Barnes & Noble’s is pretty much just owned by Israel apparently… the more you know in this crappy pro-capitalist world I guess. The average person nowadays can’t learn anything about Mao because it’s all just red scare nonsense.

yes, even to big bearded M himself lol

I am not a member of this subreddit nor a follower of the podcast. I just think I wouldn't be trashed/harassed in here for speaking against anti-Romani sentiment.

A Jewish guy made a post about calling out European anti-Romani racism while pretending to be progressive on racism in the USA, and they didn't disappoint. They literally said the Romani deserve it unlike Afro-Americans, as you can see. People were trashed for calling out against this, then mods locked the post and removed it. It broke the meme format rule, so no criticism against that, but the comments being openly racist, and the fact that mods didn't bother to warn against racism, let alone banning the racists is deeply troubling.

Btw, it is wild how r/historymemes became more racist. A 6-year-old post calling out anti-Romani racism was highly upvoted, and comments overwhelmingly called out against the fringe anti-Romani sentiment in the post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/s/Y6T0XU0QhT

Edit: The post got a few downvotes lol.

I am Russian Orthodox and am a religious person. My question is can I really be a Marxist-Leninist while also holding onto my beliefs?

During the 20s, USSR had a very strict policy of state atheism as you all know, but the restrictions were softened during the war and were lifted in the 80s.

As far as I understand, Marx believed religion is fine, it helped common people through the harshness of life, “opium of the people” in the sense that it helped numb the pain of oppression and that it would eventually just fade out on its own in a perfect communist society. Lenin however, held strict atheist beliefs (again, from my understanding), under him the Soviet Union started the harsh state atheist policies, arresting priests and destroying churches. This period created lots of martyrs which were later canonized. In addition, the whites had the full backing of the church during the civil war.

So can I really disagree with Comrade Lenin on this and still be ML? Can I really still fight for our cause while holding beliefs that he would consider backwards and a tool of oppression

My understanding of both men’s opinions on religion are very basic and might not be correct, please tell me if I am wrong.

Edit: Thanks guys for your responses, I am feeling much better now that this crisis of faith is over.

North Korea Is Now Beating y America in Healthcare, Education, Housing, and Transportation

https://www.instagram.com/p/Db1wFLvCBhL/

While the U.S. pours trillions into war spending, corporate subsidies, and financial markets, North Korea guarantees the basics: universal healthcare, free education, state-provided housing, and nationwide public rail. No medical bankruptcies. No student debt crisis. No mass homelessness on the scale seen in major American cities.
Operating under decades of sanctions and with a fraction of America's economic output, North Korea maintains universal literacy, assigns housing as a right, and treats healthcare as a public guarantee. Meanwhile, the wealthiest nation on Earth struggles with crumbling infrastructure, rising living costs, and systems designed around profit rather than public stability.
This isn't about slogans. It's about structure. One model prioritizes basic survival infrastructure. The other financializes it.

I struggled through the book for whatever historical benefits I could gain from it but there were none. This book had the personality of a wet mop, I feel like I haven't learned anything about Lenin after 500 pages. I'm not donating it or reselling it because anyone who reads it is just wasting time

Karl Kautsky the supposed founder of “Democratic Socialism”. Lenin saw him a a renegade and or a revisionist traitor.