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Its kind of a weird thing to ask about some idea and then pivot and talk about weird rude people who agree with the idea instead. It's not really a "good faith discussion" kind of thing. Hey do you like posting on the internet? Yeah? How about those Redditors huh??
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 14:43 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 16:27 |
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Yeah and what swampman said is he thought they had certain good ideas like superprofits etc so idk why we are talking about Maoist Rebel News or whatever when he answered your question about the merits. I mean, he preemptively addressed your argument about it being an excuse for inaction, and then also qualified it as being a tool to understand int'l relations.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 15:46 |
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The, heh, CPUSA has endorsed Clinton.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 17:07 |
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HorseLord posted:i don't understand why the CPUSA doesnt just dissolve itself Hey they just know that this time the Supreme Court hangs in the balance!
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 22:42 |
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Laphroaig posted:Zimbardo, I'm AFSCME local 6**, you can be my shop steward here, if I vote Maoism Third Worldism, can I have everyone making twenty posts a day in a row of that stupid bernget smiley rounded up and shot? Who would be the candidate who can get the job done? FYI I'm uneducated and don't wear glasses so I think I'll be fine. Are you being sarcastic or something, what are you on about? I'm not really posting in ye olde LF style here so what gives? I also dislike the stupid bernget thing. I decided to get involved with PSL but not because I hate people, because I think its the best way to make the world better. I don't want to be your shop steward, you be your shop steward and fight capitalism and imperialism however you gotta do.
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 03:55 |
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Nine percent for Communism isn't too shabby a result, in the beating heart of the imperial metropole. I bet a lot of that 58% for Socialism is pretty convertible too.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 03:44 |
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HorseLord posted:wanna ask these people what makes socialism different from communism and see how many words in before "Scandinavia" wanna be there to radicalize those people when sanders gets squashed
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 17:22 |
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OK pal if you say so. Regardless, Obama's 2008 victory (I voted and donated to him!) didn't stop me from coming around eventually. It's fine though, everyone's path to anti-revisionist scientific socialism is different.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 19:02 |
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To some degree, the same way those jobs are accomplished in our present society: no matter how disgusting or unpleasant some task might seem (to you), there are people who are able and willing to do it. The big, but simple, difference would be that instead of decisions of economic production being made by a handful of capitalists, they would be made democratically.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 07:15 |
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An outrageous, unsupportable claim. I'll give your goalposts a running start.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 08:18 |
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I object to a blanket characterization of all worker compensation as "wages" and I also reject the statement that wage differentials are the only, or even the most effective, noncoercive tool available to economic planners to make sure labor demands are met.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 17:39 |
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take away ur keyboard (reduces input) and give u a shovel (provides output), Saurus
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 17:51 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:If you don't have a real alternative to "wage" schemes for us to consider, then don't waste our time. I would hesitate to describe something like a nonmonetary, earned labor-hour token as a "wage" though perhaps that is a pointless semantic waste of time (although wasting time compared to what).
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 18:49 |
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zeal posted:gotta admit, there's a certain appeal to rotating unskilled sanitation duties through the other professions in a hypothetical socialist/syndicalist utopia Although really if you want to talk about intensive, unpleasant, unpaid labor we're not looking at cleaning sewers as much as changing diapers. Unpaid labor is super gendered. In a more enlightened system that would not be acceptable, and domestic work could be compensated accordingly, which would obviously be an enormous step towards the liberation of women.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 20:34 |
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It would be easy to say something snide about "Bernie Bros" and race relations but instead I'll take the chance to extend an open invitation to any Bernie Bros curious about outside political parties that are getting people organized against war and in favor of socialism!
