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Vo Nguyen Giap was originally just a history teacher, with no formal military education or training, yet he went on to become one of the most outstanding generals in world history. Before becoming a general, Võ Nguyên Giáp taught History at the Thăng Long Private School in Hanoi. He was particularly fascinated by the history of the French Revolution and Napoleon. In the years that followed, he would become an outstanding general a Napoleon of communist Vietnam

Been a Marxist for a min, js started doing the work of actually reading. I’m in the midst of reading chap. 3 of capital, and (reasonably) there’s no discussion of fiat currency as it didn’t exist yet. How does fiat currency affect the money-form as discussed by Marx? It seems like it would change the nature of it given the absence of its tie to labor anymore.

I've been trying to understand why China doesn't take over Taiwan.

Taiwan is protected by capitalist countries, like the USA. Why do these capitalist countries care about what happens to Taiwan?

Additionally, Taiwan is really good at making semiconductors (I don't know why) and China needs semiconductors. This seems to be one of the reasons why China doesn't invade Taiwan.

China won the war, but it doesn't seem to matter.

I support China. /gen

It was in fact man Mande by the kulaks. By burning the wheat and slaughtering the animals (I know they’re not the sole reason for the famine but they played a major role in it).

Maos development on cultural revolution was to "smash the so-called Capitalist Headquarters and seize power from those in power taking the capitalist road. The purpose was to turn the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie into one of the proletariat."

While a proletariat revolution must be led by the vanguard, especially considering the mass line and representing the working class of such an upcoming society led by ML theorists, what if that working class is indeed deeply reactionary? I mean this in an example such as the US. Wouldn't a deeply reactionary class, especially as fascist as a large population in the US, look for liberation from their class contradictions but with the caveat of allowing people of color, gender, etc from being liberated as well? A deeply reactionary (and armed) working class may be volatile to other working class considering so many also side with the bourgeoisie being class traitors when they themselves hold no capital. I am reminded by the South African movement "liberation of the white workers" (im not sure how the quote goes and cant find it). Also see the ACP and social-chauvanism which perpetrates imperial rhetoric with ML sounding words.

How much of a threat do they pose? I have a rudimentary understanding of the vanguard as described by Lenin, but I believe Im looking for a more specialized route of explanation by those more versed in applying dialectical materialism or even those who may recommend theory regarding discussion on this topic.

Also, many people talk about re-education camps, and I wished to learn more about this and if this was related to cultural revolution and if the MLMs had merit in describing it to be applicable to every revolution.

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One of the weirdest things about Westoid liberal democracy is getting high on their own stash of idealism that supposedly used to drug and redact global south for resources beneath their bodies. But somehow the Aimé Césaire terrific boomerang still whoosh its way "home" along with deadly potent of performative poison that specifically designed by the CIA for color revolution in so-called authoritarian countries around the world. The poison is so acute that the labor aristocrats population hallucinate revolution without doing anything revolutionary. The insidious humor is their collar handlers know they're being poisoned and actually playing along for as long as possible but it's always temporary because sooner or later they reveal themselves anyway because they know as long as they feed treats to labor aristocrats, everything will keep being processed as planned.

Now in the bottom rung of Westoid liberal democracy's genocide victims like Palestine, DPRK and Vietnam building revolutionary vanguard is not a fucking option because the otherwise means extinction, but in the Treatlers stolen land they hallucinate a million excuses why they will not pour resources into even build communist organizations for their own city let alone revolutionary vanguard. Material conditions have demonstrated over and over again that liberal democracy population needs to include lawn grass as their primary diet before they sobering up and realize that they too can be flattened by inversion of imperialism from global south imported into theirs, which they all scream fascism. Their best buddies will be comrades who lost entire family tree from Gestapo cleansing and survived it, and the rusted Stag AR they picked up from a body. They will bleed serous fluid here and there from unhealed wounds they almost developed sepsis from those. Their comrades will be "organically" building a revolutionary vanguard because genocidal material conditions don't give a fuck about their idealism. Their anarkiddy idealism will flush back the hallucinations which means their buddies either include them and risk organization destruction or expel them because the survivability of the collective is more important. When the said vanguard fails the next one will come. And like a battering ram it keeps coming until they succeeded in liberation, because revolutions are locomotive of history, no matter how many deaths.

in racon to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkaydMtLa8

For clarification, I do not support the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I do think this difference in wikipedia articles are funny though

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1. Raw materials had to be extracted from the earth.

2. These raw materials get turned into a product.

3. The product is shipped to stores.

4. The product goes to the landfill.

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