does anyone know of any marxist writings on the intricacies of bourgeois economy? stuff like inflation and capital controls and mortgage-backed securities. it's been really hard for me to find anyone who even thinks about that kind of stuff who isn't a libertarian.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
45 points (100.0% liked)
GenZedong
5111 readers
197 users here now
This is a Dengist community in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This community is not ironic. We are Marxists-Leninists.
See this GitHub page for a collection of sources about socialism, imperialism, and other relevant topics.
This community is for posts about Marxism and geopolitics (including shitposts to some extent). Serious posts can be posted here or in /c/GenZhou. Reactionary or ultra-leftist cringe posts belong in /c/shitreactionariessay or /c/shitultrassay respectively.
We have a Matrix homeserver and a Matrix space. See this thread for more information. If you believe the server may be down, check the status on status.elara.ws.
Rules:
- No bigotry, anti-communism, pro-imperialism or ultra-leftism (anti-AES)
- We support indigenous liberation as the primary contradiction in settler colonies like the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel
- If you post an archived link (excluding archive.org), include the URL of the original article as well
- Unless it's an obvious shitpost, include relevant sources
- For articles behind paywalls, try to include the text in the post
- Mark all posts containing NSFW images as NSFW (including things like Nazi imagery)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
☭ Matrix homeserver and space
☭ Theory discussion group on /c/theory@lemmygrad.ml
☭ Find theory on ProleWiki, marxists.org, Anna's Archive
seriously, as you grow up, your faith and respect for stalin triples. seeing all these potential ops online and how you must treat them with caution regardless if you can actually verify with 100% certainty… josef stalin, we miss you so bad
A bumblebee queen seems to have taken an interest in a vacant bird house on my balcony. Which is a great sight to see. For two years I have been spending a lot of effort to create a place for insect wildlife on my balcony by planting native plants, making shelter, etc. It has turned an ugly city balcony into a place where insects actually visits. (Bumble)bees, solitary wasps, spiders, beetles and other critters have found their way to my balcony last year and this year I have even more beneficial plants, so I can't wait to see what happens.
That is the cutest thing comrade! Any picture you're ok with sharing? /Nopressure
Robots I made, in violagion of most treaties un the world
If news broke out that BenGvir indeed got got, that would be the best day in my last 3 years not even lying. I know it doesn't change anything at all but there is hardly anyone i geniunely hate more than that freak and Bibi of course.
DID HE GET GOT
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
We need to be Trusting the Plan, not trusting Random Accounts That Use The Most Questionable Capitalization Possible.
as a wise commenter you responded to once said, yeah likely fake but let a girl dream ok?
/lh
Is this more George Galloway/Scott Ritter news? Israeli sources (we never know why alternative media figures were led to believe their sources, by the way, they can lie to them! they can give CIA-sourced "insider info" to "prove" they are in the IRGC or whatever) would get an easy W by claiming this and walking it back. It's the best they have other than claiming all videos of missiles hitting Israel are AI/misattributed.
yeah likely fake but let a man dream ok?
I'm genuinely beginning to fear that the US and Israel choose the nuclear option to maintain their empire. I can't think of anything rgat would stop them besides fear of Russian retaliation sparked from fear.
I really fukcing wish Iran developed a nuclear weapon like the DPRK, because I'm sick to my stomach worried about this.
Hopefully this entire fiasco is enough to sway certain world leaders to develop nuclear deterrence arsenals of their own, but if I'm being honest, Libya should have been enough of a wake-up call so I highly doubt it.
If they use nukes, the world is literally over lol. China and Russia would, rightly so, preemptively nuke the US afterwards and so on.
I'm not sure they would risk the end of the world for Iran...
I'm just paranoid about the nuclear option and how unhinged the empire is going to be in this dying war.
Also i don't think they'd have Trump going "its the most succesful military operation ever" etc... They wouldve started preparing the public for the nuclear option since the beggining imo.
Trump recently said that the Iranian people are evil. To me that sounds like a departure from the regime change line that was being used up until now.
