Religion

Idk if he called it a genocide, and a fourth of the video was looking into chinese sources i think

He was positively talking about Greta thunberg and Maureen galindo more recently,

imo I think we need someone like BE as an avant-garde to bully the rest of the imperial-core pseudo-left about their bs and push the discussion more and more left,

I don’t think every communist should be like that but somone has to yell at the libs in disguise

Goy is some kind of symbol of Jewish supremacy, It’s usage reminds the violence of the Israelis toward Palestinians and (far less significantly) toward non jews,

Jewish supremacy does not represent jewishness i am not an antisemite I promise,

but among all supremacies today it is the deadliest and most violent one and introducing goy in our language helps pointing at it’s violence

probably, i just thought that it should be used to talk about the left intellectual industry in the west represented by ppl like richard wolff or zizek, and not just random ppl with ultra leftists tendencies

Just throwing it out there: why not use xmpp? I heard it’s as convenient as matrix + is faster on the server

WDYM THOSE THINGS DON’T WORK ANYMORE?

Also it’s not really thr point i was trying to make, i just found the “western marxist” point in the redpen video shallow and not precise

Fair, tho what other sources are available now to refute parenti’s argument?

Exactly thank you

I feel like ultra+chavinistic usage of the word takes away the precision of the word, This comment explains it more than I can

The argument pissed me off bc he quoted parenti when parenti argues against China or something like that

The logo is so ugly

because their material conditions allows them to lose faith since it’s proletariat also profit from imperialism (tho they are/will be losing it with their current fascist/neo-liberal regimes),

it’s the opium of the people, if there’s no pain to calm, there’s no need for opium

the fact that it turned into that shows that keeping that “moderate islam” is a vulnerability ready to be exploited by the bourgeoisie, most religious ppl would choose religion if they have to choose, and that choice is not imposed by secular revolutions but by religious authority

You’re welcome, tho it’s only based on my observations and my understanding of where I stand, I don’t have actual theory to back it up but I hope I’m making sense 🤓

the point is, i am not talking about islam in practice, in Algiers where i live, most people don’t fully follow the laws, a lot of women don’t wear the hijab, some people drink, some have intimate relationships out of marriage, BUT we all understand and accept that islam (at least suni islam) is one true religion that must be unchanged, tho we compromise or try to excuse, but it’s in vain because it’s written very explicitly that you can’t change or deviate from the text, if you don’t follow the text or you don’t care you’re just an unprincipled muslim (at best),

and not only the practice, but the believes also, if you don’t have faith in god, it’s prophets and messengers, the books, the angels, the day of judgment and the divine decree, you’re not considered to be a muslim, it’s a take it or leave it situation, bending the religion to suite the cultural practices may be a reality, but it’s in direct conflict with what the religion says, and that conflict mostly is resolved by repenting fully and accepting religion and it’s believes as is, and that process is weaponized by the bourgeoisie as a counter-revolutionary tool,

And to the point that it is supposed to be eternally unchanging, that doesn’t sufficiently explain how various denominations and sects emerged throughout history that reinterpreted the doctrine sometimes in quite radically different ways. Or am i wrong?

(currently) most of the muslim population is sunni (like 90% or 80%), the existence of some random cult doesn’t really matter as a contradiction because it’s a really small minority, (tho the shia community is also a major part of the religion but idk about them), we all follow the same version (dictated by Saudi Arabia) no matter the part of the world,

islam through history was struggling for it’s conservation, the fact that it fails or not doesn’t contradicts what it stands for, it’s just an impossible task because everything is in constant movement

what i mean is, keeping faith is a burden, because it will always pull you backward, we can’t reconcile those contradictions so we have to liberate ourselves from them

in my opinion: you can’t be only culturally part of islam,

• the practice of the religion is at it’s core fundamentalist, any deviation from it would make you excluded from the religion (in theory), at best it makes you a bad muslim,

• it is also in it’s core principles conservative, by that i mean it’s goal is to be preserved and never evolve, it’s a structure that aims to never be in movement, contrary to culture which is constantly evolving, because why would god make laws that evolves when he can make perfect divine laws? isn’t he all powerful?

• it’s not a individual believes/faith system but a framework of how a society must work and how those individuals should behave in it, and faith is your engagement and submission to those laws,

• taking example of muslims that are more progressive or that use atheistic methods to explain the world is like the “good landlord” argument, we’re not talking about good or wrong or moderate, religion is a structure that has a function in class society, which (not only) is protecting it,

• as a movement we kinda need ideological purity to achieve our goals down to the philosophical base (i may sound like an ultra but 😛), personally i don’t care about the believes of people in general, i (principally) defend freedom of cult, but you can’t be part of both, you can’t fence-sit because you’d end up excluded from both sides,

i have no theory to back up what i’m saying tho, i’m just trying to echo what i understood, but for me it makes sense, also sorry if i made errors english is not my first language

i’m going through the same process as you do, i’m supposed to be a muslim and i live in a muslim majority country, but i don’t think i’ll be keeping my faith any longer. there’s a lot to say against islam that is valid. what helps me is to try understand the context in which islam came to be, and the context of why laws are the way they are, basically try to look at it through a materialist lens

• An init system (systemd, etc.): Starts everything needed to run the computer, including the kernel

this is incorrect, the bootloader starts the kernel, then the kernel starts the init system (after mounting the filesystem and other stuff) 🤓