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    A very prescient J. Stalin predicted in 1952 the reactionary degeneration of the bourgeois-liberal system that we see today

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  • Pointing out the fact that Trump is a Zionist and will act in the interests of Zionists is not one of those bad takes.

    However, the specific phrasing promotes the "tail wags the dog" theory, which in my view is backwards, Israel is an asset to American imperialism to a greater extent than Israel exerts control over the US (of course, Israel lobby IS powerful still). Biden put it, if there were not an israel to advance American interests in the region they would have to create one. The tail-wags-dog theory on the other hand lends itself to "ZOG", a genuinely antisemitic and reactionary slogan, as I understand it. None of us would say that the American govt was infiltrated by Koreans (from the yankee occupation state) or Taiwanese, right? We would see that those countries are if anything subordinate to Washington and not the reverse.

  • Why is it that Marx implies American settlers had proletarian backgrounds in Ch.33 of Capital, but Sakai asserts they were far from it?

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  • It appears that Sakai's answer is that land hunger was so severe that, yes, petty bourgeois individuals would be willing to endure it to have something like the standard of living they had been used to.

    the sons and daughters of the middle class, with experience at agriculture and craft skills, were the ones who thought they had a practical chance in Amerika... What lured Europeans to leave their homes and cross the Atlantic was the chance to share in conquering Indian land.

    Here is a quote he takes from ""Social Origins of Some Early Americans". In SMITH, ed., 17th Century America. N.Y., 1972."

    Land hunger was rife among all classes. Wealthy clothiers, drapers, and merchants who had done well and wished to set themselves up in land were avidly watching the market, ready to pay almost any price for what was offered. Even prosperous yeomen often could not get the land they desired for their younger sons...It is commonplace to say that land was the greatest inducement the New World had to offer; but it is difficult to overestimate its psychological importance to people in whose minds land had always been identified with security, success and the good things of life.

  • Without colonialism is it likely that there would have been "enough" wealth in Western Europe to complete primitive accumulation, enough capital to kick off capitalism as we know it?

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  • interesting thoughts

  • Without colonialism is it likely that there would have been "enough" wealth in Western Europe to complete primitive accumulation, enough capital to kick off capitalism as we know it?

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  • I'm asking because I wondered if dependence on colonial wealth could inform an argument that capitalism is historically contingent, that it was possible for there not to be capitalism

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    Without colonialism is it likely that there would have been "enough" wealth in Western Europe to complete primitive accumulation, enough capital to kick off capitalism as we know it?

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    Seeking information on the triad of agrarian capitalism

  • I took an unpaid internship.

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  • There is no doubt that the unpaid internship is exploitative, moreso than the already discouraging/tiring path to a first job programming. But I also think you were right to accept it as a step towards launching a career. It's something you will never have to do a second time... onward and upward

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  • Great magazine, loved the articles about modern sailing ships and sewage handling by aquaculture.

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  • I believe as individuals and society we are over reliant on unnecessarily advanced technology and should seek alternatives to distance ourselves from this.

    I feel about the same way, to the point I don't even really want print media to die. We're still looking at something right in front of us, but at least it isn't a screen. I've been framing it mentally as part of an intentional relationship I want to have with technology, and I think generally others should consider this too. Adopt technology selectively and critically, don't just let them foist new consumer durables on you, LOL.

  • Negative Aspects of contemporary Chinese culture?

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  • To quote @Giyuu: I do not not live in China/am not Chinese/do not know [much of] the language/etc. But from the outside, it seems that due to reform & opening up, Chinese go through much of the same shenanigans we do, whether it will be eventually solved through planned economy or not. They have bosses, landlords, and cops; they work too much and compete for stressful jobs and rigorous education, and there is sure to be some amount of corruption even with the victories of the Tigers & Flies campaign... a friend from Tieling, Liaoning province personally complained of his folks having to pay bribes but did not get into why.

  • Anyone else plays Vintage Story?

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  • I'm considering starting a lemmygrad whitelist server with a couple mods. Maybe you guys would be interested!

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    Interest in a Vintage Story server

  • How the “American Dream” died, now that the USSR fell and capitalist scum don’t need to throw crumbs at the working class anymore to keep them from joining the communists

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  • comrade Jacob must have studied something well-compensated or become very skilled to pull 70k a year!

  • Most Americans support a $20 minimum wage. It has been $7.25 since 2009.

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  • It's a nitpick, but we mean the class right? Gotha programme etc., workers as individuals need to contribute some value to the commons and society more broadly, sort of thing. But that's still the workers getting everything: First as an individual and second as a member of socialist society.

  • Anyone else plays Vintage Story?

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  • I played it for a couple weeks until I got tired of it for now. Me and the gf really like it!! It is an awesome continuation of the TerraFirmaCraft vision.

  • Be sure to read the rule before you leave @lemmygrad.ml
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    Trotsky on the liberation of human potential in communist society

  • Be sure to read the rule before you leave @lemmygrad.ml
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    Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye

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  • Let's see if the less clever of the bourgeois can figure out the falling rate of profit / secular stagnation

  • So little information exits the DPRK, and what does is almost always completely unreliable, insane, and impossible to prove. So I have a question. What is North Korea like?

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  • Wow, you made me wanna move there, very cool. It's really too bad the geopolitical conditions are such that we can't, say, go there on a working holiday visa.

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    If a socialist movement seized power in the country next to yours, would it be better to move there or stay where you're at and try to build your own, benefitting from the momentum?

  • Poland continues its free democracy by banning politicians tied to the Polish People's Republic

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  • May we live to see a revolutionary socialist restoration, but more than a restoration, a forging anew <3

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    European bourgeois states not mass murderer migrants challenge

  • When Family becomes the Enemy

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  • As others have said, your family sounds nice. Maybe when you inherit those properties, you can keep one unit and give the rest to the residents to form a co-op.

  • What did you do this weekend?

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  • rollerblading, sweet!

  • What did you do this weekend?

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  • Working on my 2d Unity game, working on coding problems on Exercism, I am so close to being done the C++ problem set on that site, like 87%. Having a horrible time trying to pick what to write my paper on in Environmental Sociology, there just seems like so much to write about, even if I focus on my region.

    Playing Thief Gold and loving it, I'm going to check out the open source clone as soon as I'm done. Installed and booted up New Vegas to show my gf the amazing game I've been talking about and OMG, it was a liiiitle jankier than I remember, I really should have installed the mods first if I wanted the game to look polished.

    I checked into the library to ask about a casual job I applied for... It's been screening for like 2 months.

  • Is it weird to resent when non-communists do good things?

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  • It is an understandable but misguided sentiment. There is plenty of work for the communist orgs to do, I think, and some of the more progressive community orgs may even be friendly or ambivalent to the communists. Maybe instead we should be relieved that our relatives and neighbours are finding ways to try to improve their situation, even though they lack a radical perspective and critique of capitalist society. We know charity has limits and deficiencies. Does anywhere have a food bank that has good enough food in good enough quantities, with no hoops to jump through?