Conselheiro @ Conselheiro @lemmygrad.ml

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Have any cool sources on this new equipment? Sounds promising.

The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.

But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians.

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AFAIK it wasn't just cheap consumer goods but a decrease in the cost of living in general, with lower rent, affordable housing and low cost college that maintained a comfortable "international labour aristocracy" of sorts at home, while repressing "subversives" of every sort.

Currently key sectors of the US economy such as housing, healthcare and education are financialized to the point that most have to put themselves into massive debt to afford it. This is counterproductive to keeping down economic unrest, so it'd need to be tackled somehow. On the other hand, importing the bureaucrats, researchers and such from the upper classes of the ROTW has been policy for decades, which now stands in contradiction with both the surge in racist/xenophobic sentiment that is somehow extending to visas (usually a tool of upper middle class migrants) and also China's competitive industrial complexity.

I can't see what "treats" that can be handed down to the local white population without dismantling the housing, student debt and healthcare cartels, which would require lots of bourgeois infighting, though I bet the Democrats would be happy to oblige in co-opting the grassroots movements towards that rather than dismantling the empire.

Then again, I'm just doing freestyle sociology because this is all off the top of my head lol

Can't sit down to write a proper reply right now, but I think you're on the right track. Just disagree with outright invasion and occupation of Venezuela.

I reckon an expansion of forced labour camps along the southern border works better with a perspective of a Milei/Libya strategy of destabilization of neighbouring countries driving refugees north, either through imposed anti-leaderships (Noboa) or through drone warfare (Haiti).

That could be the basis for some sort of "reindustrialization" along the southern border with refugee labour, pivot the US navy from North Africa to the Eastern South America and could even make sense with annexing Canada for Arctic Sea control.

Need to read up some more to back this up, but I think I can fit direct strikes on Cuban soil more than actual Venezuelan boots-on-ground occupation. I also think that any geopolitical predictions need to take into account the surprising growing unrest in USA soil from the last couple years.

In reality, he would need to pivot the economy away from America and to China

I strongly disagree, I believe they should pivot towards autarky and self-reliance. The UK is a central country in the imperialist system, they don't need to replace one dependence with another (and China has no need for the UK specifically), and a lot of their integration with the US is already just parasitic rentier finance capital.

I also don't see any reason for enabling a national bourgeoisie in the Mao Zedong Thought sense in a central country, as that applies specifically to dependent/colonial nations on the periphery. The UK does not need a national liberation revolution, and any strong enough national bourgeoisie would naturally metastasize beyond their national borders as they did in the past.

It's hard to say what the correct path for a central nation towards revolution would be, since they all failed. But abandoning the imperialist system (economically and militarily) in favour of self-sufficiency and solidarity is, at the very least, useful for both their local working class and revolutionary movements abroad. It also signals the mounting strength of the opposition to NATO and neoliberalism movements in Europe.

Effectively present the corbynista programme without having to deal with internal Labour sabotage. Key points are against genocide in Gaza, backing out of Ukraine and maybe even NATO, investing into rebuilding the NHS and supporting poor working people in the UK and immigrants.

Main problem is how they hope to achieve this under electoralism, but at least Corbyn isn't allergic to rallies and agitation.

ITT: people confusing remarks by a parlamentarian as official statements by the Ministry of Defense or the head of the executive.

The red line about deep strikes has been around ever since the beginning of the war, with only minor adjustment of nuclear policy since the Storm Shadow/ATACMS deployment back in November last year. Instead of nuclear war all we got was the live test of the Oreshnik.

The current Russian leadership is cautious to a fault when it comes to nuclear escalation. A single parlamentarian is not going to change that, and the headline is misleading. Instead of being smug about it for the 100th time since the beginning of the war, pray that the UA army doesn't get their hands on a dirty bomb.

This is not new. He even stepped aside for a while 8 years ago after acknowledging he was in the wrong and only came back after a code of conduct was written.

Dude is not loveable nor a superhero, in fact he is supportive of NATO sanctions, but I don't see how this 10 year old video is relevant now.

Seems they're testing the waters on all sorts of leftist positions, from lowering the work week to fighting for "sovereignty". It is partially electoral bluster, but may eventually lead to what the left actually is asking for, breaking diplomatic relations with Israel like Colombia.

I live and breath the revolutionary catechism, which might be a good read to understand your own feelings through something of a complete opposite of how you feel.

But it's also important that there exist ordinary, self-preserving people. Those are the ones the revolutionaries seek to protect and draw their passion from. The same way you think of your mother in case you die, she might feel similar to you. To each person who is still socially connected there are other people who matter. And those, either in concrete relations (like somebody's child) or abstract social understanding (the set of all children in a community) are what usually leads people to be willing to die.

Another important point is to consider how dire the situations are for the revolutionaries you mentioned. Imagine a genocidal imperialist country is invading your homeland, knowing full well that survival would mean slavery, exploitation, torture and all that happened in, for example, the Japanese invasion of China. In those conditions choosing death may not only seem preferable, but also just accelerating the same outcome in case of defeat.

All men must die, but death can vary in its significance. The ancient Chinese writer Szuma Chien said, "Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather." To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather. Comrade Chang Szu-teh died for the people, and his death is indeed weightier than Mount Tai.

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Jokes aside, CPop does exist and could be studied comparatively. I have no idea if it's actually any better there, but could be an interesting topic for Marxists who like that style of music, in both its merits and deficiencies.

Honestly found this post rather tame. I've heard many horror stories from friends who are into K-Pop about how mistreated the artists are, specially the ones that don't get successful and flop. Stuff like getting into horrible debt, being stuck to label but unable to record or sing anymore, and having to right to one's own life.

It always seemed like the terrible state of the US pop music entertainment industry we always knew was horrible (even Nickelodeon did a parody of it with Big Time Rush), but on steroids.

Sadly, I never got interested enough to thoroughly understand and critique it, but what you're describing is too tame even for the US pop industry that churned out Hannah Montana and Ariana Grande through years of child abuse. It's actually much much worse than that.

It's a good wake up routine for me, prevents me from falling back asleep after the alarm rings.

There's probably a cool thesis that could be written about a contradiction within the "America First" movement by being both anti-war and USA exceptionalist in times of decaying imperialism that can only maintained through war. Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard are the best examples of this.

I'm of the opinion that the continual and prolonged defeat of NATO against Russia is much better for the international proletariat than a proper "defeat" and withdrawal. It's better for their resources to be bogged down in Ukraine for another decade like it's their own Afghanistan than diverted into more winnable wars.

Losing my password to the old account here actually tanked my mental health. Glad to be back!