I’ve read Paul Cockshott’s work and he is most certainly a materialist. He is somewhat skeptical of dialectics (though not to the point of abandoning it), but he understands it and talks about. I would say that Marxist theory without DiaMat does not have historical materialism, and developing historical materialism is the crowning achievement of Marx and Engel’s work.

You say that the soviet political education that you received was boring because it did not focus enough on contemporary and concrete issues, and this makes perfect sense. But do we need to throw away DIaMat? Wouldn’t it be better to relate DiaMat to existing issues to make it more concrete?

Iran-aligned Lebanese group Hezbollah

Why don’t any of these news outlets say “American backed Israeli group”?

It makes perfect sense that many European members are hesitant to pledge yearly military support to a country that may loose the war it is fighting. This pledge alone would signal that western leaderships have no plans for the end of the conflict. Furthermore, I’m sure that many European government officials want to normalize economic relations with Russia again in order to get cheaper gas. They don’t want to live near a permanent conflict zone.

Business owners have more income than workers, so often they can afford time saving technologies in their personal life (eating out instead of cooking, childcare, etc), which allows them to put more time in their business. This may also be a factor in how hard they appear to work. Because your average worker doesn’t work a small amount of time.

Furthermore, in the case of business owners, their work directly adds value to their wealth, but in the case of workers, working more than what is necessary often doesn’t increase your income at all. So there is an actual incentive for business owners to work hard.

Most people are cowards lol. Most people don’t have the nerve to willingly sacrifice their life, or even kill someone.

I think it is many factors:

1. The actually existing project(s) that a community latches onto affect the community culture. Imagine us trying to be sectarian with each other when our supported factions are constantly making the news for making alliances between completely opposed ideologies. This also affects the liberals, which is why even they aren’t too sectarian.
2. Any real project will be full of imperfections, and no faction will appeal to you 100%. If you can already tolerate this for the projects that actually impact the world, you can tolerate it for the random internet users.
3. Ultras and Anarchists are united/defined mostly on the basis of hating AES and revisionists. This does not build any strong community unity, or even sensible theory. Instead, it builds the mentality of accusing the other members of being too much like their boogeymen.

God can there not be a single china article on lib spaces without some fucking brainworms in the comments?

Being against “anti-authoritarians” is not the same thing as being “authoritarian” as these categories are not useful in the first place. No marxist considers themselves to be either category.

Authority as indirect or direct force (essentially the engels) argument is the only logical way of definition authority, as the hexbear post argues using the example of the armed mugger. The definition of authority as blind obedience (as defined by the anarchist) is completely flawed in that it doesn’t account for the source of the blind obidelience and isn’t easy to measure.

This is the kind of analysis you get when you have no understanding how organizations work. Mao was not some lone actor who miraculously acquired supreme power, and then starved “half of China” for shits and giggles apparently.

Anyone familiar with the way that Mao operated knows that he made frequent use of the mass line and mass mobilisation. He also made use of the collective leadership of the party, and was often frustrated by their lack of cooperation with him (at one point even threatening to launch a revolution against the party). Even anti-communists who have at least studied China in detail know that the lone dictator nonsense is well, nonsense. It is just great man theory of history. A society is made of many moving parts.

As to the failures of the glf, they were entirely technical. The rush to industrialise in a decentralised manner left agricultural production vulnerable to poor weather conditions. This was compounded with the fact that much of the country at the time had poor transportation and communications, and ruled by corrupt cardie, leading to a disastrous lack of effective coordination across the nation. It is only with higher level organization today that countries can mount effective disaster responses. The glf proves the opposite of your point.

The laws or nature impose required forms of organization upon human society to function. The “double slavery” idea is not some obscure idea. When humans enslave nature to use it for their benefit, nature enslaved humans and imposes specific forms of organisation in turn. The specific form of organization imposed upon a society of large scale industrial producers is large scale centralized organization, in which the will of singular individuals is drowned out.

You are wrong on the factual level.

The role of money in soviet society was always subordinate to material production. Money was necessary only due to the technical limitations of planning a vast economy without sufficient computing power. The sphere of commodity exchange was supressed as much as possible. Much of the soviet citizen’s consumption was either heavily subsidised or free. This went all the way from food, transportation to even fancy entertainment (like spas and theatres). In fact, the heavy distortion of prices in soviet society is often cited as a reason for its eventual collapse.

Therefore, calling the soviet union state capitalist is absurd. Capitalism requires a dominant bourgeois class, the operation of the law of value and the anarchy of production. None of these elements were present in the soviet union.

Going by the other comments, his sin appears to be having a Russian passport

This is what hate the government not the people means.

Robin Ferracone, chief executive of Farient advisers, a pay consultancy, said burgeoning executive pay awards were largely being driven by “companies wanting to keep their CEOs from taking phone calls from [rivals’] search committees”.

This is exactly the problem of the internationlized bourgeois class. Any country which relies on the bourgeoise for economic stewardship has to compensate the bourgeoise handsomely because they can always look across the pond and move to a different firm or country. Internationalism is a really powerful tool for any class with the organizational capacity yo use it. It also means that a severe blow to the bourgeoise in 1 country will be a blow to the bourgeoise everywhere. Kind of how the fall of the ussr sent shockwaves around the whole of the socialist world.

Given that the Russians have been fighting this war for 2 years now, their military is sufficiently experienced. Fighting in wars is what makes conscripts into veterans in the first place. Given that NATO troops lack any experience fighting harsh land wars, and the Ukrainians facing severe manpower issues, the Russian military is in a much better shape than its enemies. Russia also outproduces the west in artillery by many times. In simple terms, Ukraine is not going to win this war, short of a black swan event.

If you lose 95% of your skilled veterans and all you have is green recruits your experience level goes down. Larger and greener.

Yeah, Russia has lost of 95% of its skilled soldiers, just like how they don’t have rifles, running water, and their tanks are made of paper mache, right? Pure copium analysis. If the state of the Russian military and economy is really so shit, it is even more humiliating for the collective west that they are being massively outproduced. The US spends more on its military than the next few powers combined and still can’t beat Yemen or Russia.

significantly less experienced

Lmao, what experience do western troops have? Fighting poorly equipped insurgents, women and children?

And every day Ukraine holds out is another day that Europe gears up.

Comedic gold. Europe is facing massive de-industrialisation with severe contractions in manufacturing output and sluggish fundamentals. Compared to all the g7 countries, russia faced the highest gdp growth in recent years.

As the defacto leader of the company becomes stretched thinner across his various enterprises, such as SpaceX, The Boring Company, X, and now xAI, there is growing concern about the time Musk has to focus on Teslas’ growth, strategy, and day-to-day operations. It seems, however, that shareholders are eschewing these concerns, and voting in favor of the package.

Tesla shareholders are idiots and deserve wasting this much money on the ass-clown.

terror babies

I think we all know exactly what they think about brown children.

Literally eating buldak rn.