The drafting compass is a criminally underutilized symbol for how well it can be integrated into a design.

Angola’s flag 🇦🇴 is one of my favorites along with Mozambique 🇲🇿. I’m also just very partial to the Red Star as a symbol, whether on a hat, flag, or other piece iconography.

Rapidly approaching weeks of decades after decades of weeks.

Fucking Seizing your wife means of production.

The fascist counter reaction is happening right now. We are seeing that the reactionary online personalities are shedding their “classical liberal” facade in favor of outright fascism. I forgot to mentioned that the socdem surge occurred in 2020 until today.

This might be more of a complaint on how some Marxists act vs an ideological disagreement, but it has to do with some of the dismissiveness on certain topics.

For example, if someone decides to talk about their Fandom culture, or some piece of media they enjoy which is not explicitly revolutionary or just generally mainstream, there are quite a few Marxists who will jump on that person, and tell them “this is nonsense you should be busy organizing.”

I generally don’t go into my interests here on the Grad just because I don’t often get the opportunity to. Sometimes I do indulge however when a topic comes up in the gaming, free chat, or anime communities.

Regardless, I think some Marxists underestimate the amount of effect agitprop can have when you engage in Marxists analysis of consumerist media. I don’t mean just going into a fanspace for a media you like and scolding everyone there either, I mean just existing Inna community as a Marxist openly, as it can be surprising how receptive people can be when you apply Marxism to something outside of strict political discussion.

This is one of the things which strengthened reactionaries duing the 2010s and caused a social democratic backlash in the same spaces online. We are seeing a more explicitly fascist reaction confronting the old socdems and need explicitly socialist opposition to battle for cultural hedghemony online.

Welcome, thank you for the recommendations, I’m always a fan of compordor history and association with the ruling class.

Enjoy your time here! This is non-negotiable.

Cogito Ergo Sum

For I am AM

I AM.

I know id-pol is obviously not a tool for materialists, but I can’t deny it is fun watched white people shut up when you pull the identity card up to degrade the identity card.

Like one of the first things I say is that Iranian diaspora are fascist thugs and should not be trusted. I think I heard Madeline Pendelton provide a very good way of explaining this, by basically just saying that diaspora in the US are like the MAGA of their countries, and the US basically acts as an epicenter for these kinds of people.

I brow beat them while pulling the “as an Iranian” card. When you can overwhelm them with information, and have a justified identity based reason for anger, liberals often become meek.

I think you’ve given me more hope for the future for a revolution in my lifetime then anyone else.

Not only are you yourself a wonderfully talented, brave, and adaptable organizer, your peers, the youth that shall be leading the charge fie the future, denostrated a fantastic instinct for radicalism.

The solidarity of the marginalized students honestly makes me tear up a little. In university, which I was organizing at until recently, we struggled to get the average student to even care about how their tuition is being spent, yet you’ve managed to agitate and organize a group of far younger and supposedly more naive (in reality, less cynical) students into fledgling anti-imperialist actions.

There’s much to learn from you, in my opinion, so as your elder of a little less than a decade, I will humbly try to soak up your spirt and tactics as I grow as an organizer myself.

I’m hopeful that the future is brighter than it appears, and it’s because of comrades like yourself.

You are a revolutionary. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.

I’ll take a sip at iftar inshahallah.

I say it in average conversation with my mother, though we say it the og Farsi way you fucking casuals.

I get that feeling. Though personally I just try my best to explain to people why everything is so fucjed up.

Feel bad for you comrade.

It’s not helpful, but I’ll just say you have one Iranian friend online who thinks your group mates should enlist. Hopefully they get liberated by an IRGC Fatah Missle.

I’m in the US, though I have quite a bit of family still in Iran.

When they’re literally your family members it becomes impossible to cut them off. Aunts, Uncles, and such are only seen occasionally anyway, so frankly it’s not something worth creating conflict over.

They’ve made theor choice and my family has made mine.

Also, the most deranged pahlavists will cut you our themselves, as I can attest.

Personally I see the DSA kind of like the Social Revolutionaries of the Russian Revolution. There is clearly a principled leftward faction that exists in its midst which is getting more popular however the organization itself is mired with opportunists, and I’m not confident the principled marxists can achieve hedghemonic influence over the entire thing.

A split is going to happen at some point in time, within the next decade I suspect. Whether it’s the opportunists ejecting themselves due to not wanting to conform to a “tankie” political line, or the principled Marxists breaking off to join a valid vanguard party that emerges, I’m not sure. Though historically I’d say the latter is more likely, but the circumstances might end up leading to the former, which frankly would be more beneficial.

May I have some sources ln the Assyrian claim? I’ve heard a little about the Yazidi discrimination but not about Assyrians.