Ulysses S. Grant famously used precision deep-strike weapons to eliminate Vicksburg and Jackson instead of going down the Mississippi and taking them directly. Ukraine is right to imitate him.
At this point, I don't think I will ever understand being so hateful over so little. People can be so senseless when it comes to violence. I once watched a man get gunned down in his car over a petty argument.
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Of course of course and you are correct. I'm just yappin'. This is the only dude I talk to basically.
I wish I knew how to tell bro he's an idealist and has brain worms in real life person language. He says revolutionary governments should work to oppress the bourgeoisie, but if the vanguard party isn't abolished/dissolved/weakened within a certain amount of time its "authoritarian". I keep trying to address external pressures on these entities and what I feel like is a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept by him, but it's to no avail.
I've always said that the vanguard party isn't meant to organize some sort of higher brow tier of individual and separate them from some chafe, but to organize those with higher class and political consciousness into one group so that they might be ready when capitalism fails to solve converging crises.
My roommate has been educating himself on communism, and we have been having many great conversations on theory and what have you. He says he is a communist. However, he has come to some very different conclusions to me, and I have been going back and forth on his talking points a lot. I was wondering what you guys would think of his talking points since I have to hear them and discuss them with him a lot.
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Vanguardism/council republics are inherently flawed and undemocratic. He admits that there is democracy within a Marxist-Leninist government, but says it is not good enough because you don't vote directly for the president, etc...
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Says that vanguardism is "elitist" and that the core of the idea is that the working classes are stupid and only the intelligentsia knows right. He said he liked Lenin but he was too "mean" and didn't speak as kindly of the peasants as he wanted. (lol)
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Attributes the fall of the USSR entirely to the democratic organization of the government. Says that if the Soviet Union had allowed a more "libertarian" "democratic" structure what happened wouldn't have happened. I've also notice he attributes a lot of China's problems historically to the way their government is structured.
I liked it
Well if you'd like to join in spite of that or watch feel free too. However, this game is very steep learning wise and you probably will die.
Good looking out, comrade, but anyone who wishes to play will not have to worry because I bought all of the DLC like a dumbass
40 years on and MS is still a shithole
I am as white as the day is long. I have never set foot outside of the south. I'm just starting Settlers rn and it is very insightful. It does, however, have me afraid of my own ignorance. I'm the only person from my neck of the woods that I would even call somewhat "progressive", but still. I am aware I was raised in privilege and surrounded by hate. (I even attended a segregated school for many years as a child...) I've always been pretty proud of how far I've come, but I feel like I still probably have some things ingrained in me that need to be smashed up. Recommendations welcome for all kinds of topics. I like to read and learn from whatever is put in front of me.
