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croup coughfield
Apr 8, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 73 days!
cool

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/tk_S4FE/status/1477076187755257857

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

bi crimes posted:

how would one characterize the model of governance of the current Chinese state? ive read a lot of takes on this but it often seems to have an anarchist (liberal) bias. it generally seems hard to find decent analysis in English about post Mao China

https://spectrejournal.com/why-china-isnt-capitalist-despite-the-pink-ferraris/

this article is kinda weird, it lists a bunch of reasons why china owns and then ends with a bizarre "...and thats why it must be destroyed!" trot take, but its still decent

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

thanks for this! my first reading of the new year

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world

mila kunis posted:

https://spectrejournal.com/why-china-isnt-capitalist-despite-the-pink-ferraris/

this article is kinda weird, it lists a bunch of reasons why china owns and then ends with a bizarre "...and thats why it must be destroyed!" trot take, but its still decent

it remains one of my favorite sources to pass people because the author is clearly seething and yet

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)
Has anyone tried pressing alt-F4 on the capitalism computer??

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

https://twitter.com/PaulasRick/status/1477775802955714567

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

bi crimes posted:

how would one characterize the model of governance of the current Chinese state? ive read a lot of takes on this but it often seems to have an anarchist (liberal) bias. it generally seems hard to find decent analysis in English about post Mao China

Very carefully

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/savannimalz/status/1479254869395476480

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011



omfg how cute :3:

he deserves it, nobody should be lonely in their advanced age. (yes that's praxis)

cenotaph
Mar 2, 2013



https://twitter.com/gwencystic/status/1479307267984011266?s=20

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


about exactly what

about Lenin being so much loving kickass? or the contrary?

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018


:pwn:

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/Anyork_yt/status/1479308705975914496

?????

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007


All picrew avs are CIA.

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Not So Fast posted:

All picrew avs are CIA.

once you understand this, the world makes a lot more sense

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010


lmao incredible brains

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

lmao incredible brains

you don't even have to be anywhere near stalinism to see how much of a bad take that one is ffs

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Not So Fast posted:

All picrew avs are CIA.

picrew?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
rereading john berger on walter benjamin

quote:

Many developments have led to the need for re-examinations: the extent and degree of the pauperisation and violence which imperialism and neo-colonialism inflict upon an ever-increasing majority in the world; the virtual depoliticisation of the people of the Soviet Union: the re-emergence of the question of revolutionary democracy as primary; the achievements of China’s peasant revolution; the fact that the proletariats of consumer societies are now less likely to arrive at revolutionary consciousness through the pursuit of their directly economic self-interests than through a wider and more generalised sense of pointless deprivation and frustration; the realisation that socialism, let alone communism, cannot be fully achieved in one country so long as capitalism exists as a global system, and so on.

What the re-examinations will entail, in terms of both theory and political practice, cannot be foreseen in advance or from outside the specific territories involved. But we can begin to define the interregnum – the period of re-examination – in relation to what actually preceded it, whilst leaving sensibly aside the claims and counter-claims concerning what Marx himself really meant.

The interregnum is anti-deterministic, both as regards the present being determined by the past and the future by the present. It is sceptical of so-called historical laws, as it is also sceptical of any supra-historical value, implied by the notion of overall Progress or Civilisation. It is aware that excessive personal political power always depends for its survival upon appeals to an impersonal destiny: that every true revolutionary act must derive from a personal hope of being able to contest in that act the world as it is. The interregnum exists in an invisible world, where time is short, and where the immorality of the conviction that ends justify means lies in the arrogance of the assumption that time is always on one’s own side and that, therefore, the present moment – the time of the Now, as Benjamin called it – can be compromised or forgotten or denied.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
i get a little teary eyed. this is such a positive and healthy thing

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

Nice picrew av

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

https://twitter.com/CharOfTheWastes/status/1468912363755634696

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


exmarx posted:

rereading john berger on walter benjamin

really good

Benjamin was a step up when learning things through marxism and I think most of the stuff I've read from him from 8, 9 years ago only clicked in the last couple of years (tbqf I feel like that for most of the theory)

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007


and he's 100% correct

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

CYBEReris posted:

and he's 100% correct

the purest communist is an individual without any social connections whatsoever

Barbelith
Oct 23, 2010

SMILE
Taco Defender

wynott dunn posted:

any Austrian locals with any updates on how it is going in Graz?

Pretty quiet so far. The KPÖ formed a ruling coalition with the Greens and social democrats and are currently assessing the city's finances (which are looking abysmal). They already canceled some prestige projects planned by the ousted conservative mayor (a subway and a gondola). They are talking about extending public housing and transport, and are still donating a good part of their income as politicians to help people in need. Basically more of the things they already did in previous legislative periods.

Here's an Interview mayor Kahr did with the Jacobin recently.

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world

a common misapprehension. the character in question is actually a trot

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Barbelith posted:

Pretty quiet so far. The KPÖ formed a ruling coalition with the Greens and social democrats and are currently assessing the city's finances (which are looking abysmal). They already canceled some prestige projects planned by the ousted conservative mayor (a subway and a gondola). They are talking about extending public housing and transport, and are still donating a good part of their income as politicians to help people in need. Basically more of the things they already did in previous legislative periods.

Here's an Interview mayor Kahr did with the Jacobin recently.

Now Jacobin can accuse them of doing austerity by cutting those projects.

Southpaugh
May 26, 2007

Smokey Bacon



His response if you tell him your a fascist is similarly sharp.

Fish of hemp
Apr 1, 2011

A friendly little mouse!

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

the purest communist is an individual without any social connections whatsoever

Purest communist is a hard core materialist who lives mainly on the ideal world in their head.

wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?

Barbelith posted:

Pretty quiet so far. The KPÖ formed a ruling coalition with the Greens and social democrats and are currently assessing the city's finances (which are looking abysmal). They already canceled some prestige projects planned by the ousted conservative mayor (a subway and a gondola). They are talking about extending public housing and transport, and are still donating a good part of their income as politicians to help people in need. Basically more of the things they already did in previous legislative periods.

Here's an Interview mayor Kahr did with the Jacobin recently.

:madmax:

ErrorInvalidUser
Aug 23, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
what's your agenda trooper?

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
I read capital recently but I don’t remember, is there a technical difference between money as the universal commodity and currency? are money and currency interchangeable terms?

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007



This style of avatar is popular with interventionist liberals

https://twitter.com/zuza_real/status/1480908991089807363?t=ddR3xqF8ZUAWbWUpBnlBuA&s=19

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018


https://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1480184556330364932

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Folks, say what you will about the Islamic State of Iraq & Al-Sham, but they were right about Sykes-Picot

animist
Aug 28, 2018
there's no way that's a serious post. I refuse to believe it

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MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth
How good/important is Theories of Surplus Value compared to Das Kapital and the Grundrisse? Marx described it as the fourth volume of capital, but what more does it offer in addition to the other three volumes, if any?

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