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pray to the Machine Spirit

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tbh now I kinda want to change the title to Hummus

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What we see during COVID-19 is stark operational differences between nations where politicians are the top authorities, and nations where Capital is the top authority. We are endlessly told that nations with activist governments are unfree, and that any support for these governments must come from either a pathological culture of obedience or the threat of state violence. And yet socialist nations plainly outperformed capitalist ones in terms of fighting the virus. [12]

This analysis does not imply there were simply two modes of response: capitalist and socialist. Market domination is not a binary affair, and Capital doesn’t rule by decree. As Roberts puts it, the market doesn’t tell capitalists what to do — rather, they have to guess and prognosticate and forecast and hope. Capitalists don’t find out whether they did what the market wanted until after the fact. [13] People around the world defended themselves from the virus, repressing the political will of Capital, in proportion to what they could get away with politically and economically. In socialist states, resources were deployed as deemed necessary to meet the challenge. In capitalist states in the sphere of influence of socialist China, such as South Korea, capitalists offered a decent response, perhaps because catastrophic handling would create a domestic political shift in favour of socialism. In the imperial core, where white supremacy reigns and there is no political will whatsoever to look to China for a good example, self-assured capitalists simply allowed the plague to spread essentially unopposed. In fact, imperialists succeeded to a great extent in turning the ensuing resentment into a foreign policy weapon. [14] This isn’t isolated to the most proudly capitalist nations; the kind of political power, infrastructure, and resources needed to enforce a tolerable quarantine has been completely eroded in social democratic havens like Canada and Sweden. No notable political force in the West referred to socialist successes in their efforts to affect domestic COVID-19 response policy, and I attribute this mistake to chauvinism.

from https://redsails.org/why-marxism/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

staying informed

staying sane

it's not working out great for me, I'd say choose one

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it's a patronymic so it basically means "son of Vladimir", just means his dad had same first name

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Empress Laura I

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thinking about when Obungler broke the NBA strike with his phone calls

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bean a long time comin'

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where to buy that dope jersey he's pictured in

 

Pakistani diaspora worldwide being targeted in sick ways to maintain imperial control of Pakistan

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reposting because previous posts are dead links due to the previous account being banned

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listen Jack, a long time ago they came for the Armenians and I was like, damn that sucks but Turkey gives me a lot of money. then they came for the Palestinians and hey, you gotta break some eggs on the curb if you're fighting with the, you know, the Corn Pop terrorists.

EDIT: context

tags: Ilhan Omar DNC

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