alsaaas

alsaaas, 20 days ago

it’s mostly just internet lingo. English is not my native language either and I sometimes have the opposite problem: I know/use the internet definition/meaning but not the “official” one lol

Urban Dictionary is your friend in such cases, that’s where I usually go for stuff like this

alsaaas, 19 days ago

wdym? or rather what are you referring to? (sry am a bit dense sometimes)

like as long as you are not the “basement-dwelling (arch) elitist” stereotype, advocating for free/libre software is pretty cool imo

(also did you just say Linux when referring to desktop? insert “actually what are you referring to as Linux is in fact GNU/Linux” copypasta here /j)

alsaaas, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

understandable, but tbh my terminally online brain finds it funny and sometimes genuinely interesting what kind of bs ppl come up with

alsaaas, 22 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

The “trust us, we totally didn’t just remove the headphone jack to profit off of the TWS hypetrain” - “eco friendly” company? No thanks

alsaaas, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

Tbh, that is on the profit driven corporation behind Reddit, not the users protesting against it

alsaaas, 23 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

Also jetzt mal nach rein kapitalistischer Logik (heißt nicht, dass ich das befürworte, eher im Gegenteil):

Die “VR” China hat durch ihre "K"P hat einfach das “bessere” System (d.h. rücksichtslos profitoptimiertes in bisher nie da gewesener Effizienz) entwickelt und verdient es (bzw. die jeweiligen darin beteiligten Unternehmen) damit den Wettbewerb zu gewinnen/vom Markt belohnt zu werden

alsaaas, 24 days ago

libs are part of the problem, I would say theh sabotage the fight against global warming even more than any conservative ever could…

Why?

They create the illusion of acting against it and react to a few symptoms at best. Their main purpose is to approriate progreasive tendencies/movements/ideas and dull them down rill they have absolutely no teeth left.

Everything to protect capitalism, the dictatorship of a few rich bastards, their lackeys (“professional” politicians of all stripes) and collaborators (libs at large) holding the whole planet hostage just for the economy’s rich people’s yatch money’s sake

tl;dr: we can live under socialism or we can live under water

alsaaas, 1 month ago

I thought it was quite annoying tbh

alsaaas, 1 month ago

Stimmt (hatte das eher als Regionsbezeichnung gemeint), macht aber die völkerrechtswidrige Invasion gegen UN-Beschluss und ohne belegte Bedgründung nicht weniger kriminell

alsaaas, 1 month ago

It’s supposed to be funny bc the failed idealism of the Narodniks later lead to the individual terrorist approach of the “Narodnaya Volya” (“Peoples Will”)

(this is not meant to be a jab at anarchists btw, just thought it was midly relevant and funny/ironic)

alsaaas, 1 month ago

idk ask so called social democrats and democratic socialists

alsaaas, 2 months ago

(◕દ◕)

alsaaas, 1 month ago

ok buddy catra

alsaaas, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Leider gilt internationales Recht nicht für “Israel”, USA und Deutschland ¯_ (ツ) _/¯

alsaaas, 2 months ago

socialism is literally the primary stage of communism

alsaaas, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

that’s the thing, I don’t like confining myself to a specific school of thought/dogma. I’m heavily influnced by Council Communism but also think that Bolshevism (i.e. Leninism + Trotskyism), various branches Maoism and (non-soviet) ML (read: the ideology of a lot of liberationist movements in the 3rd world, like those In Grenada or Burkina Faso) had a lot of good ideas/analyses, even if I do not agree with all of them 100%

I also have respect for anarcho-communists and anarchists in general, even if I do not agree with their theoretical basis. (I mean that in the non “usa-perverted” sense of the word, as in smth like Bakunin’s or Goldman’s tradition, not the absolutely deranged idea that anarchism is just “anti-statism” and reconcilable with capitalism (“anarcho”-capitalism is mindboggling))

alsaaas, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

Ik that there is no such thing as “Kropotkinism” etc., was just using the “traditions” as a way to differentiate it from/make a comparison with “anarcho”-capitalism

All of the major anarchist works are on my reading list and I do want to understand them once I have a good grasp of Marxism as a philosoph/school of thought.
Thus far I find materialist dialectics & organized (party) work to be one of/if not the best approach(es), but that might change as my understanding grows, who knows :p

alsaaas, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

What in the love of Marx is this? Europe living in democratic socialism? In what world? Socialism is specifically the public ownership of the means of production (aka. economy), which is not in place anywhere in Europe atm. All of the stuff you mentioned are remnants of a withering Keynesian welfare state, funded by (neo-)colonialism/imperialism

And no, economy and politics are not seperable. Economics is inherently political and politics is inherently economical. Just as material and social conditions are inseparable

alsaaas, 2 months ago

Well I’m no anarchist, just a revolutionary marxist tired of all the “social democrats” with a hardon for red aesthetics & imperialism (read: China)

alsaaas, 2 months ago

I understand and partially share your concern, although I would harshly disagree with calling ppl “bots”.

tbh I neither have the time nor capacity in the free time that I have, to manage this batch of communities. I should probably invite some additional moderators, but I have never done that before and imagine that the vetting process will be tedious. Thus far I have just been procrastinating on this

alsaaas, 2 months ago

Yes, the capitalist road has benefited the bourgeois state of a new time.
With the “communist” party bureaucracy partially taking up the role of capitalists. Deng Xiaoping did what Gorbachev couldn’t, he saved the party bureaucracy

alsaaas, 2 months ago

exactly that is the point

alsaaas, 1 month ago

…no? I just wouldn’t include them as reds, tho they still seem to be generally anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, progressive and so on

even if they’re largely irrelevant and an internet phenomenon

alsaaas, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

luckily no actual red would ever include mutualists (in the red)

smth smth the hell of capitalism is the firm, not the fact that it has a boss smth smth markets force even cooperatives to behave like capitalist cooperations smth smth

alsaaas, 2 months ago

damn, even communist party bureaucrats don’t come close to that