FanonFan [comrade/them, any]

Well you’re also paying the cable company 50-100 for the internet regardless of whether you pirate or stream.

(Or another isp that isn’t a cable company but the comparison is funnier this way)

Search “beginner Russian comprehensible input” and find something that suits you. Tons of free and cheap resources

Gotta read history in tandem with theory. We don’t have time to reinvent the wheel for every movement. Learning about the nitty gritty details of past experiments is one of the first steps towards building our own experiments. I think a lot of the problems on the left stem from consuming abstract theory without understanding the material conditions from which the theory was refined.

I’d recommend reading a few historical class analyses and cross applying the method, rather than the conclusions, to the system you’re examining. All sorts of factors can influence subclasses of people in various directions, and no abstract category is going to be monolithic. Mao’s analysis of the classes in China from like 1926 is succinct and understandable

Who makes up the labor aristocracy, what are their material interests? Are they educated, and in what ways? What is their current economic trajectory, and how is their cultural narrative or mythology shaping their understanding of said trajectory?

I was impressed by how streamlined and intuitive EndeavorOS (with Plasma) is out of the box when I threw it on a friend’s computer. Will probably switch to it myself shortly.

Not gonna read the article right now but this sounds like VC hype shit preying on bourgeois anxieties about undisciplined labor.

I can’t really speak to material conditions in Brazil. And generally I think communist ethics/strategy is much more focused on collective or group action than individual action. Although I think your question isn’t so much about communist strategy as it is about you as a communist owning guns.

All that being said, considering the all-too-common purges and massacres carried out against communists throughout history, I strongly believe any communist who is able to should have access to firearms, either as an individual or as a group.

As far as doing it as a hobby, why not? Guns are cool. Soviet guns are cool. 3D printed guns are cool.