That’s fantastic, thank you!

Can you tell me more about Mao’s ideas about intelligentsia?

Honestly, I wouldn’t be that opposed to having to stay in Academia and just do research, if the entire institution and system around submitting research wasn’t such a corrupt pile of shit. I honestly fucking love doing research, even in my free time, I always have a million tabs open, always trying to read new stuff. Just can’t stand the elitism and classism in Academia. Wish being an independent researcher was a more realistic thing.

Haha, my partner is in Academia in healthcare, and she talks about that very thing like once a week, saying she has to resist the urge to point out “the elephant” on a weekly basis to her peers.

I think it’s hard, because the farther I get into my academic career, the more elitist it gets, and the more “pay to play” it feels, like it’s just made for rich kids. I got into my program on a 75% merit based scholarship, but then my PI started setting me up with all these conferences to submit our papers to, except no one told me that I need to be the person fronting these several hundreds of dollars for registering papers that the school says they will pay me back “if funding permits” lol, what a joke. It feels like an institution that exists only to be accessible for the wealthy, despite me fighting my way up the ladder tooth and nail.

Thank you! I actually looked at their list of color revolutions, but it didn’t seem complete, and didn’t include it. What page did u find that on?

Cool, I think that’s the same conclusion I’ve come to aswell. Haven’t been able to put words to it that well though. What are your thoughts on Gonzalo in general?

Where would you say MLM falls into this? I read that post and the dogmatic thing seems to make sense. But there are elements of MLM such as the Labor Aristocracy and such that I unabashedly agree with.

Cool, I’ll check it out. I think he can be hit or miss, especially when it comes to ‘hard theory’ videos, but I’m none the less interested.

Thank you

Was what was done in the Soviet Union, at least during Lenin’s leadership, considered to be Dogmatic Leninism? What seperates Dogmatic Leninism from Marxist-Leninism?

Also, would you say Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is an adaptation of these material conditions? Or a higher stage of development. What even differentiates the two?

Was that in a speech or a book? Would love to get the full context.

I get that you are not anti Kim Ill Sung, but what comparison do you see between the two, just in general? Not sure i follow.

You should not call yourself a communist if you’re an American and do not know about AIM and their struggle imo.

Wisconcom?

The IRA for one.

I think it more comes from how a lot of supposed mental disorders, are more of a conflict of that individual and the society they live in. If society was structured in a way for ADHD people to be able to contribute that is structured around how their brain works, there wouldn’t be a disability in the first place. Not all, of course, but many. How we shouldn’t be positing these people as ‘broken’ because their brains work slightly different, but because our society isn’t structured in a way to allow them to contribute in a way that works best for them.

Can we still say ‘Amerikkkrakker’?

Can you help me understand how the whole fediverse thing works? It seems more decentralized than reddit.