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>>2566413
it was even in a sopranos episode where the guy running the casino had a 'awakening' about his native ancestors a few years ago,

………….burgers………..

McDonald’s Price Increases from 2019 to 2024:

Medium French Fry $1.79 -> $4.19
McChicken $1.29 -> $3.89
Big Mac $3.99 -> $7.49
10 McNuggets $4.49 -> $7.58
Cheeseburger $1.00 -> $3.15

>>2566405
she's probably running for GA senate as an independent because Trump is endorsing someone else and she wants to be a spoiler to spite him.

>>2566415
yeah it's been a trope for a long time

>>2566416
that's actually insane wtf
insane levels of greed
we need a burger dictatorship of the proletariat that seizes mcdonalds

>>2566127
revisionist PRC > revisionist USSR
simple as

>no maupin discussion
>no has discussion
You transhumanists suck

Are multipolar bros and dengists on suicide watch yet? Did you realize having 10000 KFCs means your favorite country is weaker than the USSR at its most revisionist?

I hope every fascist duginist who trolled for the last 10 years kills themself over this.

>>2566391
nice, if china is weaker than the USSR at its most revisionist, it will collapse soon

>>2566391
???

>>2563924
topkek. it's even more over for europe every day.

>German Chancellor Merz:

>Last week in Brazil, I asked the journalists with me who wanted to stay. No one raised a hand.

>Everyone was relieved to return to Germany that Friday night—especially given the place we were in.

<Eduardo Paes, mayor of Rio de Janeiro, defends Belém and calls the German chancellor a “Hitler’s vagabond offspring” and a “Nazi”.
you guys make me laugh

>>2564137
Manned fighter jets are relics from cold war.

>>2563977
Spain looks like an utopia from italy. I know that one of the main destinations for my generation

>>2565807
I don't think this solves the underlying issue but okay, do it

>>2565806
>you can't bring the jobs back, because burgers work for higher wages.
>you would have to lower wages to be competitive with 2nd and 3rd world countries,

You can bring jobs back if you automate enough. Higher end American stuff is still good, but the amount of parasites make it worse and worse for them.

Burger currency abroad =/= burger currency at home. Two systems are essentially insulated from each other. Comparing dollar wages is fucking stupid, like, a couple of years back Japan had yen devalued, "wiping out" what, 40% of their GDP and wages? What, do you think they've had holodomor happen to them? Nah, nothing of the like happened.

Burger currency abroad is popular because foreign exporters prefer USD denominated bonds because of inflation differences. Japanese Yen was popular for a while because it had great inflation compared to other currencies. This is one of the reasons why Westoid economists jerk off to inflation so much, and laugh at Russia and the like for having high inflation - economists are stupid enough to think that the whole world works just like US inner market, lol

>US currency is hegemonic because it is the world reserve currency.

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>>2565819
>You can bring jobs back if you automate enough.
Wrong. Automation eliminates jobs. Read marx
>Burger currency abroad =/= burger currency at home. Two systems are essentially insulated from each other.
Wrong. AmeriKKKans have no dual circulation because all wealth they consume is stolen from third world.

The number one thing that makes many marxists seem like pseuds with no credibility is trying to handwave away the world we live in.
Why aren't you doing anything to organize? Well, our economy is mostly services, and service workers aren't real proletarians. Capitalists outsourced all the REAL jobs, so now I'm going to outsource responsibility for the revolution.

Give me the naive people who want to form a communist ""union"" of pornographic commission artists any day.

>>2565755
UBI raises demand and increases employment. UBI does drop wages but this is a good thing you labor aristocrat piece of shit. I want to proletarianize the imperial core.

>>2563763
What actually was wrong with "100% employment" i.e. Keynesian economics is that it only subsisted through *massive* deficit spending that the world is still reeling from. It led to what became known as "stagflation" which is what allowed Thatcherism/neoliberalism to take hold, rather than it just being the fault of a "few evil people" like the DSA believes.

To make the sale for neoliberalism, they emphasized the greatness of "choice." "You're not losing your healthcare, you get to CHOOSE your healthcare!!!" This is just the propaganda, as the actual economic reasoning for it is what I noted above.

We can't just go back to Keynesian theory. It doesn't work. That's the basis of why socialism is necessary.

>>2566292
After the cultural revolution, the geopolitical landscape had changed, and the Sino-Soviet split gave the US an incentive to start getting along with China in an effort to debilitate the USSR. Deng Xiaoping saw the opportunity and took it. At the time, there was still a major contradiction for Chinese socialism in the 1970s: China was still a largely agrarian state and the technological gap between China and the capitalist West was only accelerating.

To address this issue, Deng coined the concept of “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," which meant dialectically reconciling the contradictions of
1. Marxist idea of socialism and communism
2. China’s concrete historical and material conditions (backward productive forces, semi-feudal legacy, legacy of revolution, national context).

