Socialism betrayed is a good book, sometimes falls into "Great Man Theory", but it's overall a good analysis
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It's correct to claim that Russia counters some expressions of US imperialism... But to call it "anti-imperialist" altogether is a big stretch...
It surely is not the case for someone going vegan or eating fast food. The only legitimate reasons to not eat meat or fast food is your own individual health, because your individual choices will only affect your individual outcomes. It's idealist to believe choosing a different source of consumption will have an impact over the industry. For instance, McDonald's main source of income is not even selling food, it's rent and royalties from franchises all over the world.
The liberal part of this idea is restricting political protest or activity to what you consume, basically transforming action into another individual form of consumerism.
Boycotting is a liberal form of struggle, if you can even call it that. Because it believes that your individual choice will have an impact on the outcome of a company.
Going vegan won't stop the meat industry from murdering millions of animals. You deciding you won't eat from fast food companies will not affect their profits, because they exploit people internationally, and it's unfeasible to organize a boycott in this scale.
Honestly, just eat it, let it out of your system. You will probably be disappointed at how the taste became worse over time haha. For me, it's better to do it than keep repressing yourself, which at least for me, only makes the desire stronger
You only fear death because your mind is attached to your self, your memories, your experiences, your subjective perceptions... As an exercise, try to the remember the time before you were born. You can't really remember anything, but you know, you can even feel it, there was just total emptiness, no subjective experience, nothing. There is nothing to be afraid of, it's just emptiness. This, to me, was the first step in pacifying my mind in relation to death.
wholesome to see this 4chan meme from my teenage years
I agree with you, pedophiles need treatment. It's obvious their sexual attraction is not under their conscious control, since the condemnation and judgement of pedophiles is so big, no one would consciously choose to be a pedophile. There are studies which links sexual attraction to children to sexual abuse in childhood too.
I disagree however with watering down, or diluting that with a lighter term, MAP, because it's inadvertently promoting pedophilia through euphemism. Whether they are a rapist or not, a person can be a pedophile, and that's it, we need to accept that situation. But the act itself, to have sexual attraction to children, is a dangerous thing, because we know children cannot truly consent.
So the negative charge that comes with the term pedophilia did not come out of the blue, it's a historical development. Pederasts in Greece certainly did not have this taboo over the word describing them. Creating a "neutral" word only removes this historical meaning describing the act. So the question is, should we use euphemisms for pedophilia?
This policy has earned them the trust of many political actors world wide, so I doubt they would change, as it could result in diplomatic disruptions in many countries. This could be used by the US in attempts to isolate the country. But only time will tell.
That title is Meta 😂
On July 18th, 2024, after almost a week of discussions, the editorship elected comrades General_KJ and ulaan to the position of administrators with an unanimous 16 votes!
The main reason for this is to fulfill demands of a growing project. This was an initiative of the founder admins, me and Critical, and we brought the discussions to the editorship so we could elect members there.
To me, personally, this is a great achievement. Years ago, when I first created ProleWiki, with my own money and labor, I promoted the project in Lemmygrad, sharing my thoughts on the development, issues, demands, etc. Though I was a bit more idealistic back then about the future of the project, I had a correct reasoning:
We hope that in about a year or so, ProleWiki is able to exist without me individually and becomes a valuable resource to revolutionaries from all over the world, socially owned by all contributors.
It definitely took longer than a year 😂, but we managed to do that, and now even more so. We will be training the newly elected admins over time so that they can fulfill demands on every aspect of the project. That way, ProleWiki can be much more resilient against anything that may happen with an individual admin's personal life or health. Giving the CIA a harder time trying to shut us down 😁
Welcome, comrades General_KJ and ulaan!
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Lovely metaphor, never thought of it that way