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Thug Lessons
Dec 14, 2006


I lust in my heart for as many dead refugees as possible.
"Labor is fully commodified" doesn't make any sense. Is this guy a Marxist? Marx didn't believe labor was commodified, he believed labor-power was commodified.

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The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


Labor isn't fully commodified, but it could be. As slavery.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

Thug Lessons posted:

"Labor is fully commodified" doesn't make any sense. Is this guy a Marxist? Marx didn't believe labor was commodified, he believed labor-power was commodified.

he's the guy who betrayed greece

Thug Lessons
Dec 14, 2006


I lust in my heart for as many dead refugees as possible.

Prav posted:

he's the guy who betrayed greece

Oh, who cares what that rear end in a top hat says.

Bryter
Nov 6, 2011

but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

Prav posted:

he's the guy who betrayed greece

How so?

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Syriza had a dumb as hell strategy which could only have worked by continuing to rally the working class together after their election and either force change in the EUs attitudes towards Greece through using that power against Greek and international ruling classes or convince the working class that it was necessary to leave the Euro (and therefore probably the EU). They did neither so got nowhere in negotiations, got another lovely bail out which solved nothing and lost all their credibility.

Blaming him directly is not fair though.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

hm so you're saying that without the support of the proletariat they were doomed to fail

Bryter
Nov 6, 2011

but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

namesake posted:

Syriza had a dumb as hell strategy which could only have worked by continuing to rally the working class together after their election and either force change in the EUs attitudes towards Greece through using that power against Greek and international ruling classes or convince the working class that it was necessary to leave the Euro (and therefore probably the EU). They did neither so got nowhere in negotiations, got another lovely bail out which solved nothing and lost all their credibility.

Blaming him directly is not fair though.

Especially seeing as he was never a member of Syriza and resigned because the party didn't want to pursue those strategies.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



namesake posted:

Syriza had a dumb as hell strategy which could only have worked by continuing to rally the working class together after their election and either force change in the EUs attitudes towards Greece through using that power against Greek and international ruling classes or convince the working class that it was necessary to leave the Euro (and therefore probably the EU). They did neither so got nowhere in negotiations, got another lovely bail out which solved nothing and lost all their credibility.

Blaming him directly is not fair though.

More or less. Syriza's negotiating strategy crumbled as soon as Schauble and his band of goblins called Tsipras' Grexit bluff. It was patently obvious by the time of the sham referendum that Tsipras had never anticipated actually having to leave the EU and had completely focused his strategy around renegotiating the Greek debt; failing that, he limply conceded and has lost just about every ounce of credibility.

It's hard to tell how much blame Varoufakis should shoulder. He's on the record back when he was still working with Syriza that - and I'm paraphrasing - he'd rather Greece continue to eat a reasonable amount of poo poo, rather than triggering Grexit, destabilizing the EU, and having to eat an enormous tidal wave of poo poo all at once. My problem with his stance then was that it had become clear that the foreign lenders would absolutely not budge on the issue of a large debt reduction, and that there was no hope of Greece as it remained in the EU of ever producing enough of a surplus to escape its debt. All that the can kicking has accomplished is ensuring that, when Greece finally does Grexit, it's going to be worse than if they had simply triggered it then.

ThaumPenguin
Oct 9, 2013

In conclusion,

debt is bad

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

ThaumPenguin posted:

In conclusion,

debt is bad

Debt is good. It's giving up your currency to an unaccountable foreign bureaucracy that really fucks you.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Debt is good. It's giving up your currency to an unaccountable foreign bureaucracy that really fucks you.

debt is a spook

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

one of the best things about Chapo is the wave of (at least) interesting left wing podcasts that are following in its wake. I've been listening to Discourse Collective, which is hosted by some of the Ancom twitter boyz and it's pretty dang good. These guys are libertarian socialists so if you're a Leninist or and other kind of statist then prepare to get triggered, but they're at least unapologetic Marxists.