What is the difference between dropping tens of thousands of conventional warheads vs dropping a few nukes?
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people, not by one or two new types of weapon. -Mao
A nuke or even ten cannot win the war. The missile launchers and depots are all over Iran and most of them are made to withstand penetration bombs and nukes don't do penetration. All nukes would do is convince the world to destroy america before america destroys the world.
I think it's also important to mention that Iran is trying to liberate Palestine. Dropping a nuke on the occupied territories would poison the land for decades or even a century. In this way, Iran's possession of a nuclear deterrent is a paper tiger. I believe this is why they've committed themselves to building up their military capacity with conventional weapons instead.
Mao made that quote in 1946 when nukes were much, much less powerful and numerous then the ones that exist today. What Mao said was true for back then and it's possible using nukes might ultimately backfire on the US but I think it's still important to keep sober with reality, nukes are serious business and every country that cares about sovereignty should be seeking them, immediately. If Cuba and Russia were smart Russia would be stationing nuclear missiles in Cuba RIGHT NOW before the fascists yet again take advantage of their opposition hesitating and vacillating against their aggression and fearing/seeking salvation from an international community that does not exist rather then taking concrete action.
Sanctions cause over 550k deaths every year. That's as much as dropping the biggest nuke ever tested on a city.
True but having nukes or a nuclear weapons program isn't the bar for having devasting sanctions placed on you by western nations these days, merely not being a vassal is. Cuba has no nuclear weapons program and has done absolutely nothing to the United States for decades and the US is still starving them anyway just for being communist.
It would kill millions of Iranians and irreversibly effect Iran on a ecological, societal, and economic level.
The rest of the world doesn't yet have the capacity to destroy the US, so what exactly would they do in fear of a US weilding nuclear weapons?
Honestly I think I might develop a genuine irreconcilable hatred of the white race if the US nukes Iran. I don't mean meme "unlimited genocide on the first world" I mean I will refuse to interact with white people at every opportunity and cuss them out if they try to be cordial.
I'm fucking terrified for my family's life in the events of a nuclear strike.
It would kill millions of Iranians and irreversibly effect Iran on a ecological, societal, and economic level.
How is this any different than if they use conventional weapons?
The rest of the world doesn’t yet have the capacity to destroy the US,
They do in a nuclear war. This is the whole concept of M.A.D.
Like yes it would be horrible but only as horrible as what they already have done to Gaza.
How is this any different than if they use conventional weapons?
My fear is that if the US runs out of conventional weapons or if they want to keep some stockpiled for a future altercation with China, a nuclear weapon would be the "solution" to that problem.
They do in a nuclear war. This is the whole concept of M.A.D.
Russia, and China have the capacity to bring about mad, the rest of the Global south has no defense against an atomically reckless US.
Like yes it would be horrible but only as horrible as what they already have done to Gaza.
I don't want my family members to have to go through what Gaza has, nor do I want anywhere to be like Gaza again.
Russia, and China have the capacity to bring about mad, the rest of the Global south has no defense against a atomically reckless US.
Yes they do. Russia and China are the defense. A first strike is the only defense for Russia and China against a belligerent usa that is willing to use nukes. It forces their hand no matter who the target is because of the usa's proven track record of antagonism against China and Russia.
If someone screams over and over that they are going to kill you but they don't because you have a gun pointed at them and then you see them pull out a gun and shoot someone else are you going to wait for them to face you or shoot them right away?
You are dooming for no reason. The results of a nuclear strike are horrible for everyone but they are markedly worse for israel and usa. You are worrying about people doing something that would hurt themselves more than it would hurt anyone else. Even a psychopath wouldn't do that. They do not believe the armageddon tripe that some jar heads are spouting. There is no up side to them and all they care about is the upside.
It is a waste of energy worrying about something that is very unlikely to happen especially when there is nothing you can do to stop it.
