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I'm not any more an ML than I am an anarchist. Im a communist, but that doesn't make me an ML. I told you I come from a unique tradition, please respect that. I agree with you that there were certain decisions made during the Russian revolution that, when crystallized into dogma (which it has in some glaring cases), would lead to the sort of thing that you are talking about. But if I had to guess, you wouldn't be a reliable source for historical context from that era anyway.

You don't know the first thing about my praxis. The side that is doing the purges is not the side that I am on. Please stop trying to flatten everything and everyone to fit into your shit post. I promise you, if you stay on this path you will end up doing great psychic damage to yourself. I know its hard to deal with historic contradiction but that's not an excuse. History is calling us to do better, to create the conditions that will bring about the commune, not turn everything into memes. Ask yourself what you are getting out of this. Try to step outside your ego, I'll try to do the same

But you're right, I probably should just ignore you. Cheers.

Well, I wouldn't expect anyone to consciously admit that they are trying to "attract brigades," and I don't want to get mired in psychoanalysis, since I'm trying not to be unfair. Since I'm talking to you directly, imo it seems like this isn't really about you. This has all of the markings of a hexbear struggle session, and let's just say that certain (likely bad-faith) characters have been more than happy becoming the subject of those sessions.

I have been on the receiving end of this kind of thing before, not to this level, but its hard not to take it personally. but also your meme really sucks. That being said, I've met some MLs who have been just as dogmatically and ahistorically committed to an anti-anarchist position, and plenty of anarchists who would agree with this meme. So this doesn't exist in a vacuum, there is a history of struggles that communists and anarchists have found themselves willingly or unwillingly on different sides of. But reckoning with that long history of struggle is anathema to the point of this meme, as well as dogmatic opponents of anarchism on our side of the anarcho/commie split. All of these tendencies try to flatten history into memes and then tries to defend the history that the medium has just eradicated, and its in itself a disastrous way to confront and engage with history. But I come from a tradition that actually reads history and struggles with it, and chooses to hold the contradictions as inevitable rather than degenerating into vulgar campism. I wish I could get more comrades to engage with history in good faith instead of just picking out discrete decontextualized quotes and events to support whatever their beliefs are,but we all have liberal brainworms we are working through and I'm not going to pretend I have the magic solution that is going to bring about the idealized anarcho-commune.

I think there are ways to work together, I work with anarchists in my organizing and I would never betray them like this and frankly resent the implication that I would. I'm not sure if that's the nerve you touched with everyone here, I don't really care. I just wish this shitpost wasn't getting all this attention, but not often have any of my wishes for the left come true

I was talking about a pattern of posting behavior that I've noticed that seeks a kind of recursive negative attention. The stormfront emoji is a reference to reddit. I haven't seen any racist or white supremacist comments from you. I would also take it personally if I thought that was what I was being accused of, so I understand. But my post says to "crawl back to reddit" I forgot you can't see my emojis. I didn't come here to insult you, I just find it funny that we do this every few months.

Edit: nvm maybe you can see that it is a reddit logo and you are just choosing to interpret it that way. In any case I'm concerned that you might be upsetting yourself over things that aren't important. You should try to get more sleep, drink more water, and find a way to spend your free time that is more positive than whatever this is

Can HBs just not ignore this slop? This happens like every 2 months, someone shows up says some bad faith shit, we post and dunk all over it, they take what we said and make more posts out of it in bad faith, we post and dunk again, over and over. Can't we realize that this is just narcissism being narcissism, ignore and block? This post would have had like 4 responses if we hadn't engaged. Instead we are just running a fucking wrecker training camp. Don't give them any oxygen and let them crawl back to idk not trying to be unfair it just seems kind of obvious what is going on

Reddit is a fed site, completely captured in every way that matters, I honestly can't believe people still use it and expect good faith

What I have thanks to money, what i pay for, i.e, what money can buy, that is what I, the possessor of the money, am myself. My power is as great as the power of money. The properties of money are my- (its owner's)- properties and faculties. Thus what I am and what I am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy myself the most beautiful women. Consequently, I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness, its power of repulsion, is annulled by money. As an individual I am lame, but money can create twenty four feet for me; so I am not lame; I am wicked, dishonest man without conscience or intellect, but money is honored and so also is its possessor. Money is the highest good and so its possessor is good. Money relieves me of the trouble of being dishonest, so I am presumed to be honest. I may have no intellect, but money is the true mind of all things and so how should its possessor have no intellect? Morever he can buy himself intellectuals, and is not the man who has power over intellectuals not more of [an] intellectual than they?

• KM, P&E Manuscripts

To jump on what other people have said, make a mix of songs/bands that you want to sound like or influence you. The best bandleaders I've ever worked with all did this

This is one of the funniest things I've ever read

It is the absolute interest of every capitalist to press a given quantity of labour out of a smaller, rather than a greater number of labourers, if the cost is about the same. In the latter case, the outlay of constant capital increases in proportion to the mass of labour set in action; in the former that increase is much smaller. The more extended the scale of production, the stronger this motive. Its force increases with the accumulation of capital

-- Karl Marx, Das Kapital

Basically if your boss is paying you and your coworkers overtime, then they're just not paying another employee. You make a little more money but your boss makes a lot more, and has no incentive to hire another person. In fact as long as he can get people to work overtime, its actually against their interest to hire more people. The whole time they're crying how none wants to work, but really they're not willing to hire anyone unless it is for less than half of your salary. If they do they lose money.

Get organized

When you post on you do work for the CIA, and a huge percentage of the people you talk to are cops and airmen.

Its not really sex, the dolphin is on acid, my human assistant is teaching it to read and jerking it off, and I am mind-melding with the assistant. Science.

Yeah I have a book called How the West Came to Rule which is supposed to be a comprehensive theory of the global development of capitalism from a non-western, non-eurocentric perspective. Pretty cool premise but the thing is almost completely inaccessible. I expect books on politics and economy to take a bit longer, to be read more carefully, but as a strong reader, I should still be able to read the damn thing