Since Hexbear consists mostly of Leninists I'm sure we'll all be a bit critical of China for reneging typical Leninist policy on the national question (equal language rights) :^)
The Phenomenology? Yeah that preface is a piece of work. There's a lecture series on Youtube that might help but it's almost 200 hours long. If you're reading it only because you're trying to understand dialectics/dialectical materialism then I think you're better off saving it for later. Find a writer who engages with the dialectical (materialist) method that you can mostly keep up with and enjoy reading and start from there instead. So that might be, say, The Dialectical Biologist, or Capital, or Thought and Language. Ilyenkov has written some pretty good introductory and history essays on dialectics, too...
No, physicalism is absolutely not dialectical. You're completely discarding activity. Marx didn't uncover the mechanics of money by studying gold, he studied the process of commodity exchange!
Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience
Not very Leninist!!! The brain, per se, does not think. Trying to approach the subject from that purely biological perspective is doomed to failure. Human cognition is nothing without social labor.
Just as Diderot’s Encyclopedia in the eighteenth century became an instrument for enlightenment that contributed to the French Revolution by making knowledge available to masses of people who had been kept in ignorance, so artificial intelligence—properly developed and democratically controlled, utilized by the revolutionary Marxist-Trotskyist party and placed in the service of the working class rather than capitalist profit—can become an instrument of socialist consciousness.
I am pleased to announce today that the International Committee has taken measures to harness the power of AI for the purposes and interests of the working class movement. Within a few weeks, we will be releasing Socialism AI, a revolutionary application of augmented intelligence to the development of socialist consciousness and the organizational capacity of the international working class. It is a chatbot which will enable users to pose political, historical, social questions, problems of organization and tactical initiative, and receive a response which draws on the vast archive of Marxist thought. First and foremost, the archive of the World Socialist Web Site itself, which encompasses well over 100,000 articles.
Yup I'm sure these guys have definitely solved the problem with LLMs and it won't just end up leaving people with an even more confused idea of socialist theory!
Edelgard von Hresvelg from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The game has several routes, so she can be either a tyrannous enemy or a historically progressive Weltseele depending on the player's choices and ideological inclinations. If you like turn based strategy it's pretty good, but her route is frustratingly short and frankly unfinished.
Sports teams will say this & then comply with trans women bans