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@Karl_Was_Right
No disrespect to Harvey's book but I've found Anwar Sheikh's Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises (2016) to be a better 'explanation' of Capital while also serving as a comprehensive empirical critique of mainstream economics. People should read both though.
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@kamenism
A better question than "is China imperialist?" would be "is Chinese production dictated by structural profit-seeking like the globalized production of TNCs?" but it isn't asked that way because it isn't immediately clear and demands empirical study before any conceptual judgment.
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@georgiamarxist
But China's peasant workers rebelled for equitable land distribution. Mao was the symbol leading that generalized process for decades. In China itself, across all classes, Mao's legacy is seen as a net positive for the country (and planning and equity as societal principles).
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@meqanasty
@ComradeXY
@comradebernout
@CharlesGobert1
@Thy_Loaf
@loxvatos
@RevLeftRadio
@ProlesPod
What's worse? A Third World socialist state responding to comprehensive sanctions with militarized administration and censoring and assimilating its petit-bourgeois, or profit- and rent-seeking world-scale industrial and financial monopolies forcing billions to live off pennies?
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@saintteas
@disco_playlist
In War and Revolution (2015), prof. Losurdo points out that the Bolshevik Revolution was understood by conservative and liberal 'intellectuals' alike as an unexplainable racial disease 'of the vanguard and its masses' whose collective delusion for real equity was eating Eurasia.
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@birth_marxist
@Karl_Was_Right
The question is what is dialectical materialism and does it give an accurate conceptualization of social reality that builds a class politics that establishes an equitable society? If it does, the backgrounds of Marx, Lenin and everyone else in the Marxist tradition don't matter.
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@Tenji95
@kokobutterfly1
It was Leninism that drew out Marx's 'real' conclusions into 'Modernist' relevance (imperialism) which allowed 'post-Marxism' (including Black Radicalism in the US and elsewhere) to add dimension (as far as national strategies and local tactics go) to its generalizations.
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@isgoodrum
Outside of the occasional Maoist innovation (Emmanuel, Althusser, Newton, Sakai), 'Western Marxism' has always been extremely mediocre, all of it springing from its refusal to internalize 'imperialism' as a totalizing world process and its 're-localizing' dimensions in the West.
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@petcrierbonanza
@bocxtop
The dishonest affect of male sensitivity in Zoomer "culture" is one of its worst aspects. That's why we have no poets because the dishonesty is unconscious and formed by the hyper-corporate content of social media and the diminishing social capital in hyper-repetitive affects.
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@affect_twin
@ThottonMather
Neurotic, performative, niche or ambiguous sexuality (or gender) is a hyper-individualistic reaction of an unborn 'middle-class' being 'rationalized' into simple abstract labor like the majority of the world's workers already are. It is the harmless equivalent to 'gun culture.'
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@squeakster96
@cyaol8r
@CatAppreciator
John A. Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century (2016) elaborates on that nuance about as well as anyone can in a single book.
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@comradebernout
@meqanasty
@CharlesGobert1
@ComradeXY
@Thy_Loaf
@loxvatos
@RevLeftRadio
@ProlesPod
I would just add: the "slow, correct" approach has been attempted for longer than Soviet socialism was but hasn't lead to even one planned economy and equitable society in the First World. Also, the failure of social democracy allowed for globalized capitalist industrialization.
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@kamenism
If you look at the economic zones where monopoly capital has its concentration of value-added and export-oriented manufacturing, it's three dozen nations and few if any are in Africa. "Imperialism" is now an exclusive club of monopolies in monopolies of advanced production.
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@NickLylesComedy
The idea that socialism is about making everyone middle class by the standards of an imperialist country is not just illogical (the middle class needs a working class to subsidize it) under any socialist planning of production but is actually the fascist ideal of socialism.
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@LizardRumsfeld
@Millerheighife
@Max_Damage01
The solution for anyone who thinks that is an issue is re-education through hard labor.
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@yevangelion
While it is petit-bourgeois scholarship in the US and is clearly written for that audience, prof. Martin's The Affirmative Action Empire (2001) and A State of Nations (2001) provide the fullest history of the national question as it was practically applied in the early USSR.
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Honest question, is it a normie trait to organize your entire existence around dating, "love," sex, et cetera? Is there literally nothing else going on in these people's lives? I guess the surplus joy of self-humiliation makes up the difference.
