While this is the wrong mega I just wanted to congratulate you. I had similar experiences to you and it took me time and effort working towards gaining a sense of self.

Like many folks mentioned there’s plenty of work to be done in making a party function.

You could help your financial departments with record keeping, your tech departments with nerd shit like updating and maintaining websites, your arts and propaganda department with drawing cool shit, your history/research/archivist department digitize old shit or organize documents, hell even just volunteering to be the dweeb that helps keep all the social media stuff posted up-to-date is important work.

People put all the glory on field work but forget that without a support network to make sure they’re well-equipped to do the work they’d be hella nerfed from the get-go. Always remember that any form of work no matter how little it seems to be is always necessary in some way shape or form to the overall movement and whatever contribution you can make no matter how small is always appreciated.

Just for clarification for anyone that don’t know, ups corporate use “layed off” not in the sense of firing people permanently but as a “There’s not enough work for the current number of people today, so employees at whatever level of seniority chosen to the bottom of the seniority list are to not come to work today.”

Ups fired a bunch of management and contractors but can not fire union employees without cause, leading to the management tactic of ‘lay offs’. A short-sighted tactic that they make leaving them constantly one step behind the changing levels of workflow where they cut too hard during low periods then struggle to replenish during the inevitable high periods.

Because that would be uncivil and make us as bad as Trump.

But don’t worry we’ll get him on treason charges this time!

I believe I do agree. A more balanced and all-encompassing perception of the working class is needed. It would be one thing if you had a balanced perception and decided to focus on sections for tactical reasons as a part of some plan or another. But it feels like folks are eagerly wearing horse blinders and outright proud to miss the forest for a few trees.

I can only hope recruiting and retaining more diversity can help balance out the internal culture of the movement among the brits

Palestine has every right to defend itself and any vote for the American president is an endorsement of genocide

But you know, every time I say that homeowners should indeed face jailtime for shooting a fleeting burglar in the back I face the same people with the same arguments

Homeowners who murder people should be thrown in jail.

Pedophiles should be thrown in jail.

Very easy and simple to say.

I don’t understand how you gotta keep running defense for pedophiles.

Blood on your hands

Do you endorse genocide?

It’s wild that one of the women I met had the same thing to say as you about the English side of the movement, we even shared a good laugh over calling it a bit too much of a hooliganish boys club at times. Said that the gap between gender representation heavily unbalances the movement and isolates the movement from a whole wide swath of the working class.

I was screaming internally when she said that.

Yeah I was just meeting some of the more known members of the British communist movement that had ties with Galloway’s group and I’m surprised by how much ideologically alike we are and get along famously while discussing shit like stalin-era green policies to offset their rapid industrialization, dunking on the French, and even talking about the urgent need to reform the agricultural industry to end animal cruelty while ensuring the people have a quality balanced and healthy diet, etc.

But when it comes to discussing Trans issues it’s like a damn line in the sand where they become indistinguishable from the hogs. Like thankfully they had tact to stay silent on it when my Trans comrades were around and talk about things we all hold in common but whenever a conversation would lead to lgbtq+ issues the switch would flip and I’d have to spend a decent chunk of time trying to get the conversation away from the topic.

It was pretty frustrating having folks you agree with on an overwhelming number of topics but have one of them where there’s a clear break of differences that you’d know would be irreconcilable if pressed.

I don’t really envy you folks over the pond with your divided communist movement. But I’d honestly say the same thing about us Yankees if I was in your shoes lmao.

Nazis have been fleeing to Ukraine for the past decade, the media’s only now just catching up to how many damn rats built their nests there.

I’d give you a hug if you were in my neck of the woods.

There’s been border skirmishes between the militaries where soldiers engaged to hand-to-hand combat over land claims, so there’s been historical animosity for a decent while.

So I got lucky and talked to the Korean folks today and asked them about mainly the first question since that was mainly all the time we had.

So they more or less said that Park Chung Hee and the successor puppets until recently have abused the pain and the innocence of the Korean people by exploiting the still bandaged wounds caused by the brother war to urge on the rapid industrialization and complete transformation of society into a strong manufacturing hub but because it was a capitalist interpretation of 5 year plans the economic capacity of ROK was publicly traded on the international stock market and the economic miracle that transformed them from a bombed out colonized peasant kingdom into the newest rising star of the east a la the '97-'98 financial crisis that crippled the country to the point the government begged the people to patriotically give their gold jewelery to the Korean financial system. They also more or less said that the only reason why the ROK overtook the DPRK was primarily because the DPRK built their industrial capacity off of Soviet oil and had their legs swept from under them by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the oil spigot getting shut off leading to the crippling of their industrial and agricultural production which also was heavily exasperated by the famine caused by the foul weather at the time. Whereas the ROK industrial capacity is completely plugged into the global market system allowing full access to needed commodities to fuel their production in addition to receiving some funds from the u.s to grease the wheels as well.

So I didn’t get to talk with Furr or the Korean comrades in regards to your questions as the former was rather enthusiastically discussing his recent discoveries he made in his most recent dive into the Soviet archives in regards to the NKVD section regarding the military trials, some german communist double-agents (in the bad way), and a funny side tangent about how reactionarilly anti-communist the poles are because their national history academic world hate his guts.

The latter I spent time discussing the recent doctors strike wave, their thoughts on the state of affairs on the international stage, and whether the weather in Korea was warming up or not.

Also it’s prof. Furr’s birthday and he was short on time making sure he could make it to dinner with his daughter and her family.

I’ll interpret that as asking them their take on anti-dprk propaganda in the rok

Please don’t push the bottom-trough slop of the internet on poor sweet and kind Main.

Coincidentally that moratorium on mainposting might be lifted pending the change in quality of posting. Which is a low bar as is, but the spirit of main is the point.

Waitaminute…

This shitposting is also in the spirit of mainposting because all posts are mainposts in denial!

I rest my case your honor!

Motion approved and dismissed!

What’s up nerds and losers, I’m meeting Grover Furr and some representatives from the People’s Democracy Party of South Korea, who are progressives and not communists because it’s illegal to be an organized communist party in South Korea, and some other neat people from around the globe tomorrow.

If you got any questions you want me to ask any of them, let me know.