[-] [email protected] 24 points 13 hours ago

Wow. Just. Wow.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I think the author overstates the case for China/Russia getting involved and understates how much damage a 2-week sustained air campaign can do to Iranian civilian infrastructure.

I also think the author understates the cost to the US of a 2-week sustained air campaign considering their severely limited stocks.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

This is leftists in-fighting at it's finest. A whole new organization, created a week ago, comes out swinging at PSL, which has been operating for years, because they understand the role China is playing in the world.

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Tell me your organization doesn't understand theory without telling me your organization doesn't understand theory.

China today has a state-capitalist economy

No comment needed there.

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In addition to these errors, all of these organizations suffer from chronic bureaucratism and are isolated from the masses, not applying the mass line and therefore not acting in accord with the masses material needs and desires.

Oh do they? Really? I have no experience of the PSL falling afoul of this critique. This was written by an MLM malding and demanding that everyone abandon a multi-year project for something that started yesterday because of ideological purity.

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Firstly, to create a party of a new type.

Ugh. Why? On the basis of what theory? Where has this new type been successful anywhere in the world anytime in history?

We are building a party which understands the needs of its members

Not different.

and empowers them to act in a democratic manner

Not different.

We seek to build an organization which operates in a manner free from the bureaucracy of the previous organizations of the American communist movement through accountability structures that flow from the bottom of the organization, a Marxist psychology based in historical materialism, and a revolutionary application of the mass line in all fields of struggle.

Meaningless drivel. You can't establish bottom-up accountability without a formal structure. All successful revolutions have been Democratic Centralist. This creates bottom-up accountability through formal structure. If you want to do something else, you've got a MASSIVE amount of theory work to do.

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Secondly, to advocate and develop a living Marxism. This will be a Marxism which is, in all ways, free from the chains that impeded previous implementations of Marxism — dogmatism, revisionism, and adventurism. This will be a Marxism which, through informed practice, develops in accord with modern demands and the needs of the working class. This will be a Marxism which in all capacities upholds the principle “ruthless criticism of all that exists.”

It is only through this path that the US communist movement can be reborn into a force which is truly effective against the capitalist system.

Yeah. So, you're just upset that the PSL wouldn't let you be a leader and required a full year of vetting, aren't you? This is meaningless bluster. We don't need yet another ML/MLM split.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Well, now that Russia is occupying an American lithium field, maybe the US will say Russia is attacking the US.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I wonder if the whole point of the mineral deal with Ukraine was to create a new cassus belli

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

The question is not whether or not there are charges. The question is WHAT are the charges. It seems unlikely that people were charged for being queer.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, I got spam bombed by one but also got harassed by a few others.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Unsolicited abusive DMs - such a common trope among reactionaries

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Love that libs are down voting actual truth because it comes from RT instead of BBC

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Do you get this paranoid when you see an article from the BBC?

[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

No one thought we would notice that he correctly spelled ignominious? Cracks are forming in the ranks. This was clearly written by a disgruntled copywriter hoping to undermine Trump.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago
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Liberalism started as a philosophy to oppose monarchies. While watching protests, I saw a sign with a John Locke quote on it and it clicked for me.

This whole campaign of No Kings is total philosophical cooptation of the burgeoning revolutionary energy and redirecting it to liberalism. At first I thought the slogan was catchy but stupid - we're not at risk of a king.

But seeing the quote made it click. No Kings is something both American liberals and American conservatives agree on, because they're all philosophical liberals. By focusing the energy of the moment against "kings", it at once directs the energy towards an already solved problem (there are no kings in the USA) and it directs the attention of the energized towards liberal concepts.

That level of sophistication, to me, is additional evidence that this is a dead end movement that we need to break out of or risk being herded into a cul-de-sac.

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I'm finding myself needing to talk things out with people. I've never been one for writing a letter of thoughts that I'm forming and then sending it to a pen pal and there aren't any third-spaces around me where idea-formation can occur. I'm looking to have discussion with people about the possible paths the burger reich could take or what the potential consequences of certain international actions or events could be or even what the utility of certain choices by various state or world leaders could have.

I have a need for discourse and I would really like to find a way to do it while hearing other people speaking with me. Does anyone have any recommendations for where I can find this?

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I was recently in a conversation with a self-described MagaCommunist who held the position that the primary contradiction in the USA was that the financial owning class owned all of the means of production and that the contradictions of settler colonialism were secondary and could only be resolved through a workers' state.

I realized that I hold the position that settler colonialism is the primary contradiction in the USA, but I also found that I struggled to articulate it effectively. I'm looking for your own thoughts or writings that I can study to learn more on this topic.

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Because I am self-employed, I have to buy my health insurance from the NYS marketplace. It is bonkers. Literally unfathomable.

The cheapest plan, for young healthy individuals with no anticipated healthcare needs, is $1,500/month. That is literally the cost of an apartment in many places in this state.

But wait, what do you get for $1,500/month? A deductible of $5,500 and an out-of-pocket maximum of $7,500. So you get to literally pay the equivalent of a second rent for the privilege of NOT GETTING ANY BENEFIT unless you have a major health event. It's madness. What the fuck could you possibly justify paying $18,000 a year for if every single time you go to a medical provider you have to pay the full bill anyway?!

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I am looking for anyone writing about the various theories and "revelations" regarding extraterrestrial and cryptoterrestrial technologies and their implication in geopolitics.

Specifically, I am looking for analyses that seek to identify conditions that might be true if we assume one or more actors of various classes (states, militaries, intelligence communities, alliances, non-state actors, "aliens" themselves) has possession of non-contiguous technologies. Having identified some of these conditions, I would hope the analysis then goes on to compare historical and current conditions to see if there is evidence to support or contradict such possession.

An example might be an analysis that shows a state, like the USA, with possession of such non-contiguous technology, if they were able to make it battle ready, might under invest in traditional warfare production like what we see today.

Another example might be how a state like the USA might use limited conflicts to gather intelligence on capabilities from other states that could reveal those states' level of non-contiguous tech readiness, and then analyze how the Ukraine war might fit those conditions or predict how the prosecution of a hot conflict with China in Taiwan or Korea might look under these conditions.

Does anyone know of any writers doing this sort of work?

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