Random question but does anybody know how the communist party of burma is doing?

I read Thant Myint-Yu’s book and he said that the party, despite being supported by millions at one point, eventually imploded after losing chinese support and a bunch of military positions. Then a bunch of communist army generals started getting into the drug business, and when the party leaders (mostly older left-wing intelectuals) told them to quit it they revolted against the party and went independent, joining ethnic militias and such, so the party fled to china.

But after the coup in 2021 there were news about it reforming? Probably only symbolically I assume, idk if there’s any connection to the old one.

Yeah, the US kinda proves that you can have competitive elections that people inbue a lot of meaning and energy into, and therefore legitimise the system, that nervertheless doesn’t change core aspects of the political economy of the country.

Everyone knows a couple of ways that make it that way (the ammount of money in political campaigns for example), but the challenge is doing that from the left to empower a communist electoral system, and actually make it democratic without allowing it to revert back completly to capitalism.

I’m sure there are already tons of theoretical models of this, I think I’ve even read of a couple based around cooperatives and voting by cooperative or something like that, but until it’s instatiated somewhere or someone with actual power actually intends to do it idk how we’d even judge it

@[email protected], to your reply to me in the last thread about whether the philipino communists wanted to do socdem electoralism.

Turns out I was misremembering, it’s actually the National Democracy maoist thing but applied to the phillippines, and skimming through their theory I can’t envision concretely what regime type they mean by that, just its principles of course.

Still I doubt they believe they have the basis for the kind of one party rule that communist parties used to aspire to, not in a country that already has elections with big turnouts that people wouldn’t want to see disappear

At the risk of sounding liek a lib, that’s probably a better model for what modern revolutions in can actually achieve (for now at least) than proletarian dictatorship. IIRC Philipino communists also have that type of goal.

Which is fine imo, communists just need to come up with a better regime type whose legitimacy doesn’t depend on solely making people’s lives better, cos that won’t always happen, or victory in war/revolution and doesn’t pave the way easily to capitalist restoration or overwhelming political corruption.

Which could just be having a 2 party regime with competitive elections (so people feel like they’re relevantly participating) rather than just 1

Communist unity in Nepal

Some of the main forces of the communist movement have united to create the Nepali Communist Party. The ten parties that have come together are:

1. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre).
2. Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist).
3. Nepal Communist Party.
4. Communist Party of Nepal (Socialist).
5. Nepal Socialist Party.
6. Janasamajbadi Party.
7. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Socialist).
8. Communist Party of Nepal (Communist).
9. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
10. Deshbhakta Samajbadi Morcha.

There was a major rally in Surkhet (Karnali), the Red Fort of Nepal last week. The party’s coordinator, Comrade Prachanda, addressed the people and the party welcomed into its ranks many young people who had been part of the protests just a month or so ago.

Saw someone make the joke that “Nepal now has 21 communist parties instead of 30”

HURRAY!!!

I’m glad people are dunking on E33 because I still want to play that game yet and my hype was WAY TOO HIGH, now I know it’s not literally everyone’s favorite game ever so my expectations are tempered

Is this real? It’s so fucking ugly

They’re good, I like Danny and think he’s pretty reasonable IR guy, though I wish he’d formalize someday what he believes, I think he’s in the marxist school of IR. I also think he’s right on the modern fascism debate, on the side of “No it’s not fascism”.

Derek I can’t put my finger on, he’s eloquent and can sum up world events in a “pro-democracy but not pro-american” way pretty well, what I mean is that if he’s giving a ukraine war updates his info will be alright but he might make an obligatory comment that putin’s bad.

All I need it to do is understand SQL

This seems way to small, like you’re 100% guaranteed to get peepee on your footsies

In those cases it makes sense to have a closer relation between studio and recurring VAs. But that’s still a small number of games, I think most VA work is still one-off with a small percentage of games that get 1 dlc that brings some characters back

Doesn’t seem to be the case here, Samantha Béart just mentioned the disconnect between how players treat them and how the developers do, where VA’s don’t feel like they are part of the team.

Are they? They do line reads in maybe a few afternoons and leave usually no? They contribute, but it doesn’t shock me that players treat them like they were more involved in the game than they actually were because they’re one of the most visible parts, but complaining about treatment from devs I mean…what are we specifically talking about, just seems like interpersonal office politics stuff, most VAs wouldn’t even interact with most developers, probably just writers and however does the voice direction. This just seems like asking for privileges that most devs don’t get (when VAs already get most of the player adoration), or, to be fairer to VAs, maybe be invited for studio events or something if they were a part of the game that’s being celebrated.

But in the case of voiced characters, that’s usually a rather important part of said character.

Yeah I also think it’s important I mean I prefer games to be mostly voiced rather than not, like I don’t think I could go back to social links in persona not being fully voiced like in Reload (and I expect them to be paid for every line), but I mean you can only polish a turd so far with good voice work, if the all the tech shit and gameplay sucks ass no one is going to care about the voice acting, you only care about it if everything below it actually works and VAs have 0 to do with that, they just get added on top at the end, and maybe there’s something to be said about devs not, like, taking VA’s opinions about characters as they are writing them but…idk just feels to hear about voice actor concerns that seem so minor when they are a numerically small part of the industry compared to devs, and the troubles with game development seem to be much more severe on the developer side.

(I’m going to be completely honest and say something to vent while not reading the article. Feel free to reply why I should feel different or if you get what I’m saying)

That’s completely fine. I don’t like celebrities, I’m not sure how much VAs are paid but some times when I hear game VAs vocalize their complaints it reads like concern for not getting celebrity status attached to voicing in video games and not being overpayed to hell like movie actors are. I’m sure they put it in a lot of work, but game dev salaries aren’t all that high compared to standard software developers, and they get crunched to shit too. If voice actors are already being paid fairly, which is an assumption I’m making, I’d much rather the overwhelming profits from video games first to go into getting more devs on board so they can avoid crunch-time and still get the game out.

Also, subjectively I don’t really care that a person sounds like a video game character I like, because 100% of the time I’m more attached to the character in its universe as a written character than their voice, so I haven’t really gotten into any of the meming VAs do with their characters, because to me that’s not the character that’s just a their voice, even though I do have VAs whose voice I recognized and enjoy seeing show up

Tbf the “AMERICA/THE WEST IS COLLAPSING SOON” is the shit we’ve been doing for years.

Wait, why are the originals in chinese clothes? Does it take place in China?

That’s the one, their article on camus was great

Honestly this is fine. Sometimes I just want a quick look up on why something is good or bad. I just did it for why I should dislike Camus, so I read most of a jacobin article, but I would’ve been ok with an llm answer that reads all of jacobin and just tells me how much of a pied-noir he was

because of the suppression of communists there

Or anywhere if you say you straight up want to overthrow the state

I genuinely don’t see what the upsides are for zohran to pressure his comrades to not spread the milquetoast socialist revolution? Like, is he afraid the dem estabilishment will oppose him even more? They likely will anyway