volodya_ilich @ volodya_ilich @lemm.ee

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That pedophile can honestly suck me

what's preventing China from just taking ALL of Russia

The same thing that's made china not have an overt military conflict for the past half century: they're not a militaristic, expansionist country. I know that's inconceivable for bloodthirsty Americans, but really, give it a thought, which country has participated in more overt conflicts in the past half century.

The USSR and Cuba are much more desirable than the short-lived wannabe socialist regime that led to Pinochet's dictatorship, yes, how do you not see this?

USSR lasted much longer than Allende's project, and Cuba is still ongoing

He is not taking a Marxist position

Precisely that's why it's taken him 80 years longer than Marxists to reach that conclusion.

Not every criticism of Capitalism is an endorsement of Marxism

Which is why non-marxist anti-capitalist movements such as Salvador Allende's socialism in Chile, or Mosaddegh's Iran, inevitably fail within a few years due to the lack of understanding of class struggle and the history of capitalism.

By the nine divines... Why does it take libs 80 years extra to reach the conclusions that Marxists have already described in detail in the last century...

What you're saying is at best debatable, and it's definitely not consensus in academia. Feudalism is substantially and fundamentally different from capitalism. Serfs worked the land not based on free contracts for a wage selling their labour as a commodity, but rather legally bound to their lord's land. Access to consumer goods wasn't through purchase as commodities in a free market, but through self-production and barter/debt within small communities. Peasants worked the land with their own means of production and made their own tools with their own means of production, and generally people weren't hired working other people's means of production.

Class struggle has existed for millennia, but capitalism is just the current predominant system of class struggle because through industrial development it overpowers preexisting systems that weren't capitalist.

That's not necessarily true, many supposedly democratic regimes consistently pass unpopular policy and don't pass popular policy. E.g. welfare state cuts to expenditure in education, healthcare and pensions in post-2008 EU, or the lack of progressive policy in USA healthcare.

It's precisely this ignoring of the popular will that turns people to fascism

Fascism was maintained in several European countries way beyond 1940s, such as my homeland Spain. There were also fascist regimes after WW2 outside Europe, such as in Chile or arguably in South Korea and Taiwan.

Nazism is a flavour of fascism. They're not "differences", they're technicalities

The theoretical model of the free market relies on perfectly rational actors acting on perfect information. If those are given, then resource allocation indeed is perfect.

That's not even remotely true. Natural monopolies exist because of how natural resources work, and oligopolies or undercutting of prices to destroy weak competition can happen with perfect knowledge by sellers and buyers.

Replace "Israel" with "Russia" in your comment. Oh, wow, now suddenly neighboring nations have reasons to want them obliterated from the earth?

Not really, and I say this being a communist myself. Capitalism just requires to extract the maximum profit from the capital investment, sometimes it leads to what you said, sometimes it leads to the opposite (e.g. no difference between i5 1st gen and i5 8th gen)

Funnily enough, I'm Spanish and the meme is somehow also accurate here?

Where are the mods when you need them to erase some comments...

When did I say I want to be a parasite? I want to abolish CEOs, not become one of them

But few people, who are qualified for that job

CEOs do nothing. They rake in millions, and hire advisors to tell them what to do

Episode 1 is slow?! It starts with jedis being betrayed by the trade federation, escaping the ship and going to naboo, rescuing jarjar and meeting the gungans, crossing the planet's core to get to Theed, rescuing Padmé and escaping to tatooine, winning the podrace and going to coruscant, then finally returning to naboo to end the invasion of the trade federation, all in one film. How can it be more packed with action and events? Certainly more action and event packed than Luke spending 1h of the film in a swamp

"Grassroots organization raises $500k for the establishment"

I explained in a funny way to another fella: it starts with "t", and rhymes with the Sumerian god of water and patron of the city or Eridu, "Enki".