“What makes a “good vegan”, and how can I be one?”

huh… not eating/consuming animal-related products?

“trotskyite” here. lately i haven’t bickered too much with m-l’s, since the conditions in brazil are currently hard enough for us reds in general, and we’re fighting on the same front about the same immediate objectives (i.e. reducing the working week to 36h, free weekends for everyone, battling the government’s budget cuts and putting the bolsonaros on jail for their attempted coup d’état).

but i’d like to point that, as we see, permanent revolution is not tantamount to a neverending revolutionary process with infighting and so on. the concept of permanent revolution in trotsky means that in countries where bourgeois liberal revolutions have not occurred and likely won’t happen because of a reactionary scenario in world capitalism (in trotsky’s case, wwi and the rise of fascism; in our case, the conflict between the global north and russia/china/iran/etc), it is the task of the revolutionary communists not only to make this liberalizing revolution to, among other things, make an agrarian reform, democratize workplaces etc, but also at the same time surpass this liberalizing situation in order to achieve socialism and eventually communism. it’s my personal opinion that this theory applies especially to the global south, where many social guarantees are yet to be granted to the general populace.

if you wanna know more, people here have already pointed marxists.org, which is the place to go for every communist in this fucking planet. read and study, before deciding on what organization you will compose with. remember that marxism, more than a body of knowledge, is a method which is to be applied to reality, so use it. many people don’t recommend, but i believe that the manifesto is a good start. marxists.org have also a good curation on lenin (https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/sw/index.htm) and also trotsky (https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/index.htm). stalin’s work have already been listed in here by his supporters.

i’d like to point out also that the struggle goes differently in different places in the world, though in the end we’re brothers and sisters with the proletarians of all the planet. i highly recommend reading the likes of frantz fanon, ho chi minh and other revolutionaries down here to understand why we made some different options than those of working people and organizations in the north.

for the stalinist side, tito and yugoslav communism for me is a favourite. read him and edvard kardelj (though pass out Ðilas, rankovic and the praxis school).

tell them that.

i love playing in union mode.

it’s what all this is about in the end.

they didn’t worked within ukraine, what makes them believe they’re gonna work within russia.

did the ussr applied fordism to wholesale killing of human beings? no. next question.

what is the logo of x doing here?

go figure. i felt confused about it and most people i’ve talked to says it’s just some conservative bullshit wrapped in women enpowerment.

miami. orlando (i.e. disney world and universal). las vegas. dubai. any other middle-to-upper class playground.

on the other hand, so people cannot say i mentioned anywhere in the center of capitalism: i’d love to meet ireland, scotland, brittany, galiza. the museums in new york, london, madrid, barcelona and paris are indeed something to see. the historic buildings and excavations in rome are of interest. and restaurant, café and bar-trotting in madrid, valencia, barcelona, paris, vienna, amsterdam, rome, naples, tokyo is something i’d love to do.

first of all, there are people that relate to you, and cherish you and love you. i was quite happy to see that most people here were supportive of you and overcoming this bad moment on your life (because that’s what it is, a moment. it won’t last forever). you have value in yourself and there’s no greater justification in living than knowing that you deserve to live and be who you are simply because you exist, and you are, period. you yourself amount to many important things and if people don’t value you for who you are, screw them, who weren’t able to cherish that beautiful complexity on yourself.

that being said, you need help. and the first thing to tackle is, like others have said, overcoming your addiction. there are several ways of getting help on this: many community centers, even in the united states, keep narcotics anonymous groups on their premises. serious groups will have a way with providing you with medical assistance, which will be needed;

• if, and only if, you are comfortable with going to a place of worship, they often receive meetings of n.a. groups, and serious priests, pastors, rabbis, imams, nuns and monks can give you some direction on where to find help without asking anything in exchange. stay away from sects such as scientology;
• from there, you can get the psychological and psychiatric help that you need to better cope with the adhd, being able to live with it and improve your learning and social skills;
• social services can help you find a job, qualification and help you if there’s any trouble;
• take advantage of everything that’s free in order to better yourself, such as courses and books that are available at your local libraries;
• and most importantly, a day at a time. you will find some difficulties, especially with divesting your old ways, but stand for yourself first and foremostly. some days will be harder than others. learn to forgive yourself and others for things that did not went right, but you don’t have to accept anyone back into your life if they didn’t changed their ways that have hurt you so much. here and there you will take falls, but find the strength to start over, and over, and over. you’re not perfect, but that’s ok! who is, anyway?

i agree mostly with you, even thought i’m a foreigner. i’d just like to point out that even though there are doubts about trump continuing america’s support of a genocide (and i believe he won’t have that much of a problem since both major parties in america support it), there’s everything else about him.

and also, everything else about the dems too. let’s just say that major lawfare campaigns against progressive governments here in latin america have been conducted under dem rule in the u.s… brazil and uruguay had their coups d’état orchestrated by the johnson administration. honduras, paraguay and brazil suffered lawfare coups under the obama administration.

there are a number of countries that are neutral and unlikely to sanction anyone else, though one might argue about their democratic credentials, with a minor or major stretch. brazil, mexico, chile, colombia, costa rica, uruguay (just to name a few in latin america), andorra, malta, san marino, india, south africa…

italo-disco. though i might reveal that in a later moment.

the point that really got me was “I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression?”.

in the end, it’s nato-stan all day long. tired of this.

I don’t think there’s anything that I eat that couldn’t be served to anyone else. Even some particularly Brazilian dishes, such as cooked cassava or corn couscous with milk and butter are pretty much vanilla compared to some other local dishes which I dread - such as buchada (a brazilian haggis, made with rice and goat offals), sarapatel (just the cooked goat offals) or chouriço doce (a reduction of sugar, spices and pig blood).

this. the west is not all chrome and shiny (heh), it jsut oursources its violence to its poorer lackeys.

And every time an actual leftist party succeeds, our media basically unite against it while pretending to accept them.

you’re having it so good. here in the periphery of the capitalism we are just putsched whenever a marginally leftist party gets elected, with active help from the department of state.

surely having a low self-esteem is worse. life goes on. why bother over that one single log when you’ve got all the forest to explore?

my boy/girl.