Absolutely, every “isolated” action is not isolated, what we share with people around us can be shared by people around them. In terms of the subjective conditions for a revolution, this is necessary, and natural even. After all, we are communists in our personal lives as well.

In terms of the objective conditions for a revolution, it all boils down to organization up until the organization is able to supersede the organization of the bourgeois state. So, for revolutionary praxis, there’s no other method.

I say this not condemning anyone for not organizing, there could be several reasons one chooses not to. I’m not organized in a party, for instance, after I broke with PCB in 2021. But I practice organization in parts of my life, such as on ProleWiki, basically only bureaucratically managing stuff. This does not count as revolutionary praxis, in my opinion, even, if there’s a revolutionary purpose.

I have a group with only three people, me, another commie and a left-leaning sympathizer. We created an informal WhatsApp group simply to discuss about these subjects. We are thinking about adding more people. If I’m able to convince the group to study Marxism together, and create a Marxist group, we could perhaps do interesting things in terms of revolutionary praxis, but we’re only engaging here and then, it’s nothing serious, so it’s not even close to that.

This is what I think in terms of revolutionary praxis. Organization is a survival tactic of working people, and we should not be restricted to currently existing parties, nor be afraid to form organizationо of our own to fight for certain immediate issues. This is the only and true revolutionary praxis, everything outside of this is a form of deviation.

Nice edit. Is this the best quality version of it?

There’s no praxis without organization when it comes to revolutionary praxis of the working class. So ideally what a single, isolated person can do is to join other single, isolated people and begin small, by organizing a Marxist study group, for instance.

damn bro

Only question is whether the west will actually manage to incentivize the creation or movement of means of production to replace this tariffed production from China.

They won’t, unless they abandon the neoliberal model and allow the rate of profits to substantially decrease

Excellent, I prefer the current version! Great work

It was very interesting how you inverted the roles in the pro-Israel piece by New York Post, suddenly the piece began making much more sense

I don’t know how substack works, is there any way (in form, not content) to make it clearer the inversion of the article is based on the New York Post? Like italics, or a quote thing

Excellent work, comrade. Ping me the link here once it’s out, I’d love to read it!

Is she old? Old people are very stubborn and we shouldn’t expect to change their minds (expect is the keyword here, you can only find out trying)

By the description of your aunt, she is indeed very difficult to work with, and she does look like she needs professional help to deal with her emotional issues. Her odd political views is a second issue, the first one is her personality, attitude and behavior.

However, if she does not want to change, does not see how difficult she makes coexistence, then it’s no use. Save yourself, as best you can, and your siblings. Stick together and try your best to leave that place and leave that woman alone.

Who uses conservapedia as if it was a reliable source

I sing and I play guitar. Used to play French horn too, a long time ago

I usually play classical music on the acoustic guitar, but I’m still learning a few pieces

You can democratically elect a party that will impose a 99% corporate profit tax rate.

Please, enlighten us and show where that was done. If it was never done, then no, you can’t.

I can just invest in shares&crypto and make my usual 5% per year

Can you really? Is it really a safe investment?

The main reason why some children are bullies has to do with the prevalence of abusive parents, usually. So to fight against this trend is to implement collective day care which would have professionals taking care of children for the large part of their early life instead of parents who are not trained to do so.

Don’t get fooled by this, the Workers’ Party of Brazil is a social-liberal party dominated by bourgeois factions. They have a few Marxist militants, but it’s by far the minority of the party, which is composed of millions of people, the majority of which blindly follows their opportunist leadership.

It really depends on where you live. Certain commodities are cheaper depending on their availability and ease of access in relation to the world market or national market.

For instance, in Europe, the price of rice tends to vary between 2€ and 4€, while in Brazil, a large producer of rice tends to vary between R$4 (0.72€) to R$10 (1.79€) at most, because we are a massive producer of it.

politics cannot be brought up at all when I meet them

What was the reasoning given for this?

This is my analysis of it, and I call myself Marxist. I’ve never seen a Marxist author delve into this subject specifically.

Antinatalism, as I understand, is an ethical imperative with an argument that goes like, “capitalism is a monstrous system, and I wouldn’t want to bring another human to this planet to suffer”. I will assume this is antinatalism in the context you brought.

First, suffering cannot be avoided. All humans, hell, all beings suffer. For one reason or another. Suffering is a part of living. But it’s not the only part. I feel antinatalists are nihilists out of touch with the beauty of life. Even in the most extreme circumstances humans face, there is still something to live for. Slaves can love one another, have admiration, respect, companionship or friendships with their fellow enslaved, shared hope for liberty, etc. Even under extreme examples of suffering, you can find something in life that is a valuable experience.

Second, having more kids, having less kids, having no kids, it makes no difference in the outcome of things. While a single antinatalist proclaims moral superiority because they don’t have children, millions of people are constantly having children daily anyways. Our social system will continue reproducing the capitalist mode of production irrespective of your choice of having children.

Honestly, if you are

1. able to sustain yourself and a partner economically, and even better if the partner also contributes too,
2. able to dedicate a larger part of your time on the life of a child than your own
3. able to handle your own frustrations and the frustration of others

then you should have children in my opinion. Or adopt children, if that’s not possible. I’m the opposite of antinatalist. Because your children will have a much better education with parents who study Marxism and are sensible to exploitation, to the struggles of the working class and the contradictions of the capitalist system. It’s quite obvious, if communists have more children, they will tend to have a larger generation of people educated as communists. The trouble is trying to handle being a worker/small owner, a mother and a party militant, unless all those aspects of your life were a single thing. Like Black Panther Party militant mothers.

In some instances, like in the cases of an ethnically persecuted population, having more children is actually a reasonable form of resistance.

Thanks, comrade

I never understood what “war games” are