Sounds right to me. Aren't we just larping? /J

I won't remove the post since I think the video is somewhat interesting, but I don't think this really fits the community. This community is mostly for sharing and discussing articles and texts from the left communist tradition.

I am not an ML but I think your best bet is getting them into the reading early. We don't need more youtube & tiktok communists regurgitating things they heard by people who haven't done the reading themselves.

The Principles of Communism is a good start. After that, The ABC of Communism by Bukharin and Preobrazhensky I find to be a highly undervalued text, especially since Lenin occasionally references it. Beyond that, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.

At that point they can really just dig into whatever. If they are interested in the content they can look for explanations when they don't understand.

I never liked my jobs until I found one that I did. I work as a meat cutter (I cut primals into subprimals). It's a job I could see myself doing even in a post revolutionary society. The people I work with are all pretty chill too. Mostly queer libs, which, is refreshing considering jobs I've previously had.

I obviously don't like that my surplus value is being extracted, I don't love that my manager is being forced to use an AI that allocates the amount of hours we all get each week (which is becoming less and less). But the actual labor? The actual task of cutting meat? I find it shockingly grounding. It just feels like I'm actually doing something someone benefits from.

Getting your needs met is unfortunately a luxury in the capitalist system. As long as my job feels necessary and my coworkers don't totally suck I get by though. If my coworkers ever actually wanna do union activity they know I'm up for it, and if we ever hit a revolutionary situation, I'll be down for that too.

“Give me an example of a real world country that flourished after transitioning to communism.”

None. I personally don't agree that we've seen socialism (which is just early stage communism). Most socialists you encounter will disagree with me, and that is fine.

"It seems like a lot of people can’t be satisfied with the theory"

A lot of people don't even read the theory, including the people who claim to.

A lot of people misunderstood the original comment you replied to. They know leftists don't vote blue no matter who. They were bullying the original commenter for talking down to "everybody who didn't bother to vote".

Let's use a cube as an example.

I can tell you roughly how large it is, if its rotating and roughly how fast. I "visualize" absolutely nothing. Not even a vague outline.

I locally host gemma 4 e2b on a very modest spec laptop to help summarize large texts, as a rudimentary translation tool, and just as a toy. It makes sense. I see small coding models on hugging face all the time, I think we've hit a point where it's just too efficient not to atleast entertain a little bit of slop in your workflow.

So then as long as my machine doesn't have systemd im fine?

US does thing its done for years on a bipartisan level

"Clearly this is distracting from the Epstein files."

Rad! Cool suggestion!