UnderpantsWeevil
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- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 10 hours ago:
Amusing take, considering the source material
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 10 hours ago:
Right. It was a fixation on “China Bad”
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 11 hours ago:
When the military returns to the imperial core, it’s fascism
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 11 hours ago:
Whichever state supported group is shooting and beating and arresting protestors in China
I’m more concerned with the police lashing out at protesters closer to home
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 12 hours ago:
Which colonial power lacks a politically influential profit-seeking military?
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 12 hours ago:
Few carry guns. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Chinese police equivalent to the NYPD Police Tank that was used to raid the Columbia campus.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
Let us divorce at least the name of a singular man from a body of work
If we had a collection of competing working applications of communism, that would be easier. But trying to divorce it from Marx is a bit like trying to divorce capitalism from Adam Smith or the more modern Anarcho-Capitalist attitude from Rothbard and Rand. Like talking about Protestantism without mentioning Martin Luther.
Show me a fully realized anarchist state and we might be able to talk about Peter Kropotkin or Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. But anarchists from Republican Spain to the Bodo League of Korea to American Native Tribes were wiped out by fascist militarism.
You could draw sharper lines between Leninism, Maoism, and Chauvism, but you’d still start from their common Marxist heritage.
The reductions of bodies of political thought to singular authors is often used to exclude others.
They’re influential for a reason.
I am told that I am not a Socialist because I am not a Marxist
I mean, you can call yourself whatever you want. But I see the term “Socialist” pitched around to describe everything from corporate liberalism to primativist anarchism. If you want to talk about AES states, you’re talking about countries that rooted themselves in Marxist philosophy.
If you said you were a Maoist or a Leninist or a Chavezist would I not conclude that you are in agreement with their very specific realms of their personal philosophy?
If I said I was a Maoist, I just didn’t agree with anything in Mao’s Little Red Book, I would not blame you for calling me a bullshitter.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
fascism and communism sit on the join but with different lie.
Don’t leave us hanging.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
Can’t have fascism without a strong national identity and an activist military.
- Comment on Bruh 1 day ago:
I just think it’s neat
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
If you are saying gender equality is Marxist then I am guessing you haven’t read much Marx friend. Marx was very about women being relegated to traditional gender roles
Marxism does not end with Marx any more than Newtonian Physics ends with Newton.
That said, I’ve seen plenty of liberal writers approach the original works with cynical and dishonest takes. So it helps to cite your reference if you want to be taken seriously.
that’s not his text and quite frankly there are other contemporary philosophers and movement leaders which did it better.
Sure. Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Chavez, etc, etc.
but I personally wish that people could normalize other schools of leftist philosophy and not treat Marx particularly as the magnet that all of us will inevitably be drawn to
It’s hard to escape Marx’s gravitational pull without abandoning 19th century modes of industrial economics.
So long as colonial powers continue to apply old liberal economic theories of endless expansion and consolidated ownership in the face of diminishing returns, Marx’s insights into failing rate of profit fueling economic contradictions will remain relevant.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
I’ve never heard a cop called a Tankie.
But they’re always the ones in the large militant unions demanding more public money while driving around in actual tanks.
- Comment on Later, losers 1 day ago:
Took her forever to get here from Canada.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
Liberalism can be right wing or left wing.
Eh. Its traditionally in that “economically conservative, socially liberal” pocket, wherein you can do whatever you want so long as you’ve got enough passive income.
Fascists tend toward a more rigid social caste system (ideologically) wherein being rich isn’t enough to save you from state violence. That’s a big part of its popular appeal, particularly when liberal institutions decay into kleptocracies.
Traditional Marxism tends toward the social egalitarianism that fascists can’t stomach (race mixing, gender equality, and worker internationalism) while advocating full public ownership that liberal rent-seekers can’t stomach.
So, in the modern political spectrum, liberals tend to be “centrists” who use their economic influence to rent out social egalitarianism. Fascists tend to be “right wing”, advocating for those same private entities to purge themselves of unpopular social groups. And Marxists tend to be “left wing”, advocating for an abolition of rents and a full egalitarian economy.
But if you go back a century (or move over to a country that’s more left or right leaning) the colonial era monarchies and theocracies end up forming the right-wing pole, while fascists join liberals at the social center, and Marxists join a much more lively native anarchist community that’s in its last-gasp efforts to resist colonial occupation.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
putting on the Darth Vader armor
doxxing sites dominated by the far-right
Yes. Becoming an unkillable cyborg space wizard and outting someone paying for a message board full of Nazi copypasta are the same.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
The Other Kind of Leftists
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
I don’t like libtards.
You can just call them liberals. You don’t need to meld the term to a slur.
I mean, you should try and be nice obviously
By shaving the first two letters off an r-bomb? Come on, guy. I get what you’re saying, but this is an awful way to phrase it.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
Authoritarian Communist
I see this term used so often from the lofty reaches of some national news rag or echoing out of a Senate star chamber. The CEO is stamping it into an EULA, as an irrevocable term of service. The corporate union-buster is putting it up in 120 point font in a company wide mandatory power point presentation. The evangelical minister is denouncing it from the pulpit as part of a catechism call-and-response. The nosey neighbor is whispering it into the phone, hoping a SWAT team will remove someone from the block. The police holding you face down in a bucket of water are screaming it in your ears.
Beware the authoritarian communist. Beware the tankies. Beware the Chinese / Russian / Venezuelan social terrorists, fifth columnists, and outside agitators. Beware the college kid in the Che Guevera t-shirt. Beware the Anti-American. Whatever you think we might be doing to you now, they’ll be ten times worse.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 4 days ago:
It doesn’t feel practical to enforce, save in so far as it lets them put you on a list of people not to extend future early-release games to. But you have to assume they were already doing that, as any marketing department worth its salt is going to have a boutique set of insider streamers who are effectively just contracted media flaks plugging your product.
On today’s episode of “This shouldn’t be legal”…
Think about it this way. The same guys who stream video game reviews to make money are paid by the advertisers who sponsor their streams. And the sponsor won’t pay for a stream if its disparaging of their content. So the streamer is being paid to cut an ad.
Imagine if you hired someone to go door-to-door selling people your sandwiches. And in the middle of each delivery the guys you hired would take a big bite, spit out the sandwich, and say “This is awful! I hate it!” What are you paying this asshole for?
Just stop pretending streamers are these independent objective observers and recognize them for what they are - online door-to-door sales guys.
- Comment on *Naruto 6 days ago:
Discussing DBZ with my beautiful trad wife and children.
- Comment on The power of AI 1 week ago:
Automatic Screen Scrapper meets Obnoxious Internet Paywall
A grudge match between the Worst Things About the Internet.
- Comment on Bruh, take a break already 1 week ago:
Alien just wants to look at the memes once you put down the phone.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 week ago:
the beginning of the master plan to monetize our communities.
I think it was closer to the middle of the plan.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 week ago:
do a barrel roll to continue
Reddit hasn’t been that fun in a long time.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 week ago:
Easy fix is to update the url to use “old.reddit.com” rather than the base “reddit.com”.
That sends you to a version of the site without a bunch of the crap.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
the West where the AfD has been losing many elections labeled as an islamic Caliphate
Real “stay mad” energy.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
Pretty much everything built with dimensional lumber in the last century has been done with undersized 2x4s, and it’s fine.
It’s fine, folks. Nothing to see here.
