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I support the CPC.

Heard this accusation recently:

China takes part in imperialist plunder by outsourcing all labour intensive tasks to poorer countries to exploit cheap labour, and only the final assembly is done in China anymore.

What is our party line on that?

Edit: thank you all for the answers! I'm far from being an economist and don't feel confident enough to immediately demand sources something might well be a common knowledge.

I was now given this source: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/74902/1/dp205.pdf

In particular:

>more than half of China’s export value in 2005 corresponds to that of imported inputs that are merely assembled in China.

>only thirty four percent of the value of China’s processing exports in 2005 was domestic content, while the other two thirds corresponded to the value of the imported inputs.

>in the high-tech category, it consistently amounts to approximately 90 percent of total high-tech exports

The more I look into this stuff, the more confused I get.

Who would run the US empire until the new President is elected and sworn in?

I'm like Jon Snow regarding this issue:

"ayy dun wan it"

h a l p

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3076602

> For instance, did it go OK to wear sunglasses indoors; or did the eye contact avoidance disappear when using the sign language, only to reappear when using a spoken language; things like that.

Crossposting because I didn't get any responses the first time.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3077024

> Can anyone give me the lowdown on these folks? I like that they're a Marxist-Leninist org, in theory. > > What's their vibe, what's the leadership like, local chapters etc. > > https://frso.org/

Some explanations regarding myself:

I am happily married. My first relationship I had with 15 till I got 18. We got in contact through a role playing group online and just liked each other. 2011 I bought my first smartphone and after I got 18 few months later, I met my actual wife through a mutual friend. So I I never thought "I need to find someone so badly omg omg" or whatever, it just happened.

Tbh I somehow think and thought that this is the normal way. My parents, grandparents met the the same way. My cousin got his fiance also the same way and and and. Same goes for known Bolsheviks, their children liked each other and got together.

Few years ago I realised Reddit exist and looked for programming and bird groups. But I also found people talking about meeting people and dating.

First thing: Dating apps and this swiping stuff. It is pretty sus and I can't imagine this works. It is like looking for a new car. Humans are not cars. I saw screenshots, where people mention their political views, what they like or not like. This has to be some joke, I don't know. Not everyone is good in describing themself.

Second: People talked about is: height. I saw some screenshots from people complaining about this. I thought to myself, that this is probably some weird US shit again, buuuut now I hear about this here too.

This isn't real isn't? Or at least not that common? Something about, that you have to be at least 6 freedom units tall, or 7,8,9 idk. However 5 with something is to small and than you have stupid ass people called incels, which wants to kill women or perform plastic surgery on themself.

I mean, being small is annoying because there are spots I can't reach easily. Wife is smaller than me, she has to ask me. A female friend we have is over 180cm tall and she is lucky to be easy reach anything. On the other hand: Do you know how upper arm circumference over 40cm looks on someone who is 174cm tall? Absolute great. When you are 190cm tall, its more meh. But srsly, this all are minor things. It has the same relevance like if you like apples or pears more.

For myself it looks like I am experiencing a new kind of thinking or culture whatever. This is a western thing probably idk.

Bebel wrote a great book called Woman and Socialism. It shows great the genesis and development of marriage, partnership and what capitalism did to it. So many things absolutely still are valid and apply. The things I see here I of course a consequence of capitalism:

> The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil [...]

But still wtf is this development at all. I never heard something about height, jawlines, whatever when my peers were dating or had a boyfriend, girlfriend. What happend?

Tap for spoiler

Such apps are a data privacy nightmare. 100% they are collecting data and selling it.

Can anyone translate this? I think it's Ottoman Turkish, I could be wrong

For some reason they're not visible on Jerboa.

The first red flags for me were her "Labor Theory of Value" and "Breadtube is dead" videos. Me rethinking whole debacle surrounding her was enough for me to say yes.

Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to: > prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups.

Specifically, D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest...

1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate...

Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982...

I reached this section over here: > Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; and the suppression of fun and play is one of the things which distinguished DK invidiously from pre-revolutionary Cambodia. > > Among the comments accompanying the children's drawings was the account of a boy who had worked minding water buffalo, a typical children's chore in Cambodia. He told of being punished twice in one day, once for allowing the animal to run away, also typical, but once for laughing and joking while at work, which for Cambodia was entirely aberrant.

Thoughts on this book, or just on D.K Cambodia?

I loved the old-style forums that were around before digg and Reddit largely took over their role. Today, Lemmy is the closest thing I've found to the same type of culture and tighter-knit community I felt on the older forums. Finding Lemmy has completely stripped any desire for me to want to use Reddit again as the culture there feels like it is constantly working to suck my soul out through my eyeballs.

While I understand everyone has different preferences than me, I also wonder why Lemmy users continue to frequent anything but the smaller, niche subreddits. Reddit feels as if it has been decaying for a long time and there is little substance left on the wider site, while Lemmy doesn't feel this way.

So what keeps you going back?

Is it hate-scrolling? Is it niche subs? Do you feel differently about the cultures of Reddit and Lemmy?

Please help me understand.

