“Ideology” is not a fixed thing, specially in unstable times and with the internet around. This is a confused person experiencing material decline with access to guns and internet forums, and that’s probably as deep as it goes. It only gets confusing if you think it is supposed to make sense on it’s own (ie. the whole analysis begins and ends with the parties and this one individual, nothing else). This is why marxists talk so much about “material conditions”, which is what makes nebulous political phenomena make sense

We need a climate Stalin

Thanks for the info and link, it’ll be my weekend reading 😸

Capital itself isn’t some sort of evil energy. It is the ownership of capital that dictates the result of its accumulation and development.

I think these current wars will possibly expose the tendency of world economy going forward.

Since WWII, american capital has developed on the destruction of lesser economies so that land, resources and labor would be taken over by american companies. This has become the condition for the maintenance and perpetuation of this specific form of capital.

But nowadays, struggling economies tend to turn towards not american companies, but Chinese ones. This means that the precondition for american capital is turning into the precondition of Chinese capital. Every time america tries to expand, it expands China instead or along with it.

The interesting thing is that the Chinese strategy for growing further is way different: being an industrial economy, it depends on the other nation being able to acquire their industrial production. In other words, it depends on that nation developing a functioning industry and economy to absorb Chinese products into it, which not only strengthens China, but further weakens the misery-dependent american capital.

On the other hand, that means america will need increasingly devastating wars and coups to keep going.

Number aside, it’s a cascade effect. That’s 60k people taking out loans to open their businesses or keeping them floating that suddenly won’t pay back anymore, making banks more weary of lending money and making it harder for new businesses to start.

Businesses also depend on eachother, so if your packaging supplier goes bankrupt and the other options are more expensive, your product is gone too.

Lastly, it facilitates monopolies, which will slowly turn the Israeli economy into a bloated mess unless the government purposefully breaks them up (lol), and the takeover of their markets by multinationals

Somewhere in Grundrisse, Marx considers nations conquering others. He points out that pillaging a country consists in taking control of the components of their material production, and that the process of pillaging looks very different wether you’re considering conquering a rural economy (occupying land, taking hold of slaves…) or a nation of rentiers.

We won’t be alive to see it, but I bet future historians will consider this current era as the conquest of the US empire

“that’s what this is about”

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We’ve had a major Russian breakthrough in the 2014 line near New York

A glimpse into the good timeline

nowhere in my comment says “don’t read Marx”. It is rude for anyone on hexbear to assume that a fellow hexbear user would be saying “don’t read Marx”.

Yeah, that is not what I said at all. I just said your comment could be interpreted as that by a random person reading. In fact, I assumed you are not saying that, which is why I took the time to add that at the end.

I think it’s toxic for people to interpret comments as if they have malice

Which is exactly what you’re doing right now