We should get silly with it. Do some funny struggle sessions.

School abolition discourse. Is MSE sectarian? Outdoor dogs. Ethical pupgirlism.

They make vegan runs a lot harder

The students in Tiananmen Square did get exactly what they deserved. A safe evacuation after the fighting in the streets surrounding the square got too intense.

Black people started using the n word among themselves casually, doesn’t mean other people can just copy it and shield themselves from accusations of racism by saying Black people were doing it first.

What did you watch, Innuendo Studios’ How to Radicalize a Normie series or something? I find it kinda funny that you’re being so vague about what exactly it is that bothers you about ‘tankies’ as opposed to other leftists because I’m pretty sure a lot of the people you’re arguing with aren’t Marxist-Leninists or anything. It’s giving shadowboxing vibes.

A tankie is literally someone who believes in authoritarian communism

How could you achieve communism or socialism without authoritarianism? Do you believe in revolution? Is a revolution not the most authoritarian process imaginable, the forced imposition of a new reality by one class unto another?

can you explain what you actually disagree with? and are the tactics in question just using wojaks and being a little rude sometimes?

Buddy you’re the one comparing my personal friend Xi Jinping to a yellow bear, how do you not see how close to blackface that is

Dutch guy getting beat up after doing blackface: “Waah! It’s a important cultural practice! You don’t understand, it has nothing to do with race, Dutch people just have folklore stories about dark skinned fantasy creatures coming and stealing our stuff! You’re the ones making it about race!”

Oh yeah the book talks extensively about James Watt, his colleagues, the bourgeois perspectives on efficiency, how the scientific and cultural understanding of mechanical devices (and to a lesser extent, the natural processes that served as their foundation) was shaped by industrial development, all the juicy stuff.

It’s not exactly what you’re asking for but since others already gave you that, you should also check out Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm which deals with the rise of steam power and develops a theory of both the social forces behind the adoption of the fossil economy, but also a technical scientific perspective. It doesn’t necessarily use thermodynamics to model social forces, but it is in the intersection of thermodynamics and Marxism.

How is it not progressive when a Hamas fighter blows up an IDF tank? Is there something qualitatively different about the way Hamas fights the occupiers and some other, more progressive group, would be fighting the IDF? And if the difference is not in how they fight but how they govern, why should it matter at all how they govern when Gaza has been completely disintegrated and there is no operating governmental structure anyway so even if Hamas were cartoonish Islamist terrorists like ISIS they wouldn’t even have the ability to control anyone. If there’s a Palestinian organization that’s worth criticizing because they’re misusing their power, it’s not Hamas, it’s Fatah.

(but not a fascist one)

I have some bad news about the party that great numbers of early West German government figures belonged to

That’s a lot cleaner honestly. Gonna start another rock stacking struggle session, call it relithigation.

Why did the resurrecting rock person get banned from Hexbear?

relithigating

we live in the 11th

They’re wiggly because of thermal expansion and age. It limits the top speed of trains running on those lines.

Right, but when they go to the IMF for assistance, the IMF usually asks them to start privatizing these things if they want any help. In my own country, the Americans’ financial supervision board, that functions as a personalized IMF, twisted our government into privatizing our electric grid. They sold it off to an American energy company because we’re literally an American colony. This case is not too hard to figure out, that’s just plain old corruption.

Yet there’s similar cases all over the Global South, where the institution that gets privatized is not sold off to a multinational, and instead remains in local hands (but private). The IMF’s privatization programs aim to privatize just about anything the state owns; extraction companies, manufacturing, finance, etc.

Yeah, I suppose you’re right. In the same interview I linked Hudson throws his hands up and exclaims basically the same thing, his job as an economist is impossible because the ruling class has blinded itself about its own interests and has now repeatedly failed to act in its own basic material interest. But it just seems like a critical failure of materialism as an analytic framework that you have to just accept that these people care more about ideas than facts.

How does foreign capital benefit from private healthcare? I can see why they obviously want private ownership of productive industries, but what interest do they have in privatizing reproduction?