The capitalist class is not a monolithic entity; it is factional and tied to various concentrations of capital that settle around specific forms of commodity production and arbitrage (the Oil Barons, the Tech Lords, Wall Street, Legacy Media etc.) We’ve born witness to the exposing of a major decades old intelligence operation by the CIA and Mossad to utilize pedophiles for the purpose of blackmail and leverage, ensnaring a wide assortment of capitalists and capital supporters from a wide pool of factions.

No, of course they’re not monolithic in the sense that they all realize surplus value in the same form. However, the profit of the bankers, rentiers, merchants, industrialists etc. all rests on commodity production and the realization of surplus value. This attribute of capital generally, standing in contradiction with that of labour in general, is why we’re opposed to capital. Yes, all the people caught in this scandal all wield some sort of power, but that power in and of itself does not automatically assume that someone will stoop to that depravity, which is why I mentioned Bezos and Zuckenberg.

This reality is born right out of the unpunished criminality of the CIA and the state/capitalist self-preservational logic of the settler-state of Israel; this is an operation that took conscious advantage (proven by the most recent released files) of the fall of the Soviet sphere, kidnapping and trafficking young girls from Russia and Eastern Europe for the sake of political networking.

And since I’m going to assume we’re talking about the radicalization of the american working class (since this is affecting the american political scene the most), that is not going to be realized by pointing out the exploitation of Easter Europe. It can only be realized by directly pointing to the contradictions inherent between capital and labour in America (although considering imperialism, who knows if a true radicalization of the working class in America is even good, let alone possible). The Russian, French and Chinese peasants certainly didn’t rise up in arms because they were appalled by the treatment of Native or African Americans.

This operation didn’t require the ensnarement of every single capitalist on earth to work, they simply needed some of the most powerful, and they got all the ones they went after, because your assessment that capitialist production doesn’t lead to moral depravity is incorrect, to be a capitalist is to devalue the lives of workers and their families, to set aside humanity to keep the circuit growing, the capitalists are human who through the pressures of competition and the imperatives of capitalist produtction transform themselves into anti-humans just to keep afloat

And that’s exactly why it is not the “mother of all radicalizing catalysts”! It is not an all systematic, all-encompassing critique of capital as such, but rather a moral failing of a certain group of capitalist (and even non-capitalists). Sure you could say it leads to moral failure in the way you described, but it is not definitively and absolutely so. The capitalists aren’t practicing their evil laugh, they all equally think they’re saving the world whilst lowering wages. It also doesn’t take a capitalist to be a piece of shit, thus the concept of “good billionaires” for the liberals. And again, at the end of the day, morality is completely subjective based on the country, as well as the time in human history and the advancement of human development.

Trump broke containment in 2016 to become the avatar of carbon extraction capitalism, and he’s done nothing that would warrant Israel challenging his status and the question you should be asking is why would they risk it anyway? You think the Israelis would risk alienating the MAGA base anymore than they’ve already done? Blackmail doens’t have an infinite shelf life.

The mistake is assuming Trump’s policies are the result of blackmail, rather than the presupposition of him coming to power in America. Kamala and Biden too, enacted Israeli interests despite not being apparently compromised.

In the sense that this critique of capitalist is too narrow and does not in fact include some of the other prominent figures (such as Bezos and Zuckenberg, at least to my knowledge), it is indeed insufficient in criticizing capital as a whole. Moralistic critiques are great supplements to systematic ones, but can never take their place. They can certainly be introductions, but you’re not going to get anywhere if they cannot accept the central thesis of capitalist exploitation. Especially with a guy such as Chomsky being in them, who sure as shit is not much of a capitalist (although most certainly a radlib). You’re not exactly discrediting anarchism if you point that out. You’re also not going to find someone such as Dick Cheney on the files, even though we know he’s an evil piece of shit. Sure they have all the power to be the most morally depraved evil bastards, but that is inherently not a characteristic of capitalist production. This certainly isn’t the “mother of all radicalizing catalysts”, rapid economic deterioration is, which is why economism was so widespread in the Russian worker’s movement, particularly with the Mensheviks.

