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[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

It's too bad bill burr has a naive view here of why disasters happen, why wars happen, why malicious people wholly incompatible with humanity accrue power, etc. Someone get this man some theory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

is it just me or does this article appear to be llm generated, and apparently written by a fake author that also seems to be generated?

edit- so this is supposed to be the author...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yep and that's why the evil GDR and USSR still exist, because they brutally used their huge militaries and extensive secret spy networks to kill all those protestors.

Did you read the article posted? even these shit ass liberals admit that state repression against these movements was minimal, except they still have to couch that fact in the same old tired anticommunist lies we've heard for years... "Well no one was really hurt... But they could have been! The government was so scary, and had authority, and was total!"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wow another article painting the GDR as "authoritarian" without interrogating what that actually means or a comparison to West Germany.

The people gathered to demand freedom and democracy and then everything was good again.

blob-no-thoughts I mean really

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago

If we're gonna ascribe WW2 victory to one particular country or front it's hands down going to the Soviet Union

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Alternate title for the glib- Six clowns condemn seventh's circus act. Take a look at the works and ideas these people put forward, and they are really only marginally less serious than trump when it comes to helping the poor or building a welfare net.

Also, these aren't Nobel winners, as in winners of the original categories stipulated by Nobel. Instead they were awarded the Nobel Memorial prize in economics, which was started by the Swedish Central Bank in 1968. It's purpose was to redirect popular and academic attention back towards liberal theories, instead of towards alternatives (ie.Marxists), by way of providing a fake academic gloss and placing economists like Friedman and Hayek on the same level of import as Einstein or Martin Luther King.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not a long essay but man it sucks shit lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Communist Party of Canada called it a genocide too, they got my vote. For Singh I think it was a case of far too little and far too late.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Jagmeet Singh, leader of the federal NDP in Canada, has officially conceded defeat in his riding which has been taken by the Liberals.

The NDP itself is also losing official party status as they were unable to gain 12 or more seats, and will be unable to access certain funds and lose special parliamentary privileges.

Since their high water mark of being the Official Opposition after the 2011 election under Jack Layton, the NDP has triangulated itself to what we see today: a party that refused to leave the shadow of the Liberals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

getting head from c-3po I call that golden dome

 

Anyone got it?

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2512164

Was thinking about this intellectual period last night. I don't know a lot but I get the vague impression of it being too much on the revisionist side for my taste, although the label New Left is so broad that I'm sure there's a huge span of thought that it gets applied to.

What theory still holds up from that time, what theorists do you agree/disagree with, what texts would you recommend to people who want to understand more about this time, t's origins,links to the French 1968 movement ,etc?

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Was thinking about this intellectual period last night. I don't know a lot but I get the vague impression of it being too much on the revisionist side for my taste, although the label New Left is so broad that I'm sure there's a huge span of thought that it gets applied to.

What theory still holds up from that time, what theorists do you agree/disagree with, what texts would you recommend to people who want to understand more about this time, t's origins,links to the French 1968 movement ,etc?

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Michael Roberts: The State of Capitalism review (thenextrecession.wordpress.com)
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Review of Michael Roberts and Carchedi's book, found the parts about inflation and reaffirming the rate of profit portions interesting

 

I want to understand more about these two crises of capitalism. How do they happen? How do they relate to each other?what is the context on the debate in leftist circles around them, as I know some groups prefer to emphasise one over the other. I have read a bit on Michael Roberts' blog, he definitely prefers to emphasise the falling rate of profit but some of it goes over my head.

Any books/articles on this stuff that comrades would recommend?

 

What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor?

First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. He feels at home when he is not working, and when he is working he does not feel at home.

His labor is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need; it is merely a means to satisfy needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that as soon as no physical or other compulsion exists, labor is shunned like the plague. External labor, labor in which man alienates himself, is a labor of self-sacrifice, of mortification.

Lastly, the external character of labor for the worker appears in the fact that it is not his own, but someone else’s, that it does not belong to him, that in it he belongs, not to himself, but to another. Just as in religion the spontaneous activity of the human imagination, of the human brain and the human heart, operates on the individual independently of him – that is, operates as an alien, divine or diabolical activity – so is the worker’s activity not his spontaneous activity. It belongs to another; it is the loss of his self.

when the capitalist system positions your labour-power as a power alien to you, and denies your species-being, thereby denying your external and natural aspect, your human aspect; as well as ensuring your estrangement of man from man sus

when the workers' activity does not belong to them and is instead felt as a torment, inversely felt by the owner of the labour as satisfaction and pleasure sus-deep

when the whole of human servitude is involved in the relation of the worker to production sus-lovecraft

when the workers themselves necessarily hold within them the revolutionary power to sweep away these systems of domination and contradiction lenin-shining

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