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Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

i'll get in the robot. i don't know what it is but sure why not

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Peel
Dec 3, 2007

here we see how labour becomes dominated by machine-capital it does not understand through the mechanisation of the production process:

Karl Barks posted:

i'll get in the robot. i don't know what it is but sure why not

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
and to think people were wondering why loogs is the forums mascot. You can't get content like this anywhere else!

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

https://mobile.twitter.com/gawkenn/status/1008045805293498368

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/CarlBeijer/status/1007839431632588800?s=19

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

thats a cute twitter there but a lot of people listen to musks babbling sales guy routine and think theyre listening to a real genius because people are largely pretty stupid and easily conned

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
looks like baloogan got into the khvanchkara supply again

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Dreddout posted:

lf thread: I WILL UNIRONICALLY PM YOU TILL I FUCKIGN DIE

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

looks like baloogan got into the khvanchkara supply again

this is what happens when all the fruits of labor are consumed by just one man

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."

Prav posted:

this is what happens when all the fruits of labor are consumed by just one man

No one man should have all that khvanchkara.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

however we see a clear refutation of the idea that foodstuffs have a finite demand

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

or does blacking out count as saturation? i suppose it might

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Wheeee posted:

thats a cute twitter there but a lot of people listen to musks babbling sales guy routine and think theyre listening to a real genius because people are largely pretty stupid and easily conned

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
if you are an avid rick and morty fan you probably think musk is cool

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Wheeee posted:

thats a cute twitter there but a lot of people listen to musks babbling sales guy routine and think theyre listening to a real genius because people are largely pretty stupid and easily conned

I don't see how that makes a difference from the pre-twitter world, where everyone hung on the words of Bill Gates and the Apple man.

THS
Sep 15, 2017

im gay

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

alsothere
Oct 14, 2014
Taco Defender
https://twitter.com/LevarBurzum/status/1008103867467231232

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
at least the apple man killed himself with rear end cancer

dads friend steve
Dec 24, 2004

One Steve down, one to go

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
lol semen hitler

Metal Cat
Dec 25, 2017

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

lol semen hitler

He was so ahead of his time.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
that was a very nice meltdown even if i do say so my self

sorry @ shinji for the extremely nice chernobyl meltdown

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Colombia’s election is today.

The right winger is named “Duque” and the leftist is named “Petro”

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
But yea it’s an important election, Duque wants to scrap the peace deal agreed with FARC and Petro wants to keep it. Duque would be a return to Uribe basically.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


unfortunately duque has had a very dominant lead in the polls and is very likely going to win

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
There’s a polling place in my neighborhood, people are loving screaming at each other outside lol

Based on signage and such seems like people here lean Petro but I don’t really know for sure

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Actual, they were national socialist

Infernot
Jul 17, 2015

"A short night wakes me from a dream that seemed so long."
Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/newdialektik/status/1007955231794229248

We all know why...:pseudo:

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

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

Ah yes, all those capitalists talking about pannekoek and implementing communization

Infernot
Jul 17, 2015

"A short night wakes me from a dream that seemed so long."
Grimey Drawer


The bourgeoisie do NOT tolerate them one bit

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Dreddout posted:

Ah yes, all those capitalists talking about pannekoek and implementing communization

Dismantling the state in 0.5x A presses

apropos to nothing
Sep 5, 2003
a lot of self identified marxist-leninists are just ultra lefts who want to feel justified for being sectarian and hating the rest of the left. not saying thats all of them but basically the twitter contingent which always has negative things to say about any left formation that isnt them, and them is literally just them since they're also not a member of any party or organization

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

After Elon Musk's tweet about being some kind of Banksian space anarchist I wouldn't write off Fullmetal Leninist completely.

apropos to nothing
Sep 5, 2003
ok take it back, dont know who any of the twitter left celebs are but clicked them and it looks like they are in psl. still sectarian as hell but whatever

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

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

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

After Elon Musk's tweet about being some kind of Banksian space anarchist I wouldn't write off Fullmetal Leninist completely.
Musk also called Marx a capitalist so I think he's having what we in academia call a "nice meltdown"

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Dismantling the state in 0.5x A presses

But first, we need to clear something up, because every time I post theory for liberating a country in a half-revolution, I get the same comments asking over and over what it means, even though I have a whole paragraph in the introduction explaining it, which even starts with "if you're wondering what a half-revolution is, read this before commentating to ask". But maybe what you guys need isn't a paragraph. Maybe you guys need an EXAMPLE.

So, consider Lichtenstein--not even the whole county; just consider getting to that spot away from Switzerland's banking system, which is a necessary part of getting communism in Lichtenstein. So, how many revolutions does it take to get there? Well, if you say zero...that's wrong, because then the working class can't go far enough. If you say one, well, it's true that the working class can get there with one, but we can do a little better. We can do it in half a revolution. To do that, we enter Lichtenstein with the means of production already seized, and then we use that revolution to reach the platform.

Now, hold on. I know what you're thinking: A revolution is a revolution, permanently. You can't say it's only a half. Well, Leon """""Icepick""""" Trotsky, hear me out.

A revolution press actually has three parts to it: When the means of production are seized, when the means of production are held (in either a dictatorship of the proletariat or an anarchist commune), and when the state dissolves. And together, this forms one complete revolution. Now, usually, it's the seizing that's useful, because that's the only part that makes the borgiousie react. However, sometimes it's sufficient to just use the holding part, which allows the working class to do little kicks, to swim in liberal tears, to move outside of a market, and to spend labor vouchers instead of money. And as for the dissolution of the state, well, there's currently no cases where that's useful or important, so don't worry bout that part (since it hasn't happened historically yet).

Now, if we map out the required revolutions for Lichtenstein, it would look like this: we merely need to have our own means of production to not be dependent on the Swiss banking system, we need a revolution to provide a counternarrative against Lichtenstein's "princely" history, and we need a revolution again to achieve communism. So, how many revolutions is that total? Well, it appears to be three, and if we we're liberating this country in isolation, then yeah; it would be three. But in a worldwide spread of communism, there are other revolutions that occur earlier in history, such as /this/ revolution needed to offically dissolve the Switzerland-Lichtenstein border. So, if we take that revolution into consideration as well, then how many revolutions would it take? The left-com answer would be three: one to enter Lichtenstein, and the three within the country that we established earlier. However, we can do better! We can actually do it in two and a half, by simply holding the means of production seized during the border dissolution to be used for independence from the banking system, because the half-revolution only required the means of production to be held, not actually seized. So in this fashion, Lichtenstein only adds on an additional two revolutions to the worldwide spread of communism, since the first revolution only leeches off a previous revolution. So to capture this dialectic, we call it 2.5 revolutions. In a single country, you'd round that up to three, but in a worldwide spread, you'd round it down to two. So, in conclusion, since that first revolution counts in some contexts, but adds no additional revolutions in other contexts, we refer to it as a "half revolution".

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011


Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Dreddout posted:

Musk also called Marx a capitalist so I think he's having what we in academia call a "nice meltdown"

It's more than that. Ultraleftism is something capitalists feel free to exploit because they're not threatened by it in any way.

Infernot
Jul 17, 2015

"A short night wakes me from a dream that seemed so long."
Grimey Drawer

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's more than that. Ultraleftism is something capitalists feel free to exploit because they're not threatened by it in any way.

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Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Neil Patrick Harris wearing a ushanka putting his hand on a giant capitalis brain bug

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