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https://www.marxists.org/archive/dutt/1935/fascism-social-revolution-3.pdf

>The more and more conscious reactionary role of modern capitalism, and the growing ideological revolt against the machine, and sense of antagonism to the development of technique, necessarily expresses itself on a wide front in the entire ideological field. A transformation in the dominant trends of capitalist ideology becomes more and more conspicuous. This transformation expresses itself in the growing revolt against science, against reason, against cultural development, against all the traditional philosophical liberal conceptions which were characteristic of ascendant capitalism; in favour of religion, idealistic illusions, denial of the validity of science, mysticism, spiritualism, multiplying forms of superstition, cults of the primitive, cults of violence, racial charlatanry ("blood" and "Aryan" nonsense) and all forms of obscurantism. This tendency was already visible from the outset of the imperialist epoch, and especially before the war. It has enormously increased in the post-war period. The relationship between science and the bourgeoisie has never in fact been an easy one. Only in the first revolutionary period of the bourgeoisie (in seventeenth-century England or in later eighteenth-century France) has there been real enthusiaism. In the nineteenth century, with the bourgeoisie in power, although the enormous profits to be won from the results of science led to universal official recognition, laudations and a somewhat stingy financial support, the suspicion was always present that the development of the scientific outlook might undermine the social foundations. Hence, the gigantic battles of the nineteeth century over each advance of science. The leaders of nineteenth-century bourgeois science were still warriors in the midst of a widely hostile social camp. Education was still in general jealously guarded on pre-scientific lines and under clerical control. But what is conspicuous about the present period is that though offensive against science is today led, no longer merely by professional reactionaries and clericalists, but above all by the majority of the more prominent, officially recognised and highly placed leaders of bourgeois science. The main bulk of officially distinguished, be-knighted, and decorated scien
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>>2463590
Shouldn't we want worker owned monopolies because they vertically and horizontally integrate production and render it more efficient? Not small cooperatives that represent a return to primitive 18th/19th century competition, even if it's worker-owned? I'm sure in some rare instances small enterprises might make sense but on a scale of global production for use you're still going to want long term central planning around needs and resource availability, rather than competition and crises of overproduction.

>>2463594
>worker-owned monopolies
describe how those monopolies could be considered worker-owned
hard-mode: no "because it's own by the state who represent the proletariat so it's the same as them owning it"

>>2463671
every worker gets an equal share in the company's stock and a seat on the board of directors, and every worker gets paid the same for 1 hour of useful labor. the board of directors (i.e. the body of the workers) convene in congresses to decide upon matters of production.

>>2463671
if you think about it a worker owned monopoly is just an upscale of the smaller cooperative model for the purposes of horizontally/vertically integrating a given business. To learn why monopolies are more efficient than competition, read People's Republic of Wal Mart. Even in capitalist society, a monopoly is just a centrally planned enterprise. Enterprises that monopolized and instituted central planning (like Wal Mart and Amazon) outperformed enterprises that instituted an internal market ideology (like Sears). Sears died precisely because it believed in free market ideology and tried to force its own departments to compete with each other and behave like independent businesses. This decentralization and and enforcement of market dynamics internally within an institution caused it to collapse and fragment. Central planning + Cooperatives = The Future in my opinion. A synthesis of soviet planning and worker ownership is needed badly.

>officially distinguished, be-knighted, and decorated scientists of the bourgeoisie have openly joined the clerical camp
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jeffrey-epstein-science-financier-changes-the-course-of-evolution-at-harvard-211218581.html

>>2463533
Ukrainian fascists are blood and soil guys but they think finance imperialists like BlackRock should own their blood and soil and trade it in Wall Street



 

Idealism is fundamentally a flaw of the way cognition works.

When you go online, and you see posts made by feminists hating on men, and you assume these feminists are representative of feminists rather than outliers, you are engaging in idealism.

When a hippie asks "why can't we all just get along and hug trees, man", the hippie is engaging in idealism, for he assumes that others are like him.

When Niko Bellic in GTA 4 is tricked by his cousin Roman to come to America, under the assumption that Roman's boastings of his "high-life" are in any way reflective of reality, and Niko is disappointed when he actually sees what this "high-life" looks like, that is idealism.

