I mean, modern schools took their model from factories. Preparing workers for schedule work, norms, hygiene, hierarchy, and all that.

So, the "advanced panopticons" is the logical evolution with the present day technologies. At least in the "first world", after 9/11 and all that.

We both know is more complex, but yeah. Capitalism, as we all know in here, is fucked up.

Yes, they exist.

Had a bunch of them in elementary.

It was also the height of neoliberal educational policy, so oppressive teachers + pushing competition between students were the norm...

+1. But Leegh is also right. And I don't want our first world comrades (even if they still think that electoralism can take us somewhere close to socialism) to fall back to defeatism or worse (like those ML and Trots that turned to neoliberalism after the fall of the URSS...). I just want them to be prepared if that yankee betrays them. And, if we are being materialist, the betrayal is the most probable result, so is better if that don't comes with surprises or a new wave of "fundidos".

I even doubt that most of us in China can do that now that life has gotten so comfortable compared to a hundred years ago.

Here in Argentina, the CPA is part of the Kirchnerist party (center-left peronism, the socdem party if you will). There was a recent lawfare move to put the principal figure of the Kirchnerism in jail (Cristina Kirchner) because of corruption (yes, they are very corrupt. And they have blood of the workers in their hands). But, even the trots jumped to defend a corrupt politician (trots parties being the biggest leftist movement in Argentina).

Now, we know this is classic lawfare. We know what it means to other parties. We know is time to take a stance. But even the trots "bend the knee" to the kirchnerism party on their performative politics, with Cristina calling to stop the protests because "we will defeat them in the ballots, just wait two more years".

Every politician is all in on the electoralism during a full neoliberal "no-brakes, I hate even the children" phase. Wich is a shame. But we know about the sparks that kindles burning fires (24 february of 1917 women's protest in Russia, for example). Maybe something like that can happen here, or in the USA (a country where is so easy to buy a weapon). Or not. But protests and hate against the ruling libertarian party keeps growing a growing, outside the opposition parties (the leftist parties could grown for this, but they are very confortable with their seats on the senate and their alliances with the bourgeoisie).

But we see how the material conditions are deteriorating, both in the first world and the third world. The yankees are losing things that were normal to them. Things that are luxuries in the third world, and even more so now.

So, we need to keep fighting. No doomerism nor being idealistic. But the contradictions are sharpening, and we can't just be defeated to the "barbarism" that comes with the inevitable capitalist downfall. TRPF is closer and closer to 0 and we know how capitalism tends to "delay" it...

Think about the world where Gramsci wrote that.

Be optimistic, sure. But don't be idealistic, is not the same.

It would be cool if he's the real deal, a first step for something bigger.

But he's also in the belly of the beast. Same for the CPUSA and the SPA in the 30', in a world where the URSS was still an horizon for the proletariats of the world. Now, putting all your eggs in the basket of electoralism drove to the winning of Roosevelt and the subsequent repression of the leftist parties and the workers movement. Not the ally a lot of them thought.

AOC and Berni are closer examples, they were also idealized in the ol' CTH subreddit (not by everyone, of course). And, even when you cited the time where Parenti warned us about Bernie, a lot of people jumped the defend an obvious imperialist.

Just don't idealize democrat figures as saviours (just don't idealize in general). Have optimism, of course. But also comprehend that it doesn't mean you should "jump on the granade" for them, don't follow them blindy.

He's no Lenin in 1905, the proletariat is no the same as 1905 (or 1917). But we both know where bourgeoisie electoralism can drive us to. And we need to be prepared for that, no surprises.

Leaving a comment here. I want to come back to this post in a few months-years.

Comrades, we are materialistic. There is more chances that this guy bends the knee to the hegemonic power than really pushing socialist laws (more close to the SPD than Bolchevisk use of the capitalist state power).

We also know how the USA operates when we talk of progressive politicians (not even socialist ones).

I wish him and his supporter the best. But, comrades, be materialistic, don't be idealistic.

Reposting this one

Some telegram channels are saying that the Mossad HQ was destroyed by the missiles.

Is there any confirmation?

No, it's her turn

No. The real idea is not to benefit any country and their development. At most, like queermunist said, the compradores can take some of that money to keep the explotation-repression going for the interest of the countries we all know and hate (pensá en el Toto Caputo).

Citing the resignation letter of a former IMF senior economist, Davison L. Budhoo:

Today I resigned from the staff of the International Monetary Fund after over twelve years, and after 1000 days of official Fund work in the field, hawking your medicine and your bag of tricks to governments and to peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa. To me resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. Mr. Camdessus, the blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers. It dries up too; it cakes all over me; sometimes I feel that there is not enough soap in the whole world to cleanse me from the things that I did do in your name and in the names of your predecessors, and under your official seal.You know, when all the evidence is in, there are two types of questions that you and me and others like us will have to answer. The first is this: - will the world be content merely to brand our institution as among the most insidious enemies of humankind? Will our fellow men condemn us thus and let the matter rest? Or will the heirs of those whom we have dismembered in our own peculiar Holocaust clamor for another Nuremberg?

Lot's of "comrades" in here are full of first world brainworms.

Let's pretend that the Vietnam war or Cuba's revolution were happening today. If we follow their arguments, they would totally oppose the expresions of resistance and anticolonialism because "people are going to die, so we just need to stop the use of violence".

Like Mandaela once said: "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."

So no need to keep the "whataboutism" going. At the end of the day, is just a defense to keep the status quo and, by extension, the Israelí apartheid state...