fanonfan44

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Is anyone here a migrant, or thinking of becoming one? in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[โ€“] fanonfan44@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

In New Zealand right now (University), no way in hell I'm raising my children in the West. Looking at the Middle East or China to bring up my family (although China is very hard to get residency)

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What is your most controversial opinion in Socialist circles? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

I'm talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I'm interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief

How would you feel about an islamic community here? in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[โ€“] fanonfan44@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago

as a Muslim I often feel very alienated by militant atheists in Socialist circles it's so strange

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Is it wrong to greatly prefer expressing all political views in a borderline echo chamber such as Lemmygrad rather than ever try to engage with liberals on other platforms again? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

There are only so many more braindead, agenda-fueled smug remarks I can deal with at this point and I've lost all hope of changing most of these people. Just this evening I commented a one sentence defense of China's foreign policy on reddit only to get every single one of my comments from the past week bombarded by a guy spamming Taiwan emojis and calling me a "CCP slave girl who should go to the Xinjiang rape camps". It's tiring

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Godard's La Chinoise (1967) is a cross section of youthful dogmatism from bourgeois Maoist university students in late 60's France (lemmygrad.ml)
 

The film follows a group of student's founding a terrorist sect and planning to assassinate a Soviet official on a diplomatic visit. Godard was a Marxist and his films are littered with dialectical readings, with another film (Weekend) even mentioning Marx's name next to Jesus Christ.

He's my all time favourite director and if you've never checked him out you really should