When I sound radical on the internet to imitate my parasocial friend Marx, when I warn the capitalism defenders that they will be destroyed in the revolution, but I live in a country where communist orgs are dead and workers are sedated, I am engaging in wishful thinking and empty threats, that is idealism.

When a child talks about Santa Claus, as if he were real, only because the child imagines him to be real, and never checks if he actually is, what is that called? You guessed it, idealism.

It is the curse of being able to produce thoughts and language without needing to check the real world. The whole field of psychology is made up of constructs that are *assumed* to be useful at helping people without scientific legitimacy. And the dumb shit trickles down, and it isn't even questioned. "Brain surgeons are high-functioning psychopaths", or some retarded sentence like that is something I'm sure you've heard at one point. Questions you would've asked if you were wiser: WHAT is a "psychopath"? WHERE did you obtain the information that brain surgeons are "psychopaths"?

And so it goes.
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>>2463500
It is idealism when the heuristic is contradicted by the real world, when it bears no relation to the real world, when it is "useless" in other words.

>>2463507
if i say "omg" am i invoking a deity and should duly whip myself for my sins against science?

>>2463510
That is a figure of speech. Does the Pope shit in the woods? Do pigs fly?

>>2463507
Nah, it could just be a faulty heuristic. Materialists have can make bad heuristics too. “Reality” itself is often a heuristic which requires a really long complicated explanation to reach a persons particular definition.

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>When a child talks about Santa Claus, as if he were real, only because the child imagines him to be real, and never checks if he actually is, what is that called? You guessed it, idealism.
I checked and Santa is real and you're going on the naughty list for suggesting he isn't



 

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>>2463709
>Our words are backed with nuclear weapons?
>Don't curr.
Mildly concerning coming out of an elected Russian official and Leo Tolstoy's great-great-grandson.

>>2463140
>"Keep the mask on" soft-power stans be seething




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COVID supply shortages, stimulus, and work freezes are what drove the global housing crisis. However it's not clear what's causing the prices to stick, and even continue to get worse, or what's to be done. "Crisis is the mother of intervention" but there seems to be a relative dearth of actual policy directed at the problem. Have heard some of rezoning to curb McMansion construction (directing scarce resources to more economical construction efforts), and of course Singapore was able to weather the storm without cost escalations, these are the exception that proves the rule. If all we can find is such meager evidence of effort there must truly be little being done.

>96,000 new affordable homes every day to house the estimated 3 billion people who will need access to adequate housing by 2030, UN-Habitat says. [^1]

>In a study of 200 cities globally, 90% were found to be unaffordable to live in, with the average home costing more than three times the average income. [^1]

>For renters making under $30,000 — who already faced the most severe struggle to afford housing — Airgood-Obrycki "didn't think it could possibly get that much higher." But the report found it did nudge up, to an all-time high of 83% who are cost-burdened. She says the amount of money they have left over for all other household expenses has plummeted by nearly half, to just $310 a month. [^2]


>As of early 2025, home prices are up 60 percent nationwide since 2019 and still rising at a rate of 3.9 percent year over year. Consequently, the median existing single-family home price hit a new high of $412,500 in 2024. “This is a shocking five times the median household income,” says Daniel McCue, a Senior Research Associate at the Center. “This is also significantly above the price-to-income ratio of 3 that has traditionally been considered affordable.” As prices rose, existing home sales dropped to a 30-year low. [^3]


:[^1] https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/06/how-to-fix-global-housing-crisis/
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So proles can't buy the commodities they produce??
I wonder who wrote about this 180 years ago…


>>2454698
>Singapore was able to weather the storm without cost escalations
Bitch, it is fucking expensive over here! Shit gotten more expensive, especially housing.

https://mothership.sg/2024/07/sengkang-punggol-flats-sell-1-million/

Things are even made worse by GST increase to 9% last year. Who is telling you these nonsense? I swear, foreigners literally do not see Singapore as it is, but as they want it to be.

t.Singaporean

>>2454698
can someone explain the IMF graph to me? I am not quite sure what it is supposed to say.

Does it mean that, for example, in the Czech republic your average house costs 150x more than what the average salary is?

