[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 days ago

Kindly point out where I expressed critical support for western imperialism.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I thought it would be obvious I was mocking you by repeating the viewpoint you expressed without the air of pretentiousness that you surround it with, but I guess I was the stupid one for thinking you were capable of recognizing sarcasm.

Also "critical support" for what, Russian imperialism? Why does Russian imperialism deserve "critical support" while western imperialism deserves direct opposition?

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net -1 points 4 days ago

You're right we should be running dogs for western imperialism instead.

Ah yes, because there are only two options, you're either a running dog for western imperialism or a running dog for Russian imperialism. But being a running dog for Russian imperialism is actually cool because it will lead to communism somehow. Don't ask what happens in between, that's not important...

And yes it will improve revolutionary conditions as the contradictions become more aparent

Wow that's incredible, why don't we just skip waiting for the imperialists to do it and carry out the genocide ourselves. That'll really make those contradictions more apparent, I can't wait!

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

And libs often seems to function for tankies in exactly the same way. I'm an anarchist but when I argue with tankies I get called a lib even as I call for the overthrow of capitalism. Funny how that works, almost as if the problem is dogmatism.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

I love this, what is it from?

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

You're right, the Soviet Union joined the allies against the Nazis because they were explicitly not revolutionary defeatists, which cannot be said of a large number of modern day tankies.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 days ago

Revolutionary defeatism is just accelerationism with academic window dressing. Thinking that the defeat of western imperialism at the hands of Russian imperialism will improve revolutionary conditions is moronic and dangerous.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net -4 points 4 days ago

Less left leaning than liberal? Are you suggesting the EFF is conservative?

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

I’m all for reducing the inequality gap (a lot) but there does need to be one for capitalism to work.

And that is precisely why capitalism should be abolished. Any gap will grow, the only way to stop it is to close it and hold it shut. Any amount of inequality is injustice.

Several decades ago, the top bracket was 90%, which surely reduced inequality without removing the wealth incentive

And then the wealth incentive overcame the tax pressure and reversed it. The wealth incentive is perverse, there is no reason to preserve it.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

The main problem I see with this approach is regulatory capture. If you allow individuals to consolidate resources even slightly then they begin to form 2 distinct classes, the owners and the workers, where one is economically advantaged. Even in a democratic society that economic advantage allows the owning class to exert greater influence and nudge things in their favor. This has a snowball effect until you end up where we are now, a bourgeois democratic government that functions exclusively for the owning class.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 89 points 2 weeks ago

This is not terrorism, it's industrial sabotage, which in the context of the coal industry is based.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 87 points 3 months ago

Science is just the method by which technological advancements are achieved, it doesn't decide the priorities. That privilege falls to capital, and by extension, capitalists.

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