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What mainstream news sites do you guys recommend reading? I'm really trying to get off twitter as reading leftist twitter leaves me both angry and astounded at the stupidity of it all.
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ToxicAcne posted:What mainstream news sites do you guys recommend reading? I'm really trying to get off twitter as reading leftist twitter leaves me both angry and astounded at the stupidity of it all. cspam
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Jan 8, 2021 02:01
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ToxicAcne posted:What mainstream news sites do you guys recommend reading? I'm really trying to get off twitter as reading leftist twitter leaves me both angry and astounded at the stupidity of it all. why do you want to follow the news?
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Jan 8, 2021 02:02
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indigi posted:actually the objective conditions say this is bad and counterproductive i just hope the bourgeois state can hold it together long enough to give me my $2000 before the whole thing collapses
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Jan 8, 2021 02:06
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jarofpiss posted:why do you want to follow the news? Just general awareness of what's going on in the world. CSPAM is better than twitter but the nihilism gets to me sometimes. This thread is one of the better ones because it's mostly theory and people here are pretty helpful.
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Jan 8, 2021 02:10
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ToxicAcne posted:What mainstream news sites do you guys recommend reading? I'm really trying to get off twitter as reading leftist twitter leaves me both angry and astounded at the stupidity of it all.
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Jan 8, 2021 02:29
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wow you love supply chains huh
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Jan 8, 2021 02:30
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Contention is a good economic blog from a left perspective.
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Jan 8, 2021 02:32
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indigi posted:wow you love supply chains huh A little over a year ago I was unemployed and enthusiastically trying to imagine ways for industrial action to succeed, and the just-in-time supply chain seemed like an obvious weak point. Then the pandemic came and I kept following this news because it turns out it's relevant to basically everything.
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Jan 8, 2021 02:35
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ToxicAcne posted:What mainstream news sites do you guys recommend reading? I'm really trying to get off twitter as reading leftist twitter leaves me both angry and astounded at the stupidity of it all. twitter is really good if you use it correctly. i use the lists feature to categorize stuff from people who are actually informative and useful FT, bloomberg https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ is the best news aggregator ive found https://fx.substack.com/?no_cover=true is a good geopolitics blog from a leftist guy https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com for economic updates from a marxist perspective
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Jan 8, 2021 02:38
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ToxicAcne posted:What mainstream news sites do you guys recommend reading? I'm really trying to get off twitter as reading leftist twitter leaves me both angry and astounded at the stupidity of it all. https://www.wsws.org/ Seconding the recommendation for contention https://contention.substack.com/ https://www.peoplesworld.org/ https://www.telesurenglish.net/
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Jan 8, 2021 02:44
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Why is the American petit bourgeoisie so reactionary? They seem to be Trump's most die hard supporters. I've read that the Soviets and PRC sealed their support by winning over the petit bourgeois.
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Jan 8, 2021 04:29
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Because in the seat of global empire they generally benefit handsomely from the current global order and adhere firmly to the ideology of power
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Jan 8, 2021 04:42
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mawarannahr posted:A little over a year ago I was unemployed and enthusiastically trying to imagine ways for industrial action to succeed, and the just-in-time supply chain seemed like an obvious weak point. Then the pandemic came and I kept following this news because it turns out it's relevant to basically everything. all you have to do is follow the freight and the cargo and the rest falls into place you will see people caterwaul every time someone organizes a general strike at a port
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Jan 8, 2021 04:45
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Victory Position posted:all you have to do is follow the freight and the cargo and the rest falls into place I've got a pet theory that one of the reasons just-in--time was adopted so quickly was not just to save money in storing them, but limiting the power of workforces to seize the factory or whatever and operate on their own. One of the few things that would shut down a worker-managed organization would be other corporations refusing to trade with them, and now they run out even sooner.
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Jan 8, 2021 04:50
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Ardent Communist posted:I've got a pet theory that one of the reasons just-in--time was adopted so quickly was not just to save money in storing them, but limiting the power of workforces to seize the factory or whatever and operate on their own. One of the few things that would shut down a worker-managed organization would be other corporations refusing to trade with them, and now they run out even sooner. Doesn't this create more vulnerabilities than it solves? If factories/stores don't have a healthy store of goods to process/sell, than any strike holds up every single link in further down the supply chain.
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Jan 8, 2021 05:04
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just-in-time was created because it increases profits. it isn't some convoluted plan to stop strikes, imo
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Jan 8, 2021 05:07
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ToxicAcne posted:Why is the American petit bourgeoisie so reactionary? They seem to be Trump's most die hard supporters. I've read that the Soviets and PRC sealed their support by winning over the petit bourgeois. I haven’t done a ton of reading on this but at least in the Soviet case the petit bourgs were firmly on the side of the liberals at first and then the spread amongst the capitalists of various stripes
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Jan 8, 2021 05:08
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THS posted:Contention is a good economic blog from a left perspective.
