Omg China Uncensored. At this point I forgot they exist. Back when the Hong Kong portests broke out I watched their youtube channel on a regular basis and gobbled up everything they spat out. Given all their concern for the Uyghurs, surely they must oppose the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, right? Pretending to care for workers and human rights only until actual war crimes are committed by the war crime professional, the US and its allies. I hate them to the core and the fact that I just didn’t question any of their lies back then.

Looking at their channel rn, it’s incredible how they’re just still going on with the same bs as back then. They’re even pulling the China will collapse any second now, pls believe us regularly.

I don’t agree with ppl saying it’s a waste of time to debate others. Depending on the person ure talking with, it may be very possible that you help them move into the right difection. Or maybe the ppl listening. That’s partially how i got here.

I have a friend who continuously asks questions abt communism, but will then counter my answers with an assumptions of his, but in a friendly, devil’s advocate kinda way. That’s pretty much a debate, I think and so far I could help him understand certain concepts. When I’m outta answers I simply say that I have no clue atm and know that I have to look up that certain topic and learn more abt it. So it’s helpful to myself as well.

While I don’t have anything to recommend for forming better arguments, in my experience, the better you understand a topic the better you are at arguing for it. Very often it’s simply abt not falling for the usually false, misinformed premise ur ‘opponent’ presents u with. I’ve also found that it’s best not to engage people at all who are just looking for a fight. Hope this helped.

There’s a German/Austrian greenwashed alternative called Avocadostore. Might wanna take a look at that. It says it has several requirements if one wants to sell anything on there, regarding ones business’ “climate friendliness” or so. Most stuff on there is on the more expensive side of things as one could imagine and I got no idea abt the quality. Regarding shipping, even to Austria the costs are like 10€ or so. Been a while since I took a look at it… Might be worth checking it out.

Yoo totally! Thx for the suggestion, I’ll make sure to look into him. Any specific work you’d have in mind?

I am a 5th year Animation student, currently working on my group’s and mine second 3d animation short so far. It’s anti-capitalist in its message, but I rly wonder how the storytelling could be different in a marxist direction. Obv we weren’t exactly taught to create communist films (tho we got at least one communist teacher.) Either way, I’ll take anything you can give me o.O

Russia being the bad one in the war with Ukraine. I used to tell my mother, that one can totally be against both Russia and the US, and I just didn’t get how she could talk abt them defending themselves from Nato and so on.

And then I became a dirty lil Commie.

Also the term “Tankie”. I rly thought (due to influencers like NFKRZ) that tankies were stupid ppl who didn’t understand history or so… AND THEN I BECAME A TANKIE - Proudly so.

That’s a rly interesting perspective. I too feel like I can’t remember important stuff from the books I read cuz the information mushes together in the end, but I never thought abt reading another book to counter that.

Imma try that and see if it works lol

Oh, true. I only read Lenin’s “Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism” as of yet. Do you have any specific book recommendations from him?

Damn bro… So many ppl are reading several books at once apparently. I don’t think my brain could manage so much information at once honestly o.O

I’m reading “Blackshirts and Reds” by Parenti. Am on page 119 rn, and I gotta say I still enjoy Parenti’s simpler style of writing as opposed to Marx’. Also I was surprised how Parenti went into detail abt czechoslovakia even. Specifically abt Vaclav Havél’s privatization campaign. Never thought he’d go that direction. I feel like I learned a LOT through this book and I’ll keep recommending it to everyone who hasn’t read it. I think anyone can profit from reading this.

After I’m done with this book, I thought I might pick up Mao’s “On Practice”? I read “Dialectical and Historical Materialism” by Stalin and “How to be a Good Communist” by Liu Shaoqi, so I hope that book might additionally help me understand philosophy more.

Wtf… As it turned out, a small part of my expectations of Wikipedia still remained in me. That little bit has now left me too. These accusations are SO debunkable, you’d think at least someone in their team with some brainmatter existed, who’d be like, ‘Hold up, let’s think this through’ But ok, apparently research is overrated.

BRO I feel exactly the same! This horror is unraveling right in front of our eyes while people in their ignorance are simply siding with the oppressors… I’ve been so frustrated lately with the sheer stupidy of people. Yet I don’t wanna stop debating with them, cuz I feel like it’s our job to try our best to correct and educate those ppl to at least show them that there’s other ways of thinking out there - beyond the propaganda. But I swear, some ppl’s takes have been permanently scarring to listen to, and I’ve been so upset about my lib friends who cannot help themselves but say stupid shit QwQ

Thank you for sharing, fr… This world is sick, but I’m at least glad to know what the antidote is and to have my comrades with whom I will fight for that antidote as long as need be. It’s not much but it fills me with hope.

I agree, what Palestine and Hamas are currently doing are the only actions left to them by their oppressors. After so many atrocities committed by Israel and so much hatred and violence against them, the Palestinians literally are fighting for survival. Thus, I couldn’t, in good conscience, tell them to ‘dial down their violence’ or whatever it is shitlibs want from them.

And thanks for ur comment. Imma think abt meaningful distinctions.

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Well, I kinda get your point… Though in all honesty I couldn’t blame children for being born there. I’d argue there are civilians.

I’m supportive of Hamas’ and Palestine’s fight for liberation though, just to clarify.

Thanks for this; I shall use this knowledge next time I speak to them. Tho honestly I think my energy is better spent elsewhere.

I was talking with two friends yesterday. Apparently they always supported Palestinians, but once they saw Hamas soldiers screaming Allah Ackbar and kidnapping civilian women, they are of the opinion that they’re not better than Israelis. “It’s just two Nazi Germanies fighting against eachother.” Was a banger I heard during that discussion. Another banger: “You don’t see Ukranians murder and kidnap civilians, do you? They are respectful of POW.”

I tried my best arguing; to no avail. Whatever I said, I was countered with smth like, “well i support them too, but this kind of force is totally unjustified”. So in short I failed the argument.

First Thought on YouTube and a german communist newspaper called “Der Funke”

Yeah that’s my concern xD. I’m one year away from graduation so I actually have to think about getting a job. And while I have one job offer, I think at least in my field, jumping from one job to another is pretty normal, so that could potentially be rendered impossible for me in the worst case scenario.

The way I personally thought about posting art is that I’ll keep the message more hidden for the first few years… Tho it also feels bad to limit oneself so much just cuz of some liberals. Not saying that’s the best way to do it, especially cuz I love seeing artworks like these and I’d hate to see them disappear. If there were openly socialist companies or networks that had money and would hire people, ya know that would be a dream come true. Tho it’s prolly impossible.

Either way, good job with the artwork. I love the artstyle and hope to potentially see more!

Yo we got Mario on our side!

Fr though, real nice artwork. What program did u use?

Btw, as a fellow artist I have a question: how do u publish ur art without losing job possibilities? O.o cuz that’s smth I’m worried about. I wanna work on projects and later maybe fully fleshed films that are openly revolutionary, but outing myself as Marxist to all my future employers really strikes me as not the smartest thing to do, considering I want to get jobs firstly.

Sry for this long of a text, I always meant to ask someone but I couldn’t find a comrade who’s also an artist.