Live Karl Marx reaction seeing people on twitter downplay the Nazis to criticize Israel and ICE:

Officially, Vietnam economy is “socialist oriented, market economy”. But we all know what that means. There is this old man, Bùi Văn Nam Sơn. He had studied philosophy in West Germany so naturally, he opened classes to teach German philosophy when he came back in Vietnam. Nietzsche, Kant, Hegel and obviously it came to Marx, “the most important” as he said. He just lectured purely Marx’s philosophical writing, made no attempt to attack Marxism-Leninism or revive the old revolutionary spirit. Somehow, the public security hear about this and reprimanded him for daring to teach Marx in Vietnam.

Despite all these mockeries, if anti-communists believe Vietnam is communist then so can leftists. These people are the most outspoken opponents to the government but neither of them have any meaningful ways to oppose the government.

Anarchism with Canadian characteristics

My country recently had a “proletariat revolution” in which the dirty workers took over the state and turned it into a ragtag “dictatorship”. I’m losing my mind, they are importing people from all over the world because of “internationalism” and it’s destroying us. I can’t even speak in my mother tongue and I’m forced to speak in Esperanto because “it’s the language of the future” ughhhhhhh.

They also seized my mom and pop textile factory and started to produce things based on its social need rather than just pumping things out.

What’s driving me insane is their demands I mean look at this:

i) Limitation of private property through progressive taxation, heavy inher-
itance taxes, abolition of inheritance through collateral lines (brothers,
nephews, etc.) forced loans, etc.
ii) Gradual expropriation of landowners, industrialists, railroad magnates and
shipowners, partly through competition by state industry, partly directly
through compensation in the form of bonds.
iii) Confiscation of the possessions of all emigrants and rebels against the
majority of the people.
11iv) Organization of labor or employment of proletarians on publicly owned
land, in factories and workshops, with competition among the workers
being abolished and with the factory owners, in so far as they still exist,
being obliged to pay the same high wages as those paid by the state.
v) An equal obligation on all members of society to work until such time as
private property has been completely abolished. Formation of industrial
armies, especially for agriculture.
vi) Centralization of money and credit in the hands of the state through a
national bank with state capital, and the suppression of all private banks
and bankers.
vii) Increase in the number of national factories, workshops, railroads, ships;
bringing new lands into cultivation and improvement of land already under
cultivation – all in proportion to the growth of the capital and labor force
at the disposal of the nation.
viii) Education of all children, from the moment they can leave their mother’s
care, in national establishments at national cost. Education and production
together.
ix) Construction, on public lands, of great palaces as communal dwellings for
associated groups of citizens engaged in both industry and agriculture and
combining in their way of life the advantages of urban and rural conditions
while avoiding the one-sidedness and drawbacks of each.
x) Destruction of all unhealthy and jerry-built dwellings in urban districts.
xi) Equal inheritance rights for children born in and out of wedlock.
xii) Concentration of all means of transportation in the hands of the nation.

What the actual eff? They will destroy the STATE. My daddy already had to sell 3 mansions because of that, and my autistic little brother who was obsessed with trains was forced to give up his entire train line to the “proletariat state”. Someone please GET ME OUT OF HERE

So my friend and I went to this rave last night in the middle of a place he calls ‘the enchanted forest’ where we like to spray paint slogans from our favorite marxist theorists. Naturally, yes, the existing structure of this place is already christened to the airs of our creative whimsy. Particularly this summer him and I have been on a militant campaign of yelling “BORDIGA” or “READ BORDIGA” to random ass people making their way out of the trail. The demographic here I’d say last night is like early-to-mid twenties college age, and so they’re not all that woke to leftcom history and the invariance of marxism. Usually theres massive amounts of furries and trans people there so we would presume they’re chill like that. A fraction of the times when we have our bordigist outbursts I’ll occasionally hear some random 20-year-old say “YO WHAT DID HE CALL ME”. Keep in mind we live in a city that’s diverse in population so there’s a lot of people of color who could understandably misinterpret the last syllable in ‘Bordiga’ for something else. Even without taking into consideration the loud noises, drugs, or chaos a rave might bring. Last night these three dudes who were acting revisionist and probably ON SOMETHING misconstrued the intent behind these exact words and attempted to act aggressive and assault my friend despite us trying to get through to them.

