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What even is America's interest in keeping Cuba starved? Is it afraid of having a communist country that close?

Possibly the greatest emote on this site

"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

Kind of a side note, but I think it's important to point out that while they didn't write about intellectual property and automation, Marx clearly defined the basis from which they came to develop, and that is essential to understanding both.

Laws are a manifestation of property relations, not the other way around. Intellectual property is a specific manifestation of the general private property that dictates capitalism. The phenomenon of music as commodity wasn't as developed then, but the analysis of private property in general, which then dictates the specific forms of property, is all there.

Regarding automation, Capital Vol. 1 deals with the atomization of the work process leading into increasingly simplistic and specific actions, which lead to the creation of increasingly specific tools as we get to understand the processes better through practice and science. While this isn't specifically about automation, it defines the process through which human development managed to substitute physical labor for machine labor over time. Machines were a specific form of it, automation is another, and AI might be a new one (that is particularly applicable to creative labor/commodity production).

I'm only pointing this out because your comment may read like "don't bother reading Marx to understand these phenomena" for some

This got me thinking... The major players either have nukes or ways to defend themselves against them, and I don't imagine it's easy/cheap to replace intercepted nukes.

What would a contemporary use of nukes even look like? Targeting your opponent's colonies? Scaring people from neighbouring countries into becoming refugees?

successfully leads a revolution

Not very practical tbh 👴🏻

how ordinary Americans could look the other way as innocent middle easterns get murdered by their government?

I knows it's obvious for anyone here, but he knows what he is doing. Musk willingly promotes fascism and nazism

Wishing I had someone to develop the forces of production to the point of straining the property relations and bring about a period of intense social change with 🥺