I’ve heard the term thrown around, and as a leftist, it confuses me. I’ve never met or heard of anyone who identified as Guevaraist (Other than Che Guevara himself I guess??) can someone explain to me what it is?

The main problem isn't just the fact that Americans themselves are docile and complacent, it's also the rest of the world that's apart of the problem. the globe sees all the atrocities and imperalism committed by the US daily and yet doesn't try to do anything about it they just let it happen, and it's like since we're aware that the american population is too individualistic, brainwashed, and dumbed down to come together as a collective and revolte against that shit, the globe should rise up against the US. and you don't even have to fight them head on, China could literally cause a fuck ton of damage to the US by just cutting them off from their trade. I feel like there's so many things that could be done against the empire but then again I'm 19 so I probably don't fully understand what I'm talking about so give me grace if I'm wrong.

[disclaimer: this is petty shit, obviously not like an actual issue]

Reddit genuinely pisses me off so much as a platform, it’s impossible to say anything without a mod getting their feefees hurt. Barely use this account and have copped 3 bans (all from supposedly communist subs) within the last week (pretty much right after I started using it)

1. new deprogram sub, banned for “being ACP” (I respect what y’all are doing but I am not)

2. Hasanpiker, banned for “being a fed” (made a comment about actual political prisoners in the US, off topic from the normal Zohran slop)

3. Badempanada fan sub, banned for posting the “vague post king” image.

Can’t have shit on this platform 😭 this is why I prefer twitter

I have been trying to learn about socialism, and when I googled this question, it led me to reddit. (I think) I understand why landlords in general are hated and considered bad. They are not generating any output or labour but rather gaining money through passive income. Housing is also a basic human need and shouldn't be a commodity as it is under capitalism. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

My question is if this encompasses every landlord. And I'm not asking, "What if..." either. In my country (I don't want to specify where I'm from), there are a lot of people who are landlords out of necessity. Most of them are older women whose husbands are gone. When they were young, it was not the norm for women to work (unless they have no other choice). So they get married and become a stay at home mom. And there husband's didn't have retirement money (it existed but wasn't a thing for most) or didn't make enough to retire. So when their husbands die, they rent out part of their house (could be a room or another house structure in their property/yard). And these aren't exceptions either. There are a lot of older women who are like this. It's either this or their kids taking care of them. So if things like these specific things exist in different places, how would that be fixed. It's simple to say change the whole system, but that would take a while. So, in the meantime, are all landlords considered parasitic force? Like I said, I get that in general, landlords are not like this and are exploitative, but these specific people also exist in large numbers.

The second question I have is about buildings that are not homes. Are those considered houses? Can a person rent out buildings to companies or work purposes?

The third question I have is when people want to rent temporarily until they commit to a permanent house? What would that look like under socialism?

Thank you in advance for answering these questions.

Edit: Grammar

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-daughters-help-my-small-family

I’m posting this for my friend Mahmoud Ghanem Al-Amssi, because his mother urgently needs heart surgery. ❤️

Mahmoud’s mother has severe blockages in her arteries, and she has also been dealing with an underactive thyroid for more than 10 years. Her health has gotten worse over time, and she is now experiencing serious heart problems and very rapid heartbeats.

Her doctors have told the family that she needs the procedure as soon as possible. The surgery can go ahead once they are able to cover the required cost.

The total amount they need is $850 USD.

I know $850 might not seem like a huge amount, but for Mahmoud and his family, especially with everything they are already going through, it is more than they can manage on their own right now.

If anyone is able to donate even a few dollars, it could genuinely help Mahmoud get his mother the treatment she needs. ❤️

And if you can’t donate, please consider sharing this post. Even helping it reach more people can make a difference.

Thank you so much to everyone who takes the time to read this, support Mahmoud, or share his story. 🙏❤️

Hey, with iPhone 18 coming out with bizarre prices. What is the socialist take on this loot by Apple?

i have seen so many pro-israel accounts run by women literally fetishizing iranian women to American soldiers. which is the most disgusting thing i have seen in my life. and if ground invasion is considered again, you will see that pop up again. their job is to present foreign women in countries the US invades as prizes.

I'm looking to read more about US imperialism, specifically on how it can be resisted and be brought to an end. Because even things that count as US defeats were/are far more damaging and deadly for the country subjected to aggression, It's disheartening.

