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speaking of prolixAeolius posted:The third question that I forgot to ask in my previous post was "what's the end-game for absolutely insisting that the USSR be excluded from the category of 'socialist'?" But thankfully, you answered it anyway: "that's important if we want the term 'socialism' to be the goal of socialist worker movements." To be clear: The USSR's system is not "the goal"; it's one socialist project out of many, built in its own context — a context that included the property of being unprecedented in history. It was far from perfect, but we do the workers' movement no great favors by fudging categories just to maintain the purity of socialist-state-as-utopia. quote:It's actually pretty fraught. In the way it tends to be imagined by the more-Trotsky-than-actual-Trotsky sorts (Tony Cliff & co.), of the state acting as one giant capitalist, it runs into some pretty major problems straightaway. Per Marx, "capital exists and can only exist as many capitals"; market competition being both the inner nature and reciprocal interaction of capital, it would make zero sense to conceive of a unitary "virtual capitalist" who somehow persists and grows through bouts of autarky. This is far from the only issue here (does production for exchange predominate internally, then? where's the enormous accumulation of surplus value as profit? how does it manage to avoid both crises of overproduction and inflation? and again, where's that drat labor market? etc). quote:The coexistence of multiple modes of production generally involves varying degrees of embeddedness in a primary mode, quote:Now, I'm not 100% sure how to tackle your request for a definition of "ownership," since I think we use this word the same way, inasmuch as we both recognize a place in this continuum for "public property." Consider a public park; you are a partial owner of it, and yet you are not free to just walk in an start chopping down trees or tagging up the place on whim. Does this mean you are not in control of it? Certainly not in the absolute sense of your own toothbrush or TV, both perfectly fit canvases for whatever graffiti one wishes. But the distinction between personal and public property under socialism is as crucial as the distinction between personal and private (and, indeed, public) property under capitalism. Ownership is control. It is not some stupid loving deed on paper, it is not some empty declaration, it is the potential for action, mediated through a system of law. quote:Anyway, to call the nomenklatura a "class," as I said before, one must discard the specific Marxist definition of the word, conflating an economic owning class with a political elite. One can even find prominent Trotskyists discussing this at some length: quote:The simpler, and better-supported answer, is that the powerful political elites of the USSR were political elites and not an economic class. quote:Anyway, I don't aim to minimize your concerns about accountability. This is your central problem: you're continuing to place these 'concerns of accountability' on the periphery of your characterization of social structure. To you, a social structures just is, oh but then you have some 'perturbations' from that, so you need to correct, right? Wrong. This displacement mirrors in some way the movement of the horrors of modern capitalism from the first world to the third. People look at conditions in the first world, go 'wow capitalism is such a success, if only those third worlders could Do It Right' - Ah, but they are not independent systems, they are not even different versions of the same capitalism, they are the same capitalism, they are part of the same system, the perturbations are an inherent, valid part of the complete whole. The third world is poo poo only because the first world is so shiny and pretty. You've done the same thing, you have a 'primary mode of production' in the soviet union, in which everything works like you say it does in your stupid pamphlet, oh but then you have holodomor are hungary are all those other things/secondary modes. You stress how all soviet workers were part of a union! But then you read the accounts of people who actually lived there, and it turns out that none of that poo poo mattered, corruption was rampant and you only got jobs depending on who you knew. No, they're the same. Accountability is class, because accountability is power structures, and class is power. How is it distributed, who gets it, who doesn't. If you have an aristocratic system, kill all the aristocrats, select 10% of the population of Harding Working Class Guys, and replace those now vacant aristocrat positions with those new working class guys, do you have a workers paradise? No you moron, you get a new aristocracy. Aristocrats are not inhuman creatures that come from the deep, they are made of flesh and bone. Their actions are a consequence of the incentives on then. Enforcing quotas to ensure that some % of the party must come from suitably humble beginnings no more constitutes an attack on entrenched power, than does requiring that that the only 'true' capitalism has the capitalists guys being the ones who didn't inherit their wealth (bill gates vs. rockefeller) - it's nothing but imposing virtue politics onto what should be a modern, scientific way of analyzing social structures. And this is your real crime - not your verbosity, nor your terrible anime screenshots, not even what I can only assume is a fetish for words like 'problematizes'. No, your real crime is that you aren't marxist. In your mind, the failure of the USSR wasn't a systemic fault, it was a growing force of 'liberalism' - how could that have grown in the first place, exactly? If the primary mode of the base was socialist, then Isn't this pinning the blame on the spread of 'liberalism' placing the super-structure cart before the base horse? rudatron fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Feb 25, 2017 |
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Plutonis posted:Threat title related: google says this is a real thing capitalism has driven everyone insane
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Isn't that a regular thing? I've heard of something similar happening before.