Thesis: Universal socialism (as per Marx)
Antithesis: Chinese material conditions (agrarian, poor, underdeveloped)
Contradiction: How to realize socialism in an unripe historical context
Synthesis: “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” aka a historically grounded path to reconcile the universal and particular
Aufhebung: As the contradiction is resolved through development, the two categories, "socialism" and "Chinese characteristics" begin to merge and dissolve into one historical form

So when Deng says "Chinese characteristics", he's not talking about a static Confucianism or an Orientalist image of some eternal cultural "Chinese-ness." Chinese characteristics are the stage of development and concrete historical condition that China finds itself in. Deng's goal is for China to bridge the gap between the mental and material until the two dissolve. When Deng said “seek truth from facts,” he wasn’t advocating pragmatism in the abstract, he was invoking a dialectical materialist method. He recognized that ideas (truth, socialism) must grow out of and adapt to material conditions. To attempt to impose a universal blueprint on an underdeveloped base would not produce socialism, but crisis and failure.

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Burger """leftists""" haye him.

>>2566302
great posts anon, a joy to read

>>2566302
I like this take. In the Manifesto, it is written that communists must win the battle for democracy. This is just a reformulation of the idea of the proletarian dictatorship or the political supremacy of the proletariat. But the working class must first to make itself the demos, a political body able to push its historical class interest, before it can rule itself. The Russian and Chinese revolution effectively made the conditions that first 1) made the working classes, and secondly 2) could make the working classes the demos.
>the two categories, "socialism" and "Chinese characteristics" begin to merge and dissolve into one historical form
It reminds of Lenin's claim that there is world-historic significance to the Russian revolution, and there are a lot of universal truths in it, despite the particularities. The quote from Xi about new 'relations of production' is making me hopeful.

Thanks for making me have new thoughts.

Damn, dengoids are going full damage control this week

India post INC has had a retarded econmic policy where they are trying to develop high tech industries without a mature industrial base. You have to build steel mills, apartment blocks, and railways before building computer centers.
>>2566265
The BJP is running Indian into the ground, hopefully their failure will lead to a revolution.

BJP is doing fine. India is just trammeled by electoral politics, wherein politicians have to do stupid things to win them elections. Growth rates, in general, are at acceptable levels.

Foreign policy-wise, India has a horrific habit of picking losing ships. Too much pride, not enough capability. That said, Pakistan is reduced (Mexicanized, but with nukes), which is a RAW success.

Watch this video, it's just half an hour and explains what happened to India.

>>2566248
trvth nvke

>>2566181
My personal interpretation of this, as a Indian communist, was the economic stagnation of the Permit Raj/Nehruvian era prevented any meaningful class struggle arising by preventing industrialization and aggressively promoting the interests of the peasantry, petty-bourg, and small landowners. There won't be any proletarian conflict when there's barely any proletarianization occouring at all
>but then why isn't there one now after liberalization/deregulation
Same reason there aren't any major communist movement in most other developing (and developed) countries, there's enough spectacle to keep proletarians occupied with petty nonsense (media/advertising/religion/ethnicity/language/etc) and distract them from their material conditions.
On the foreign policy front, lmao. Your guess is as good as mine- but I'd say it's just because all of south asia (correctly) realized tying themselves to the next economic hegemon (china) was a better call than tying themselves to a decrepit, unstable ethnonationalist menace and all of indian diplomacy since the late 2000s has been an extended crashout over this fact. Fundamentally, most of India is not governed by logic or common sense like anywhere else is, it's a very very strange place (and you realize this more if you get to leave it)
>>2566273
very true. to add to >>2566348, growth rates are, on paper, acceptable, but that very rarely translates to any major benefits for 95+% of the population- the post-liberalization profits are concentrated on wealthy tier-1 city urbanites. Unfortunately I doubt a revolution is on hand, atp they'll just double down on electoral fraud and hindu nationalism while everything burns

In conclusion we have been living in a protracted century (centuries?) of humiliation except unlike the Chinese we actually only have ourselves to blame for this. I hate this place

>>2566388

One thing to note is that the growth rate was decent until the mid 60s on the basis of heavy industrial development where it hit a wall, which, basically would have required agricultural collectivization & mechanization to overcome (although not only).

Interestingly China in both the Map and post Mao era had better economic growth even in per capita terms then India.

Siversk is back in play

I don't care about this world anymore. Just launch the nukes already. Cleanse this planet in hellfire.

>>2566236
It's hard to see either happening, but nato seems more inclined towards expansion than peace tbh.

>>2566274
Russians cut the supply road to the west so Siversk is brown bread.

Be honest, has anyone here followed this conflict since day 1? I was scared shitless for the first month or so, thinking WW3 just started, but nowadays I check in once every couple months to see that Russia captured another dozen towns nobody has ever heard of and was bombed to rubble a year ago, ultimately moving the frontline 1km at most.

I only ever met a transwoman from Lithuania. She was nice.

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