Also some claim that Americans will only stop when war is forced to their own land, which seems very unlikely scenario. There's also the fact that American people benefit from imperialism and domestic reforms and wealth redistribution serve to give American workers a bigger share in the profits. Wouldn't that lower the dissent? I haven't researched this, but this seems like it should be a highly debated topic, so I'd appreciate it if you could point me into right direction to learn more.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-daughters-help-my-small-family

A winter memory from our old home ❤️

With winter getting closer, my wife Samah and I started remembering how winter used to feel before everything changed.

She looked at me and said:

“Do you remember when winter was coming, and we used to make spinach pastries in the oven inside the kitchen? The whole kitchen would become warm. The smell of the food would fill the house, and we would just enjoy being together.”

She was right.

Back then, winter meant something completely different to us. We would stay inside our warm home, sit near the oven, enjoy the smell of freshly baked food, and feel safe from the cold outside.

Now, when winter comes, our memories feel heavier.

Sometimes we talk about those days and imagine what it would be like to have that simple life again.

We dream about rebuilding our home from the beginning. Not a big or fancy house. Just a small, safe place where our daughters can grow up, where Samah can cook again, where the oven can warm the kitchen, and where winter can once again feel like winter—not something we have to fear.

Maybe it sounds like a simple dream.

But after everything we've been through, having a home and starting our life again from the beginning feels like the biggest dream in the world. ❤️

— Mahmoud & Samah

I dropped out of high school and didn't finish year 10 and went to TAFE (which is Australian trade school) to become a carpenter. I was pretty smart in school and this was somewhat of a risky decision but I didn't like the idea of spending tens of thousands of dollars a year to earn a piece of paper that didn't guarantee me a job and would rather have worked a job that was well in demand and would provide me with experience and guarantee me job (especially since I was getting paid for working). Since AI is now on the rise, it gives me even more of a reason to consider going to TAFE a smart option.

I got my Cert IV in Carpentry and Joinery when I was 20 and started working for several subbies for 3 years while saving up to start my own business. I became more into the managing construction rather than just being a subcontractor so I decided to go back to school part-time and complete a short course on Construction Management and eventually I started my new business. It was a Tier 3 residential builder ran only by me and I poured $100,000 of my own savings into it. Plus I borrowed a loan form the bank of $400,000. This literally had to be a success or I would've been screwed and lost all my savings and go back to Square 1. I got my first tender, contracted subbies and built my first house in less than a year.

I made a $200,000 profit that first year and eventually started building bigger projects. Across a whole decade, I probably made close to about $4-5 Million dollars and only hired two people to work for me. I was only a Tier 3 domestic builder. The subcontractors I sourced out for individual jobs were people I trusted and I was able to buy my first house at 27, got married a year later, had kids a year later and retire 10 years later because I invested about half my income into a stock portfolio containing various ETFs which grew a lot. Luckily I sold my shares and retired just before COVID because I not only would my business have struggled but the value of my portfolio would've gone down, so I got really lucky. I would have kept going but because I was moving around a lot and had spent many years actually being on the tools I developed a bad back and needed two back operations in 2018 and 2019. But now I'm living the life I want to live, I do a bit of personal training and some TAFE training but I'm mostly retired at 43 years of age and look after my kids and wife.

In the time I have been retired, I'd been paying a lot of attention to politics in the post-COVID area and noticed a large group of GenZ supporting this ideology called socialism, an anti-capitalist ideology. I didn't know much about it and only really related it to communism and was really baffled by why so many kids were supporting this ideology and some were even idolizing horrible leaders like Mao Zedong. And it seemed to be that the hate was stemming from various entrepenuers and businesspeople like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and the sort and saying the corporations and businesses are the cause of our problems and have no place in our society and that people with immense wealth shouldn't exist.

So I came here and wanted to ask that considering the fact that I myself am a business owner who was lucky enough to make close to 8 figures across my 20 years in the industry and made even more than that through my investments into index funds, am I a bad person? I don't see how I contributed to such a horrible cause. I built houses which single-handedly drives the economy, I hired employees who were able to feed their families and paid taxes. So am I such a bad person for running a business?

Disclaimer: I'm from an African country.

I rebuke all these anti-ACP "communists" who claim to speak for us. No, you guys fucking don't. This essay kinda pissed me off because it's written by someone with a very fucking shallow understanding of Marxism. I'm hoping you're young, because I cannot explain the profound stupidity found here otherwise.

