Murple_27

"It's an acceptable loss."

I thought that this was gonna be a different joke, I'm not gonna lie.

No, but he isn't talking to them.

Yes you can have machines tell you what’s wrong, but they cannot reason why a problem exists and how to fix it.

This is also true of a human worker though. That's why the profession of "doctor" exists. The question is, why couldn't a robot be made to perform maintenance on other robots?

God is a Dwarf Fortress player.

That title. :(

Gloria de la Cruz

Lmao, the dude does not even know who the top ticket candidate of the PSL is.

I am not a populist or a tailist,

Ah, so you're an Ultra then? I suspected as much.

Until we smash imperialism these revolutionary circumstances will not arise, and as such I am a revolutionary defeatist in our context. We need to create the conditions.

I agree with the diagnosis, but not the precise treatment plan. A Socialist revolution has to be a democratic one as well. It has to be democratic, and it has to be majoritarian, because it has to actually provide a material benefit to the majority of workers which it will have to rely on for it to actually survive & triumph against the forces of reaction. If it can't do this, it will be consumed utterly, as happened to the Afghan Socialist government, and the Spaniards before them.

Decolonial theory is not a good practical fit for the United States because it is not a majority black/indigenous country, nor is it one which is surrounded by hostile indigenous nations which could potentially collapse it were they to work in concert to do so.

The difference between Israel & America is that America actually achieved what it intended to do, and we all have to work in the aftermath of that. You can't rewind the historical record, you can only keep going forward as new events & opportunities make themselves apparent.

The best solution to my mind, is to build a multiracial coalition of the working class at home who understand & are committed to Marxist-Leninist principles & who can make a move for power when revolutionary opportunities arise; and simultaneously support national-liberation movements & anti-imperialism abroad in order to create those revolutionary conditions.

The part we seem to disagree on is the middle section.

Let me ask you a very basic question. Do you think that it is necessary to mobilize a majority coalition; that is to say a coalition that represents the interests of the numerical majority of the population, in order to actually materialize a revolution from the lower classes?

If not, I think I see where our points of disagreement come from.

Stalin’s stance on Israel was horrible and one of his biggest mistakes

True, but his position on Bundism was correct.

I’m not saying they’re directly saying it (although they often do) I’m saying that it’s what they do in practice. If a communist organization prioritizes labor politics in a settler colonialist structure they end up with incorrect theory – “Israeli and Palestinian working class unite!”

The present internal situation of the United States is not comparable to the present state of the Israel-Palestine conflict. This is indisputable material fact. The United States is not levelling downtown Chicago to make room for dogshit white eurobeat clubs.

A white working class person will be excused from much of this barbarity at their expense, allowed to work IT while black people clean the toilets.

I spent this last Saturday degreasing an industrial molding machine alongside my Burmese co-workers, one of whom is my boss now. You have an insane, and materially incorrect politics.

If you're going to call yourself "Stalinist Steve" you should actually fuckin' read his work, dude.