I think it’s often important to sometimes (though dont get carried away and lose the kernel) discuss how Marxism is really at least 2 major schools/claims brought together. The method of analysis call dialectical materialism is a sort of ontological and historical claim about how the world works, which makes no prescriptive claims about what that exactly means for 'good’and ‘bad’. Then you have marxism as a normative system which discusses how the system of inefficiencies and exploitation are good to be removed through processes which the former side of marxism can describe. Marx was a much more interesting polemicist than many because he was able to freely move between these fields throughout a work, and really gives no indication that I know of that these are really separable to any meaningful extent.

But this reading means that the morality might not be central to scientific claims, but cannot be seen as apart from the whole of marxism, which makes claims about exploitation with the assumption that it’s bad (actually marx argues why, including in efficiency terms instead of morality)

It is literally “are the national movements helping to place the nation above others in the imperial order or about escaping the imperial order in general”. ‘Global South’ is not definable outside of the relationship that they have to imperialism, so parties pushing to gain imperial power or gain benefits from it are bad nationalists.

Well you forgot that Ukraine’s national project is about heroism of their nazis instead of their progressive history. I’m not interested in theoretical nationalism, just the one that really exists, and I have yet to see any evidence of this other one having any influence which doesn’t completely fit into the imperialist system which the nazi one also wants to achieve

Jabril the reasonable back at it lol. I was thinking the exact same: everything about this article screams ‘who cares if it’s true? It accomplishes our goal of fucking with Venezuela’

Well this is an ok start, I hope? Hexbear is chill and funny while handling very serious topics. Otherwise the English internet is pretty much reddit, Twitter, and the other major social media like tik tok. And those are pretty annoying, if you ask me. If you find anywhere else, I’d love to know too.

That was amazing.

Wait should’ve read further first, not everyone has that language rolled out yet into the app

I think Instagram switched the name or location of it, because I can’t find that. My app is even in English! Or I’m just incapable of searching well, one of the two

But thanks for the links, gonna share them to people

So how do I opt out? There’s a paywall so idk if wired gave instructions

Very cool! I still have no idea how are row foot is a useful way to measure sugar cane, but I’m learning lots

But how many cane fit in a foot length?

Wtf is a ‘row feet’, is that something american?

But can we harness that effectively? My bullshit idea could just be a big cylinder driver for a huge cylinder engine, which i just made up

well quickly is relative, you could probably get 100 years of energy for a city like that, plus/minus a factor of 10

Thats dialectics, too high results in the exact opposite effect when measured in energy. (Well energy is an absolute I guess, but we use a vector of energy to generate usable energy)

At some point, the shape, distance and rotation dominate the interaction, making it instead a fancy space elevator or a little satellite if it pops off by accident

Wow I bet we could make tons of energy by putting a huge weight, like an asteroid, near a stable Lagrange point and let its motion around it power a little motor.

Or we just let China make solar panels, either way really

Lol I only see red and yellow and upright people, this scarlet and blue and hunched depression fades into background

of course! Though this is mostly an extension of Losurdo (good thing), so I like the source a slight bit better myself :). But Redsails is amazing, yes, and I’ve linked this exact essay all over the internet and among friends/comrades

Well I really hate that lol

The Iron Heel is a very good book, only really running into problems when it just handwaves that a revolution ‘happens’. But the lead up and building of contradictions and revolutionary preparations are great!

Goddddamnnnnnn