Yes! I saw the CGTN footage. That was awesome!

I was worried 😟

Good idea!

I’m writing some satirical, future, global intrigue stuff. But focused on a communist world that is fighting off the last capitalist strongholds of the world. Im trying to explore the ridiculous reality of the liberal, reactionary imperialist mind and the difficulty of pacifism and the infantile disorder of anarchy and puritanical ultras.

I want to add a badass trans communist character, but I don’t feel confident about writing them in. See, the problem is I’m straight. I know, I know, I’m sorry lol. Would anybody suggest anything on how to approach? Or should I avoid writing about trans people altogether? What should I avoid besides tokenism or portraying trans people as a stereotype. What should I strive for?

I really appreciate trans people bc they’ve always been around and they’re brave as hell. Idk, just knowing the rates of depression for trans youth makes me sad. I think we don’t show them enough love in our culture. If we can just normalize trans expressions of gender, I think that would be a positive thing. But maybe I’m just a dumbass. Ha!

https://goodonyou.eco/

It’s still promoting consumerism, but it gives a grade to many brands and points toward others. You can measure a brand by environmental impact, worker rights, wages, or animal testing.

We’re more at ease bc we have a common understanding. That opens up all kinds of wonderful and helpful discussion. I feel more free to speak my mind and share my thoughts. I gotta say, I’m constantly surprised by how awesome and helpful and kind my comrades are!

I also love the comrades here that provide a focus on mental and physical health like @SpaceCowboy. It’s just such a positive thing! It helps me to keep getting in shape.

Abso-lutely along with free public safe drinking water sources

Forget the wife passing a baby through a little hole! I want a couch 🛋, this is inhumane!

Be a man, and be in the room while your wife gives birth to your child alien style. SMH

I mean the fbi informants pretty much singlehandedly organized the terrorist bombing by the BPP that got them disbanded. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the feds had a hand in organizing the event si that they could have some charges to press on randos.

These seats will probably have a little hole on the ass of the seat so the company execs can come fuck your ass from behind. This would give you a 5% discount.

Absolutely. I was a janitor for years, and I didn’t mind it at all, it just doesn’t pay well.

Ooooh, okay, cool! That sounds like itd be very helpful and I’ve thought of something like that, but I really had no idea how it could be done.

Yes, this is what I mean. We must be proactive and anticipate the inevitable revolutionary moment in order to seize it from the reactionaries. God knows the fascists want their 1776 America back.

We don’t want to look like the dems who only offer half-solutions and lip service to anything popular. As MLs, if we’re to be a legitimate political party then we must participate in political party Work. Policy proposals for a socialist govt in the US is one such responsibility. At the very least we need to be writing the socialist political theory for the America of today. If we don’t have the details, then who does?

I think a big part of the hesitancy from many people is this idea that a socialist party would not just be evil, but they are convinced we are unprepared and disorganized. That we would not have the organizational tools or political power to successfully revolt and I really can’t blame the average brainwashed Joe for sticking to what is known to them rather than putting their weight into yet another(in their mind) half-baked, college kid run, pseudo democratic third party. Most people only adopt something new like socialism, once it is popular enough and thus safe to do so. How can we provide that feeling of safety? I say one way is to have that detail prepared. It would give us professionalism, and it would give them the knowledge that we aren’t just angry college kids in a phase of rebellion, but a proper, working revolutionary party.

Unity, criticism, unity.

One of the things I find missing in the PSL platform is the lack of acknowledgment of the giant elephant in the room: WASPs. Whether we readily admit this or not, the white, Anglo community is still about 50% of the population in America. We still have to appeal to them(unfortunately). What they’re willing to concede is not what we as socialists or natives or black folks or immigrants are willing to concede. They do not see us on their side, they see us as wanting to destroy what they have “created”(gross). How will they see themselves benefitted by our taking of power? They will not join otherwise. If not actively try to kill us. Lol. I believe we can appeal to most workers in US. Socialism can create a win win situation.

To provide concrete answers to concrete problems is all I’m asking for. Not conjecture about the future, but tangible, realistic solutions to current situations. I’m not entirely understanding your point of departure from this request. This doesn’t require any more conjecture than the Green New Deal.

I also have years of experience organizing, and have founded orgs before, but this isn’t always an obvious fact that can be extracted from a bugs bunny dressed up as Stalin pfp.

I find it hard to imagine no one has ever asked you a specific question about implementing policies we are for as socialists. This happened nearly every time my org organized a tabling event.

“We are not at the point of detailing policy, we’re at the point of reaching out to the masses and radicalizing”

I respectfully disagree with you. These are not mutually exclusive. It isn’t adventurism since the premise is that we should think and propose options that can be consented to by the masses today. We must be developing a socialism that is in line with where the masses are today.

