Venezuela. Rebirth and Electoral Victory of the Communist Party - PlatformNews
The_Filthy_Commie @ The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml Posts 11Comments 31Joined 3 yr. ago

The_Filthy_Commie @ The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml
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Sweet, thanks, I bookmarked that site.
Yeah, there's a whole gamut of online diversions, sometimes it feels like you're playing a platformer avoiding all the traps and spikes. But in truth, they're more like snares and shadow plays to get you caught up in a Plato's cave, fighting with strawmen, and not advancing towards Marxism-Leninism. If you're not here, ideologically, you've been ensnared, and your energy is being diverted into meaningless chatter. That's why what you mentioned earlier is important, that we need more rigorous Marxist critics. I guess that's what Tricontinental, the IMG, CTW, and other great orgs and channels do.
There's a realization spreading now in the Global South that we need our own tech, and not to rely on Western, mainly US, tech. I bring this up, cause sometimes either we overestimate online activity or we underestimate it, thinking that real, on the ground organizing is most important. It is at the end of the day, but we spend time simultaneously in both spaces. So we go back to your call, and I wanted to tie that with the pursuit of sovereign tech, because as we've seen with Venezuela, the right has total control of online space. Chavismo has always had a presence online but because the US has Meta and Twitter, they're minimized, shadow banned, etc. So we need our own tools to quell theirs. This can only be done under revolution, like China did. We have to build platforms independent from US meddling. It is a matter of national security in the world today, specially for our AES comrades.