Thank you comrade for copying over my comments

Engels and lenin had good writings for beginners. You might want to read principles of communism, or state and revolution to get some basic context and theory. The first one is structured like an FAQ and is short. The latter you can find english translations that are quite accessible.

Once you understand the basic principles of marxism, you will understand just how different the whole philosophy really is. If you get deep into the theory, you might see that Marxism is basically a whole separate branch of philosophy that breaks away from the enlightened tradition of western philosophy. In some small sense, I see Marxism as a refuation of liberalism.

This is a memey Internet forum not a ML party formation. Genuinely what do you expect?

Also the stuff about the queer posting is just wierd. How many “normies” are wandering onto lemmy queer spaces in the first place? And if seeing some wierd memes is enough to “push” someone into conservatism then they were already a conservative.

This is a very idealistic view of history. Ideology did not create material conditions, material conditions created ideology (and ideology was used as a tool to reinforce material conditions)

The slavery, genocide, capitalism and colonialism came first. Then liberalism was created to justify it. And I do want to emphasise that all of those 4 things were justified using liberal logic, that was the point of liberal logic.

The first liberals deemed the “unenligtened” to be subhuman, incapable or governing themselves, worthy of being treated like livestock and as fundamental threats to the ruling order. This was their justification for doing everything they did, you can read their writings on native Americans and Africans and see exactly what classical liberalism was all about.

Later waves of liberals ended up using liberal logic to abolish slavery. Great. But the reason they did this was because the capitalist mode of production had superceded the slave mode of production. The surplus of proletariats hated competing with slaves and having their wages be reduced. Meanwhile the northern bourgeoise often had friction with the southern planters since the planters were rentiers extracting wealth from the whole economy like parasites.

Modern liberals now proclaim themselves to be great champions of “liberty” (the liberty for the bourgeoise to buy property), but they by in large continue to support capitalism and western imperialism*. And frankly, why wouldn’t they? That was what the ideology was created for.

*you can see this in their insistence upon using “white man’s burden” arguments whenever foreign intervention comes up

I’m in the camp that their ideas of classical liberalism were fine. I feel shame that our country is built on genocide, slavery and exploitation

Not an American here, but do you not see the contradiction here? From an outside perspective this reads the same as a German saying

I’m in camp that hitler’s ideas were fine. But I feel shame that the riech was founded on genocide slavery and exploitation.

Like I’m genuinely confused here.

Oh yeah the hierarchy stuff has always been out of control with anarchists. But anarchism itself is just stateless society. The rest, anarchists disagree on heavily.

Yeah. I’m an ML

In fairness, a lot of socialist theory has a distinction between a “state” and a “government”. The former is the repressive apparatus (police, army and ideological state aparatuses) and the latter consists of the civilian administration which deals with centralised organisation of labor/economy. This is why marx could describe a “stateless society” as developed-communism.

America (like most “liberal democracies”) doesn’t have a democratic process to begin with, so your point is moot. Your reps control your entire country and can do basically whatever the fuck they want for 4 years (in the house/presidency), 6 years (in the senate) or life (for SCOTUS).

In theory, the power of recall or impeachment exists, but you’ve seen yourself how trying to impeach even someone as corrupt as Trump goes.

Even in cases where there is a semblance of direct democracy (such as state wide propositions), the capitalists own the entire media aparatus (on top of basically every other part of society and nature).

Yeah these guys are dreaming that China won’t invade Taiwan.

Since the PRC has literally not invaded Taiwan for longer than my grandparents were alive, yeah I’ll believe this.

If removing literal serfdom is not liberation then what the hell is “liberation”?

When all the exploiter monks gather their serfs together and ask them politely “do y’all want to be integrated with the PRC?”, and then they do a vote and if 90% of the population votes yes, then they set up enclaves to test PRC rule but like, it’s a free market of states where you can choose to get services from either the PRC or the feudal monks and basically over time the people will provide more money to the superior product and drive the feudal monks out of the government business?

Distance from the eastern most part of Russia to Moscow is 6300 km. It is literally on the other side of the planet, the longitude seperation is almost 200 degrees.

Do you know what that means? It is faster to go from Alaska through Canada, the Atlantic ocean, then through Europe to get to Moscow than it is to go by the eastern side of Russia.

Ok, it’s just an example.

1. The Taiwanese themselves do not unanimously want independence and there is a huge split of this position in taiwan, just like there is a split in America between Democrats and republicans.

2. “Enforced absorption”, there is no class analysis in this concept whatsoever. Which class benefits from reunification, and which class benefits from separation? It is the American imperialists and Taiwanese monopoly capitalists who benenfit from separation.

The US has literally militarily occupied the Philippines, Japan and South Korea. As for Vietnam, the reason they had historical beef with China was due to the sino-soviet split, but that beef has been largely resolved and the Vietnamese are not as anti-china as you think they are.

Not to be an LLM shill, but perhaps the reason we are not seeing a massive increase in apps being released and new domain names is due to economic factors stunting the potential AI. It’s just a confounding factor I can think of.

If the author wants to steelman their argument, they could look into the total number of developers before AI and after AI. They could compare working hours (not officially recorded working hours, but actual “I am working on making code” hours).

There are other economic factors also. Large corporations will control the majority of developer working hours. And large corporations won’t be making shovelware. Meanwhile people who are not so beholden to factors of economics aren’t necessarily going to build public shovelware. They might just be building scripts for personal use.

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so they could pay less taxes and due to a grievance about parliamentary representation

They did primarily because they wanted to expand their settler colonies further into native lands while the British government had tried restricting settler expansion.

The “free state” was never about preventing oppression of the citizens or launching an insurrection against the state. I don’t know where this bizzare view comes from, since the constitution literally defines treason against the state to be punishable by death.

I think that colleges will respond to this crisis by focusing entirely on exams, and reducing the weighting of practical assignments, which would be a huge loss.

China/communism can’t fucking win, with these crakkkers.

Life becomes so much better when you stop caring about what these people think