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I love to talk about death, wonder if it'll be recorded or if there's some academia or whatever on this mix of topics.
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How can I be proletariat when capital is literally in my blood?
Taking Bogdanov's ideas on bolshevik immortalism (biocosmism) and commodifying it. https://monoskop.org/images/4/48/Bogdanov_Alexander_Red_Star_The_First_Bolshevik_Utopia.pdf
https://books.google.fi/books?id=EdM8BAAAQBAJ
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Death cannot and should not be eliminated. Death is a part of life, what we need to do is ensure that people don't die of preventable or foul sources.
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AOC had a pretty great talk with Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's certainly not Marxist but I'm glad she finally started talking about demsoc in socialisty terms rather than just taxes and welfare. Towards the end she says that socialism is "introducing modes of democracy into the economy, such as worker co-ops" and even briefly alludes to the LTV.
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The AOC part is about 50 minutes, it's towards the start.
Oh, thank you, will watch a bit of the other segments and see if they get my attention.
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The Chinese Marxists who disappeared last year have resurfaced in a forced confession video.
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/01/2...hinese_marxist_students_appear_in_confession/
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/01/2...hinese_marxist_students_appear_in_confession/
Lol that kind of framing always seems funny to me. "I now realize that what I was doing was illegal and bad. Also I wanted to overthrow the CCP, I guess I just realized that was illegal too"
I'm interested to see what they do when hit with another downturn. While the party is undoubtedly mixed with business interests, it is also a cloistered political body. Unlike the United States or Europe, the party can see a benefit with the wider population from swiftly destroying big defaulters, punishing business owners and seizing their capital for being socially irresponsible or something like this. They have the means to hit the reset button and put people back to work with a lot more agility, because the interests of capital are still subordinate to the party's need for stability and economic progress. Unless they prove not to be, in which case there'd have to be austerity and further concentration of capital which would likely look far more directly repressive than ours given the different position of China.
So, we are nearing a point in time when a member of the US congress will utter the words "workers controlling the means of production" and not with intent of evoking specters of the Red Scare- some years ago this seemed like an absolute impossibility (to me). It is pretty insane when looking at it from the historical perspective. Yes, AOC is a social democrat, but it would be interesting to see who she's surrounding herself with/or the books on her nightstand because her vocabulary is evolving and not necessarily in the wrong direction against most odds.
I also assume some (on this very forum) will not pay attention to her words and be very disappointed when she doesn't endorse Kamala the Cop.
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I mean Maduro is an idiot and the PSUV is pretty corrupt so if they fall, they fall.
Let's hope for the people's sake that it is a fall and less of a push, considering the supporting players.
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Yeah, I think the only positive endgame would have been a Hungary 1956 scenario where the people rise up against the PSUV to institute actual socialism, but Maduro has the support of the military and the opposition has the support of foreign powers. Since the PSUV has messed up so badly even regardless of whatever the US may be up to behind the scenes, that just pushes the desperate populace more over to the opposition as it is.
There are no good outcomes, but if the government is toppled then we have to be honest about why it happened.
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Yes, but at the same time the country is pretty much a wasteland right now. You're just shifting from one type of capitalism (a badly run social democracy) to another. It frankly would probably do better due to the international support.
If we have to be honest, then the reasons why it's happened is in no small part thanks to US imperialism along with the fascist power in Latin America. Sure, there is plenty to criticize Maduro for, but any form of revolution should be at the will of the people, and not some foreign-backed right-winged compradore who's suddenly open to foreign business investors and exploitation of Venezuelans.
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Of course, the Bolivarian revolutoknnever would have happened if there wasn't mass support for it. But what annoys me the most is the types who refuse to accept that the PSUV is bad at all. It's the same sort who whitewash everything about the USSR or China.
I have never whitewashed Maduro, and I haven't seen it either by people who are critical of what's going on right now. I think that's something that people automatically attribute anti-imperialists. That somehow when you criticize the "foreign intervention" strategy of the Global North, some people somehow think that means a defense of the horrors committed by the invaded country's leader when that is far from the case.
It's a silencing tactic that automatically makes it a difficult position for us to argue our case for anti-imperialism. That we have to automatically align with US imperialism and their fascists currently in power because the leaders are shitheads.
That being said, and I'm not whitewashing Maduro at all, we also have to balance an acknowledgement of the role that foreign interventions like sanctions and coup attempts and destabilization efforts from the imperialist powers have on such countries and their leadership. It's difficult as hell, but we have to do it to be truthful and critical about how today's international politics work in the interest of capitalism
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It's mostly people on Reddit and other sites who treat Telesur as a anything other than state propaganda.
At the same time, I think it's crucial that we do not downplay or effectively obscure the central role of US imperialism and place hugely disproportionate blame on a government that is subject to unremitting pressure, economic warfare & demonisation.
Well, Hungary is an apt but sad comparison. It wasn't really a socialist uprising. Proletarian, to much of a degree, sure.
But the result was the re-Stalinization of the Party, state terror, and gulags for the next ten years. Eventually followed by reforms and collapse.
For Venezuela I find that old Hoxha quote to be apt: "This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand, it will be easier than next year."
But the result was the re-Stalinization of the Party, state terror, and gulags for the next ten years. Eventually followed by reforms and collapse.
For Venezuela I find that old Hoxha quote to be apt: "This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand, it will be easier than next year."
Venezuela is an enthusiastic member of OPEC and international Capital. If the US cut back on its own oil production and offered Maduro a fat check for some oil reserves he'd knock over his own mother to reach out and grab it, then proceed to embezzle it, continue to grossly mismanage the industry that props up his tin can dictatorship and then continue to pay off his cops to repress Venezuelans with state terror.
The best way to keep Venezuela from completely collapsing would be for Maduro to dismantle the state police and step down. Let the Venezuelan people figure it out. The US should stay out of it.
"US Imperialism" isn't responsible for the PSUV being full of embezzlers and Maduro being a moron.
The best way to keep Venezuela from completely collapsing would be for Maduro to dismantle the state police and step down. Let the Venezuelan people figure it out. The US should stay out of it.
"US Imperialism" isn't responsible for the PSUV being full of embezzlers and Maduro being a moron.
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Maduro - Russian and Chinese Imperialism
Guaido - US imperialism
Good old fashioned picking of sides.
Guaido - US imperialism
Good old fashioned picking of sides.
That group's been posting pretty on point stuff at every turn.
funny, that sounds just like the strawman that the warhawks were putting up back in 2002 and 2003. Just like that other thread here on Maduro.
And look at Iraq now (and Afghanistan for that matter or the rest of the countries affected by imperialism ) - it's clear that US/Western imperialism must be stopped.
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Didn't they try to put a pig's head outside a DSA office but got the wrong building?
You should think about my sarcastic shit post a little bit longer.
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