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Prof. John A. Smith notes three "principal mechanisms" of imperialism: repatriated profits from foreign direct investments (including both outsourcing and subcontracting of labor contracts), unequal exchange of products between firms and "debt servicing."
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@zhenskiiotdel
Hong Kong is an Oriental dreamscape for the internet to project onto from the failure of liberal democracy at home. Thankfully, a majority of offline apolitical service workers are more progressive by just existing than the 'politically aware' online majority are in thinking.
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My most conservative trait is I honestly do believe in legalizing duels.
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If you post about "him" and don't specify, I'll just assume it's about me.
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@kamenism
The old monopolies of finance, extraction and industry are entrenched to the point of being banal to imperialism so newer developing economies partially accepting its logic (like BRICS) can be sold as appearing imperialist by just participating in it or vaguely replicating it.
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@WreckerCaucus
@catdadaeternal
And as we all know, the most ideologically advanced, militant, politically intuitive and effective workers' parties in world history who built and took state power would never have picked fights in union and social movements and purged their own rank-and-file constantly.
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These people are all bimbos and it shouldn't be legal for them to have a platform but "men have never been oppressed for being men" exposes the idea that oppression is a result of discrimination. Oppression comes out of the necessity of social order, it's not anyone's choice.
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@kamenism
That works as a claim because "anti-imperialism" is now about being against appearance (extreme poverty) or vague structuralism (unequal exchange, which wasn't an issue for "the left" until China could overproduce in basic industries) and not structure (the profit motive).
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"White supremacy" was always dumb as a catch-all concept but easily the dumbest part of it is believing "whiteness" resolves objective class contradictions.
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@Karl_Was_Right
Harvey is great as an accessible introduction while reading Capital and Sheikh is great for when you're ready for a comprehensive, technical critique (of contemporary theory) and an explanation (of our economic reality in world terms) after reading it.
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Same footnote: "I am not disputing the fact that Lenin's personal taste was opposed to the avant-garde. I am arguing that it was not the reason for the virulence of his attack." The author's actual point: "Lenin's hostility was not so much a matter of taste as one of time."
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@meqanasty
@ComradeXY
@comradebernout
@CharlesGobert1
@Thy_Loaf
@loxvatos
@RevLeftRadio
@ProlesPod
Why should Kim be vilified at all? Since we're living in an increasingly globalized economy (where its wealth is monopolized by a few countries) that the DPRK will eventually be allowed to join, we can't go by morality without prioritizing the moral problems of a global society.
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@StalinsSideHo
In his books Liberalism (2011) and War and Revolution (2015), Domenico Losurdo offers a good introduction to the history of racial pathology serving the ideological limits of 'the Enlightenment' and its modernist adherents.
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@UrLocalTankie
He basically thinks that because there are countless 'human struggles,' there can't be a material struggle that grounds the rest, gives them an understandable class rationality, and acts as an underlying and centralizing social influence on all other 'interests' between groups.
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Marx is more relevant now precisely because the logic of accumulation for profit remains the exact same regardless of how "post-industrial" our society becomes (which didn't really happen, unprofitable supply chains were just externalized into tens of millions of jobs elsewhere).
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*pretty girl I've never interacted with unfollows me
I don't care. Like, I literally don't care. Like, dude. There are, like, literally billions of people in the world. Not all of them will love me. Whatever, I still don't care. Like, obviously. It's fine. She's happy, I'm happ
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@kamenism
Not just that, it reveals no one has real criteria for "socialism." No real discussion on the social character of Iraqi Ba'athism, its contextualization into the contradictory or antagonistic forces of the Iraqi state or geopolitics, et cetera, and really banal common criticisms.
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Don't buy bread with your money! No, hombre! Buy dynamite! Dynamite!
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@Ren59599102
@Alysonesque
The question is how were 'American values' established, what generalized class did that process create (were settlers semi-proletarian or semi-bourgeois) and sustain, what is that class now, and how far can its self-interested imperialist imagination go (regardless of 'appeals')?