This is a radicalizing point; reaching out to the people with a realistic and well-thought out plan. Not only that, but having the policies necessary to provide the change we promise. The details may change. However, there is no reason this fact should prevent us MLs from actively thinking of detailed, materially viable solutions to the problems at hand. It is precisely because we can come up with infinite amount of solutions that we must provide at least a few well thought-out policy priorities that can be consented to by the people. If we can’t hope to provide solutions for today and tomorrow, what business do we have seeking power? Where is our confidence?

If we have a strong foundation in the details of our policy proposals, most pushback can be resolved. How many times have you heard the tired argument of “how are we gonna pay for free college?!” If we aren’t demsocs, we’re going to provide, non-capitalistic solutions about socialized education programs. The work has already been done. We might stop hearing this answer if we provided the details. We can’t just rely on platitudes like “we’ll take it from the military budget!” Yes, and?

“The focus is on the current oppression of the masses and the means of achieving working class unity to strike down our oppressors.”

We do not disagree. But aren’t the conditions for a revolution inevitable to arise? Shouldn’t we be prepared for that and what will happen? I don’t think the hardest part of socialism is the revolution. The hardest part of the revolution is keeping it.

“it’s not up to a Marxist party to dictate what an oppressed nations reparations will be“

Good to recognize this, but if not the party, then who? I’m not being rhetorical. The difference between a socialist party in power and the bourgeois democracy is that the socialists will not just talk about reparations, the promise is the implementation. Otherwise why would the masses trust us? Anger and hatred to the oppressor, pointing out how shitty prole’s lives are? No. I say they will trust us because we provide the solutions to their oppression.

I read through the document, but it doesn’t provide detailed policies. Never did I say that anti capitalism is all that PSL does. I never meant to imply that they are inadequate in their activities.

I think you misunderstand. To say capitalism cannot be done away with does not mean it will never be done away with. If there was a revolution tomorrow, all Americans would sign up to abolish capitalism, in all its forms, immediately? I find that implausible at best. At first it cannot happen. Is it no secret that China or vietnam have capitalist friendly policies. They use capitalism as a tool to benefit their society. It’s not about a party line. Lenin wrote about the the new socialist society would have the vestiges of the old one, namely, capitalism. It has been the model since the inception of the US nation. It is not that I do not trust the masses, i very much trust that they are used to the system of capitalism and would have a hard time letting it go completely for a time. It doesn’t follow they’d immediately abolish it. It would take time and a detailed policy description.

“full reparations for colonial exploitation“ what is that exactly defined as? This is what I mean. My main problem is that we use too many platitudes when it comes to the issues we face in the US and so we only can superficially imagine the change that the US would undergo. The lack of detail and the how of policy implementation lead to vagueness, which only contributes to the idea that socialists are idealists.

“guaranteed living income“ how is this funded? What office will oversee this? Is it just a lump sum? Is it food, housing, clothes? Are the rich taxed to fund it? What happens to the monetary system that props up the current global capitalist economy?

“a program of reparations for the African American community.” Again, what program? What do reparations actually look like? Money? Land, homes, jobs, education? All of the above? If so, then who is qualified, for how long, what is the extent of the reparations? This is a touchy subject. Which is exactly why we need detailed answers.

“eradicating racism, national oppression and all forms of exploitation and bigotry.”

Okay, so they are prohibited, good! But what are the implications of “free speech”? This is a dearly held ideal in the American reactionary psyche. How will it be managed, what will be the repercussions to racism? Jail, re-education? Psychological examination? I don’t see these questions as superfluous. And we need to be proactive enough to come up with the answers whilst fighting for a socialist revolution.

I don’t personally find my questions satisfactorily answered by this short document by PSL, which I read in preparation for my post. I hope you can understand why I’m concerned about the vagueness of the policies mentioned here by PSL. It’s not that they’re bad or silly ideas, no. They’re extremely important and relevant. That is why we owe it to the masses to be prepared to implement these policies quickly, as logically as possible, and provide the masses as much detail so they can more clearly imagine what a socialist nation would look like.

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I’m not super familiar with the concept. it sounds interesting. Can you expound on how a database of metadata can help us?

The Soviet people were robbed of a beautiful future

Fucking douche bag.

Organize and write essays from A salty bathtub! Like that one French revolutionary :)

You have a role to play. You are valuable to a revolution. No doubt about it.

Are you scared because you’re in America? Are you afraid of being persecuted? That’s understandable. I would like to know more about this fear of yours.

I’ll be happy to answer as best as I can.