Almost correct on everything. China isn’t socialist tho. Ask yourself, what socialist country would have a stock market? Would you want to live in a “socialist” country that has stock market, speculation etc.?

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Supporting “sex work” seems… very antithetical to socialism/communism, and something that an anarchist would probably support. Inherently exploitative, unproductive labor, that also gives rise to individualistic tendencies? If any work under capitalism is coerced labor, a labor by force, a labor under economic pressure, a labor that is aquired by coercion, then what are we supposed to call “sex work”? People engage in it exactly due to the same economic reasons that other people engage in other lines of work - in other words, to make a living. There are two possibilities, either it was a “free” choice (as free as choosing to be an engineer or a cashier), or they wrre straight up kidnapped, trafficked and forced to do this (according to data it is majority of prostitutes world-wide). Now, knowing that, what are we to call prostitution if not the most degrading, the most demeaning, the most disgusting and dangerous line of work there is? If work under capitalism is coerced, and if coerced sex is called rape, then what are we to call prostitution or so called “sex work” if not paid rape??? On the contrary, what reason for “sex work” would there be under a socialist economy? As we established it is unproductive labor, it does not create value, nor does it help realize it, therefore there is no economic reasons for it’s existence under socialism (even marketing has more “ability” to contribute to realization of value under socialism than prostitution). Why would anyone sell their own body, in the most literal way, if they had all their basic needs met? Why not engage in acts of free love instead, which anyone knows are way more fullfilling? To add insult to injury, consider the fact that 90% of people who engage/are forced to engage in prostitution want to leave that line of work. Please comrade, this view is one of the most harmful ones one can have. Please read comrade’s Esmeraldas account of the horrors she endured, and the works of Alexandra Kollontai and Angela Davies on that topic. Here’s the article of comrade Esmeralda: https://redsails.org/on-the-sex-trade/

Edit: To add even more, the relationship between a prostitue and the rapist is reminiscent of the relationship between the worker and the capitalist. The rapist wants to use your body for the cheapest and longest and to it’s utmost (usually realizing their most deviant fantasies, and resulting in bodily injuries), the worker on the other hand wants to be paid the most, for the shortest and least amount of work. The only difference is that it is not work that is stolen but your bodily autonomy, the right to decide about the physical state of your body.

What do you mean by Eastern Front exactly?

That’s true. A forseeable future can only be deduced what we have already seen, and as we have not seen such a society yet, and have no data on it, who’s to say?

It’s not even about foresight per se. It’s about a very simple question. Let’s assume taht we even are in the primary stages of socialism, which means some vestiges of capitalism are still residing in all of us, and as such, also crime. What do you do with criminals, thiefs, etc.? Reeducation through labour of course, or in other words - prison. Only when the material and superstructural causes for crime to be commited are gone, and as such, crime withers away, only then can prisons be done away with. So don’t hit me with “future is less forseeable” as if it were some mystical thing, instead of a question that can be worked out scientifically/logically.

Prison abolition is not viable in the forseeable future.

Calibre for the win!

I highly recommend a second-hand kindle + anna’s archive. A week+ of battery life with reading wveryday for couple of hours.

I am just worried that it is a change of social relations that cannot be “rolled back” without another violent revolution.

Umm what? Do you thunk that decollectivizing agriculture and reintroducing markets and labour-as-commodity is a step TOWARDS socialism? The productive forces have been expanded enormously but when do we start seeing the class distinctions being abolished onstead of bolstered year-on-year?

I’m not really qualified for such recommendations so I can’t help you much but maybe books or videos by Kit Laughlin would be of help? He is the best expert on stretching that I know about.

I’m not exactly sure what you need by “stretching for walking and work”?

I always reccomend this routine for people who want to get into running:

We run 3 times a week with a day of rest after running. Always start with a warmup stretch and a slow run to warmup for 5-7 minutes then:

1st week: 3x 5mins run at full capacity 5 mins walk; 3x 5mins run 3 mins walk; 3x 5min run 1min walk;

2nd week; 3x 7mins run 5mins walk; 3x7/3; 3x7/1

3rd week; 3x10/5, 3x10/3; 3x10/1

Congratulations, you can now run at a slow pace non-stop! From now do a 1-1,5hr run once a week and 30-50minutes run 2-3 times a week. Focus on slowly improving your speed. That’s it!

At high school, it was during Philosophy classes that I was looking for “edgy” philosophy to “debunk” the liberals and found Strinerism appealing (though to be honest, jn the hindsight, I did not understand a single thing of it). Then I mingled with some metalheads of the “trve” sort that mainly listen to 1st and 2nd wave of black metal and epic heavy metal (Tank, Omen, Ostrogoth etc.) and they were hailing at events to which if someone took notice it was reduced to “its just a joke bro, chill out” but was really a quiet admiration of Hitler. At the same tome I held infantile leftist believes that “we should be equal”, “people should have homes” etc, while also not being partial to for example listening to bands like M8L8TH or some Rock-Against-Communism.

Edgy “Stirnerite” (due to vibes) at 16, left-wing fascist sympathizer at 18-19 (due to environment), typical socdem till 23, Marxist-Leninist at 24 and going. To be honest my radicalization came from watching a theatre performance that said “mortgaged credit = 30 years of serfdom” and then joining a local communist org.

If you declare that Anti-Fascists are your enemy then that must necessarily mean…

I don’t know about the event itself, but In Defense of Marxism is a well-known Trotskyist site (sometimes tinging on reformist side). plus the domain is marxist.com(mercial)

The bastards. Reminds me of how Poland forcibly catholicized and polonized Belarusians and Ukrainians post WWI

Where can I read more about that “Eastern” mobilization?