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turns out you need strong state power to effectively respond to extreme crises. checkmate anarchists
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Jun 29, 2020 00:21
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Lexi missed the easy comeback that Castro was white
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Jun 29, 2020 01:33
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Mike Pompeo trying to get published on LibCom https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1276299440807186439?s=20
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Jun 29, 2020 01:41
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THS posted:turns out you need strong state power to effectively respond to extreme crises. checkmate anarchists ridiculous, you need a multitude self governing regions with varying standards as has been demonstrated with unbelievable success in the united states of america
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Jun 29, 2020 03:48
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Atrocious Joe posted:Mike Pompeo trying to get published on LibCom I'd say don't give them ideas, but then again: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f74e53d8-168d-41e5-8495-1df9c1ca740e Pomeroy fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Jun 29, 2020 |
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Jun 29, 2020 08:14
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mila kunis posted:ridiculous, you need a multitude self governing regions with varying standards as has been demonstrated with unbelievable success in the united states of america america has strong "pick the dumbest possible option every time" energy
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Jun 29, 2020 10:54
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dex_sda posted:america has strong "pick the dumbest possible option every time" energy "Americans can always be trusted to do the wrong thing, once all other terrible possibilities have been exhausted.” -ronald mcdonald
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Jun 29, 2020 15:36
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Atrocious Joe posted:Mike Pompeo trying to get published on LibCom if only
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Jun 29, 2020 15:42
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Jun 29, 2020 19:02
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Even while Corbyn was the head of the party they were running on increasing police budgets lol
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Jun 29, 2020 19:06
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GalacticAcid posted:Even while Corbyn was the head of the party they were running on increasing police budgets lol police dont kill many people in the uk
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Jun 29, 2020 19:28
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they’re still poo poo op
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Jun 29, 2020 19:29
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Enjoy posted:police dont kill many people in the uk yeah? how many people do hospital and school workers kill?
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Jun 29, 2020 19:50
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Doc Hawkins posted:yeah? how many people do hospital and school workers kill? 22,000 per year apparently https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-medication-errors-deaths-prescription-drugs-jeremy-hunt-york-university-health-a8224226.html
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Jun 29, 2020 19:57
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Jun 29, 2020 21:17
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is nigel farage considered a social democrat or am I missing something edit: oh the guy he's quoting about is labour leader, imo blairites aren't social democrats but whatever Karl Barks fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Jun 29, 2020 |
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Jun 29, 2020 21:24
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Jun 30, 2020 01:21
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Good BBC story on the Scottish pilot who survived over a month of ICU treatment for Covid in Vietnam, keeping their death count at zero https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53196009?fbclid=IwAR2i3SBcNVPEAoZ08p6Cxfv5-Q0fJKxFph2i1edIVUS-bI0Bk5dYKyZ8-kk
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Jun 30, 2020 01:56
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I'm reading Rebel Cities by David Harvey which was written in 2012. In it he talks about how China was in the middle of a change in leadership at this point and that there were two competing visions of China going forward. One is the Chongqing model where local leadership kinda reigned in capitalism and reinvested surpluses into public housing and social services. The other faction dominated in Shenzhen and the other coastal cities and wanted more liberalization of the economy. I'm guessing that Xi was part of the Chongqing faction and that he won out. Is this characterization correct? And what where the specific policy differences between Chongqing and Shenzhen and why did they take that direction?
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ToxicAcne posted:I'm reading Rebel Cities by David Harvey which was written in 2012. In it he talks about how China was in the middle of a change in leadership at this point and that there were two competing visions of China going forward. One is the Chongqing model where local leadership kinda reigned in capitalism and reinvested surpluses into public housing and social services. The other faction dominated in Shenzhen and the other coastal cities and wanted more liberalization of the economy. The two models were more two schools of thought than anything but as you said it was more social services/red nationalism versus increasing liberalism. Xi admitted copied parts of both, and spending on social services has increased, the Hokou system was relaxed, and there has been a significant military buildup. Xi never pushed Mao as much as Bo xilai did and obviously the Chinese economy is still liberalized. Granted, Bo Xilai's issue is that he simply made too many enemies and a full push towards bringing back Maoism had very little support in the party.
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Jul 1, 2020 16:23
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Karl Barks posted:is nigel farage considered a social democrat or am I missing something Starmer isn’t a blairite, they barely exist anymore
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Jul 1, 2020 17:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:does anyone have a perspective on Slobodan Milosevic's ideological position? As far as I've read, he was not on the left at all, and in fact served a role that's kinda similar to Boris Yeltsin as far as deconstructing the socialist institutions of Yugoslavia (though his successors were even worse in that regard), but I guess there are some people who have hot takes about him as an anti-imperialist purely because he was prosecuted by NATO/the West and was carted off to The Hague instead of tried locally? Really good talk from Michael Parenti here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzOgpMWnVs
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Jul 1, 2020 20:08
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what about BEB https://twitter.com/jmtryneski/status/1278404039810715650?s=20
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Jul 1, 2020 20:48
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are there any good leftist podcasts (don’t say chapo please)
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Long live international proletarianism! Uphold Castroism-Bolivarianism-Donald Trump Thought!