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe
All this podcast discussion has reminded me how badly broken Apples podcast interface has become

Thug Lessons
Dec 14, 2006


I lust in my heart for as many dead refugees as possible.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

one of the best things about Chapo is the wave of (at least) interesting left wing podcasts that are following in its wake. I've been listening to Discourse Collective, which is hosted by some of the Ancom twitter boyz and it's pretty dang good. These guys are libertarian socialists so if you're a Leninist or and other kind of statist then prepare to get triggered, but they're at least unapologetic Marxists.

this sounds right up my alley but are there any communalist podcasts with women in them

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

this sounds right up my alley but are there any communalist podcasts with women in them

Office of Policy Coordination is still really small and pretty rough but I enjoy it. Episode 7 with Jeff Sharlet is good, as is Episode 8 with Taryn Fivek.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

this sounds right up my alley but are there any communalist podcasts with women in them

I dunno about communalism, but Katie Halper is openly a communist and hosts her own show. Roqayyah Chamsedine also hosts Delete Your Account and that's pretty good. They both have male co-hosts, but really they're just second fiddles.

Thug Lessons
Dec 14, 2006


I lust in my heart for as many dead refugees as possible.

GalacticAcid posted:

Office of Policy Coordination is still really small and pretty rough but I enjoy it. Episode 7 with Jeff Sharlet is good, as is Episode 8 with Taryn Fivek.

Lol I know all those people but had no idea they had a podcast

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I dunno about communalism, but Katie Halper is openly a communist and hosts her own show. Roqayyah Chamsedine also hosts Delete Your Account and that's pretty good. They both have male co-hosts, but really they're just second fiddles.

Roqayyah is on hiatus/sabbatical from DYA. :(

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.
The greatest psyop the CIA ever pulled was convincing tankies that advocating for socialism needs to involve the defense of Stalin.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

*extremely CIA voice* The greatest psyop the CIA ever pulled was convincing tankies that advocating for socialism needs to involve the defense of Stalin.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


When I was in Greece we went out on a boat tour with my Greek uncle's friends. They pointed to a big cliff that sort of looks like 3 dudes' heads and told us that people used to say those were the petrified kings of Greece.
My uncle says "Oh yes, there is Yanis Varoufakis, on quiet nights you can hear him lying."

Thats my Varoufakis anecdote.

Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Mar 13, 2017

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe
I feel like Varoufakis was on HardTalk or something not too long ago; it didn't sound like the interview went especially well for him at some points so I imagine it might have been hardtalk

Hilario Baldness
Feb 10, 2005

:buddy:



Grimey Drawer



poo poo. I was overthinking it. Thanks all.

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO
May 8, 2006

Jeb! Repetition posted:

The greatest psyop the CIA ever pulled was convincing tankies that advocating for socialism needs to involve the defense of Stalin.

Socialism rules but all socialist societies have been terrible deviations from my ultimate theory social organization, which lives in Canada and is completely real.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!



this good!!!!!!! :anarchists:

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
change the ypg one from assad to turkey

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

change the ypg one from assad to turkey

Then you can just change it to "loving everyone involved in Syria"

Dreddout fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Mar 14, 2017

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
https://twitter.com/ozgurlukguclri1/status/834312519481167872

Thug Lessons
Dec 14, 2006


I lust in my heart for as many dead refugees as possible.

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."


Fake news, no leftwing dating site has three members.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

namesake posted:

Fake news, no leftwing dating site has three members.

You still haven't replied to my pm you loving trot

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Dreddout posted:

You still haven't replied to my pm you loving trot

'I'd like to seize your means of reproduction.' Isn't a good pick up line. Try harder!

Unless that isn't a joke and you mean SA forums PMs: I don't have them.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016


and i would have built full communism too if it werent for you meddling [INSERT SCAPEGOAT HERE]

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Fallen Hamprince posted:

and i would have built full communism too if it werent for you meddling [INSERT SCAPEGOAT HERE]

Cuck

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

Sankara is one of the greatest Marxist leaders ever, and it's an outrage that most people don't know about him.

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Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Sankara is one of the greatest Marxist leaders ever, and it's an outrage that most people don't know about him.

he was a tremendous failure lol, got couped 3 years in before he could finish purging burina faso of that terrible enemy of the people: teacher's unions

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