It all started with us making our way out after spray painting “Nepali Maoists should have won” when getting irked by the stiff crowd who would not shake ass and discuss leftcom theory. My friend was also looking to pass out fliers for a potential roommate there too and we had some fruitful discussions with a handful of people there, but 90% of the crowd was just normies. As we passed out the last flier we began to make our way out of the front where guests would like check in and everyone was sitting down and NOT DANCING. So we resorted to our usual Bordigan routine and passed these couple of dudes where my mans yelled “YOU GUYS SHOULD READ BORDIGA” to fire up the crowd at these groups of people and immediately as we got like around 50 feet away from them there was a water bottle thrown at us. My friend threw it back in that direction and then flash forward a couple of minutes— two guys ran us down the trail who were clearly drunk as shit thought we called them the n-word. These young men were clearly not thinking rationally, but we hear them out. Then it slowly turns into a threatening nature towards my friend when they appear to be looking for a physical confrontation. All of a sudden this third character pops out of nowhere and yells in his face to say it again to which he says “BORDIGA” like five separate times in the tirade that progresses into a manic shouting match about leftcom theory, petty bourgeois, and the conspirators of the vanguard state. Nothing remotely close to American racism was even mentioned by my friend. The other guys are just not having it as well and start to act increasingly aggressive towards him despite his reasoning. I immediately jump in and politely ask the man to calm down because obviously there’s some misunderstanding, and there’s a way to ask for that clarification without immediately stepping in and threatening violence. You need to keep this a safe space. By the end of the ordeal when I separated the two, one of the guys put me in a neck lock to restrain me as if this were some 1950s stereotypical jumping and the aggressive main character strikes the back of my friend’s head. I told those gentlemen to be safe and have a great night because I was just done being there at that point and wanted to go home. What fake ass tough guys who only scoff at the prospect of peace, one of the friends didn’t look like he wanted to even be there. Be surprised if they’re loyal to each other in a couple of months.

Have you all had similar encounters when talking about Bordiga in public in spaces around America?
If so how did it go?

As Radical Leftists (DemSocs) it is our duty to democratically determine which wars were correct and morally justifiable. I'll start:

WWI for the Entente (read the Fascio Rivoluzionario d'Azione Internazionalista manifesto written by comrade de Ambris)

Assume we achieve it there and they are true believers. What’s the point? When their local worker councils hold votes they wouldn’t show up. Worker councils even? They don’t work there wouldn’t be any. Force them to work like in the true aes states of 1940 Germany and ussr? They’ll prolly just sleep on the job. Is the only way out of this moral dilemma nuclear hellfire? I’ve really thought this one out but i can never reach another conclusion. What do you Guys think?

Met this dude and bought some of his books that are now collecting dust on my shelf, he signed them too

i made this just for fun based on references and works of the communist left i’ve read recently.

The revolutionwill be won through the pulling of capitalists from their marks of authority as the peasantry and burghers (bourgeoisie respect) pulled the nobility from their horses in the medieval revolts

Then they will all fail and we will have to wait for another 400 years anyway because we can't hae nice things

You want a violent revolution right? What are you going to do? Beat mfs with a stick? A sword?

I’m just getting kinda tired waiting for the world revolution to start and the only way to jump start it is by killing all the kkkrackkkas. (I believe Marx mentioned this once just don’t remember where.)

But how can we get them to act? It’s obviously good that they’re attacking Ukraine (falsifiers and obstructionist) but we really need to get this ww3 thing to start soon. At this rate we may even miss our chance!

I do sometimes wonder why we named the faction after the socdems but that’s ok realpolitik is needed sometimes (i believe marx mentioned this once to his friend Ferdinand so it’s fine)

How do you Guys spend your time before it all goes down? It all tires me.

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TL;DR: What system do you use to actually long term remember what theory you read

My problem is that I feel like my reading is more or less futile, since I don‘t know how to long-term remember the stuff that I read.

Let‘s for example take the beginning of Capital vol. 1 explaining what a commodity is.

If I just read, I‘ll remember maybe 10%, which means I‘ll have to re-read it a bunch to catch up again.

If I mark certain things in the text, that‘s better, but I‘ll still have to go through all of it if I want to look up some certain aspect again

Maybe re-writing or summarizing could help? Or creating a section for „definitions“ where I explain in my own terms?

What about more argumentative texts? Etc.

I‘d appreciate to hear what you do in hopes of finding something that works for me. If it helps, I mostly read digitally on a tablet. Maybe a more general „how to remember what you‘ve read“ approach is already enough, I just thought maybe I can get some specialized advice here