Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/PubicZirconium/status/955886636721672192

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://twitter.com/Lenins_kitten/status/955776217935949824

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

thread

https://twitter.com/ajitbirsingh/status/955831000285745153

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In a recent article for the Guardian, columnist Rafael Behr wrote about the strange dissonance in finding lifelong anti-capitalist John McDonnell making the case for a reformed version of social democracy at the Word Economic Forum at Davos, Europe’s largest conference of financiers, bankers and other pillars neoliberalism. Yet for anyone following John McDonnell’s aesthetic journey from revolutionary firebrand to concerned bank manager, this won’t come as any kind of surprise. Behr goes on to accuse followers of the Labour leadership of adhering to a form of vague anti-capitalism born of scepticism of corporate power but lacking any firm ideological demands for its replacement.

This is probably a fair analysis, but what Behr declined to comment upon is the potential of such a large pool of vaguely interested people for real politicisation. With all their attention focused on hunting the ghosts of Citizen Smith and the mad trotskyist radicalism they grew up with on campuses in the 1960s and 70s, Britain’s media class have consistently failed to notice the rise of something altogether more modern emerging on the left. Take a scroll through Red London, an entertaining meme page run by a group of anonymous young railway workers, which appears to advocate rigid 1930s Marxism-Leninism and Corbyn’s softcore parliamentary social democracy as if they were interchangeable. To a baffled observer this looks like a deranged misunderstanding of both world history and the current political moment, but that in itself is a misunderstanding.

Red London has a dizzyingly large following considering its apparently niche politics and even more niche aesthetic. They’re not seriously advocating a return to Year-Zero Stalinism (at least, probably not, you never can quite tell), and the more dire warnings mainstream liberals and conservatives give to that effect, the more moronic they look in the face of Red London’s barrage of irreverent and genuinely funny Soviet idolatry. They paint an intelligible, good natured picture of far left politics, embracing rather than avoiding its more absurd aspects, and form part of the online ecosystem turning Rafael Behr’s great mass of vague anti-capitalist youngsters into a generation equipped with a broad working knowledge of socialist theory.

While the technocratic centre ludicrously argue that nationalisation of the railways will lead people blindly into gulags, it is perhaps the opposite which is true. After being given a tour through to the whole gamut of historical leftism, with its triumphs and tragedies, a public stake in public services seems a mild idea indeed. Armed with that awareness, the mainstream’s objections to policies like public ownership cease to look like common sense, and are increasingly revealed as openly hostile ideological positions.

In a media age dominated by corporate forces presenting themselves as unambiguously benevolent, but consistently behave in a nightmarish and dystopian fashion, the surest route to power will be a subversion of this approach. If semi-ironic and humour is the shield of the movement, then growing surety of purpose will be the sword.

Squizzle posted:

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Squizzle posted:

if you buy a tag and im not posting on literally the same page where you mention it, pm me

also pm me if you have any title text or something you need restored along with the av. sometimes yr moderation action history will have an old title in entire, but more often, all i can get to is yr av image.

use w/e means you prefer to gimme a list of the 8 people

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/955935632383078400

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/ArtieFissio/status/956735231872131074

Aliquid posted:

saw a better version of this with sankara

Aliquid posted:

saw a better version of this with sankara

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

yw

Goon Danton posted:

So I'm reading Capital because it's more interesting than anything I'm actually supposed to be doing, and in chapter three Karl puts a lot of emphasis on the money commodity needing to exist as a commodity in itself, namely as gold or silver. How important does this end up being to his overall argument, and has there been an attempt by Marxists to address this in the post-gold-standard era?

Goon Danton posted:

So I'm reading Capital because it's more interesting than anything I'm actually supposed to be doing, and in chapter three Karl puts a lot of emphasis on the money commodity needing to exist as a commodity in itself, namely as gold or silver. How important does this end up being to his overall argument, and has there been an attempt by Marxists to address this in the post-gold-standard era?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/AniHistory/status/955251165926748160

walgreenslatino posted:

here's the offending post lol

https://twitter.com/TheistTears/status/955860438293630976?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E0

gtrmp posted:

when did "smoothbrain" go from being a channer nazi shibboleth to being an irony twitter catchphrase

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/ArtieFissio/status/956735231872131074

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's not that important and doesn't need much adjusting. Marx describing the commodity form of money as necessary for there to be money, was informed by the state of capitalism as he observed it in the UK. Capital is a descriptive analysis of capitalism as it was. It doesn't take that much adjusting, because instead of using commodities as a monetary base now we base money on the credit of the issuing government or institution. The important thing of Marx's monetary theory is how money facilitates commodity exchanges and the accumulation of capital.

Wheeee posted:

That's like reading On the Origin of Species to learn about evolutionary theory

Goon Danton posted:

Karl Barks posted:

Turing police now denying the Bosnian genocide 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

GalacticAcid posted:

Settlers: the myth of the white noise proletariat

GalacticAcid posted:

Settlers: the myth of the white noise proletariat

R. Guyovich posted:

i don't really care about the minutia of twitter but have you ever not posted white noise

R. Guyovich posted:

i don't really care about the minutia of twitter but have you ever not posted white noise