The problem has been clear for over a century now.

Exactly, a relevant passage from This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong

Oh yeah, GRIS was fantastic as well. I really love their art direction in both games.

It also was a response to mass protests and strikes that militant labor movement was able to organize.

I very much agree, we know why it’s happening, but it’s still astounding to see just how effective the brainwashing is.

One thing that’s really important to accept that this is going to be a long process that will take years to show serious results. This is why having a vanguard is so important. Ad hoc movements don’t have lasting power, as has been demonstrated many times in recent years. We saw this with Occupy, George Floyd protests, and so on. People come together, they riot for a few weeks, then everybody goes home cause at the end of the day they got bills to pay and they need food to eat. This is a dead end strategy for achieving any meaningful change.

What’s necessary is building class consciousness and worker organization, and that’s a slow and grinding process. People need to internalize new ideas and to have a shared vision of what they’re trying to accomplish collectively over a long period. There will be times to protests, there will be times to engage politically within the system, times to do strikes, and so on. All of that has to be organized and coordinated across large parts of the country to be effective.

I highly recommend reading up on MAS in Bolivia as it’s one of the more recent examples of such a movement being built, and I think a lot of the lessons are directly transferable to the US.

Basically the left has to organize at grassroots level, by talking to friends and neighbors, organizing mutual aid, and so on. This is basically what ML vanguard approach is all about. People set up chapters in their area where they combine mutual aid with sound political education. No meaningful change is going to come from within the system itself.

There are plenty of books and articles discussing these things. This comment points to an excellent one you can read https://lemmy.ml/post/24336378/15865218

It’s not like information from before the internet is not accessible either. You can easily search for old news papers, and so on. This is a topic that’s pretty thoroughly documented.

There’s a Lenin quote that says that there are decades when nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen. These things aren’t linear. The contradictions can build for a long time, and it can look like the system is stable and even inevitable, then the collapse comes seemingly all at once. The US is very much in the stages of the empire where things are starting to unravel now, and I think we are absolutely entering the weeks when decades happen stages.

There’s actually surprisingly decent analysis from capitalist perspective on this by Ray Dalio in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail. He identifies a lot of the trends that the US empire in its current state shares with past empires when they started entering a period of collapse.

Thing is that the US is not all powerful. There are already severe economic problems, and engaging in military action all over the world will only make things worse. And that will translate into further domestic unrest in the US.

plenty https://thoughtcatalog.com/january-nelson/2019/09/30-conspiracy-theories-that-might-sound-crazy-but-are-100-true/

That’s also becoming more difficult now due to economic alternatives that BRICS provides. The common approach US takes is to use sanctions as a form of siege warfare first, then try to do some form of regime change on that basis. However, if countries are able to trade outside the US system that whole scheme falls apart. This is the major reason for the whole Pink tide in Latin America now. A lot of the countries are able to break away from the US because they can lean on China economically.

that was a direct response to US exports, China telling the US that two can play this game and what China produces is more essential

Lemmy doesn’t need to “take off” or compete with Reddit to succeed. Growth for the sake of growth holds little inherent value. Unlike commercial platforms reliant on VC funding to survive, Lemmy thrives on sustainability. What really matters is that there are enough developers to maintain the platform, people to host the server, and users to create content. With these elements in place, Lemmy can continue indefinitely without the need for explosive growth.

In fact, rapid growth could do more harm than good. A sudden influx of users often brings toxic behaviors, especially those migrating from platforms like Reddit. When new users trickle in slowly, they adapt to the existing norms and culture of the community. But when a horde arrives, they risk overwhelming and reshaping the community in ways that trample over its core values. A slow, steady stream of users allows for organic integration, preserving the essence of what makes Lemmy pleasant.

Unlike commercial platforms, open-source projects don’t rely on profit motives to survive. They’re driven by people who directly benefit from their work and are passionate about their vision. When disagreements arise, projects can be forked, allowing different groups to take them in new directions. Even if a project is abandoned, it can be revived by a new team as long as there’s a dedicated community. This flexibility and resilience make open source inherently more sustainable than commercial platforms, which can vanish overnight if funding dries up.

The Fediverse, and Lemmy within it, only needs a large enough user base to remain self-sustaining. I’d argue that it’s already well past that threshold. There’s no rush to grow rapidly. Steady progress ensures the community retains its identity and values, while the open-source nature of the platform guarantees its longevity. Lemmy isn’t just another platform; it’s a sustainable, adaptable ecosystem built to endure. I’m willing to bet that Lemmy will still be around long after Reddit crumbles to dust.

I use Mastodon and Pixelfed

I think he’s referring to this one http://marxengels.public-archive.net/en/ME1179en.html

I haven’t thought of that, but that’s actually a neat idea. You’re right that Lemmy format works best for two people having a discussion, and it becomes messy to track larger conversations with more people. What often ends up happening is that the person who made the original top level comment ends up having many separate conversations with different people.

I haven’t actually seen a good way to represent discussions between a group of people now that I think of it. Having watch functionality helps you know when replies show up, but it would be neat if different people replying could also be aware of what they’re all saying.

Yeah, I’ve run into that too. Not really sure what’s causing that. Might be worth opening an issue to see if the author might have some insights.

I prefer my interactions with other human beings to be deeper and more meaningful than what the format offers.

I find microblogging format isn’t really great for having any sort of meaningful discussion. Mastodon is good for posting news or memes, but that’s about it. Lemmy format allows having an actual dialogue, and that makes it a lot more engaging.