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>>1834108
>I mean I would like to say I applaud Russia for going against the American orthodoxy in the media but most of the content on RT is just far right bullshit about how America has gone woke and trans kids are raping everyone, with a little bit of actual anti imperialism thrown in
It's definitely critical of liberalism, but I wouldn't call it far right. The woke and LGBT culture war crap that left liberals dressed themselves in has deep problems unrelated to the groups they claim to represent, thus the rise of PMC theory. There are very good reasons why this has earned a massive backlash related to upholding (very white and male) state and class power, it is related to deliberately obscuring problems of economic liberalism (class warfare) with social liberalism (the advanced and reformed superstructure of the former). When the former's class warfare, which intersects with nationality and therefore creates a division of civilization and barbarism, caused truly international antagonisms under globalization the immediate pivot was to rationalize this as part of a new backlash to modernity, enlightenment, and liberal democracy. To construct a new liberalism being rejected by a new reactionary, we drew on its latter day developments under global capitalism. In effect, this obscures how a reactionary form of class warfare, which is now unprecedented in global scale thanks to the neoliberalism of the imperialists, divided us. Social liberalism instead serves to rationalize this division. We are no longer polarized by the expansion of global capitalism and the bourgeois revolution, but their internal divisions and social liberalism applied to such.

This has led to absurdities like arguing the left can't support Palestinians because they're homophobic or Russia must be balkanized to preserve secularism. It's oppression by the rich in the name of liberation of a minority unrepresented by the rich.

This is why there's such an argument about class reductionism and the like, since it implies liberalism is no longer progressive due to its decaying base and that this isn't a crisis caused by its advanced superstructure.

>>1832651
The labor aristocracy is falling apart in the west and has been since 2008, but especially 2020. Basically all the traditional middle class jobs that arose around the turn of the 20th century and became the "dream" around the mid 20th century is basically over. The PMCs are being gutted basically leaving labor to purely service jobs which themselves are falling apart. Imagine what happens when they automate food delivery and taxis, you basically can say goodbye to that as well. Because AI is taking the labor intensive jobs and also the managerial jobs, all I can say is the future is grim for the human race.

>>1833158
Jilted PMC the post

Sudanese CP, Sudan: One Year in War
As the war approaches its first anniversary, it rages on relentlessly with no sign of resolution. Each passing day deepens the suffering endured by the Sudanese people. Recent weeks have seen a marked escalation in the conflict, characterized by both sides acquiring more sophisticated weaponry from their respective allies. The Burhan faction has bolstered its arsenal with advanced drones from Iran, along with new tanks, artillery, and helicopters supplied by Turkey. Ukrainian special forces are actively supporting the army in its clashes against the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) and the Russian Wanger PMC (Private Military Company). Meanwhile, the RSF militia continues to receive substantial military backing from the UAE via Chad and the Central African Republic. Its ranks are swelling with recruits from Mali, Niger, and factions loyal to General Hafter in Libya. This overt foreign military intervention is dangerously escalating the conflict, transforming it into a proxy war.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/Sudanese-CP-Sudan-One-Year-in-War/

Britain’s crumbling infrastructure: The capitalists are running out of road
‘A stitch in time saves nine’, so the old saying goes. Now, after years of avoiding essential repairs and maintenance, the fabric of Britain’s infrastructure is beginning to unravel. Last year it was revealed how the lives of thousands of children are at risk from collapsing schools, due to the use of cheap crumbly concrete. But it turns out that tackling dodgy concrete and making schools safe is merely a pricey starter on a very costly bill when it comes to patching-up broken Britain. The cost of fixing-up the 600 or so schools with this bubbly concrete is estimated to be over £150m. Yet billions more is needed for the 700,000 pupils who go to school in buildings that need ‘major rebuilding or refurbishment’. The Department of Education estimates that it needs £5.3bn a year just to maintain school buildings and mitigate the ‘most serious risks’. But it was given just £3.1bn by the Treasury last year. Clearly maths is not the Tory government’s strongest subject. This is dwarfed by the costs of fixing Britain’s hospitals. NHS England put the bill for essential repairs of the hospital estate at nearly £12bn last year, yet recePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1816607
This form of de-risking only hurts the actually competitive automakers in Europe who are attractive enough to still have jointly owned enterprises with Chinese companies (Germany and no one else) or those that just rent Chinese production facilities and put their brand logo on the end product (so as to not hurt fragile Westernoid egos), both producing within China. For everyone else it's a boon to society because it will force leading China-based automakers to offshore/reshore production to the EU to access the common market. The reason why I'm saying China-based instead of Chinese is because the only China-produced car that has been tangibly eating into European sales figures is Tesla. No one in Europe is buying actual Chinese brands (yet). From what I've read the main culprit behind the export controls was France, whose automotive industry is definitely not number one among Europeans. Chinese and Tesla's investment in Europe will create stable jobs and allow domestic companies to at least sort of keep up with the change to electric vehicles. I don't know if this strengthens Western hegemony or weakens it as it's a logical move for many countries no matter how I look at it. The localization of production shows that the word is becoming multipolar. We can only hope that this will force neoliberal, pro-finance politicians and "PMC or pauperism" economies out of the picture. Also German dominance within the EU will weaken if the union doesn't just fall apart.

