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Hey there, sometimes I see people say that AI art is stealing real artists' work, but I also saw someone say that AI doesn't steal anything, does anyone know for sure? Also here's a twitter thread by Marxist twitter user 'Professional hog groomer' talking about AI art: https://x.com/bidetmarxman/status/1905354832774324356

Hey comrades, I’ve been dropping little nuggets for a few months now to my dear friends about Marxism and communism, and they’ve grown to really fond of me digesting the current nightmarish situation in the west with dialectic materialism and would like to learn more for themselves.

The thing is, my good friends are all rather dyslexic, and I worry that the older works might be a bit too much for them, I was wondering if anybody had good recommendations I could point them to. My friends are not stupid, and I am sure they will want to read Marx, Lenin, Mao and beyond eventually, they are quite enthusiastic people, but I want to give them the best chance and start them off light. Hope you all are having a lovely day <3

I have been looking at British leftist content don’t @ me my fellow Americans. I noticed that most of them are trots it’s like a parody of what the us left was in the 2000s full of trots opportunists and your occasional based person who is either old enough to have been around before Soviet Union fell and has reactionary social views or is a borderline hoxhaist. Not saying the American left is better. But we don’t have this level of revisionism. I know there’s some political differences like how the American left became very much taken over by Maoists from the 60s to late 70s. Then went super revisionist as a result of the fall of the USSR then went trot for about 5 years due to anti sovietism. Then we arrive where we are today where the main parties are all strands of ML at this point. Yet the British left has an over abundance of Trots and Anarchists.

Prime example is Ash Sakar and the Novarra Media people.

Genuine question

Edit: change the title from "Why can Socialist Market Economy be categorized as socialism, and why is NEP categorized as state capitalism?" to "Why can Socialist Market Economy be categorized as socialism meanwhile NEP is categorized as state capitalism?"

Comrades, I'm helping out on a research regarding the judicial law making power of the ICC judges. However, the ICC is obviously a political tool of the west. Now I need to inform myself as best as I can in order to spot the mistakes/propaganda. As you can imagine most things written about the ICC is western propaganda, so i'm going to need some facts...

Any sources(books, articles, journal, interviews and documentary, or even things like wikileaks, CIA docs etc...) on:

1. history of the ICC/Yugoslavia tribunal/Rwanda tribunal

2. Policy documents that reveal the true nature of those institutions

3. Scandals regarding the making, or status quo of the court basically any materials that will help not get fooled by western propaganda!

Thank you!

When Russia invaded Ukraine a few years ago, I was very lib and mostly history-illiterate. I try to be more ML now, but I still don't know a lot about world history. I've heard people saying that, at the dissolution of the Soviet Union, NATO promised they would not move toward Russia, but have since continued to expand eastward. I understand this is threatening to Russia, and I understand why they would want to respond, I'm just not sure why Ukraine specifically was the response? I know we give critical support to Russia in its opposition to the imperial core, so is that the reason? I also know Ukraine is brimming with Nazis in their ranks, but is that alone a reason to invade them? Is my saying Russia invaded Ukraine a misunderstanding in itself? I'm not trying to challenge you guys, I sincerely don't know and want to understand.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27665096

Generally just books on post '91 Eastern Europe. Could be analysis of the effects of shock therapy, wars, etc. Just want it to be from a Marxist point of view. If you have any good books on this but they aren't made by Marxists, that's fine as well.

What I mean is, why are they so reactionary?

They were once part of the Soviet Union, and while I am aware of the fact that after the USSR fell pretty much every country that was part of it fell into ruin (some bounced back), but there’s something about the Baltics that makes them stand out the most.

Besides Ukraine, they seem to be the most rabidly anti-communist/Russian and claim to have been colonized by the Soviets. I am very confused by all this and wanted to ask before I forgot.

What the fuck happened to the Baltics that made them like this? It’s like every time I see a Lithuania, Latvian, or Estonian flag on socials it is always paired with the most fascist shit I have ever seen.

Edit: added “socials” to be more specific.

You can talk about BDS but please also talk about the main topic.

I am curious if the majority of leftist people don't actually want children haha. There doesn't seem to be any studies about it, but my convos with leftists is that most don't seem to want to have children either for the uncertainty of the future or because they are too expensive or because it wouldn't give them too much time to organize or whatever other reason that I forgot about.

I personally lean on not having children because I have been laid off of several jobs and having someone financially dependent to me scares the shit out of me and would put my stress levels through the roof.

I have seen some maoists share this link in a spanish speaking server from the RCP. This article talks horrible things about Cuba -> https://comunaroja.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cuba-se-evapora-un-mito.pdf

After investigating it some of it here ->

It seems that the party was full of feds.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27205282

Don't wanna wade through thousands of disclaimers about how "cultural revolution was actually bad", just want a dissection or discussion over that particular part of it as I haven't found much on my usual reading.