[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

People really need to read Marx man…

He literally described fascism decades before it was born. He said the contradictions of capitalism would cause people to look for solutions, and a “false” path people would find was that indeed capitalism had to be overcome. But that they had to return to a pre-capitalist life, return to the land and to feudalistic idealisms. Fascist Italy literally had “guilds”…

Marx said these “anti-capitalists” would see value in communist rhetoric, because they agreed with communists half-way. But they missed that the only solution is to move forward. That before capitalism, there were contradictions that inevitably led to capitalism, and it would just happen again.

Fascism is literally miopic anti-capitalism. It’s what happens to actual justifiable dissatisfaction and anger at the system without theory and understanding.

Yes, fascism really does sound like communism. It’s the goal, it’s how it’s born. It SOUNDS like communism, but has none of the solutions or the substance.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

“Frame” the US Army..? Bro the great satan doesn’t need any framing, its sins are dripping from its fangs and claws.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

He had conviction yes, but not on anything specific. His conviction was literally just a mirror of the things he opposed. The “stalinists” were very convinced, so he had to be as well. Or his opposition would be (even more apparently) ideologically weak.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

That’s because the Chinese experience was very peculiar. When American and European investors and industry giants went abroad to outsource manufacturing, they brought in the capital and left with the profits. But the capital, and technology or knowledge, never spread in the colonies or neo-colonies. When China “opened up”, they were real clever about it. They said: “sure, you can open your factories here where there is an abundance of cheap labor. But in exchange, we want the knowledge and technology”. And since opening up China to foreign capital has been the wet dream of capitalists and proto-capitalists for the past several hundreds of years, they accepted the deal. So China was left with the know-how to be able to set-up their own national industries. And the profits of exporting manufactured goods was used for strategic industries and infrastructure, unlike most colonial and neo-colonial experiences where the profits are just pocketed by a national bourgeoisie.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Bro you learned a whole new language. How is that mental decline? I don’t know anyone who speaks dog. It’s honestly impressive.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basically they are about (specially Blackshirts and Reds) how “libertarian” socialist experiments all failed, and were ultimately destroyed by national and international bourgeoisie.

I think Critique of the Gotha Program by Marx is much better than the Communist Manifesto, as it’s also a critique of the libertarian socialist Germans.

Like, if you want to get very sad, read about the politicides in Indonesia, Korea, South America etc. Communists (and I include anarchists, libertarians socialists, democratic socialists etc. here) have to organize in strong movements to survive.

All communist experiments that lasted more than 1 years were either MLs or Maoists.

We really should look at this and try to learn from it. It’s a fact, it’s just something that has happened.

We have to understand why democratic socialism is vulnerable to being exterminated, and why ML and Maoism aren’t.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

They also love ripping off people’s genitals, faces etc…

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

And people foam at the mouth at the idea of reparations being paid out to descendants of slaves…

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love how Adam Smith was literally mocking market absolutists when he coined the term “invisible hand”. Like he was mocking people who believed the market was a self regulating divine entity, and likened how they saw the market regulating itself to how god would “regulate” nature, with his “invisible hand”.

None of these nerds ever read Adam Smith and keep using his words to support them…

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

But…. apprenticeships don’t have to be like that. Like there are apprenticeships for many other jobs, and they never are this abusive and awful.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Ah phew. It’s just the absolute limit for human survivability 😮‍💨

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Most people eat animal products.

Also, a good portion of vegans are “healthy hippy” types. Which rarely spills over to strength athletes.

But there are some vegan strength athletes, so it goes to show it’s possible.

Not sure what you mean by this tbh.

Seems like a very forceful attempt to correlate things that have no evidence for relation at all.

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