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  • In addition to what others said "Socialism scientific and utopian" and "On historical materialism" by Engels. Both very short but very informative.

  • “man I wish libs had more teeth”

    They do but they always bite left.

  • communists are people who took a step back to reflect and question themselves on the world we are living in

    This is exactly what we did and you are reading the effect of it. It's not like the event was yesterday, we had a lot of time to think on it.

    There are many “flavours” of communism

    We had a lot of time to think on this too, and we rejected the utopian and reactionary flavours of communism. And we are not having a healthy discussion because you ride here on a horse higher than stars and you shower us with being confidently ignorant about us. If you really want to know something, ask. You just need to ask in good faith, not the usual liberal method of "did you stopped beating your wife", that will only get you ridiculed, because we seen way too many of

    types to lose too much time on them.

  • Is there anything you can really do to prevent nuclear war?

    If nuclear power goes unhined enough to press button out of "apres mois, le deluge"? Absolutely nothing. First strike wont work because US have significant second strike ability. They have 450 land based ICBM's launch sites and 14 ICBM armed submarine, this is basically not possible to neutralise unilaterally by any means.

    The United States’ inability to acknowlege reality will convince them to make tactical blunders in their own hubris.

    They are already doing it, and as their position worsens, those blunders have increasing consequences, like the Ukraine War activating the spiral of dedollarisation. So that's positive since it will bury them eventually, i just fear the last blunder might be nuclear and it will bury us all.

  • In case of every single other country, even India and UK i would believe that no problem. But look what US does currently, getting closer into two WW3 opportunities simultaneously, not to mention knowingly fucking up the planet itself. They did intentionally made it harder, but if entire fish is rotten...

    Karl Marx wrote in Das Kapital (Vol. 1, Part III, Chapter Ten, Section 5) "Après moi, le dÊluge!" is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society."

  • Most romantic US grunt

  • Sure it does but proper vegan diet for workers is still less exploitative than bugs, so while that might get the idealist antivegans on board of that train, the material reason for that drive is still the same - intensifying exploitation.

  • No way, we were just party-ing!

  • Is it part of an anti-vegan campaign?

    Remeber how Marx in Capital wrote about multitute of methods to increase the rate of exploitation or worker class? One of chief methods there is to decrease the costs of labour reproduction, that is, the lowering the workers livelihood. Including cost of food, Marx given example how potatoes massively replaced bread in workers diet. There are multiple examples in the last centuries, junk food, chemical treating of foods in market etc. etc.

    Bugs are next step, and the media campaign for it is normalisation of something that is universally treated as incredibly repulsive in basically every European culture - eating bugs is basically synonym for starvation, and even in starvation people sometimes prefer to die rather than eat bugs.

    So i think this is not as much anti vegan as anti worker and pro bourgeoisie.

  • Hahaha you would make for a poor menshevik, it was one of their main program points before february 1917.

  • Funniest thing is that we can compare it somewhat to internet providers, and of course it works like predicted, local providers each had their own nets, the access was shitty, expensive and had barely any coverage, then the big companies like phone and tv providers came in and locals bankrupted instantly except the rare cases of those that got public support (from the local administration) and access to public infrastructure.

  • in my city they’re slowly trying to re-publicize (is this even a word?

    The term for that is municipalization.

  • I think superheroes are less fantasy than ancap, science might someday provide things like reliable genetic enhancements, enhancing cybernetic implants or technology allowing personal flight or shooting lasers from gloves. But anarchocapitalism will never work as they think it would.

  • Didn't one of their government was toppled by people angry because neoliberal retirement reform?

    Btw it's the literally the very same reform that was implemented in Poland in 1999 but in Poland not only nobody protest but shitton of people is angry about reining up the private corpos robbing the retirement funds enacted at some point by a neoliberal government being afraid of immediate collpse of entire retirement system.

  • I mean this guy posts do pose nonzero risk of causing blindness.

  • Not even CIA is stupid enough to fill it completely with CIA content. You expected their seal on the fist page or what? It's precisely why CONITELPRO was so successful, they don't agitate against minor things which can be stopped by the local pigs at any time if needed, they agitate against the real dangers.

    Or alternatively, you might be correct, that would mean anarchists internalized that shit takes by themselves even without direct letters support - which is conicidentally also how COINTELPRO works.

    Or, option 3, anarchists are like that without any letters influence. Wew, i hope not, though i seen enough to believe that too.