The widening trade imbalance with Africa stems from surging exports of Chinese-made batteries, solar panels, electric vehicles and industrial equipment.

Nice, those are the types of imports we like to see in developing countries.

Definitely reach back out. I think everyone in the party acknowledges this issue in our recruiting - we get more people applying than we can handle, and it inevitably leads to people slipping through the cracks. We’ve expanded a lot of our recruitment systems and things have gotten much better, but it’s still got a ways to go.

It helps for the recruit to be proactive. The best thing you can do is show up to an event and talk to people in person.

what a fool I’ve been

huh, have all my linkies been all fucked up?

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml thanks for the summon

Everything he said in his comment is correct, so I’ll just build from there.

If you’re a self-identified anarchist, then your onboarding conversations will involve a lot of discussion about the difference between your positions and the party’s. You’re not going to be brought in as a member if you have deep, fundamental disagreements with our program, so you should read it and see how you feel. More than your take on China or the USSR, they’re going to want to know about your views on how to build a revolution and what sort of organization is appropriate for that. They’re far less concerned about your ideas than your willingness to operate as a party cadre per the party’s expectations.

It’s a different approach than the anarchist style of organizing. The focus is on training, education, discipline, and building the revolutionary vanguard party, which we see as a necessary weapon in the class war. You will be given specific roles and responsibilities, schedules, expectations, and will occasionally just need to follow orders. Though I don’t want to overemphasize that. It’s still an organization made of people who want to abolish all oppression and who take human dignity and liberation as their primary task, and everyone in the party has a lot of agency in what and how they want to do it.

I have seen two anarchists join my branch and both were great additions. One has been in for almost two years now and speaks in glowing terms about their work. They definitely don’t identify as an anarchist anymore. The other was in for a few months and did great, but her whole social circle was the local anarchist scene and they threatened to cut her out of their lives for joining a “tankie cult”, so she left due to external pressure. We’re still on good terms with her and she helps with events semi-regularly.

Really, you just gotta talk to some party members. Apply to join and you’ll start that conversation.

I don’t know what FRSO’s onboarding is like, but ’s is pretty thorough. It’ll take a month at least before you get formally brought into the party. That would be as a candidate member, which is a period of training and education that lasts about a year until you’re a full member. The recruitment situation in various branches is different based on their particular needs, so it may be they accelerate you through or you go through a bit of a waiting period because they have tons of people to onboard and need to vet everyone appropriately.

I’d recommend joining the PSL Action Network in the meantime, which a peripheral structure to the party where you support the work, get materials, and are brought in on volunteer opportunites.

can’t wait to see them take stern action

the new update is SO FUCKING GOOD

goooooooooood song

This is actually exactly why

but 10%! india is folding! brics is dead!

Historically accurate

the most famous Clevelander

Got Death Stranding 2 and completed the first couple of missions. The new elements with weather are pretty cool, really looking forward to how weird it’s gonna get. I shy away from big games like that these days because all my time is taken up by work, parenting, and party organizing, but I couldn’t stay away from Kojima and his madness.

I’m looking forward to personally experiencing this

Do universal simulationists believe in an anthropocentric simulation? They really gotta go all the way to reinventing a personal god who cultivates all of creation around human experience while remaining invisible and omniscient, but this time it’s a robot they’re inside of.