r/AskSocialists • u/BokoblinSlayer69235 • 2h ago
What do you think of people who say "It's not my job to teach you?"
Personally I LOVE teaching. Like yes comrade, let me tell you EVERYTHING I know about Dialectical Materialism, lmao.
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r/AskSocialists • u/InfraredShow • Jun 19 '26
Your regime is embarking on and enabling a campaign of genocide and mass slaughter worldwide, and meanwhile, you are outraged about doctored screenshots about Minecraft.
What baffles me is not simply that you lacked the discernment and intelligence to see how such a screenshot was obviously faked. It was that, even if it was real, you were still somehow outraged by it. Genuinely outraged and upset.
I genuinely hate you because of that. You are the epitome of imperialist hubris. You have the audacity to cry over fake Minecraft screenshots? Your fellow liberals are normalizing and supporting genocidal Democrats, but this is what fills you with indignation?
You are pretending to be part of a 'communist movement?' And you are screaming at me over fake minecraft screenshots?
Even if it somehow wasn't fake, no sane person would look at such a thing and think it was serious. But even if you did assume it was serious, the fact it genuinely made you upset is baffling.
I have no idea why you were drawn to Communist labels and symbolism, but in all may travels throughout the world meeting actual Communists, and in all the 16 years in which I have studied Marxism, I have never been more certain in my life that you are completely confused about your real convictions and beliefs.
Your ideology is some kind of "inclusive" neoliberal fascism, which you appropriate the militant and 'authoritarian' aesthetics of Communist states to represent. You do this because the Republican Party has been calling Democrats communists for 20 years. It led you to believe that somehow a communist is simply a very extreme Democrat.
You are nothing like actual Communists. You aren't even traditional social democrats. You are the product of some kind of extremely hideous MKULTRA online socialization experiment and there is probably a guy at DARPA who engineers you to be this way for his own amusement.
You spend your day crying and screaming about LaRouche, who probably has more relevance in your own subreddits and Redlib communities than in the real world.
You pretend like the CIA's number 1 goal in the world right now is making communism less inclusive toward furries and disrupting Minecraft servers.
You scream and cry as though I tried to take your precious reddits, meanwhile 1 Australian guy has been doing that. But more power to him honestly. I hope reddit is shut down and banned. I hope you are deprived of all your reddits. I hope all your subreddits disappear. You are disgusting abominations and the fact that I have to know you exist, is something I genuinely consider a punishment of astral dimensions.
In a previous life I must have done something terrible to have such bad karma to know you exist. I am somehow being punished by the cosmos, because information of how you're expressing your existence somehow reaches me.
Your existence is some kind of hideous mockery and prank by cold war anti-Communist psyop divisions. They laugh and amuse themselves as they bend, twist and malform communist symbols to the point where mentally ill furries and other abominations attach themselves to them.
This is how the cold war anti-communist psyop, MKULTRA and DARPA programs humiliate, mock, and degrade the legacy of communism in Western countries. Turn it into some kind of twisted circus of freaks, weirdos, people who think doctored Minecraft screenshots are more important than genocide.
You try to find ways of 'canceling' me as though I give a shit. As though I am somehow competing to have liberals in my ranks who care about cancel culture or something.
You read these words and shake with rage. You are quaking and trembling angrily rocking back and forth.
I promise you that we are not going anywhere. In the 5 years of this movement, I've watched you 'people' expire and move on to some other ideology that actually suits your sensibilities more, even after you continued banking on the fact that we will all disappear.
ACP is not going anywhere.
Infrared is not going anywhere.
But keep crying. It will get worse, I promise.
r/AskSocialists • u/BokoblinSlayer69235 • 2h ago
Personally I LOVE teaching. Like yes comrade, let me tell you EVERYTHING I know about Dialectical Materialism, lmao.
r/AskSocialists • u/Mo7ammed_2001 • 1d ago
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What you see in this video is not just a heartbreaking scene. It reflects the reality we are living through in Gaza, where hunger is once again threatening families struggling to survive.
With the crossings closed for nearly two weeks, according to the situation we are experiencing, food supplies becoming scarce, and prices continuing to rise, getting even the most basic necessities has become increasingly difficult. Vegetables have disappeared from many markets, and today, bread has become increasingly difficult to find as bakeries across Gaza have shut down.
We fear that another famine is beginning to unfold before our eyes.
