No problem! Each individual will have their own reasons for being in the position they are, but as a class obey the laws of capital.

Yep, and very funky too!

Capitalism is kind of like a control system that selects for accumulation and profit. The ones at the top are those that have been filtered for, and have the most. If they fail, they are filtered out. This is why Marx many times explained how capital itself is above individual capitalists. I recommend reading Marx on Capital as a Real God by Ian Paul Wright, for a bit of a funky explanation of this.

The processes of capitalism demand reproduction on an expanded scale. Simple reproduction on the basis of capitalist development isn’t really sustainable, they are propelled forwards. In other words, grow or die, at economic scale. Individual megafirms, the ones with the elites at the top, have to continue growing and swelling until they burst, because they are not the masters of capital. That doesn’t make them guiltless, but more like priests of capital, as Roderic Day puts it.

It does create a good lever to cause them to rethink why they believe the west would never lie to them, I believe. Fair point though.

Point to how the west dominates English media, and that that’s what LLMs in English are trained on, therefore they will always take a mainstream western stance. This is very prone to manipulation, as a consequence.

Good to hear!

Thanks, comrade! I really appreciate that, just thought it was a bit funny that depending on PoV, that could’ve applied to me too, haha. Thanks! 🫡

On Hexbear, a few users like this regularly make long, “expert”-sounding posts with insidiously embedded half-truths that go largely unchallenged and are even regularly praised by the user base due to an appearance of expertise when someone uses technical jargon and writes overly long posts that are too much effort to go through and critically analyze point by point. As a result the accepted consensus on that site has been shifting to implicitly accepting the framing and general impression of world events that has been created by these “experts”.

I feel called out, lmao, though I know you likely aren’t including me in that. I never claim to be an expert anyways.

Welcome, comrade! Always happy to see new faces here!

Ah, makes sense. In that case, that’s fortunate!

At home I’m a general cook, my spouse bakes and cooks specific dishes and cuisines. We mesh well, but I agree, I tend to not like baking at all!

Rest in peace, comrade. It cannot be overstated what tremendous value you gave to the left in the west, in creating comrades out of liberals. May we carry on the torch!

“Yellow Parenti” Speech and Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook

Even if I didn’t intend on doing so, being a vocal communist inevitably drags out the anti-communists ready to wield the Red Scare caricature of the USSR like a club. I do wonder what life would be like in the USSR, or where we would be if it was still here, but I’m more interested in watching the CPRF grow in the modern day, hopefully bringing a new RSFSR into existence.

Understood, perhaps more national and even international outreach would help? I am unsure of how possible that is.

That’s really vile, comrade, and reeks of a lack of party discipline among comrades. This kind of behavior is intensely destructive.

I’m sorry to hear that, comrade. Even well-meaning people can be cruel. It’s entirely uncalled for to ostracize you and speak about you behind your back, regardless of intensity of character.

Will do!

Gonna crosspost this, it’s really good!

Potent Posting Power!

Nice! Audiobooks just don’t work for me, but I appreciate their convenience!