if neokautskyism was a beer

In the original the other arm was behind the cubicle and I guess this was easier than drawing a whole new arm.

the trick is to spell bourgeois and then add an "ie" to the end.

Funnily enough, the 3 he listed (Red Star, MUG, and Commie Caucus) are the 3 I'd most recommend people check out. Unless you have a strong preference for one of them I'd just join whichever is most active in your area.

One of my favorite parts about 10 days that shook the world was how many close calls Reed had resulting from how a lot of the random soldiers and red guards, many who weren't literate enough to be able to read the sort of ad-hoc press pass he was given, thought some american claiming to be a journalist snooping around places like the winter palace was very sus.

I like what they were trying to do but it gets annoying really fast when you fight more than one enemy at a time. And one could say that the point is that you are are an ordinary commoner and can't fight more than one person at a time without great difficulty but if that's the case then why is the relatively easy solution most of the time to kite them so the AI forces itself to line up and let you take them on one at a time.

Yeah like to me it seems believable that maybe the cia or someone else had something to do with that particular attack, but like if you are going to go through the effort of jacking a plane, why not just ram the plane into it, why go through the extra effort of sending a missile, and then what, paying off witnesses & airtraffic controllers, landing the plane at a blacksite and shooting everyone?

What I recall is that in the south, Russia has 3 big lines of defense. After that, there's very little all the way to the coast. If that's true, and if Ukraine has broken through the first line, then that could be taken to mean they are 1/3rd of the way to making massive gains in the south. For a while their "summer counteroffensive" had been kind of a joke because it wasn't even confronting that first line, but if what some western media is saying is true, then that might no longer be the case.

Of course, without knowing casualties on either side, it's tough to know what "breaking through the first line" even really entails. Like if this was the culmination of months of costly fighting with little gain, then it would not mean the same thing as it would if like idk Russia was taking massive losses trying to hold the line or something.

If herodotus says this ancient battle had a million soldiers then I believe him

I saw the kyiv independent (lol) claim that Ukraine had a good shot of breaking through the other 2 by the end of the year, citing US intelligence. Not saying I trust them but that seems like a bold thing to claim if they aren't even sure themselves Ukraine broke through the first line

Wait so has Ukraine at long last broken through that first defensive line? Seeing more claims of it

Fwiw I only refer them as neokauts because I see a lot of them identify as such on twitter. But yeah I looked up their onboarding school and they make their members read more lenin than they do kautsky. That might be too revisionist for some people here's taste but I think them, red star, and even b&r making up a left-majority steering committee is a good thing.

More likely than before, but like long term; definitely not within the next 2 years. I think this convention was a swing in the direction of people who want a clean/hard break but I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.

I honestly don't know a whole lot about neokauts (I think they are also pro-lenin? Whatever the politics of cosmonaut magazine are) but from what I have seen the organizational strategies they'll push for are much better than that of "berniecrats".

The new elected majority to the NPC (highest body in the org) are of the left/marxist side of the DSA. Now of those you have a lot of neokautskyists and the like but they deserve a little more credit than berniecrats.

Oppenheimer is the constant but-for factor in the lead up to the development of the bomb

do you remember any examples? The sense I got from the movie is the opposite. It is basically suggested every physicist in the world more or less understood the technology at least potential if not on the horizon when the findings were published at the beginning, and many of the scientists seem to have a good guess what they are being recruited for despite it being a top secret project. Also, The USSR getting the bomb is treated as an inevitability prior to it was even known whether espionage occurred. I guess the best counter to this is why do we care about Oppenheimer sad at the destruction he helped unleashed if it was basically soon going to arrive anyway, and the only answer is that because the movie is about him.

I don't remember that specific quote but it was a big government project that not only coordinated a massive amount of resources but also brought a bunch of the world's top scientists to work on it. To call that great man theory seems nitpicky.

especially if the ostensibly great man is presented as uniquely special in their role in a way that no one else could have done, or that their subordinates did not matter except as instruments that carry out the will of the great man.

Yeah I'd say this is decent criteria for whether a history movie can be said to use a great man theory. If you haven't seen the movie there isn't a lot to discuss, but I don't think it implies he was the only one who could have led the manhattan project, and quite contrary to that it's largely about how despite being ostensibly a very popular famous guy that everyone saw as credible on atomic bombs, he was basically powerless to stop it in the face of the overwhelming consensus of the US empire ( and the soviet union to a lesser extent, they build a bomb because we built a bomb so now we have to build a bigger bomb etc.)

great man theory is when you tell the story of a singular impactful historical figure

it does bring it up when iirc the whole it'll save lives compared to a full scale invasion was more of an invention years later than an actual thing the people making the decision said but yeah I don't think the movie actually endorses the position that it was actually necessary.