do you remember how you learned english? I guess it is the same way

Why is Go not a serious language? Programming backend stuff is great with it. Especially networking. Reading Go is not hard and in my opinion it is more easy to understand Go code you find from other programmers than Python. Companies are build on Go and people make a living from it. However you need to look into you local job market, where I live there are very few companies looking for Go developers. It is a serious language. But I don’t know much about zig, I used it once for CGO.

Reddit is just Reddit. It never represents the thoughts of a country. The USA would have tremendous potential if a bolshevik revolution would happen there. And there is also a reason why the actual imperialist hegemon is fighting that strong against socialism. This country is fucked, its really bad for the people there, so of course the superstructure is trying its outmost to repress, shaping the whole culture pro capitalist.

But things can change fast. I always remind how weak the bolsheviks were, but certain things turned it from the februar revolution to the october revolution. Lenin himself didnt belive in witnessing a socialist revolution, it would be a task of the younger generation. We know he was wrong with that. But exactly this is the reason why we need to study the bolshevik revolution in detail.

If the USA would witness a bolshevik revolution and then become the Soviet Union of Socialist States, it would be a major win world wide. I am sure the people of the US want an alternative, however the Überbau or Superstrucutre is so freaking aggressive, its probably even a separate topic.

You dont say to a construction worker “You need to secure your workspace, because the russki-kaputski will come and push your ladder away”, this would be plain stupidity. Same goes for cyber security, I dont care where attacks may come frome - they can and mostly are spoofed anyway. Securing your data and having the autonomy about has the same level as the lock on your door, so no one can go in. Biometric Authentication is insecure. It is comfy, yes - I like to use it on my notebook, dont have to type long password everytime I use sudo. Face isnt good either, you can provide a photo as well. And lets not forget, that the liberal law can force you to provide your fingerprints or face to unlock your phone. As example it is absoluetly legal to do so in Germany, they take your finger and unlock it.

Giving your biometrics to the goverment is worse. Some liberals pretend, that the character of state could never change, it will always be a bourgeois democracy with guaranteed liberal rights. Its not like the bourgeois doesnt democracy would never “misuse” it (I hope it is clear what I mean), but what if there will be a switch to plain fascism in 10 years? Then they have the biometric data already and can use it. Imagine Hitler had such means.

My arguments against it are based from a IT-Security point of view. Just take a book about cryptographie and you’ll find enough explanations. This whole topic is not new. Usually its start to combat the distribution of documented abuse of children in media form. Then “murder is bad as well, it can be added as well” followed by “heavy crimes”. Salami slicing tactic.

Thank you for your words, I can relate also. I will try to calm down, and to see as a chance find something, where I am more rrspected. At first I will process all the vegetables left (its a bunch of kilogrammes), in the end I should have enough to make around 30 litres of soup at least. I wish I could share, but sadly its not possible :/

Your whole comment feels good to read, thank you. And you are right with your point. I’ll hope to find something new where to participate

What’s BBS and where does one start? I have no clue about this all

You are right. The feeling is like a contradiction. On one side I am aware, that there were more important things to do and that I had my priorities. On the other side, I have no projects and no small team anymore. Losing this routine completely at least for now feels somehow painful. Brain is dumb I guess. I hope I will find something, where I can continue.

I am confused, because your comment is visible and simultaneously deleted. I guess I shouldn’t use an outdated client. Idk if your offer still stands. I am of course happily open and available to do something together with someone. I can be contacted here on Lemmy ^.

OK. Can you tell me where you did find it?

I agree. This picture itself is a reactionary product, but a interesting one! Do you have a high quality version? An the abbreviation are funny.

Of course it is Russia’s fault. Today I read a wonderful comment on Reddit:

If Ukraine will start run out of ammunition, that it is probably the fault of Russia too.

Ukraine is the scapegoat indeed. But to say, that it was initially orchestrated by the US would mean to take an extra step in thinking. So the liberal now is simply acknowledging that it was done by Ukraine and that it was a good thing to do. However! Not Ukraine itself for some. You know, it were just “Ukrainian patriots” which were sponsored by some rich guy.

And years back being called a Russian bot for saying that it was not done by Russia, was insane.

I still wonder about the mental gymnastics back then when that happened.

