I like to listen to theory a few times as an audiobook while I do chores, cook, exercise, or play less cerebral videogames. It builds a familiarity with the simple ideas and the flow of the text, how the parts relate to each other in general. It lets my brain work on the ideas without my conscious mind getting in the way because it is busy doing other things. Then after listening to it 2 or 3 times read along with it and really get down to attaching all the parts together in the order they are presented and turning them into one solid thing.
One of the achievements is spending no time at your desk and doing no work for a whole week. Sitting in on meetings that have nothing to do with you is fine.
Fucking based to the bone. This guy and his countrymen are are doing the most honorable and morally correct acts at extreme costs to themselves and he just acts like it is the obvious most normal thing to do.
Well that worked well. Apparently pointing out that immigration is a result of racist colonialism is "mansplaning." This is why demsocs are called "Social fascists" or why Stalin called them the "moderate wing of fascism." Its like this person built their political identity in university 20 years ago and never questioned any of those ideas since then. They say they "studied marx" but they have no grasp of historical materialism. They talk about the "nordic model" like it happened in a vacuum and ignore that since the fall of the USSR the Nordic nations severely eroded every advantage they had over the rest of the capitalist nations.
I needed to hear this right now. I'm chipping away at a demsoc and they are way more dem than soc. I had thought they were close to a break through but then they said anti-immigration and racism are just human nature, and I'm like "wow how did I think this was a good person with a few bad ideas?"
I had to try hard to not go off about how racist that is and how they are so racist there is no hope for them. Instead I managed to just point out the latent racism calmly and incorporate it into how a history of how democratic socialism is a dead end and only worked when there was a USSR to play the capitalists off.
Being poor doesn't make you a better socialist. Its is more noble to go against your own self interests to fight for the betterment of all people than it is to fight for your fair share.
We are on the other side of summer and just got the first decent bit of rain in months. Summer seemed to last an extra month and a half and then suddenly the temperature dropped 10 degrees.
They can't stand the prick of a needle so they let their children die of preventable diseases but also think that they are the greatest nation in history and are the rightful world hegemon.
I like to listen to theory a few times as an audiobook while I do chores, cook, exercise, or play less cerebral videogames. It builds a familiarity with the simple ideas and the flow of the text, how the parts relate to each other in general. It lets my brain work on the ideas without my conscious mind getting in the way because it is busy doing other things. Then after listening to it 2 or 3 times read along with it and really get down to attaching all the parts together in the order they are presented and turning them into one solid thing.