I'd rather trust a human to translate sensitive political documents. The website has an English section, but it doesn't look like this entry has been translated. At least, I couldnt find it after searching for "palestine" or "gaza" on the English page and looking for something dated 2024-05-31.

CEO = Stochastic Parrot. Got it.

Just gonna leave some Parenti here...

https://redsails.org/against-psychopolitics/

The companies hawking e-cars have much larger advertising accounts with NYT than those hawking e-bikes.

Ditto. /c/hail_corporate is deleted now. I squatted /c/socialistra during the reddit migration wave -- the original subreddit was never officially a project of the Socialist Rifle Association and had been the source of some grief for the org (and I didn't want to see the same thing happen on Lemmy) -- but I'll leave it to admins to decide its fate.

IIRC, some of these "MAGA communists" were originally contributing to ProleWiki before ProleWiki booted out the patsocs.

It’s better medicine for a ton of things than most pharmaceutical drugs

That's a bold claim commonly made by hucksters of all sorts. It has its documented medical uses, but as others have mentioned, it's no panacea.

The ending was supposed to be even better: the capitalists were all supposed to start bidding against each other for "someone" to build them a house on the new planet, until they realized that there was no one left to build one. Labour is the source of all value and so on and so on...

Correct.

But approximately 40 minutes ago a massive explosion was detected at the Russians' Baikonur launch complex.

"It's cool when we do it. It's a problem when they do it. Fuck 'em."

--Finesse2Tymes

Edit: Whaa? No sound? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Fuck it. See it with sound at my twitter https://twitter.com/aspensmonster/status/1782961136230338804

Meanwhile, BOINC is right there, with far more useful work for your idle GPU to do.

lol, but wouldn't that be grounds for DSA to kick them out? IIRC, the DSA's bylaws forbid anyone that is "operating under the direction of a democratic centralist organization" or something like that.

Y'all aren't federated with lemmy.ml? Well shit then. I'll go with option "knows nothing about Lemmy."

The more I read stuff like this plus the history of real movements I realize why things like DemCent [emphasis added] and other hardline ML things are needed but that’s not a discussion for here

The article itself essentially makes that claim, just in coded language:

These shortcomings are all symptoms of underdevelopment in DSA’s diplomatic work, stemming from a lack of structure, standards, and norms [emphasis added] about how members should conduct themselves when representing the organization to foreign parties and governments, especially those much more developed in their practice of socialism than us.

In an effort to have a generative political conflict out of this situation, and to encourage positive change in how we engage in member-driven diplomatic work, we propose the following guidelines for structuring delegations and the work that follows them in the future as a way to maximize these principles and ensure that our delegations are beneficial for delegates and DSA alike.

Then proceeds to list four things that would be common sense to any "DemCent" organization.

Disregard that tomfoolery. The PSL is absolutely a worthy left-wing org.

My strategic reasoning is that I think it's counterproductive to advocating for an end to the embargo to meet with the head of a state that will credibly be accused of authoritarianism.

Holy shit. It's literally just "muh authoritarianism." And coming out of some of the more powerful caucuses too. This is the best the DSA can muster?

"Deeply unserious people," indeed.

On the other hand, i also think that sometimes this community uses “patsoc” in the same way, as a label that allows us to put someone in a box, associate them with positions they may not even hold and then entirely dismiss them. It reminds me of the way that liberals throw around “tankie”.

Is there an example of someone prominent being called a patsoc erroneously? Because I think MidwesternMarx is certainly deserving of that title. Their main spokesperson, Eddie Smith, consistently defends and aligns with other patsocs like Jackson Hinkle.

We should be careful not to fall into that same trap ourselves of overusing a poorly defined derogatory term that just generalizes and dismisses everyone on the left we don’t agree with

I don't think it is poorly defined. It indicates a right-deviationist strain of political thought that exhibits one or more of (a) revisionism (see Jackson Hinkle claiming that communists don't want to abolish private property), (b) opportunism (in the form of accommodating rather than correcting reactionary view points amongst the proletariat), or (c) chauvinism (the rejection of self-determination for the United States' marginalized communities, such as the indigenous population or the Black Belt).

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Patriotic_socialism

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Jackson_Hinkle

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Midwestern_Marx

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Eddie_Liger_Smith