, thank you for sharing it.
but i don't see it related to the post at all... OP's post feels like serfdom apology? it's super weird honestly. It's not freedom if it's not a choice.
My reading of Tagore's poem is like: different choices and conditions develop two different worldviews, two solitudes that they could not "explain to each other". But they still loved each other. And - in my reading - the bird in the cage in the end doesn't have "the strength to soar". I feel there is some social commentary behind, probably about colonialism and some "comfort". But I really don't know.
Thank you again for sharing. Long ago I read Charulata, and it was so powerful and beautiful. I should definitely read more by Tagore.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
Reality doesn't seem to matter anymore. When libs are fixated on correcting you, you have no hope of redemption. They need to feel superior and use their "correct" language to emphasize their superiority, regardless of whether what they're emphasizing is entirely fabricated.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
My opinion: people need to chill. and also to understand that English is used by different people in various contexts. Not everybody grasps the subtleties of the language. For instance, if discussing something like "a product highly recommended for our discreet female audience" or stating "no problems have been encountered in the department for female prisoners" is considered appropriate, somebody might feel that writing "To look at a female's behind" (as seen in the original r/therewasanattempt post) is also acceptable. And it's no big deal.
Also, it's a typical Anglo-Saxon harry potteresque magical thinking, and obsession, with language, magic words and formulations. Censoring words just make them stronger. Stop being fucking puritains stupid ameriremoved. Scarlet letters never work. Changing words doesn't change the world, activism about language is just slacktivism to feel smug and superior, and ultimately keeping the status quo as it is.
mah 1 year ago • 80%
Why should we care about you? What's your favorite book?
mah 1 year ago • 100%
lol, i see vast agreement in the answer you got. but you need to be a bit more careful and thoughtful. your ideas so far are a confused potpourri. you need to read what marxist theory and communism are, more than a few slogans. and this can be done just alone, with a book. perhaps start here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/marx-a-very-short-introduction-9780198821076 (Marx: A Very Short Introduction - Peter Singer)
mah 1 year ago • 100%
i think they must be very young, no need to be hostile :)
i find this whole discussion kinda cute to be honest...
mah 1 year ago • 100%
all fine, you might be more Weberian than Marxist. Try to read about Max Weber. But he wasn't a communist. at all.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
Communism is usually associated with historical materialism, the theory that everyone here is trying to explain to you. However, there have been other forms of socialism before and after Marx. You might find interesting Henri de Saint-Simon and his theories, Paul Lafargue, or for another, more recent example of non-Marxist socialist, Karl Polanyi.
If you don't believe in Marxism, that's okay. But you need to study it first, and based on your original post, it might require some more time, patience, and reading.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
yes, all of this is the product of labour. and HOW it has been produced matters.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
so you are not a marxist, bye lol :)
i'm joking. but you really need to read about marxism.
What does everything you just said have to do with communism?
It's the very basics of our theory. and it's basically what i told you before.
ofc, you can believe in socialism without being a marxist. You might be interested in reading Polanyi for example.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
yes, we believe capital is relational ofc, and historical situated. there is nothing natural or normal about it. it's a phase, a period, an arrangement. But culture is a product of the relationships of production, that's our epistemology. Humans do stuff, how "we create" our world (so, our labor) is what really matters. I hope it's clear now.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
"but I just don't see what part of it requires belief in an objective world of matter."
that's not what materialism means, at least in marxist therm. materialism means humans facts are dependent on space and time, so to say. so, the relationships of productions, are historically connoted and situated in space. that's why we are materialists. historical materialists.
we reject idealism: we don't believe that culture is the engine of history, for example. we reject all forms of idealism, we reject the "idea" of state (for example), the state for us is a product of the relationships of production . we believe material relationships of production are the engine of history.
that's a very synthetic answer. but the point is: materialism is not primarily concerned with physical objects or "things." Instead, it centers on the intricate interplay of historical and spatial contexts in shaping human realities.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1465-5922.1996.00165.x super interesting paper, i'm not even joking
mah 1 year ago • 100%
"Thus, one can by no means present the agrarian reflection of the proletarian revolution as an episode of redistribution or repartition of the land, nor as the conquest of the land by the peasants. The slogan, “small property instead of big property” does not make any sense. The slogan, “small agrarian business instead of big agrarian business” is 100% reactionary."
mah 1 year ago • 100%
Mark Fisher referenced in the lyric! References.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
that's my opinion as well.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
Lol "dunking on America". Nobody hates America more than Americans...
hmm not sure
for sure my hate for the USA is sincere, pure and strong. And i'm not American (thanks god!)
mah 1 year ago • 100%
I don't know if I should thank god for not being from the US, or to be upset with god that I have to deal with so many fucking US idiots all the time. Their entitlement and arrogance know no borders, just like their imperialism.
mah 1 year ago • 40%
mah 1 year ago • 44%
touch grass pls
mah 1 year ago • 75%
How's it with you guys ?
For me as well. But then I purged the cache and updated ublock filters. And now it's working again.
