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  • Steve Huffman commends you on upholding his moderation policy.

  • Seeing libs seethe about “too many tankies” is really funny.
  • It is definitely inducing cognitive dissonance. The developers are simply are communists trying to collectivize social media, and that will live in their heads rent free as long as they stick around.

  • Does historical materialism argue capitalism is "necessary"?
  • Capitalism was not inevitable. Feudalism could have just stagnated or died out. Capitalism is what ultimately resolved the contradictions of Feudalism and this happened over the course of centuries. Likewise, Socialism will resolve the contradictions of Capitalism (hopefully before life on Earth is doomed).

    In Marx's time, it was presumed that the most advanced centers of Capitalism would be the first to progress to Socialism, but historically this didn't bear out. The Socialist revolution didn't take place in England or Germany, but in Russia, which was a backwater by contemporary standards, barely letting go of serfdom. As a functionally feudal monarchy on Europe's periphery, the bourgeois class of Russia was stunted, and this certainly played a role in their defeat. The vast majority of places we see revolutionary class struggle endure, from China to Korea to Cuba to Vietnam tend not to be the centers of industrial production (at least, at the times of their revolutions).

    So you could say that countries like the USSR and China skipped past Capitalism, but only in a regional sense. It still remains as a world-hegemonic system which they have always been forced to contend with.

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    #Hexbear enjoyer, absentee mastodon landlord, CNC machinist, jack of all trades

    Talk to me about astronomy, photography, electronics, ham radio, programming, the means of production, and how we might expropriate them.

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