>>1809417
And there are plenty of "PMC academics" who openly admire Marx and Lenin, teach the Russian Revolution from a point-of-view that tankies would agree with, and admit CPUSA did some good things.

What's your point?

>>1809378
That's not even the Smithsonian but the Black History Museum which is literally run and organized by PMC black academics. The same people who think pushing buttons on a sampler counts as 'making music' are the same people teaching and pushing critical race theory and DEI programs.

>>1799757
>"In view of this common characteristic of the members of such an organization, all distinctions as between workers and intellectuals, not to speak of distinctions of trade and profession, in both categories, must be effaced."
>"It is immaterial whether a student or a worker is capable of becoming a professional revolutionary."
- Woke PMC Barrister's Assistant, from "What is to be done?".

>>1799732
You mean the woke PMC barrister's assistant who subordinated the trade union struggle to the political struggle in general? Whatever union, tenant or trade, is only useful as far as its usefulness to the political struggle.

>>1799690
>PMC
this isn't a real word in Marxist class analysis. do you mean: "labor aristocracy"?
>Okz so, how are you going TO VET your "tenant union"
you could do a survey but for your typical low-income tenants union I guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of them will be people who in some form are working class producers, but that kind of distinction doesn't really matter as long as the members are serving communist ends.
>How do you raise consciousness to the fact of exploitation
you could like, talk to them, you know?
>AT THE MOMENT OF PRODUCTION
<Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without, that is, only from outside the economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and employers. The sphere from which alone it is possible to obtain this knowledge is the sphere of relationships of all classes and strata to the state and the government, the sphere of the interrelations between all classes.

Hey!

I'm a British leftist.

I organize soup kitchens and tenant unions. Vegan bloc is best bloc.

We will smash capitalism and patriarchy and heteronormativity and meat-eating-archy by having social orgs! University studenta for the win!

I'm bringing forth communism by being left and progressive and anti-rent and anti-meat and anti-patriarchy.

Marx and Engels can suck my PMC cock.

>>1799672
Communists used to explicitely target the working classes and shunned any kind of class collaborationist orgs. You soothe your conscience with "statistical correlation" - hey, I'm organizing SOMETHING!!! STATISTICALLY IT HAS TO INCLUDE WORKER ELEMENTS!!!

>finding potentially interested recruits
Do you? Where do you channel them? How do you actively combat opposing class voices inside the org you already have?

The "fundamental essential distinction" would be an org with 90%+ working class composition. What you have with a tenant union is an amalgamation of loosely-associated renters without screening for class background.

But let's grant you the most beneficial reading. Okz so, how are you going TO VET your "tenant union" ensuring that it is the working class that gets the dominant voice and not the p-bourg, the PMC, the soon-to-be-traitors and class back-stabbers?

Oh, you don't do that?

What is your end goal besides paying less rent?

How do you raise consciousness to the fact of exploitation of the working class AT THE MOMENT OF PRODUCTION (and not rent paying) when your org doesn't have that focus?

>>1799470
Same with education reforms pushed by student unions. The offsprings of the petit-bourgeoisie welcome your ideas of letting student debts go or restructuring the education system. The race through higher education is for managerial (incl. PMC) jobs anyway. The '68 student movemwnts failed and were reincorporated into capitalism for a reason.

>>1799210
credentials or fuck right off. your understanding of dopamine theory is garbage and/or non-existent, I can tell. I go to one of the top schools in Canada, you absolute buffoon.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6767400/

Skip to The Role of Dopamine, fucking retard.