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Why is everyone so chronically insecure about not reading books? No one who uses Twitter is the next Lenin. None of you are future Politburo members. You reading or not reading doesn't mean shit.
congratulations on the countless hours you have spent studying marxism-leninism and committing towards the pursuit of liberation. i came to basically the exact same conclusion all by myself just based on the general vibe of stuff. but at least you got there in the end
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What's interesting about neoliberals is they take an idea that used to be true (capitalism was a progressive mode of production in its rationalizing of the fixed value of labor power) but pretend that bourgeois ideals somehow supercede actual history which is a European monopoly
everything I want, and plenty that I didn't know I wanted until I saw it, all at reasonable prices and good supply. the bountiful fruits of trade, commerce, and human progress, an ever-expanding abundance that will over the long arc of history bend toward even greater heights.
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Imagine setting your own people up for an obvious Sopranos joke.
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@NickLylesComedy
For example, the surplus land and surplus labor of Eastern Europe was supposed to serve as the basis of subsidizing a universal middle class in Nazi Germany. Socialism doesn't equal universal squalor but it doesn't equal universal luxury either. It's a modest middle ground.
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@thewobbleeffect
Yeah, the ol' 'let's exponentially benefit from their brain drain and post-NAFTA joblessness, but then also give them low wages, social stratification, and racist fearmongering and scapegoating in exchange.' You know, white American centrism.
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@SweetEggPerson
Honestly, I can't tell how much "abolition" rhetoric is serious and how much of it is just careerism. Leftist posturing in media and college is the norm but it's always surreal to see being radical for its own sake as a marketing tool and consumer product for upper class weirdos.
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"In the wake of the devastations of civil war, the logic of Lenin's position was straightforward. The tasks most pressing in culture were mass literacy, technical training, and political education, particularly for the majority, peasant class.
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@isgoodrum
Young leftists, at least academically, are hyper-conscious of Western chauvinism in its vulgar, symbolic expressions but don't know how to connect it back from an actual understanding of political economy on a globalized scale, as that was always 'minor' to academic concerns.
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Yeah, but there's no such thing as "soda culture" and no one is annoying about drinking soda so it's a wash, really.
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@phantomredarmy
What is strange is liberalism surviving 2016 unscathed. Countless thousands actually think that all of the above structures and processes in the US are recent (when all but TVs predate the USSR) and that an extremely inequitable society like ours can function without them.
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@catdadaeternal
The lack of any post-Soviet competition against liberal pathology has made it strong enough for its polite society to suddenly 'forget' that this was commonly understood back then. Socialist parties, diplomats and major scholars (E. H. Carr especially) discussed it publicly.
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Never understood why women like guys who look like rats but just realized I only like women who look like bugs. Makes sense now.
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@LivPosting
@studer_hayden
Conservatives reject liberalism so they can mock its First Worldist hysteria about not wanting to be proletarianized but they also accept capitalism so they don't understand competitive monopoly production for private profit as a global structure any more than liberals do.
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@Kale_Marx
@comradekelley
Also, the globalized imposition of overproduction by TNCs onto Third World manufacturers (allowing the low prices for overconsumption in the First World) is what is acidifing oceans, overeroding coral reefs and soil and burning rainforests. Consumption isn't an intrinsic value.
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@UrLocalTankie
He appeals to 'complexity' because it's a classic existentialist trick and he pretends like there aren't notable Marxists who 'address' psychology (Deleuze, Jameson) and biology (Levins, Foster) because he knows his audience.
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Post-Apartheid South Africa already shows you can be 10% of the population and still have "natural" monopolies and own 90% of everything so this doesn't mean much if you're a racist, regardless if your meme ideology is old-timey white supremacism or decolonial ethnonationalism.
Decline of the white population from 1960 to 2020.
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@kamenism
@catdadaeternal
Social democracy allowed "post-war" generations to internalize overconsuming private and public goods (its source of monopoly production's super profits being made invisible) as a right, forming First World living standards into an ideology of a generalized consumer aristocracy.
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@alextheseagull
If the existence of the USSR didn't at least strain if not cause ruptures in capitalist manufacturing profitability on a world-scale, then literally nothing else has or ever will. 'Post-Marxism' isn't even in the conversation. Your 'critiques' and 'reevaluations' are irrelevant.
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@MaxaieBelmont
@saintteas
@disco_playlist
Unfortunately, most of his work is in Italian and other non-English languages but his English books include Liberalism (2005), Non-Violence (2015) and Class Struggle (2015). He is a philosopher so there is a lot of abstraction that I'm not a fan of but the history is solid.
