As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
I'm starting to think Marx wasn't just using an allegory there.
I just love DDR's #27 symbol to death. I call it the "communist nerd symbol." I also really like the Angola flag one as it is closer to the tools that would be used on the other side of the Atlantic in Brazil, rather than a sickle. We could easily appropriate it.
One issue I have with many leftist podcasts I've found is that they're more like round-table talk shows than educative/entertainment. @[email protected] mentioned soberana.tv, that has something like that with their "Revolushow" one that picks a specific subject per episode to delve into, and I think Hexbear's Deprogram is kinda like that too, but I don't think they're enough.
One of the most radicalising works I've found in my life was Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcasts, even if the author is a socdem. It was very entertaining and binge-worthy, but also helped a lot normalise the idea of revolution and desmistify a bunch of propaganda. I think we could only stand to win from building similar projects that mix entertaining narratives and educational value.
In order to agitate we have to be where the workers get their info. In Russia it was the newspapers, in Cuba it was the radio, nowadays a lot of it is in internet audiovisual media.
~~Brazilians here please consider a "Revoltas" podcast that's similar to Mike Duncan's one but for Brazilian insurgencies, revolts and attempted revolutions~~
Worth noting that the Republicans already tried a coup back in 2021, and none of the actual responsible have faced any repercussions. I don't think they'll be too deterred from trying something like that again with proper coordination this time. Doubt anybody will be too galvanised to fight for "President Elect Joe Biden" after these 4 years, so this will be relevant no matter which clown wins.
"Maybe this will finally be the straw that will break the camel's back of the blind trust in electoralism", said the Marxist for the 100th time.
Ironically, another guy just did a pretty good video about why this is happening. Basically those streaming services were built on debt and operated on loss, with hopes of saturating their markets ASAP and then ramping up profits once they stablish a monopoly. So Netflix could create a bunch of very expensive exclusive series, but they can't keep doing that forever (which is why they keep getting cancelled).
But turns out that now they have already saturated their markets, and although none of them has a monopoly they have completely dominated the TV program market. So now it's enshittification time all the time.
My main worry is how they'd react if one of their capitalist allies (like BRICS countries) had their own proper revolution including the whole "topple the current China-recongnised government with deals with China." I think it'd be within their economic and maybe geopolitical interests to be a bit wary of that, even if they have ideological solidarity with those revolutionaries. I wonder how something like that would turn out.
People keep trying to say that this time capitalism is so extra bad that it's actually something different. Crony capitalism, maniacal capitalism, feudalism. This couldn't be the exactly the same system that produced all the monopolies of the last century in which every source of food was (and is) owned by a small cartel of supermarket monopsonies. These people could really use a read or two of Lenin's Imperialism. Capitalism is when market, feudalism is when rent.
I'm still gonna read it when it comes out because data is cool, but what a lib title, and a worse interview.
It might just be my lack of knowledge of the smaller European countries, but this is such a niche thing on a community that is technically not supposed to be an explicit anticommunist thing, that I feel this might be fedposting.
It's a neat trick, post something that confirms previously enforced biases, but not interesting or topical enough that many people will know about it and push back, or actually bother to research it.
You'd be surprised how many Yankee "leftists" aren't aware of basic stuff like the Radio Frees, the current indigenous genocide, school to prison pipeline, or the sanctions against the "authoritarian" AES countries (causing a lot of their real issues), among many others, and are very willing to side with their own meddling against countries that are actually trying something because they might be "not true socialism." Even if all accusations against Cuba or China (I don't know that much about Vietnam or DPRK) were correct, they'd still be the lesser evil by a long shot.
There were other visits too, but NATO countries are mostly intentionally boycotting the investigation. I'm pretty sure any person who can do tourism in China can go there so long as they don't break laws. But I remember a recent article where NATO countries were advising against travelling there, for mysterious reasons.
Not exactly fond of this line of attack. Brainworms? Sure. :stormfront:? Also sure. But using actual horrible diseases to dunk on Reddit seems to me to be in really poor taste.
People don't choose to get brain cancer, and it doesn't automatically make them "dumb" or something like that. If I may invoke the slippery slope, I think this is a very small step away from just outright calling redditors the r-word.
You should do an AMA, your fans are dying to know ya. But seriously, your posts over there on the main instance are very nice and keep the place at least mildly tolerable. It's also cool to see the "educated" libs get confused by simple facts being posted without automatic removal or quarantining. Keep up the good work!
How do you feel when it's treated in a more sensible way by the narrative? For example, in Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
spoilers for fire emblem path of radiance
Before the beginning of the story, a whole tribe of pacifist bird people is slaughtered due to racist scapegoating, and the rest of the narrative treats this event as the horrible atrocity that it is.
It is not perfect, but it at least never portray people attacked by racist armies as "deserving it" in any way. ~~ignore for a second that the bird people are pale and blonde.~~
Also if you read the Silmarileon critically you'll notice that elves are basically settlers in whole constructions made by and for dwarves, who had been driven out. Several of their halls are passingly mentioned to have been built by dwarves, and there are even stories where jealous dwarves are portrayed as "greedy" for wanting the fruits of their labour for themselves.