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Anti-colonial Marxism is as good as a country breakfast.

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The second I saw MLK's name I immediately though I was about to read a dogshit take. You did not disapoint.

Reddit tier obtuseness.

The actor? Does he also shake his fist at the sky because zoomers cant walk right?

I get worked up over other people's spatial awareness, especially as it relates to walking on a sidewalk or driving. People will take up all the space on a sidewalk, they will open their doors as cars are going by, they will walk out into traffic, they move around as if other people do not exist, they will stand and congregate in the middle of a walkway. I find it wildly disrespectful and dangerous. I feel like when I'm driving people are constantly putting their wellbeing into my hands and gambling that I have the skills and awareness to not let them get in a wreck or get run over. When I am walking down the sidewalk, I feel few people are managing space in a way that keeps the sidewalk available to as many people as possible while other people are basically pushing me off the sidewalk entirely so they can all walk like a wall, or bulldozer.

Based

The only place for a mercenary is prison. We are now learning why this is the case.

I feel like reddit moved in next door.

The problem was that people were taking the variation that was not specifically for humans.

Its so crazy to me what people think about all that. People genuinely think that people in China just aren't allowed to talk about it or know about it and will treat you as a drooling knucklehead just for saying otherwise. They don't even know the most basic facts, the lowest hanging fruit of the ordeal. Meanwhile Americans can barley stomach their own history and move on as if there is no continuity with the present or justify it as progress.

But surely it is worth interrogating what capitalism is and how it can be contrasted from the existence of capital. I think it is correct to say China, for example, couldn't skip "capitalism."

But when I think of capitalism, I think of the domination of capitalist social relations. I would go as far as saying capitalist relations will usurp all human social relations. These relations are present in the PRC, but how dominant are they? Have they usurped all relations and firmly entrenched its associated ideologies? I think this is contestable. While neoliberalism is, I think, a recognizable problem in the PRC, and while I do wish the Party took harder stances on its private enterprises and kept a tight leash on even its SOEs, it seems clear that the Party has been a functional barrier to a full takeover of capitalist relations.

Perhaps this view of capitalism is not good enough, but I don't think it is merely semantical to differentiate capital, industrialism, etc. and capitalism itself. If it is true, then how does this interact with the question of capitalisms necessity? Similar to what @redtea was saying, we have learned what we need to know from capital and labor, and so we don't really need to let these relations dominate anyone's lives more than we need to, unless the relations themselves usurp humanity and we are left to be dominated by something that has ultimately transcended ourselves.

Capitalism (the dictatorship of capitalist social relations) IMO is not "necessary," but since it is here there exists the possibility to utilize things like uneven and combined development pathways so that, so long as the relations do not usurp its process, socialism can be constructed dialectally. Further, I might say it is not possible to develop socialism if capitalist relations dominate the development process totally because it will just do something like what the US has done, financializing everything and consciously destroying the prospect of worker power that is instrumental to building revolutionary potential. Meanwhile, though many find the PRC to be explicitly capitalist, they fail to see that rising wages in Asia are a death sentence for the dominance of capitalist relations globally. Yes, in some ways these relations are destroying themselves, but somewhere in the world there has to be someone dictating capital and guiding the development process to arrive at this contradiction in a way that is favorable to socialist construction instead of just generic crisis.

"As a bi man"

Case closed!

Qatar plays a strange game.

Tbh tech is an unknown language to me so everything you are saying could be true so now I need to look up different OSs

This is why I have a Huawei. Which is funny because all the iPhone users around me think China is absorbing my soul through my phone. (I don't actually know that having a Huawei helps)

What did Trudeau leak?

Yeah it was hardly even a proper scolding. He just brought up the elephant in the room and white people pissed their pants because apparently that is taboo.

The problem for the imperialists is that bombs can only reduce oil production further. They need a clean coup of the kingdom. So we might see some concern trolling about democracy and human right in SA, but it is a delicate situation that really accelerates the whole game.

Yeah its been this way for so long. There are other theaters that this occurs as well, such as sex trade conversations. There are many people that have a lot of liberal baggage that they accept as their intuition. I routinely hear coworkers drag libertarians into the dirt as absolute morons only to hear then say "you just gotta pay for your porn bro" 10 min later.

The whole thing makes me reflect on myself and what the hell im doing with my life. Like how the hell did I get here from where I was??? Its part of why I took a long break from online discourse but I cant escape it in my day to day life now regardless of if im online or not and people are just not receptive. Im always trying to refine my rhetoric but imo there are greater forces at play than my abilities to communicate or my understanding of the world.

Yes I'll take one banning of the sex trade and a glass of liberal tears please

Where did this “revolutionary” come from?

Revolutionary class consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the proletariat that not every working class has. If a working class has no consciousness and no revolutionary potential, then it is not a proper proletariat even if it performs wage labor.

Not trying to put word in your mouth. Im trying to communicate how we differ in our analysis of class, especially in the US.

Your criticisms dont answer my question on why it is ubiquitous that such a class must exist among colonizers. IMO it is a fundamental question to understanding class in Amerika.