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2016 05:03 |
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Dreddout posted:It seems to me that after decades of red scare propaganda, and Marxist socialism essentially dead in the water that socialism could do with a bit of a re-branding. Because the word socialism doesn't mean what it used to. If you are advocating for workers control of the means of production calling yourself a socialist doesn't register with Joe Sixpack. He will just think your after his guns and property. (Call it false consciousness if you want, but it doesn't change the fact that Socialism has an image problem.) People have been searching for 100 years for some sort of formula on messaging and organization that, if you only follow it, the working class will suddenly hear you. Unfortunately, I don't think that's really how politics works. Material circumstances have to be favorable; a seed won't grow unless it's in the right soil. Since the 70s, the right wing was ascendant in the West for a variety of reasons. The welfare society (like the one Sanders advocates at the present time) was only ever a transitional state; it's not a sustainable political formation. It will always slide back into capitalism or forward into socialism. But the combination of political forces that have ruled the earth since then are coming apart at the seams; the viability of Sanders and the ascendancy of Trump is a sure sign of this disintegration. So why not sit back and relax so "when the Revolution comes, we'll be round the pub?" Unfortunately there are other political formations that will try to exploit the senescence of capitalism. Trump represents what you might describe as the NeoRX take on fascism, presented for public consumption through the gloss of reality television and pro wrestling. His biggest constituency is people who recognize and affirm that they benefit from racial hierarchies and want nothing more than to enshrine ethnonationalism into law - as a way to protect themselves from capitalist muppets like Rubio, Cruz, and Bush. So unfortunately, socialism isn't inevitable, but it can contend with barbarism and so we owe it to ourselves to keep trying.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2016 21:33 |
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Dreddout posted:And what does Socialism offer me, a first world worker, in return? Because you can also say that all actually existing socialisms have failed their stated goal of communism (USSR, PRC, DPRK) much less actually achieving a socialist society. Or they are in dire straights of being destroyed by outside influence. (EZLN, YPG) Basically, the capitalist cannot give you the best deal. Hard to believe, maybe! But it's absolutely true. Capitalism, economically, tends inevitably towards crisis, disaster, and impoverishment for the vast majority. In fact, the conditions predicted by Marx keep coming true, and even mainstream, non-Marxist economists like Krugman and Piketty are constantly coming to the same conclusions on an independent basis. While those mainstream economists are able to effectively diagnose a problem (stagnating or falling standards of living in the face of enormous prosperity), their solutions fall far short. But I would absolutely dispute the idea that you, unless you are a very lucky person, actually have a standard of living that is both high and stable. I don't know anything about you! But I suspect that your personal economic situation is actually quite precarious - dominated by debt, fear of unemployment, healthcare/housing costs, etc. You'd have to be quite a rare individual to not have to worry about such things a little more every day.
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# ¿ Feb 29, 2016 15:32 |
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Bernouts welcome DOCTOR ZIMBARDO fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Mar 1, 2016 |
# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 01:07 |
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Sleep tight comrade pupper!Dreddout posted:I meant in comparison to the Third and Second World. I have actually lived below the poverty line for much of my life, and had to enter the workforce earlier then most people, to secure my family. This is probably why I have such a great deal of familial loyalty, we have always looked out for each other. Oh, in that case, yes! You've made it to the metropole, congratulations (really!). Here, poor people actually do possess refrigerators etc. Here, workers, taken as a mass are generally (though by no means exclusively) better off than their counterparts in much of the rest of the world. Of course, I think you can acknowledge that not everyone can enjoy an American standard of living (both because it's impossible with the resources available on this planet, and because the American "way of life" is subsidized by loving over the rest of the world through geopolitics). But I don't think that will be the case for very long -- see the "race to the bottom" phenomenon that's going on; it has no reason to stop, and is in fact accelerating. There is also the question of how long exactly America can sustain the geopolitical system that allows it to enjoy the fruits of imperialism. Some people, like Trump, think they can brute-force their way into relevance, but that will work as well for Trump as it does for Putin (not very). Sooner or later all empires fall (because they do not consciously try to mold history in a scientific fashion). Thanks for coming into the thread with real questions about your own life instead of tilting at Cold War windmills or trolling! DOCTOR ZIMBARDO fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Mar 1, 2016 |
# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 07:12 |
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the guy is asking for the elevator speech about the underlying ideology. its a softball question even it its posed skeptically.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 15:25 |
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It's cool af to see the internal contradictions of the Democratic party come to a head today. shovelbum posted:How do you guys think large, capital-intensive enterprises should be handled? I saw a lot of stuff earlier in the thread about making things smaller and more individualized when giving ownership back to the workers (farmers in Burkina Faso etc.) but how does that extend to shipbuilding or aerospace or whatever else? There seem to be some industries that cannot even in the wildest dreams be broken up and given back to the workers on a small local scale. Centralized economic planning and radical democracy are not opposed concepts in my opinion. There's plenty of ways to make it work - from a system of juries to just putting everyone's preferences into a smartphone and letting you vote on your preferences as often as is practicable.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 20:34 |
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It's fine actually since Homework Explainer did actually explain the other guy's homework perfectly fine the first time. Ormi's objections mischaracterized the argument and tried to shift the goalposts of discussion.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 22:39 |
