North Korea

Today We Celebrate the Time Canada Burned Down the White House

The British and American armies, supplemented by militia and First Nations warriors, pushed back and forth for nearly three years, temporarily trading territory along the Niagara river, and hitting each other at their cores.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/today-we-celebrate-the-time-canada-burned-down-the-white-house-127844144/#hC9PJfFgUOBXZs3y.01

Kazirstan, Greater Soviet Reich, The undominated, and Kim Triumphant

Zulanka in NK wrote:

I don't think it's going to be easy getting the working class in imperialist countries behind a socialist project while being honest about the things we're likely to give up. Some of the people most obsessed with the goods and such you mention aren't actual labor aristocrats, they're those who don't much access to these goods now. Maybe conditions will simply have worsened to the point that this discussion won't be relevant in the near future though.

I've been thinking about this for a long time aswell. I think the key is to show that we don't necessarily have to give up anything, in fact the redistributed wealth will make the average person better off.
What about those things even the "aspirational middle classes" will gain like socialized medicine, housing and education?
True, people are afraid of what they might lose it we clear away the current situation, especially so those who already struggle to keep their heads above water. The less you have the more you stand to lose, relatively speaking. The capitalist schema teaches people to think like that.
I think a part of the revolution should be a "civilian" effort. By that I mean, regardless of whether there is widespread fighting or not, before the revolution is won, even before it starts, we should be trying to organise society along the lines we envision. We should simply ignore the existence of the state, organise a local rubbish collection, run it as a co-op of some sort, don't register it with the government in any way. That sort of thing, but on a bigger scale. We need to be able to offer better material alternatives and I don't think that's too hard.

Kim Triumphant

Dune Cosmos III wrote:

Can I request permission to move into this region...I knew a great woman marxist-feminist many years ago and I want to rekindle our friendship, while at the same time I want to learn more about this region's policies and beliefs? I have seen that many nations which join this region are later on permanently banned...which I don't want of course...so I am requesting explicit permission before moving to this region!

Greetings comrade, yes, you're welcome here. You can see the constitution and welcoming telegram upon your arrival to learn about regional rules.

There are a lot of banned nations as there are a lot of people who believe the bourgeois propaganda about the DPRK and troll here.

Dune Cosmos III, Not Freien, and Kim Triumphant

Venezuela Regional Elections: Chavismo in Triumph, Opposition in Disarray and Media in Denial:
As the President of the Venezuelan Electoral Commission (CNE) read the results from the regional elections that took place on Sunday, October 15, one could feel the agony in the editorial rooms of mainstream media outlets. Chavismo had just won 18 out of 23 governorships, a result that, according to them, could not have happened. International observers praised the electoral process and opposition claims of fraud, while uncritically echoed by the media, do not have a leg to stand on.

https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13456

THE DEFENDER ALLIANCE, Dune Cosmos III, and Kim Triumphant

The undominated wrote:

I've been thinking about this for a long time aswell. I think the key is to show that we don't necessarily have to give up anything, in fact the redistributed wealth will make the average person better off.
What about those things even the "aspirational middle classes" will gain like socialized medicine, housing and education?
True, people are afraid of what they might lose it we clear away the current situation, especially so those who already struggle to keep their heads above water. The less you have the more you stand to lose, relatively speaking. The capitalist schema teaches people to think like that.
I think a part of the revolution should be a "civilian" effort. By that I mean, regardless of whether there is widespread fighting or not, before the revolution is won, even before it starts, we should be trying to organise society along the lines we envision. We should simply ignore the existence of the state, organise a local rubbish collection, run it as a co-op of some sort, don't register it with the government in any way. That sort of thing, but on a bigger scale. We need to be able to offer better material alternatives and I don't think that's too hard.

There are goods that westerners are able to obtain at such low prices as a result of imperialism. This doesn't make the average western consumer bourgeois as some would suggest or change that they too are exploited, but not only labor aristocrats and the bourgeoisie benefit from this arrangement; westerners will lose access either to these goods at such prices or all together in some cases if the generation of superprofits is interrupted. Even among self-described socialists in the west there may be people unwilling to accept this. There's also the possibility of reparations that North American Marxists touched on as well.

I've always been a fan of dual power as a revolutionary tactic. In filling the gaps capitalist states are increasingly failing at workers begin to taste the possibility of a society organized this way. The danger in this however is the potential it becomes an end in itself and only alleviates the suffering of the working class under capitalism rather than ending it.