Is propaganda and censorship ever justified?
Perhaps when you're in an existential war for your society's existence. Otherwise no.
sure, why not
>>1870855
>tfw all your friends die before you
Can /leftypol/ explain to me why Maoism was so popular among communists living in the West? Isn't Mao the poster child of communist incompetence?
I can understand being attracted to Marxism in the abstract sense but why is Maoism of all aborted attempts at socialism/communism still a thing?
>Can /leftypol/ explain to me why Maoism was so popular among communists living in the West?
I doubt they could but you can still go and ask them over at >>>/pol/
This is /his/, friend.
>>1870694
It is? Maoism is more of a 3rd world ideology
>>1870694
It's because simply saying you're communist means you only care about "the international struggle", but Maoism implies that, unlike regular communists, you care about Africa and South America.
Basically, they want to be communist and be cucked by black people instead of one or the other.
>It has been claimed (based on paleoclimatic assumptions) that chickens were domesticated in Southern China in 6000 BC.[31] However, according to a recent study,[32] it is unclear whether those birds were the ancestors of chickens today. Instead, the origin could be the Harappan culture of the Indus Valley. Eventually, the chicken moved to the Tarim basin of central Asia. The chicken reached Europe (Romania, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine) about 3000 BC.[33] Introduction into Western Europe came far later, about the 1st millennium BC.
How did such a far-reaching trade network between East Asia and Europe exist so long ago and why was chicken the only thing to result from it?
>>1870665
I-if the Chinks weren't eating chickens, what did they eat then?
>>1870822
Long pig
Tin trade routes stretched from Greece all the way to Afghanistan during the bronze age.
The world was a lot less isolated than we think, even when the only form of long range travel was horse/camel.
Is this an accurate depiction of the ancient Sumerians?
>not nordic
>>1870562
Spot on.
even if its not, it looks good enough to pass
What would an independent communist Germany had looked like?
What would happen if Luxemburg and Liebknecht had taken over in 1919, or if Ernst Thalmann had won the 1932 election?
>>1870550
>independent communist Germany
You mean a soviet satellite state?
>>1870563
>implying Lenin's plan wasn't to just follow whatever the Germans were doing because they were way more industrialized and developed
>>1870563
Luxemburg really fucking hated leninism tho
Imagine I get transported right now to 1950 in America. I'm a 24 year old male.
Will I find it a paradise or a dump?
I saw Catch me if you can on tv once and it seemed like the plot was an excuse to relive 50s nostalgia where every job was a source of pride. Did this have any truth to it?
>Will I find it a paradise or a dump?
Depends, are you a black man or white?
>>1870389
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it was better regardless if you were white or black. it was good if you were white for obvious reasons and it was good if you were black as well as prior to desegregation blacks actually had functioning communities.
ITT People who did nothing wrong
Second for Stalin
>>1870262
>there were actually people who fought against Jesus' half brother
Umm, are you crazy? He killed 60 million people. He represents tyranny, hunger, death. He was anti-freedom.
Was he the first and last philosopher king?
>>1870151
Julian the Apostate.
>>1870151
>falling for the philosopher king meme
I bet you play your galactic civilization in Stellaris as a scientific directorate. Fucking tool.
>>1870151
I declare war, therefor I am .... relevant
CGP Grey has released a video explaining how one or many goes about ruling a nation.
Pretty interesting. What do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
>>1870116
>What do you think?
Machiavelli cliff notes
>>1870116
>everyone living under a dictator is a peasant
Big cringes.
All celebrities should be required to make a video like this where they try to explain how the world works, so that people can see how retarded they really are and stop listening to them for advice.
Do Asians perceive God(s) as a being of the white race?
>>1870074
sure, why not
Don't flatter yourself, roundeye
>>1870074
the closest conception to god is 'heaven' but its not subjective or supposed to have human characteristic like christian god does, its more of a concept or state of being
What is your favorite government structure (specified to a single country ie. Roman Republic, French absolutist Monarch) in history and what destroyed it.
Roman Empire.
Because I think that was the apogee of the western civilization.
>>1870042
>what destroyed it
The corruption
>>1870049
Yeah in general at its most basic level corruption really did kill it, but it's strange cause the whole system was based on corruption.
How should we celebrate Agincourt Day tomorrow?
>>1869883
>celebrating a battle in a war you lost
What are you, Mexican?
That's Cinco De Mayo tier
>>1869883
Drop a bow in the mud, pick up a mallet, and hit each other with said mallets.
>>1869883
saint crispin's day*
honor the perfidious albion men, for they are great in plundering and cause of suffering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM
Is it possible to be intelligent without being nihilistic and apathetic?
Isn't nihilism and apathy the highest pinnacle of philosophical enlightenment?
If a philosopher claims not to have these traits, I have to question his level of wisdom.
>Is it possible to be intelligent without being nihilistic and apathetic?
You could be a cripple.
It's basically the same as people with a nihilistic or apathetic view on life.
>>1869870
Yes.
Infact most smart people tend to have goal pertaining to helping humanity as a whole.
It should also be noted that the reason a lot of scientists what to do what they do is because they always wanted to help people.
>>1869870
Also you sound like an edgy tard if you honestly believe people can't be smart if they aren't nihilistic assholes
>They weren't ready for independence
When and under what circumstances would have been the right time and method of leaving Africa? The Rhodesia model?
>>1869862
Building some basic infrastructure and 20 years of compulsory schooling.
>>1869862
Leaving Africa and home rule is a meme. Governments, and by extension nations, by their very existence enter into competition with other nations and governments.
This competition states that the particular government is better at ruling a particular area of land than any other government.
Home rule is nothing more than the rule of that nations/groups elites to the exclusion of competition. It is not something they're entitled to because their very existence presupposes competition.
When would they have been ready? When they could prove they were in every way superior to the government they replaced. Instead they simply rode the tidal wave caused by two world wars. Winning the venue of popular short sighted domestic sentiment.
>>1869862
>Rhodesia Model
>Brits press NIMBAR, want Home Rule
>White Colonists say no and declare independence
>Brits don't want to actually commit to anything so they just slap on a few sanctions
>Eventually whites, while surviving the embargo, get worn down by the guerilla war
>Have an internal settlement which the brits don't recognize
>Eventually just cave and let the Brits hold elections, in which Mugabe wins mostly because ZANU-PF had been intimidating voters en masse
>Brits pat themselves on the back for a good job well done and then wait as Mugabe immediately genocides the ndebele, then drives out the whites, starves the former breadbasket of africa and the curency plummets to weimar levels of hyperinflation
GREAT MODEL CLAP CLAP
I'm a moral nihilist and I invite you to deb8 me.
For a long time I've been wondering why certain things are to be considered "good" or "evil" and I came to the conclusion that there is no fucking reason at all. It's completely arbitrary. I can see literally nothing wrong with hurting someone or destroying something. Why is it bad? How do we know that doing bad isn't actually the highest form of doing good? I could construct my own morality which says punching someone in the face is more moral than helping him. Who is to tell me I'm wrong?
So it's ok to punch you?
Someone bigger and stronger than you can tell you you're wrong. Your "morals" mean nothing when you're a lifeless, bloody pulp. Objective morality is power.
>I can see literally nothing wrong with hurting someone or destroying something.
And yet you're not doing this.
Also, you can have meaninglessness with assuming a concept of meaning. Otherwise your 'philosophy' is a bunch of bullshit