What Is the Most Influential Marxist-led Organization in the US?

I am going to include all forms of communism, because Marxism is quite a specific type of communism and most people do not know enough about communism to know the differences (even though they often claim to).Believe it or not, there is actually still a U.S.

Communist Party! Thunders founded in 1919 when they split off from the now defunct Socialist Party. They have not endorsed any candidate for president since 1984, when they ran Gus Hall.

Ever heard of him? Me neither, until I googled it. The Communist party has dwindled away since the fall of the Soviet Union.

We have a new Socialist Party as well, founded in 1973. This party ran Mimi Soltysik for president in 2016, and has now endorsed Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate.Soit seems like the Socialist Party USA is more influential, seeing as they are still involved in American politics.

There you have it. A tiny little party no one has heard of, who endorsed a third party candidate few people know anything about, is the most powerful organization in th U.S.

that even gets close to Marxism

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Who is the most handsome villain in movies or comics?

Doctor DoomYes, Doctor Doom.I know, normally his face is disfigured and looks something like this:*Secret Wars #3If he is so handsome, then why does he wear a mask?

Before he became the super-villain we all know and love, Doom was simply a genius. But one day, an experiment went horribly wrong and it blew up in his face. As you can see, it damaged his once-handsome face with a small scar.

In fact, in FF #278 (a retelling of Doomu2019s origin), he was building the mask to cover up his small scar. But being the impatient man he is, he did not wait for the hot mask to cool down before placing it on his face further disfiguring his face by causing permanent burns. How badly he damaged his own face depends on the artist & writer.

His story is rather tragic. One scar, one imperfection that he could not fix led him to be an evil sorcerer and one of the Marvelu2019s greatest super villains.In the comics, Victor von Doom was one of the most handsome characters.

However, that is no longer the case.EDIT:I forgot something. Post Secret Wars Doom actually got his good looks back.

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Who's the better classic rock band (in your opinion), Led Zeppelin or Rush?

For me the answer has to go by awareness. I know a lot of Led Zeppelin songs as led Zeppelin songs.

I know a lot of Rush songs as random songs I heard on the radio without knowing who performed them. Thus to me Led Zeppelin is the better classic rock band. Notice the weakness in my judgment.

Its a judgment of how well a band did publicity that I noticed. Led Zeppelin was famous for doing interviews about how they released albums after the end of their tours. Bands with short term popularity would release an album then do a tour pushing that album.

There isnt actually any difference in timing as its a cycle anyways. The difference is in the interviews! Led Zeppelin depicted themselves sort of like a studio band that sometimes showed up on concert tours.

Im aware that Rush did a lot of songs I recognize. I wonder if I knew their material AS their material I would think they were the better band. But they did interviews for shows and magazines I didnt follow.

Much less of their publicity reached me

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In World War II, in Libya, why were over 500 Allied tanks disabled in first six days of fighting? Was it the tanks themselves or something else that led to this?

Im not sure what you are referring to.

In Operation Compass - the first action in Libya, the Western Desert Force had only 275 tanks in total, Matildas and A9, A10, and A13 Cruisers with a few Mk VI light tanks. In 2 months, they captured over 400 Italian tanks and tankettes, along with 133,000 POWs and 845 guns, for a loss of 500 KIA, 55 MIA, and 1873 WIA. The 7th Armoured Division and 2 regiments (battalions) of armor in the 2d Armoured Division were withdrawn at the end of the campaign for refits, but that was largely due to mechanical breakdown on the armored vehicles of the units, a noted problem with British tanks in the early years of the war due to quality issues in manufacturing.

British casualties were largely among the infantry units involved.By any account, it was a smashing British victory, and OConnor was preparing to advance and seize Tripoli, driving Axis forces from the Continent (Tripoli was held by four understrength, undertrained, and demoralized infantry divisions) when Churchill countered his orders and ordered key units (particularly the 9th Australian Division) to Greece to counter the German invasion of the Balkans, tossing away the chances for a decisive victory in the theater

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In what way could the picosecond right after the Big Bang have been an eternity? What do/don't we know of this part of spacetime?

We make assumptions based on what we can experimentally verify. We only have about 5 billion more years before the sun makes the earth unlivable, based on knowledge of how stars similar to our sun evolve. Could there be other universes expanding into ours from 100 trillion lights years in each direction along a 3-d grid?

No idea, we cant measure anything that far away/long ago. If space is truly infinite, there are things we cant ever know even after 10^googol years.For short times after the Big Bang, we use our model of particles and energy to examine what happened and see if it is consistent with what we observe.

We understand the unification of forces except for gravity in these first moments, and we get to examine the Cosmic Microwave Background for clues. Did an inflationary period take place? Some evidence points in this direction, too, long before the first picosecond.

