The way I just posted this with alost the exact same title

I will definitely check Celeste out. I appreciate you taking a look at this for me!

No not at all! I appreciate that I learned about a whole new genre

Wow interesting. I really had no idea about any of this

Regarding points one and two, he should read some Mao regarding the vanguard and it’s role. The vanguard is not separate from the proletariat, it is the most politically advanced section of it. It is only formed through mass struggle and exists only in a dialectical relationship with the masses.

However active the leading group may be, its activity will amount to fruitless effort by a handful of people unless combined with the activity of the masses. On the other hand, if the masses alone are active without a strong leading group to organize their activity properly, such activity cannot be sustained for long, or carried forward in the right direction, or raised to a high level. The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate element and to win over the backward elements. A leading group that is genuinely united and linked with the masses can be formed only gradually in the process of mass struggle, and not in isolation from it.

In all the practical work of our Party, all correct leadership is necessarily “from the masses, to the masses”. This means: take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.

ASMR, despite plenty not “getting it”, is a legitimate modern artform

Look, I’m not saying you’re wrong necessarily, but uh I would need some more explanation about this. Would you say that say a mukbang video is also a legitimate modern artform or is ASMR somehow qualitatively different from other modern slop content?

It’s like a retirement home for millennial liberals

A miserable pile of secrets

I have previously done a little personal investigation into dronerights and its many alts and come to the conclusion that it is not a troll, but a true, first-class internet weirdo. It is not capable of doing what you’re talking about. It would be going on about Soulism and goddess gender and shit at every opportunity

My original sentiment was that not everybody is the leader of the revolution, not even most people, not even many people, but everybody is still a revolutionary.

I don’t know what you’re trying to say here. Outside the context of an actual mass movement for a revolution, this isn’t the case. Most people are not revolutionaries, and if they were they’d likely be in the vanguard.

When left libertarians argue that communism is authoritarian do you argue that it’s not and that it’s actually democratic and blah blah blah or do you say yes, authority is required to maintain a socialist state in the face of reaction?

I certainly don’t adopt their childish notions of “authoritarianism,” a term popularized by the CIA to conflate communist and fascist governments. I don’t say “uhh actually authoritarianism is based ”

Socialist states are definitionally more democratic than a bourgeois state because the government represents the interests of the proletariat rather than the tiny fraction of the ownership class. Democracy is not bad or unsocialist. Bourgeois democracy is bad because it is not, in fact, democratic. Authority can be effectively wielded to crush reaction by the democratic, socialist state. The USSR was democratic. Cuba is democratic. China is democratic.

Eyyyyyyyy

The first among equals as it were.

Wow its literally like Animal Farm 1984

artists and ditch diggers are equally important in a socialist society but for some reason everyone wants to be artists.

Literal anticommunist talking point, to wit:

What are you talking about, man? You seem to be thinking that a vanguard party is a bunch of pointy head intellectuals pushing up their glasses. It’s just the people who are politically aware and actively engaging in organized class struggle. Do you think a ditch digger cannot join or would not be welcomed into a vanguard party?

Read some Mao and free your mind from anticommunist State Department talking points

What’s your Elo

That is so cool.

The vanguard is the proletariat. They’re not separate from the masses, but rather the most politically advanced and organized section of it

We’re all liberals here, so no worries

The important thing is to engage in a continual process of learning and self-education, so that you can engage in correct practice. Liberals don’t have to do this because a. we’re constantly bathed in propaganda that disseminates their worldview and b. they don’t want to change the world in any meaningful way. You can pick up a lot by just hanging out with other leftists here and listening and chatting, but eventually you will want to read theory to better understand why they think the the things they do. Better yet, join an org irl, engage in political education through them and put it into practice.

At the end of the day, leftism isn’t something you are, it’s something you do.

It’s that I need the files available locally across multiple devices, synced through the cloud. Ideally automatically, but I’d take a manual sync