1.“Federal agencies have the authority to intervene in protests, picket signs, or blockades. The law is impartial: it must be enforced without exception.”
2.“Federal forces are not required to have judicial oversight for their actions.”
3.“Forces are not obligated to consider alternative entrances or pathways. If the main path is blocked, their duty is to clear it.”
4.“This action continues until the flow of traffic is fully restored.”
5.“To carry out these acts, forces will use the minimum necessary force, which is sufficient and proportional to the situation they are addressing.”
6.“Instigators and organizers of the protest will be identified.”
7.“Vehicles used in the protest will be identified and subjected to citations or penalties.”
8.“Data of the instigators, accomplices, participants, and organizers will be transmitted to the authorities through appropriate channels.”
9.“Notices will be sent to the judge in cases of damage, such as burning flags.”
10.“In cases involving minors, relevant authorities will be notified, and the guardians of these youths who bring them to these demonstrations will face sanctions and punishment.”
11.“The costs incurred by security operations will be borne by the responsible organizations or individuals. In cases involving foreigners with provisional residency, information will be forwarded to the National Directorate of Immigration.”
12.“A registry will be created for organizations that participate in these types of actions.”
And you appear to think that’s a joke, while in fact one can’t pick a better ideology to be smarter.
To learn to sing you have to sing, no other way.
It doesn’t really matter where you start on that “political compass” or something, only the attitude.
Which is why saying I’m a libertarian was a bit stretched, I just fit there more by some formal traits. I had my moments of obsession with many other ideologies and I’ll surely have those in future.
I didn’t pick being a marxist and an ideology cannot be treated like a fashion statement as you’ve said. It also isn’t something you can just pick and adhere to as if it’s a club. And the “political compass” has always been a terrible “tool” (more so of a toy) to describe any leanings. You can’t apply a label to yourself by yourself, someone else must do that for you by seeing you for who you are. I’ve been called a commie a few times, but most of the time people don’t even know what a communist is or what they stand for. So I am able to talk commie to normal people (whatever a normal person is) without outright saying I’m a red and so I avoid their redscare conditioning and can have an engaging conversation.
You remind me of myself. I’ve been a “libertarian” too, not the popular type we like to make fun of here, but the guy you are describing as yourself. But I kept progressing in learning and educating myself, studying history and what existed in the real world, so applying dialectical materialism before even knowing what it was. It was until I’ve decided:
“Okay enough is enough, time to learn my enemy for who he is and what he stands for so that I may better combat him!”
And then after a while I’ve had my
moment. I’ve realized that everything I was standing for as this libertarian championing human freedom, expression, progress and development towards that in a scientific and realistic way was what the dirty pinkos were standing for as well. I’ve learned along that journey and the only thing left for me at that moment was to accept that I might just be a dirty pinko too. 
I wonder where you will end up, but please never tell yourself you are going to avoid certain material or knowledge just because you dislike the people behind that. Hell I believe communists must be studying fascism to better understand what it is and how to defend ourselves against it. For example I dismiss Mein Kampf not because Hitler wrote it, but because it’s a shit work with nonsense inside. Largely a waste of time that will not help in understanding Nazi germany, a better alternative would be study Lebensraum and how it parallels to Manifest Destiny and such.
Learning about this stuff can not only help you develop but also prosper. I have hope you won’t side alongside fascism, seeing as you already dislike whatever the fuck Milei is doing.
Once you’ve realized that you can’t join an ideology as if it’s a club or fashion statement, you can’t really adhere to it. You will stand out and be an outcast in said group, and among libertarians you are one. I know that because I’ve been that libertarian outcast too.
I wish you best, and I hope you stick around. Just be know the bears tend to be bullies as they’ve engaged with the talking points you might present a million times already. Hell most of us live in the imperial core, we engage with this shit on the daily. I suggest you engage in an earnest way to suck out genuine answers of who we are.
Well. I already don’t have problems with putting myself in some unexpected kind of footwear. And it’s even been ML.
Keep at it!
Eh I somewhat doubt that since you still engage in much of idealism in the commments of this post, some of the unfortunately being somewhat reactionary. Being ML is not just being around GenZedong or ChapoTrapHouse or their lemmyverse successors. It’s studying history, theory and applying that in praxis. I can call myself a commie and others can call me too, but in reality I’m just a bookshelf for now. (
would be dissapointed 😭)
I’ve yet to engage in outright commie praxis due to art. 256 of the Polish penal codex, and I’ve yet to apply it, even if possibly unsuccessfully.
