It better not be Hasan Piker
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Nicolás Maduro /s
I guess it really depends on what you think “most prominent” means here. There’s politically prominent, socially prominent, etc.
The girl reading this
what do you mean by prominent?
as in effective? today none virtually because thats the whole point of the US, they are fervently anti communist and kill communists with motion
as in famous? the black panthers but they are heavily sanitized and the wider population does not register that they are communists and parenti
It’s such an unfortunate state of events, really. It’s such a head-scratcher for me personally, since China is now in a much stronger position than the Soviet Union ever was internationally. It feels like the left never truly recovered from the Perestroika and the advent of neoliberalism.
It is hard. If we are talking academically, after Parenti died I’d say Vijay Prashad maybe? He is doing a lot at https://thetricontinental.org/, writes really good books, and is probably the most public marxist in the US.
what qualifies him as US though? i dont think he spends a lot of time there
He doesnt? I thought he spent all his time there, ever since he graduated from a US university in 1989? He was a professor in Connecticut until 2017 and now lives in Massachusetts…
Parenti is at most a socialist.
What is Prashad doing in the US, a freaking lost cause, instead of helping in Kerala?
Parenti is at most a socialist.
Fair.
What is Prashad doing in the US, a freaking lost cause, instead of helping in Kerala?
That doesn’t seem like very constructive criticism. Even though I’d agree the US is a lost cause.
As if India isnt every bit a lost cause lmao
In Bharat they have real praxis, that the US will never get.
Real praxis is exterminating minorities and installing a Hinduvata ethnostate
Unless you’re a Naxal, every Indian “communist” has achieved as much as the US left has in terms of “praxis”
It’s surprising how dead in the water the communist movement in India seems to be. I thought the horrific state of affairs on the ground would translate to something bigger.
I have a huge blind spot for India. Why is it like this?
I’m not an expert but I’ve tried to educate myself on the region, and the best I can explain it is that it’s a society that was subjugated under colonialism for so long that it has inherited it’s characteristics, and the state that resulted is one that is intended to fulfill the same colonial subject role in modern global capitalism. For this to work, the entire country, or at least the overwhelming majority have to be anti communist and pro imperialist, and the reactionary society, religious conservatism and outright hatred of their neighbours and minorities is so rooted in the people that even the so called communist parties have inherited this, and are all social chauvinist by now. The only reason they aren’t up there with Israel and the US in terms of imperial and colonial behaviour is because they are not as capable militarily and economically to realise their fascist ambitions.
Didn’t Kerala eliminate extreme poverty through learning from China’s poverty eradication campaign?
I’m not gonna claim they’re revolutionaries but compared to here in the states, where most communist orgs can’t even organize a local county wide strike, it seems farther ahead.
Although I guess that might just be a skewed perspective.
This is apparently a widely propogated claim, but a big reason for why this happened was due to the state of Kerala having one of the biggest and wealthiest diaspora communities who send back enormous amounts of remittance money which to this day keeps the entire state’s economy afloat and allows the local government and local communities to afford various social programs. The entire model collapses if money from diaspora in the West and the Arabian gulf states stops flowing in to prop it up. It’s also historically had a head start compared to the rest of the country even since before independence since it was not a directly governed colony but a client princely state of the British Empire.
Claiming that Indian socialism is responsible for their low poverty is also a little disingenuous because the neoliberal party has been in charge in many spells (nearly half of the time I think, including recently) throughout the state’s history, so not really indicative of an enormous socialist tradition.
Ah, thank you for the context on the claim.
Donald Trump /s
Black Panther Party members like Fred Hampton and Huey P. Newton, and Michael Parenti.
If you include revisionists and reactionaries, maybe Noam Chomsky. He was the first “leftist” USian that I heard about.
It’s kind of a shame that the only living communist most westerners know is Xi Jinping, and they don’t know he’s a communist
Yeah it’s sad. However I’m sure that the left in the west is gonna grow. The empire is dying. I hope that more people learn about communist leaders.
He is also simultaneously the only chinese person they know too.
This is Jackie Chan erasure /j
too real
West ≠ the US
Although you bunch likes to think so in your exceptionalism.
“Westerners” refers to people in the global north both here and in common parlance. Latin Americans will say this is not true but that’s just because they think being catholic somehow exempts them from being neocolonial subjects.
Nobody is talking about LA here, except you. LA isn’t western. I was just saying you like to forget the EU (I mean, they’re just vassal states but still) or conflate them in the same hivemind.
They are absolutely part of the same hivemind. Like, their belief systems are almost identical. Especially nowadays.
Noam Chomsky
The guy who got freaking Epstein to get him married to his then young trophy Brazilian wife.
I’m not defending him. Chomsky’s well known.
Okay but let’s just consign Noam Chomsky to the dustbin of history.
As a European I know about Noam Chomsky and I learned about Michael Parenti here
I wish RevTh0t and Lady Izdihar were more well-known.
i would say Michael Prysner, Abby Martins, or Claudia de la Cruz. Boots Riley maybe, but thats more hollywood fame
Gabriel Rockhill.
Tupac Shakur
Well they’re kinda hard to find, not only because of low numbers but also because of how the media+policing apparatus operates. If somebody is a watered down populist, they may be able to get famous and remain that way, and all is good. But if they are a principled marxist-leninist, they will tend to face media blackout, or slander and violent repression if they can’t be ignored. I mean, Bernie Sanders is a milquetoast soc dem and they still did a mix of media blackout and hit pieces on him when he was trying to run for president.
George Archibald Reginald Woodpecker Flats III, 89, from Wichita, Kansas who was born directly from Stalin’s womb and has the Manifesto tattooed on the inside of his eyelids.
They say he’s never paid taxes in his life, is wanted for treason in every state except Hawaii, and has a lover in every city in the country.
They say he personally hunted down Gary Webb’s killer over a period of six years and beat the man to death with a flip-flop.
Rumor is he won’t die until the eve of the revolution, during which all Canada geese will permanently flee North America; never to return.
Chainslayer my goat!
Boots Riley
Maybe the African people’s socialist party, assuming they aren’t all thrown in prison for being “Russian agents”.
I wasn’t aware of this group before. They look mega-based upon examination.
All I know is that they’re black liberation based, do a decent bit of community organising, and are being persecuted by the US government for somehow being Russian agents. I’ve not heard about a Maga link but then again, I’m not from the US.
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As stated in the title “It better not be Hasan Piker” also I see that in my honest opinion most of this community think Hasan is apart of the Graham Platner Left as stated in multiple videos.
Hasan is such a confounding case. Correct on Palestine and China way before most other people, but still a social chauvanist in most other regards.
