Yllych 2d ago • 100%
At what point in the history of the roman empire did the Praetorian guard fall apart?
Yllych 3d ago • 94%
Sorry we just don't like politicians who enable genocide
Yllych 3d ago • 100%
Notable previous employment: she worked for a lawfirm hired by Chevron in the Donzinger case.
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Yllych 2w ago • 100%
It is, Rosetta Stone is a pen name of his.
Yllych 2w ago • 100%
It was definitely initiated from the top down I would say. But at the end of the day, whatever mass strikes, work actions, and army mutinies occured were not enough to stop Yeltsin and the west from dissolving the SU into what it is now.
I don't want to mean this as blaming the average Soviet citizen but the fact is; whether from apathy with the old system, or naive hope that westernising would bring prosperity, or being outgunned by Yeltsins military, they and their organisations were sadly unable to defend the Soviet republics. All communists need to take sober lessons here. If it is the first task of the workers' party to instill a revolutionary spirit in the working class, the second and even harder one must be to convert that spirit into a mass commitment to the socialist project.
Yllych 3w ago • 100%
You could try using the UNRWA reports or aid tracking to help find out, better than using israels info.
Yllych 3w ago • 100%
They were anti religious without being anti capitalist. So they were farcical Voltaire esque liberals at best
Yllych 3w ago • 100%
We can and should be disgusted at what's happening in the middle east. Using chud language and mindsets but instead trying to do so in some kind of left way is not the way to express it imo
Yllych 1mo ago • 100%
Construction projects for one example
Yllych 1mo ago • 100%
get this liberal nonsense out of here please.
Yllych 1mo ago • 95%
can you see how admitting that reaganite endorsements = a surefire strategy is an indictment of the entire american political system, and leaves the only sane choice of dismantling the american state-machine before it does even more genocide
Yllych 1mo ago • 100%
I mean it does sound slow but you are not a pro. Speaking from electrical experience, it's much better to take the time to do something right. Rushed work comes out like shit/fails inspection or stays as a fire hazard and then takes 2x as long when it needs to be redone.
Yllych 1mo ago • 100%
Do employers pay into pension schemes in China? How much do they have to put in?
Yllych 1mo ago • 100%
Why appreciate Merkel, what did she do but let the shitshow of 2010s austerity to lay the groundwork for the current shitshow of the 2020s.
Yllych 1mo ago • 100%
Folding comments suck ass and down votes suck ass for similar reasons, I remember that's why we got rid of them and made commenting the clearest way to disagree.
Yllych 2mo ago • 100%
Michael Roberts- Germany: the end of EU hegemony?
What all this shows is that even German capitalism, the most successful advanced capitalist economy in Europe, cannot escape the divisive forces of the Long Depression. But it is also shows that the German coalition government’s slavish following of the interests of US imperialism in the name of ‘Western democracy’ over Ukraine and Israel is destroying the hegemony of German capital and the living standards of its poorest citizens. No wonder the voices of nationalism and reaction are gaining traction.
Yllych 2mo ago • 100%
I don't think it's a secret that cobalt mining, or any mining really is exploitative of labour beyond normal wage relations. Plus the environmental cost is substantial as well. That is true enough, although like most real injustices this critique is ,for political reasons, aimed at former colonies rather than the more powerful governments that have the (stolen) wealth to actually create some kind of real solution.
As for the coup attempt by Christian Malanga, to me it's hard to tell how serious of an attempt at regime change that was by the US/UK simply because of how bad the attempt was. The impression I got was that the alphabet boys did not send their best, if they even bothered to get involved. Malanga and his group were quickly suppressed, Malanga himself was killed and his son imprisoned. As far as I know the only support he had was either among diaspora or western NGOs. So a total failure there. Malanga had ties to all sorts of western entities so it seems plausible he had at least a green light from some western backer to go ahead with the coup attempt with an implicit promise to be recognised upon success.
My guess is that this was an incompetent or just plain lazy attempt at regime change symptomatic of a decline in state power compared to the 50s/60s. As for the online boycott campaign, without knowing more I would venture that's maybe a 60/40 split between being created by naive libs vs from a suit filled board room somewhere.
Anyone got it?
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2512164 > Was thinking about this intellectual period last night. I don't know a lot but I get the vague impression of it being too much on the revisionist side for my taste, although the label New Left is so broad that I'm sure there's a huge span of thought that it gets applied to. > > What theory still holds up from that time, what theorists do you agree/disagree with, what texts would you recommend to people who want to understand more about this time, t's origins,links to the French 1968 movement ,etc? > >
Was thinking about this intellectual period last night. I don't know a lot but I get the vague impression of it being too much on the revisionist side for my taste, although the label New Left is so broad that I'm sure there's a huge span of thought that it gets applied to. What theory still holds up from that time, what theorists do you agree/disagree with, what texts would you recommend to people who want to understand more about this time, t's origins,links to the French 1968 movement ,etc?
www.counterfire.org
Review of [Michael Roberts ](https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/) and Carchedi's book, found the parts about inflation and reaffirming the rate of profit portions interesting
I want to understand more about these two crises of capitalism. How do they happen? How do they relate to each other?what is the context on the debate in leftist circles around them, as I know some groups prefer to emphasise one over the other. I have read a bit on Michael Roberts' blog, he definitely prefers to emphasise the falling rate of profit but some of it goes over my head. Any books/articles on this stuff that comrades would recommend?
[What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor?](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm) [First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. He feels at home when he is not working, and when he is working he does not feel at home.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm) [His labor is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need; it is merely a means to satisfy needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that as soon as no physical or other compulsion exists, labor is shunned like the plague. External labor, labor in which man alienates himself, is a labor of self-sacrifice, of mortification.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm) [Lastly, the external character of labor for the worker appears in the fact that it is not his own, but someone else’s, that it does not belong to him, that in it he belongs, not to himself, but to another. Just as in religion the spontaneous activity of the human imagination, of the human brain and the human heart, operates on the individual independently of him – that is, operates as an alien, divine or diabolical activity – so is the worker’s activity not his spontaneous activity. It belongs to another; it is the loss of his self.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm) when the capitalist system positions your labour-power as a power alien to you, and denies your species-being, thereby denying your external and natural aspect, your *human* aspect; as well as ensuring your estrangement *of man* from *man*  when the workers' activity does not belong to them and is instead felt as a torment, inversely felt by the owner of the labour as *satisfaction* and pleasure  when the whole of human servitude is involved in the relation of the worker to production  when the workers themselves necessarily hold within them the revolutionary power to sweep away these systems of domination and contradiction 