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  • I did engage with your work. Again, it’s pseudoscience.

    high degree of submission to established authorities

    This is arbitrary. “High degree” isn’t defined, and “submission” can be confused with agreement. If I agree with someone, or support their actions, that doesn’t say anything about an underlying personality type.

    aggressive defense of said authorities

    “Aggressive” is doing heavy lifting here. Say I support the Palestinian movement, and I go to great lengths to defend their positions and actions. This, again, is not an underlying personality trait, it isn’t based on genetics, it’s just strongly supporting the liberation of a group of people and those who are leading that movement, the “established authorities.” It’s called having principles.

    highly motivated by conventionalism

    I’m a communist, much of my life is spent organizing directly against the established rules, traditions, and expectations of the society I live in. I support democratic centralism as a strategic tool, which is highly unconventional for how I was raised and where I live. Communism in general is a growing but fringe movement in the west.

    None of this applies to me, but you decided to fit me into a box based on pure pseudoscience. None of what you said is useful, it does not predict behavior, it’s little more then phrenology, even less useful than MBTI.




  • I don’t “play very loose with facts,” it would be great if you could provide an example we could talk about but as it stands that’s needless slander. Further, calling it a “propaganda list” is a bit silly, like the links to Prolewiki for the Marxist-Leninist theory of nations and self a determination, the reading list I made is not a history list or anything, just works from major Marxists and Marxist-Leninists to explain the 3 major components of Marxism-Leninism: dialectical and historical materialism, the Marxist view of economics, and scientific socialism.

    There aren’t really facts to dispute here, that’s like calling someone recommending Plato’s The Republic untrustworthy for understanding Plato. That’s pretty silly IMO.



  • Reread the statements I linked. The DSA and PSL are very different organizations, same with PTB and Die Linke, and yet they all focus on how to best bring an end to the war in a practical manner from their own positions as western organizations. None of them have power over what Russia does or does not do, but all can influence the continued warmongering and militarization of NATO. Only four countries recognize Russia as genocidal in the Russo-Ukrainian war:

    And that’s because the Russo-Ukrainian war has, among modern conflicts, had a remarkably low civilian death count on both sides. What this means is that a swift and expedient settlement is the best that organizations in the west can actually push for to help the people of Ukraine, people who do not wish to keep fighting for western billionaires to plunder minerals. Further still, Donetsk and Luhansk already want to join Russia. Even if Kiev succeeded in pushing Russia back and getting them to surrender, Kiev would still be right back to the civil war it was in for 8 years prior to Russia entering the war.

    The best case scenario for working class Ukrainians, as well as the people in the Donbass, is a negotiated settlement now. This is something socialist parties and anti-war activists recognize around the world. As the conflict in Iran heightens, it becomes clear that NATO buildup is being used to bomb elementary schools like Minab, all riding off of the far-right slide and militarization campaigns that only service western billionaires.

    None of this is “pro-Russia.” Labeling any socialist views as being “foreign influenced” is a time-tested method of cracking down on any form of anti-war, anti imperialist, pro-labor activism for centuries.




  • My point is generally that social relations are real, material processes. Race does not fall into that category, ideas themselves are not material processes by themselves. Nations, genders, classes, and more are real, material, social relations and processes. Race is not. I think it might be helpful for you to brush up a bit more on dialectical materialism, and I don’t mean that in a demeaning manner.












  • There’s no copypasta, and I refuted every one of your points. I also backed up every one of my points, referencing purely western, pro-Ukrainian sources. You dodged every single point of mine, and regularly accuse communists of being paid agitators, bots, or sockpuppets, rather than actually engage with the points at hand. All of this to defend Israel and the west.

    I never justified any bombing of children either, this is just blood libel. The scale isn’t “totally okay” vs. “Genocide,” this is a cartoonishly black and white view of the world.