I suggest you engage with ML ideas yet again, but now more formally by reading theory, studying socialist history (avoid websites like cia.gov and anngothatistotallynotafrontforthecia.org) and checking out whatever the fuck the communists around you are up to. In Poland most of them are useless trots unfortunately so I’m very dissapointed on that, I’ve got more hope in unions independent from Solidarność getting traction since building up class consciousness would be the priority in this country.
There is one important question I have for you. Have you read these works?
The Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels
Socialism Utopian and Scientific also by Engels
Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
If not please do so, and I could list some more and even tell you to read the first volume of Capital but I value your time so I chose these as they are rather short. However if you don’t feel like reading all of these than I ask of you to just read the Principles. It’s the shortest work and is easily digestible, Engels was a great writer in this regard.
I’m also not asking you to become or trying to make you a commie right away, that is something that just plain stupid. I just want you to learn and see what you can take from these works for yourself to be a better person and to learn more about who communists actually are. Knowledge is a tool after all. And in the end if you do end up a commie then lol, lmao you’ve got got xdddddddddd
Also if you are American, there is one key work I must say any American must read no matter who they are. The Civil Rights movement was one of the most important ones in that countries history that is now being whitewashed by DC and this struggle, the pain and suffering these people endured must not be forgotten.
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
My ML, eh, experience was more about Trotskyism and a bit of ansyn, coupled with reading Wiener’s “Cybernetics” and some optimism about future.
I’ve read parts and excerpts of these, but none in one piece at one time, so - why not.
Not American, but thx.
I mean, they are OK, just too busy fighting each other and imagining solutions simpler than practical.
Pluralism in unions (I’d also say party organizations) - many times yes.
I’m returning just after reading some of your other comments under this post and I have to say I’m greatly disappointed. Much of your attitude was of statements and assertions, many of which are ahistorical and/or incorrect (or at the very least considered so by us). Also your attitude was very combative rather than discussionary. That is to say, that the bears weren’t too good either, many of the combative as well but that also stems somewhat from your stubbornness (← what a weird word, three letter duos? wtf). Questions as well as calls for sources or books or claims for why you are getting insulted rather then replying with a “no u” type statement would have been so, so much better. Some modesty could’ve also helped…
Still, I have hope for you and a link that may interest you. It’s about past socialist countries as well as the USSR and I do hope you read it as it’s very good resource with plenty of citations:
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Mikhail-Gorbachev-seek-to-reform-the-Soviet-society/answer/Chuck-Garen
Please do better, because while fixing ignorance requires the help of others, to get that help you have to have a better attitude for them to consider a friendly conversation. Something that is much easier to address and remedy. You’re lucky I’m in this comment section and that I’m a rather lenient and considerate person. I see potential in you, and I’m sad this potential was not realized by this comment section. Neither by you, nor by others.
Now to address the Hexbaristas; I’m really fucking dissappointed. You guys need some fucking
in your life, and I know I know, this is the fucking internet and shits not to be taken overly seriously, but I like to make these fucking posts for practice damn it! You should do that too from time to time as being good at educating others is a skill and you NEED (ZERO FUCKING EXCUSES) to hone it. You can use this site for more than just dunking.
When “no u” weighs the same as the original comment, it’s exactly what should be answered.
About that link:
I’ve read more about USSR than I’d want to remember, and Gorbachev alone as a personality is just a part of the whole tendency. A face of a class, if you will.
The part about comparisons and currencies is simply illiterate - a fixed legally defined exchange rate doesn’t mean that we can multiply USD of the time by that and get a correct representation, obviously.
It doesn’t matter how much USSR produced of which on paper. It matters (probabilistically) which percentage of it was lost due to bad logistics, which percentage of it would be broken fresh from the factory, and how much would be given for it in a real market.
FFS, I’m not that much against the USSR, I like how some things (like technical education) were done there and I know that it wasn’t some horde or an evil empire or even a dictatorship. But people here take such an amazingly arrogant, ignorant and sectarian approach to argument, that I find myself arguing against it by instinct.
Your posts on here just make me wonder what you’ve actually read. Quantity doesn’t make up for quality. I could read lots of texts about Nazi Germany from David Irving too.
Libertarianism is a joke because it’s never cleared the low bar of it existing in a meaningful capacity in the real world. You can say whatever about gorillion dead 1984 Animal Farm and whatever tired cliches, at least there have been and continue to be ML states in the real world. The most libertarians have ever managed was one American town before they were overrun by bears.
That just means it’s a less viral ideology. It’s a different dimension of something being a joke or not.
“Tired cliche” is a characteristic of some art or amusement. Facts usually become more, not less solid over time.
being this ignorant is a violation of the nap
so don’t.