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What you're saying now is what you would be saying in 1933.
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The whole thing smacks of gender
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80s Republicans despised the USSR even though Soviet leadership was pretty much just like them, in terms of social conservatism and which class of people deserved to run things
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But Luigi is a folk hero and Obama isn't, so the question is what goal were you aiming at in the first place
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bsky.app/profile/juli...
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AOC would be totally wasted as VP
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Popehat is a doomer right now. He also thought that Miller starting the ICE civil war in LA was a great move rather than a blunder.
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Sorry to hear that. Not all anarchists lol.
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When a real Left-wing program goes down to defeat (Corbyn 2019), the explanation is "the media were biased against us". NO SHIT SHERLOCK, there is no way short of a revolution that you can get a media that's not biased against a Left-wing platform, so either resign yourself to defeat or make plans
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And they don't even have the ethnic charm of Afrikaners, with their braais and boerwoers
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It's petty-bourgeois in the classical sense, or alternatively "noble savagery". People who believe the lie that the working class/racialized people don't "think" and want to be just like that. I prefer the 19th century factory workers who learned to read just so they could read Marx
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What really blows my mind is that Bill Ayers came up from underground and became a college professor. What kind of economy did the US use to have where you could be an armed rebel and after that slot easily back into the professional classes? Indeed, most of those 70s MLs ended up with tenured jobs!
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There's a difference between Lenin who said that the triumph of communism meant electrifying the whole country, and Stalin who thought genetics were bourgeois, and again, it's the difference between a rising and stagnating ruling class
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They also live in my country. The Auckland suburb of Howick is known as "Rhodesia-by-the-sea"
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But more seriously, there's an argument that Hitler never BELIEVED he was going to win WW2, but he wanted to take all of Germany into Valhalla
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Metaxas, the military dictator of Greece, had one word to say to people like that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohi_Day
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I'm an old commie who can only repeat: the capitalist class believed in science and truth, against the clerics and "divine right of Kings", when they were on their way up. When threatened, they are retreating to fantasy about Computer Jesus who will replace workers altogether.
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The question is one of incentives. Being "oriented to material reality" is incentivized for those who want to understand the world and change it. Believing in magic or the Triumph of the Will is incentivized for those already in power who want to keep it at all costs.
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Kitchen table issues like "not wanting to see migrants or trans people any more"
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The long form is Marx's __The Civil War in France_, but the short form is Wikipedia "Paris Commune"
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Oh, I get it, you guys think a "wealth producer" is a capitalist. Fuck no. The opposite. I'm a Marxist. Working people create wealth.
Not quite this, but in the ballpark en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council...
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No, it's democracy as it would have been understood by the Paris commune.
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I think the obsession of the US left with guns that they never use is that people want the cool aesthetics of the armed phase of the New Left with none of the risks of actually going underground
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Back dat square asshole up
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There is a precedent here: Serbia 1998
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I do like the aesthetic. I think as a program, it comes up against the question of utopianism, viz. how many people think that "planting the seeds" means seceding from capitalist society (somehow) rather than fighting within it
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I dunno, didn't bin Laden deny that he did 9/11? More recently, Hamas swore by the almighty that the atrocities against civilians on 10/7 were done by randos who just happened to break out of Gaza at the same time as them
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HAHAHAHAHA oh wow
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You think he'll do that? If he's been reading social media, he'll know that the very best he could do for his cause is to announce that he's a communist who murdered Dem shitlibs for being anti-illegal immigration
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Uh-oh. The problem is that by saying that it would be illegal, you make Trump MORE likely to do it
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Old-fashioned commie "class analysis" would not be surprised that - in tech, as in journalism - the people who do the work are generally sensible human beings; their bosses are batshit fascist ideologues; and guess whose viewpoint prevails.
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If it's anything like the UK, it's a small clique of journalists, perhaps a groupchat, who have talked themselves into JK Rowling thought and are actively conspiring to get "their people" writing everywhere
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bsky.app/profile/chad...
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What are the chances that he will get up on the stand and proclaim himself to be a Marxist who did murders against moderate Dems? Because I'm sure he's been following fascist social media, and that would be a brilliant and evil tactical move
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I think I recommended this to you 10 years ago but I couldn't find a way to buy it on Kindle and pass it on lol!