MLRL_Commie

So maybe its an idea to do a drive first for people promising for the matching in a separate thread or in some specific community? Then the drive with the sum total of match-able funds second?

Holy shit I was thinking of doing a "matching" thing too, but I can't do more than 50euros for that offer, unfortunately. Your 1000 is amazing. But I can pick up the total match tab for the first 50 or so?

Easier resd which extends the analysis and improves it, in my opinion, in Losurdo's Bonapartism book. Great stuff, would recommend it highly

I think the same analytical failure is related to those constantly hoping China will hit the communism button: the international contradictions are primary for all imperialized countries and have to be understood as antagonistic without a way to just directly fight against them (without complete loss, like the US bombing and killing everyone).

Yes, but also dialectically lol. I read him as someone aware of the movements and forces in the world, just standing for a moral stance in opposition to progress despite that understanding

Lol the pants on fire... what a world where we get to enjoy Lego slop undermining imperial hegemony

I think these are all legitimate operational contradictions, but that these are questions of money which are preferrable to current monarchies than the larger material ones: is ownership of the capital and assets configured to benefit the monarchy or to undermine it? That question seems less relevant until the contradictions sharpen, in which case it will become essential and these technical problems will be seen as small peas and worth whatever is necessary. Now, the question is, naturally, will that be realizable of will that fail because the hurdle is too big technically to handle without losing political power? I hope they do fail, but I think that will come to head first...

But again, I think your analysis is fine and pretty much as likely as mine. I think it hinges very much on how willing labor will be to go along (or willing to be forced to go along) at many steps in this process.

I hope you're correct! I, unfortunately think that the majority of the gulf monarchies are internally stable enough to first solve their external contradictions before their internal ones will break, but I don't feel too strongly about it! Do you think that they couldn't get machinery which works from non-western sources? I'm skeptical only because of how many countries function and get oil without that machinery. But I have little technical knowledge of those systems

Remember dialectics: the contradictions first build before they completely aufheben. THey will take it until a certain amount of fucking has happened and then flip at once (maybe all, more likely a bunch together), but that will take more than this situation, I agree. First, they have to see that China is the more stable partner to maintain the current structure. Right now China is scary because they won't assist in putting down opposition like the US, but once the US causes more opposition than it keeps at bay, China will come on top. Then the shift to China as a partner will eventually lead the next contradictions to develop towards internal revolutionary changes inshallah

Yeah wtf, I've never seen a hexbear watermark.

It really depends on this concept of "smart", right? Even if orcas have the same brain capacity in physical/neurological terms, what distinguishes humans is the social aspect. When I say social, I mean thay we have constantly compounding social learning and concretizing that knowledge into technology (going back to sharpened spears tips or pieces of flint). This is the aspect which really sets humans apart, not necessarily the biology itself (though our brains have no doubt evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to depend on this social aspect).

If orcas had such time and ability to pass knowledge on not only through direct communication, but through communicated technology, they might have the same level of intelligence!

To be clear, I'm not making any normative claima about morality or such, I just don't want us to fall into the "biology determines smartness" idea which is undialectical and wrong. With my analysis, and a good normative ethics (which is like "treat beings as the best version of themselves that could exist given time and assistance") we could have a better take.

A very tough read for westerners, very confronting. It's very clearly written by a Maoist, though I find it hard to find a point of disagreement except at very abstract levels. But very powerfully written a d brings it back to material support or opposition. I do think it might rely a bit on a martyr complex, but the argument works because there's no organized, materially anti-zionist movement among western Judaism. So lacking even an ineffective martyr is still fairly noteworthy.

I found it hard to accept such a damning account, but I experience that more from maoist writing. I guess that is to say, jews that want to be anti-zionist should probably organize (not the zionist communist party, like one that will really confront the moment) instead of being a martyr who falls to adventurism.

Otherwise great piece. Thanks for sharing