I don't get how ANY of that relates to what I wrote. Whether it's a large or small capitalist who's scraping accessible data for their AI model makes literally no difference other than the scale.
The short analysis I wrote is about how it's not some vague notion of "stolen labor".
You chose to produce outside commodity exchange system, and capital has a structural compulsion to use whatever falls into that category as a free input for the sole purpose of accumulating more value. Happens pretty much all the time even without AI in the picture, like how common land back in the day was privatized and thus commodified or how today open source code even without AI in the picture often gets taken by tech companies and used in their commodities.
That's what's fucking you over in your case - it isn't theft (there's really nothing to steal), it's not the fault of AI as a concept in particular but systemic compulsions of capitalism.
There's a lot more to the "stolen creative labor" part specifically.
If the creative work was produced via the process of wage labor, then the surplus was already extracted from the worker's labor and this creation has already been separated from the worker who made it long ago. The ones being "stolen from" (in a sense of ignoring IP rights) are the capitalists who own the media.
If the creative work was produced by some small business owner (think independent artists), then it's a bit different as the creator is the owner of the commodity. Still, whatever labor they've done had already been expended, the exchanges (think commissions or monthly patreon subscriptions) have already occurred, so all that's being "stolen" in this case is an infinitely reproducible product of labor that belongs (according to bourgeois law) to a small business owner.
In both cases, there's no "stolen labor", only infinitely reproducible digital commodities owned by business owners that are protected by bourgeois intellectual property law in a very similar fashion to piracy, except on a larger scale.
I am specifically referring to them sayings Israel is a “national liberation” state ??? and the nonsensical implication that the Palestinian Proletariat should unite wit the Israeli proletariat to overthrow their perspective bourgeoisie
How fucking hard is it for a communist (basis of which is in "workers have no nation", emancipation of international proletariat, abolishment of commodity production + markets + wage labor, etc and thus imperialism that necessitates its upkeep, and the abolishment of bourgeois state) to side with the international proletariat rather than a bourgeois state/movement to establish a bourgeois state?
it’s the equivalent of telling Black people during the civil rights protests that they shouldn’t fight against segregation and instead should unite with the white working class
And how did that turn out? Racial discrimination has been abolished, right?
Also if it makes things better for you, ML's do piss me off too.
No it doesn't help the proletariat, it only changes who the oppressor is and arguably only makes it easier and cheaper in the long run for foreign imperial powers to economically exploit them.
This article honestly sums it up better than I ever could and isn't too long, I'd recommend giving it a read.
Also, national liberation would simply not work in Palestine - after all, do you really believe that if Palestinians came out furiously waving their flags one morning, it'd make Israel (which is another national liberation state btw) feel bad and stop their genocide and settling?
Mocking left-wing nationalists since it doesn't solve anything for those actually being oppressed (3rd world proletariat) and just promotes "blood and soil" type shit
Critical support to British Empire for being a historically progressive force and bringing about capitalist revolution to all corners of the world, they truly lifted millions out of poverty..... /hj
Ofc they know, bigotry and nationalism is something that's explicitly taught by bourgeois superstructures (media/schools/leftover protected tradition/etc). If it was a simple deal people had been offered for "comfort", there wouldn't be a need for bourgeois to drill into peasantoid minds the concept of a nation for a hundred years, or for them to create eugenics as a pseudoscience to justify racial supremacy...
This applies to every single nation in existence btw, not just US. Sweden still had state enforced eugenics until 2013
The state isn't there to lower utility bills for the "people", it's there to grow, protect capital (and subsequent expansion of exploitation) so it can compete with other states in the global market. You'll only see mass renewable adoption after bourgeois state prices everything in and decides that it's best course of action for capital growth
Yeah, electorialism is when you talk shit about bourgeois parties on a fundamental level, and anti-electorialism is when you vote blue no matter who. Makes sense!
Bro literally made a dogshit post screeching about anti-electorialists in a community that has a rule against screeching about anti-electorialists, and the post got removed for breaking that rule.
This is just so ass ngl, 0 actual critique and just endless namecalling and moralism.
I feel like a lot of these non-voters don’t want to admit how desperate the situation is. People are being murdered by secret police in the streets and they’re treating this like a video game to 100%.
Yeah, this would never happen under The Good™ party. State violence, after all, is just a new Trump thing and has nothing to do with bourgeois state interests that voting helps legitimize.
For instance, ICE isn't some purely evil force that Republicans have employed to just do evil stuff, no - it's existence is rooted within the material interests of the state, those being managing the reserve army of labor (number of unemployed). This type of management and cruelty is necessary under a bourgeois state, as you do need to have enough unemployment to discipline labor and cut wages, but not too much to be an expense on welfare or cause unrest.
This is precisely why democrats didn't even try to abolish it, but instead gradually increased funding and maintained it, and how brutalization wouldn't stop under them but instead be pushed behind close doors (Trump is very mask off in this regard). Same with police.
Here’s an actual good idea: Support socialists like Mamdani in the primaries
Support Hitler, for he was a national SOCIALIST. After all, name makes a thing, not it's properties.
And once you’ve got those extra four years of neoliberalism, USE THEM, QUICKLY to build a communist militia for the revolution!
Guess who's job it is to make sure communism does not happen 2. Working class has to emancipate themselves, not some student communist militia. Voting only ideologically helps to legitimize and stabilize the state in this regard, which is very much counter-productive.
FRG's national bourgeois must have been devastated by the wall falling and having the internal market expand tremendously (meaning more profit potential) + massive privatization opportunity + influx of workers to exploit
This whole post reminds me of this old gmil comic.
When it comes to anarchism, socialism, communism and whatever, there are some positions that are a matter of principle or proven by analysis, thus aren't merely subject of "opinions" else it goes against those analyses completely without any substance. Imagine one day some self proclaimed anarchist going "all bourgeois nation states are legitimate and should continue to rule forever because they sometimes give treats to the workers they exploit, viva il duce!" then once called out they'd go "it's just an opinion bro" - it would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?
Imma be blunt, but a turbolib is an apt description of you given the removed memes you posted recently - someone who's deep in the capitalist superstructures and just parroting their talking points without much thought, but cloaking themselves under some "radical" ideology (soulism is an infamous ideology shopper nonsense) to appear unique. Can't really blame you - we've all been there, and the best way out of it is to either stop pretending, read actually good theory to understand the world better or just grow out of it.
I don't get how ANY of that relates to what I wrote. Whether it's a large or small capitalist who's scraping accessible data for their AI model makes literally no difference other than the scale.
The short analysis I wrote is about how it's not some vague notion of "stolen labor".