• “This is false flag operation from Vladolf Putler!”
• “RuZZia destroyed the pipelines, so Germany won’t have gas over the winter!”

Ukraine would never do such things, you know. And now:

“It is understandable that Ukraine did that.” “It was clear from the beginning.”

Pathetic.

You need to differentiate then and emphasise the different conclusions you make compared to the person you are discussing with.

In the late Soviet Union there were indeed standing lanes for products. This is true and I don’t think this was good. I think a anticommunist would say the same, but my conclusion is not that the Soviet Union was bad or socialism itself leads to such things. Through further discussion I would explain it more and more.

Often enough their propaganda includes some truth, but is bastardised. When Hungary 1956 happened it was indeed a tragedy. It was not a pure product of CIA, the communist party there made clear mistakes which made people unhappy. But the situation was then also used by CIA (probably also other foreign agencies), which is meanwhile proven how they provided weapons, and this lead all to a lot of causalities. In my opinion this short explanation puts this historic event in a more correct light, then “people were unhappy and then soviet tanks invades and committed a massacre”.

The same goes for all those other topics. The famine in Soviet Ukrainian and western part of Soviet Russia. It was awful, absolutely. We know that the were many causalities for that and the communist party made mistakes¹

Kronstadt also, anarchists are mentioning it often. Kronstadt was a tragedy, nothing good about that. But it was really necessary for taking it, otherwise the revolution would be in danger.

First you need of course enough knowledge about a certain topic and second then patiently explaining. If you try Lenin and read more from him, you will discover how much he explains and he repeats his self a lot. He was a great pedagogue.

From all what I wrote now, I provided more information, then a liberal would do about that topics and I am not talking like it was all a cool.

I don’t know if this helps you somehow. What me helped in the past was reading Lenin. I guess every 3th comment I make here on Lemmygrad is something about how much reading him helps in theory and praxis. In the collected works there are also his speeches he gave to students. As long as you engage more and more in explaining, you will get better with that. And don’t forget, admit mistakes that were made or are made, but emphasise that your critique comes from the left and doesn’t align with the anticommunist propaganda.

¹I shouldn’t write more about the famine in Ukraine. So far as I know, I can get into trouble with the German law, if I say in a public space, that my conclusion is not a anticommunist one (I know, I formulated it strange). They would probably find a way to get me doxxed.

Does Hongkong work too?

Watch this:

https://youtu.be/6P5Nf7xzXS0

And second part:

https://youtu.be/QNNKHYzeuj4

It is breath taking. It is my “every Marxist should watch it” movie. So many topics in this film. Idk how to describe it. It is one of the best kinds of art humanity has ever created.

I ordered in perfect English at McDonalds, where is my praise?

You can have that in Germany. You may be born here or lived only the first 4 years in some other other country and German is basically your first language: You will hear things like “You speak German very well!”. If your skin is a bit darker and you are talking in perfect German:“You speak German very well!”. I actually answer such comments with “Thank you, you too!”.

I have a book, which shows my ancestry back to the beginning of the 19th century rooted in Germany (Immigrated then to Ukraine and then tsarist Russia, later back) and they had their german villages and communities, even refusing to interact much with other ethnic people like russians (Somewhere in the 70s they slowly started to make children with other ethnicities) and preserving their weird old way to speak German till today. Result:“You speak German very well”.

Idk what actually you have to do, that people will accept you here somehow. This is absolutely stupid. Even visually I have darker golden blond hair and grey eyes and I am pale as fuck: “You speak German very well.” I read Marx in German and speak Russian way worse then english:“You speak German very well!”. “You probably like vodka, don’t you?”, “Do you like Putin?”. My grand-grandchildren will probably hear the same compliments about how they speak German very well. Or I am all wrong and Germans simply love to compliment everyone about how one speaks German.

Laughing about USA about racism there, while claiming Europe is so great with that, is absolutely stupid. I remember how other classmates often made fun about someone, who had Father or Mother from Poland, because they are all allegedly stealing. Having this in mind, being from east Asia is way worse regarding racism or if you skin is darker then a normal Turkish person is. The mother of a friend of mine is from Japan, it is not funny what he had and has to hear from others. Also, his German is also very well!

