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Read or listen to Allen Carr - how to stop smoking. There’s an audiobook on torrents.

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I’m told heated electric carpets are dope, but they aren’t common where I live so I’ve never tried one out.

lemmy.world (and blahaj.zone) blocks the communist instances, yet they aren’t blocked by us. So really you’re only going to get a censored and anti-communist perspective from those instances.

Look at where H&M or IKEA have most of their factories. Super-exploited wage workers in the global south are funding (via a tax on imports of products they produced) the nordic welfare states.

I suggest reading John Smith - Imperialism in the 21st century for more on this.

The nordic model is not sustainable, and the same thing is currently happening to it (privatization and gutting) as happened to the US after FDR’s new deal.

Not to mention the fact that welfare in these nordic states are mostly funded off the backs of workers in the global south, as taxes on imports from products produced by those poorly paid southern labor. Take a look at where most of the factories for H&M or Ikea are located for example.

As long as we leave capitalists in power, this exploitation will only continue to increase.

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.

Those “western countries” you’re referring to, are not democracies, its more accurate to call them capitalist dictatorships.

Capitalists stand above and control the political system, stack candidates to those who’ve proven themselves to be good little capitalists puppets, and own the organs of media and limit public discussion to pro-capitalist talking points.

True leftists reject violence in all forms. It is coercion. It is evil. End of story.

Anyone on here advocating for violence deaerves to be labeled for what they are: part of the problem with the world today.

There’s no need to “one-true-leftist” us here, especially since the major branches of leftism (Marxism and most branches of Anarchism), are all pretty much agreed that pacifism doesn’t work, and is a strategy promoted by capitalists and petit-bourgeois idealists to quell dissent. A ruling class has never given up their power or wealth without violence or the threat of violence. Good article on this:

Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

The fact that you think communists advocate for violence for its own sake (because you think we’re all bloodthirsty or something), tells us you have no idea what communists views are.

This is an opportunity for you to learn from others, not close your ears because you’ve been inundated with a lifetime of anti-communist propaganda.

We should also be wary here tho, MLK did advocate for pacifism for all but the last few months of his life, and he received many a well-deserved roasting from revolutionaries like Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture.

Everyone should especially listen to Malcolm X - Message to the grassroots for a thorough critique of King’s nonviolent advocacy, and him being a sellout to petty-bourgeois white liberals for most of his career.

This is gone over in the most basic Marxist works, especially Engels - socialism utopian and scientific, and Lenin’s state and revolution. Here’s a good overview of it.

This is historically completely false. I challenge you to find a single historical case where a ruling class has given up their power and wealth without violence or the threat of violence.

Meanwhile I recommend you read the links we’ve given you.

What about self-defense?

Is a person defending themselves from an attacker, morally wrong for using violence? And if you concede that it isn’t, then what about workers banding together to defend themselves from the injustices of enforced poverty, starvation, homelessness, and war?

Edit: Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them

Here’s an excellent overview on why pacifism doesn’t work, and has never worked.

Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

Waze is unfortunately owned by google for many years now.

Japanese teas are my jam lately: oolong, hojicha, genmaicha, matcha.

imdb or rottentomatoes sorted by user, not critic, ratings. Also ignore all ratings past ~2015, as they are gamed.

Is there any way to actually see those articles? All that’s given is an abstract, and the articles don’t appear to be linked.