What about good laptops for Linux?

Who would make it go dark?

No chance frankly - especially if SF get into government in the South.

Obviously the idea of encouraging a genuine engagement with theory is too much for some. My comment has been deleted.

Computer games are a bourgeois distraction when we need to build a revolutionary movement.

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Think the data underpinning this needs investigated. I don’t, by any means, have any sugar-coated ideas of east european ‘actually existing socialism’ but these look dodgy to me.

If it is true then there may be historic factors e.g. death rate associated with WWII or even the public health impact of post-1991 deindustrialisation. These may perhaps explain it (multi variate analysis needed).

On other hand, there’s a lot of strange stuff happens with the way life expectancies are calculated generally (it isn’t how you would expect!) They dont seem to reference pre-1991 data sources so is the basis of calculation the same? Somehow I doubt it.

Well when Stalinist Thermidor hit the Soviet Union and Hitler was allowed to come to power with little serious resistance from the comintern or KPD, they were very serious defeats. Genuine Leninists (people who apply his ideological formulations) would recognise those plus defeats of early 1920 soviets e.g. Hungary, Bavaria, China communes 1927.

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Why the surprise? The Russian CP are basically unreformed Stalinists. Under Lenin in early years of revolutionary socialism, homosexuality was decriminalised. Of course under the Stalinist Thermador it was fully recriminalised in 1933.

Arthur Griffith was a royalist, Michael Collins cut a deal with Churchill to establish a free state for Irish bourgeoisie and bombed the Republican rebels with British army loaned artillery. Mind you Stalin cut a deal which meant the betrayal of Greek, Korean and Vietnamese communists and Mao bombed the Vietnamese and cut a deal with Nixon so I guess its good company. Opportunist Stalinism not principalled Leninism.

You are correct on surplus value and profit. The TRPF is a long term historic trend (with countervailing effects) not a cycle.

As you say less socially necessary labour time is required for production (this means lower unit price!) But as labour costs tend to equal the minimum a capitalist can provide to ensure reproduction of labour, the ratio of surplus value to capital investment falls, or the rate of profit falls.

In your example the bigger/newer machines may generate more output with less labour but what I think you are missing is that once this technology is general the output will be at lower unit cost price so the ratio of profit to capital investment will still fall (as the only source of surplus value is labour power).

It is important to note that the TRPF is a social and historical trend but that there are many countervailing trends under capitalism e.g. monopoly price fixing.

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Am I reading that table wrong? It seems to show a much higher fatality rate for those who have been vaccinated including for heart conditions??

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