ComradeSharkfucker

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“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” - Mark Twain

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  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPtomemes@hexbear.net•emphasis on the learn partEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    For most professors in the humanities (especially anthropology and history) I have seen a radical tendency. Anarchism is more common than marxist socialism for sure but I have brought up my explicit marxism to multiple professor and not been directly challenged on it. The response has typically been, “marxism is a valid analytical perspective but limited in certain capacities” at worst. There has only been one professor I would describe as anti-marxist.

    I have only had one professor who was explicitly marxist but he was a trot and would regularly visit mexico to mourn him. Interesting guy

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca•Would a Soviet-style planned economy be more viable today, with the new technologies of data harvesting and AI?English
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    23 hours ago

    Yes, 100%. Look into cybersyn and what it was able to accomplish with its highly limited means. Technology since 1991 alone has progressed massively and would be a far more effective tool for organizing a economy that meets peoples needs than the soviets ever had access to. They took a 90% feudal society to fucking space in 40ish years and they largely did it on paper.

    To be clear though. Planned economies already exist and function quite well on these systems. They just aren’t working in your interest. Verticle integration is a planned economy. Corporations organize their planned economies quite well and the work already done could be applied far more effectively to provide for people. It’s just not what those systems are for under capitalism.