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burlemarx

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  • Why are Trotsky and Trotskyism rejected?

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  • My main disagreement with Trotskysts are related to their view of AES states and global south liberation struggles. They have a very narrow (and utopic, IMO) view of what a socialist transition should look like. Anything that deviates from that very narrow view is seen as the enemy and as a "Stalinist" degeneration.

    This has been very problematic in many of the past liberation struggles, like in Vietnam, where they acted to sabotage or undermine socialist or workers' parties aligned with the USSR. Or even in countries like Brazil today, they spend a lot of their energy trying to critique and undermine other socialist parties (including, surprisingly, other Trotskyst parties) instead of simply working together to build a workers' movement.

    So basically they are a bunch of people against everything and everyone, be them more advanced revolutionary parties, or more backward reformist parties. I could summarize the movement as a ultra left deviation of Marxism.

  • The “China can’t do GPUs” narrative is collapsing in real time

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  • After China surpasses and start leading in most critical tech industries, the US economy and dollar dominance will simply fall apart (as it may be happening with the AI bubble right now). Why trading for dollars when you can simply import every critical tech, with superior performance and cheaper cost, from Chinese markets?

    It makes sense why the US is becoming desperate and willing to wage wars and implement trading chaos to try to disrupt supply chains in order to slow down Chinese progress. But all this effort will lead to nothing as China is always one step ahead of the US.

  • Backing up Spotify

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  • Wow, that's a lot of effort

  • I know about the IMF, World Bank, and WTO is there any other international organizations I should know about that are also vehicles for imperialism?

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  • Most multilateral institutions which are led by Western powers do serve imperialism.

    Also, keep an eye on think tanks and NGOs. Ford Foundation and Open Society are known for co-opting left agendas for something pro system. The RAND corporation and the Atlas network are think tanks to spread Western narratives and right wing propaganda. To a lesser extent, don't trust human rights NGOs and pro democracy, like OID. They usually have Western donors and act on their interests.

  • Trump designates Maduro's government as a “foreign terrorist organization” and orders “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers with an unhinged post

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  • Yes, this scenario is a possibility. I just hope it does not become reality.

  • Belarusian President Lukashenko stated on Tuesday that a US military aggression against Venezuela could become a "second Vietnam" for Washington

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  • This makes Venezuela the 4th

  • This is why the US is fundamentally incapable of re-industrializing and competing with China

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  • They are just using excuses to justify a fascist takeover. They are using this narrative of China being authoritarian to then justify their own authoritarianism. They don't want immigrants, they want third world slaves.

    Most of the Chinese growth wasn't done by immigrants, it was done by their own workforce. Immigrants were invited to China and treated with privilege, earning the best salaries, and occupying the best positions. This is partly true even today, when China does not need to bring too many talents with technical expertise, since their industries and universities are already top tier. Immigrants still earn top salaries in international schools.

    On the other hand, it's not like immigrants in the US have been treated fairly. There's a lot of propaganda of the US way of life prior to the 90s, and they like to maintain the narrative to blame (illegal) immigrants for taking over low income jobs and sometimes working similarly to slaves. The blame, however, will never be assigned to the endless profit seeking attitude of US capitalists. China forced no Western company to relocate their industrial plants to China or other countries.

  • Hey conrades can I please get a hug?

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  • Hey conrades can I please get a hug?

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  • The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China

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  • Sorry, I didn't mean that they will build up the infrastructure to extract and process rare earths overnight. What I mean is that dispute over the control of rare earths will be the next arena of imperialism. This is also why the US is pivoting from Europe and Asia to Latin America.

  • The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China

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  • The solution the US will choose is to develop part of the rare earth extraction supply chain in third world countries, like Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. They will probably keep the refining process. It will take time for this plan to take off, but negotiations are in process.

    But I'd say that, if US had an edge over other the rest of the world in regards to the military industrial complex, this advantage is likely gone, at least for now.

  • The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China

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  • While this is a criticism of the US, this article assumes industrial capacity is the only factor for victory. If that was true, then the US should have been victorious in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world.

  • Damn Poland

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  • This is a very common saying that has many variations on the internet. But this exact phrasing was used by Nicholas Klein at a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1918.

  • Damn Poland

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  • Damn Poland

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  • First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

  • GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack

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  • Good to know... I don't use Python very often, so I'm always a bit oblivious of the recent changes. I'm mainly a Java developer (or Kotlin, when the employer is generous and let me pick the language). In this regard, JVM ecosystem seems to be a bit less chaotic. Maven and Gradle approach seem to be less of a mess than what I find in other ecosystems. The main issues on this ecosystem are some widespreadly used behemoths like Spring framework and Java EE, which often encapsulate and integrate other libraries in all sorts of creative ways and which can cause a big dependency hell if devs don't consider carefully their choices.

    By the way, which is the better tool for virtual envs in Python, nowadays? Pipenv or venv?

  • GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack

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  • I agree from a technical perspective. For political actors, on the other hand, they use the publicity of these security flaws to smear OSS from executives, policy makers and the general public.

    Just FYI, I've worked on a big Brazilian state owned tech company and I heard multiple times from top executives sponsored by politicians of how closed source is better for security because the flaws aren't apparent, or because only employees of said company could touch the code base. We devs all knew that was all bullshit, but they use this kind of justification to the wide public in order to justify their shady business deals.

  • GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack

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  • I think Python has a better overall philosophy with the batteries included concept. It's good to have a comprehensive set of libraries which don't need to rely so much in third party libraries, or where these third-party project solve very specific problems and are well known. Node.js ecosystem, on the other hand, is a huge mess...

    I mean bad PR for open source because those issues are happening more and more frequently. And the widespread use of open source means more good and bad actors are posting their codes in GitHub and most of people who use it aren't aware of all the issues.

  • GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack

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  • This is very bad PR for Node.js and open source in general.