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Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
  • This should be the official tagline

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  • I think the problem here is defining what communism is supposed to be, or what constitutes these "political structures."

    For Marx the "political structure" stems from the mode of production, what we usually call the base. In a very shortened form, it's the interacting between productive forces, means of production and the property regime (and all its consequences). As Capital tries to multiply itself, capitalism has shown a development of the complexity and productivity of the means of production, along with requiring workers that are able to deal with this complex production (specifically, this is dealt with by having multiple people act in unity towards a single product), in other words, developing the productive force. As capitalism develops, it accumulates property under a central command while simultaneously making it a collective tool. So, in capitalism's specific case, we're dealing with private property that is only used by a capacitated collective.

    The developing self-consciousness and organization of this productive collective pressures the regime of private property, which will strike back violently to keep existing, in the specific form of blunting the collective organization at all costs, as well as pushing back against the superstructure reflexions of these changes (i.e. fascism). If the self-conscious productive collective is victorious, it has been through a period where: the means of production have been transformed; the productive forces have been transformed; the property regime has been transformed. Thus, we have a new mode of production, and a new "political structure."

    This is the tendency of capitalism. But notice that this assumes a more or less constant development of technology, for example. What if climate catastrophes hit too hard too fast in the coming years? Parts of civilization could be severed from eachother, and develop in different ways, depending on what exactly gets destroyed. Would an electricity-starved modern nation still develop factories as we know them? Or would property get fragmented again? What knowledge and techniques would be lost or gained? That we can't predict.

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  • I guess it's because a polio breakout would spill over into Israel itself and neighbouring countries, putting huge pressure over the genocide

  • One of the Stupidest critiques of Marxist Class analysis I've seen was just recommended to me by my poli sci professor
  • It's always the exact same middle-school reading of Marxism, holy shit. Somehow none of these experts figures there's something wrong with comparing an inflammatory political pamphlet for a party and a fully fleshed out technical publishing.

    I wonder why these geniuses never criticize the actual technical works Marx did ๐Ÿค” it's ALWAYS just the manifesto for a party, and that's it.

    Anyway, a rule of thumb: this person doesn't take their own work seriously, so I'm not gonna take their work seriously either.

  • The U.S. will very likely fight a 3-front war against Russia, China and Iran, Palantirโ€™s Alex Karp says
  • Let's take a look at a comprehensive list of countries that have used nukes against others:

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    Based on this, we conclude that the US is less likely to use nukes against others. I'm very smart

  • They're bragging
  • The Zionist of Interest

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  • There was some report a couple of years ago by some subdivision of a government agency about extremist hubs online that included this very site. It was posted here a few times back then, after work I'll check if I saved it.

    Imagine some intern getting stuck with having to parse through pits of beanis trying to figure out what kind of terrorist activity it is encouraging

  • Read Baudrillard
  • like 'a commodity is a use-value' or 'a commodity is an exchange-value'

    How are those contradictory? Or what other things do they contradict?

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  • The DPRK almost got a bronze medal in gymnastics just now. Came in 4th place

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  • Most top level federal officials get their info from our news mega, so taking hexbear down is a fundamental part of modern management of international conflicts

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  • I'm working until late night, surely nothing interesting will happen while I'm not checking the thread

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  • Left-wing candidates in all of Latin America have been accused of electoral fraud in the same way for the past what, decade? And people still fucking fall for it. Even fucking Biden got hit with that card. Give me a break, this shit is so obvious.

    Is this finally the end point of liberal democracy? Capitalist-owned social media makes it so that a fascist international can promptly turn the tides on any more or less leftist candidate in any country, and claiming fraud is clearly their way forward. How the hell does anyone believe in liberal democracy when social media is a thing?

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  • Our cool, smart regulatory framework, your bloated, predatory regulations

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  • I started recently, too. I have a hard time getting disciplined for it when I'm exercising alone, though. Hopefully I can get it going this time

  • Chuds doing their best to make Harris seem way more cool than she actually is
  • "unburdened by what has been" is fundamentally anti-marxist btw

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  • Fascist states can have little a two front war, as a treat

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  • Trump shooter was a registered republican
  • "Ideology" is not a fixed thing, specially in unstable times and with the internet around. This is a confused person experiencing material decline with access to guns and internet forums, and that's probably as deep as it goes. It only gets confusing if you think it is supposed to make sense on it's own (ie. the whole analysis begins and ends with the parties and this one individual, nothing else). This is why marxists talk so much about "material conditions", which is what makes nebulous political phenomena make sense

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  • Thanks for the info and link, it'll be my weekend reading ๐Ÿ˜ธ

  • :international-community: or :the-world:

    I couldn't find it anywhere, so I guess it isn't an emoji yet for some reason

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