(The long is predicted to be on the scale of 10^-32 or less seconds.)Maybe someone will come up with a physics equation that explains things at sub-nuclear, atomic, molecular, human, planet, star, galaxy, cluster, super-cluster, universe scales, a Grand Unified Theory.

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Do you think birds are modern day dinosaurs?

Its easy to think birds and dinosaurs are two drastically different kinds if you think dinosaurs look like this:when you should actually have this in mind:Anyway, a degree of similarity based on superficial characteristics of subjective importance is not what is going to define whether a type of animal belongs in X group or not, but descent.We know that Aves is just one the many branches of the tree Dinosauria. And we know it since the 1860s.

* Whether or not they look sauropods is as irrelevant as whether or not bats look like whales. A bat is as much mammalian as a whale is, and birds are as much dinosaurian as sauropods are. They have everything they need to have to be considered dinosaurs.

*There was a five decade period in the 20th century in which most paleontologists thought birds didnt evolve from dinosaurs because they incorrectly assumed dinosaurs didnt have wishbones and couldnt have re-evolved them, even though they *did* have wishbones. Anyway, the Dinosaur Renaissance of 1969 and beyond changed this idea and it is now universally accepted that birds belong in clade Dinosauria

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What would happen if the blockade on Gaza was lifted?

The blockade on Gaza serves a number of political purposes for Israel.

By maintaining some joint operations with Fatah and refusing to even sit with Hamas, Israel keeps the Palestinians divided.The blockade is the equivalent of stirring the hornets nest, it gives Israel a certain legitimacy in its aggression against Gaza in the event it might look like its settling down. It serves to deter too much aggression in the WB, as in Things could always be worse for us, look at Gaza.

It shifts the focus somewhat off the settlements issueIt serves as Israel's example of What will happen if we give Palestinians too much autonomyIt is used as an example of why Israel believes WB settlements are not realy an issue, as in We pulled out of the settlement projects in Gaza and look at whats happened, they fire rockets at us.Finally, it allows Israel a way out of the conflict without giving too much up. ie Annex WB, give the Palestinians there citizenship, retain a Jewish majority while remaining Democratic and just cut Gaza off all together.

Its only a tiny strip anyway, and it back to back packed with angry Arabs

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Did India really conduct a surgical strike on Pakistan?

Sometimes people make mistakes. India has made a blunder.

There is no evidence of a Surgical StrikeIt would need someone without a grey brain to believe.Interestingly the number of dead claimed has grown from 35 to 50, The number of injured to beyond 200 and the number of posts attcked has grown every day ( all these as claimed by the Indian press) from 3 to 7.How would they attack presumably all drunk(?

) terrorists kill 50 but only injure 200 and then escape unscathed fro the most guarded border n eath including DMZ between N and S Korea?This is a blunder by the Indian Govt of BJP party and top echelon of Indian Army though I think neither will never blush and will carry on as usual. Since the Injuns attacked known targets ( they did not go on a search and destroy mission) They can provide co-ordinates of the seven terror camps.

These places can then be visited by independent observers to settle the question once and for all.Injia will not be divulging any secrets by divulging the co-ordinates since thePakistan side already knows them( Assuming that the fake surgical strikes were real)I think these strikes should be re-named Surgical Strike hallucinations.

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Do you support same-sex marriage?

Why?

Having lived in this world long enough, Ive seen a number of problems. Same sex marriage is just not one the problems Ihat I see.

to the people that believe that the purpose of marriage is for a man and woman to come together to create a family, that is an idealized view of the world. There are many broken down families, dead beat dads, worthless women, etc that cause the failure of the family. There needs to be some place for children than an orphanage or a shitty family.

There is adoption and there is foster care. There are lots of good men and women that cant have children that would make good parents. I know several.

The fact that it is two guys or to women, I dont have a problem with it.to the people of the LGQT community that want to be militant and get in my face while I am just walking by. Tap the brakes please.

Im not the man keeping you down. just get along with everyone. That is what my god, the Christian god, wants all of us to do

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Why is Avengers: Infinity War so bad?

In my opinion, the movie was not bad at all. The people who are saying so, I believe, are getting too emotional about it. Trust me, I was ready to throw a fit after the climax.

This movie, as said by many actors in the interviews, was much more than an action-drama. We saw an emotional side to a few characters (Gamora, Vision, Rocket-somewhat). The way they portrayed Drax this time was as if they had enhanced his traits (that was Mantis, maybe :P).

The movie blended all the MCU heroes so well and yeah, it was like a party on the screen. There were so many main characters, but still I never felt it was chaotic. Merging the storylines of The Guardians and Avengers was also impressive.

The ending, some may say was illogical but that's what it was supposed to be. Not an ending but a cliff-hanger, because yeah, those characters can't die.I cannot go into the technicalities of film-making because I don't know any (lol!

). They must also be awesome, just by the way. However, as a Marvel fan, I felt better after giving it time to sink in.

Special mention to Thor and The Hulk!