Capitalism isn’t an collective, rational consciousness between peoples (although it might be a transition towards that). It moves and develops more or less predictably according to the laws laid out in Das Kapital.

If some companies want to do degrowth to save the climate, others that refuse to do so will simply overcome them and absorb their capital.

Exactly. Those are all different forms of property, manifesting according to the surrounding conditions. Someone should write a book on that!

I misread that as ‘restructure feudal agencies’ and didn’t bat an eye

E: anyway, interesting that we’ll be watching america decompose in real time. Less central planning and organizing will surely help america in their economic war against entire continents and economic blocs!

Over/under on america being bought by Huawei in 10 years?

E2: this also seems like an important step towards full blown fascism. Social programs will be cut and workers rights will be slashed. This assures the military gets a bonus to expand value extraction abroad, while the cops also get more funding and assure the growth of value extraction at home.

Waves of coups and privatization in the global south are coming up, these are very dark times. Hopefully this signalizes the birth of something new, as everyone realizes we need global coordinated action to fight against the great satan.

It’s because whites aren’t a group, sweaty, they’re just normal, default people

(I felt greasy just typing this)

I can already see the waves of “Trump is funding Nazis abroad 😱”

while I’m busy irl!

No relation whatsoever to what is going to happen in Tel Aviv next thursday

Anyone with a good write up of what is going on in Bolivia?

Great post! This is why I love this site.

How do you think this would change the world and america itself, compared to where we are right now? Will America import too much cheap products and further deindustrialize? Will American capitalists seek labor for cheap in the wrecked countries instead of at home? Will the global south be pushed by this maneuver towards some level, however small, of multi-national economic planning, perhaps lead by BRICS in some capacity?

Also, I think the current and possible wars in the future could shift imperialism around in ways we can’t predict without some heavy Marxist insight.

high-energy event

Confirmation that the last Klanmala rallies had nothing to do with this

in a decade

No, that schedule is reserved for cognitive-dissonating that rounding up immigrants into labor camps is a good thing, actually

What even is America’s interest in keeping Cuba starved? Is it afraid of having a communist country that close?

Is this based on some previous experience? My org is growing inside universities and I’d love to read about this and discuss it with everyone

Please keep us updated!

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Every fucking time

I’m working my ass off these last few days (including right now) and can’t read everytjing, can somebody explain what happened in Lebanon, please?

This should be the official tagline

I think the problem here is defining what communism is supposed to be, or what constitutes these “political structures.”

For Marx the “political structure” stems from the mode of production, what we usually call the base. In a very shortened form, it’s the interacting between productive forces, means of production and the property regime (and all its consequences). As Capital tries to multiply itself, capitalism has shown a development of the complexity and productivity of the means of production, along with requiring workers that are able to deal with this complex production (specifically, this is dealt with by having multiple people act in unity towards a single product), in other words, developing the productive force. As capitalism develops, it accumulates property under a central command while simultaneously making it a collective tool. So, in capitalism’s specific case, we’re dealing with private property that is only used by a capacitated collective.

The developing self-consciousness and organization of this productive collective pressures the regime of private property, which will strike back violently to keep existing, in the specific form of blunting the collective organization at all costs, as well as pushing back against the superstructure reflexions of these changes (i.e. fascism). If the self-conscious productive collective is victorious, it has been through a period where: the means of production have been transformed; the productive forces have been transformed; the property regime has been transformed. Thus, we have a new mode of production, and a new “political structure.”

This is the tendency of capitalism. But notice that this assumes a more or less constant development of technology, for example. What if climate catastrophes hit too hard too fast in the coming years? Parts of civilization could be severed from eachother, and develop in different ways, depending on what exactly gets destroyed. Would an electricity-starved modern nation still develop factories as we know them? Or would property get fragmented again? What knowledge and techniques would be lost or gained? That we can’t predict.

I guess it’s because a polio breakout would spill over into Israel itself and neighbouring countries, putting huge pressure over the genocide

It’s always the exact same middle-school reading of Marxism, holy shit. Somehow none of these experts figures there’s something wrong with comparing an inflammatory political pamphlet for a party and a fully fleshed out technical publishing.

I wonder why these geniuses never criticize the actual technical works Marx did 🤔 it’s ALWAYS just the manifesto for a party, and that’s it.

Anyway, a rule of thumb: this person doesn’t take their own work seriously, so I’m not gonna take their work seriously either.

Let’s take a look at a comprehensive list of countries that have used nukes against others:

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Based on this, we conclude that the US is less likely to use nukes against others. I’m very smart