It's a race between youtube and ublock, and ublock is winning.
mah 1 year ago • 94%
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/482855 > I didn't know where to post this, so I hope it's fine here. I use the 'litely' theme on Hexbear because I need a high-contrast setting that won't strain my eyes due to my low eyesight. Unfortunately, the 'Featured Posts' section is completely unreadable. Could somebody please fix the CSS of the 'litely' and 'litely-red' themes? > > That's how it looks like: > > ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5b492e31-cbfb-4e0a-a1fa-c7c6cb2d07e4.png) > > Thank you!
mah 1 year ago • 100%
Being president of the US of A makes you (almost) automatically evil. For sure he did some good things, but it really doesn't matter. The evil things he perpetrated, especially when considering the human cost, make him a war criminal.
So, as far as I can see, the meme "summoning my pizza slaves with a bourgeois app" has achieved legendary status on Hexbear, mostly as a form of satire, to make fun of it. That's the full version I could find: > "I do self-criticism constantly because I’m trapped in a Maoist cult where comrades (white terrorists) criticize me mercilessly for having a fascist credit card (VISA Silver Signature Rewards). They won’t let me order vegan pizza anymore because the phone is fascist and “summoning my pizza slaves with a bourgeois app" is “bad vibes” Now, I find myself in a country where these delivery apps have arrived relatively "recently", sparking a vast social and political uprising. Workers are indeed treated extremely poorly, with NO job security, and they operate in a legal grey area (like, they are de facto employees, but they are treated as auto-entrepreneurs... neoliberal dream to destroy workers' rights). Adding to this, the working conditions can be quite perilous. In my city, traffic is notoriously chaotic, and cycling is dangerous. But not potentially dangerous, bodies-on-the-street-every-month dangerous. While we do have a well-established public transportation system, the city's bike infrastructure is still quite underdeveloped, and cars dominate the roadways. I'm aware that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism and yadda yadda. However, I find this particular form of consumption especially horrible. This is a highly walkable city with a wide range of food options readily available, making it unnecessary to rely on food delivery apps. And it really does feels like “summoning my pizza slaves with a bourgeois app". Mostly racialized workers, working dangerously in grey areas of law. Have you normalized food delivery in your lifestyle? How do you deal with it? How do you navigate these ethical concerns?
mah 1 year ago • 100%
ur brain on liberal
mah 1 year ago • 85%
that's a graphic representation of china subaltern role and american imperialism. any other interpretation is wrong. ofc, Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic might happen, but it's not clear it will happen.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
Christian democracy is perfectly liberal. But of course a liberal cannot find that liberalism itself is the problem.
that's literally the point of the article... did you even try to read it? "This intrinsic hostility towards democracy has made Christianity and liberalism unlikely bedfellows. Christian democracy, then, represented the European way of liberalism. Politically, both have worked to tame and present a new version of democracy much more restrained in limits, goals, and possibilities."
mah 1 year ago • 100%
+1 for AirVPN
mah 1 year ago • 100%
why in "politics" tho?
I didn't know where to post this, so I hope it's fine here. I use the 'litely' theme on Hexbear because I need a high-contrast setting that won't strain my eyes due to my low eyesight. Unfortunately, the 'Featured Posts' section is completely unreadable. Could somebody please fix the CSS of the 'litely' and 'litely-red' themes? That's how it looks like: ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5b492e31-cbfb-4e0a-a1fa-c7c6cb2d07e4.png) Thank you!
mah 1 year ago • 100%
Such a wonderful piece of art.
mah 1 year ago • 100%
I guess you might like ambient music. It's a huge genre, but since you have start somewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJFai85mu8M&list=OLAK5uy_kK7tukxLd8mVVTU1LdBAqIuDQIIalolvU (he died 5 days ago btw, may he RIP)
mah 1 year ago • 100%
So many!
https://www.contretemps.eu/ (theory)
https://alencontre.org/ (news)
https://lanticapitaliste.org/ (news)
https://positions-revue.fr/ (theory)
https://www.frustrationmagazine.fr/ (pop, theory)
https://lvsl.fr/ (pop, theory)
and 543654 others...
mah 1 year ago • 100%
thank you so much!
Article from 2018, but unfortunately still relevant today.
Article from 2018, but unfortunately still relevant today.
Funny blog post about the birth of mozilla.
It's everywhere nowadays, and I think it needs to be discussed here as well, especially on a communist community as we are. ![heart-sickle](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/14c2707b-51cb-44ed-be2f-f262d088e219.png "heart-sickle") While I agree with the sentiment expressed in the song, some lines about fat people on welfare are absolutely baffling. As if they are the problem. What the hell? But overall, this song speaks to me. I feel communist and workers really do understand the frustration of this song, and can build bridges.
yo. where do you like to go on the internet? name your favorite websites (better if niche), your favorite communities (again, better if niche), interesting instagram pages, interesting profiles to follow on any social media, podcasts, web forums, discord server, strange exotic communities, tumblr, horny stuff, videos, whatever. Don't self censor yourself please! (cross-posted: https://hexbear.net/post/415928)
yo. where do you like to go on the internet? name your favorite websites (better if niche), your favorite communities (again, better if niche), interesting instagram pages, interesting profiles to follow on any social media, web forums, discord server, strange exotic communities, tumblr, horny stuff, videos, whatever. Don't self censor yourself please! ![heart-sickle](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/14c2707b-51cb-44ed-be2f-f262d088e219.png "heart-sickle")