I don't know. I've seen plenty of Christians denouncing the Quran while being hypocritical about the Bible.

If you anachronistically judge everything you read from old texts with today's moral standards, then there will be no good religion. The Bible, for example, is absolutely shitty to women, racist against many different of non-hebrew peoples and makes inumerous reference to genocides.

That is exactly the feeling of seeing capitalism collapse... It means we workers will be screwed first.

I hope this dream becomes true comrade. It's about time to have Palestinians living a little bit better than they are right now.

Now, speaking of the war, it's also about time Iran hits some desalination plants...

Pretty much the history of the global South, sir. Have you considered going to another global south country where things are bad but not as bad as yours?

In the heads of people democracy is just a system where everybody can vote, instead of a system where you have actual power over the decisions/policies that impact your life.

This is the state of everywhere under Western hegemony. Mainstream media is just disinformation or entertainment.

It's not even about using social democracy to show it won't work. We can already do this with propaganda. Engaging in bourgeois elections is a tactic, along with other tactics such as mass action, propaganda and agitation, strikes, (some tactics that shouldn't be discussed directly in a public forum) etc. The important thing is not to lose sight of the strategic objectives.

When we say that revolutions won't happen through parliamentary reforms, is because we have enough examples from history where the bourgeois system was able to engage in lawfare, disinformation campaigns, coup d'etats, or making socialist/communist parties illegal whenever they feel threatened. And we also have examples where some of members of the party elected or nominated to bourgeois positions who ended up betraying the revolutionary goals in order to secure their positions in bourgeois government, a phenomenon which, back in the day, was called opportunism. So we need to be aware that this tactic has its limits. A socialist/communist party can't rely solely on bourgeois parliamentarism/electoral politics.

Not to mention that there are synergies. We can use a reform for then promoting mass action. We can pass laws that make organizing easier. We can use the state machine to get full time revolutionaries to do propaganda work. We can use the state machine to put militants in key positions, as well as removing reactionaries from them. We can use the Parliament to stall any reactionary policies. We can use elections to carry out mass propaganda. And we can react to a coup and then have enough legitimacy to have our own revolutionary groups to take more direct action...

So, in summary, it's important to use bourgeois elections and parliamentarism, it's important to synergize it with other tactics, but it's also very important to be aware of its limits.

Speaking of trots, since trot orgs are very common in Brazil, I think their stance on things is very different. There are some trots that command certain unions and are in touch with actual working class people, so I wouldn't say it's focused only in academics. I think this approach of Marxist academics thing is more of a Western thing than a ML x Trot thing. And not all trots delve too much on Trotsky, many are good readers of Marx and Lenin as well.

The thing which actually pisses me off on Trots is that they regard every existing socialist experience a failure and a degeneration. For me this is about throwing reality in the garbage while claiming some sort of ideal Marxism (or Leninism) that only exist in their heads. This kind of thinking just makes a socialism revolution impossible and when you propagandize other working people who aren't Marxists with this rhetoric, the logical conclusion that many people take is "Hey, if revolution never worked before, why the hell will it work in the future?". So, basically this ends up being a defeatist discourse that even makes Trots themselves fight a lot and abandon their previous parties to now create a new party with the right line because every other line is Stalinist/degeneration.

Now regarding dogmatism, I think this is a disease that is spread out in the whole Marxist field, and it's hard to fight. People like to cite Marx as if it is some kind of sacred text, that needs to be interpreted literally and everyone that makes a deviation of the perceived "main" interpretation is a revisionist degeneration. It's kinda like every author following Marx, Engels and Lenin never said any contradictory stuff and even if reality does not match theory then it's revisionism. It's not as if Marx himself changed his mind of the revolution starting in Europe vs the rest of the world, given that he had much more experience and actual praxis when he was older, when he could do a better analysis with more data and experience. So this leaves many Marxist orgs with the habit of splitting and denouncing each other over very minor differences in tactics.

The failure of social democracy is about abandoning the maximalist goals and focusing only on immediate changes. This leads to some petty bourgeois tendencies of abandoning mass action in favor of parliamentary politics and abandoning propaganda and agitation towards revolution in favor of focusing only in the next electoral cycle.

However, we who yearn for revolution must never abandon immediate reforms and policies that benefit the working class. This is one of the ways of gathering strength. We should use the momentum of reforms to build our forces.

This is why sometimes I am baffled with some comrades that disregard bourgeois elections entirely. Like it or not, a lot of attention of the workers is given to the bourgeois electoral process, and not only that, parliament has the actual ability to enact policies that will immediately affect workers' lives.

Turkey is playing both sides. It kinda helped Israel and the US to topple Syria, but it also allies with Iran to fight Israeli influence in Syria as well.

It's a fragile cease-fire, of course. Iran still needs to keep their eyes on the enemy. But it is a victory nonetheless because the US was forced to capitulate. I still think Israel will try to destroy this stalemate, though.

Yes, I'd say the US would prefer a balkanized Europe than one big united block. The EU still has a some margin of negotiation regarding US demands. Without the EU, the US would be able to do whatever it pleases.

The surprising thing is the return of the gold standard. I think whether countries should maybe think in a better accounting system for trade, since mining gold has usually many bad effects in people's lives in the global south (where gold is usually mined). While I see with good eyes that we are getting rid of the dollar, I wouldn't like to see gold rushes. This is one the reason Sudan is so fucked up right now, the main assets under dispute are gold and oil, with some powers backing the dictatorship, while other powers are backing the RSF.

Very good analysis. I also share this with you, while good part of the world is criticizing Trump for the war against Iran, the same US and European bourgeoisie wanted it to happen. However, if the train goes off the rails it is easy to just pass the blame on the machinist. And Trump is just that, and old idiot who can take the blame for the failure of imperialist expansionism.

It is still too soon, but I hope it gets there.

I just think it would be beautiful to have a lot of dead young Japanese henchmen, so in the next decade the actual Japanese defense force would be comprised of only seniors and retirees.

All is possible under imperialist law. Resolutions are only binding when the country violating it goes against US interests.

Hi comrade, I don't know much about Indian history, aside the poor history I was told in Western books.

There's this guy who is Pakistani and has some excellent lectures on Marxism and has a book on Pakistani class structure:

https://youtube.com/@taimurrahman-english

I also recommend you seek info on the communist party of India, especially the one that runs Kerala today. Also you should read about the Naxalite struggle, a Maoist movement that is still active today (even though reduced after years of confrontation).

Communist party of India: https://cpim.org/

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