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?

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successfully leads a revolution

Not very practical tbh 👴🏻

Droplet mentioned Hudson’s Super Imperialism

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

How do you analyze the current massacre of Gaza through these lens? Considering the timing (same time as Ukraine war, Niger’s coup, Iran’s coup attempt etc) and the attention it’s getting from the imperial core? I remember back in october somebody pointing out the “coincidence” of a land rich with gas fields getting attacked not long after Nordsk’s explosion

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 🥺

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

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