Move to lemm.ee

I don’t care. Tax the rich is stupid.

“Make the rich pay” is smarter.

Nobody has actually given an example of “those who actually do have experience in the field”. Nobody is making that argument in good faith. Anyone “with experience in the field” of political matters is part of one or another ideological camp too, and thus either gets entirely dismissed for their bias, or worshipped for it, depending entirely upon which camp is reading the content. Unexpected outsiders to politics(which Einstein certainly was not, it’s just not historically well known to the libs) that are venerated in their fields are fundamentally more persuasive to bystanders who aren’t acting in bad-faith than the people with obvious bias.

I imagine you’re not going to defend this xenophobia.

I don’t see what relevance any of that has. You guys from lemmygrad need to learn from hexbear and learn when not to be self-wreckers when dealing with libs, all this does is function as support for the libs in this thread, of course nobody supports the sinophobic shit, find me a comrade that wasn’t fucking weird about asians at the time - good luck. That doesn’t stop us using them wherever valid.

It’s fine if you included the Einstein quote in there as a note to end on, but it shouldn’t be your argument, since honestly, Einstein’s political views shouldn’t mean more solely on the basis of breakthroughs in physics (despite what Einstein claims).

“Shouldn’t mean more” than what? The shmucks here commenting with their vast amount of knowledge about socialism gained from reddit comment sections? Yes it absolutely should mean more.

There it is. The thought-terminating cliche.

You can’t just say random words frequently said by marxists completely outside their correct context and have them mean anything.

Ok Einstein.

You’re avoiding giving any other examples. Either because you don’t know any, or because you know you can’t offer one that wasn’t a fascist.

“Being illogical is when you consider one of history’s most important users of logic a person that should probably be listened to.”

Once again not really answering my question. Who do you consider a better authority that was living in the period?

If you have no better authority to offer this just amounts to an ideologically motivated dismissal.

The same people shitting on Einstein right now are also the same people that treat media as a political authority. I can’t take it seriously at all.

Name a better authority that was alive in the period who I won’t be able to show worshipped the nazis at some point.

Einstein is a jewish that lived through the Russian revolution and lived in Germany during the rise of Hitler before his escape to the US. As far as period accounts he’s as good as you’re gonna get, and I don’t know about you but I don’t think we’re going to find a more intelligent person alive during that period but if you want to give examples that aren’t nazis or people that said nice things about nazis I’m certainly open to them.

And he was an extremely active leftist politically during the period. You should read his essay, Why Socialism? It’s a good introductory piece for people.

Also something of a smart man.

Page 14 of the 260 page FBI file on him states the following:

Not even Stalin himself is affiliated with so many anarcho-communist international groups to promote this “preliminary condition” of world revolution and ultimate anarchy, as Albert Einstein.

Those files are a fun read, do recommend them. Available on the FBI vault here.

I prefer to believe that the anglos are just conspiracy-brained morons.

Can you give me an example of the ancom flag being raised by revolutionaries that hasn’t involved a coalition between anarchists and communists? I don’t think there’s a single instance of it historically but I’d be really interested in seeing an example if one exists.

When the group is only made up of anarchists, the black flag is raised. The entire symbolic point of the red and black flag is the coalition of the two.

Calling the Spanish revolutionaries “MLs cosplaying as ancoms” is absurd historical revisionism, and really honestly offensive to everyone that fought and lost to the fascists.

It’s the ancom flag and has been used to represent the hand in hand coalition of anarchist and communist forces many many times. You’d enjoy learning about the Sandinistas in Nicaragua they had a cool thing going on, got fucked by the americans though. The CNT also used it in revolutionary Spain which was again the coalition of ML and anarchists.

None of these are “stealing it”. They are anarchists and communists working together.

The flag you use in your profile picture has been used by that ideology many times. Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso or the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua spring to mind.

This is just a heatmap of English speakers.

Cgtn can be pretty alright to be fair. Especially if you want a more dry approach to science news instead of sensationalised shit. It’s much less entertaining though, which I guess is what you should expect from something that isn’t running for the sake of clicks/views.

Are you worried about your rising cost of living, decreasing living standards, wages and the total global catastrophe that is climate change?

Don’t worry about that prole, worry about aliens and tiktok!