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@whitebabyhands
@davidlparsons
Another way of saying "art is subordinate to politics." Obviously true but what was the Western response to the Soviets applying that Marxian principle to the objective historical demands of rapid collectivization and industrialization against threats of reaction and world war?
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Mao really melted people's brains with the Bukharinite "principal contradiction" nonsense. That framework has always confused more than elucidate but apparently, the CPUSA still recognizes class struggle is objective and determinant, so that's good.
After an investigation the Communist Party USA has rejected Settler-Colonialism as the primary contradiction in the United States.
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Did you fuck my wife? Did you fuck my wife? Did you sleep with my wife? You fucked my wife! Did you fuck my wife?
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@Karl_Was_Right
@KyleKulinski
All glory to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics of America! (...please, clap).
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Can already tell the theory is bad (equating "imperialism" to empire while Lenin referred to monopoly capitalism, "economic modernization" just being another way of putting it) but this seems like a callback to Emmanuel's "White Settlers and the Myth of Investment Imperialism"
Today is the release date for my first book (Princeton UP)! The book provides an entirely new framework for understanding settler colonialism, ranging from the Assyrians all the way to contemporary China, Indonesia, Australia and Israel/Palestine.
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Officially a "watches Die Hard on Christmas" guy. Great movie but I feel like I'm stagnating as a person.
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If you look into it, "native" and "indigenous" aren't their colloquial definitions and refer to having a woo woo spiritual relationship to land. Technically speaking, white people aren't native to anything, not even Europe. They're modern subjects beyond the concept of native.
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Benny Morris makes the point that "indigenous" Muslims and Jews did live in peace for many centuries but because Jews were second class citizens, and the Arab panic had always been about Jewish armed sovereignty as such, not simply a dispute of this or that percentage of land.
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Israel is lucky that region has no Soviets but really, this ends in a stalemate like the Bush wars and maybe a massive compromise from the Israelis on the frontier which is good as long as the Arabs aren't delusional and repeat their past failures to overrun Israel.
JUST IN: Netanyahu says that Israel's military 'can fight on several fronts' and that 'we are prepared for this'
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@comradebernout
@meqanasty
@CharlesGobert1
@ComradeXY
@Thy_Loaf
@loxvatos
@RevLeftRadio
@ProlesPod
And that has done infinitely more damage than anything the purges did (and the "correctness" of purges is measured by states politicizing internalized class struggle against imperialism and world reaction; mass violence happens by nature of how essential political aims are).
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Any industry containing "socially necessary" labor isn't the same as that organized labor being profitable and it being profitable is all that matters to the firms of a system that was literally overproducing necessities and monopolizing their sale as commodities a century ago.
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One thing you learn studying even basic military history is that all armies are almost always terribly organized and sustained by their own standards, and battles are generally won by the least incompetent, least irrational forces, not a gallant juggarnaut above the rest.
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@foolinthelotus
Refusing to engage (anti-)imperialism as a total process shifted 'critique' from base to superstructure and that has been easily accommodated in popular culture because of globalized production generalizing the Western petit-bourgeois. It's us vulgarizing Gramsci to avoid Lenin.
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@MrJames_Casey
Projecting racial fantasies about 'being owned' by a government to dismiss the complex interplay of centralization, representation, assembly, and participation (including higher than average US voting turnouts) in Cuban society. Check.
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@Millerheighife
Calm down, guys. Russia is not planning to bring about our country's downfall. China called dibs.
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@zhenskiiotdel
@XiangyuRapper
The reason bourgeois media in the US calls it a dictatorship is because only workers are represented by way of the Constituent Assembly and not the National Assembly. That hegemony (for labor unions, communal councils, Colectivos, et cetera) is their evidence of dictatorship.
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In this context, the projects of the avant-garde could indeed appear politically indulgent. As for the Proletkult groups, their impeccably Marxist commitment to the factory workers was to his mind naive, as was their optimism regarding the degree of mass enlightenment.
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@CInsistence
When I heard about it, I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek riff on Jeremiah Wright's 'God damn America' sermon and that it was mocking anti-militarism.
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I'm not one to judge women for not trusting men in general, you don't know an individual's story, et cetera, but if you're legit terrified like this, buy a gun and learn how to use it. Or a taser, stun gun, knife, club, pepper spray, anything's better than yelling and hoping.
