The May 4th Movement was a Chinese anti-imperialist and nationalist movement that began on this day in 1919 when more than 4,000 unversity students took to the streets in protest of the Treaty of Versailles. These protests became a national and cultural movement that served as an inspiration for later left-wing movements.
On the afternoon of May 4th, over 4,000 students of Yenching University, Peking University, and other schools marched from many points to gather in front of Tiananmen. They shouted slogans as "struggle for the sovereignty externally, get rid of the national traitors at home", "do away with the Twenty-One Demands", and "don't sign the Versailles Treaty".
The next day, students in Beijing as a whole went on strike and in the larger cities across China. Students, merchants, and workers joined the protests. The demonstrators appealed to the newspapers and sent representatives to carry the word across the country. In Shanghai, a general strike of merchants and workers took place, negatively impacting the economy.
In the years that followed, many Chinese political thinkers turned to leftist politics in the wake of the political upheaval of the May 4th Movement. In 1939, Mao Zedong claimed that the May Fourth Movement was a stage leading toward the fulfillment of the communist revolution.
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It's so very very simple. if you support slavery you should die. Why do people have a problem with this?
I just saw a decent left wing Instagram account wrote an article called "Liberalism is polite Stalinism" and like. Dude. Come on.
Especially when your target is liberals, throwing any communist movement under the bus, especially the soviets, is the same as when gay white men try to appeal to republicans. "Oh we're not like those evil socialists, we're the good ones! Please accept is, please"
Last night a coworker asked me what communism is because she literally had no idea, and I realized that while I can defend communism from various criticisms, I've never had to actually describe the basics from the ground up. Fortunately my commie coworker who is good with words stepped in and gave a good explanation.
I'm so used to butting heads with anti-communists that I forget that some people are still blank slates.
I think the cliche line is a moneyless, stateless, classless society.
My coworker asked me
What does "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" mean?
He's a well off centrist who leans reactionary due to a strong individualist streak so I'm like, uhhhh why are you asking? Don't want to be known as the turbo commie lol. Anyway yeah it was hard to break down cause I find the phrase self-explanatory.
Turns out it was for a political compass placement test.
He got lib-left :picard:
True. I think first I like to talk about worker power + people having power In their workplace and the contradiction between employee and employer.
Yeah this was in the context of her signing her union card, and commie coworker celebrating by showing off his hamsick tattoo. She asked what it was, he said "communism symbol" and she asked "what's communism?"
We basically said "Yo what if the people who actually worked at a job were in charge instead of the bosses, and banks and rental companies couldn't hoard all the housing and making it so damn expensive?"
We work in homeless services and she is trying to buy a house right now, so I hit with the personal touch. I don't think it was an effective explanation, but she signed the card so hey.
I think Marx one-line summed it up as the abolishment of private property
One extremely minor part of car culture that I hate is just how boring they all look, its inherently kinda depressing to me to pass near a big road and every car is just a featureless curved blob in some metallic or black color, or if you're lucky its like metallic red or blue.
It just sucks, I hate that I get genuinely cheered up by seeing interesting looking cars because its such minor bullshit like a white car with a red roof, or it has a couple of stripes on it. When cars were square and looked angular at least that made them interesting to look at, I get why science and physics dictates that they are curved smooth and blobular now, but then you have to make it up with funny color schemes and nice lil touches.
Anything to not feel like every road is just a line of identical bugs going around doing endless dehumanizing work.
This is probably the same reason I like Brutalism particularly much, both square buildings and square cars at least have character, they have texture to the eyes that makes me wanna look at them just a little bit.
Silver blobs on wheels and glass monoliths seem to exist to just slide past my notice and be as inoffensive and universally applicable as possible, it fucking sucks to be near.
I miss having a colorful car but it makes the pigs notice you more:sadness:
If the chatgpt prompts were to use Bethesda style dialogue, then they're getting pretty much what they asked for lol.
I need a break from this site, I hate my job so much and I'm tired of people being stupid and I feel like taking it out on someone here for saying/doing something extremely privileged/spoiled/stupid. I'm not gonna do it, I'm just salty my job is stupid.
This has probably been discussed on the site already, but it’s the first I’ve heard about. Here’s the tweet I saw.
Remember how, during Trump admin, people were all very concerned about minors who had illegally crossed the border, been separated from their families, and then the government didn’t have any system in place to reunite them? The way I remember it is that the story first got media attention in 2018 when it was just a few hundred kids, and by the end of the Trump admin it was 5,000. I remember people were freaked out about it. There was a lot of insinuation by people that these kids were, either as a result of government malice or incompetence (implied to be intentional and malicious incompetence), being handed over to human traffickers. But good old harm reduction Joe was coming to steer the ship back on course.
Anyway, under Biden that number has gone from 5,000 to 85,000.
I feel like I've been hit in the side of the head with a shovel, something in my brain gave with an audible twang when I read that number.
DID YOU KNOW: The 13th amendment still very explicitly allows for slavery to be used against prisoners in the US, which has 22% of the world's imprisoned people, many of whom are disproportionately racial minorities
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