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Reading the history of the decolonization struggle around the world emphasizes just how devastating the fall of the USSR was for humanity.

It also puts into perspective how recent the specific shitty situation we're in is, and that something different is possible.

Genuine questions, I'm still a baby Marxist.

by selling their goods and services (built with the help of China) to the US!

... which flood american markets with cheap, quality products and drowns America's own productive capacity, right? Isn't that precisely how america lost its means of production? American capital is even trying to prevent this on the electric vehicle sphere.

I understand that production and consumption are moments of a whole, so the dependence goes both ways - you can't keep producing unless someone is buying. I also understand that all this is somewhat secondary to the problem underlying the whole thing:

If you don’t accumulate dollars, you can’t import food and fuel

Do the major food/fuel-producing countries have dominance over their own production and commerce? Where do their dollars go next?

Another major news source that gets their info from our news mega. It keeps happening, folks!!!

Depending on the actual thing you're considering, it's putting the knowledge into practice and having a clear way of evaluating whether you're failing

China’s manipulation of Taiwan’s understandable fears of abandonment

"China is just like my ex" is not an analysis I was expecting to see today, although expected from a dying empire

The American empire collapsed overnight!!!

It wasn't a revolution or anything, it kinda just did that

Reminder for Americans:

It shouldn't even be needed to point it out, but read Lenin and the documents of the 3rd international , get the fuck out there, organize and agitate. Talk to people about Marxism (covertly if you have to, that's why you must study and have the ideas clear in your head), get them to organize too. Go to events, call friends to join, take the microphone, get other people on the microphone too.

Don't let this opportunity fizzle out, you libs

Just going to think outloud too since I'm way out of my expertise (and could be completely missing the point).

I think it's interesting that, by thinking the process as negation of negation instead of just negation, period, we force ourselves to think of phenomena as a continuum - instead of "this came from that", it makes we think "this came from that and is going to become something else through the continuation of the proccess being studied." In the Marx quote above, he doesn't stop at having capitalism negate individual private property, which would present the system to reader as the end point of the historical process, instead he goes on to show how capitalism gets negated by the same process and develops into the next thing.

It provides a dynamic point of view that forces you to consider how changes will accumulate over time and shift the whole thing around an axis of sorts. Reminds me of Wang Huning (I think?) writing about how the dollar hegemony may have put America at the top, but it's also the very same process of it's deindustrialization.

It's amazing how the slimyness moving just behind the text seems confusing and hard to grasp until you've read Marx, then you just see the nature of the exploitation everyfuckingwhere

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Oh boy

Libs will simultaneously believe that secret Russian spies got him in jail then killed him, and that he wrote a memoir while under arrest and it survived and got to get published

Heart pounding as I reload Hexbear and check how many new comments there are in the news mega