they should read theory

Malcom X

Didn’t they recently become independent again? goated move anyhow

apolitical -> Marxist -> Mostly Marxist-Leninist

I was pretty much apolitical and mostly focused on gamedev and video games in general rather than politics. I did however have some liberal tendencies due to both the gamedev scene and me being queer.

A lot of things changed me and for me after the 12 day war. I decided to understand the world and be more knowledgeable on politics, in short why do the things currently happening happen. Seeing that a lot of my countrymen didn’t show much concern about our country being bombed by the countries they ovulate for, I decided to question whatever they hate. One of those was and is “the left”, as they put it. Throughout all my life I always heard about how everyone hates “the left”. No one would say what “the left” in question actually believed in. The only thing everybody would repeat was that “they caused the revolution and took the freedom we had under Pahlavi”, “they were islamists”, “our lives suck because the Islamic republic is leftist”(!!!), ignoring how, in 1988, thousands of the same leftists were executed by the IR, and the rest had to escape, leaving the Iranian workers’ movement paralyzed (besides like a hundred more reasons). In short, they didn’t make sense, so I decided to find out the truth on my own. The communist manifesto, being as famous as it is no matter the amount of anti-communist propaganda, was my first choice. With reading it I started the journey that would make me a Marxist.

After I became a Marxist, I came to despise most pro-capitalist social media. Also since I had a little experience with lemmy after the reddit blackout (I’m not a redditor anymore) before moving to tumblr, I decided to take a look again to see if it has become more populated or not as I actually did like the idea behind it. This brought me into lemmygrad and eventually into the ProleWiki project which has since made me a more mature Marxist and a helped me become a Marxist-Leninist.

While I agree that the commodification of sex is inherently bad, pornography itself doesn’t have to be a form of sex commodification. Unarguably It does exist under capitalism as a form of sex commodification and exploited as much as possible, having destructive effects on everyone that is involved in making and consuming it. However, one could argue that under socialism, with direct control of the party over media, as i assume is the situation in the PRC, pornography could theoretically transform into an artistic and educational form. It could be leveraged to spread healthy sexual practices and body positivity among people. Its potential positive effects shouldn’t be ignored.

As we all know, the curiosity of young people will have them cross paths with pornography sooner than a relationship. Now, would it make more sense to give the youth access to some sort of controlled or healthy pornography to safely explore sexuality or just have them access capitalist porn through an easily obtainable VPN?

The problem rather than being pornography as a medium, is actually of its content. It is the content which due to most of the pornography being produced in the global north, promotes the capitalist mindsets you mentioned. This can of course be heavily regulated/controlled in a socialist project.

I would also argue that addiction to pornography isn’t rooted in existence of pornography either; it is the result of unhealthy social relations or lack thereof within the addicted person, which is more the fault of a toxic norms in society or bad education/upbringing. (this is actually a way bigger subject which i can’t do justice at the moment)

The Prolewiki project has a discord server you can join

Hello comrade, something i would suggest is to not to go to her with these concepts directly. As someone who has debated (over)religious people and other prejudiced groups of people, most of the times speaking of such concepts (philosophical, political, etc.) can cause them to put their gaurds up and not agree on things even when it makes sense to them. Instead, I would suggest to take a more indirect approach. Recommend her some short stories, documentaries, or fiction that discusses such themes first. Maybe read/watch them together and then talk about it, analyse it. You could then in your talks bring up your analysis, shaped by dialectical materialism, anti-imperialism etc, which might make sense for her and might help her to question her prejudices herself, especially since she has gone through the emotional journey of the story, she will be less gaurded and more understanding.

A lot of what you say here is true but i believe you’re being too general about the industry. First off, the differences of AAA and indie parts of the industry are really important in this particular subject. I’d say that what you discuss here, that being the ego and individualism’s effect in Gamedev, is mostly a problem in the indie scene. I’ve seen firsthand how it eventually causes the disbandment of dev teams because a member’s vision doesn’t exactly match what the “lead” has in mind or everyone wants something to go their way. AAA on the other hand, has various reasons for failure but i wouldn’t say individualism is that often of a cause. In my opinion, a lot of it falls on “corporate design” as some call it. Which instead of giving power and agency to the creatives (i.e. dev team), asks of them a checklist of what the shareholders believe will bring more profit for them or what they think the gaming community wants. This is usually a reaction to the indie scene (a successful indie game popularizes something and AAA follows suit), for a example how a lot of AAA games started adding rougelike modes to their games after the indie scene made the genre really popular. This neverending trend-seeking of the AAA shareholders is the main reason why the industry feels stagnated at times. Because instead of letting their studios try new things and experiment, the shareholders always put profit first and creativity second.

Just sent it. No problem, i can wait. Thanks for your responsiveness! Also, in one of the comments in this post i shortly explained why the correct name of language is Persian.

فعلاً که گمون کنم همون دولت و انقلاب لنین رو بدم بهش. خودم رو اگه می‌گی فعلاً دارم «ایران میان دو انقلاب» رو می‌خونم. بعدشم نظر دارم جنگ چریکی چه‌گوارا رو بخونم.

Got it

Yes there are a lot of languages and people. If you’re wondering the correct term for the people is Iranian since not all of us are Persian. However, Persian is important to Iran because it’s the national language that connects people of different ethnicities and languages. Besides, it’s the most developed one and can be used as the language of science. Something most Iranian languages aren’t capable of yet.

Well, if i remember correctly English got the word from Greek which is equally ancient. A reason (not the main one) i coud give is the claim of Iran being a newly built nation which is “occupying” the land. For example, the name Persian gulf is the best defence against the gulf countries trying to still its resource since the very word “Persian gulf” has more history than all of the countries mentioned.

Seeing as the word “Farsi” unlike Persian didn’t exist in the English language until a few decades ago, no it doesn’t capture the few thousand year history. And you’re completely correct about the diaspora since LA is basically the headquarters for pahlavi supporters and the birthplace of his brand of “nationalism”.

I’v considered it but applying to it requires a level of study even more than i spend on my university😅😅

Sure! If you want a general answer you can look up endonyms and exonyms on wikipedia but if you want specifics for Persian i’ll write something short here. The correct form of the word is Persian because it is the one which English-speakers are and were more familiar with due to its long history. It basicly goes a couple thousand years back and correctly signifies the history of the language within the English-speaking mind As language of the people who lived in Iran (which was called Persia until the last century). Etc. However, with the mass immigration of Iranians to other countries and their unawareness of how endonyms and exonyms work, they started claiming their language is called Farsi, the word which is used to refer to the language in Persian, instead of Persian, which was word English-speakers used. Which incorrectly cuts the Persian language from its history and makes it appear as a newly built language since there are no mentions of it before the current century. This was intensified by the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles or US in general, which doubled down on their stupidity to build a new identity since thay no longer had connection with their own. Keep in mind that this is in no way a complete explanation. There’s a lot more to this. Enough to write a book. But this is the overall gist of things. Hope it helps!

Unfortunately i didn’t find a translation for Blackshirts and reds. But i’ll note the others. Thanks for the recommendations!

Yeah i was considering those as options since they have good translations as well. If they’re good for starting on their own then it would be pretty convenient.

If the writer is a Trotskyist then i don’t think that eould be a good idea. My friend easily misunderstands stuff so that’s a bit risky. Might fall into the wrong rabbit hole.

Wow great list! This will actually be more helpful to me. I might be able to find Persian translations for some of them but since some are rather short i might translate them myself. Either way, thanks a lot! This is really useful.