Ik its a small detail but the petty bourgeoisie are defined by the characteristic that they have to work as well as owning their own means of production. The freelance photographer is technically petty bourgeoisie as much as it just means they have the privilege of exploiting themselves.
They are objectively a small business owner its not really a larp its just a tiny business.
They know theyll lose like theyve lost everywhere else in asia so theyre playing the long game. Most successful victories are countries like the Philippines and Syria and against the ussr where the competition of the productive forces and geopolitics led to strategic victories.
This is just meeting w a real and politically powerful group they definitely need information on, not an endorsement.
Genuinely people need to stop valorizing gun toting because of the black panthers. The line to hold weapons was pushed by eldridge cleaver who infamously became a republican and started selling pants with a penis attached to them. There was a whole split in the party because the MLs recognized they were alienating black mothers in the community by doing so. Im not saying for people to disarm themselves, and its good to know how to use a gun, but its privileged petty b ideology that thinks the solution to the current crisis is because people arent carrying enough guns.
its mainly the national bourgeoisie which turned its anger and frustration towards the soviet union and many countries like iran and afghanistan have a deep-seated dislike for russia to this day as a result. obviously military support was greatly appreciated in may countries, but it also led to a lot of belief that their countries and people were being used as proxies for the ambitions of larger superpowers
Is it bad to fight against Nazi Germany because you don’t think you have a chance of winning?
Yes. Yes it is bad to fight nazi germany without planning to win. China sees hegemonism as the primary contradiction holding back progress on the world stage and is not engaging in global wars against the existing hegemon because those wars will not create global governance institutions in and of themselves.
Youre asking for sanctions and military interventions both of which are acts of war and hegemonism that turned the third world away from the soviet union. You keep asking open ended questions when there are answers to these questions, because youre not the only one whos thought about them. Its not about what is profitable, its about the competition of the uneven development of the productive forces, where for historical reasons the most advanced capitalist countries have the highest level of productive forces and use that imbalance to forcibly deny the development of other countries. Its primary to develop your productive forces, and to fight the global uneven development of productive forces that is the base reason for national oppression to put an end to imperialism and allow humanity to progress to the next stage. This development is inevitable (although i know you dont think it is) and the rate at which it can progress is in the last instance based on the objective development of the contradictions of capitalism around the world. Whether latin america has a red wave or blue wave is based entirely on the current stage of the development of its own contradictions, but capitalism and the age of hegemonic imperialism is on the decline regardless.
Bitching about trans people? OP youre 
I played it and thought this thing sucked.
The humor is so bad its like really bad, and the dialogue is also awful, and all the women are written so weird. Also its like half of an idea for a video game baked into this superhero gooner slop its weird. Im so surprised to see it continuously getting press and makes me think it might be some type of marketing thing.
Its really the hippy movement with the advent of acid and a “modern” interest in third world brown people for being spiritual noble savages (as a result of being closer to precapitalist relations to production compared to the west), as well as the bourgeoning capitalist class wanting to promote nationalism on an international scale especially in regards to tourism (look at japan).
India and the whole subcontinent genuinely has an incredible cultural history that deserves to be shared with the world, but under capitalist relations a big part of it revolves around bourgeois nationalism.
Read left communism by lenin
The US has couped them once already whats one more time?
I dont think the US would allow that to happen, but this might land a blow against the monopoly capitalists.
The thing is is that between duterte and marcos’ families theres a contradiction between the national bourgeoisie and comprador bourgeoisie respectively. Theyre both corrupt, but duterte was willing to build belt and road infrastructure w china while marcos’ family are hardliner compradors and bong bong immediately discontinued the 3 BRI projects in the Philippines as soon as he took power.
We might see either a. Nothing change qualitatively like indonesia, b. Somebody in the duterte camp taking advantage of the splits in the ruling class, or c. Somebody like leni robredo who is a soft “progressive” [NED/human rights backed] comprador take power.
Its entirely possible given things can change so quickly but as far as i understand the situation atm thats where we are at. All splits amongst the enemy are good for the working class i have to add.
Bayan, Gabriela, and Anakbayan are affiliated with the National Democratic Front in the philippines which is supported by the CPP for national democracy and freedom from imperialist powers. They are mass organizations based around different sectors of the peoples movements, workers, women, students, etc Akbayan Partylist are also leftist but exolicitly reject armed struggle, although they stand w the NDF and CPP against fascist redtagging and extrajudicial killings.
By all means the US does not want to support the CPP and a CPP led revolution, so western media probably has a ban on showing any NDF orgs. As a result because these arcommunist led protests the most right force they can show are akbayan partylist.
Note how al jazeera can show them but abc, cnn, nyt, etc never does. The US will also support the left in so far as it destabilizes countries that they deem worth destabilizing.
https://archive.ph/cxCMW Philippines protests popping off. Notice how the press only put Akbayan Partylist in any photos as opposed to Bayan, Gabriela or Anakbayan.
Ive met trots that like deng. Im just saying that complaining about china to random people on the internet instead of just doing somethig to fix it if ur chinese is liberal behavior. I dont think ur a bad person but its a tendency of a petty bourgeois class outlook
They have trot politics its lowkey annoying. I was talking to a trot recently who started talking about how china is oppressing the global south by exporting commodities and everything started to click lmao
Beyond Pink Or Blue by Leslie Feinberg is a great work by an ml on queer liberation.
Id recommend the Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins as well. Easy to read and really important information that has mass appeal.
https://youtu.be/WgZXwXIVZTk Brian Berletics vid on Nepal’s color revolution is out
Weird comment ngl