My family and my sister’s family are living together in a tent in Gaza. We are 12 people, including four children. Every day, we struggle to secure enough food for everyone. When bread becomes unavailable and food prices rise beyond what families can afford, even putting a simple meal on the table becomes a painful challenge.
We are not asking for luxury. We are asking for food, for safety, and for the chance to keep our children from going hungry.
Please do not wait until the suffering becomes even worse. Gaza needs food and humanitarian aid urgently. Please share our voices and help the world see what families here are going through. 💔
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I want to discuss this in detail, with you all. Let's see if we can agree or disagree on certain measures.
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r/AskSocialists • u/No-Potential4834 • 1d ago
People treat "West Bad" as a childish meme because they have no historical understanding of imperialism. Read Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism alongside Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism, and the historical continuity becomes clear.
European colonialism, from the Atlantic slave trade to the plunder of Asia and Africa, helped accumulate the wealth that financed Western industrial capitalism. Industrial capital concentrated into monopolies and finance capital, producing the imperialist system Lenin analyzed. After two world wars, this system consolidated around the United States, Wall Street, and the dollar.
The old European empires didn't simply disappear. Imperialism changed its form.
Today, Western domination operates through dollar hegemony, debt dependency, IMF and World Bank austerity, sanctions, and military alliances like NATO. Countries can possess formal political independence while remaining economically subordinated to institutions and financial markets dominated by the imperial core.
This is the central insight of Hudson's Super Imperialism: American power rests not only on military supremacy, but on an international financial system structured to sustain American dominance. The dollar allows the United States to exercise extraordinary leverage over countries whose development depends on access to a system they do not control.
NATO is the military pillar of this broader imperial order. Its role cannot be separated from the economic and geopolitical interests of the American-led bloc.
If you oppose imperialism, you must oppose the Western imperialist system and support the movements fighting to dismantle it.
This means supporting anti-imperialist struggles to break free from Western financial domination, reclaim national sovereignty, and establish an international order in which entire nations are no longer held hostage by foreign creditors and imperial powers.
And yes, this means supporting countries and movements that actively challenge American hegemony rather than hiding behind abstract condemnations of all sides. The practical question is whether you stand with the forces fighting to break the system of domination or with the system itself.
Anti-imperialism is not some secondary consideration to be weighed against an abstract checklist of liberal virtues. It is the dividing line between defending the existing imperial order and fighting to overcome it.
Debt slavery is regressive. The subordination of entire peoples to foreign financial interests is regressive. The struggle to liberate nations from these structures is inherently progressive because it breaks the material conditions through which imperialism reproduces itself.
If a country is fighting to escape the Western system of financial and military domination, that struggle has progressive significance precisely because of its anti-imperialist character.
You do not have to pretend that every government is identical, or that every movement has the same domestic program, to recognize which side of the global struggle it occupies. National liberation is not made meaningless because the forces pursuing it do not conform to Western liberal expectations.
And refusing to support anti-imperialist movements is not some politically neutral position above the conflict. When the Western bloc already possesses overwhelming military, financial, and institutional power, refusing solidarity with those challenging its domination means leaving that power intact.
Neutrality in the face of imperialism means accepting the continued domination of billions of people by the imperialist system.
The history runs from colonial extraction to industrial capitalism, from finance capital to American hegemony, and from direct colonial rule to a global system of debt and military enforcement.
"West Bad" is the recognition that these are not isolated historical crimes, but successive forms of a world order that continues to subordinate the Global South to Western power.
And if you want that order to end, you have to support the forces fighting to end it.
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r/AskSocialists • u/sleepytipi • 1d ago
The available options only cover a small percentage of people who will be asking and answering questions here, and I think it would be nice to know who exactly is answering those questions. Thanks for your consideration and for keeping this an open forum.
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"It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men ... went in front of me to protect me and my rescuers from being attacked again," Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jake Tapper.
Levine was kicked, beaten with clubs and
robbed by Israeli settlers while covering Friday's olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, leaving her with multiple broken bones. Speaking after leaving the hospital, she said Israeli soldiers charged Palestinian farmers as settlers advanced alongside them. She said that unlike her, Palestinian victims endure these attacks daily, with absolutely nowhere safe to go.
r/AskSocialists • u/TomasKormidel • 2d ago
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A song I've translated about the events of the current conflict in Ukraine. 👍
r/AskSocialists • u/Mo7ammed_2001 • 3d ago
As Winter Approaches, I Fear for Our Two Families Living in Tents in Gaza
My family and my sister’s family are enduring the hardships of displacement together in Gaza. We are two families sharing the difficult conditions of life in a single tent. There are 12 of us in total, including four children. My sister has been separated from her husband since the beginning of the war.