>>1795351
Its less porky and more the managerial class as a burgeoning economic entity. The PMC is self-reproduced as a sector which itself is outsourced as an independent market, which is why its basically impossible to move up the chain in a business these days. So managers stand against both porky and proles.
And youll also notice that so much populist discourse is about how much people hate their "boss" which is usually just a regional manager, not the company owner(s).

>>1786706
Well if you read burnham's managerial revolution you see that he's talking more about the way in which companies become publicised and so enter into a strategic globalisation which then creates bureaucrats de facto in the scale of production. Basically, big capital breeds parasites and pencil-pushers. It broadens the distribution of ownership at different levels to where its no longer capitalist but has been transformed into a "managerial" entity.
This process has already occured so i agree with you, but the PMC of middle-men are not a concession of the right, they're a feature or bug of a globalised economy; an economy so massive that it cant sort accounts. People hate the PMC because their positions in human resources or otherwise make them ideological and spiritual opponents to the industrialist or entrepeneur.
The middle class the right procures is certainly white-collar, but also police officers, salesmen, tradesmen, doctors and whoever else; those who make a living from the status quo.
>The coming economic and environmental crises will necessitate the return of managerial Big Governments that will all but ensure a victory of the Managerial class.
No i disagree. I think the bourgeois concern with crime and volkish concern with immigration will only lead to a right wing populist future. Less managerial and more dictatorial.

>>1786702
Yes, this is the strategy that the Capitalists deployed during the neoliberal era. The PMC class that was exemplified in Thatcher, Putin, Modi, Erdogan, and all the other authoritarian pro-privatization dictators who exemplified the fears and hopes of the urban middle class.
But here's the thing; the Managerial class that the Bourgeoisie created has turned against their own creators. All the Middle Class leaders are now railing hard against the WEF, Blackrock, and the old ruling class in general. They are no longer content being the pawns of the Capitalists. The coming economic and environmental crises will necessitate the return of managerial Big Governments that will all but ensure a victory of the Managerial class.
And since the managerial class, unlike the old Ruling classes, are fundamentally short-sighted parvenus with the provincial mindset of a shopkeeper, their rule can be guaranteed to bring this world into an abyss, upon which a global revolution is possible. It is all coming together.

PMCs on suicide watch.

>With coding taken care of by AI, humans can instead focus on more valuable expertise like biology, education, manufacturing, or farming, reasoned the Nvidia head.

>>1770930
I think a lot of it is just a failure of breadtube, which is a symptom of how the anglophonic left just got overrun by PMCs in the wake of neoliberalism destroying the left intelligensia's connection with the working class.

Leftist creators need to really focus on real-life shit, and not

>IS REN AND STIMPY PROBLEMATIC?!?!??!?!
<IS EVANGELION INCEL FANFIC!?!??!?!?
>WHAT IF BAYFORMERS IS SECRETLY GOOD!!??!??!
<DOES STEVEN UNIVERSE CHUNGUS BUNGUS INTO WHOLESOME FUNGUS!??!?!?

Fucking meet people where they're at. Not everybody who likes popular "nerdy" media is a fucked up weirdo about it.

>>1751362
>Americans probably saw college kids talking about the liberation of sexual desires, and their already panicked state of mind converted that into imagination of basically satanic orgies happening in US universities
so fear of orgies is just sublimated fear of financial neoliberalism and the PMC it creates?

>>1756303
>>1756307
On the objectively bad shit, he keeps championing shit politicians from parties outside Morena even though they keep flipping once elected and/or do badly on elections, he installed a cacique on chiapas who has been waging a silent war against indigenous people and zapatistas through PMCs and cartels for a few years now, slowly dragging chiapas into a civil conflict, and he also choked a state crime investigation in an effort to protect current politicians in Morena involved in the ayotzinapa massacre

>>1737550
I have more filters than there are posters. if you:
>use a meme flag
>use a name
>use a tripcode
>post more than 500 characters
>use the words PMC, unequal exchange, praxis, dialectic, gender, idpol, multipolar, literally, or authoritarian
I literally can't read your post sometimes I can because the javascript regex really struggles to match everything

>>1736318
A note on the PMCs, its a term derived from the book "the managerial revolution" written by reactionary, disaffected ex-communist james burnham who later ended up working for the CIA

>>1736317
They call them "PMC", which again is highly reminiscent of the artificial division between skilled vs unskilled labour.

>>1680237
t. PMC / Kulak

>>1674359
> why we call these subhumans red fascists
"Tankies get the drone" - trans /r/Anarchism PMC college kid