KHLEB
@khleba.bsky.social
He/Him. ADHD, et al. Former evangelical now ELCA. Communist, but politics is something you do, not something you are.
I started reading "What is to be Done" but I couldn't understand it due to all the references to different people and parties and magazines. No context.
March 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I started reading "What is to be Done" but I couldn't understand it due to all the references to different people and parties and magazines. No context.
Think on it comrade.
Peace.
Peace.
March 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Think on it comrade.
Peace.
Peace.
Remove the plank from thine own eye...
March 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Remove the plank from thine own eye...
Can you provide a resource for understanding the dynamics of class consciousness in Russia prior to the revolution? /Genq
March 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Can you provide a resource for understanding the dynamics of class consciousness in Russia prior to the revolution? /Genq
We don't live in an industrial capitalist society. No Communist movement has successfully overthrown a society like ours. Maybe that means something wrt the need for class consciousness. Idk.
March 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We don't live in an industrial capitalist society. No Communist movement has successfully overthrown a society like ours. Maybe that means something wrt the need for class consciousness. Idk.
I think there is somewhat more class consciousness, and it's growing in some groups. But, by and large, the exploited workers are not aware of themselves as such. Or, to say it better, are not able to connect their exploitation to the political-economy.
March 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think there is somewhat more class consciousness, and it's growing in some groups. But, by and large, the exploited workers are not aware of themselves as such. Or, to say it better, are not able to connect their exploitation to the political-economy.
Absolutely agree, those that left who were sympathetic were systematically silenced in the west. I meant people who didn't leave the USSR, but lived there during it. It's important to understand that the USSR was good at some things and very bad at other things. People suffered under the USSR.
March 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Absolutely agree, those that left who were sympathetic were systematically silenced in the west. I meant people who didn't leave the USSR, but lived there during it. It's important to understand that the USSR was good at some things and very bad at other things. People suffered under the USSR.
In addition, it can also be true that the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent neoliberalism has been a bad thing for the majority of former Soviet states. We have to deal with reality, not idealism.
March 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In addition, it can also be true that the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent neoliberalism has been a bad thing for the majority of former Soviet states. We have to deal with reality, not idealism.
You didn't answer my question. I have many dear friends who grew up in the Soviet Union. I myself grew up in the "nice" housing and infrastructure of the Soviet Union. Two things can be true at the same time. The Soviet Union did good things, they also did bad things.
March 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
You didn't answer my question. I have many dear friends who grew up in the Soviet Union. I myself grew up in the "nice" housing and infrastructure of the Soviet Union. Two things can be true at the same time. The Soviet Union did good things, they also did bad things.
How do you suppose we have Communism in the US when there's no, or very little, class consciousness?
March 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
How do you suppose we have Communism in the US when there's no, or very little, class consciousness?
Have you ever talked to anyone who lived in the Soviet Union?
March 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Have you ever talked to anyone who lived in the Soviet Union?
That whips. Where did you get it?
February 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
That whips. Where did you get it?
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Sorry to ask this in a reply, but I'm curious. Being new to the ELCA and only having a Wikipedia familiarity with the LCMS... How do you square the circle of the conservative doctrines of the LCMS with being a leftist, progressive Christian? If you want to DM me, we can talk there and I'll delete.
February 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Sorry to ask this in a reply, but I'm curious. Being new to the ELCA and only having a Wikipedia familiarity with the LCMS... How do you square the circle of the conservative doctrines of the LCMS with being a leftist, progressive Christian? If you want to DM me, we can talk there and I'll delete.
My desires become your desires. We tend to each other like we're tending a garden. Do flowers possess a right to sunlight? Do trees possess a right to be pruned? I don't know. But I want them to be fulfilled, to flourish, grow, and become beautiful.
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My desires become your desires. We tend to each other like we're tending a garden. Do flowers possess a right to sunlight? Do trees possess a right to be pruned? I don't know. But I want them to be fulfilled, to flourish, grow, and become beautiful.
What we own, what we possess, is that which we are responsibile for. What we are responsibile for is how our actions affect others. In the same way I am responsible for you, you are also responsible for me. You own me. I own you. We possess each other.
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What we own, what we possess, is that which we are responsibile for. What we are responsibile for is how our actions affect others. In the same way I am responsible for you, you are also responsible for me. You own me. I own you. We possess each other.
Rights become abstractions. Power defines relationships. The moral dance becomes a march. (In other words, possession becomes *dispossession*)
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Rights become abstractions. Power defines relationships. The moral dance becomes a march. (In other words, possession becomes *dispossession*)
When possession is defined by control, by power, any rights I may possesses exist within myself. Responsibility is dislodged from it's natural place connecting selfs with others.
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
When possession is defined by control, by power, any rights I may possesses exist within myself. Responsibility is dislodged from it's natural place connecting selfs with others.