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indigi posted:are there any good leftist podcasts (don’t say chapo please) i like swampside chats quote:Swampside Chats is a weekly podcast where communists sit down to shoot the poo poo about current events, history, political economy and theory. We're also all high and/or gay. plough and stars quote:History, theory, and current critical analysis of the world utilizing the science of dialectical materialism the nostalgia trap (not really a "communist pod" like swampside chats or plough and stars) quote:The Nostalgia Trap podcast features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect with the big events and debates of our era.
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Jul 1, 2020 21:01
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indigi posted:are there any good leftist podcasts (don’t say chapo please) The short answer is always no: there are no good podcasts but The Specter has done some quality interviews; the one on Cuba’s medical internationalism was good, as was the Cyprus vs NATO episode, the Victor Grossman interview, and the Ian Goodrum interview. It’s run by young members of CPUSA and has an earnest dorkiness you may or may not care for Cosmopod does interesting subjects but I don’t care for the execution (hosts’ voices & discussion styles annoy me)
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Jul 1, 2020 21:05
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I like Citations Needed, although they are not "explicitly" leftist as such.
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Jul 1, 2020 21:07
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indigi posted:are there any good leftist podcasts (don’t say chapo please) Cosmopod is good. https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/ I also subscribe to swampside, general intelligence unit, from alpha to omega and southpaw. But they aren't always good. Recently started listening to SRB Podcast. Not yet sure if they are good.
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Jul 1, 2020 21:18
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Btw, Milosovic deserves most of the poo poo he got. , He really was a far-right Serbian nationalist that used the central government to undermine the other republicans, and his actions setup the breakup/Yugoslav wars. That said, obviously, the US was happy to pick up the pieces, but only after Slobodan blew it up. You got to also remember that Yugoslav before the mid-1990s was pretty friendly with the US as a counter-weight to the USSR/Russia. That is why the Yugo could be sold in the US. The Kosovo war was another thing entirely, and it was about the US trying to teach Russia (which was starting to fall out of the US orbit) and Yugoslavia, a "lesson". The US attacked Serbia while negotiations were taking place and the situation on the ground in Kosovo had aleady stabilized. Btw, there was at least one big massacre of Kosovars but it was months before there was an impasse in negotiations. More over NATO, rather than just focus on Yugoslav forces on the ground, started bombing civilian targets and terrorizing the Serbian population just to prove a point. Also, Wesley Clark almost started WW3 by trying to get British forces to fire on VVD forces at the Pristina Airport. Ardennes fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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Jul 1, 2020 21:30
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chapo trap house is a good podcast, try it out
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Jul 1, 2020 21:35
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THS posted:chapo trap house is a good podcast, try it out They complained about how it's a bad look to tear down statues in one of their most recent episodes
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Jul 1, 2020 21:38
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we really don’t need chapo chat itt, just my take. There’s 500 places to discuss it
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Jul 1, 2020 21:52
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MizPiz posted:They complained about how it's a bad look to tear down statues in one of their most recent episodes ok recommend me a communist podcast that is funny, entertaining, has good rapport between the hosts, and is not up its own rear end in self-seriousness. i don’t listen to podcasts because i want a god damned lecture, if i liked that poo poo i wouldn’t have dropped out of college
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Jul 1, 2020 22:14
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THS posted:ok recommend me a communist podcast that is funny, ok so Chapo’s out
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Jul 1, 2020 22:17
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indigi posted:ok so Chapo’s out yes, that’s why i asked for other recommendations, in that context it wouldn’t make sense to recommend chapo again, considering that was the podcast being discussed
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Jul 1, 2020 22:18
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now-defunct marxist leninist podcast "proles of the roundtable" actually has some really good history episodes and interviews, i recommend going through their back catalog if they're still online somewhere. the earlier you delve the more annoying jokes and air horn noises you get but the actual content is solid
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Jul 1, 2020 22:34
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Swampside Chats does good theory focused content, and Trillbilly Worker's Party is a lot of fun, and offers a unique look into life in rural America that isn't Hillbilly Elegy-type bullshit. Proles had some episodes I thought had some interesting content, but were far too up their own asses and in too much desperate need of an editor to really recommend them, YMMV.
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I tried listening to the first episode of this, but even very early on they're just butchering extremely basic Marxist concepts such as the LTV (unless my understanding of this is wrong instead? I'm also willing to accept they were just badly prepared with their notes and just didn't explain it well) and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. One of the guys explaining the tendency even admits that he's not really sure that what he's saying is correct. Also the production is extremely rough, and the podcast veers on just being awkward at times. Am I being unfair? And if not, does it get any better after the first episode? I really wanted to like it because, as an Irish republican, the whole starry plough thing and the fact that they have a couple episodes on Connolly attracted my attention, but I'm not really impressed by what I've heard so far edit: maybe it wasn't so much their explanation of the LTV per se but how that discussion led into their explanation of how surplus value is generated through labour and then appropriated by the capitalist exploitatively. Maybe they just explained it in terms I'm not used to, but I just find it weird how there was no mention of the distinction between labour and labour-power in their explanation, for example. And it makes me hesitant to listen to the rest of the podcast if they're butchering the explanation of such basic concepts. I hope I'm wrong though because I would like to give it another shot based solely on the Connolly stuff, haha multistability fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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