Man my brain hurts as I start to read the article and it says that the writer has a chair in the rockfeller institute and wrote a book called what went wrong with capitalism, which is just about the weirdest thing ever
Man my brain hurts as I start to read the article and it says that the writer has a chair in the rockfeller institute and wrote a book called what went wrong with capitalism, which is just about the weirdest thing ever
Maybe APL could be better at any rate I believe organizations at least in the west retroceded rapidly since the fall of the Berlin wall, the loss of the USSR, for a bunch of reasons contributed (directly and indirectly) the structure of Marxists organizations to un-radicalize. The best example in recent memory of Marxist organization on the US is in my opinion the black panthers, particularly in Fred Hampton’s time. We should go into that direction, do collective action towards empoverished populations. Work with them for them, take Marxism out of the college grounds and into the back allays where nobody else looks to. Of course that isn’t easy, and especially doing it right and respectfully, but it’s the only way, without going towards the masses it’s just spinning wheels in vain, it goes not very far, refining the theory is helpful but we got to the point that it’s all many organizations do and often in the wrong direction. So I don’t know how to move things to the right direction but hopefully I kinda painted a picture of where said direction is, now the hard part is to get there.
I’ve heard good things about the APL(American party of labour) and there are some comrades from CPUSA around here, seek out one or the other, or if you find any Marxist organization around you and join the struggle, being a Marxist in isolation is somewhat contradictory and very saddening as well, seek an organization (assuming you have the time and energy for it) and work together
Unfortunately not so “wild” a lot of them seems to be in the interest of big agricultural companies
In a round about way he is not far off, one of the problems of current communist organizations is not doing enough work with the population directly not building a strong base with the opressed (not building the metaphorical Gulag [of course that the Gulag is no cornerstone of our movement or a good representation of it but I believe it was ment as something of the sort by the guy]), and that gap might be justified by the lack of something akin to work ethic. Dunno just a crazy thought
Keep up with comrade yogthos around here, its how I do it
But that will mess the economy!! CHINA WILL COLLAPSE THIS WEEK !!!
People are not braindead that is a dangerous way of thinking about it it’s just that the propaganda machine of the enemy is really effective, we should not elect the people as our enemy, the day we do that we’re fucked, we should look at stuff like that and think what can be done to prevent that, even if just a little in some places, and the fact that many people are defending communism shows to me an improvement from a few years ago which this type of debate wouldnt even happen cause was more or less a consensus on the internet that communism sucks. So yeah careful, I’m aware it’s a jest but even jests must be thought about.
I find it puzzling for a country not to have space for neither, what is the source of the economy of the country? Even if its the export of natural resources I would think that processing the resource before exporting should be both viable and desirable. In any case the most effective source of fighting for any postive change is through organized Marxist action, although I know that often said organizations are far from powerful enough right now to do something that’s why its important to expand their ranks
It’s exactly this type of nation that socialism can help, by empowering national development, changing the logic of how the country works internationally, the issue is that it’s always a traumatic experience the post revolutionary situation. And the change will not come by vote, so if you believe that Marxism can change things the only way to change things is to find an organization and join them or create one. It’s not an easy job but its the only one that can be done
I have nothing but good words to say for the effort and enthusiasm comrade. But there are some issues in that way of thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to outcompete the captalist companies, just look at popular Korea or Cuba, they could have something in the line of that zaibatsu that you describe, but the capitalist forces did not stood still, they did a blockade. Since they can do that to a whole nation imagine what they can do with a company. Furthermore it pressuposes something we do not have, the numbers to do such thing and to my eyes that’s where our focus should be, to keep a strong revolutionary Leninist line and to manage it to spread it, and that is done by mingling with the poorest parts of society learning with them being among the people, and figuring out how to apply the Marxist teachings to their reality and show them that we are for them. But few people are willing to do that, Marxism especially in the west is much more of an academic endeavour than a popular workforce one, and the further away we get from the masses more we leave the field open for facist ideas to take root. I think the best example of strategy we have in recent memory is the black panthers under Fred Hampton and the rainbow coalition, we cannot mimic that step by step but I think that the future revolutions in the west must learn from their actions of how to resonate within the masses.
So you have to spend money to make money and the west is surprised about it, because there wasnt a collapse of the company when it wasn’t profitable, like it happens in the US with every investor bailing on the company and worsening the issue. Almost like infrastructure projects are worthwhile investments even if it does not provide short term gains
I find funny that this comic makes it seem like the small government is bad in itself, and quite weirdly, the comic obfuscates the fact that it’s the market or the bourgeoisie that are doing the fucking, the small state just is less on their way
It’s not a conspiracy theory it’s the only strategy because a crisis would kill any chance of electing someone of Biden’s party, and if they loose the election the bomb blew up in the hands of the opposition, and if they do get elected they have 4 years to figure something out
In that case either the discourse is really wild or the algorithm accurately concluded that this stuff pisses you off and is trying to bait you into interacting
I would say that it has something to do with the dedollarization that’s growing around the east, but the drop precedes it, so yeah the problem goes deep
The scale of this graph is anxiety inducing, its at least an order of magnitude bigger than any other swing including crashes, which makes me think either there was a change and the thing going down is actually working out for the banks, or shit’s about to go down hard
If you scroll long enough you’ll find wierd shit in any unmoderated YouTube post
Just wanted to let the Comrade know that there is a funny distinction between forca and força in Portuguese. The latter meaning strength, force or a declaration of support (a wish for strength to who you’re claming it) which I assume is the intended meaning, and the former means gallows
About what I was expecting. Cause the correct content for this book would be: we, we(Rockefeller institute) made it go bad