Graham Platner, unapologetic Marine Corps veteran

I’ve broht B&R to some folks, and they’ve read it and agreed. There’s a little victory.

When I talk to people (other USians), it seems they care less about the government of their own country, and more about the industries within their country. Such as surveillance, AI, and social media. They don’t care about what the United States used to be because they don’t see it ever coming back soon.

I also have severe social anxiety, and am more bookish than talkative. In this case, I have read lots of theory but struggle to get out and talk to people.

I mean, my opinion is that fossil-fuel companies made the weather this shitty.

Why would a soldier die for this country? Are they stupid?

Haaaah. So hot. Sweating a lot.

I also want a low-skill job, but funnily enof, I am met with countless small businesses in my area, often not hiring. One large business downsized and then laid me off. My family wants me to get a hi-skilled job but I do not think those will last.

Those look like the kind that call themselves “Anti-Antifa”. Living in Portland I picked up a zine showing what symbols fascists use, what they act like, and so on. Usually they’d be tattooed on, presumably from dedication to Hitler’s cause. Yeah this guy looks like he’d show up in the Alt-Right after bombing a pride parade.

I assume it’s an attempt to moralize the American public.

Don’t beat yourself up about it. You made a mistake and then fixed it. Plenty of people in the world have made worse mistakes than you have. If you were aborted, there would be one less Communist in the world, which would be a terrible loss.

I think this text might be relevant: The Armed Forces and the Revolution by V. I. Lenin

Here is also something by S4A that would help (altho a frontend is needed): https://youtu.be/hgMQU47sA1U

About whether the military recruits mostly poor or rich people, I did some digging and found this: https://www.ifn.se/media/4fdbrrus/wp965.pdf

And this: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-u-s-military-became-the-exception-to-americas-wage-stagnation-problem/

The main problem for me is that, for any war, victory isn’t wiping out the enemy entirely, but rather getting them to surrender. This means that the enemy’s troops lose the will to fight. The question for me is almost always “how can I demoralize US troops?”. How can I get them to feel that surrender is the better option?

Americans often ask me whether Russians are not naturally more altruistic than Americans, more fit for communism, they imply. No, it is something quite different. Russians at the time of Revolution were more medieval than Americans, which means “naturally” more petty, unreliable, inefficient, given to bargaining and cheating. Traits of the Asiatic market-place were widespread and occasionally still annoy the visitor. But these traits are disappearing under the fact of joint ownership, which brings identity of individual with community good.

– This Soviet World, by Anna Louise Strong (1936)

When I think of how bad the United States is, I think of how bad Tsarist Russia was, or Hungary. Nations, even at their most evil, are still not static, and upon Socialist revolution will change for the better.

I believe that what the military does, as an institution, is unceasingly evil. Any proper approach to dismantling it, however, must come not from moralization but from a place of dialectics. The bourgeoise as a class is obviously evil; this has been understood ever since they have been understood as a class. The point is how to effectively wage class war toward a revolution.

I don’t want to seem like someone who would just slap a bunch of hefty reading materials to get thru, but it’s getting quite late for me. Here is the section on War in the Marx I.A.. What is missed is The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution by Lenin.

Do not forget that war is the continuation of policy by other means.

Here are some sources on Nationalism that I found:

V. I. Lenin, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination

J. V. Stalin, Marxism and the National Question

Kim Jong-Il, On Having a Correct Understanding of Nationalism

Mao Tse Tung, Quotations from Mao Tse Tung 18. Patriotism and Internationalism

It’s a really tough subject. Even if I don’t want to seem wishy-washy on this whole thing, I am still researching theory to see what would work, because this step will obviously be very important. I was wondering whether it would be easier to start multiple socialist revolutions that the government would have to separately take care of rather than one big one that would be crushed, but looking historically, the massive lands of Tsarist Russia and Imperial China became Communist in conditions similar to the United States, and small separate revolutions are easier for Capitalism to crush that one big revolution that is united. An advisable way to do things is have cells in Cascadia that can hamper the US war effort by a lot of ways. It doesn’t have to be sabotage of supply lines; it can also be by decreasing the morale of soldiers (which is a big weak point, you just show how little their own government truly cares about them, show how they will have no freedom afterwards, how they won’t be able to afford a home, etc.). The sheer privatization of the military could make it more prone to Marxist dialectic, since people making the materials are more prone to the fluctuations of the market, and a workers’ strike could really cripple not just the US economy, but the entire war effort and cause the victory of a Socialist country like Russia, China, or Mexico. A big problem is that separatist movements could forment a toxic kind of nationalism, like in Serbia or Hungary, where there would be class collaboration within these separate nations, say for instance a Cascadian proletariat becoming enamored with a Cascadian bourgeoise, or Texan plt. and bgs., or New England. Then there is the flipside of a De-United States having the bgs. feiting itself instead of the plt., which could allow Communist movements to take advantage. Overall I am just spitballing. I would say that a United States remaining united would make Communist revolution far more difficult both within and without its borders due to its meit, but there are no solutions without struggle and tactics. I have been reading Lenin’s works on Nations over and over again, but if you have any other theory concerning balkanization and nationhood, that would immensely help both me and Jeanne-Paul Marat.

Like, the billionaire should be the grinning one, the one with all the teeth.

Wrong face. I know that Wojaks may be controversial, but at least use them properly

Oh shit that link was wrong. Let me try again: ACC

There is an Anonymous Comrades Collective, altho they are Anarchist-leaning.

Came up with it myself, not to brag. I was using this one printer and I didn’t want to print out too much. It wasn’t that it was easier to read, just that it was easier to print. I also split the pages into four using a setting on the printer that does that.

Really, I’d take influence from some Anarchist zines (yes I know Anarchists are a bit cringe) and how they are short pamphlets, with some graphics, promoting a particular idea. They seem to know printing really well.