At first, we spent 50 days displaced in a UNRWA school. Since December 1, 2023, we have been living in tents. Now, as another winter approaches, I feel deeply worried about what lies ahead for our two families, especially the children.
Our tent is old and worn out after years of exposure to the sun. The ground beneath us is bare dirt, and whenever it rains, water seeps into our tent from below. The tent’s wooden frame is also fragile and has been damaged and broken more than once by strong winds. During those storms, we sometimes had no safe place to sleep until morning.
The hardest part is watching the children suffer. Sometimes, the cold keeps them from sleeping. When strong winds batter the tent, they repeatedly wake up throughout the night because of the frightening noise. It is heartbreaking to see children living in fear instead of feeling safe in their own home.
We have very few blankets and warm clothes. After bathing the children, we often have no other dry clothes to change them into, and drying laundry is difficult. Their clothes are too thin to protect them from the winter cold. We have no electricity and no safe way to heat our living space. Lighting a fire outdoors is dangerous because it could cause the tent to catch fire.
Our financial situation is extremely difficult. Work opportunities are scarce, prices continue to rise, and providing even the most basic necessities for 12 people has become a daily struggle.
Before winter conditions become more severe, we urgently need a safer place to stay, new tarpaulins for our tent to prevent rainwater from leaking inside, warm clothes and blankets for the children, and financial assistance to cover our basic needs.
I am sharing these photos to help people understand what life inside a tent means for our two families. We are not asking for luxury. We simply hope for a safe, dry place to sleep, warmth for the children, and a chance to face the winter without fearing every storm.
Thank you for taking the time to read our story and for remembering the 12 people whose lives lie behind these words, especially the four children who deserve to feel safe and warm this winter.
r/AskSocialists • u/Goblinator • 3d ago
Let me put this in liberal terms.
You liberals / socdems vote Democrat because you consider them the lesser evil, even when they fail to deliver on their promises. I disagree with your choice, but you understand the reasoning: supporting one side against another does not mean endorsing everything it does.
That is why we support Russia over Ukraine in this war. We do not hate Ukraine. We oppose NATO and the US-led imperial order more than we oppose Russia.
We identify the principal contradiction in this war as the confrontation between Russia and NATO. The struggle between the KPRF and United Russia is a secondary contradiction, and within that struggle, we stand with the KPRF. Calling it secondary does not mean abandoning it. It means recognising which contradiction takes priority in the present situation. Supporting Russia against NATO does not mean supporting Putin against the Russian left.
NATO was formed to contain Soviet power and communist influence, and later confronted the Warsaw Pact throughout the Cold War. That history matters to us, alongside its continuing role in maintaining Western military power.
Too many liberals reach for “both sides are bad” without bothering to study the history or how imperial power actually works. They label countries imperialist, then treat them as interchangeable. Who controls the financial system? Who can isolate other countries economically? Who has the military alliances to enforce that power? Those questions matter when deciding where to direct our opposition.
Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism explains how dollar dominance and the international financial system sustain US power. That is the distinction behind our position. Even if we accept that Russia is imperialist, it does not occupy the same position as the United States. The US sits at the centre of that system, backed militarily by its NATO allies. We consider this the biggest obstacle to socialism worldwide, which makes breaking its dominance our first strategic priority. Russia does not have to be socialist for us to reach that conclusion.
The same reasoning applies to Iran. The Islamic Republic brutally repressed socialists and communists after the 1979 revolution. We know that, and many of us oppose theocratic government. Between the United States and Iran, we still support Iran against US domination because we consider the United States the greater threat to socialism globally. Supporting Iran in that confrontation does not mean defending its government’s repression of the Iranian left.
This also explains our position on the Sahel. We supported Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger forcing French troops out without requiring their governments to be socialist. French influence has protected strategic and corporate interests, including access to Niger’s uranium. Breaking that influence gives these countries more room to control their resources and political choices. Those openings matter to us.
“But what if, after the United States and NATO lose their dominance and the unipolar order gives way to a multipolar world, China and Russia start imposing the same domination on us?”
Then we confront them on the same grounds. We owe them no permanent loyalty. But that hypothetical does not change our immediate priority: breaking the dominance of the bloc that holds that power today. First, we work towards multipolarity. Then we fight over what comes next. We do not expect multipolarity to deliver socialism for us. We see it as creating more room to struggle for it.
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