Fair

I don’t disagree about pandering. But pandering is very different from a state presenting itself as communist. Modern russia does not present itself as communist

How is Russia communist in decor? It’s not 1989 anymore

you were banned specifically for calling the genocide in palestine a “feud” and repeating the “both-sides are bad” narrative. you did the same thing with venezuela. it is unacceptable.

if you want to learn, ask questions. read, watch videos, whatever. stop just repeating your comments (what you call your socialist views). it is not helpful.

that xkcd comic about making a new standard to replace the old 14 standards and now having 15 standards.

Yeah i mean I basically agree with you. He identifies as “ecosocialist” and I think he identified as that for quite a long time. He was in Labour’s international department under Corbyn for example (idk if that counts as left of social democrat for you). Ecosocialism as an ideology is kind of weird though because it mostly exists in academic spaces rather than political movements/orgs. Ive seen variations of ecosocialism adopted by MLs and Social Democrats alike. What makes Hickel definitely not left-lib or the classic european social dem is that he was always anti-imperialist.

i think in academic papers it is difficult to be explicit about class struggle because it makes you sound “”“biased”“” but in interviews and his social media presence he has been very open about it

its also really good / really cite-able.

Both are good. The Divide is more on antiimperialism, and Less is more is specifically about the degrowth movement. I would recommend the Divide because its more general and more applicable to struggle i would say.

Hickel has been openly socialist for a long while now. Recently he made a post about fred hampton too.

If it were just an annual show of countries from around the world showing off their culture through song it would kickass

intervision is back

A girl can dream

it would be kind of funny if US + EU leave the united nations to escape enforcement lol

i am generally pro a stronger UN. The general assembly overall passes good resolutions. The problem is that the UN has no way to enforce them. That will always be the key issue. US has always played the role of the enforcer. And if the US doesn’t like a resolution, they can just ignore it. What is the UN / the world going to do then?

bring leftcommunism to venezuela

Can you stop with fantasizing about actual socialist states being leftcom. It’s gross.

If you want a reading list, here is the best one you’ll find https://hexbear.net/post/3881322

for what its worth, the PSL people that i’ve met have been the friendliest and most approacheable people i’ve had the chance to talk to in the US!

i dont disagree with you. everything has an immediate impact on peoples lives. the question to me is more of organisational capacity. does it make sense to support every DSA member / progressive democrat? or should more resources be spent building up the grassroots base of the party? Obviously both is ideal, but in organising you have to make choices. And I know that conditions in the US are what they are, but I am very against a conciliatory stance with the dems and more for running as an opposition party.

i am not going to continue with this conversation because you have not actually engaged with anyone’s good faith comments. you have only been reiterating over and over again your positions. me and other commenters have asked you questions not because we don’t understand what de leonism is, but because we want you to question your beliefs.

to come back to the original question of your post, the reason why nobody on this website is de leonist is because it is not a practical ideology and does not have relation to real life organising. All actually existing socialists states come from the marxist-leninist tradition. I will also give credit to anarchists who have been able to organise on a local/regional level, even though I disagree with the potential scalability.

This is why one of the first things I ever replied to you was to join any socialist (or even better, communist) organisation if you want to improve your understanding of socialist practice, and then you can form an opinion based on that. not based on a random collection of wikipedia articles.

i hope i have been clear enough

criticizing without an alternative just feels so defeatist

it is only true if your scope is limited to the mayoral election. there are plenty of things to do in other elections, and also outside elections.