try sci-hub or anna’s archive to avoid paywalls!

Email the actual author of the paper. Academics froth at the mouth in excitement at the thought of sharing their work, and the only people making money off of gatekeeping are capitalists.

There is nothing more childish than doomerism. Doomerism is easy. (Realist) optimism takes effort. Doomerism is a way to avoid having to deal with the emotional pain of disappointment, it gives you license to do nothing and pat yourself on the back when things don’t work out. An adult understands that disappointment is part of life, but that the only mature choice is to keep trying.

As Gramsci said, as revolutionaries we must have pessimism of the intellect but optimism of the will.

Were there that many in the first place?

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As Marxists if we knew ideas were reactionary we would not cling to them. Its like asking what unknown unknowns we have.

A sort of silly one that I think of is probably my interest in fashion (silly in that it’s a pretty minor thing overall). Though I’m not sure it’d be called reactionary, so much as individualist. Anyway, the individualist brain worms part is that a part of me holds onto some of the stuff about good fashion = cool, important, good status. Stuff like that. Not to say I’d consciously treat somebody different on account of fashion, but unconsciously is harder to say.

I don’t tend to embrace fashion much in RL because I don’t really have the money to throw at fashion, so it’s mainly been a thing I’ve expressed in video games, historically. This isn’t to say the entirety of my interest in fashion is individualist bougie thought, but some part of it is. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with being interested in fashion and understanding the practice of it could go toward collectivist causes too, such as in uniforms in a war or design that seeks to promote a certain kind of culture. But I haven’t really put my interest in it toward that, so it’s kind of just this old paradigm hobby.

Everyone here is a Marxist-Leninist and choosing to support the ML means to do away with reactionary positions. I myself used to be conservative and then right-wing libertarian and so used to have reactionary takes, but I have choose to do away with them as well.

i am super guarded with personal information i share here, but it’s also often a space that people are welcoming and supportive. ultimately, do whatever you feel comfortable with

and yeah, part of the problem with reactionary takes is that there’s debate on what those are now, and people are unlikely to be self-critical enough to believe they have reactionary takes haha. it’s kind of a dilemma

Use a VPN so that Reddit thinks you are opening the site from outside the EU.

We’ve got to change clothes twice a day, temperatures can change up to 10 degrees C in a single day where I live.

o7

tbf being better than a bozonazi is a low bar

Yeah, the left hasn’t reached their full potential in Brazil yet. But at least the communist movement has space to grow now. Especially if Lula decides to ban Meta

Well, uh, I know comrades have opinions about Pedro Sanchez here in Spain, but I am kinda hoping the snap elections don’t result in a right-wing victory at the moment. 😭😭

I love it tho Mbappe is not that terrible politically as other footballers so it kinda sucks it happened to him. But props to China for putting a stop to the infantile and malicious slander of their political figures, lie after lie turned the characterization of Mao as a dictador in the west while Mao is widely loved in his country.