Also the whole compromising thing with Mossad is a bit unconvincing considering that Trump is constantly in the files yet nothing has actually happened to him. Nobody cares about compromising material in the form of someone’s dick pic or moral depravity, except for Starmer and his weird spy camera obsession I guess.

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But they already had literal CIA black sites in the EU? I mean, what else could the US possibly want? This truly is just Trump being a dumbass, there is literally no other rational explanation.

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Well, comrades, happy new year from this miserable part of the world

I love how the megathread for the Dessalines DPRK meme not only lacks any kind of statement of the DPRK being this great place to live or the best country on planet earth as the liberal strawman claims (I wonder if being the most sanctioned place on planet earth has something to do with it), but in that very picture has some guy espousing true European values by calling Russians “orcs” (“Asiatic hordes” in Old English)

I wouldn’t really compare gold to bitcoin, since bitcoin is extremely volatile when compared to it. Obviously the neoclassicals love it and want to bring back the standard since it decentralizes money creation, but it is a good investment when it looks like the central authority is not handling the crisis well.

Yeah, I mean bonds are always a secure investment. Not to sound like a gold bug, but gold isn’t bad either, especially during a crisis when faith is lost in fiat currency.

if capitalism chugs along it’ll increase, if it doesn’t that’s even better and you won’t have to worry about savings

Capital in crisis doesn’t at all immediately equal socialism. Also, if you applied this logic to the property market pre-2008, you probably wouldn’t come out all that great.

All in all, what can I say. This game clearly isn’t even close to being the GOAT, nor is it a terrible game. Sure, that horse is cool, moddable Weapons arts (refuse to call them the dumb elden ring name), the world is fucking massive and the art direction of it deserved the award it got. But at the same time, as much as they expanded the game, it really feels like they actually hollowed out the core experience. The bosses never played by the same rules you did obviously, but I don’t think it has ever been this egregious. They have 50 hit combos, which then if you try to hit them, chain into other 50 hit combos. If you get hit once in some of these combos, you’re dead, since you can’t recover. They input read and hit you specifically when you’re healing. They very realistically delay their attack, and then swing it at the speed of light. One of them even has an attack where you either have to be a kilometer away to dodge it, or you have to go on youtube and look up the most unintuitive way to dodge an attack ever.

But even the RPG aspect is rather trimmed down in a way, with metas now being the prevalent way to play. And those playstyles require having all the necessary items, which can only be found if you look at the wiki and run the risk of spoiling yourself. Although you no longer really have to worry, since you can pretty much fast travel from any point of the map, but that still kind of defeats the feeling of danger you had traversing the worlds of the other games. It’s a massive open world, there is no way someone is going to explore all of it alone, especially when there is only 7 bosses that aren’t repeated, despite there being like 150 in total. A boss fight used to be a pretty special event in the other souls games, whereas in Elden Ring it just feels like another mindless obstacle that you overcame 10 hours ago with a beefed up statline. Despite it being massive, the game just kind of gets stale, and you’ll be begging it to end by the late game sections. On the whole, I’d give it about a 7-7.5/10.

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There is absolutely nothing inherently corrupt about Chinese or Russian civilization, only the material conditions that make them up. These of course include various folklore myths and fantasies that have no connection with the real world, which should be taken care of. As much as society acts upon us, we can also act upon it, so change is most certainly possible. In fact it’s inevitable, from the standpoint of our ideology.

I would argue the best way is to simply use dialectical materialism. For example, how would you eradicate religion in a future communist society? I’d start by investing into propaganda against the church. I’m sure there’s a lot of corrupt priests, pedophiles and so on, so you should use all these public scandals and make them as publicized as possible. Have culture and art that generally align against the existence of god. At the end, I’m sure the church as an institution is knee-deep in corruption, so after all that it wouldn’t be hard to convince the public to be passive while all their assets are seized.

