bleepingblorp @ bleepingblorp @lemmygrad.ml

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I can't make guarantees about PSL, though it is safe to assume they have a spook or two.

CPUSA on the other hand, I can 100% promise with 100% certainty they are, or at least have been in very very recent times, heavily infiltrated by US intelligence entities.

In a less enlightened time bleepingblorp was military intelligence and now has a degree in Strategic Studies and Defense Analysis, and many of my professors were active duty intelligence while simultaneously teaching. The CPUSA is used by intelligence as a textbook example of how to disrupt and infiltrate an org, and was feature in some of my course material as such, particularly in my "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency" course.

I've been out of that world for a while now, so depending on how good the CPUSA has been about cleaning out their ranks of the filth and spotting saboteurs, my knowledge may be outdated now. I hope for the sake of other US comrades in there that it is indeed outdated.

Oh don't get me wrong, most ideas are still good to go, like for example the Zine would be excellent for our current situation. However hosted services can become risky if we aren't careful. For instance, hosted email. Imagine, some ML parties decide they want to use Lemmygrad email services to conduct email communications. The Imperial Core decides to increase its defense posture against communist movements and opts to seize the email servers. Now, the Imperial Core has all the identities, communications, and massive amounts of sensitive data regarding plans and uses it for mass arrests, raids, and so on.

One concern would be where these places are hosted. In many cases, yeah sure you're privacy against bourgeois interests can be guaranteed... at least until they order the FBI or other similar Imperial thugs to raid the server farms supporting the infrastructure, both eliminating the service while allowing digital forensics teams to parse the metadata and learn identities.

My biggest desire is for Lemmygrad as a whole to migrate infra to a well established AES state capable of defending itself from cyber attacks and espionage, like China. Already as it stands I am nervous about my current profile here since I know I make privacy mistakes using this profile every day, and it is my current understanding that Lemmygrad is hosted in the Imperial Core.

If I am wrong about this, please correct me.

Vietnam for sure. My dad and step-dad both committed atrocities there, and it would be nice to work for the Vietnamese people and do whatever I can to atone as much as possible.

Obviously what was done can never be undone, and I can't expect nor don't expect my family to be forgiven the crimes they committed. I guess I can say that it would be the most symbolic and meaningful way for me to indicate that it ends with me.

Or do they only teach liberal nonsense?

Yeah, in the West they continue the high school legacy and preach "free market is gooder". That said, some professors won't ding you if you go against the grain and advocate for Marxism or whatever. So read the room and do what you think is best, but if you have to write bourgeoisie bullshit to get a passing mark, well... no one is going to give a fuck about some bullshit you wrote as part of an undergrad paper after the grade is given. In this context do what you have to do to get the paper. Use the energy and willpower you save to do actual communist praxis instead. Luckily many universities have Marxist or Marxist sympathetic orgs you can join. Unless you go to uni where I did (Norwich), then you're fucked in that regard.

There are still valuable things to learn even in liberal institutions though, and you're there to learn things, so spend the time to learn things. As other comrades have advised, explore outside the confines of what the uni hands you as mandatory reading. Find Marxist thinkers in your area of study and read what they had to say about the issues you are exploring. Often, even liberal colleges will ask the right questions, the problem usually lies in the answer they encourage you to arrive to when exploring it.

Also, always consider how the knowledge you gain can be useful for the communist cause. If China and Vietnam can find value in continuing to offer Economics and Political Science degrees, you can too.

Praxis