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zedcell

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  • So, what is commodity fetishism and why is every twitter communist arguing about it?

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  • No you aren't highlighting that. If you were you wouldn't have laid into consumerism and personal brand signalling as part of commodity fetishism.

    Don't lie when you get called out.

  • So, what is commodity fetishism and why is every twitter communist arguing about it?

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  • People have liked trinkets for millennia, commodity fetishism is nothing to do with whether or not a use-value fulfils a biological need or social need.

  • Can't believe we are gonna lose Gaza like this.

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  • So if they build it then if Hamas and the resistance ever take control over it they have access to loads of American military tech and infrastructure.

    Always have to look at the world as it develops and locate the contradictions being worked through and generated.

    Building a military base in a strip that has been historically very difficult to finally colonise and maintain settlements on seems like hubris to me.

  • Why are small business owners considered petit bourgeoisie?

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  • They sell the output of their labour, not the right to use their labour for a day/week/month at the going rate for labour power (the average cost to reproduce a worker plus maybe some bonus pay for scarcer labour skills or a bribe for being a labour overseer).

    In the one case, the service of photography is being sold at the going rate for photography and no surplus value is extracted from the labour. In the other case labour power itself is purchased, and the capitalist is now responsible for extracting as much useful input as possible from the labourer during the time they've purchased the labour. In that way they can profit from surplus value produced in excess of the cost they paid for the labour power.

  • BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.

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  • Boycotting Israel would be a unilateral movement of active hostility that, unfortunately, would be viewed with hostility by the US and its vassals. China gets away with bilateral trade wars because they are acting in response to actions taken against it directly, not for a third party.

  • BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.

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  • So we can agree that sanctioning and blockading countries is effectively an act of war when the US and its vassals do it but if China were to do it, no one on the international diplomatic stage would care at all and would let it slide with no reprisals.

    You have not thought this through. At all. It is pathetic.

  • BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.

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  • Yeah the PRC just popped into existence and was never poor and destitute and being hunted by fascists you're right we shouldn't do anything and if the Chinese don't sacrifice themselves by the millions they are the reason why everyone around the world suffers.

    Entitled, pathetic behaviour.

  • Chinese Embassy Clarifies Untrue Media Reports Claiming “China prohibits investment in Israel”

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  • How many solar panels have you sent to Cuba to support their crumbling infrastructure? How many have western communists been responsible for sending?

    Stfu with this 'no internationalism' horse shit.

  • BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.

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  • Go and grab a gun and fight for the Palestinian resistance otherwise stfu I swear to god. Trade isn't support! Trading with the entity is no worse than trading with the US itself.

    Cuba is building up its solar energy infrastructure and is able to do so purely because of the existence of China. The global south is able to develop past neocolonial condemned poor development solely because of the USSR and now China. They are fulfilling an important role even if you personally would rather see a few million Chinese people die for the cause.

  • UK: DIY dentistry and 'no teeth left to chew with' as people go almost a decade without check-up.

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  • Went to the dentist for the first time in 9 years a couple months back as I couldn't get an NHS slot after moving house. Luckily came back with a clean bill of mouth health because I've become ultra-vigilant on not over consuming sugary foods outside of meal time and cutting out sugary drinks. (Not so) Luckily I've also cut out soft drinks because I developed kidney stones after consuming too much sugar-free sodas as my go to drink, so the lack of acidic drinks has also probably helped.

    It's an absolute joke and poor dental health has such huge potential impacts both on your mental health but also I think gum ill health can also lead to serious health risks like heart disease, as one example of a major physical health problem downstream of the mouth. All this adds up to increased use of NHS services in the actually, guaranteed free parts - like emergency dentistry and primary care doctors.

  • NSFW

    Macron: China is an authoritarian regime, no offense, this is a collective choice. In contrast, we, the European Union, remain a place where rule of law and predictability remains valid.

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  • Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir

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  • "Seoul says" - as easily as this shit poured from mouth as easily it can be disregarded as shit

  • Jimmy Lai, a symbol of the end of freedom in Hong Kong

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  • Any person accepting monetary aid and other support from foreign nations to try and overthrow our political system would obviously be tried for treason in the UK.

    China are well within their right to put Jimmy Lai in prison and he clearly went through a fair trial process otherwise all those same nations that supported him would be bleating about kangaroo courts.

  • ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity

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  • Children born in Wales and adults who've lived here for much of their life are Welsh as far as I and most people I know are concerned. Fuck off with your ethno-nationalist cretinism.

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 6

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  • Communism didn't fail of its own accord, it was shot down, backstabbed and slaughtered by Western imperialists. No account of the failures of socialist governance is complete without acknowledgement of the wider context of the 'Cold' war and in particular US interventionism across the world post WW2.

  • UK: Starmer announces deal with Chinese toy firm accused of exploiting workers

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  • China Labor Watch is a classic US government funded not for profit organisation used to smear the US’ enemies.

    Have a good read of that compiled list of labour rights failures and have a think about work in the UK and how often those same problems occur in our country. Now imagine how absurd it would be for another country to deny investment in Britain due to accusations of labour rights abuses.

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    UK: Starmer announces deal with Chinese toy firm accused of exploiting workers

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  • China Labor Watch is a classic US government funded not for profit organisation used to smear the US' enemies.

    Have a good read of that compiled list of labour rights failures and have a think about work in the UK and how often those same problems occur in our country. Now imagine how absurd it would be for another country to deny investment in Britain due to accusations of labour rights abuses. It's patently absurd.

  • TIL: Chinese had no gendered pronouns until the 20th century

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  • Even then, in spoken language he/she sound exactly the same. The distinction only exists in written form.

  • Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows

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  • A huge chunk of people in work either cannot regularly work full time hours due to illness or are not even given full time hours by their bosses.

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    zedcell @lemmygrad.ml

    Good books on the Yugoslav Wars?