"When Kohei Saito decided to write about #degrowthcommunism, his editor was understandably skeptical. #Communism is unpopular in #Japan. Economic growth is gospel. So a book arguing that Japan should view its current condition of population decline and economic stagnation not as a crisis, but as an opportunity for #Marxist reinvention, sounded like a tough sell."
V. @sol2070 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/03/why-we-need-degrowth
Don't suggest to me "Marxist-Leninist-stalinist" #blogs.... the #goals & #ideas of #antifascists and #MLS are not one in the same.... YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
Today in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar).
@icedquinn Oh don't get me wrong it's 100% part of the strange #Marxist progressive framework that says to take the historically oppressed classes and let them oppress their prior oppressors.
The #Israel Public Broadcast Network today released a segment claiming that there is a white genocide happening in #SouthAfrica, perpetrated by the #Marxist mass party #EFF, who are fighting to eliminate the economic apartheid order that the ANC left intact.
Does any kind sharing soul have a digital copy of all 7 pages of Gramsci's 'Observations on Folklore' (as assembled by Felice Platone) in English translation?
Usually found in Selections from Cultural Writings, ed by David Forgacs and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Lawrence and Wishart, 1985.
I'm after the exact thing for comparison with Cirese. Cheers!
just reading about #scottish#marxist, john maclean, who was arrested under the defence of the realm act for his opposition to world war I. he was arrested. for opposing war.
it's always been shit, hasn't it? i mean, what's going on right now is nothing new. & it's really shit. #johnMaclean#scotland#war#socialism#marxism#palestine#ceasefireNow
#Republicans are truly the dumbest people on the planet. Imagine being an adult in #elected office and believing that someone's fashion choices are indicative of their #ideology. How TF is a #hoodie proof that someone is a #Marxist? This is just the latest #evidence that none of these #rightwing#lunatics have even the slightest idea what #Marxism is. To them, it's just a generic #pejorative for anyone they don't like. Shame on you if you #vote for these #clowns.
Books? I'd really like a modern take on egoism that isn't saturated in fascist/libertarian thought because I personally think it makes more sense in a leftist context than individualist mythos
Last night I played "Class Struggle", a 1978 #boardgame designed to teach #Marxist theory. The game was designed by Bertell Ollman, a professor of politics at NYU.
At the beginning of the game, players roll the "genetic dice" to determine their class: Capitalist, Workers, Farmers, Students, etc
Class Struggle obviously draws inspiration from Monopoly, but I think Cosmic Encounter (published in 1977) may have been inspiration for CS's asymmetric rules (depending on which class you play).
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
...This said, I might also as well say that I see little chance for this happening, the globe being ruled by #oligarchs following the principal of #plutocracy and #capitalism (no, I am not a #Marxist;)) and #autocrats
Even a non-#superintelligence with access to the sensors of the #IoT will easily be aware of any threat to its existence and will find ways to circumvent the #LawsOfRobotics.