I am asking this because of the ever increasing support from the bourgeoisie, as the contradictions withing the french bourgeois class due to the fall of their neo-colonial empire and the decay of western hegemony. In 2027 Le Pen will frame herself as the true opposition to the current state of things as the NPF libs and Macronists inevitably fail to resolve any of their current problems.

Besides the PCRF, all of the major communist/socialist parties are social fascists, leaving the working class with no reliable party to stand by against the rise of fascism.

So, are we doomed to see a fascist Le Pen ruling France by 2027?

Üdv Elvtársak!

At the beginning of the year I joined the Hungarian Workers' Party and after half a year of local activism, I have been assigned to an area which I'm now responsible for.

Starting this week, I have to report to the General Secretary on a regular basis, providing information (basically as much as I can cover) on the state and life of the Portuguese, Spanish and Greek communist parties.

Although I do have a layout for how I am planning to tackle such a hard task, as an Autistic person I am very overwhelmed with all this. I am asking for your help with checking if this layout is feasible or not, whether it is enough info in your opinion and how I could make it more informative/helpful as well as as easy as possible for me to do.

Here is what I've gathered so far. The Portuguese and the Greek parties thankfully do create English articles on their sites, but the Spanish don't. What translator or other site's coverage of the PCE do you recommend (EN)? Social medias as far as I can see are all targeted towards their own nationalities, so that's off the table, correct me if I'm wrong. I also thought about contacting them whether they'd be open to supplying me with extra material that's not on their site in English, but I don't want to overload them or bother them with such extra tasks. Other than this, we as a party only have good relationship with the Portuguese, they even visit us from time to time, the Greek pretty much disregard us, so I'm not sure how much of a conversation could be happening there even if I'd get in contact. What's your take?

I initially thought about a weekly report, sending it on Saturdays so the GS can read it on Sundays, preparing for the next week, although I'm not an exclusive reporter, of course he reads the news if something would have to reach him asap. Now, my main problem with this is that the sources available to me as I told you before do not provide enough content to be served on a weekly basis, but the goal of this whole initiative is to get us more ingrained and to keep us up to date with the tactics and strategics of other parties. What am I to do? Could you help me with sources or am I forced to either get info directly from them or expand the reports as a monthly thing? I imagined a simple format of a text doc., having several reoccurring sub-categories for each such as culture, appearances of the parties in the media or something, translations of statements on local/global politics, keeping up with their unique traditions and initiatives, following their actions of doing agitprop, events and so on.

Thank you in advance, any help is more than welcome!

Are there any other ways to measure quality of life other than the aforementioned ones? Im asking because HDI and GDP per capita are both biased due to either using liberal sources or obfuscating info

I am currently learning Russian and German on Duolingo

As an easter egg: if you recognize which user I am in hexbear, then ye know...

The most I get from my close friend when I ask them about anything political (Gaza, Climate change, etc) is a "wow" or "damn".

With my family members it's a literal "I don't care about politics" or "talk to [insert random distant relative name], he knows all about this stuff"

How can I make them care? How can I convince them that this stuff is important and shouldnt shrugged off so easily?

How can I convince them that their boss cutting their wages in half is an important matter that shouldn't be justified by some abstract notion of "that's just how it is"?

Asking out of comradely curiosity.

Maybe with some Marxism, I know Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a thing. Either way, mental illness is my current fixation, and I’ll read anything half decent on the topic. Maybe not too long idk (I’m not planning to go through the DSM). Free pdfs or audiobooks appreciated.

All I remember is he comes after Freud, some of his followers are annoying, there’s a Marxist podcast that likes him called ‘the return of the repressed,’ and I don’t think Lukacs liked him.

I know what liberalism is. But the first time I encountered that it is used so often was when I looked into English-speaking social media sites like Reddit two years ago.

Spoiler

It is not common to know about reddit here, I live in Bratwurstland. I just wanted to join the pigeon subreddit back then.

Bourgeois, bourgeois class consciousness, bourgeois thinking, bourgeois revolution, etc. The same with petty bourgeoisie etc. etc.

I have the complete collected works of Lenin physically available in german. I have the most important writings of Marx and Engels with me, as well as Tito, Thälmann, Karl Liebknecht, Stalin, Trotsky, Plekhanov, even Lykassenko and some more. (I dont just buy writings I like, but also writing I dont like)

Liberalism didn't come up that often, only when it was actually about liberalism. But the way liberals are often referred to on English-language social media sites, including here, is a bit strange to me.

Idk about other languages that much. I also didn't encountered this kind of usage of liberal in the russian version of Lenin's writings. Bourgeois, bourgeois class consciousness, bourgeois thinking, bourgeois revolution, etc. The same with petty bourgeoisie etc. etc.

Maybe there some here who know what I am talking about and can explain it to me.

Edit: Why did Voyager destroyed my formattig many times

Edit2: Thank you all for your engagement. You helped me a lot how to understand it more correctly if I read it from someone using english language ^.

I need recommendations

Is it true that during WW2 the Soviet authorities enforced collective punishment on certain minority ethnic groups due to collaboration with Nazis? (Specifically Crimean Tatars) I've heard about this from leftist circles and from reactionary circles. The claim, at least on surface level, seems pretty damming.

If this happened, then why? And was it a mistake or was it a necessary evil?