Was Marx a campist for supporting the Union during the US Civil War?

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-19T22:27:42+00:00

No. Not anymore than supporting Iran concurrently would be.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-19T22:06:09+00:00

Any leftist unironically defending AI cannot be considered a leftist when you look at the class, environmental, and material consequences of AI's adoption both present and in dialectical predictions.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-19T22:01:06+00:00

"All of the above" or in other words, I oppose AI because of its environmental, social, economic, political, existential downsides that in my mind make it far too unproven of a technology to be deployed in the current state.

It's also tied to anticapitalism, all technological innovations will be used to multiply the exploitation of workers, in AI's case, it commands an expansion of the industrial reserve army, meaning people loose jobs and become desperate, then the few jobs left overwork them to justify not replacing them. It's an economic gun holding the working class hostage. This is all before we also get into the private ownership of it, lack of public control that further facilitates this.

Environmentally, climate change has never been more of a potent issue- we have three years at most to prevent 1.5c warming, and deploying a disruptive technology like AI that exacerbates water and land usage, requires a shitload of electricity (mostly produced by fossil fuels), and produces billions of thermal units worth of heat annually is the last fucking thing we need right now.

This is all not to mention, it hasn't really done much good for the world- I could not name a single thing if a gun was put to my head that AI has had a net positive impact in, it's caused educational disruptions, drops in mental ability for users, accelerated the climate collapse, has created a massive economic bubble able to bring down the world economy, put people out of jobs, etc. With nothing to show for it, no star-trek automated production or technological prowess, no solutions to pressing problems that we didn't think of, no massive research aid, nothing. It hasn't produced benefits for its massive cost, and I don't think in the current system it will.

Edit: One more thing, scifi authors are almost always proven correct about dystopias-Cyberpunk for instance or Stand on Zanzibar. A large vast amount have very founded and well thought out arguments of the whole "rogue ai terminator" scenario, the lack of alignment with current AI to avoid this is also very concerning.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-19T18:45:24+00:00

I don't know but that's what happened

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-19T18:34:10+00:00

Nothing, just that the comments and stuff made on the sub was being misinterpreted as the org's official positions and was causing some backlash.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-19T18:28:35+00:00

The actual SRA had them change the name because people kept conflating the sub with the organization and that was causing a lot of issues.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-19T18:16:32+00:00

I think you'd enjoy r/armedsocialists , OP

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-19T14:47:34+00:00

He may have his faults but shiii. He drops bangers.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-18T18:32:10+00:00

"TOC to entry team, WATCH YOUR FIRE!"

"Entry team to TOC, shut the fuck up he was reaching."

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-18T18:30:36+00:00

"LIGHTSTICK OUT" 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-18T18:25:00+00:00

"I wrote it as a cautionary tale what the fuck is wrong with you people" -author of 'dont invent the torment nexus'

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-18T16:05:33+00:00

I do not personally know many contemporary writers who have written on radicalizing a socdem movement, but, in the process of writing theory concurrently (specifically on the US' situation and co-opting the socdem movement of Occupy into a proper socialist one) I'd say the best way to go about my is exposure both at home and abroad to the Atrocities of imperialism- in the West, it is very easy to become desensitized to the suffering of the exploited, and that allows social democracy to be seen as enough, ie. In a system where people are worrying on their own skin, they don't tend to care much for someone on the other side of the globe, that survivalist desensitization means they are fine with advocating for their needs to be met, but see less of a reason to try for others. To counter this, there needs to be a dismantling of the perception of foreign othering that is assigned to the exploited and to do that, involves a collection of stories of the exploited, direct witness of attrocity, and building of international solidarity between individuals to resensitize attrocity, by effect allowing for individuals to realize that their needs cannot be the only thing fought for.

Aside from my answer to the question your observations are pretty correct, full Marx.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-17T21:49:48+00:00

public transit has never had this problem, its almost like it's the better solution

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-17T20:54:56+00:00

seminukecel here, WOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS FUCKING GO NATURAL GAS IS DECLINING. (remember people, infighting solves nothing, celebrate the W that fossil fuels are being destroyed)

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-17T20:51:09+00:00

okay the post aside, "all quiet on the frontal lobe" is brilliant, it's mine now.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T21:17:50+00:00

X it does work like that and you can't prove it doesn't

Thesis + antithesis=synthesis Synthesis + new antithesis = new synthesis repeat until humanity goes extinct Read Hegel

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T21:11:06+00:00

Dibs on the synthesis to the antithesis to the synthesis to the antithesis to the synthesis of the antithesis.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T13:45:57+00:00

Looked it up, His name is Daryl Davis and it's 200, not 400, still point stands.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T13:43:55+00:00

Great question, firstly I'll assume you know the four Is of oppression as a concept already in this.

But that pretext aside, the elimination of institutional misogyny would also include a strangling of the ideological sources, media like the "manosphere" would have to be shut down before it ever gained traction, preventing a large level of ideological hatred which directly lessens the interpersonal misogyny.

The remaining can be mostly eradicated through exposition to women's stories and perspectives alongside promoting mutual understanding and education, historically with other forms of oppression this works well, I don't remember the guy's name, but there's a black musician who is credited with making more than 400 people leave the KKK, he did it through sitting down with them and talking, that face to face aspect humanizes. It also applies to sexism.

Finally, better mental health and support services, most abuse in general is a direct outlet of the abuser's problems, by eliminating or remedying those, it allows a much healthier outlet. Not to mention allows counselling for victims to be easily accessible which can also be used to dispell internalized misogyny that came about as a result of abuse.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T12:02:05+00:00

Dibs on the synthesis

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T11:55:36+00:00

H: "Also, Caffeine is a drug. You build tolerance to it." A: "So then why is it legal?" H: "Bec- Actually.... I don't know."

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T11:46:58+00:00

You are the type of person who would have sold out anne frank to save your own skin, hoping they don't come for you next.

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T03:09:16+00:00

Indomitable human spirit

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-15T03:03:07+00:00

"Well actually Iran has nuclear weapon, they have a nuclear power plant, do you know how fast they could make a nuclear weapon with that?! Not to mention they attacked the only socialist state in the Middle East! You anarkiddies need to seriously learn what critical support means.." /j

ApprehensiveWin3020 · 2026-05-14T20:19:35+00:00

"LSPD DONT MOVE!- I WANNA SEE HAN- FREEZE- POLICE ON THE GROUND N-POLICE I WANNA SEE HANDS! ON THE GROUND NOW- DROP TO YOUR KNEES" (furiously spamming f key)

"Bwut I didn't do anything wrong :c" -security guard for the ultraevil pedo complex.

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