I hope you are correct. I just fear for my family's safety. Without the nuclear option, I see the complete retreat of imperialism from West Asia, which I truly hope to see.
Right this is what worries me since it fits the model I've been working with for this whole conflict. My consolation is that I misjudged how rapidly we would accelerate into the whole oil industry across the region getting decimated. This does allow Iran to maintain MAD in a sense. They are aiming their weapons like they want to kill people at insurance companies via cardiac arrest, it's very calculating. As for Israel independently launching nukes when its entire intelligence-military apparatus is in the hands of the USA, I think that may be unrealistic. We can still skate by without nukes dropping.
Apparently amerikkka is sending a B-whatevernumber Mercury plane over there which is some special plane used to scope things out for nuclear strikes...
An attempt at a more dialectical (and somewhat cheeky) take on the saying "it is what it is":
It is what it is, until what it is contradicts what it is to a qualitative degree, creating the conditions for what it is to become what it isn't.
it is what it is, until it isn't
💯
My stats professor is a stupid old bastard. 汉奸先生自汉奸国
I can't believe im taking out student loans to get demeaned by this guy twice a week. He's so lucky I can't drop him now
Apologies for bad Chinese, am still learning
I have a friend that seems to be falling down this self help, business, start up world bullshit thinking that her company will be different than others. "I will create 1000s of jobs" she says, jesus... No amount of talking could get her away from the thinking "I want to have so much money no one tells me what to do". Kind of just gave up and switched the conversation at that point.
Then on the other side I met someone who lives at home, doesn't have a job and refuses to have one, yet has so many comments on how things should be run. Is there a definition for this type of person?
Forgive me if I write this here, since I need somewhere to put this. I just wanted to write somewhere about my dad dying since he's been in the hospital now for a while.
cw: grief/death/alcoholism
My dad is dying due to his drinking. He had a fall last week in the shower but he was "okay", he fell on his side. However for the last few months he has trouble moving and had another fall in janurary where firefighters needed to help him. And after the shower, he had trouble moving and it got very bad. Anyways he was brought to the hospital and he has been there for a while now and he pretty much just dying. His liver is failing and who god knows what else is wrong. I really hate alcohol. I really hate how my parents didn't try to take care of themselves more. Since it's almost been three years now since my mom died, and now he's dying too.
At least this time around, family and my friends are there for me unlike when my mom died. It's also sad that my grandma going to outlive my dad. At least I got to say I love him when he was still mentally there, because the last visit, he's just, not there. He has only been getting worse since he brought to the hospital, and there talk of him being brought to hospice.
I don't know what I'm going to do, especially since I been living with him since I didn't want to abandon him and tried to do what I can to take care of him. Now he's dying. Where do I even go after this?
I really need to get out of this place, but can't do that since, on top of my dad not bothering to take better care of himself, had left a lot of things unfixed! For example, I can't drive his car since it now has a flat fucking tire! He did warn me about this and mentioned this a few times in the last few months that the tire might go flat. He had some time to get it fixed, but didn't... much like a few other things inside this place.
I just want to get outside, and just, get away from things for a moment. But can't! All the while, relying on family to bring me to the hospital to see him, but I'm tired of going to that god damn fucking hospital. I hate going there, I hate going to the same floor where my mom died. I hate seeing him like this. I hate alcohol, and why couldn't he just bother to get help instead of constantly refusing it. It shouldn't have gotten to this point, but no matter what he kept refusing to get any sort of help. I don't understand why.
That really sucks.
Try to focus on on problem at a time. Its good that you have family to help you. Ask them for help but keep it to one request at a time. You don't want to flood them with all your problems or they will get overwhelmed and do nothing. If they can help you get the tire fixed that is going to relieve a lot of pressure and make it so you can manage a bunch of other problems on your own.
Hang in there we are all rooting for you.
Trump: The art of peace
start a war with no plan
uhhhh
the dow is over 50 thou
Europe: the art of the deal
give the US whatever it wants
uhhh
RuZZia
load more comments
(1 replies)
view more: next ›