HamManBad [he/him] @ HamManBad @hexbear.net

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For me, it's kind of like love. Can love be reduced to purely biochemical processes? Of course. But we interact with it as a meaningful thing, informed through superstructural social relationships. Spirituality is a similar phenomenon, where the underlying processes are biochemical and informed by our evolutionary history, but play an important role in our psychology and lived experience. Getting more detailed than that gets tricky, because the language we use to describe it is socially constructed and shaped by the forces of historical materialism in complex ways

I might get shit for this, but in Wisconsin having a Dem governor has absolutely slowed down the deluge of fascist bullshit we've been putting up with for the past decade and a half. I can't imagine how much worse things would be if Walker was still in power.

Unironically, in 1916 you would still have peasants saying "if only the tsar knew how the lords were treating us, then he could put a stop to it!" Americans have the same relationship to the US Constitution

Developing the forces of production in Saudi Arabia is the best way to create the conditions for the overthrow of the monarchy. I'll allow it

Marx never predicted that the proletariat could just have their own rope factories

And there's another little horse inside the communism horse hiding anarchy and Satan! It's horses all the way down

Edit: should have read the comments first. Everyone's already adding more horses

What did Stalin say? Something along the lines of "there is no stalin. Even I'm not Stalin"

At that level of politics, you become a living symbol for people to project themselves and their aspirations onto

No no no there's no call to violence. But, he'll listen. Because of the implication

Did they have real opportunities though? Once you let the Americans in, you can't really get them to leave without a fight

I thought equity was supposed to be stronger language? Either way the libs are at it again, thinking that changing the language of things changes the thing itself

I do not envy the situation Syrian Kurds find themselves in. But it is a good lesson not to build your revolution with US military support

Holy shit that new logo looks incredibly lazy. It's really bad, folks. I don't even like Harleys but I'm mad about it

I think there will be petit-bourgeois inter-class struggle, based on their relationship to racial privilege and national chauvinism vs global integration. The success of the internationalist, multicultural bourgeois will depend on cooperation with the working class and building a popular front with the left, including communists, in the way that success of the union over the Confederacy relied on support from radical abolitionists. At the point of internationalist bourgeois victory, our future will be decided based on the discipline of the communist movement and our ability/willingness to continue the class struggle, or else we will face recuperation and reactionary measures to suppress us (same as it ever was). Obviously, if the fascists win, we get free helicopter rides, so I'm on board with a temporary popular front when the going gets tough

I mean that's kind of an awkward statement, if you were like "wow it's really cool that nobody lynched Obama" it would also come off as weird, even if the sentiment is supportive of antiracism

So really, Harris is an ultra

We'll see. They've done it before, pre-neoliberalism. It's just such an obvious, intelligent move for the ruling class to make (if they are interested in that sort of thing)

It would really rile up the fascists though

I don't know, if they try doing Minnesota-style social democracy on the national level, it will be like giving a small glass of water to someone lost in the desert. People are still going to die of thirst, but they'll die loyal to the party that gave them the sip

Yeah I feel like there's been a shift over the past few years where the US is less concerned with coups over ideology and more concerned with couping countries that get too friendly to China. Cooperation simply can't be allowed, even if you follow all of the rules

I'd rather struggle against ruling class representatives who are willing to negotiate to some extent, instead of ones who want to throw us all out of helicopters. I haven't been this close to engaging in (national) electoral politics since Bernie. Which means the controlled opposition is doing its job very well, kudos

Oh that's why I can't find it, they nuked CTH from the Internet. It's honestly a crime against humanity that it wasn't archived better