BenEarlDaMarxist

joined 2 years ago
[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Go ahead, call the Führer, what's he gonna do? Unbomb the mines?"

  • A Yugoslavian partisan probably.
[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

West is in shambles that China is not collapsing immediately.

[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So basically you're playing with someone who doesn't understand socialism/communism/Marxism at all, or at least thinks it's the propagandized evil version of the ideology. Considering they think the USSR is some repressive empire with all the negative stereotypes that come with it (muh Orwelllian thought crimes and seeseepee social credit system).

My advice, make your own campaign where the USSR stand-in is less bastardized, or at least, it's an Evil vs. Evil situation, where your guys are relatively sympathetic communist bastards against the Nazi BBEG and a group of unsympathetic fascist assholes, and try to find people who are interested in playing I guess?

This is a decent allegory to show why despite MLs and ancoms having similar goals (to get that sweet red dessert named communism sundae), they have fundamentally different ways of getting there (MLs eating their veggies first and ancoms deciding to skip out on their greens).

[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We already have two, !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml and !shitultrassay@lemmygrad.ml, the former for right-wing anticommies (liberals, conservatives, fascists and the like) and the latter for left-wing anticommies (the more cringe anarchists and Maoists for example)

[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Man, what a decade..."

"Dude it's only been a week."

Though, I'm curious if the US will actually go to war with Yemen (and end up like another Vietnam or Afghanistan situation) or not due to this report being a thing.

[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Without the text in the bottom, the image of cars just going down into Earth from space like a fucking meteor shower is weirdly funny to me.

[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Congrats on living another year on your birthday comrade!

[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If this is what the lesser of two evils looks like, then I think I'm probably gonna vote for the socialist party next time.

Fucking libturd: "Bro vote for the lesser of two evils, they're not gonna be as bad as Trump!"

The lesser of two evils in question:

[–] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know the quote "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" and all but this moment ain't one of those chief.

What- no? Christmas Carol is about like, 3 ghosts showing up in some rich old guy's dreqms to tell him how shit his past was, how shit he has become now, and how shit his future is gonna be if he doesn't stop being a POS on the titular holiday.

 

Make a communist villain/antagonist, but make him/her/them have many good points and have a good amount of sympathetic traits that even the in-universe heroes/protagonists even concede that they have good points, also try not to make said character do a "randomly blows up a hospital for no reason to remind everyone their a villain/antagonist" trope because that's dumb, just for a bit of a challenge. Also, you can make them like a reflection/allegory of communists as a whole without the demonization capitalist propaganda likes to do.

 

Proletarian Class Traitors

  • Probably propagandized to serve the interests of the bourgeoisie
  • Due to the proletariat being the majority class, expect these class traitors to show up at least once.
  • They think they're gonna end up like the masters on the top, at best, they're gonna end up as petit-bourgeoisie (a class that ain't gonna last long in capitalist society)
  • Wholeheartedly believes in all the capitalist nonsense (like say, the pull up by your bootstraps, the bourgeoisie are benevolent saviors, and free market brings freedom to a country kinda shit)
  • Cringe af (and probs a reactionary).

Bourgeois Class Traitors

  • Is aware they're born in privilege, goes to fight for the interests of the proletariat anyway.
  • Due to the bourgeoisie being the minority class, don't expect them to show up more than a few times.
  • They know that their class is gonna stay on top no matter what under capitalist society, fights for the people's revolution anyways due to not being a greedy piece of shit like a good chunk of the owner class are.
  • Wholeheartedly believes in the ideals, principles, and beliefs of scientific socialism (y'know, dialectical materialism, the worker's dictatorship over the owner's dictatorship and whatever tf anarchism's doing, and needing a state to fight reactionary and capitalist aggression post-revolution)
  • Based af (and probably the opposite of a reactionary)
 
 

Mainly just asking you guys, but here's my take:

Capitalism:

  • An economic system in which individuals privately own the buildings that produces stuff and services.
  • Their form of democracy is a "democracy of the minority" at best, and at worst, is a dictatorship disguising itself as a democracy. Has that illusion of choice shit going on for the majority class.
  • Can't get rid of the top man "running the place" due to him/her owning the deed of the building. Sad, can we get an F in the chat for the workers having their labor exploited by this POS.

Socialism:

  • An economic in which the workers who do the shit for the business run the building that provide goods and services.
  • Their form of democracy is real democracy. In which that the majority class, actually have an impact on what they want in society. The minority somewhat gets to live, but not without a gun on the head and a sign next to it saying: "we will not hesitate to shoot you if you give in to ~~your hedonistic greed~~ the profit motive."
  • Can get rid of the person just sitting their and owning the deed to the building, the least harmful method is via democratic vote and choice on who gets to lead the operation, or if the deed owner ain't gonna give up his title of "leader" well, we shoot the guy if he/she reacts with malicious violence.
 
 

Y'know, the books/movies about wizards and whatnot. I have heard of it, but weirdly never read a book or (vaguely, can't remember) watched a movie of it. Just curious on what are your thoughts on it?

 

The original comment and post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/402216/comment/300264

The commenter: @PolandIsAStateOfMind

 

In a nutshell, mine would be:

  • "My favorite color is red. Imma look up economic systems. Wait, what is socialism? Hey! The socialists like red! Oooooooh, their books are also red! I'm sure that these will be good reads-"
  • A few hours later
  • "Huh, I'm an ML now. I regret nothing."

Though, I'm just asking what was the dumbest reason you get radicalized left-wards.

 
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