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Jan 8, 2021 05:27
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://www.wsws.org/ please don't recommend the weird sex website lol https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/mediaCategory/sex-witch-hunt https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/23/meto-n23.html
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Jan 8, 2021 06:33
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megalodong posted:please don't recommend the weird sex website lol also a whole slew of articles defending the honor of woody allen david walsh has been fighting this crusade for like 10 years, it's incredible
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megalodong posted:please don't recommend the weird sex website lol what the gently caress lol
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Jan 8, 2021 06:43
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wsws has a lot of good reporting on austerity by the so-called left parties around the world if you can ignore the sex pest apologia
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Yossarian-22 posted:wsws has a lot of good reporting on austerity by the so-called left parties around the world if you can ignore the sex pest apologia yeah I was gonna say I lol at the sex pestery as much as the next guy but they do have some decent reporting elsewhere omelette, eggs, etc
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Ferrinus posted:i'm always skeptical of this because like agh, if we'd only done a sectarian split sooner..! I mean, there's a sense in which both can be true, that an earlier break would have afforded more opportunity to build the sort of "general staff of the revolution" that they were crippled by lacking, and that struggle within the party and movement short of a break would have left them less dangerously isolated.
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Jan 8, 2021 07:20
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 father coughlin was a mmt guy...
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exmarx posted:
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please do not read the WSWS, it is the publication of the SEP which is probably the most out of touch and sectarian of all the tiny sects on the left as evidenced by their articles on roman polanski but also by if you go to any action or meeting or event with an open discussion you will inevitably find one of their members present haranguing everyone else present for being opportunist reactionary traitors to the revolution
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exmarx posted:
lmao send this to matt bruenig
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apropos to nothing posted:please do not read the WSWS, it is the publication of the SEP which is probably the most out of touch and sectarian of all the tiny sects on the left as evidenced by their articles on roman polanski but also by if you go to any action or meeting or event with an open discussion you will inevitably find one of their members present haranguing everyone else present for being opportunist reactionary traitors to the revolution Yeah they're basically a cult. You have to know how to read them properly
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apropos to nothing posted:please do not read the WSWS, it is the publication of the SEP which is probably the most out of touch and sectarian of all the tiny sects on the left as evidenced by their articles on roman polanski but also by if you go to any action or meeting or event with an open discussion you will inevitably find one of their members present haranguing everyone else present for being opportunist reactionary traitors to the revolution I respect the heck out of you apropos of nothing so I will take this under advisement
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I mean if you stan loving Polanski and loving Weinstein cos 'these women were inconsistent sometimes speaking on the stand about horrific sexual abuse hes clearly not guilty' you should not be read on loving principle
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Jan 8, 2021 11:57
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Those articles make me sick lmfao. 'polanski attacked by banker-president' you're defending a loving convicted pedophile multimillionaire who dodged punishment with his clout. 'weinstein got more than the nazis' yeah nazis should have been punished more not weinstein less you loving moron
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"Weinstein has every right to confront his accusers—and yes, attempt to discredit them." gently caress you im glad world socialists are doing their duty to protect and help these powerful men against women  , finally some useful socialist action am i right bros? gently caress those loving patriarchal assholes into the sun dex_sda fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:I respect the heck out of you apropos of nothing so I will take this under advisement i can back up that their actual members harass the gently caress out of other groups, i’ve seen it in person. they are the craziest of crazy, total nutjobs
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THS posted:just-in-time was created because it increases profits. it isn't some convoluted plan to stop strikes, imo
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on the other hand, isn't it so tied up with labor arbitrage that it allows many companies to employ fewer workers with reduced organizing ability?
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apropos to nothing posted:please do not read the WSWS, it is the publication of the SEP which is probably the most out of touch and sectarian of all the tiny sects on the left as evidenced by their articles on roman polanski but also by if you go to any action or meeting or event with an open discussion you will inevitably find one of their members present haranguing everyone else present for being opportunist reactionary traitors to the revolution that just describes trots tho 
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THS posted:just-in-time was created because it increases profits. it isn't some convoluted plan to stop strikes, imo created gives the wrong impression. like it popped out in its entirety. its like natural selection, enormous selection pressure.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Doesn't this create more vulnerabilities than it solves? If factories/stores don't have a healthy store of goods to process/sell, than any strike holds up every single link in further down the supply chain. mawarannahr posted:on the other hand, isn't it so tied up with labor arbitrage that it allows many companies to employ fewer workers with reduced organizing ability? indeed capitalism is a land of contradiction fwiw, David Harvey explicitly mentions just-in-time manufacturing in discussing chapter 14 (division of labour and manufacture) of Capital vol 1. In Capital this is the chapter right after the idea of "collective labour" and so there are implications in terms of how it's the capitalist(s) that organize and control that collective labour. Inside their own factory, they have central planning, but outside, they're subject to the demands of market logic, which is sorta relevant to what Homeless Friend was referring to, and relates to modern arguments about the potential for central planning given modern technology relative to what the Soviets were using in, like, 1930 or whatever (c.f. that People's Republic of Walmart book). In terms of just-in-time, for the capitalist, there are disadvantages (the potential for strikes) but also advantages (aside from the efficiencies in squeezingout the surplus value: workers are more and more unskilled, so they're more and more alienated from their labour — psychologically in terms of doing repetitive bullshit, and also in terms of the power relation of having to sell that labour power in a marketplace). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqEKLuPCgZ0&t=4077s Book: quote:
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