Manufacturing Consent

A lot of us don't call ourselves anything publicly, because most people don't read Marx nor Lenin nor understand what Marxims-Leninism is.

Do you know what Marxism Leninism is? Maybe that's too complicated, but what is Marxism? How did Lenin apply it? How have others applied it? Where did they succeed, where did they fail, why? How can you apply the lessons yourself?

You seem to believe you're a "real" ML, not like those fake ML's so please explain Dialectical Materialism to me, what it is and how has it been applied in the real world.

Lemme get in your shoes and question how real you are, how about I give you a purity test? Doesn't feel so good does it? Well maybe we should stop doing middle school politics and actually start asking why are things the way they are and how we can make things better. Instead of pointing fingers at each other and yelling CIA spy! KGB agent! Fake Marxist! I'm the one true Marxist! Is Theory bourgeoise decadence? Maybe let's start asking what can we do together to make the world a better place?

Try working on something like opening up a school in your neighborhood or even a learning club where you actually read Marx and your enemies will show up immediately. There's 0 need for purity testing like this, if someone is lacking in knowledge that you're privileged to posses, because you had the time and opportunity to learn, please educate instead. The world is not middle school.

For clarity, geneva_convenience hasn't read Marx nor Lenin but believes China is imperialist, according to Lenin, without actually proving how, purely because they abstained from the UNSC vote on the TRUST plan for Palestine. geneva_convenience blocked me after contextualizing it and proving that, while certainly not what I would have wanted the PRC to do, does not change that they are not an imperialist country.

For geneva_convenience, weak allies are enemies, and imperialism is being insufficiently anti-imperialist. When presented with this, they blocked me and spammed a bunch of unrelated Bad Empanada tweets. The importance of the distinction between weak anti-imperialism and imperialism proper is between working for and hoping for better anti-imperialism in the existing system vs actively needing to dismantle the PRC, which is why I felt it necessary to address in the first place.

Figured this targeted vaguery needed to be addressed, even if geneva can't see it. The only reason I gently reached out in the first place was because they are generally more reasonable, but seems like they were poisoned by Bad Empanada thinking, just taking the most inflammatory stance possible and burning bridges with people over slight disagreements.

This isn't even a "read theory" argument, it's that geneva believes they can dictate who does and doesn't understand Marx and Lenin based on watching Bad Empanada videos and tweets, without doing any reading on their own part or trying to come to a deeper understanding. This is also why geneva started claiming Hexbear is "Transzionist," and that Hexbear defends contrapoints on Israel because she's trans, which is blatantly false: Hexbear is anti-contrapoints and anti-Zionist. This corresponds with geneva_convenience's love for Bad Empanada:

All in all incredibly disappointing to see from someone who usually has decent political instincts, such as not falling for Mossad and CIA propaganda surrounding regime change in Iran. They seem to love to argue and don't block even the most reactionary of people, so the only reason I can think of for blocking me is because they didn't want to confront the idea that they are mistaken about imperialism. The bright side is that I can still interact with their comments, even if they can't see my responses.