Coming back now: I would never compliment you for ordering something in perfect English, because you didn’t do it in flawless German. If you do it, I will record a Video where I say: " You speak German very well! "

What, german resistance against opening of a Döner Laden? Can’t beliefe this is true. I want travel back in time and eat a 3€ Döner. 4,50€ I paid 15 years ago for Lamacun with extra Fleisch and Weichkäse. Then my Döner kept getting more and more expensive. 3,50€ that 4€, 5€ and then 6€. Döner XXL with extra Fleisch and Weichkäse is now 10€. This is sad.

What exactly happened

Let’s take your Australian as example. Let’s make him a white male factory worker. Could he, despite being a proleterian, subjugate women or non-whites?

Of course. But it doesn’t mean that women and non-whites are suddenly a class. Chauvinism does not equal, that the opressed ones are automatically a class. This is the crucial point of your misunderstanding, what a social class is. When Lenin wrote about the great russian chauvinism, it was never about a “great russian class”, because there was and is not such a thing. What you are trying to imply is, that I think, that the white male factory worker can not express oppression towards women or non-white, because he is immune to it, because he is part of the working class. And this is clearly not the case.

I can only quote again:

Classes are large groups of people who differ from one another according to their place in a historically determined system of social production, according to their relationship (largely fixed and formulated in laws) to the means of production, according to their role in the social organization of labour and consequently according to the way in which they acquire and the size of the share of social wealth they possess. Classes are groups of people, one of which can appropriate the labor of another due to the difference in their place in a particular system of the social economy.

[LW Volume 29 (German, idk where to find “Die große Initiative” online in english), Page 410]

This is something very concrete. When Lenin writes that “Classes are groups of people, one of which can appropriate the labor of another due to the difference in their place in a particular system of the social economy”, then he does not mean, that the opressed and exploited south is now a class. It is pretty narrowed to the question regarding the relationship towards the means of production. The exploitation of the global south you see now is not rooted in the existence of a “non-white” class, but in capitalism - especially imperialism at its highest stage. A social class is determined by the material relations to the means of production.

If he were to do so, does he do so as individual or as part of a class with systemic features that allows him to enact his power?

Which class? I asked you already about which other classes you are talking, but you are simply stating, that they are part of a ominous class. Is it the “man class” or a “non-white class”? The oppression of women roots historically in the existence of privat property, divison of labour and and and, but neither women and men are a own class. The same as nations. Oppressed groups are not automatically a class. Classes are linked to production and change as it develops:

Now as for myself, I do not claim to have discovered either the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me, bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this struggle between the classes, as had bourgeois economists their economic anatomy. My own contribution was 1. to show that the existence of classes is merely bound up with certain historical phases in the development of production; 2. that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; 3. that this dictatorship itself constitutes no more than a transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

source

What is the relationship of the proleteriat in the imperial cores with those from the peripheries?

Imperialism has the tendency to segregate privileged categories among the workers as well and to separate them from the great mass of the proletariat. The real situation of working class in the imperial core and the peripherie is not the same. The existence of opportunism in the working class in an imperialist country does not mean, that entirely new social classes exist, which are as many as nations exist. You have the indian, austrian, australian, vietnamese and ukrainian working class in the historical period we actually live now, but not a whole nations as one class.

And I’m side-stepping your condescension in attempt to answer in good faith but my patience is thin.

(It’s fine not to know and explore. It is not fine to confidently double down on ignorance, which is the impression you are giving off)

Nah, stop with that rhetoric. Your patience is really not part of my concerne. Your understanding, what a class is simply contradicts the marxist understanding what a social class is. In the opposite you are trying to draw something quite interesting: If men and women are not a class, then there is somehow not oppression towards women or what are you trying to say? You are calling almost everything a class, as long there is somewhere a form of oppression. Looking at the oppression of homosexuality, do we have a homosexual and heterosexual class? Because only then the white australian factore worker can be homophobic. How does the class war between men and women look like and how is the situation of the non-binary class, if gender is a class how to stated.

Would you be happy for me to use your responses and turn it into a post? I’m sure you are not the only one who thinks like this.

I would probably be neither happy or unhappy if you do it. But it would be fine if you find time to answer this comment.