i also didn't know the part about the xi jinping thought. in your opinion, is it going to guide china for the foreseeable future or is it not going to outlast the man himself? i guess my real question is, what exactly does xi jinping thought add to chinese socialist theory that makes it its own thing?
my favorite part of the marxist tradition is how brutally they eviscerate their least favorite guy. they pull no punches but you never get the sense they're saying something just to get an epic own.
i think the napoleon-opposition democrats are the tragedy to the trump-opposition's farce. marx describes the napoleonic democrats as representatives of the petty-bourgeoisie, who, as a transition class, "[imagine themselves] elevated above class antagonism generally". the dnc democrats, on the other hand, represent the haute bourgeoisie first and the professional-managerial class as a distant second. they're well aware of the class dynamics at play, and every failure of theirs is at the best of times a refusal to deviate from the interests of the donors. the left-bashing is just set dressing, an excuse for why they, and therefore the state, absolutely cannot give an inch to the proletariat. also it serves as anticommunist propaganda. idk maybe the old democrats were like this too; i haven't read much of 18th brumaire. but for me it's hard to think the current democrats don't foresee their constant electoral losses. the way they treat trump, it seems like they don't care. they know their place. they're happy with their place.
oh i was mostly just ranting about the pmc lol. you're totally right about the tax stuff and it seems like the only taxes we do get go directly to police and military
What they represent is the people’s rights; what interests them is the people’s interests. Accordingly, when a struggle is impending they do not need to examine the interests and positions of the different classes. They do not need to weigh their own resources too critically. They have merely to give the signal and the people, with all its inexhaustible resources, will fall upon the oppressors. Now if in the performance their interests prove to be uninteresting and their potency impotence, then either the fault lies with pernicious sophists, who split the indivisible people into different hostile camps, or the army was too brutalized and blinded to comprehend that the pure aims of democracy are the best thing for it, or the whole thing has been wrecked by a detail in its execution, or else an unforeseen accident has this time spoiled the game. In any case, the democrat comes out of the most disgraceful defeat just as immaculate as he was innocent when he went into it, with the newly won conviction that he is bound to win, not that he himself and his party have to give up the old standpoint, but, on the contrary, that conditions have to ripen to suit him.
of course not, but we also recognize that whatever taxes there are, surplus-value extraction is way more. the labor aristocracy, especially the professional-managerial labor aristocracy, often opposes taxation/programs that would benefit them. they "pay too much" in taxes, but they don't even recognize their own surplus-value extraction.
democracy is when the government has parties. and the more parties it has, the more democraticer it is. and if it has two whole parties, that's freedom.
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i also didn't know the part about the xi jinping thought. in your opinion, is it going to guide china for the foreseeable future or is it not going to outlast the man himself? i guess my real question is, what exactly does xi jinping thought add to chinese socialist theory that makes it its own thing?