Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA

Listen to how fucking evil some of the people we live with are... And how pissed they get when the mirror is held up to their faces.

This is why I don't shy away from confrontation with friends and family - and especially strangers.

Idgaf.

The Nazis relied on nosy neighborhood snitches, people who had a personal grievances and racists to report anyone to them. People learned they couldn’t trust anyone.

Always remember, lynchings used to be community events for white folks in this country. That practice is one pollutant of many that's poisoned our moral aquifer. Many of our neighbors would grill a hot dog while we hanged, they would be giddy for a Chili's gift card even as they kill a child.

New Hampshire bill passed yesterday outlaws the dialectical method

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Can't help but think of Sara Ahmed's powerful analysis of "diversity work" & what she described as the gap between the university’s symbolic commitment to diversity & the lived & often exhausting reality for faculty & students of color & other underrepresented groups on campus.

i'm looking forward to reading what you write!!

this is the correct take on the games industry

if you want you can send it to me in private before you publish and i'll tell you if i would put (!) after it

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or the "lower phase of communism". but this is something that will require political defeat of the bourgeoisie, because they will fight to the death and stop at no atrocities to prevent it. it will not happen through working out a clever technocratic deal with them

if you're talking about a system where you have private property, the commodity form, wage labour, etc, but the bourgeois is not the ruling class and doesn't have political power, and instead you have a state that represents the interests of the working class, you're talking about socialism

it's the unrealized promises of keynesianism, of social democracy. it's what happens the impossible fantasy that was always built on the exploitation of the global south comes into contact with reality

this is why these first-world middle classes are turning to fascism today. why they are so eager to blame the crisis of social democratic institutions on immigrant workers. this is why they demand their property ownership and their petit bourgeois entrepreneurship, even if it means flattening gaza

you can't analyze capitalism today as if each nation was a separate system independent of each other. capitalism today is an international system, you need an analysis of global imperialism to make sense of it

and when imperialism itself enters into crisis, you get these same dynamics turning inwards onto the core, and you get fascism

this is exactly my point: this fantasy of a stable middle class under capitalism, and of an alignment of interests between labour and capital, can only be built on top the super-exploitation of the global south, on top of imperialism and colonialism.

the only reason our middle class can exist is because the international proletariat is kept in the state of misery that you describe. with a day's worth of wages in the imperialist core, a citizen of an imperialist nation can purchase the product of many more days of labour by periphery workers

unfortunately i think this is a fantasy that, although not ill-intentioned, can only lead to fascism when it fails to be realized

capacity for further surplus accumulation by society. not capacity for further profit accumulation by capitalists. the latter is what prevents the former. these individuals living the lives they do is a necessity for capitalist profit accumulation, not a sign that there is more profit to be made

this is the historical relationship between social democracy, neoliberal austerity, and fascism.

if you try to take rent away from them, they will fight you to the death. if you try to promise them "incentives" that will guarantee them accumulation, the only thing that will be able to deliver that is imperialist plunder and pillage.

however all of their profits in these sectors are redistribution of surplus value created in production: a zero sum game where the big capitals make a "profit" by absorbing the smaller capitals. concentration and centralization increases, into fewer and fewer monopolistic hands.

there is too much capital to invest, and investment in production means a smaller and smaller proportion of that investment goes to labour. this is why our desperate capitalists have only finance, speculation bubbles, and monopolization left as an outlet:

however these opportunities do not exist, the real rate of profit is at a historical low point, central banks have started setting the interest rates below zero. this corresponds to the organic composition of capital has reached such a high point.

this is because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, which i assume you reject because you reject LTV. today we have unprecedented masses of capital concentrated like never before in history, and this capital is desperately looking for investment opportunities to turn a profit

ok i think this is our core disagreement then. there is no possible outlet for further accumulation to happen at that scale without a massive round of primitive accumulation to externalize the contradictions (meaning war, colonialism, genocide, destruction of foreign capital, etc)

private ownership of land and the charging of rent is the market solution to the problem of who gets to use it then. if you eliminate that, you need another solution to the problem of distribution of such goods. collective/state ownership of land and economic planning is the socialist solution.

rent is necessary under capitalism because there are situations where there are hard constraints on supply that cannot be alleviated by investment into more production. classic example being fertile land: it's in limited supply and you can't produce more of it.