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>>2381106Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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https://archive.is/ga3OG>>2810891Take a look at whatever seems interesting:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/index.htm>>2811154I can't remember a damn thing from that. Just a collection of tiny snippets lacking context.
Is scarcity enforced?
>>2815351It is "enforced" by our systems of distribution, if thats what you mean:
<In the EU, over 58 million tonnes of food waste (129 kg/inhabitant) are generated annually (Eurostat, 2025), with an associated market value estimated at 132 billion euros […] At the same time, almost 42 million people cannot afford a quality meal every second dayhttps://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/food-waste_enThere is enough food to feed the whole world, yet so much is wasted because it isnt sold.
Asked this in the China general but didn't get much response.
Could someone give me a quick rundown on the hukou system? Dividing the populace into strictly defined urban and rural classes with distinct rights seems totally antithetical to communism, but I'm open to the idea that there's nuance I'm missing as an outsider.
>>2816579Because of German language which is not English and has to be translated. A lot of words are composite words made from other words which is a feature that English in principle also has but in practice is not used like in german. Also because he picks up and transforms a lot of traditional and contemporaneous terms, also colloquial terms. For example, aufhebung does in German sound at the same time to "lift" as in, "pick up" or "elevate" in this sense, but also as some form of negation, hence why some people translate it as "suspension" rather than "sublation". The term was first used in this double sense by Schiller, I think in the letters, but I'm not sure. He used it very sporadically and never aimed at forging a new concept or term, but Hegel was impressed by it and made it a key term in his philosophy.
Whats the deal with the "royal colony" thread on 'beria? Looks like one autist writing walls of texts by himself endlessly, does anyone even read it?
>>2816714Wow, great answer. Thank you.
>>2816959> Looks like one autist writing walls of texts by himself endlesslyYeah pretty much.
What are "west extremists"?
Should Rousseau be considered the forefather of communism instead of Marx? He invented critique of private property and advocated for collectivism.
>>2817432Rousseau was a bourgeois liberal.
I would rather regard Gerrard Winstanley as the prototypical communist:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/winstanley/ >>2819669There is an entire board for latam but it is dead
>>2819669 (me)
Greyzone Interview with Evo Morales.
I think that its the jews.
How to escape these thoughts?
>Freemansions
>Bilderberg
>International Banks
and overrepresented jews in the elites.
It makes so much sense. Am I becoming schizophrenic? Please help.
>>2820909Okay, so lets go with that; if we took away powerful Jews, would the world become a paradise, or would their positions be replaced?
>>2821166 (me)
I would prefer to receive material that contrasts with the argument in the video, or to know peoples opinions about it.
>>2820917There would still be elites and the class struggle wouldnt be solved, but there wouldn't be a religious structure of destructive interests, we would be able to name, complain about and (maybe) remove the power these groups in related countries and starting various wars would become more difficult.
>>2821166it cites a lot more sources than people arguing with it
>>2823492where is "israel" on this list
>>2823591The Boers are not indigenous to south africa you fucking retard.
>>2823602So indigeneity isn't defined by the colonizer/local-inhabitant contradiction? If not, then how much one has to wait before a group becomes indigenous?
>>2823492Not really. Something like a life insurance fund isn't doesn't even pay off until you or a loved one dies. I fail to see how it would substantially influence your class interests.
>>2823874THE BOERS ARE LITERALLY DUTCH COLONISTS WHO NEVER LIVED IN AFRICA UNTIL THEY STARTED COLONIZING stop ragebaiting ffs you can't be this stupid. I know you hate third worldists but your hate just made you retarded.
>>2823895So indigeneity isn't defined by the colonizer/local-inhabitant contradiction? If not, then how much one has to wait before a group becomes indigenous?
Why do you guys think those traits keep clustering together and do you think they define modern 21st century anti-communism?
-vague 'leftism' but not adhering to a major tendency
-explicit islamophobia/sinophobia or another form of covert political racism
-colonialist apologia, animosity to emancipatory movements let by ethnic minorities
-pedophilia apologia
-performatively pro-LGBT
-commonly residency in a Western country
>>2823591Tbh there isn't any real distinction between "indigeneity" and any other form of racial/national oppression. In practical terms, referring to a group as "Indigenous" with a capital I is just a way to say that they are an oppressed nationality that arrived at this position via colonialism. At most you could argue that there is some unique form of exploitation involved like land dispossession, but even that can take place in other contexts like when European Jews would have their property confiscated or were banned from owning land. I think it's a pretty useless category from a Marxist perspective.
>>2823900>before a group becomes indigenous?never happens,Landback for the celts now
>>2823951You wish colonizer. As the only extant pre-Indo-European people in Europe, the Basques are entitled to the whole continent.
Why do americans call socialists "liberals"?
>>2823951Consistency, I like thay.
>>2823939> I think it's a pretty useless category from a Marxist perspective.Fair enough. I suppose I will still label the Boers as indigenous in relation to the british if I need to piss someome off.
>>2823969They mix progressives with liberalism. Its newspeak that should be called out at every chance.
>>2824006Well strictly speaking I don't think that would apply outside of the context if the Boer Wars. After the second one the Afrikaaners were pretty quickly integrated alongside the British as a privileged nationality. You certainly can't call them an oppressed nation.
>>2824006>I suppose I will still label the Boers as indigenous in relation to the british if I need to piss someome off.well as we know, they are indigenous
>>2824895There is no such thing as the middle class, this is bourgeois nonsense. There are only the working class, the owning class, and in less industrialized nations a class of peasants. If you trade your labor for a wage, and without that employment you would become homeless or otherwise destitute, then you're working class. If you derive your income instead from stocks, a business, or from rent payments then you're part of the owning class.
>>2824911Are you still working class, if you already lost your job and are homeless?
>>2824895You can support socialism because it's morally right and not just 'muh self interest' etc
Im broke and i need money, my grandparents have money, well some, but boomers live really long and i dont think they will pay off my student loan debt.
What do i do, its really hard getting a job no body will hire me
>>2824924Yes, you are. You only become a lumpenprole if you start mugging people or loansharking or otherwise resort to petty crime to get by.
>>2824911In fact better question, petite bourgeoisie/bourgeoisie test
>my dad particularly owns his doctors practice and works in contract with the government as previously stated,he is the boss of the practice and has other people work for him, although he also does his own work. I’m not actually sure how his job really works or how much he owns >my aunt and uncle both are in finance, as well as my dad, don’t really know how it works but I think it’s just bettings and investments That’s really it, does my family even matter at this point?
>>2824947How morally bankrupt and coldly elitist was it for Marx and Engels to dismiss the "lumpenproletariat" - the most wretched, desperate, and brutally crushed victims of capitalism - as nothing more than a degenerate, passive, rotting underclass unfit for revolution, when history repeatedly shows these exact marginalized groups were often far more radical, violent, and revolutionary than the supposedly pure, disciplined industrial proletariat they fetishized?
How do I convince my stalinoid friends that trotskyism is the best ideology?
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