That’d be Engels though

Got a full pound of the blue stuff.

Not insinuating that’s a good thing, especially given that the democratic party at the time was infested with racists.

Proletarianization is the transformation of members of a society into proletarians. You seem to be implying that you think modern Russia has a substantial portion of its population in the peasantry, which is not my understanding. Urban industrial proletarians are not the only proletarians.

Couch commies?

That site tried to get my clipboard contents wtf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks

It was WAY less anti-communist than I’m used to. I felt like it acknowledged the anti-communist bent of many characters and it distorted Marxism somewhat, but on the whole? I felt like I was watching the same movie liberals were watching, and that’s rare. The most anti-communist characters in the movie were political enemies of the protagonist and I feel like the sense of unease they invoked was intentional on the part of the director. It felt like Nolan understood that Franco and the white army were fascists, and that the audience was meant at times to be cheering for people who had held membership in the Communist party. It could have been way worse.

You caught me being sneaky. Yeah, I’m a marxist redpiller as part of my militant materialism but I don’t have the bandwidth to prosecute struggle sessions on it yet

Romanticists: You can’t just apply material analysis to something as sacred as love!

Materialists: observe.

Utilitarianism isn’t an analytical framework, it’s just a common sense framing of the objective of normative ethics. Do what results in the best world. I think Che would agree with Singer’s main points, and if Singer had a correct understanding of reality, he’d advocate everyone be like Che.

I’m an antitheist. I’m willing to stay civil until the moment someone with idealist epistemology tries to infringe on my liberty. I have no interest in taking orders from nor deferring to any fideist or other idealist

So you don’t want the state to wither away but stick around forever to punish people for being horny?

40 million people having the same senate representation as 600,000 is fair voting?

Electoralism can’t secure class liberation but it’s good to virtue signal. All available levers of power should be grasped and used to secure more favorable conditions for organizing and/or class concessions imo

Grimes

That all human interactions are exchanges of value and to that define consent in such a way that it cannot be purchased is to define it in such a way that it’s totally useless as a word. If you eat meat, you’re a murderer, you buy from a capitalist enterprise you’re a slaver, you hire a sex worker, you’re a rapist-- but it doesn’t do anyone any good to throw words around that aren’t useful for predicting an agent’s future actions. Every relationship in which both sex and money are important, which is most of them, is some percentage prostitution-- and banning it deprives people of the ability to negotiate their relationships clearly. The inverse of its incidence should be used as a barometer of social progress, but in terms of actual policy it should be decriminalized. In “Make Way for Winged Eros”, Kollontai observes that aside from labor dereliction and attempting to leverage sex-love as a means of creating comradely bonds, there’s no basis for banning sex work. I think this follows from materialist epistemology in a very straightforward way.

Spirituality is the character of our relationships with other people and supernaturalism is orthogonal to it. Materialism is the basis for the inductive reasoning that both forces us to acknowledge the humanity of others and frees us from fear of omnipotent, vengeful, insecure, damaged, gaslighting, narcisisstic beings. It is therefore the foundation of correct spirituality.

I’m an antitheist in no small part to prevent this type of person from wielding power.

For me it’s because fascists are the other camp who understand the basic fact that democracy and capitalism are mutually incompatible.

Judaism with its doctrine of the jews as the “Chosen People” is an ethnosupremacist ideology. The promised land which was to be rid of philistines through divinely sanctioned genocide is the prototype for Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum. Devout Jews routinely oppose race mixing. The problem with ethnosupremacist ideologies is that there can be only one master race, so they must displace one another with severe prejudice. All men are created equal, and any ethnicity that refuses to accept that is going to provoke conflict until it gets delusions of supremacy beat out of it or ceases to exist.

From the River to the Sea.