In all seriousness though I think placing the double freedom of the proletariat at the core of your explanation of the class structure is a huge theoretical mistake inherited from bourgeois political economy because a HUGE portion of the
proletariat never got the first freedom in the first place because they were slaves, coolies, debt peons, prisoners, conscripts or just in general subject to forced labor and if you start from the double freedom you have to tack the rest of the
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working class on afterwards or just ignore them altogether, which is extremely common in Marxist political economy especially when you see people trying to do economics and just assume everyone is a free wage worker. And this has consequences
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for a whole lot of different theorizations, like it's hard to understand fascism without understanding slavery as a reaction to deepening capitalist crisis, you absolutely cannot even begin to understand race without it, and this goes on and on.
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Sad to see Taeja retire again. Truly one of the all time greats of Starcraft 2. And I think Nazgul put it right when he said "It’s hard to point at a specific aspect of TaeJa’s game that made him so great as a player,
simply because he did everything well." I would argue that what made him great was that he was probably until the rise of TY the greatest player in Starcraft at understanding his opponents' style. But unlike TY, who used that knowledge to just
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crush his opponents with specifically tailored strategies, Taeja would just like.............. Play his opponent's game and beat them at it. There's never been anything else like it. Maybe the best example of it was a 2013 set he played against
I think people get really confused when leftists talk about how one of the primary roles of cops is the protect private property. Whenever you bring this up you get people talking about how cops don't do shit about thefts or don't always
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immediately murder looters and leave businesses to fend for themselves. And like those are things that happen sometimes but when we say police protect private property what we mean is that the police exist to keep workers from seizing control of
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their workplaces and running them themselves. To put it more abstractly they exist to protect the class system, to protect the system by which one class of people has nothing to sell but their labor and, because they cannot support themselves
There's a really weird thing that people who just discovered anti-imperialism believe where they think that American imperialism requires that the support of the American populous and that if people thought it was bad it would stop happening,
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which is hilarious on a number of levels because like 1. extremely popular things like Medicare for All don't happen despite their popular support, that's just how bourgeois democracy works and 2. we literally have examples of the security state
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overwriting even literal acts of Congress and just doing shit anyways, Congress literally passed a law making it illegal to fund the Contras and the CIA did it anyways. It doesn't really matter what "the people" actually want the US is going to
Robert Brenner wrote this piece called What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America after 2008 where he described what he called "Asset Price Keynesianism", where instead of the government deficit spending on infrastructure or services to
drive growth the government ensures that there's a constant, cheap supply of credit that households, investors, banks and corporations can spend to drive up asset prices, thus simulating the appearance of growth when real growth becomes impossible
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Now Brenner is writing about the East Asia collapse, the Dot Com bubble, and the pre-2008 run-up in housing prices but the government did exactly the same shit when the economy looked like it was crashing at the beginning
Greenwald's going full Wuhan bioweapon shit, a conspiracy that has and I cannot emphasize this enough gotten Asian Americans killed
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This was THE conspiracy at the beginning of the pandemic. Bannon was spreading it, it was everywhere. And that shit is directly tied to the start of the massive increase in violence against Asian Americans
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I also think it has to do with shifting economic conditions, there's no risk of another lockdown so the COVID is fake conspiracy has no base anymore since there's no need to stop the lockdowns. On the other hand the Wuhan
I've been trying to think through how the content of rebellion tends to be dictated by specific local grievances but the timing tends to be a product of the global economy and the state of global rebellion and how this distinction confuses a lot
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of people who try to do analysis of global waves of uprisings. So like in 2011 for example you got all of the people talking about the Arab Spring as one contiguous product of 2008 and backlash by people arguing that the movements looked nothing
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alike and were mostly unrelated and the way to cut through that whole argument is that the timing was a product of global economic factors and of how revolutions tend to spread but the content of each uprising was largely local. And obviously it's