no essays, yea there is vetting but it’s like 1-2 sentences per question lol. its just basic marxist theory so that we don’t get flooded by a bunch of people who aren’t ML. we’re very much not a ‘big tent’ leftist server, there’s plenty of other communities for that, we just wanna chill
They’ve always made their product placement as obvious and hamfisted as possible. remember the fresca stuff in season 2?
obama is still venerated by the black/poc community despite him turning out to be a shitlib
me because i like going on my rich friends’ boats and getting drunk
i’ve always gotten logitech mice, because they’re always available at every computer store. their cheap mice are literal tanks and last fucking FOREVER, but their one gaming mouse i got crapped itself after a year.
this is why i use a mac wireless keyboard for my PC, chiclets are superior in every way for typing. also it just feels so fucking nice getting that solid tactile feedback.
No need to cheat here. We will hit 1 million plus in a day soon enough. We don’t need backlogs to smash those world records!!
The issue is that the way US schools are handling the pandemic. Online college does not matter one bit if they still allow people to move in to the dorms and go to basketball games.
it depends entirely on a pleathora of things, so much so that it is pretty pointless to discuss. Things that factor in are your race, your nationality, your diplomatic status, the circumstances of you being confronted by the police, the country you’re in, the region of the country you’re in, etc. In Dhaka, a white american male who is clearly a tourist might have to pay up to $100 or more to get out of a traffic stop, maybe even more. A bangladeshi might have to pay $1 to $5, maybe even $10, depending on how ‘rich’ you look.
Honestly BPT should be country club only always
do you think as soon as you download whatsapp your contacts get filled with european numbers and thousands of europeans texting you
i go to msu and i made a few of my friends wait in line to vote, but i know a lot of people who turned back around after seeing the wait
China does some stupid shit sometimes, hopefully this is temporary
Obviously socialism isn’t a blueprint you just enforce on society. It’s an ongoing experiment and every nation has its own needs and quirks. My question was more along the lines of ‘were those reforms a good thing’. I’m pretty satisfied with the answers I got here, and definitely have more reading to do with regards to china specifically.
I will look more into it. Thank you!
This answer in Stalin’s interview with Emil Ludwig touches on the same thing:
Ludwig: I am very much obliged to you for that statement. Permit me to ask you the following question. You speak of “equalitarianism,” lending the term an ironical meaning in respect of general equality. But is not general equality a socialist ideal?
Stalin: The kind of socialism under which everybody would receive the same pay, an equal quantity of meat, an equal quantity, of bread, would wear the same kind of clothes and would receive the same kind of goods and in equal quantities—such a kind of socialism is unknown to Marxism. All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed. “From each according to his capacity, to each according to the work he performs,” such is the Marxian formula of socialism, i.e., the first stage of communism, the first stage of a communist society. Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: “From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs.” It is obvious that people’s needs vary and will vary under socialism. Socialism never denied that people differed in their tastes, and in the quantity and quality of their needs. Read Marx’s criticism of Stirner’s inclination toward equalitarianism; read Marx’s criticism of the Gotha Programme of 1875; read the subsequent works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, and you will see how severely they attacked equalitarianism. The roots of equalitarianism lie in the mentality of the peasant, in the psychology of share and share alike, the psychology of primitive peasant “communism.” Equalitarianism is entirely alien to Marxian socialism. It is those who know nothing about Marxism who have the primitive idea that the Russian Bolsheviks want to pool all wealth and then share it out equally. It is the idea of those who have never had anything in common with Marxism. It was the idea of communism entertained by such people as the primitive “communists” of the time of Cromwell and the French Revolution. But Marxism and Russian Bolshevism have nothing in common with the equalitarian “communists.”
My main issue, when it comes to class inequalities, is not that it exists, but the fact that ‘Billionaires’ with a big ‘B’ exists in china. A billion dollars is a lot of money, and money inevitably affords political power.
I definitely agree with this, and have held this viewpoint for a while now. As a Bangladeshi living in the US, it is ridiculous how a ‘first world’ country seems to face some of the same issues in the grand scheme of things that bangladeshis do back home. Me moving to the US is what radicalized me. And I do hope Bangladesh shifts it’s political position to be more pro-China because yes, China is better than the US and will definitely do more for us than the US ever has or ever will. It’s just the almost mythical regards to which western leftists hold china to that baffles me sometimes.
extremely interesting article. i definitely understand more of why china is doing what it’s doing than i did before.
While I do see the advantages in keeping billionaires within the reach of law while allowing them to conduct business, I still cannot wrap my head around the idea that people with such vast amounts of wealth will never undermine the communist leadership. Maybe that is a shortcoming on my part for not being optimistic enough.
“ Here's why: there's no way a group of billionaires could control the Politburo as billionaires control American policy-making. So in China you have a vibrant market economy, but capital does not rise above political authority. Capital does not have enshrined rights. In America, capital - the interests of capital and capital itself - has risen above the American nation. The political authority cannot check the power of capital. That's why America is a capitalist country, and China is not.”
While that may be true now, how long will it hold?
Still, definitely a very interesting read and I hope their experiment works. I guess it will take time for me to fully agree with it, if ever.
What could they do, though? like, yeah libs fucking suck and electoralism only goes so far, but in this instance, what course of action do they have exactly?