[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

It does tho. Don't believe liberal lies

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Hell yeah, the year is 2016, let's Pokemon brat to the polls

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

It sounds like lime green

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

Remeber the secret Kremlin handshake so she knows your cool

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 98 points 5 months ago

100% on EVs,
And 50% on solar panels.

Fuck off

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 138 points 7 months ago

What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

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Tldr, graeber is a lib but also a state socialist.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 105 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Marxism is a way to view the world that has like 7 books written on it

data-laughing

Marx had a fundamental misunderstanding in that the cost of something doesn't affect its end value. It may affect its price, but value isn't the same thing as price either.

Hence most left wing Marxist-based economies sucking.

This is trivial to demonstrate; look at the Juicero. Tons of labor and materials poured into making one (hence a high cost) which required setting a high price to recoup... but very little value. Nobody bought the damn things, so it's high price did not match it's value. Other examples are industrial settings, where custom fixtures/molds can reach 6 digit $ price tags during production runs. Then at EOL for the project be sold off for literal pennies to scrap dealers.

Lmao, Marx famously failed to consider socially useless labor time and fixed capital investment.

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Forest and Factory

The Science and the Fiction of Communism

A long but interesting essay that is in part a critique of Soren Mau, about science fiction and utopia, outline of what communist global organization could be, and a fictional account of the communist construction of a DC motor.

Yes, it starts with a Bordiga quote, no it isn't left Com communizer stuff.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 109 points 10 months ago

I have a vision of the future:

My therapy AI raised the subscription fee, so I started to use the Starbucks Coffee Selection AI as it was based on the same LLM. Starbucks shut it down because it started to recommend people drink lattes to improve their anxiety. Everyone is now using the Michelin Tire Customer Support AI for therapy, you just have to pepper in random questions about tires so it doesn't shut you out.

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Posting this to the dunk tank because everyone involved sucks.

tl;dr Writer writes something nice about Jeff Koons (lol why?), Koons doesn't understand its a positive review (because of course he doesn't), Brooklyn Rail pulls the article because Koons is unhappy (because art criticism is solely about masturbation now), writer cries about "free speech" because they couldn't publish their masturbatory "review" of Koons.

Here is a sample of the people and writing involved:

Of the Koons sculpture, Golan wrote: “There is a certain tension that reads as the aftereffect of the violence that prompted the memorial, latent in the way Koons’ arm juts out diagonally from its base.” Golan added: “It is this remarkable mix of benevolence and tension in Koon’s gesture that marks his ‘Bouquet’ as an important artwork.”

That tension was at the heart of Koons’s objections. In an email message, the artist’s representative, Lauran Rothstein, wrote to Golan: “You refer to Jeff’s passive gesture of offering as one of violence.” She added that Golan’s essay had aligned Koons “with extremely negative connotations.”

Also after pasting this in, I just realized that the NYT must have fired any editors because we have "Koons'" "Koon's" and "Koons's" within two paragraphs lol.

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What follows is an unusually long and math-heavy essay compared to other writing on RedSails; not coincidentally, it’s also the first time we’ve had to render math by implementing LATEX. [1] In our opinion the effort is worth it — the transformation problem has dogged Marxism for long enough, and we do not want our readers to be caught by surprise when neoclassical economists (or worse, other Marxists) throw it in their faces.

The political stakes are straightforward: Marxism ceases to be Marxism when it bails on the labor theory of value. Intellectually, Wright’s research opens the door to further investigations of the fault line between capitalist and natural necessity running through economic thought and modeling. [2] [3] It is our hope that further work in this direction will be able to expose more and more concrete ways in which capitalist social arrangements, despite their seeming necessity, are ultimately irrational and superable. — N. F.

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Good ep for theory heads and haters alike

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 106 points 11 months ago

Smh tankies will support this. You won't be laughing when they come for you after you accept $100m in bribes.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 117 points 1 year ago

The OAS has determined there were upvote anomalies

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 114 points 1 year ago

kim-salute for such an effective bait thread lmao

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