In my opinion, not in itself…

I consider praxis a conscious direct action towards an objective, mediated by theory and practice in constant reformulation.

What is the main objective in arguing with liberals? Are you using any method to do it? If not, do you develop it?

Most of the times, you may not convince them, but you are letting lurkers formulate different opinions. In terms of ideological struggle, yes, can be a form of praxis, albeit in a primtive, isolated form. A superior form of online praxis could be organized “arguing”, or ideological struggle in several different places of the internet.

Imagine using our personal or fake accounts in several different online spaces and bourgeois social media to collective respond and criticize ideologues, interact with each other comments, like them and exploit the algorithm to make our comments rank higher and higher. (Nothing prevents anyone from creating a community in Lemmygrad for that end, by the way 😎)

This is why organized action is always the superior form of praxis. But even this ideological struggle is not in itself revolutionary praxis. Revolutionary praxis can only be done through organization, both online and personally, with a political line established through incessant internal criticism. It will require organic woking class leaderships, Marxist theorists, military strategists, weapons and well defined tactics and strategy

Very nice, I had similar impressions because of this too. I think it’s kinda a bit of bourgeois ideology in each of us, because we try to convince ourselves to be “more productive” even in our leisure time

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Who is your criticism pointed towards? The whole website? The ones you saw promoting not using masks? Try not to generalize a whole website because of a single post you saw 😉

In my country, the options are becoming “fascist” vs “not so fascist” lol

Motorola (which is Chinese)

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As soon as someone says “there is nothing that I can do about it”, it already shows they are not fully class conscious

I don’t like the message of the meme, it’s like saying that capitalism will destroy itself alone. It won’t. It will require a conscious organization heading in that direction. Just like feudalism didn’t end on its own, it required a conscious liberal revolution to overthrow it.

Thank you for your insights, comrade. It’s clear Hasina is not approved by the West, but the revolt didn’t come from nowhere. Her government brought that to herself.

I didn’t process the removal of your comment, but the term “degenerate” was historically associated with fascist rhetoric, so it’s usually frowned upon. Best not to use it, I guess?

And I agree it’s hypocritical to delete your comment for that reason while preserving the post which refers to that guy as “pig of Ukraine”.

We have a small stub on ProleWiki here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1931–1933

what are whales again, I thought they were just beautiful animals

Excellent and informative post! I’m a technicality lover myself!

Can you explain how elections work in the country? Who are these delegates? How did they reach that position?

The only problem I see is when it affects or disrupts a community, like spamming stuff or something, besides that, promoting oneself is a natural thing to do

FBI? Really?

There’s no cake recipe

The Chinese economic model is already completely planned, the difference is that the market is part of their plan. Each enterprise plan on their own (and medium to large ones already have the presence of communist party members in the planning process), and at the same time, the country directs development through investment.

Not really, no. In some aspects, yes.

The reason the Soviets didn’t last was mostly political and less economic. Both things are never isolate, anyways, but the Soviet Union could’ve lasted indefinitely if the leadership honestly spent effort solving problems. Instead, they openly adopted a capitalist line and sabotaged the country in the last moments. This had nothing to do with the economy of the country.

The Soviets also spearheaded space exploration and satellite technology, before capitalist economies reproduced these achievements. This was a thriving economy in the 20th century, obviously very efficient, showing enough surplus to advance innovative research. Development of production at a scale unparalleled in history.

The Chinese political economic tactic to survive in a capitalist landscape was basically concentrating production and population (increased market demand) and thus making all countries essentially dependent on China and its market so that it could have the freedom to develop its own mode of production unlike the USSR. This was a certainly a step ahead of the Soviets, to which capitalist countries so far haven’t found any solution to respond with. Because attacking China is attacking the whole world market, so capitalist countries can’t do anything about it without also destroying themselves in the process.

Market allocation decentralizes research because every bourgeois is competing with each other for a more efficient production and marketing. You don’t need someone to oversee the operation of a company and conceive of ways to make it more efficient. The fact that (petty) bougies do it is because they are directly attached to the company and its profits. They are the ones who directly benefit from it, so they are very interested in that. So markets can advance the development of productive forces in some industries.

The problem is that it obviously allows exploitation of the proletariat and concentration of capital, resulting in a myriad of social problems. It also risks giving the bourgeoisie too much power, which should be constantly put in check to make sure capital cannot touch the political institutions.

TL;DR: The Soviets at its peak (60’s - 70’s) had a superior model in terms of development of productive forces compared to the capitalist economies and in terms of relations of production, while the Chinese has a superior model in terms of strategy.

It’s a small and good step towards open architectures, but it’s bound to be restricted to a few developers and enthusiasts… It can’t and it won’t ever compete in the current market on its own. The only reason why Chinese companies are able to compete in that market is because they receive a shit ton of state incentives

It’s impressive how every imperialist accusation is almost certainly a lie based on their own actions

Absolutely, every “isolated” action is not isolated, what we share with people around us can be shared by people around them. In terms of the subjective conditions for a revolution, this is necessary, and natural even. After all, we are communists in our personal lives as well.

In terms of the objective conditions for a revolution, it all boils down to organization up until the organization is able to supersede the organization of the bourgeois state. So, for revolutionary praxis, there’s no other method.

I say this not condemning anyone for not organizing, there could be several reasons one chooses not to. I’m not organized in a party, for instance, after I broke with PCB in 2021. But I practice organization in parts of my life, such as on ProleWiki, basically only bureaucratically managing stuff. This does not count as revolutionary praxis, in my opinion, even, if there’s a revolutionary purpose.

I have a group with only three people, me, another commie and a left-leaning sympathizer. We created an informal WhatsApp group simply to discuss about these subjects. We are thinking about adding more people. If I’m able to convince the group to study Marxism together, and create a Marxist group, we could perhaps do interesting things in terms of revolutionary praxis, but we’re only engaging here and then, it’s nothing serious, so it’s not even close to that.

This is what I think in terms of revolutionary praxis. Organization is a survival tactic of working people, and we should not be restricted to currently existing parties, nor be afraid to form organizationо of our own to fight for certain immediate issues. This is the only and true revolutionary praxis, everything outside of this is a form of deviation.