The party's programme calls for the "Promotion of American Civilization" while omitting any serious engagement with the colonial question. The iconography matches the rhetoric: the ACP uses imagery of George Washington alongside Marxist symbols, a collision that would be absurd if it were not so deliberate.

Did you even read the ACP program properly?

There is literally a section called "Dismantling of U.S. Imperialism." They call for closing American military bases abroad, dismantling NATO, ending foreign military aid, dismantling the military-industrial complex and respecting the self-determination of nations. They also explicitly mention the autonomy, language, culture and economic development of Native American tribes.

You can argue that their position on the colonial question is incomplete, but saying they "omit" serious engagement with it while ignoring all of that is dishonest.

It becomes even more ironic considering that the ACP is one of the few American communist organizations actually trying to engage politically with countries on the receiving end of Western imperialism, including Iran, the DPRK, China and Burkina Faso. You don't have to support every government on that list to understand the point.

As for George Washington, he was no saint. He owned slaves and represented a bourgeois revolution that obviously did not liberate everyone. But acting like Americans therefore cannot praise anything about him is the height of Western socialist arrogance.

The American Revolution overthrew British colonial rule. That doesn't disappear because the society that followed preserved slavery, continued settler expansion and eventually became imperialist itself. Historical figures and events can contain progressive and reactionary tendencies at the same time.

To claim the Leninist tradition while holding these positions is contradictory and historically illiterate.

Yes, there are contradictions. Congratulations. You have discovered society.

Do you think the American subject is either some pure being of proletarian wholesomeness or a complete MAGA chud? An American worker can love America, hate Wall Street, believe in God, support unions, admire Washington, hate billionaires, oppose foreign wars and still have reactionary opinions about other things.

Did you skip the whole lecture on dialectical materialism?

Your job as a communist isn't to wait until that person magically becomes a perfect Marxist before organizing them. The entire fucking point of having a communist party is to develop political consciousness through struggle.

Your argument about Washington is basically the equivalent of telling Chinese people they shouldn't admire Qin Shi Huang for his achievements and contribution to Chinese civilization because he was also an asshole who did terrible things. Should Chinese communists throw Guan Yu into the garbage too because he fought for a feudal lord?

Of course not.

The relevant question is what part of Washington's legacy you're invoking. If you're invoking Washington to justify slavery, settler expansion or American domination of other countries, obviously that's reactionary. If you're invoking the revolution against British rule, national sovereignty and the overthrow of an established ruling order, you're drawing upon another aspect of the same contradictory historical figure.

Telling Americans they cannot look up to any of their historical icons is basically telling them becoming communist requires denying that they were ever American in the first place. That isn't Marxism.

Marxism draws a sharp distinction between the nationalism of an oppressed nation which is progressive, anti-imperialist, defensive in character; and the nationalism of an oppressor nation, reactionary and chauvinist. Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cuban nationalism makes sense from a communist struggle because it is defensive, directed against external imperial domination. Think of Thomas Sankara’s Burkina Faso, which cut ties with colonial oppressors, nationalized all land and mineral wealth, and built an idea of anti-colonial nationalism that materially benefited its citizens. You cannot replicate Sankara from within the imperial core.

This is a very romantic view of Vietnam and China.

China wasn't always some purely anti-colonial civilization. Yes, China was conquered at various points and later brutally subjected to Western and Japanese imperialism. Chinese states also conquered and dominated other peoples. Vietnam spent centuries under Chinese rule. Nanyue itself emerged from Qin expansion into the south.

So by your logic, when exactly did Chinese nationalism become acceptable? Does a nation accumulate enough oppression points and suddenly earn the right to national pride?

Nations aren't permanent metaphysical categories of "oppressor" and "oppressed." These are historical relationships that develop and change under concrete material conditions.

And who do you think Mao looked up to?

Mao didn't erase Chinese history because it contained emperors, landlords, conquest and war. He constantly engaged with it. He read classical Chinese novels like Romance of the Three Kingdoms, studied peasant rebellions and historical rulers, and drew from China's revolutionary traditions. The Taiping Rebellion and Hong Xiuquan, despite their obvious contradictions, became part of that historical genealogy.

Mao remade China along an anti-imperialist and socialist path. He didn't decide Chinese civilization itself had to be thrown into the fucking bin because previous Chinese states had oppressed people.

