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ComradeRat [he/him, they/them]

@ ComradeRat @hexbear.net

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  • ~ 24 months on average to become fluent in hexbear

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  • It is sorta neat how over 7ish years (counting the quarantine) of isolation a dialect gradually developed. The discord server was probably the big inflection point that added emojis, upped the speed of conversations and meant (near) total isolation from random people joining

    Also smh GOOD post

  • UK government announces ban on 'incest simulation' in porn

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  • Big brother is watching

  • Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

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  • I always figure theres little point having better opsec than me org (we use google lol 💀)

  • Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told."

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  • Yeah thats fair. I havent been around children that young since my brother wss that age, forget how quickly they grow

  • Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told."

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  • Someone else has made a point re: object permanence not kicking it i find more convincing

    Regarding this point, in marxs time it was less "fill bags and boxes" and more "run stuff back and forth" or "squeeze into the machine and see if you can see whats jamming it", "sort these products into groups" or "push this button every time X happens"

  • Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told."

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  • Fair point

  • Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told."

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  • Repeating this here too bc people (shockingly) have too high an opinion of capitalism: Idk about 2-3 year olds in chinese factories, but there were 4 year olds in English factories described in Capital, so its the "in chinese factories" part that sounds least plausible to me tbh

  • Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told."

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  • Dont need object permanence to repeat the same action over and over or you get beat

  • Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told."

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  • Idk about 3 year olds in China, but in Capital Marx does describe 4 year old factory workers in England so tbh "common sense" isnt a good argument here imo

  • Thoughts on Oliver Cromwell?

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  • The victory of the bourgeois factions in the english revolutions and their consequences have been a disaster for all the earth

  • "Why aren't you on many social media platforms? Doesn't that make friendship hard?" Me:

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  • Yeah, "Stirner" was the alias of Johann Kaspar Schmidt, a prussian schoolmaster and young hegelian

    Marx and engels rly go after him for writing as he did while being a literal schoolmaster instilling discipline into children (they mention he is a prussian schoolmaster more than 10 times iirc).

    Imo referring to "Stirner" in quotation marks emphasises the disconnect between his theoretical and practical life, as well as just being funny

  • "Why aren't you on many social media platforms? Doesn't that make friendship hard?" Me:

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  • [Marx and Engels - The German Ideology] has some real bangers against stirner

    My favourite Marx "post" is definitely the conclusion from Holy Family tho

  • people's brains are so addled by capitalism that people who take pictures of people's pets for a living will tell you that they have a "pet photography business"

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  • The bourgeois (capitalists) are defined by their exploitation of labour

    The petty bourgeois are defined by having to work as well as exploiting labour.

    The haute bourgeois no longer needs to work because they employ sufficient labour to produce enough surplus for them to live on

    Artisans own property but do not employ labour. They do not exploit workers and are therefore not bourgeois.

    As property owners, they are not wage labourers and have some stake in the perpetuation of property

    But until they employ labour they have no direct conflict of class interests with the working class.

    As a class they will waver more than proletarians bc their class interests are still attached to the preservation of property, but less than the petite bourgeois because they have no class interest in exploitation

  • Is it me

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  • It's just the sense i've gotten in my reading about him

    from Kugelmann's 1928 Reminiscences is an example of mellow marx i could find quickly in my saved excerpts. Very different from the "bangs table and shouts" Marx of the 1840s.

    A good series of snapshots of what Marx was like at different times in his life can be found in McLellan's collection: https://archive.org/details/mc-lellan.-karl-marx-interviews-and-recollections/page/n5/mode/2up People describing Marx in the 40s and earlier 50s have very different emphases than those talking about him later on

    Two very good biographies are Mary Gabriel's "Love and Capital" and Liedman's "A World to Win," both show the shift pretty well, but don't rly draw attention to it iirc. Another good (and short) one showing the softer side of Marx, albeit one that falls a bit into (well researched) hagiography, is "The Marx he Knew" by Spargo.

    Can also just generally see this in his writing, there's a big contrast between the satirical works of the mid 40s and the polemics around the 48 revolutions and aftermath; and his work on "Capital," economic lectures, newspaper articles and the like. According to Engels (preface to "The Housing Question"), in their division of labour, it fell to Engels to write popular and polemical works whereas Marx focused on "Capital" and political work.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 16th to February 22nd, 2026 - The Neoliberal Fait Accompli of Muhammad Yunus - COTW: Bangladesh

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  • I am.once again wishing hell were real so khrushchev would be burning in it

  • Tucker Carlson 'detained' in Israel as passport taken from him after interview

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  • Carlson is a fascist who wants to gain and use political power

    Stewart is a comedian who wants to criticise and embarass and debate those holding power bc he thinks it will make them change their minds (or more cynically, bc it gets him views)

    Its not shocking to me that one faded into irrelevance and the other is walking around the halls of power

  • Is it me

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  • Young marx was more angry/aggressive, by the late 50s and 60s he mellowed out a lot

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  • It should be noted both

    a) this report is from quite possibly the lowest point in marx's life, emotionally and financially

    b) marx's brother in law was the boss of the secret police and the report was likely written to appeal to his biases

    That said i will die on the hill of marx being autistic and/or adhd

  • If Marx was alive today and was a gamer, what genre would he primarily play?

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  • Mao is so real for that

  • askchapo @hexbear.net
    ComradeRat [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    thoughts on the workers' opposition?

  • History @hexbear.net
    ComradeRat [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    Some excerpts from The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939

  • marxism @hexbear.net
    ComradeRat [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    The Marx He Knew

    www.gutenberg.org /files/20743/20743-h/20743-h.htm
  • judaism @hexbear.net
    ComradeRat [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    this midrash owns so hard