No one with a brain thinks that anarchists are ops, but rather that the hyper-online anarchists who overwhelmingly spend their time criticizing AES are benefiting imperialists by both undermining existing attempts and failing to build their own. For any anarchists reading this, if you are one of the people out there building organizations, you are not in the center of the venn diagram of people who subscribe to anarchism and people who are exclusively contributing criticism against AES.
BlackLotus
joined 4 years ago
When I'm not doing it to liberate workers from the toil of redundant automation without undermining their acquisition of the means of subsistence. So always.
Yes and that's good.
Abolish capitalism.
Yes and it's hella colonialist to not pay massive reparations immediately.
Stalin was imperfect and made mistakes, but I agree with Deng that he was 70% right and 30% wrong which is worlds better than any liberal democratic leaders in the entire history of the imperial core.
Ha, the "what year you were born?" question is pretty funny. I think it's probably accurate that many younger people identify websites as "apps," but software engineers like myself also sometimes do that. It's just a change in the vocabulary that probably doesn't propagate to older folks who aren't in the industry. Although my uncle is in the industry as well, and I think he, too, would balk at the notion of calling this an "app."
Everything is political. The notion that you can do things and have them not have political consequences and be politically informed is a total falsehood and illusion.
This app is just honest and upfront about its politics, in contrast to something like Reddit which is "apolitical" which just means the admins explicitly support the status quo.
Capitalism, it was the new hot shit after feudalism, but it just caused colonialism, imperialism, and mass starvation because there has to be an enormous reserve army of labor. It also leads to cyclical economic collapses which impoverish more people at the bottom while enriching people at the top, creating an oligarchy.
Try reading anything but Western propaganda for like five minutes. Blackshirts and Reds isn't even about China, but if you read it and actually understood it, I think you'd see your takes on China are as ill informed as the uniformly negative takes of the USSR addressed by Michael Parenti in that book.
It's not that there's nothing bad ever happening in China, but you're 100% just regurgitating propaganda which was spoon-fed to you in grade school and by the mainstream media.
Like, take this for example:
If you think they just want to control China (which includes Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. in their eyes), you’re deluding yourself.
Firstly, Hong Kong and Taiwan are China, so I don't know what point you're making. China was colonized by Western powers and Japan, which led to the complicated material conditions in those special administrative regions.
Secondly, what proof do you have that China wants to control anyone else? If it's the classic "debt trap diplomacy" claim, I recommend you listen to actual African leaders and intellectuals on the subject. There's a reason that people are adopting Chinese debt in place of IMF and World Bank debt. China isn't mandating domestic policy, while the IMF and World Bank are mandating domestic policy. It's so common as to almost be a guarantee for the IMF and World Bank to force austerity onto borrowing countries.
professed communist societies
No one of consequence has ever professed that any existing or previously existing socialist state had achieved a communist society. I recommend you read about communism if you want to understand it, and if you don't want to understand it, I honestly have no interest in engaging with you further. Anyone who criticizes something without even tacitly understanding it is not worth my time.
You should be asking questions not making assertions.
Lmao, on yt, I'm sure. You'll let the three letter agencies in the US watch you all day long, but you're afraid of a political party half a world away that is trying to build socialism.
Slavery is a systemic problem and there aren't individualistic solutions to these types of problems. You either seek to overthrow capitalism and build socialism, or you're complicit in modern slavery. No one is complicit in modern slavery for buying the things they need, bargain or otherwise, to survive and have a pleasant existence.
The system which enables people to directly exploit others in order to extract surplus value, whether by slavery or wage labor, is the problem, not the individuals compelled to participate.