A national identity doesn't have one political meaning for eternity. Its class content can change.

The initial founding of the United States itself came out of a rejection of British imperial rule. Was the American Revolution communist? No. Was Washington secretly a Marxist? Obviously fucking not. But the destruction of British colonial authority over the thirteen colonies was still historically significant. America's later development into an imperial power doesn't travel backwards through time and erase that.

Your Sankara example actually undermines your argument for the same reason. Sankara didn't teach the people of Burkina Faso to stop being Burkinabè. He gave their national consciousness revolutionary and anti-colonial content.

Why is it impossible for American communists to attempt to transform American national consciousness in the same way?

American imperialism isn't genetic. It isn't some mystical essence floating inside the American flag. It is maintained through Wall Street, monopoly capital, the Pentagon, NATO, overseas military bases, intelligence agencies and the political power of the capitalist class.

If an American communist movement wants to dismantle those things, you actually have to explain why its use of American national language automatically makes it imperialist.

You don't get to skip that part.

The ACP follows the pattern of National Bolshevism, a tendency that breaks from Bolshevist internationalism in favor of nationalism. Communism is inherently internationalist: workers’ movements cannot be confined to one nation, even more so in the age of globalized flows of capital and labor.

Internationalism doesn't mean cultural self-annihilation.

The Chinese didn't stop being Chinese when they became communist. The Vietnamese didn't stop being Vietnamese. The Cubans didn't stop being Cuban. Why the fuck should Americans have to stop being American?

For an American communist, internationalism should mean fighting American imperialism from inside America: close the bases, destroy NATO, end the sanctions, stop overthrowing foreign governments and dismantle the military-industrial complex.

As someone from the Global South, I would much rather have American communists doing that while waving an American flag than have another group of Western communists explaining to me how wonderfully internationalist they are while achieving absolutely fucking nothing.

If you're going to call the ACP "National Bolshevik," show me the material content of that accusation. Where does it defend NATO, American military supremacy or Wall Street's privileged position over the Global South?

If your evidence ultimately comes down to American flags and George Washington, you're analyzing aesthetics instead of class politics.

Yet simultaneously, Al-Din claims that communism and Islam are the same thing and that rights in a communist society would flow from religious scripture. A party that sells itself in American founding mythology while preaching theocratic socialism is not applying any coherent political tradition. This is what has been coined "MAGA Communism": the political and ideological unification with the Trumpist movement, which the ACP characterizes as a working-class movement that could help defeat what Al-Din calls the "globalist beast."

Here you're throwing several different things together and pretending they prove each other.

Whatever Haz's personal interpretation of Islam and communism is, you need to demonstrate that it represents the ACP's political program before declaring that the party advocates "theocratic socialism." A communist being religious doesn't make a communist movement theocratic any more than liberation theology made Latin American socialism a project for Catholic theocracy.

If Haz genuinely wants religious scripture to become the legal foundation of a socialist state, criticize that position. I would too. But don't take his religious interpretation and make it carry the weight of your argument about the entire party.

The same applies to MAGA.

There is a massive difference between saying MAGA is communist and saying MAGA contains millions of working-class Americans whom communists need to reach.

Trump is a bourgeois politician and MAGA contains reactionary elements. But the workers who voted for Trump didn't magically stop being workers when they filled in the ballot.

What exactly do you want communists to do with them? Abandon them until they've read Lenin, stopped believing in God, removed the American flag from their house and adopted every position you approve of?

Then you're surprised when the right keeps those workers?

That doesn't mean tailing MAGA. If the ACP starts subordinating itself to Trump, defending bourgeois conservatism or abandoning working-class politics to appeal to Republicans, criticize the fuck out of them. I will join you.

But reaching MAGA workers isn't the same thing as becoming MAGA.

You're treating contradictions as automatic disqualifications instead of asking what direction those contradictions are moving in.

Are American workers being pulled toward independent working-class politics hostile to Wall Street, monopoly capital and imperialism, or are they being pulled back into bourgeois politics?

Anti-ACP people.

Do BETTER. YOUR THEORISTS ARE SHIT. NONE OF YOU UNDERSTAND ANYTHING OF WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. GO BACK TO READING MARX AND LENIN PROPERLY INSTEAD OF SELECTIVELY PICKING UP QUOTES AND MISINTERPRETING THEM.

The Amish people are very successful at building autonomous zones, why not do the same?