>>2463614
it's in percent,it's how much the price of housing (which includes rent btw) has grown/decreased compared to income growth (with 100 being the house to income ratio of 2015)

for exemple in portugal housing has gotten 45% more expensive than the average income has grown in the same time



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The internet has been a mistake and communism has been set back some 50 years at least because of it. I don't think I'm exaggerating btw, it has given a way for millions of class consciousness proletarians to alienate themselves in an ever more privatized online space. Tbh, I'm glad that the same tendencies the privatization of the commons are ruining the world web. Once enshittification kills the online common, we will be forced to actually rely on our Gemeinseinschaeften to survive and not on the atomized collection of anons, consequentally organization will be easier to develop.

pic related, literally me whenever i disconnect for more than an hour
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The internet is so funny to me and I’ve talked about this before, basically our artificial reality was so shit and boring we got addicted to another reality projected on our screens. And even our fake reality on top of our artificial one, also suffers from the same dnshittification and corporate hellscape we experience in the artificial physical world

>>2463569
i looked it up and apparently that tablet is a hoax

>>2463564
u can't compare a nonstop rage bait machine in your pocket with newspaper or books

>>2463599
1 The words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2
Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
3
What do people gain from all the toil
at which they toil under the sun?
4
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.
5
The sun rises, and the sun goes down
and hurries to the place where it rises.
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what does /leftypol/ think of venezuela? are they upholding trve socialism? sorry if the question is kinda vague/open-ended but i'm genuinely curious since most opinions of venezuela i hear are from anti-maduro/chavez venezuelan immigrants
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>>2462808
Isn’t that what the colectivos are supposed to do? Hold the party accountable?

yeah i think they are even more so than something like bolivia.

>opinion
how about scientific analysis? no? anyone?

Drug dealers that must be subdued

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>>2462817
When the water boils and splashes is when they are tested.
Until today it seems ok



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Egg.

>>2426193
>In medieval times Jews were legally forbidden from working the land
depended on the country but yes they often were. I think in Russia there were Jewish peasants.

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>>2424097
>Can the Naxals just overthrow Modi already?
The Naxalites are getting wiped out.

You should be aware that Gonzaloid Maoists will wildly exaggerate the size and importance of their movements and they do this regularly. We should already be aware that they'll post a picture of like 10 people holding red flags in Austin, Texas and write a report that makes it sound like the United States government is in its final days, or they'll show up to some liberal anti-Drumpf march, hand out red flags to some oblivious libs, and then post pictures and videos that present the march as being entirely Maoist. This goes for their coverage of foreign Maoist "revolutions" that have been losing and shrinking for decades. So, it should not be a surprise that, while the Gonzaloids treated the Naxalites like they were on the cusp of delivering the final coup de grace against the Indian government and winning total Maoist victory in India, that the Indian government is now obliterating them with almost minimal effort and I wouldn't be surprised if we hear of the total end of the Naxals sometime this year.

>>2424150
>Also the Azerbaijanis have friends in Washington (and Israel).
So do Armeninans tho

>>2424153
Imagine the gestapo, but they all have room temperature 👁️Q



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Racially this is what the middle east looks like, a language does not change race
Of course in Palestine case I counted only the autochtonous not judeoslavic squatters
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>>2460538
Now let's rank them from most to least proletarian

