/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2463480
relevant
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1934/capitalist-culture.htm
>In other words: Only the conventional ‘dynamics’ of simply grinding water in a mortar is of any value. As to real, successful struggle, and actually changing the world – that arouses human pride and turns men away from God, and is therefore criminal. What formerly made up the fervour of the progressive bourgeoisie – what Bacon formulated, with restrained passion, as the flowering of mankind – is now crushed under the Fascist heel of the gloomy servants of God. The bourgeoisie whose path to further development has been blocked, cries: ‘Down with development! Down with the very idea of development!’
>Science and rational thinking are replaced by theological and teleological metaphysics, mystical ravings, wild ‘intuitions’, occultism, telepathy, astrology, etc. The content of the new literature is simply incredible: Vitalism and Jeans’ ‘mathematical god’ [24] are harmless toys when compared with the scholastic and mystical nonsense that is printed in the capitalist countries nowadays. Truly, it seems as though heavy giant lizards, dinosaurs and iguanodons had again begun to crawl along the surface of the primitive earth.
and then he quotes spengler
<It is our duty to hold on to the end to a lost position, without hope, without salvation. To hold on to the end, like the Roman soldier whose bones were discovered before the gates of Pompeii, who perished because during the eruption of the Vesuvius he was not relieved from his watch. That is glory, that is the valour of a race. That honourable end is the only thing a man cannot he deprived of.
first a tragedy bla bla bla

>>2463499
>the Roman soldier whose bones were discovered before the gates of Pompeii, who perished because during the eruption of the Vesuvius he was not relieved from his watch. That is glory, that is the valour of a race
spooky blood and soil nonsense

>>2463499
Vitalism actually got a brief shoutout in my microbio class as somesort of competing theory to evolution and germ theory similar to spontaneous generation. the paragraph OP posted along with a monthly review article on Lukac's destruction of reason and personal interactions with burgerlander reactionaries has led me too much the same conclusions. Although I think one thing I might add irrationalist, romantic woowoo shit is much more conducive to a capitalist superstructure in the long term than just boring old materialist science. In a fairly libbed up class on natural resource management I took, part of the textbook outright said worker co-ops* were better and more sustainable than large corporations like it was nothing and just cited a random study. It's like vidrel kwame ture clip, scientists or really anybody will reach conclusions that point at the failures of capitalism just through applying the scientific method. As >>2463533 pointed out spooky blood and soil nonsense is the essence of most justifications to some random schmuck as to why they need die for the roman empire/ royal family/ oil companies/ etc not some study showing it will materially make there life better since no such thing exists. This creates a need for woowoo bullshit to convince random mfers to act in the complete opposite of there self interest.



*I am aware co-ops by themselves in a vacuum aren't exactly the DoTP but I still found an USian school textbook outright saying worker ownership is better as just a casual scientific fact was quite suprising

>>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