cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5504533

> I'm confused > > So far, I've heard that accumulation, technological advancement, and thus concentration of capital from the previous capitalist economy would leave its print on the later modern socialist economies > > But other than that, I've realized I've never looked much into what distinguishes AES's economic management, mainly of state-owned enterprises, from capitalist economy's management, in concrete policy > > I can understand co-operatives, but such orgs don't necessarily make up socialism, as you guys would say > > > ::: spoiler to Libs > If you gimme a deeply unserious answer, I will fuck your father > ___ > ::: >

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5107328

> Unless something more material like a whole continent turning anti-imperialist, if not socialist, and deciding collectively to nationalize the fruit and veg produce, and thus disrupts U.S's produce imports - > > I don't think any internal problems in America would reach to a boiling point, as to end on a conclusive note > > So what if it's a big deal to you, huh, America is the most armed-country, and has a lot of guns, yet no internal civil war(s), like we've seen in the 20th century like Argentina's Dirty War or China's, has occurred recently... it's just reactionary settler business as usual > > Im America, nichts neues >

Unless something more material like a whole continent turning anti-imperialist, if not socialist, and deciding collectively to nationalize the fruit and veg produce, and thus disrupts U.S's produce imports -

I don't think any internal problems in America would reach to a boiling point, as to end on a conclusive note

So what if it's a big deal to you, huh, America is the most armed-country, and has a lot of guns, yet no civil war(s) has occurred recently... it's just reactionary settler business as usual

Im America, nichts neues

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5089720

> > > Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to: > > prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups. > > > In the first half, it talks about how D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest... > > 1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate... > > > Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982... > > > I reached this section over here: > > Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; and the suppression of fun and play is one of the things which distinguished DK invidiously from pre-revolutionary Cambodia. > > > > Among the comments accompanying the children's drawings was the account of a boy who had worked minding water buffalo, a typical children's chore in Cambodia. He told of being punished twice in one day, once for allowing the animal to run away, also typical, but once for laughing and joking while at work, which for Cambodia was entirely aberrant. > > Thoughts on this book, or just on D.K Cambodia?

Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to: > prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups.

Specifically, D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest...

1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate...

Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982...

I reached this section over here: > Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; and the suppression of fun and play is one of the things which distinguished DK invidiously from pre-revolutionary Cambodia. > > Among the comments accompanying the children's drawings was the account of a boy who had worked minding water buffalo, a typical children's chore in Cambodia. He told of being punished twice in one day, once for allowing the animal to run away, also typical, but once for laughing and joking while at work, which for Cambodia was entirely aberrant.

Thoughts on this book, or just on D.K Cambodia?

As an easter egg: if you recognize which user I am in hexbear, then ye know...

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2858492

> I think I understand the simple model of base and superstructure (but that was Gramsci's model) > > The simple use of quantitative to qualitative change, and vice versa > > The simple fact that contradictions can exist in a society, manifesting in the form of problems, which are symptoms of its economic systems... > > > I don't think its about thesis + anti-thesis -> synthesis. > > I think its about one economic class, like capitalist to feudal lord, dominating over one class, and absorbing its birthmark attributes, before surpassing its birthmarks overall... > > Or as if a capitalist upon its created proletariat, not only ruling over them, but co-opting or destroying any of its measures > > To me, its about who the ruling most HEGEMONIC class is, and how it operates... > > Other than that, I don't know how else to apply it, let alone know if its somewhat broadly accurate.... > > Correct me if I'm wrong, if not elaborate on what ye mean?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4393803

> We've already talked about school and how we can change it in the past. But today I want to discuss a specific topic related to school: bullying. > > As a neurodivergent person, I've had my own share of bullies pick on me in the past, two of which I was lucky not to get into physical fights with. There are so, so many people who have had even worse experiences with bullying. > > In school, children/adolescents pretty much have to be around each other, making it more difficult to deal with bullying. > > How can socialism deal with this issue?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4256263

> This dude was selling Pokemans with modified move sets for up to $80 a pop and could now face up to 5 years in prison. > > Is this not insane? Or do you think he could face a much less severe sentence and the 5 years prison and $30k just the upper limit for this particular set of crime?

Maggie Thatcher's grave still has enough space for all the world's piss to cam intae! Oh, and there's the solar eclipse news at 2 PM...

How nice...

I only know this because of William Brown, an Irish admiral who led the Argentine Navy, had a song made in commemoration of him, post mortem of him, and the Malvinas War... which ol' Maggie decided to commit to, after the Argentinians took back those islas....

Source: " "Admiral William Brown" - Irish Pro-Argentine Folk Ballad [+Lyrics]"by the Wolfe Tones

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2068144

> It's called the Hannibal doctrine !trump-moist

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3934969

> ! > > https://sci-hub.st/10.1017/s0007123420000216 > > In his first source he cited, there were under 30,000 prisoners overall as 'total number of prisoners per year', which could just indicate the TOTAL PRISON POPULATION OF GERMANY OVERALL, NOT THE INFLOW AND OUTFLOW here... > > Yet his second source states 200,000-250,000 political prisoners overall (not per year), sourced by the Deustcher Bundestag, which is West Germany's parliament speaking.... > > Original thread: > https://hexbear.net/post/2035681

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1941858

> Note: > "nice fuckin' model" > > ! > > Anyways, it reminds me of Jinxedits...

Don't mind me...

Most of the time, it's not the voice-acting quality that's bad...

It's just a bit of an awkward uncanny valley hearing it...

My man, are you trying to give us despair?

@Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3190259

> To me they're like mere servants of the State, like Lenin talked about in "2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?" in his writing "The State and Revolution" > > Under Capitalism, they are its privileged knights that try to deflect and control, if not defend directly its image as "the only option", who have their incentive in doing so, with their class status stake being in their duty to shepherd the means of production and its resulting benefits > > However, they don't own the means of production, as they merely manage it for the landholding, industrialist, and financier capitalists > > On the other hand, under Socialism, while its privileges will be probably be done away, the PM class on its own would innovated upon, for their new duty of overseeing, managing, and reporting the collectivized cooperatives and state-owned enterprises.. > > Until the final stage of Communism arrives, I think they're pretty handy > > I say this, because I hear such disgusted sentiment in Hexbear against them

Note: I know a bit about the bazingo techbro culture that the PMC is associated with, please don't criticize them solely on those vibes...

To me they're like mere servants of the State, like Lenin talked about in "2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?" in his writing "The State and Revolution"

Under Capitalism, they are its privileged knights that try to deflect and control, if not defend directly its image as "the only option", who have their incentive in doing so, with their class status stake being in their duty to shepherd the means of production and its resulting benefits

However, they don't own the means of production, as they merely manage it for the landholding, industrialist, and financier capitalists

On the other hand, under Socialism, while its privileges will be probably be done away, the PM class on its own would innovated upon, for their new duty of overseeing, managing, and reporting the collectivized cooperatives and state-owned enterprises..

Until the final stage of Communism arrives, I think they're pretty handy

I say this, because I hear such disgusted sentiment in Hexbear against them

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2859765

> So far, I've only heard of nation-states committing atrocities whose gov't officials end up in the Hague... > > How about companies, whose CEOs and stockholders have a role in committing such large scale crimes who deserve the wall? > > Edit: > Bonus points if you include a death toll... > > From what I've read on wikipedia's Nestle > > >In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by "mothers in [low and middle-income countries] without clean water sources", with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.[47] >