But you cannot simply discredit your opponent, you also have to present your own case as to why your philosophy is the superior one, so reform the education system and start teaching children this stuff from day 1, whilst they’re still a tabula rasa. Develop a coherent, materialist framework where they can simply do the work themselves and come to a logical conclusion around the foundations of religious belief. Make them realize that the materialist reality of our world is the only thing that is actually tangible and what they should obviously focus their attention on, instead of some imaginary man in the sky who as some incredible spirit pulled matter out of his ass.

At the end of the day you probably know much more about the Cultural revolution that I do, but as far as I understand Mao and the revolutionaries were pretty idealistic, to the point of being pretty ultraleftist in some beliefs. But this is not uncommon, aside from the revolutionary republican movements in Europe even before socialism, the Bolsheviks were pretty idealistic as well. Proclaiming that the foreign ministry would soon becomes superflous and that it would soon be dissolved because of an international revolution, making soldiers elect their officers and so on. Nothing can be done overnight, and radical change must not only have a concrete strategy, but must inevitably be based in the material conditions of the times.

Have none of the liberal fucks asked themselves at least once in their lives what could Putin possibly fucking have that would effect Trump whatsoever? The guy has committed every crime under the sun that a president can commit, something that his supporters fully acknowledge, yet Putin has some magic wand that will bring Trump down and make MAGA hate him if he casts his magic? It’s insane that these people who in a lot of cases have college level education just turn off their critical thinking skills whenever the empire propaganda machine wants them to believe something.

They say they’re being harassed for “speaking truth to power”, and right wing reactionary chuds and Nazis say the exact same thing. I hear all the time that “people hated Charlie Kirk because he spoke truth to power”.

Should we also abandon our anti-zionist positions since antisemites espouse them as well? Or give up guns to the government because the chuds are all gun nuts?

They don’t make you a communist, they make you a good person. Everyone will be overwhelmingly more receptive to listening to your theory, when you’ve established yourself as a good person and not a bad person.

Yeah, because the guy who just received 70 millions votes in an election in her country is the exemplar of being a good fucking person. Aremoved, pedophile, war criminal and a scammer. Yet people like him and listen to him. Not because he’s a good person, but because he promised them an improvement in their material conditions amidst a crumbling economy in the last election. The Bolsheviks didn’t win because they were nice, but because they promised the people peace, land and bread. They knew the whites were principally opposed to this, and the best propaganda they could conjure up was antisemitic bullshit, which is why they got their ass kicked.

“Don’t be a good person because you might help slow the collapse” isn’t communist either, it’s accelerationist.

Which is why I was very careful in saying that it wasn’t effective unless done with a principled communist organization.

Communism is not a hard sell when you meet people where they’re at, and speak to their needs and fears, instead of treating it like your moral high horse.

That’s what Mamdani is doing in a way, entryist politics simply looking the improve the local conditions in NYC. Do you think he’s gonna be some revolutionary leader? You can do that, but only inside a principled organization that also educates it’s members in theory.

I think ex-Yugoslavia is pretty peculiar since the collapse of it’s communist party resembled the USSR more than any other. The party got hollowed out via opportunism and revisionism, which you could argue started out under Tito himself via the whole split with the Soviets, although the conflict was more strategical rather than ideological, even though it wasn’t presented as such. Although I don’t think the memory of Yugoslavia is as precious as it of the USSR, plenty of boomers still admire it, with only the younger generations being more right-wing and believing in this silly orthodox church shit.

But a lot of the bad rap tends to be because of Milosevic, and his complete break from any discernible communist ideology, towards a reinvigoration of these stupid national myths which might not have been the underlying cause, but was the alibi used to break up Yugoslavia. If he had pursued a policy of centralization, which was even favored by the poorer republics such as Montenegro, Bosnia and Macedonia, maybe he could have averted the crisis and brought back Croatia and Slovenia back into the fold. Instead, we got the aforementioned young generation celebrating Mladic and Karadzic and painting murals in their name.