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The Saurus posted:Yeah I guess 90% of the population should cater and pander to 10% of the population after all. Especially when a not-insignificant part of that 10% are criminals who entered the country illegally to undercut the wages and conditions of Americans. entering without inspection isn't a crime doofus
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2016 23:28 |
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Cool. You should check them out for stuff beyond the election too because this isnt about electoral politics as much as it is building a movement that can challenge capitalism! Plus they are gonna need volunteers and stuff.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2016 18:44 |
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Big ups to PSL and ANSWER in Chicago! And all the other comrades doing good work too lol
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 07:16 |
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ALSO: you dont have to be a communist to help support the legal defense funds of arrested anti-trump protesters
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 07:36 |
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Thanks for posting.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 07:53 |
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Bernice Anders posted:Golden Don lol
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 19:16 |
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:ALSO: you dont have to be a communist to help support the legal defense funds of arrested anti-trump protesters Thanks to the support of over 1500 people, over $50,000 was raised in 36 hours to support the #TrumpRally and #ByeAnita protesters. Three people were released without monetary bonds. Two other protesters were charged with felonies and had bond set at $5,000 each. CCBF representatives will be posting these bonds in full later today, and Sergio and Sohaan will be released tonight. All unused funds will become part of the Chicago Community Bond Fund's General Fund and will be used to free people from the Cook County Jail. If you have any questions, please feel contact us at info@chicagobond.org. To learn more about our work, or sign up for our mailing list, please visit us at chicagobond.org.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2016 21:01 |
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join the party for socialism and liberation and perhaps all you depressed bernard brothers will finally catch the chicken before president Hillary gets into world war 3
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2016 02:51 |
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Totes agreed. Me and a couple friends are gonna put together a couple fundraisers, I think.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2016 04:18 |
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people on my friends list - the jet setting liberal humanitarian types - have started openly pining for a military coup if trump wins lmao stupid stupid liberals
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2016 17:59 |
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I am on my way to a worker advocacy clinic where I will volunteer to try to help workers organize and learn how to advocate for themselves in the hideously pro-boss american legal system. However I did not make any progress on my goal of putting together a fundraiser. On the bright side I had someone suggest forming a PAC lol. e: also on the home front my sweet old aunt Joanie is resharing Jacobin articles about antifascism from my fb wall lol.
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2016 22:44 |
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I think it's sensible and scientific to say that decolonization is a historical process that took place over enormous areas of the globe and, despite being far from complete, as a movement it achieved serious accomplishments that seem able to withstand even a century of bleak reaction.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2016 17:57 |
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Ormi posted:What figure correctly identifies superprofits? You might be interested in Zak Cope's work on this subject, as he attempted to quantify it. His analysis suggested that the superprofits of imperialism nearly, but not quite entirely, compensated for domestic exploitation. I would not be surprised if, in recent years, those superprofits (however you decide to measure them) have been considerably eroded. That's the fuel driving these crazy political shakeups we see in the USA and Europe.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 06:27 |
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Strategic Voting: http://www.liberationnews.org/registered-democrats-vote-sanders-n-y-primary/ quote:PSL STATEMENT Also I saw Eugene Puryear a few days ago for maybe the second(?) time, at a conference. Cool dude, crazy smart, also funny.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 22:40 |
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A substantial majority of young Americans explicitly reject capitalism (in some way, shape, or form), a solid nine percent believe communism is the most compassionate social system, and many more believe in some sort of "socialism." I would expect that most of the people in this thread are on the cutting edge of an enormous political shift in this country. There's a lot of work to do organizing the people whose lives are being destroyed by the changes in material circumstances underlying all those people waking up one morning and deciding capitalism sucks. Fortunately, folks like us are doing great work all over the country not just fighting for $15, but fighting to stop us from starting lovely new wars, fighting gentrification, fighting to bring an end to racist immigration policies that made Obama the Deporter-In-Chief, and fighting to bring an end to the carceral state. I fully expect the Hillary presidency to radicalize plenty more of my peers, just like Obama's presidency radicalized me.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2016 06:32 |
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Chears
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2016 06:35 |
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Homework Explainer posted:i'm at left forum experiencing every cliche of the "organized" left, ama How's the energy out there
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# ¿ May 21, 2016 18:52 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 16:27 |
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Even mainstream economists concede that global warming represents an intractable coordination problem. Actually the Jacobin "four futures" piece is OK if you're curious about it.crabcakes66 posted:Yeah I guess we can ignore large increases in world HDI because entitled brats in America are mad they don't have it quite as good as their parents did. Agreed but about the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
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# ¿ May 26, 2016 12:57 |