Wage struggle & rent stabilization just result in workers advocating for increased theft of labor hours from the global south/periphery/third world/low-income countries (call it whatever you want someone will get mad) in order to access the asset market via housing & retirements. This deal is closing out but people are more shortsighted than ever. Initially there was a miscalculation where capital flows between imperialist states were mistaken for outflows to periphery, but this was due to crude statistics + he don’t have internet (no one did). Capital flows stop after the port, mine, & one shit railway, potentially sweatshop until the period where the financialization by industrialists in the west leads to Mexicanification so some light and increasingly heavier non-strategic industries in semi-peripheral states. Historically tho, India, China, & West Asia are where Shit Happened and everyone lived. Their development needn’t be underpinned by theft of labor hours from… themselves. China’s leg up has been mutualistic trade policies, infrastructure, protecting skilled labor capacity from sudden layoffs, strong education, balancing competition, channeling foreign investment into state-managed industries, list goes on. To understand why communism failed in the USSR I recommend Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

I guess you’ll never know if that is addressed in this book or the discussion at its release events, since like most of its critics, you can’t even claim to have read it. Fucking babies 🤣

$8 billion dollars in losses this year btw

unc still got it

@confidant6198 you may be looking for the term intellectual labor aristocracy

Toronto Book Launch for “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

I believe @spectre is building on the conversation this is a part of

hey i’ll give it a watch, nice to see someone else actually offering spontaneous media recommendations on here ;)

that is my scene. very much so. I don’t really react that way to gore or jumpscare torture movies / guy dying in the wilderness of preventable injuries /etc lol, that’s why I was shocked. and, I mean, there was a lot of gore being shoved in my face in middle school, so I went years before the ukraine war without allowing myself to see anyone die. outside of police videos, and other things where we have a duty akin to a jury to review the footage as evidence. collateral murder. stuff like that. if you’re just watching someone get killed for entertainment, in my opinion you become a minor accomplice. I am un-desensitized to the extreme, but seeing a guy get decapitated didn’t make me feel decapitated. i didn’t retch seeing azovites boil a guy’s head.

it’s the atmosphere which made me present enough to go hurl. it’s the clarity with which it reveals the unseen facets of bourgeois domination we can intuit are there. maybe if I was more imaginative, or more sick, I could summon what the movie does in my mind’s eye. i’m just the type to look away, and the movie doesn’t allow that.

Cowabunga 😔

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BE hardly even pretends to understand the theft of labor time that supposedly underlies his beliefs… even radlibs like jason hickel understand arghiri emmanuel era stuff (which fails to account for the hoarding/theft/destruction of means of production by the center, hence why western-palatable world systems theory refuses to advance beyond it). crazy talk from him daily

honestly if you disagree with people online you should straight up kill them, so I can’t comment on the doxxing

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emacs can only be improved no matter what but it should count

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Billibilli will outside your region, but it’s going to be like 20 years lol. Maybe a completely different platform. Google needs to make a series of inevitable dick moves such as forcing logins.

Maybe it’s a bike seat 😟