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>>2460538
Outside of the fact that ethnic Somalis, Berbers, Assyrians, and Nubians are obviously not Arabs, due to the fact that they speak their own Native Languages and lack any Semitic Arabian ancestry, the rest of that map is Anti-Arab Crypto-Zionist/U$ Imperialist propaganda meant to divide the Arab Nation, as though it is technically true that all Arabs outside of the Arabian peninsula have partial Non-Arab ancestry (Magrehbi Arabs are mixed with Berbers, Egyptian Arabs are mixed with Ancient Egyptians, Sudanese Arabs are mixed with Nubians, Mesopotamian Arabs are mixed with Semitic Akkadians, and Levantine Arabs are mixed with Semitic Arameans, Phoenicians, and Jews, in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, respectively), all Arabs have at least some Semitic Arabian ancestry from the Arab Muslim conquests in the 7th century AD, with this proven by Population Genetic studies showing the distribution of Y-DNA Haplogroup J1 (pictured in the first Map I posted) and a related Semitic Arabian Autosomal component, and with the obvious exception of the Sub-Saharan African Nubians, all of the Non-Arab ethnic groups they mixed with are either other Semitic ethnic groups (ie. Arameans, Phoenicians, Jews, Akkadians, etc.) or related Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic ethnic groups (Ancient Egyptians and Berbers), that have both Genotypes and Phenotypes which are very similar (if not indistinguishable in the case of the Semitic groups) to Semitic Arabians, as they are all Middle Eastern Caucasoids, and combined with the fact that they all speak Arabic as their Native language, share the same Culture, live in the same territory (the Arabic speaking regions of West Asia and North Africa), and share a common Economic life (primarily centered around Oil extraction), it is clear that the Arab Nation in West Asia/North Africa meets Stalin’s definition of the Nation as “a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture”, which will receive Self-Determination/National Liberation in a Arab SFSR in the future Global USSR that will be created after the inevitable World War III between the U$ and China escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global UPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>2460538
>judeoslavic squatters
OK, Stepan Zatikyan

>I have already stated more than once that I refuse your trial and do not need any defense. I am the accuser, not the defendant. You have no power to judge me, since the Judeo-Russian empire is not a state governed by the rule of law! This must be firmly remembered.


վրեժ վրե՜ժ, նորեն վրե՜ժ

>retards fighting over should MENA be pan-arabist (ethno state) or ethno statist (ethno state)
I <3 ethno states

kys western scum

>>2461537
Yeah but there are no one of them left, so idk why put them under the amazigh category, just because there used to be amazighs there? That's retarded



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Isn't this clearly immoral? I don't hate Jews but this is freaking evil! American largest foreign aid project is turning in to a genocide.
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is ethnic cleansing "more bad" than regular mass murder lol

>>2462902
Another million refugees for Evropa
Merkels will be done

>>2462985
In a paperclips problem kinda way, yeah. Regular mass murder usually has an endpoint of some kind, while ethnic cleansing is a permanent state of meat grinder politik while chasing those that escape.

>>2462990
huh? this feels stupidly arbitrary. especially when as long as capital stands mass death will continue in whatever shapes it has to take

scientifically speaking its just an artificial distinction made solely to politically emphasize a particular conflict by giving it more moral weight with little analytical objectivity. to people using the term a child in gaza killed by israeli bombs is genocide, while a child in khartoum dying of severe malnutrition due to blockage is just "normal" war damage. its just liberal ideology doing what ideology does, mask reality and prevent you from seeing the actual reason this shit happens

and when you point out this contradiction many then try to "accomodate" more conflicts under the genocide umbrella and it ends up being just another tautology for war, losing any analytical weight it held. pretty similar to how fascism is used so loosely its become almost synonymous with capitalism despite being a specific moment and ideology in history while also whitewashing liberalism as some "lesser evil"

>>2462994
Well it's going to be inherently arbitrary since ethnicity is arbitrary, but it's an intent thing, and can have bearing on how the perpetrator of said mass murder might act next. You're right that it's not very specific though.



 

Every time I've ever had to interact with a petit bourgeois, a PMC or any of those cunts, all I've ever got was pure contempt. they've got a gift to detect that I'm a working class man… And sure, they'll never tell you directly how inferior they see you, but you'll know, either they treat you like a kid, or they'll analyse everything you ever say or do to find something "problematic" in order to justify treating you like shit.

Everyday that goes by I get more and more why the French guillotine Marie-Antoinette… They're the exact same type of people.
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>>2461849
IDK I just hate the asinine bullshit part. I just want to do my fucking job. Fucking hate corporate speak and PMC speak.

>>2461975
But don't you know, The company is like a family to you, just don't ask for a raise or we'll try to fire you

>>2461975
not to mention management being directly responsible for half the problems at any given point and then blaming the staff for shit they caused by trynna cut corners, please entitled costumers or just shit so out of touch it could've only been thought up by mfers who've never worked the job. ffs just go back to the office I could do your job easily and you couldn't do mine for day.

>>2461849
>they'll analyse everything you ever say
That's pretty much every polemic text from Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc

>>2461849
>pure contempt
"There is no love like Christian love"



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