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Plutonis posted:Threat title related: finally, an org for me
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Plutonis posted:Threat title related: these guys are the only true marxists, everyone else is revisionist
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Revolutionary Front for the Advancement of Akimotoist-NoGFist Thought
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how do you convince incels to think past reactionary ideology and become revolutionaries
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Defeat chadpitalism and seize the means of reproduction
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i'm pol pot irl
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pol pot would have exterminated the bohemians along with the academics
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pol pot would have won
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Plutonis posted:Threat title related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7w0eqUBp3c
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i say when ur in a rich man's house there's nowhere to spit but his face
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3-n3TMzL6o
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deadgoon posted:how do you convince incels to think past reactionary ideology and become revolutionaries apparently there was a period of time when communism was popular on r9k cause marx said it guaranteed every man a wife or something
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Plutonis posted:Threat title related: This is the plot of an anime isn't it?
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pol pot murdered a lot of people and died peacefully in his sleep, sounds like a winner to me
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deadgoon posted:pol pot would have exterminated the bohemians along with the academics this but with sexhavers
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Plutonis posted:the Revolutionary Alliance of Men that Women find Unattractive New thread title
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https://youtu.be/huXNdLQt_bk
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a giant rudatron post based on ahistorical reckons and deriving its persuasive force from sentence structure instead of sound argument? well i never
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ps shut up baloogan. is that simple enough for you
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dude loves to Debate & Discuss
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The Brown Menace posted:this but with sexhavers isn't that what bohemians are
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drat it feels good to be back in (neo-)LF
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Baloogan the FBI literally assassinated Fred Hampton gently caress off with your YouTube anti sjw video level analysis please
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Hurrr I love conspiracies but don't know anything about COINTELPRO durrr
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please do no read baloogan's posts unless he posts a music video or a song
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Heads up disillusioned Democrats, read Marx and Lenin and get involved with the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
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"Bat'ko the Manarchist"?
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rudatron i think i was a lot more charitable to you than you're being to me. I had been earnestly looking forward to your reply but now that it's here i'm kinda like... maybe i've been mistaking you for a different poster? maybe someone else with like a cartoony av -- i wanna say V. Illych L. maybe, but the truth is i don't SA enough these days to keep good track i'll do the courtesy of a reply, but I'm gonna go briefer with it than the last one, stay tuned edit: it is technically briefer, as word count goes Aeolius fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Feb 26, 2017 |
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Aeolius posted:rudatron i think i was a lot more charitable to you than you're being to me. I had been earnestly looking forward to your reply but now that it's here i'm kinda like... maybe i've been mistaking you for a different poster? maybe someone else with like a cartoony av -- i wanna say V. Illych L. maybe, but the truth is i don't SA enough these days to keep good track it was me actually
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Heads up disillusioned Democrats, read Marx and Lenin and get involved with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. great idea! joining PSL is a great way to indicate to the future/present fascist regime that you're not a real threat and can be safely ignored
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Fallen Hamprince posted:great idea! joining PSL is a great way to indicate to the future/present fascist regime that you're not a real threat and can be safely ignored lol you're trying to hard
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tons of cops joined the 1,000-member socialist workers party but the government doesn't REALLY see communists as a threat
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Fallen Hamprince posted:great idea! joining PSL is a great way to indicate to the future/present fascist regime that you're not a real threat and can be safely ignored hamprince has got us here. the psl is a worthless org. they've even lost to donald trump as many times as the dnc!
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R. Guyovich posted:ps shut up baloogan. is that simple enough for you homework-san!!!!!!!!!!!! Q_Q
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namesake posted:No one does fake news like Stalin! Danny fuckin Dyer, mate?
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rudatron posted:speaking of prolix http://www.fastswf.com/hpG4Y28
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