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@yevangelion
I'm not trying to cause a stir but Engels did use that phrase to describe union workers in England.
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@narsheviking
The exhaustion of liberalism is revealed with this class fetishizing the symbol of protest over the reality of military power, even when the latter obviously determines state successions. How, after the total failure of the Arab Spring, are any of us 'excited' about this crisis?
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The cruel irony is "settlers" always end up in an even more entrenched social position after post-colonial reforms, and that's Northern Ireland, South Africa, places where socialism was ostensibly wedded to anti-colonialism and nationalism. The Israelis would do more than fine.
@rooteruditorum
@AntiFashAK
Ok,if they go that route then they quickly lose control of their own country via birthrates and the ballot box. Can you see why they might not be too enthusiastic about what to them looks like conquest via democracy? You may see this as morally right,but their reticence is human.
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"Just read Marx" seems to always translate to, "Marx actually praised capitalism in the Communist Manifesto." And he explained its death drive in Capital. Marxism is the dialectical materialist method and various political traditions have fought over and claimed its development.
Before you refer to yourself - or other people - as Marxists, please read what he wrote.
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At some point the "content" economy got exposed for how shallow it as education and entertainment so now the only time you hear about these people, it's high school drama masking as politics but among internet millionaires whose "content" makes Mancow look like Bruce Springsteen.
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@comradebernout
@nbex9
@ComradeStars
The only structural "failure" of socialist and post-revolutionary states (and in particular, the USSR) was the inability to work out how to do enough base building in the dozens of slave colonies owned by Euro-American monopoly capital before and after the Great Patriotic War.
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@PissJugTycoon
Allowing racism allows its pathological (and world-historic) conclusion, which is mystifying the fault of capitalist decline onto a dehumanized Other and exploiting and dispossessing them to 'renew' said capitalist society. Repressing racists en masse is what 'should' happen.
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Whether capitalism stagnates or accelerates, world history has shown dialectical and historical materialist methodology as providing the only viable victory. Anything else is constant, premature failure of whatever populism, all recently rooted in the original failure of May '68.
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You all say you love me and are beholden to me. "Take it easy. We'll take care of you!" The first time I ask you to do one thing for me, like rob a train... Some gang!
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If it's true that "this decision holds only that an individual who poses a clear threat of violence may be temporarily disarmed after a judicial finding of dangerousness" then how can that not apply to any violent repeat offense, why just the most "imminent" DV situation?
Supreme Court upholds law banning domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling
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My most reactionary opinion is repressing your feelings and acting like you don't have problems is good for both men and women. Highly recommend it!
Dear men, who do you call when you are at your lowest?
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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride" is my favorite written thing ever.
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Divisions of labor pretty much determine the variance and contingency of gendered oppression a society has and that division is not consciously organized because pre-modern people weren't exactly Adam Smith in understanding the general laws of political economy.
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One of the core benefits of being white is you get to be an individual fully, not stunted by unfair generalization or association. I don't know how you can be a white man and want this collectivist consolation prize bs unless you really are a far-right extremist.
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@LivvyFanon
@butleriano
@AliceAvizandum
This is correct but it also has a subtle point, the 'spirit' of capitalist production is not alienation, it is competition. If you have Capital on hand, you should start with Chapter 16 and explain it to these young women point by point.
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@t3rrordactyl
@SomeLeftist
And how can 'socialists' in the First World contribute to its creation? First we have to reasses ourselves as global consumers and not reemphasize 'socialism' as hyper-consumerism that just adds public goods to consumer goods. That is why social democracy was exhausted in Europe.
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My mutuals really love retweeting the selfies of the mutuals who soft blocked me.
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If you're on the right you have to pretend a steep decline in crime over the last 30 years didn't happen and if you're on the left you have to pretend that blatant social decay is just fine and won't require law enforcement to enforce whatever social programs you prefer.
Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.
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The POINT of socialism is that it ISN'T an unconscious structural logic like monopoly profit-seeking but a conscious structural logic (equitable use in production, equitable distribution of need) AND a conscious political logic in developing it into genuinely rational planning.
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@dulcedecommie
My introduction was from Chomsky to Vickery and from McGehee to Pike on colonial and revolutionary Vietnam so if it was any revolutionary giving structure to my unconscious while I was a confused teenager, it was likely Ho Chi Minh.
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